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Saturday Overnight Open Thread (12/22/1
Holiday Stuff Edition
The Saturday Night Joke December 8 - 6:00 PM It started to snow. The first snow of the season and the wife and I took our cocktails and sat for hours by the window watching the huge soft flakes drift down from heaven. It looked like a Grandma Moses Print. So romantic we felt like newlyweds again. I love snow! December 9 We woke to a beautiful blanket of crystal white snow covering every inch of the landscape. What a fantastic sight! Can there be a lovelier place in the whole world? Moving here was the best idea I've ever had! Shoveled for the first time in years and felt like a boy again. I did both our driveway and the sidewalks. This afternoon the snowplow came along and covered up the sidewalks and closed in the driveway, so I got to shovel again. What a perfect life! December 12 The sun has melted all our lovely snow. Such a disappointment! My neighbor tells me not to worry- we'll definitely have a white Christmas. No snow on Christmas would be awful! John says we'll have so much snow by the end of winter, that I'll never want to see snow again I don't think that's possible. John is such a nice man, I'm glad he's our neighbor. December 14 Snow, lovely snow! 8 inches last night. The temperature dropped to -20. The cold makes everything sparkle so. The wind took my breath away, but I warmed up by shoveling the driveway and sidewalks. This is the life! The snowplow came back this afternoon and buried everything again. I didn't realize I would have to do quite this much shoveling, but I'll certainly get back in shape this way. I wish l wouldn't huff and puff so. December 15 20 inches forecast. Sold my van and bought a 4x4 Blazer. Bought snow tires for the wife's car and 2 extra shovels. Stocked the freezer. The wife wants a wood stove in case the electricity goes out. I think that's silly. We aren't in Alaska, after all. December 16 Ice storm this morning. Fell on my ass on the ice in the driveway putting down salt. Hurt like hell. The wife laughed for an hour, which I think was very cruel. December 17 Still way below freezing. Roads are too icy to go anywhere. Electricity was off for 5 hours. I had to pile the blankets on to stay warm. Nothing to do but stare at the wife and try not to irritate her. Guess I should've bought a wood stove, but won't admit it to her. God I hate it when she's right. I can't believe I'm freezing to death in my own living room.
December 20 Electricity's back on, but had another 14 inches of the damn stuff last night. More shoveling! Took all day. The damn snowplow came by twice. Tried to find a neighbor kid to shovel, but they said they're too busy playing hockey. I think they're lying. Called the only hardware store around to see about buying a snow blower and they're out. Might have another shipment in March. I think they're lying. John says I have to shovel or the city will have it done and bill me. I think he's lying. December 22 John was right about a white Christmas because 13 more inches of the white sh-t fell today, and it's so cold, it probably won't melt till August. Took me 45 minutes to get all dressed up to go out to shovel and then I had to go pee. By the time I got undressed, went to the bathroom and dressed again, I was too tired to shovel. Tried to hire John who has a plow on his truck for the rest of the winter, but he says he's too busy. I think the a--hole is lying. December 23 Only 2 inches of snow today And it warmed up to 0. The wife wanted me to decorate the front of the house this morning. What is she, nuts?!! Why didn't she tell me to do that a month ago? She says she did but I think she's lying. December 24 6 inches - Snow packed so hard by snowplow, l broke the shovel. Thought I was having a heart attack. If I ever catch the son of a b-tch who drives that snow plow, I'll drag him through the snow and beat him to death with my broken shovel. I know he hides around the corner and waits for me to finish shoveling and then he comes down the street at a 100 miles an hour and throws snow all over where I've just been! Tonight the wife wanted me to sing Christmas carols with her and open our presents, but I was too busy watching for the damn snowplow.
The Xmas Party FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director. TO: All Employees. DATE: November 1, 2017. RE: Christmas Party. I'm happy to inform you that the company Christmas Party will take place on December 23rd, starting at noon in the private function room at the Grill House. There will be a cash deposit for the bar and plenty of drinks! We'll have a small band playing traditional Christmas Carols, feel free to sing along. And don't be surprised if our CEO shows up dressed as Santa Claus.! A Christmas tree will be lit at 1:00 PM. Exchanges of gifts among employees can be done at that time; however, no gift should be over $10.00 to make the giving of gifts easy for everyone's pockets. This gathering is only for employees.! Merry Christmas to you and your family. Patty. Company Memo. FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director. TO: All Employees. DATE: November 2, 2017. RE: Holiday Party. In no way was yesterday's memo intended to exclude our Jewish employees. We recognize that Hanukkah is an important holiday, which often coincides with Christmas, though unfortunately not this year. However, from now on, we're calling it our ‘Holiday Party.’ The same policy applies to any other employees who are not Christians and to those still celebrating Reconciliation Day. There will be no Christmas tree and no Christmas carols will be sung. We will have other types of music for your enjoyment. Are you happy now.? Happy Holidays to you and your family. Patty. Company Memo. FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director. TO: All Employees. DATE: November 3, 2017. RE: Holiday Party. Regarding the note I received from a member of Alcoholics Anonymous requesting a non-drinking table, you didn't sign your name. I'm happy to accommodate you for this request, but if I put a sign on a table that reads, ‘AA Only,’ you wouldn't be anonymous anymore. So how am I supposed to handle this.? Somebody.? And sorry, but forget about the gift exchange, no gifts are allowed since the union members feel that $10.00 is too much money and the executives believe $10.00 is a little stingy. REMEMBER: NO GIFTS EXCHANGE WILL BE ALLOWED. Patty. Company Memo. FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director. To: All Employees. DATE: November 4, 2017. RE: Generic Holiday Party. What a diverse group we are.! I had no idea that December 20th begins the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which forbids eating and drinking during daylight hours. There goes the party.! Seriously, we can appreciate how a luncheon at this time of year does not accommodate our ‘Muslim employees' beliefs. Perhaps the Grill House can hold off on serving your meal until the end of the party or else package everything for you to take it home in little aluminum foil doggy bag. Will that work.? Meanwhile, I've arranged for members of Weight Watchers to sit farthest from the dessert buffet, and pregnant women will get the table closest to the restrooms. Gays are allowed to sit with each other. Lesbians do not have to sit with Gay men, and each group will have their own table. Yes, there will be flower arrangement for the Gay men's table. To the person asking permission to cross dress, the Grill House asks that no cross-dressing to be allowed, apparently because of concerns about confusion in the restrooms. ‘Sorry.’ We will have booster seats for short people. Low-fat food will be available for those on a diet. I am sorry to report that we cannot control the amount of salt used in the food. The Grill House suggests that people with high blood pressure taste a bite first. There will be fresh ‘low sugar’ fruits as dessert for diabetics, but the restaurant cannot supply ‘no sugar’ desserts. ‘Sorry!’ Did I miss anything.??? Patty. Company Memo. FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director. TO: All Fucking Employees. DATE: November 5, 2017. RE: The Fucking Holiday Party. I've had it with you vegetarian pricks.! We're going to keep this party at the Grill House whether you assholes like it or not, so you can sit quietly at the table furthest from the ‘grill of death,’ as you so quaintly put it, and you'll get your fucking salad bar, including organic tomatoes. But do you know that tomatoes have feelings too. They scream when you slice them. I've heard them scream. I'm hearing them scream ‘RIGHT FUCKING NOW!’ The rest of you perishing wierdos can kiss my ass. I hope you all have a rotten holiday.! Drive drunk and die. Patty. Company Memo FROM: Joan Bishop, Acting Human Resources Director. DATE: November 6, 2017. RE: Patty Lewis and Holiday Party. I'm sure I speak for all of us in wishing Patty Lewis a speedy recovery from her recent nervous breakdown and I'll continue to forward your cards to her at the Hospital. In the meantime, management has decided to cancel our Holiday Party and give everyone the afternoon of the 23rd off with full pay. So ‘Fuck the lot of You and Happy Whatever.!’ Joan.
So, what's the story behind our Jewish friends and Chinese food on Christmas? Here is the story.
It's a modern tradition for Jewish people to eat at a Chinese restaurant on Christmas (and then go to the movies). You might have assumed that it's because Chinese restaurants are open on Christmas Day, and are less crowded when Christians are having a traditional meal at home. That's definitely part of it, but the custom has a specific history that goes back to 19th-century immigration patterns in New York City, when Jewish enclaves and Chinese enclaves were next to each other. By and large, Chinese restaurateurs didn’t discriminate against Jewish customers. Joshua Eli Plaut writes in his book A Kosher Christmas: 'Tis the Season to be Jewish that the Chinese, as non-Christians, didn't perceive any difference between Anglo-Saxon New Yorkers and Jewish immigrants; they accepted all non-Chinese customers with open arms.
Drink up! Some great cocktail recipes to get you through the holiday season.
Holiday heirlooms.
The smell of a wood fire and the smell of KFC. KFC scented firelogs.
If you ever wanted your home to smell like delicious fried chicken for the Holidays, and lots of people apparently do, KFC has made your dreams come true with the KFC Firelog. Unfortunately, it's already sold out on their website.Their description reads: "Imbued with the unmistakable, mouth-watering aroma of Colonel Sanders’ secret recipe, the KFC 11 Herbs & Spices Firelog finally puts to rest the age-old dilemma, 'How can I make this fire a hundred bajillion times better?'" Andrea Zahumensky, CMO of KFC U.S., said “at KFC, we have always been proud of our role in bringing loved ones together at the dinner table around a bucket of our world-famous fried chicken. Now, this winter we’re bringing all the things we love – family, friends and fried chicken – together around the fire with our scented firelog.”
Midlife crises from varying perspectives.
Starting a steampunk band, taking up quad biking or deciding to jump out of a plane—ever since Canadian psychoanalyst Elliott Jaques coined the term "midlife crisis" in 1965, more and more 40-something men have claimed to have had one.
Despite the fact that scientists and economists believe there's little evidence behind it, a quick Google search will deliver hundreds — if not thousands — of think pieces, blog entries and pleading Reddit comment threads about the phenomenon (the same for the quarter-life crisis).
The 37-year-old from Zhangzhou, Fujian Province was admitted to the hospital after experiencing chest pains and coughing, the New Straits Times reported. And as it turns out, he was diagnosed with a severe pulmonary fungal infection. Doctors say that the man, identified as Peng, contracted the infection after inhaling the spores of a fungus that can typically be found growing in footwear. At some point during the medical examination after doctors wondered how this infection was made possible, Peng admitted that he had a habit of smelling his own smelly socks after coming home from work every day (why exactly remains unclear), before ultimately throwing them into the laundry hamper.
Notice: Posted with permission by The Ace Media Empire and AceCorp, LLC. Saturday nights were made for ONTing.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 22, 2018 09:59 PM (ffYR/)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2018 10:00 PM (9rIkM)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:00 PM (xLvb0)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 22, 2018 10:01 PM (pHWYK)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:01 PM (xLvb0)
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2018 10:01 PM (/rm4P)
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 10:01 PM (NLLmE)
Posted by: tbodie at December 22, 2018 10:01 PM (ZOlfu)
So what exactly did Scott "$20 Gift Card" guy actually GET at the Office Holiday Party?
A Bob Ross Chia Pet.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 22, 2018 10:01 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:02 PM (xLvb0)
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2018 10:02 PM (/rm4P)
Posted by: CA Token at December 22, 2018 10:03 PM (gI2sN)
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 10:03 PM (NLLmE)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo
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Do assholes even cast a shadow?
Just wondering. . . .
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2018 10:04 PM (9rIkM)
Posted by: wing at December 22, 2018 10:04 PM (JFzNN)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 22, 2018 10:05 PM (pHWYK)
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 10:06 PM (NLLmE)
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2018 10:02 PM (/rm4P)
How fast exactly IS your car, Skip?
(Though I guess if you drink enough rum, you can get the same effect)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 22, 2018 10:06 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitairan at December 22, 2018 10:06 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2018 10:02 PM (/rm4P)
Warp 6.
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 10:07 PM (NLLmE)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 22, 2018 10:07 PM (l9m7l)
Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at December 22, 2018 10:08 PM (MkcN1)
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2018 10:08 PM (/rm4P)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 22, 2018 10:08 PM (DMUuz)
Well gosh, I sure do go on, don't I. What's new with you guys?
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 10:09 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 22, 2018 10:10 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at December 22, 2018 10:10 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: mallfly the friendy fox at December 22, 2018 10:10 PM (ZqRa6)
Pleasant dreams everyone
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2018 10:10 PM (/rm4P)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 22, 2018 10:11 PM (rnAwa)
Posted by: mallfly the friendy fox at December 22, 2018 10:10 PM (ZqRa6)
Wanna hear the one about the snake named Nate?
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 10:11 PM (t+qrx)
(rrrrrrrrr)
gotta whole lotta words
(rrrrrrrrrr)
gotta whole lotta words
(rrrrrrrrrrr)
gotta whole lotta words
(rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 22, 2018 10:12 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: mallfly
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Perhaps, but if it is too short it's considered a joke too.
Just ask one of our 'ettes.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2018 10:12 PM (9rIkM)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 22, 2018 10:11 PM (rnAwa)
You'll need a Hurdy-Gurdy.
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 10:12 PM (NLLmE)
You're free to submit short ones
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitairan at December 22, 2018 10:12 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2018 10:02 PM (/rm4P)
It gets old real fast if you are driving on an unlit and unfamiliar road with oncoming traffic.
Fog lights help a lot...if you turn the headlights off.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2018 10:12 PM (fDU8w)
Posted by: JTB at December 22, 2018 10:12 PM (bmdz3)
Posted by: mallfly the friendy fox at December 22, 2018 10:12 PM (ZqRa6)
So what exactly did Scott "$20 Gift Card" guy actually GET at the Office Holiday Party?
A Bob Ross Chia Pet.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 22, 2018 10:01 PM (miE9U)
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I'd give him a Bob Ross Chia Pet with a $20 gift card inside the box, then ask him a week later how he spent the money.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 22, 2018 10:13 PM (+F0Wk)
NJ's fraud attorney general is launching a fraud civil rights investigation
A referee at a high school wrestling match "forced" a wrestler to cut his dreadlocks, a.k.a. hair, or else be disqualified.
The high school wrestler agreed to cut his
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:13 PM (xLvb0)
Posted by: Puddleglum at December 22, 2018 10:13 PM (HCqAo)
So "dreadlocks" are now protected like a muslim's turbin, evidently. Because culture.
Christ Almighty.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:14 PM (xLvb0)
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 22, 2018 10:14 PM (LOq4H)
The cameraman dropped like a shot polecat after the first and only take.
Coulda happened like that!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2018 10:14 PM (QzJWU)
The bottom part with the instrument panel, looks like driving with cataracts.
Posted by: rickl at December 22, 2018 10:14 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at December 22, 2018 10:08 PM (MkcN1)
Tim, now I am faced with a similar dilemma to that which you posted about this morning. See the end of the movie thread.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2018 10:15 PM (fDU8w)
I just responded to a comment that doesn't exist anymore...
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 22, 2018 10:15 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 22, 2018 10:16 PM (1g7ch)
Just ask one of our 'ettes.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2018 10:12 PM (9rIkM)
Which one?
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 10:16 PM (t+qrx)
Yeah, high beams are stupid in snow.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:16 PM (xLvb0)
https://tinyurl.com/y8lvs5qa
Posted by: mallfly the friendy fox at December 22, 2018 10:16 PM (ZqRa6)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 22, 2018 10:16 PM (pHWYK)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 22, 2018 10:17 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: sectet satan at December 22, 2018 10:17 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 10:12 PM (NLLmE)
I was half joking but ...
OMG if I had a Atlantic City type pipe organ that runs on coal that would be a spectacle.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 22, 2018 10:17 PM (rnAwa)
OMG if I had a Atlantic City type pipe organ that runs on coal that would be a spectacle
"Tis a marvel!"
Posted by: Cole Younger at December 22, 2018 10:19 PM (LOq4H)
Well, glad for that. Joe Mannix linked to that joke on here Nov 8, and I even
The Xmas Party
FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director.
Oh, crap, I know that one too. Mightz well go to bed at this rate.
Funny, though.
Posted by: mindful webworker at December 22, 2018 10:19 PM (Xjx9o)
"So Scott, howdja like your gift card? You know it was inside the Chia Pet box, right?"
Scott (out loud): "Oh, YEAH! I loved it! Thanks to everyone!!"
Scott (thinking): "Oh shit, I burned the whole box in the fireplace"
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 22, 2018 10:19 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: mallfly the friendy fox at December 22, 2018 10:20 PM (ZqRa6)
Tim, now I am faced with a similar dilemma to that which you posted about this morning. See the end of the movie thread.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2018 10:15 PM (fDU8w)
I understand the dilemma.
Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at December 22, 2018 10:20 PM (MkcN1)
Hogmartin--thanks for the earworm: Down to the River to Pray."
Posted by: Ladyl at December 22, 2018 10:20 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 22, 2018 10:21 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitairan at December 22, 2018 10:21 PM (aA3+G)
High beams caused by air conditioning are a sight to behold.
Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at December 22, 2018 10:22 PM (MkcN1)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 22, 2018 10:21 PM (miE9U)
Pantyhose are out of style, thank God.
Posted by: Ladyl at December 22, 2018 10:22 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: mallfly the friendy fox at December 22, 2018 10:10 PM (ZqRa6)
Wanna hear the one about the snake named Nate?
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 10:11 PM (t+qrx)
No! No no no no NOOOOOO!
Posted by: Insomniac at December 22, 2018 10:22 PM (NWiLs)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1076525043381874688
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1076525142958850048
Posted by: kbdabear at December 22, 2018 10:22 PM (0Ntuf)
Posted by: Ladyl at December 22, 2018 10:22 PM (TdMsT)
La la can't hear you jingle bells jingle bells la la la
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 22, 2018 10:23 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 22, 2018 10:23 PM (LOq4H)
Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at December 22, 2018 10:20 PM (MkcN1)
Well, in my case it's not much of a dilemma. I will go to the funeral on the 28th, unless we have such bad weather that road travel to Cold Lake is unadvisable. Since I was planning to drive to Arizona, it's not like I have cancel flights or anything.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2018 10:23 PM (fDU8w)
Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at December 22, 2018 10:23 PM (MkcN1)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitairan at December 22, 2018 10:21 PM (aA3+G)
It's a good thread. We appreciate ya.
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 10:23 PM (NLLmE)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:23 PM (xLvb0)
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 10:24 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: morris day at December 22, 2018 10:24 PM (pHWYK)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 22, 2018 10:24 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at December 22, 2018 10:22 PM (MkcN1)
Twisty puppy dog head.
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 10:24 PM (NLLmE)
High beams caused by air conditioning are a sight to behold.
Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at December 22, 2018 10:22 PM (MkcN1)
I nearly crashed looking at high beams.
And it was daylight
Posted by: kbdabear at December 22, 2018 10:24 PM (0Ntuf)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:23 PM (xLvb0)
Thanks for the heads-up. I imagine all the Morons who have dogs were wondering why they're whining at the door now.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 10:25 PM (t+qrx)
I just dropped a slice of bacon on the floor.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:23 PM (xLvb0)
Frying undoes all sins.
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 10:25 PM (NLLmE)
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 10:24 PM (t+qrx)
Hey back. How you doing?
Posted by: Insomniac at December 22, 2018 10:26 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 22, 2018 10:26 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 10:26 PM (NLLmE)
High beams caused by air conditioning are a sight to behold.
Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at December 22, 2018 10:22 PM (MkcN1)
Fog lights are the shiznit in blowing snow. Directed low and to the right, so you can see the shoulder and the fog line. You won't be able to drive fast, but you can drive safely at slower speed.
And a bright red rear foglight, shining to the rear, so dillweeds over-driving their vision, don't run up your ass at 60 mph while you are poking along at 25. They have those in Europe, apparently.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2018 10:27 PM (fDU8w)
Posted by: Moochelle getting changed at December 22, 2018 10:27 PM (ZqRa6)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:23 PM (xLvb0)
Dropping bacon in front of Morons is like dropping the soap
Posted by: kbdabear at December 22, 2018 10:27 PM (0Ntuf)
there is literally nothing that tastes quite like bacon
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at December 22, 2018 10:29 PM (ZqRa6)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitairan at December 22, 2018 10:29 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 10:29 PM (NLLmE)
Posted by: Insomniac at December 22, 2018 10:26 PM (NWiLs)
OK. I was going to go get groceries and do some housework, but I took an accidental nap this afternoon and now I'm feeling like a lazy wretch, because I kind of wasted the day. I rationalize it by telling myself that I got called in to work early Friday morning and I have three more days off to accomplish something, and that trying to go to Meijer mid-day on the Saturday before Christmas would've been a bad idea anyhow.
Anything new with you?
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 10:30 PM (t+qrx)
And a bright red rear foglight, shining to the rear, so dillweeds over-driving their vision, don't run up your ass at 60 mph while you are poking along at 25. They have those in Europe, apparently.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2018 10:27 PM (fDU8w)
Definitely stay away from the high beams. And, yes, fog lights are the best.
Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at December 22, 2018 10:30 PM (MkcN1)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at December 22, 2018 10:31 PM (ZqRa6)
I love Christmas, but I also look forward these days to when it's over, the new year is here, and you can go out to shop without having to bring a taser and a nightstick.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 22, 2018 10:31 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:32 PM (xLvb0)
Another great ONT, MisHum. And the musical selections were awesome. I would gladly bear Alison Krause's child. Ian Anderson's, not so much.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 22, 2018 10:32 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:33 PM (xLvb0)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at December 22, 2018 10:33 PM (ZqRa6)
Moonroofs aren't moonroofs, anymore.
And sunroofs aren't moonroofs, anymore, either.
They're called, I forget. Senile.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:34 PM (xLvb0)
"Everything you wanted
(but didn't get for Christmas)
is on sale now at Sears!"
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 22, 2018 10:34 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:34 PM (xLvb0)
Sky lamps?
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 10:35 PM (NLLmE)
I thought Joos had a "workaround" for bacon?
They get a rabbi to bless it kosher, or something.
Rabbi Workaroundstein.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:35 PM (xLvb0)
Posted by: mallfly
I thought only Gentiles and fools paid retail anyway.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 22, 2018 10:36 PM (LOq4H)
That'd be nice.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:02 PM (xLvb0)
Well, ylifff for you then.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2018 10:36 PM (mUa7G)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 22, 2018 10:36 PM (pHWYK)
Oh joy!!" - Shep Smith
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 22, 2018 10:37 PM (miE9U)
The last time I had White Castle burgers I went down on a woman to help get rid to the burger taste...
For some reason I get excited after eating a microwave gas station burger....
Posted by: kbdabear at December 22, 2018 10:37 PM (0Ntuf)
Anything new with you?
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 10:30 PM (t+qrx)
The rationalization abilities of the human brain are truly amazing, aren't they? Done that many a time myself.
What's new. That is an interesting question. I think some good things are afoot.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 22, 2018 10:38 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 22, 2018 10:31 PM (miE9U)
The weekend before Christmas isn't bad, because I just expect that everything will be busy. It's things like home games that kill me because I don't pay attention to what's going on. I figured I'd stop at a store in downtown East Lansing after work on the way out of town for the October MoMe; 45 minutes later I have managed to find my way out of the maze of crowds and parked cars and closed streets from the homecoming parade that some idiots decided to hold without telling me.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 10:39 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2018 10:27 PM (fDU8w)
High beams ... poking...
Does publius have a spare ficus?
Posted by: kbdabear at December 22, 2018 10:40 PM (0Ntuf)
Can one really appreciate, much less get into, the Holiday Spirit without music by Yoko?
Yes. Yes we can. Yep. Sho'nuff. Da. Ya. Si. Indubitably. Like, way, dude. Uh huh.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 22, 2018 10:41 PM (HaL55)
What's new. That is an interesting question. I think some good things are afoot.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 22, 2018 10:38 PM (NWiLs)
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Who are you, and what have you done with Insomniac?
Good to hear, you are way overdue.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 22, 2018 10:42 PM (ffYR/)
Posted by: Sandy at December 22, 2018 10:43 PM (crFEY)
Posted by: kbdabear at December 22, 2018 10:43 PM (0Ntuf)
A particular large company had an IT Solutions company contracted to perform computer refreshes for its employees. It had a different IT Solutions company contracted to provide the rest of its tech support needs. A few months ago, the contract concluded for the company doing the refreshes, and the company providing the rest of the IT support took over the refreshes, as well.
Now while the second company wasn't performing the refreshes before the change, it was in charge of scheduling them. And in the months leading to the change-over, the second company overloaded the schedule with refreshes. In doing so, it essentially took all of the refreshes that would have otherwise happened late in the year (due to the standard schedule of when computers were typically replaced) and moved them to the summer.
Additionally, shortly after the change-over took place, the employees doing the computer deployment work were informed that the new company had screwed up its inventory purchasing, and a lot of the needed computer equipment was backordered as a result and not available for deployment. So this meant that the already light deployment schedule (because most of the refreshes had taken place months early) effectively dropped to almost nothing because items weren't available.
Finally, the company has recently put out an announcement that all non-critical computer deployments were on hold as new computers would only work with Windows 10 or OSX Mojave, and the company images for those OSes aren't ready yet.
Note that last year, new Macs continued to be deployed with OSX Sierra until the High Sierra image became available in the spring. I am aware, though, that many new name brand PC computers aren't compatible with Windows 7.
Now the knee jerk response is gross incompetence by the new company. But then I remembered the fact that the end of year refreshes had been moved to the summer. And it occurred to me that maybe the fact that no new computers are being deployed might have been the plan even back during the summer. But I can't think of why the IT Support company would do that.
So my question is, any idea why they might be doing this intentionally?
Posted by: junior at December 22, 2018 10:43 PM (cSguU)
Christmas Eve Yoko candle lit service
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitairan at December 22, 2018 10:43 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 10:01 PM (NLLmE)
I've been grasping for a more catchy name than D-K Effect too.
Tried "Home Ec Queen", not to disparage kids not in the high school program, but kids who do good well in easy classes and go on in life thinking that everything is a matter of opinion (like the best recipe) not absolutes.
Having been a teen and having my own,
'Teenager Effect' is better.
Ignorant Teen Conjecture?
Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 22, 2018 10:44 PM (1g7ch)
Posted by: Insomniac at December 22, 2018 10:38 PM (NWiLs)
Well that's good. About the good things. Very good, if it's what I suspect. But hey, maybe it's just that the microwave burrito is almost ready. That's good too.
Have you got any idea if you can make it to the VAMoMe? Just wondering.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 10:44 PM (t+qrx)
They're called Driving Lights.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:32 PM (xLvb0)
Fog lights aren't driving lights, and driving lights aren't fog lights. Foglights should be amber or yellow, and smust be mounted low on the front of the vehicle, and cast a floodlight-style beam low and to the right. Purpose being to illuminate the close-in road surface, and to give you confidence of where you are in your lane, relative to the shoulder, without blinding you from the backscatter (see top picture), or blinding drivers coming toward you in the opposing lane.
Driving lights have high-power bulbs, and are meant to cast a pencil beam a long way ahead of you, beyond the normal reach of high beams, so you stand a chance of seeing a deer (or a child) that is ready to wander into the road a half-mile ahead. They enable you to drive safely at night at reasonable highway speeds in clear conditions. Use them in fog or snow, and the backscatter will be brutal.
Many drivers now don't know jack shit about lighting the road ahead, and they drive everywhere with all lamps lit. They sit in a pool of brilliant light, and think they see everything. Well, everything within that pool of brilliant light. But anything beyond, they cannot see at all, because the pupils of their eyes have contracted to deal with the brilliant pool of light, and any dimly-lit objects beyond that pool have become entirely invisible.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2018 10:45 PM (fDU8w)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:45 PM (xLvb0)
Posted by: Pete Seria at December 22, 2018 10:46 PM (7ZQe3)
I think Alison Krauss has one of the prettiest voices I've ever heard.
She does three songs on the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack -
the a capella "Down to the River To Pray" and the "I'll Fly Away" duet
with Gillian Welch are my favorites.
One of her bandmates, Dan Tyminsky, did I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow in that movie, too. Union Station is composed of nothing but monster players in their own right.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 22, 2018 10:47 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 10:11 PM
Oh God. I remember that one.
I can't believe I read the whole thing.
Posted by: cfo mom at December 22, 2018 10:47 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: Insomniac
How would one know if he had slipped into an alternate reality somehow?
All kidding aside, it's really nice to hear that.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 22, 2018 10:47 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2018 10:50 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: junior at December 22, 2018 10:43 PM (cSguU)
The second company was shafting the first company on scheduling by freezing them out of doing refreshes so they would not have to worry about the first company making mistakes in how they were doing refreshes.
AND since the second company had the whole thing sewn up, they weren't worried about blowing everything while focusing on how smart they were in taking over they entire show, and in focusing on how clever they were, and important things like arguing over who got the office closest to the boss in the re-org of priorities, they forgot to do their actual contracted job.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2018 10:50 PM (mUa7G)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2018 10:51 PM (LsBY9)
Two thoughts...
She sings it surprisingly beautifully
Whoever had her wear a black top with the black background on TV should be hounded from society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZABVkrKAPdo
Posted by: kbdabear at December 22, 2018 10:51 PM (0Ntuf)
Have y'all had a freeze in the Houston area yet? Askingto find out if mosquitoes are still a problem now since I'll be on the Lone Star trail next week.
Posted by: lin-duh galt at December 22, 2018 10:51 PM (kufk0)
It was 65 degrees yesterday in the entire Boston area.
Funny first day of Winter.
Now it's back to Winter.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:52 PM (xLvb0)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:52 PM (xLvb0)
All over my new cleaned floor
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitairan at December 22, 2018 10:53 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2018 10:53 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:53 PM (xLvb0)
Have you got any idea if you can make it to the VAMoMe? Just wondering.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 10:44 PM (t+qrx)
Doesn't look that way. Have a significant deal that's supposed to happen that month. One of those things that can become all-consuming at a moment's notice.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 22, 2018 10:53 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Sheriff Bart at December 22, 2018 10:54 PM (crFEY)
Posted by: lin-duh galt at December 22, 2018 10:54 PM (kufk0)
I'm still getting a kick outta "York" the cat.
And the little middle dog on the stairs, with the chinese eyes!
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:54 PM (xLvb0)
Posted by: Paolo at December 22, 2018 10:55 PM (NWiLs)
Christmas Eve Yoko candle lit service
I'm pretty sure that would be some sort of blasphemy. You don't want to run that risk on that night, do you?
Better safe than sorry. That's what they always say.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 22, 2018 10:55 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Pete Seria at December 22, 2018 10:46 PM (7ZQe3)
Especially the assholes with the 3/4 ton pickups
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitairan at December 22, 2018 10:55 PM (aA3+G)
...
So my question is, any idea why they might be doing this intentionally?
Posted by: junior at December 22, 2018 10:43 PM (cSguU)
Wait, this started as a tech question but it turned into a "why do people do the things they do" question. I'm terrible at those.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 10:55 PM (t+qrx)
And, you'll like this one:
Mashpee, MA.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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How "Peabody" is pronounced Pee-b'dee is beyond me. There is much in eastern Mass I didn't understand.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2018 10:56 PM (9rIkM)
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Great. Now the floor of the thread is covered in cat litter.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 22, 2018 10:56 PM (crFEY)
Surely you jest. Expecting a serious answer to a question like this on a Saturday night ONT, on a holiday weekend?
Hell, I don't even understand the question. And glad I don't have to.
Posted by: cfo mom at December 22, 2018 10:57 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 10:57 PM (NLLmE)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:57 PM (xLvb0)
Actually Xmas eve is done for the most part, safe
Tomorrows isn't started maybe that will be living in the edge
The girls all made it home and we are having Christmas today & tomorrow
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitairan at December 22, 2018 10:57 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 22, 2018 10:57 PM (hyuyC)
This week I learned there's a Frostproof, Florida.
Yeah, it's down around the Sebring area.
We also have a Christmas Florida. People come from miles around to mail their Christmas cards from the post office there.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 22, 2018 10:58 PM (HaL55)
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I think there's some confusion. The refreshes were shifted from winter - when the scheduling company would have been responsible for performing them - to summer, when the first company was still doing the work.
Posted by: junior at December 22, 2018 10:58 PM (cSguU)
....Now the knee jerk response is gross incompetence by the new company. But then I remembered the fact that the end of year refreshes had been moved to the summer. And it occurred to me that maybe the fact that no new computers are being deployed might have been the plan even back during the summer. But I can't think of why the IT Support company would do that.
So my question is, any idea why they might be doing this intentionally?
Better Nate than lever!
Posted by: Insomniac at December 22, 2018 10:58 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 22, 2018 10:58 PM (LOq4H)
And while it's certainly not my favorite recording, Jennifer Nettles has quite a set of pipes and does a good job of 'O Come, O Come Emmanuel'. Not what one would expect from Sugarland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vatvUREAPY0
O come, Thou Key of David, come,
And open wide our heavenly home;
Make safe the way that leads on high,
And close the path to misery.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2018 10:58 PM (xSo9G)
those things that can become all-consuming at a moment's notice.
Paging nurse ratchet.
Posted by: cfo mom at December 22, 2018 10:58 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 10:58 PM (xLvb0)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitairan at December 22, 2018 10:59 PM (aA3+G)
This week I learned there's a Frostproof, Florida.
Yeah, it's down around the Sebring area.
We also have a Christmas Florida. People come from miles around to mail their Christmas cards from the post office there.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 22, 2018 10:58 PM (HaL55)
Ft. Christmas was one of those obligatory elementary school field trip destinations. Like St. Augustine.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 22, 2018 10:59 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 22, 2018 10:59 PM (crFEY)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
You wouldn't happen to need 120ft, of AM antenna?
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 22, 2018 11:00 PM (LOq4H)
We also have a Christmas Florida.
We have a Florida, MA.
A correspondence between Florida, MA and Christmas, FL would be interesting.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 11:00 PM (xLvb0)
A few cards and I'm done.
Posted by: rickl at December 22, 2018 11:00 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 22, 2018 10:59 PM (crFEY)
One pint o vodka killed dead.
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 11:01 PM (NLLmE)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 22, 2018 11:01 PM (KP5rU)
Happened after every snow storm shutting the area down as well.
Practice makes pregnant.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 22, 2018 11:01 PM (hyuyC)
@Lukewearechange
wow more crazy footage coming out of Paris just now
twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1076575869185839104
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2018 11:01 PM (ZejZP)
The girls all made it home and we are having Christmas today tomorrow
Too cool. Hope you have a very Merry Christmas. I just found out we got invited to Christmas dinner by B'Gal's younger son. His wife is a wonderful cook. Cannot wait.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 22, 2018 11:01 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 22, 2018 11:02 PM (LOq4H)
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 11:02 PM (NLLmE)
Naw. I don't watch TV or listen to the radio at home. I have AoSHQ for entertainment.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 22, 2018 11:03 PM (hyuyC)
So the chinese think "dey all rook arike"? That's because the apeture of their eyes is too small to see clearly.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 22, 2018 11:03 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 22, 2018 11:04 PM (hyuyC)
Thanks BB
Hope your family gathering is awesome as well
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitairan at December 22, 2018 11:05 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Insomniac at December 22, 2018 11:05 PM (NWiLs)
I think they're lying.
¡Jeb! is paying them off to stay at home, so he can make the case for importing more illegals into Alaska.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 22, 2018 11:06 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 22, 2018 11:04 PM (hyuyC)
No pressure, right? LOL.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 22, 2018 11:06 PM (NWiLs)
I wound up reading Portuguese. I feel I have been Ricardo rolado
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2018 11:07 PM (mUa7G)
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Cute. I was out and about today and missed the Pet Thread. Which means I haven't posted the annual Christmas pic of Sophie, waiting for Christmas:
http://tinyurl.com/y8hak7nc
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2018 11:07 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 22, 2018 11:08 PM (crFEY)
Posted by: Insomniac at December 22, 2018 11:09 PM (NWiLs)
And every week is a great week to stop sniffing glue. Right, Joe Biden? Right?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 22, 2018 11:09 PM (hyuyC)
@Lukewearechange
wow more crazy footage coming out of Paris just now
twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1076575869185839104
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2018 11:01 PM (ZejZP)
They're throwing...Scooters?
I wonder how long it will be until one of the Gilets Jaunes brings a flaregun to one of these confrontations.
Posted by: Surfperch at December 22, 2018 11:09 PM (k6F4I)
Posted by: junior at December 22, 2018 10:43 PM (cSguU)
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Perhaps it's all tied to their being behind on creating the new images. Have the old company do all the expected refreshes, and screw up the order to buy time to finish the image (though why then announce the image isn't ready, I couldn't say).
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 22, 2018 11:09 PM (+F0Wk)
*clink*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 22, 2018 11:08 PM (crFEY)
Thank you. Much appreciated. *clinks back*
Posted by: Insomniac at December 22, 2018 11:09 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 22, 2018 11:09 PM (HaL55)
*raises glass* Thank you, good sir!
Posted by: Insomniac at December 22, 2018 11:10 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Surfperch at December 22, 2018 11:11 PM (k6F4I)
Posted by: cfo mom at December 22, 2018 11:13 PM (RfzVr)
I've changed my nick because some of you complained that it was like salt and lemon juice on a cheese grater. You know who you are. Bah Hambug to you.
Anyone interested in my saga of getting a UEFI shell to run on my new system. I did. Turned out it was a really stupid error. The binary was in a Github folder tree. I right clicked on the file I wanted and saved it, which I thought was the EFI shell binary.
'Twasn't. Twas a link to some HTML that would actually get the actual file. So, I was trying to run a text HTML file instead of a proper .efi binary.
I discovered that only after I downloaded the whole EDK source tree, and then installed the necessary tool chains to compile and build EFI binaries.
All I needed to do was click instead of right click and I would've had my shell.
Posted by: publius, the Poperin Pear Duke at December 22, 2018 11:13 PM (f1Vqw)
Posted by: JAS at December 22, 2018 11:14 PM (3HNOQ)
Posted by: cfo mom
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Yeah, I think she knows it too. Spoiled little critter. Loves people though, and especially kids.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2018 11:16 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: JAS at December 22, 2018 11:17 PM (3HNOQ)
I wound up reading Portuguese. I feel I have been Ricardo rolado
Posted by: Kindltot
Hahn? No comprende.
It's just a link to a tweet with video of yellow vests fighting with cops.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2018 11:17 PM (ZejZP)
Everytime I see your nick, I read it as "Superfetch". That's the name of a Windows 10 service, superfetch, that has been hogging CPU on the HP laptop I got Miley a couple months ago.
It's some "intelligent disk caching" thingy. Funny thing is, it doesn't run on any of my systems. It doesn't run on her old laptop which I fixed, but it runs on that little red HP.
Superfetch indeed.
Posted by: publius, the Poperin Pear Duke at December 22, 2018 11:18 PM (f1Vqw)
'Twasn't. Twas a link to some HTML that would actually get the actual file. So, I was trying to run a text HTML file instead of a proper .efi binary.
I discovered that only after I downloaded the whole EDK source tree, and then installed the necessary tool chains to compile and build EFI binaries.
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*eyes glaze over*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2018 11:18 PM (xSo9G)
Of course, this only works if you live in So. Cal.
Posted by: JAS at December 22, 2018 11:19 PM (3HNOQ)
Posted by: JAS at December 22, 2018 11:14 PM (3HNOQ)
And I just took a great dump in the woods
Posted by: The Bear at December 22, 2018 11:19 PM (0Ntuf)
Posted by: JAS at December 22, 2018 11:14 PM (3HNOQ)
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If you've ever seen newbs living in snow, it is very funny. You can always send jokes to MH.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 22, 2018 11:20 PM (ffYR/)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2018 11:17 PM (ZejZP)
I'm being whimsical, the first four replies to that post are in Portuguese.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2018 11:20 PM (mUa7G)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 22, 2018 11:20 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 22, 2018 11:21 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 11:21 PM (NLLmE)
Posted by: JAS at December 22, 2018 11:22 PM (3HNOQ)
Merry Christmas to all.
Posted by: Infidel at December 22, 2018 11:23 PM (PF4TZ)
Posted by: JAS at December 22, 2018 11:23 PM (3HNOQ)
Posted by: publius, the Poperin Pear Duke at December 22, 2018 11:13 PM (f1Vqw)
*sad fistbump*
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at December 22, 2018 11:23 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 11:21 PM (NLLmE)
Maybe it was a temporary thing negotiated only for that weekend. Or maybe there are different factions in both groups. But yes, I thought so too.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 11:24 PM (t+qrx)
Cute. I was out and about today and missed the Pet Thread. Which means I haven't posted the annual Christmas pic of Sophie, waiting for Christmas:
http://tinyurl.com/y8hak7nc
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Ha!
Is that the dog that walks your cat?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 22, 2018 11:25 PM (xLvb0)
Posted by: JAS at December 22, 2018 11:14 PM (3HNOQ)
My apologies, thought you were talking about SNL's first joke
Posted by: kbdabear at December 22, 2018 11:25 PM (0Ntuf)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Basically, UEFI is the successor to the BIOS -- much more complex and capable firmware. Booting and OS is very different. The standard calls for a EFI system partition, which contains boot files and configuration data.
They can all still do a regular BIOS style legacy boot, if enabled.
Anyway, at startup before OS boot, you've got a pretty sophisticated firmware environment. It provides a low level API under which ".efi" boot programs run. The OS boot managers and loaders are just .efi programs that run under the UEFI system.
The EFI shell is just a command prompt that runs in that environment and allows you to do all sorts of low-level tinkering and configuration shit. You can get at shit the regular UEFI setup doesn't expose in the user interface.
The UEFI firmware has built-in FAT file system drivers as well a network stack. You've got TCP/IP functionality right in the pre-boot environment and other goodies.
Posted by: publius, the Poperin Pear Duke at December 22, 2018 11:26 PM (f1Vqw)
Posted by: JAS at December 22, 2018 11:22 PM (3HNOQ)
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That's in the parade, with Sleepy, Grumpy and Doc in the roles of The Three Wise Men.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 22, 2018 11:26 PM (crFEY)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 22, 2018 11:20 PM (ffYR/)
An old boss of mine had a story about a couple who moved up to the house next to his from Florida. The first morning of an ice storm, the new neighbor sees my boss outside warming the car and scraping the windshield, and borrows a spare scraper to do his own car.
The next day, the new neighbor comes out with a big "I've got such a great idea, watch this" grin and a pot of boiling water for his iced-over windshield.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 11:31 PM (t+qrx)
What did I miss?
Invasion of the grandkids starts tomorrow. Wish us luck.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 22, 2018 11:31 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 11:31 PM (t+qrx)
*facepalm*
Posted by: Insomniac at December 22, 2018 11:32 PM (NWiLs)
Do you have a spare ficus?
Posted by: kbdabear at December 22, 2018 11:32 PM (0Ntuf)
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You are not helping Hammer's eyes from glazing over, nor mine, really. You are speaking IT like it is a common language. It ain't.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 22, 2018 11:32 PM (ffYR/)
What did I miss?
Invasion of the grandkids starts tomorrow. Wish us luck.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 22, 2018 11:31 PM (m45I2)
Alcohol. For you too.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 22, 2018 11:33 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 22, 2018 11:33 PM (g/zvK)
During the Commune period, the government relocated to Versailles, and sent in the regular Army to crush the revolt and the National Guard. Which is why Louis Napoleon III built up the army, after all.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2018 11:33 PM (mUa7G)
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or
"Why I put Up with Living in Lost Angels, #Failifornia."
said the guy who is walking out to the Weber Grill right naow in shorts, a t-shirt bare feet to put a #1.5 chunk of NY strip on the grill for dinner, then suck down a cold beer whilst he admires the full moon and watches the GHO's in the trees across the street. (or at least their silhouettes:even wit the full moon, you can't see details for shit)
in other news, the M1-A made it home today, and our favorite toy store talked Resident 3vil into buying another item.
Posted by: redc1c4 at December 22, 2018 11:34 PM (zJ7J0)
Posted by: irongrampa at December 22, 2018 11:34 PM (S/hVx)
The UEFI system has a built-in ficus at pre-boot.
Posted by: publius, the Poperin Pear Duke at December 22, 2018 11:34 PM (f1Vqw)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 22, 2018 11:36 PM (m45I2)
You are not helping Hammer's eyes from glazing over, nor mine, really.
You are speaking IT like it is a common language. It ain't.
I kinda sorta got that. Was pursuing an AS Comp Sci degree about *mumble* years ago, but couldn't quite catch it. I'd have to start all over from scratch now.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 22, 2018 11:38 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Blake - tis the season for grinching at December 22, 2018 11:38 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: tbodie at December 22, 2018 10:01 PM (ZOlfu)
Why thank you!
Posted by: Ron Jeremy Preparing to Unleash his Christmas Cheer at December 22, 2018 11:38 PM (4A5fG)
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 11:31 PM (t+qrx)
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I truly hope that was not covered by insurance. It should be physically painful to be that stupid. Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 22, 2018 11:39 PM (ffYR/)
Posted by: Infidel at December 22, 2018 11:39 PM (PF4TZ)
https://tinyurl.com/yal5eh9l
actually is:
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/43/80014114_2f8ee8fdd5_o.jpg
Posted by: model_1066 at December 22, 2018 11:39 PM (Rmukn)
And seems those "demonstrators" are ...... probably mostly the trouble-makers/seekers now familiar the world over. The masks. The aggressiveness. The yellow vest people were, based on what I saw, fairly normal. March, shout - no violence, even when abused in some cases by the fuzz.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 22, 2018 11:40 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 22, 2018 11:41 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 22, 2018 11:41 PM (Muyfa)
Posted by: TexasJew at December 22, 2018 11:41 PM (c+cGk)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 22, 2018 11:41 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Winston a dreg of society at December 22, 2018 11:42 PM (Ow8WE)
Just about all modern hardware is UEFI now. It's been that way for several years, and I'm just now having to get up to speed on it.
The big controversy with it is "secure boot", where the firmware will only load properly signed boot loaders and OS kernel images. The Linux people were mad at that.
But just about every system provides a way to disable it. It came disabled on this new mo/bo stock out of the factory. It can be enabled, of course.
Linus Torvalds threw one of his famous shit fits over this, IIRC. Some of the Linux distro people, sort of piggybacked on Microsoft's certificates and signing thing to make it easier, and that pissed Linus off. He doesn't want Linux fellating MS.
Posted by: publius, the Poperin Pear Duke at December 22, 2018 11:43 PM (f1Vqw)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 22, 2018 11:39 PM (ffYR/)
Oh yeah. That's not even "haven't developed snow driving skills", which is completely reasonable if you've never had to. That's just middle school science fair stuff.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 11:43 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: colfax mingo at December 22, 2018 11:45 PM (tCvhJ)
Last two times I went, it really wasn't the same - just swamped, too crowded. Sort of killed the whole feeling. And luckily I did the express ticket thing or whatever it's called to avoid long lines for the big rides. Not anxious to go again. A friend lucked out, his long-planned birthday visit coincided with the big rain storm 2 weeks ago - he said they just walked right onto the big rides, nobody there.
Sadly I think this is now inevitable, and will increasingly be universal. Last month in Japan, Kyoto was just packed. To the point it complicated almost everything. Trains to/from nearby centers of interest were hard to get on. Streets were Shanghai at lunch-time.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 22, 2018 11:46 PM (QDnY+)
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Dude, seriously. I'd bet that less than 2% of commentors her have even a clue as to WTF you are talking about with these posts.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 22, 2018 11:47 PM (ffYR/)
Posted by: TexasJew at December 22, 2018 11:41 PM (c+cGk)
Absolutely!!!
Disney should invest several billion in that idea. It's a sure thing!!
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 11:47 PM (NLLmE)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 22, 2018 11:48 PM (Muyfa)
@226
Yeah, stupidity is unfortunately painless.
Best you can hope for is that the result of exercising said stupidity IS.
Posted by: irongrampa at December 22, 2018 11:49 PM (S/hVx)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 22, 2018 11:47 PM (ffYR/)
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Cool, I'm a two percenter. Woot!
Posted by: Blake - tis the season for grinching at December 22, 2018 11:49 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: Insomniac at December 22, 2018 11:49 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2018 11:49 PM (CDGwz)
Disney should invest several billion in that idea. It's a sure thing!!
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 11:47 PM (NLLmE)
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Put Kathleen Kennedy on it. It'll be BOFFO!!!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 22, 2018 11:50 PM (crFEY)
Posted by: TexasJew at December 22, 2018 11:41 PM (c+cGk)
Absolutely!!!
Disney should invest several billion in that idea. It's a sure thing!!
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 11:47 PM (NLLmE)
In ten years, you'd end up with a Kwanzaa movie about Disney. With Samuel L. Jackson playing Walt.
Posted by: model_1066 at December 22, 2018 11:50 PM (Rmukn)
Posted by: Surfperch at December 22, 2018 11:50 PM (k6F4I)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 22, 2018 11:41 PM (QDnY+)
Saskatchewan? The one I heard about was hundreds of truckers forming a rolling roadblock on the Anthony Henday Trail in Edmonton. It's a ring road that encircles the city, commonly known as the Henway.
Protesting the carbon tax, lack of pipeline construction, and the general government-boosted doldrums in the oil patch.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2018 11:50 PM (fDU8w)
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 11:50 PM (NLLmE)
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 11:50 PM (NLLmE)
Nah, the bilge rat who knows all the secrets...
Posted by: model_1066 at December 22, 2018 11:53 PM (Rmukn)
Now the knee jerk response is gross incompetence by the new company. But then I remembered the fact that the end of year refreshes had been moved to the summer. And it occurred to me that maybe the fact that no new computers are being deployed might have been the plan even back during the summer. But I can't think of why the IT Support company would do that.
So my question is, any idea why they might be doing this intentionally?
Posted by: junior at December 22, 2018 10:43 PM (cSguU)
One thing left out of your discussion is that all Windows 7 computers must be replaced by Windows 10 by the end of 2019 (actually, 14 January 2020) - that is the end of the support period for the Windows 7 OS. There is a lot of related planning going on for corporate IT types and it looks really strange from the outside. There is also the possibility that somebody typed the wrong year for the Windows 7 retirement in a contract and it got moved up to the NLT end of this year for whoever was scheduling the refresh.
Posted by: half a mind at December 22, 2018 11:53 PM (np68J)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2018 11:49 PM (CDGwz)
It's actually a lot more relevant to putting together a homebuilt PC than to software development. If you're used to buying a mainboard, CPU, RAM, disk, PSU, and all that and stuffing it in a case and then hitting DEL at startup to set up your new computer, UEFI is a very significant shift in how all that gets configured. Especially if you're installing Linux or dual-booting.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 11:53 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Calm Mentor
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Somewhere around here I have a 'Too Bad Ignorance Isn't Painful' bumper sticker.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2018 11:53 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 22, 2018 11:53 PM (LOq4H)
You're a sweet man. You deserve happiness. I'd love to be a part of that.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 22, 2018 11:48 PM (Muyfa)
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Ecccchhh. The blog is turning into a Hallmark Channel movie.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 22, 2018 11:54 PM (crFEY)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 22, 2018 11:54 PM (crFEY)
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Well, could be worse, could be the Disney Channel.
Posted by: Blake - tis the season for grinching at December 22, 2018 11:55 PM (WEBkv)
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Yeah, but watta ya gonna do? They're kids.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 22, 2018 11:56 PM (LOq4H)
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 11:50 PM (NLLmE)
I think the stabbing, mostly, is in bluebell's metaphorical wheelhouse. Ace is the captain, sure, but she tends to get first dibs on anything that falls within the stabbing sphere.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 11:56 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: eleven at December 22, 2018 11:50 PM (NLLmE)
I think the stabbing, mostly, is in bluebell's metaphorical wheelhouse. Ace is the captain, sure, but she tends to get first dibs on anything that falls within the stabbing sphere.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22, 2018 11:56 PM (t+qrx)
She's already made half the ship's silverware into shivs.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 22, 2018 11:57 PM (NWiLs)
Pick a player in the upper right corner at :
http://www.fbcradio.org/listen/
The last 15 min or so of programming:
Dec 22 - 23:58:31 Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier - Beside Thy Cradle Here I Stand (J. S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio, Part VI) 1:15
Dec 22 - 23:58:22 Station ID 0:09
Dec 22 - 23:57:35 Daniel Christmas Greeting 0:46
Dec 22 - 23:54:43 As with Gladness, Men of Old 2:52
Dec 22 - 23:52:30 O Come, All Ye Faithful 2:12
Dec 22 - 23:48:40 O Little Town of Bethlehem 3:50
Dec 22 - 23:47:13 In Dulci Jubilo 1:27
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2018 11:57 PM (xSo9G)
Is the carbon tax a done deal?
After recent years in the US, there is no downside limit on how self-destructively stupid I think industrialized countries can be, but a carbon tax? In an economy already facing major challenges? Pretty stunning.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 22, 2018 11:57 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: hogmartin at December 22
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Fen is the conscience of the blog and bluebell is its sicarii.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 22, 2018 11:59 PM (crFEY)
Posted by: half a mind at December 22, 2018 11:53 PM (np68J)
One thing I would like to see done by government, and it would throw a bit of a fuck into Silicon Valley, would be to require that builders of legacy operating systems, and of legacy software, continue to offer useful support to the users of legacy versions, as long as they are selling successors. Or else move the legacy products into the public domain, including the source code. A or B. take your choice.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2018 11:59 PM (fDU8w)
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See Hogmartin's post. Any new motherboard or prebuilt system you get now is going to be UEFI, not the old BIOS style, and if you like building your own systems, installing multiple OSes, and general tinkering, you've got to get up to speed on the new ways.
For example, secure boot can be a bitch if you want to run Linux. It can disabled on most systems, but it's something you need to know about if you're into tinkering like that.
Posted by: publius, the Poperin Pear Duke at December 22, 2018 11:59 PM (f1Vqw)
Posted by: sOME mORON at December 22, 2018 11:59 PM (ICWiF)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2018 10:50 PM (LsBY9)
I hate you! And Brazoria County!
Posted by: Grannymimi at December 23, 2018 12:00 AM (u5LFV)
Posted by: Insomniac at December 22, 2018 11:57 PM (NWiLs)
Props to whoever suggested hiding the other half before she could get to it and we're down to eating Kaboom with measuring cups.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 23, 2018 12:01 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Robert at December 23, 2018 12:01 AM (/cL3k)
Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at December 23, 2018 12:02 AM (xLvb0)
Is the carbon tax a done deal?
After recent years in the US, there is no downside limit on how self-destructively stupid I think industrialized countries can be, but a carbon tax? In an economy already facing major challenges? Pretty stunning.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 22, 2018 11:57 PM (QDnY+)
Only video I saw was a TV news chopper video of the procession on the Henway; clearly in Edmonton, AB.
But here may have been one in Saskatchewan, too. There is a lot of oil drilling and production there. Heavy oil up around Lloydminster, light oil down around Shaunavon, and also some Bakken oil down around Estevan.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2018 12:03 AM (fDU8w)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2018 11:59 PM (fDU8w)
Or, since they sell with planned obsolescence they should have to say what the minimum life span of the product is.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at December 23, 2018 12:03 AM (Rz2Nc)
Speaking of "Baby, It's Cold Outside", check out Claudia Schmidt's version, if you can find it.
I distinctly remember hearing it back in the 1980s. She flipped the roles and played a sly seductress. I loved it.
I can't find it on YouTube. Maybe she did it on "Prairie Home Companion", where she was a frequent guest back then.[/]
This is making me doubt my sanity. I know I heard it, but I can't find any evidence of it anywhere. I feel like Captain Ahab and that song is Moby Dick.
Posted by: rickl at December 23, 2018 12:04 AM (sdi6R)
Driving an 18 wheeler forward is a fairly simple thing, with the added caveats that stopping takes a lot longer and you need to be vigilant about what's around and what's ahead.
But...
Look, if the fate of our great nation rested on my ability to back up? We'd be fucking doomed.
So...my bags pretty fucking mixed right now.
Posted by: Robert at December 23, 2018 12:04 AM (/cL3k)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 22, 2018 11:03 PM (hyuyC)
Thanks for remind me NaCly...
Don't forget to tune in tomorrow night for the LIVE production of A Christmas Carol, performed ENTIRELY by the ONT Horde!!
Here's a listing of the cast:
Misanthropic Humanitarian . . . Ebenezer Scrooge
Insomniac . . . Ghost Of Christmas Past
qdpsteve . . . Ghost Of Christmas Present
Bluebell . . . Ghost Of Christmas Future
CBD . . . Ghost Of Marley
publius . . . Mr. Cratchit
Miley . . . Mrs. Cratchit
... and Ace himself, in a cameo as Tiny Tim.
A great merry time is guaranteed for all! Afterwards, cassettes of the performance will be available in the lobby.
See you there!
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 12:04 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: rickl at December 23, 2018 12:04 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 22, 2018 11:59 PM (crFEY)
Fen is definitely Horde chaplain. I feel like a jerk for laughing when she gets all sarcastic and cynical because she's just awful at it.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 23, 2018 12:05 AM (t+qrx)
How's everyone else doing?
Posted by: Robert at December 23, 2018 12:05 AM (/cL3k)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 12:05 AM (LOq4H)
Yeah, but watta ya gonna do? They're kids.
Yeah, cut 'em a little bit of slack. Nothing like some romance this time of year.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 23, 2018 12:05 AM (HaL55)
Posted by: Robert at December 23, 2018 12:06 AM (/cL3k)
But I like qdpsteve's version of "A Christmas Carol".
Posted by: rickl at December 23, 2018 12:08 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2018 12:08 AM (fDU8w)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 12:09 AM (miE9U)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZABVkrKAPdo
Posted by: kbdabear at December 22, 2018 10:51 PM (0Ntuf)
Who cares?!?! With that voice and delivery I don't need to watch - just listen!
Posted by: Grannymimi at December 23, 2018 12:09 AM (u5LFV)
Insomniac . . . Ghost Of Christmas Past
qdpsteve . . . Ghost Of Christmas Present
Bluebell . . . Ghost Of Christmas Future
CBD . . . Ghost Of Marley
publius . . . Mr. Cratchit
Miley . . . Mrs. Cratchit
... and Ace himself, in a cameo as Tiny Tim.
A great merry time is guaranteed for all! Afterwards, cassettes of the performance will be available in the lobby.
See you there!
Posted by: qdpsteve
You bastards! No call back? I'll see you never work in this town again!
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 12:10 AM (LOq4H)
But I like qdpsteve's version of "A Christmas Carol".
Posted by: rickl at December 23, 2018 12:08 AM (sdi6R)
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It's no George C. Scott version but it kicks the shit out of the Patrick Stewart version.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 23, 2018 12:10 AM (crFEY)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2018 12:08 AM (fDU8w)
Is this a euphemism?
Posted by: Robert at December 23, 2018 12:10 AM (/cL3k)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 12:10 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: eleven at December 23, 2018 12:11 AM (NLLmE)
Posted by: Robert at December 23, 2018 12:04 AM (/cL3k)
If I were an OTR driver my career would be a very brief stint of "close enough" followed by a day or so of "then fix it yourself", and that would be it. I'd go cross-eyed trying to overthink how to turn the wheel and when to turn back.
Are you on wireless in a sleeper cab or something? How does that work?
Posted by: hogmartin at December 23, 2018 12:11 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Robert at December 23, 2018 12:10 AM (/cL3k)
Nope. She was barking at the door. It's cold outside here.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2018 12:11 AM (fDU8w)
Cicero, you're publius' understudy.
Posted by: qdpsteve
Well, this is awkward...
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 12:11 AM (LOq4H)
Cicero, you're publius' understudy.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 12:10 AM (miE9U)
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Tiny Tim or nothing.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 23, 2018 12:11 AM (crFEY)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 12:12 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: hogmartin at December 23, 2018 12:13 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 12:14 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: hogmartin at December 23, 2018 12:11 AM (t+qrx)
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A lot of fuel stops have wifi. Or, using the phone as a wifi hotspot is always an option.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 23, 2018 12:14 AM (ffYR/)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 12:14 AM (miE9U)
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The role of the charwoman who steals Scrooge's bed curtains remains un-cast.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 23, 2018 12:16 AM (crFEY)
"Whore Of Christmas Of All-Time"
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 12:17 AM (miE9U)
Now there's an idea. Make old software public domain after its end of life. I like it.
For the binaries at least. I'd have to think about making the source code public domain as well. But I'd tend to go with it at first blush.
The details would have to be hashed out, but basically, if it's "abandonware", then everything should be public domain, binaries and source code and everything.
Posted by: publius, the Poperin Pear Duke at December 23, 2018 12:17 AM (f1Vqw)
The choir is holding out for a bigger trailer...
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 12:19 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 23, 2018 12:14 AM (ffYR/)
One of Polliwog/IC's Warcraft buddies is a trucker who joins in from the laptop over phone wifi. With voice chat and everything. It kind of blew my mind the first time he said he'd have to log out because someone had showed up to open the gate to let him drop the trailer because I didn't realize that you could get that kind of gaming-quality bandwidth and latency out of a data tethering plan.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 23, 2018 12:21 AM (t+qrx)
It's no George C. Scott version but it kicks the shit out of the Patrick Stewart version.
Agreed. The GCS version is the best modern remake I've seen. However, nothing beats Scrooged.
Frank Cross to the Ghost of Christmas Present (the delectable Carol Kane) after she pinches his lower lip, "If you touch me one more time, I'm gonna rip your goddamned wings off!
GoCP: titters "Ooooh, you know I like the rough stuff."
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 23, 2018 12:21 AM (HaL55)
Are you on wireless in a sleeper cab or something? How does that work?
Posted by: hogmartin at December 23, 2018 12:11 AM (t+qrx)
Overthinking is me. All day every day. And losing track of where I'm supposed to aim the fucking thing. I'm pulling the last of my fucking hair out and I'm desperate to make this career work.
Anywho...
So I've only been with this company for two weeks and it's all training right now. We've done two trips to the same place in Washington State and we're about to do the same trip for a third time in a row. But yes, we sleep in the truck. It's set up as a team drive. So my trainer does a couple of hours of observation...well...whenever he feels like it...and sleeps while I drive and I sleep while he drives. (It's actually a bunk so we don't have to spoon if we were to sleep at the same time.).
Posted by: Robert at December 23, 2018 12:21 AM (/cL3k)
Posted by: Robert at December 23, 2018 12:23 AM (/cL3k)
Posted by: Robert at December 23, 2018 12:21 AM (/cL3k)
If you were to both sleep at the same time, you'd pull off the highway and stop the truck though, yeah?
Posted by: hogmartin at December 23, 2018 12:23 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Robert at December 23, 2018 12:23 AM (/cL3k)
Ohhhh I was imagining that you'd pulled into a truck stop for the night and was wondering if you were on wifi at the diner or a hotspot in the truck or some other option.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 23, 2018 12:24 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 12:25 AM (LOq4H)
Posted by: hogmartin at December 23, 2018 12:13 AM (t+qrx)
Well truck stops are really the only place you can shower and also offer thighs like laundry services so that's totally cool.
Lot lizards are, from what I hear, friendly lasses what offer certain services to lonesome truckers for a small fee. Fuck that! I got my Hulu subscription, among others, so I'm covered.
Posted by: Robert at December 23, 2018 12:25 AM (/cL3k)
Back in the late 80's I was riding a 1980 Yamaha XS 850 Special, Ruby Red. It was in mid January near as I can remember and I drove out to my best friends trailer to visit and drink a few beers.
It was cold so I wore my Carharts, unheated snow gloves and as always my full face helmet with a neck glove to keep the wind out.
Did I mention it was cold, and January?
So anyhow, weatherman had suggested it might snow but this being Alabama the odds of him getting it right were pretty close to 0. I ride out to my friends place with a 12 pack strapped to the rack on back to keep it cool. We proceed to have a good time and around 11ish I figure its probably a good time to head out as my friend, his wife and I had consumed the beer.
I will admit that it was probably not the smartest to hop on a bike even mildly inebriated but hey, I'd done worse and even made it past a sobriety check point so sloshed that I dropped my wallet when trying to hand it to the cop who picked it up, glanced at my DL, handed it back and waved me through. Anyways, so I bundle up, say goodbye and walk out to my bike and hopped on. Plopped right over to the left and trapped me on the ground when I tried to kick it over. I honked on the horn till my buddy came out and freed me, yes, he pointed and laughed, so did his wife. I got it fired up, he went back inside and I rolled off heading to the highway.
Once on the highway it started snowing and when I accelerated it looked just like I was jumping to light speed just like it did in Star Wars. I was the only thing on the road so I would slow down to a crawl and then accelerate, repeatedly. It was a lot of fun for a while till I decided that driving on two wheels on snow might not be such a good idea and cautiously drove the next 15 miles home.
So yes, it really does look that damn cool, just do it in a vehicle with four wheels and heat.
Posted by: Gmac - 'All politics in this country now is dress-rehearsal for civil war' at December 23, 2018 12:25 AM (qZdIZ)
Imagine how much better, more free, even more prosperous, these societies could be without the de facto sabotage and theft inflicted by the near-dominant elements.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 23, 2018 12:26 AM (QDnY+)
Look, if the fate of our great nation rested on my ability to back up? We'd be fucking doomed.
Posted by: Robert at December 23, 2018 12:04 AM
All right,
Posted by: Rex Kramer at December 23, 2018 12:27 AM (YTxkQ)
Truck stops were lousy with Roy Rogers.
Now McDonalds seems to have all the truck stops.
But Howard Johnsons was a legit restaraunt. Ah, the good ol' days.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 12:27 AM (xLvb0)
The two hideous children cowering below the Ghost of Christmas Present's coat are naturals for Trolls:
"This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased."
Belle
Caroline
Bob Cratchit
Mrs Cratchit
Belinda Cratchit
Martha Cratchit
Peter Cratchit
Tiny Tim Cratchit
Mrs Dilber
Fan
Fezziwig
Mrs Fezziwig
Fred
Ghost of Christmas Past
Ghost of Christmas Present
Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
Jacob Marley
Old Joe
Ebenezer Scrooge
Topper
Dick Wilkins
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2018 12:29 AM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 12:25 AM (LOq4H)
Sumner. It's right by Olympia.
If you were to both sleep at the same time, you'd pull off the highway and stop the truck though, yeah?
Posted by: hogmartin at December 23, 2018 12:23 AM (t+qrx
It's regulated by the government so intensely that we press a button and Maxine Waters pops out of the panel and takes over for a few hours.
Posted by: Robert at December 23, 2018 12:30 AM (/cL3k)
Sounds like everyone here can play a role! :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 12:31 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 12:27 AM (xLvb0)
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They had a great one on the old space station.
Posted by: Dr. Heywood Floyd at December 23, 2018 12:31 AM (crFEY)
Unless it Norm MacDonald's telling the moth joke.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-MJy7w69EU
Posted by: Hermey, Aspiring Dentalologist at December 23, 2018 12:31 AM (MouFt)
Driving an 18 wheeler forward is a fairly simple thing, with the added caveats that stopping takes a lot longer and you need to be vigilant about what's around and what's ahead.
But...
Look, if the fate of our great nation rested on my ability to back up? We'd be fucking doomed.
So...my bags pretty fucking mixed right now.
Posted by: Robert at December 23, 2018 12:04 AM (/cL3k)
I live in a rather hilly and winding area, with the added bonus of Amish buggies and farm equipment on the roads. I've seen my share of trucks having to back down a hill to take another go at it.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at December 23, 2018 12:32 AM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: Dr. Heywood Floyd at December 23, 2018 12:32 AM (crFEY)
See you there!
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 12:04 AM (miE9U)
Oooo Ooooo
Can there be a Miklos Fezziweg?
Posted by: Miklos, aspiring thespian at December 23, 2018 12:33 AM (zCyNd)
JAS your refund is on its way
You should see it the 2nd Tuesday of next week
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitairan at December 23, 2018 12:33 AM (aA3+G)
For Sale
Fully furnished mobile home in sunny, warm Arizona. Double wide. Lots of nice, old neighbors.
$4999*
*means there's more, as is more $$
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3qaXbbrYtg
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 12:33 AM (xLvb0)
Ahhh, the joys of 167, 405, I-5, I-90. You lucky dog!
I still have my class A with doubles/tanker endorsement.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 12:34 AM (LOq4H)
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at December 23, 2018 12:32 AM (Rz2Nc)
Pennsylvania end of the Alleghenies?
Posted by: hogmartin at December 23, 2018 12:34 AM (t+qrx)
Sounds like everyone here can play a role! :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve
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Push comes to shove, we can use lurkers as links in Marley's chain.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2018 12:34 AM (CDGwz)
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The Windows thing doesn't really surprise me. I've heard that the brand of PC computer that the company is using now only sells computers that don't support Windows 7. I've encountered that in the past. For instance, I saw new Dells back in mid-2017 that wouldn't accept a Windows 7 image.
But the excuse that they can't deploy Macs until they have a Mojave image ready doesn't hold water. Mojave just came out in September of this year. Sierra was still being used on images for around six months after High Sierra was released at the same time last year. And three months to get a new image ready and all the way through testing would be an absurdly fast turn around time for many of the bigger enterprise installs, based on what I've seen.
Posted by: junior at December 23, 2018 12:35 AM (Fp6vo)
Posted by: hogmartin at December 23, 2018 12:34 AM (t+qrx)
No, Holmes County, OH.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at December 23, 2018 12:35 AM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitairan at December 23, 2018 12:36 AM (aA3+G)
Imagine how much better, more free, even more prosperous, these societies could be without the de facto sabotage and theft inflicted by the near-dominant elements.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 23, 2018 12:26 AM (QDnY+)
Glad to hear there was a protest in Estevan, too. The oil patch has a huge presence there. Lots of Bakken wells, same formation as across the line in NoDak, but there are also older, shallower fields still productive. And coal mining, too.
Nice little town, on the Souris River.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2018 12:36 AM (fDU8w)
MisHum, wait 'til you see your fabulous trailer... ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 12:37 AM (miE9U)
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I'm going to have to think about this a bit.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2018 12:37 AM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 12:37 AM (LOq4H)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2018 12:37 AM (CDGwz)
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 12:38 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2018 12:37 AM (CDGwz)
If the thighs have that fresh-laundry smell, that could be a game-changer. I would have no defense.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 23, 2018 12:38 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Robert at December 23, 2018 12:38 AM (/cL3k)
OK Hordelings, it's bedtime for Bonzo.
Y'all try to behave, especially Insom and nurse ratched. You two keep your hands where everybody can see them.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 23, 2018 12:39 AM (HaL55)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 12:37 AM (LOq4H)
AHA! You're right. That's been bugging me all day but not enough that I noticed it. I wonder if there's a new caching setting.
Clearly the simple solution is to poat moar.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 23, 2018 12:39 AM (t+qrx)
I'm reminded of the C&W tune 'Give Me Forty Acres and I'll Turn This Rig Around'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2018 12:40 AM (xSo9G)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy
Ok, saw the Barry Fitzgerald scene from the Quiet Man.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 12:40 AM (LOq4H)
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 12:38 AM (MTjB1)
Thighs like laundry services.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 23, 2018 12:41 AM (t+qrx)
Cripes.
You'd be better off buying a lot of land in the middle of nowhere and building one of those "Tiny Houses."
Paying rent in one of these retirement mobile home parks is just a big drain on your savings/retirement.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 12:41 AM (xLvb0)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy
in the spirit of the holiday season, could you not float these softballs the require infinite amounts of restraint to not swat.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 12:42 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 23, 2018 12:42 AM (crFEY)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 12:42 AM (LOq4H)
Posted by: publius, the Duke of Miley's Ficus at December 23, 2018 12:42 AM (f1Vqw)
Posted by: hogmartin at D
first had to find that then puzzle out what it meant.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 12:43 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 12:44 AM (NMAzL)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 12:44 AM (xLvb0)
Posted by: yankeefifth
Well, when two people meet, and the man has disposable income, they come to an "agreement"...
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 12:45 AM (LOq4H)
Posted by: yankeefifth
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It's one of those Eastern things I think. There's no way to express the thought in a fashion that Westerners can comprehend.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2018 12:46 AM (CDGwz)
now he is stalking me to tell me that he did not change them because of how hard he got stomped.
lol
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 12:46 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at D
so not a typo? thought he was mistyping "things" like laundry services?
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 12:47 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Geological and transmission repair skills.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2018 12:47 AM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at D
lol
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 12:47 AM (MTjB1)
now he is stalking me to tell me that he did not change them because of how hard he got stomped.
lol
Posted by: yankeefifth
There's a medal in this for you, right?
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 12:47 AM (LOq4H)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess
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...and a couple of gallons of pre-mix.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2018 12:48 AM (CDGwz)
$4999*
*means there's more, as is more $$
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3qaXbbrYtg
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 12:33 AM (xLvb0)
That's at 600 S. Idaho Road in Apache Junction, AZ. I have driven past it dozens of times.
The trailer is worth practically nothing. Sad, but true. Some parks will grandfather in old trailers, but if a trailer is sold, it has to be moved out. It's their way of keeping the RV resorts looking attractive. And lot rent goes on, year in, year out, so for snowbirds, that expense can be onerous.
And there are restrictive covenants on a lot of things one might like to do. No kids, no pets (in many parks). Work on your car? uh-uh. Plant a garden, other than few cactus and flowers? Nope.
It works for some people, not me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2018 12:49 AM (fDU8w)
I want a girl who knows what's best
I want a girl with thighs like laundry services
Who will wash my sweater vests
Posted by: hogmartin at December 23, 2018 12:49 AM (t+qrx)
If I were Mrs. Crachit, I'd go over to that office and kick the hell out of that miserable miser. Nobody fucks with my husband except me.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 12:51 AM (NMAzL)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at D
no. when he changed everything I hit him with this:
LOL! you got owned into changing your name and your pic! were you in the big house I would be sharing you out for cigarettes!
don't worry, we did a screen grab of the whole thing with your other nic and pics. Not sure which is worse using a pic of you and your girl to make senseless inane posts on the internet or getting cowed into changing them. remember the deal was for marlboros, don't come back without em.
woooohooo! L.O.L! Guess everyone is your daddy now.
now he is trying to convince me I do not own him, no one is his daddy and he changed everything because he wanted to.
what I want to know is where are the 10 cartons of cigarettes he should have come back with.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 12:51 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: sinalco at December 23, 2018 12:52 AM (yODqO)
That was his first album I bought when it was new and I wore it out. I'm listening to it again after all those years and it is just as good as I remember it.
Posted by: rickl at December 23, 2018 12:52 AM (sdi6R)
You'd be better off buying a lot of land in the middle of nowhere and building one of those "Tiny Houses."
Paying rent in one of these retirement mobile home parks is just a big drain on your savings/retirement.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 12:41 AM (xLvb0)
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Are you talking about types like AOP? Cuz that what would be a loser argument.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 23, 2018 12:54 AM (ffYR/)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 12:44 AM (xLvb0)
Heh. We retirees are a net benefit to the local economy. We pay property tax, and sales taxes. We buy from local shops, and hire local trades. And we cannot collect government bennies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2018 12:54 AM (fDU8w)
I'm reminded of the C&W tune 'Give Me Forty Acres and I'll Turn This Rig Around'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2018 12:40 AM (xSo9G)
An actual "trailer", with it's own pivoting front axle and tongue connected by pintle-hitch to the towing vehicle, is old-tech for a reason. 'Cause that's one tough SOB to back up, period.
The tandem rigs, where the fifth-wheel attached semi-trailer is then pulling a "mule", which is a front axle equipped with it's own fifth-wheel, on which to mount a 2nd semi-trailer?
Yeah, back that one up, Chief.
And up in Montana and the Dakotas, at least in the '70s n' '80s, even "triples" were allowed on the roads.
Shades of Aussie "Road Trains", but without enough trafficless desolation to make that a safely considerable option.
The modern 53' semi-trailer carries damn near the total load of the "doubles", but is far, far safer, and actually easier to back down than a shorter rig, altogether.
But no way would I want to sign up for the Over The Road gig. I salute and seriously respect you guys n' gals who do.
I really need to be home more often than that, for all kinds of reasons.
Which is why for my "retirement" job, I'm aiming at a Class B CDL with Passenger n' Air Brakes endorsement.
Tour bus gigs. Local stuff. Airport shuttles, etc.
A 55 passenger Prevost or VanHool is damn near as easy to drive as an F-250 longbed. Just a LOT more mass involved.
Bonus. Passengers tend to offer tips. Cargo, doesn't.
No, the total annual income won't compare. But the quality of life will suffice.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 23, 2018 12:54 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Ruthless at December 23, 2018 12:55 AM (md3fh)
Posted by: yankeefifth
Or, if you don't smoke, "did you shiv 'X' like I told you?"
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 12:56 AM (LOq4H)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 12:44 AM
.............And we cannot collect government bennies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2018 12:54 AM (fDU8w)
You are doing something wrong AOP
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitairan at December 23, 2018 12:56 AM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 12:57 AM (xLvb0)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 12:57 AM (NMAzL)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 12:57 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2018 12:54 AM (fDU8w)
Au contraire. Peon is an Hispanic surname, so you qualify for the benefits mucho grande, no?
Posted by: Miklos, benefit administrator (on Federal furlough) at December 23, 2018 12:57 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Ruthless at December 23, 2018 12:57 AM (md3fh)
Posted by: Burger Chef at December 23, 2018 12:58 AM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at D
lol. he is too much of a bitch to shiv somone, he is just a collection of holes for generating cigarettes.
funny thing is he pic he was using for his avatar was of his wife, guess he is really sensitive about the fact that she is taller than him.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 12:58 AM (MTjB1)
Which is why for my "retirement" job, I'm aiming at a Class B CDL with Passenger n' Air Brakes endorsement.
Ever consider a small Car Carrier?
Shuttling cars around the country, etc.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 12:59 AM (xLvb0)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 23, 2018 12:54 AM (ffYR/)
No, he's right about the paying rent. It is a costly lifestyle for those on a fixed income. And you don't build equity; quite the opposite. That nifty new double-wide you bought new for $12,000 in 1988 is now worth $5000 or so, if you can find a buyer. Most parks will not allow you to move a trailer that old into them. Even insuring one that old can be hard. Trailers depreciate.
Having said that, a park model trailer is a good way to get one's feet wet in the resort community experience, and if one really likes it, then you can move on to a real stick-built house in the same community, in some instances. many parks are trying to up-market themselves into gated communities of stick-built homes and high-end park models.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2018 01:01 AM (fDU8w)
Just doxx out your tormentor's details to AtC.
She'll gaslight the prison bureaucracy so as to get Bluebell on the "inside", with her spork.
After that, the history is already written.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 23, 2018 01:01 AM (QzJWU)
Shuttling cars around the country, etc.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at D
you could go, state to state, city to city, transporting cars and fighting crime. or reviewing lot lizards.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 01:02 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 12:57 AM (miE9U)
What kind of weapons are permitted? "Miley with the lead pipe in the office."
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 01:02 AM (NMAzL)
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Funny, I kept my CDL which I got while working for my dad. My "high tech" job in which all the electronics were hard wired into the truck, one had to have a CDL to operate the truck. Even though driving the thing was like 10% of the job.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 01:02 AM (LOq4H)
After that, the history is already written.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at D
lol. alex the chick does not like me. I am not classy enough for her. she told me so.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 01:03 AM (MTjB1)
That nifty new double-wide you bought new for $12,000 in 1988 is now worth $5000 or so
Exactly.
Mobile home: Paying Rent AND owning a "home" that is depreciating in value.
It just doesn't make sense. It's like Leasing a car - you just don't do it.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 01:03 AM (xLvb0)
Posted by: Ruthless at December 23, 2018 01:03 AM (md3fh)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 12:57 AM (NMAzL)
Long-time lurker and occasional poster.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2018 01:03 AM (fDU8w)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at D
sigh, jokes we cannot make anymore.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 01:04 AM (MTjB1)
Friend did that, couldn't afford the 20K California demanded for the upgrade.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 01:04 AM (LOq4H)
(better advise MisHum to wear a helmet)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 01:04 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at D
guess it works towards their plan to get rid of internal combustion engines.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 01:06 AM (MTjB1)
(better advise MisHum to wear a helmet)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 01:04 AM (miE9U)
A helmet would be an anachronism.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 01:06 AM (NMAzL)
Wish that guy would show up. With the passage of time, it seems less and less likely.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2018 01:07 AM (CDGwz)
Looking out for my hard head
Thanks Steve
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitairan at December 23, 2018 01:07 AM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 01:06 AM (NMAzL)
Not the purple ones.
Posted by: Miklos, with a minor correction at December 23, 2018 01:07 AM (zCyNd)
There was a time when I toyed with the idea of buying a RV, buying a piece of land, and then just parking on it.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 01:08 AM (xLvb0)
Shuttling cars around the country, etc.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 12:59 AM (xLvb0)
No. They're out for weeks and months at time. The high-end covered car carriers, many have double-condo "sleepers" on 'em... mini RV's on the semi chassis.
Local "three car" carriers, which are often pulled by F-350 class trucks, haul from auctions to dealers n' back. Hard labor, that. Any car-hauler is hard labor at pick up and delivery.
The bus gig's hard labor is some overweight luggage, now n' then.
In this local market, the "overnights" are runs to n' from the Louisiana casinos. Coveted runs, those.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 23, 2018 01:08 AM (QzJWU)
Mobile home: Paying Rent AND owning a "home" that is depreciating in value.
It just doesn't make sense. It's like Leasing a car - you just don't do it.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 01:03 AM (xLvb0)
OTOH, a mobile home on land you own makes good sense. You can have comfortable, if not luxurious accommodations set up very quickly, and as the home depreciates, hopefully the land gains value, and after X number of years, you can sell out at a profit.
If i were to sell my present house in AJ, I would sure consider buying a larger patch of land a touch more rural, and then buy one of those soon-to-be orphaned park models, and set it up on my land.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2018 01:09 AM (fDU8w)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 01:09 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 01:09 AM (NMAzL)
Tour bus gigs. Local stuff. Airport shuttles, etc.
A 55 passenger Prevost or VanHool is damn near as easy to drive as an F-250 longbed. Just a LOT more mass involved.
Bonus. Passengers tend to offer tips. Cargo, doesn't.
No, the total annual income won't compare. But the quality of life will suffice.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 23, 2018 12:54 AM (QzJWU)
Retirement, you're doing it wrong.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at December 23, 2018 01:09 AM (Rz2Nc)
I figure it makes more sense to own a real "mobile" home than a stationery mobile home.
Then, I figgered it makes more sense to park on your own land than to pay some jerkoff rent every month.
Plus, and here's the beauty part, I'd be able to literally drive my house around if I felt like it.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 01:10 AM (xLvb0)
Posted by: Miklos, with a minor concern at December 23, 2018 01:11 AM (zCyNd)
That's why during a gubmint shutdown, everything is free!
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 01:12 AM (miE9U)
Yeah, AOP, there are some towns in MA who allow mobile homes to be built on land.
Maine, no problem. NH, too.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 01:13 AM (xLvb0)
met a former trucker recently who said diabetes is rampant because guys
just sit all the time. I think a lot of people sit most of the time so I
am not sure about the second point. This guy was sure though, he gave
the life up.
Posted by: Quint at December 23, 2018 01:13 AM (n13/j)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 01:10 AM (xLvb0)
Drive your horse around? Oh, house.
Same difference.
Posted by: Miklos, quasi-equestrian at December 23, 2018 01:13 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: hogmartin at December 23, 2018 01:13 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Ruthless at December 23, 2018 01:13 AM (md3fh)
I'd love to be a part of that.
why is my monitor sizzling?
Y'all have exchanged pix at least already, right?
Not that it's any of my business.
Unless you carry on in some public smart military blog forum. Then it's public business.
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I'm 2% enough to realize, vaguely, what Publius is talking about, if I wasn't glazing over it. But, ignoring that subthread, and that other subthread with long comments about whatever it was, makes getting caught up a lot easier.
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qdpsteve #275:
LIVE production of A Christmas Carol
I want to be the Taxi Driver!
Oh, wait... that was Wonderful Life.
Or Scrooged.
Posted by: mindful webworker at December 23, 2018 01:14 AM (Xjx9o)
met a former trucker recently who said diabetes is rampant because guys
just sit all the time. I think a lot of people sit most of the time so I
am not sure about the second point. This guy was sure though, he gave
the life up.
Posted by: Quint at D
well the diet they have is worse than the sitting.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 01:14 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 01:14 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: Miklos, with a minor concern at December 23, 2018 01:11 AM (zCyNd)
If you are not in DC, it is like a tree falling in the woods I think. BTW, Trump should keep all national parks and particularly military memorials open no matter what. Basically, do the opposite of Obama.
Posted by: Quint at December 23, 2018 01:15 AM (n13/j)
Was told by the tax assessor my property values would go up by 40k if I tore down my double wide.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 01:15 AM (LOq4H)
They were jam-packed.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2018 01:15 AM (EZebt)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 01:15 AM (miE9U)
Then, I figgered it makes more sense to park on your own land than to pay some jerkoff rent every month.
Plus, and here's the beauty part, I'd be able to literally drive my house around if I felt like it.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 01:10 AM (xLvb0)
The biggest RV's going don't have as much room in them as even a single-wide mobile, most of which are 50 feet long. And none of that interior space is eaten up by engine and power train.
RV's a great, and some are quite roomy, but they are not houses. A single-wide mobile is a very small house, but it is a house, for some values of "house". And a double-wide is to all intents and purposes, a real house, save for the depreciation factor. At least it "lives" like a house, as far as your use of it goes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2018 01:16 AM (fDU8w)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 01:16 AM (xLvb0)
Posted by: Ruthless at December 23, 2018 01:17 AM (md3fh)
Retirement, you're doing it wrong.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at December 23, 2018 01:09 AM (Rz2Nc)[/]
Two divorces and a Corporate "Re-Organization" in, I'm to where I'll work to the end of my days.
"Retirement", in the Travis McGee sense of the word, at best.
But I can do better than ending up as a Wal Mart Greeter, and so, will.
That gold plated resume from the 80s n' 90s?
I can't even buy a Cardboard AoS membership with it, now.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 23, 2018 01:17 AM (QzJWU)
I dunno, those slide-outs on those big rigs are kinda roomy.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 01:17 AM (xLvb0)
Posted by: rickl at December 23, 2018 01:18 AM (sdi6R)
They were jam-packed.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2018 01:15 AM (EZebt)
Lot of people go to them on Christmas. This was a funny exchange. Kagan seems like she at least has a sense of humor, which is saying a lot for the left. She was also a fried on Scalia. He voting record probably sucks but I can't help thinking she is ok compared to many on her side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tku61sKhPGo
Posted by: Quint at December 23, 2018 01:19 AM (n13/j)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 01:15 AM (LOq4H)
If you are paying the taxes, it works to your advantage to have the property undervalued, eh? Comes time to sell, knock down the mobile, and sell the bare land at the prevailing rate.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2018 01:19 AM (fDU8w)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 01:19 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 01:15 AM (LOq4H)
Maybe you should park a few more old trailers there, save money on taxes.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 01:20 AM (NMAzL)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 01:20 AM (LOq4H)
It's not like I'd like to live in an RV, and being a city boy I really don't cotton to living "off grid."
But I like the idea of Independence.
And I hate, more than anything, more than I hate fucking monkeys, even, I hate paying rent for anything.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 01:20 AM (xLvb0)
And that's why it sits there, slowly returning to the earth from which it sprang.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 01:21 AM (LOq4H)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 01:20 AM (NMAzL)
Hey, I know these girls, they could make it....businesslike.
Posted by: Miklos, entrepreneurial at December 23, 2018 01:21 AM (zCyNd)
That said, Rent, in some form or another, is inescapable.
For instance, my property tax. That's rent insofar as it's a debt I can never be free of.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 01:21 AM (xLvb0)
Posted by: Ruthless at December 23, 2018 01:22 AM (md3fh)
Turns out that we have had a really exceptional heavy frost settle, and that combined with a near full moon makes it look almost exactly like a light snow cover.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2018 01:22 AM (CDGwz)
"I'm sorry Mr. Miklos, I can't make the rent this month"
"Uh, well maybe we can work something out..."
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 01:22 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: irongrampa at December 23, 2018 01:23 AM (S/hVx)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 01:19 AM (miE9U)
from what I have seen of her, she seems likable. There is also an interview on youtube where she talks about Scalia and I think she went hunting with him or shooting. The leftists in the audience were stunned silent.
Posted by: Quint at December 23, 2018 01:23 AM (n13/j)
Posted by: hogmartin at December 23, 2018 01:13 AM (t+qrx)
I lived aboard the New Dawn from '99 to '06.
When living in Kemah, TX proved intolerable due to excessive noise and partying in the marina late into the nights, I moved me n' the boat down to Galveston in '03.
Met Iris in '04, moved offa the boat in '06, and Hurricane Ike destroyed the boat in '08.
Point is though.
DO the liveaboard thing. You'll never regret it. Great way to live... no lawn to mow, no property taxes.
And I do hope my retirement home will prove to be a 52 ft. Irwin ketch.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 23, 2018 01:24 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 01:25 AM (miE9U)
So, ideally, a "Tiny House" that's completely Off-Grid and a big garden, and chickens, would be perfect.
Except, I don't want any of that.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 01:25 AM (xLvb0)
Posted by: Ruthless at December 23, 2018 01:26 AM (md3fh)
Posted by: rickl at December 23, 2018 01:26 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 01:20 AM (xLvb0)
Rent is the price you pay for freedom from commitment. You own something, it becomes a burden you must bear.
In fact, there is a song about that:
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=bBYVRERVf8Q
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2018 01:26 AM (fDU8w)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 01:27 AM (xLvb0)
Posted by: Ruthless at December 23, 2018 01:27 AM (md3fh)
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Co-worker did that, if it suits ones life style, go for it.
I would miss my shop and fruit trees, and become more of a homicidal maniac.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 01:27 AM (LOq4H)
Posted by: Ruthless
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In our area, Obama had freaking parking lots barricaded. At least one of them was at a concessionaire's restaurant on the Blue Ridge Parkway. And yet, and yet, the National Park Rangers remained on duty...watching the barricades.
Asshole.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2018 01:27 AM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at D
take them into the butcher
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 01:27 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Ruthless at December 23, 2018 01:26 AM (md3fh)
And in a bucket, fried up nice. By a colonel.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 01:28 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 01:25 AM (miE9U)
I think I remember the Kavanaugh thing now that you mention it. Look, I get she is a NYC liberal and not a Wyoming libertarian-conservative. But she seems like a decent person open to new experiences. That is rare these days it seems when it comes to the political divide.
Posted by: Quint at December 23, 2018 01:28 AM (n13/j)
Even my car is not rent free.
I pay insurance, excise tax, registration fee, and dinosaur juice. Not to mention maintenance.
It never ends.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 01:29 AM (xLvb0)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 01:29 AM (miE9U)
DO the liveaboard thing. You'll never regret it. Great way to live... no lawn to mow, no property taxes.
Jim
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Yeah, no lawn, but...
*resumes scraping bottom*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2018 01:29 AM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 01:30 AM (xLvb0)
Posted by: Ruthless at December 23, 2018 01:31 AM (md3fh)
met a former trucker recently who said diabetes is rampant because guys
just sit all the time. I think a lot of people sit most of the time so I
am not sure about the second point. This guy was sure though, he gave
the life up.
Posted by: Quint
It's the junk food that is eaten while sitting.
Posted by: Puddleglum at December 23, 2018 01:31 AM (HCqAo)
Even my car is not rent free.
I pay insurance, excise tax, registration fee, and dinosaur juice. Not to mention maintenance.
It never ends.
No shit! I wonder what the actual tax bite is, if one were to figure in all the taxes and the ones which get passed down.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 01:31 AM (LOq4H)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 01:33 AM (LOq4H)
Every time I hear that furnace fire up, I imagine burning $$.
Life is like a Taxi cab. We all have one of those meters, and it never stops running.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 01:34 AM (xLvb0)
I would miss my shop and fruit trees, and become more of a homicidal maniac.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 01:27 AM (LOq4H)
I have enough tools to choke a standard 20 ft. shipping container.
So, I'll buy a 40 footer, configured as a shop.
The rent I'll have to pay is for where I'll park and stow the thing.
But even if I were to move a boat from Galveston to Pensacola, moving the container is but a trucking-contract away from fruition.
The gardening though? I've seen yachtsmen with containerized growth on their docks n' decks. And at my last marina, the un-developed land there made one yachtsman a mighty fine small veggie patch, which the local wildlife found to be quite delicious.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
/hasta la nite nite horde!
Posted by: Jim at December 23, 2018 01:34 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Ruthless at December 23, 2018 01:13 AM (md3fh)
Ruthless, sounds nice.
Soothsayer, you can get a machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMydVdwmuws
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 23, 2018 01:34 AM (oGNNA)
Posted by: Jim at December 23, 2018 01:24 AM (QzJWU)
No lawn to mow, but you have maintenance to do. No property tax bill, sure, but you don't pay property taxes out of escrow when you rent an apartment either.
TANSTAAFL is all I'm saying. A liveaboard sounds like an apartment without a maintenance agreement. Or maybe I'm just too cynical about how lax I'd be on upkeep.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 23, 2018 01:34 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Ruthless at December 23, 2018 01:35 AM (md3fh)
Soothsayer, you can get a machine.
This is a vid of a chicken-plucking machine?
Yeah, no thanks.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 01:35 AM (xLvb0)
he was also famous for making everyone hand over their credit cards, cutting them up and tossing them in a big bowl on his conference table.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 01:35 AM (MTjB1)
Looks like a really nice place.
At this stage, I'd probably take it over SoCal, even with the culture shock (exurban community, relative lack of shopping/eating/recreation options, etc).
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 01:36 AM (miE9U)
"Retirement", in the Travis McGee sense of the word, at best.
But I can do better than ending up as a Wal Mart Greeter, and so, will.
That gold plated resume from the 80s n' 90s?
I can't even buy a Cardboard AoS membership with it, now.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 23, 2018 01:17 AM (QzJWU)
Ouch. I survived one divorce pretty broke. Now m with the love of my life and beyond child bearing years.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at December 23, 2018 01:36 AM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 01:36 AM (LOq4H)
Posted by: Ruthless at D
dude, don't ruin everything.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 01:36 AM (MTjB1)
Sounds ridiculous, but to me that was a key milestone moment in my assessment of the country, and how it had transformed. There was zero political cost to that outrageous vandalism, that just 10 years earlier, probably, would have been a political disaster.
A big data point for those who use more than inertia and sentimentality in assessing the country where they happen to live at the moment.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 23, 2018 01:37 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Ruthless at December 23, 2018 01:27 AM (md3fh)
Sorry. Chicken plucker's late.
Posted by: The chicken plucker's mate at December 23, 2018 01:37 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: ramondo at December 23, 2018 01:38 AM (hMTmZ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 01:36 AM (miE9U)
I have passed through Moab. Big tourist area. No lack of places to dine out, not at all.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2018 01:38 AM (fDU8w)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at D
since you will be living there alone, you will. you will be plucking that chicken day an night, all day every day.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 01:38 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 01:38 AM (miE9U)
I can't decide if these oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are better with walnuts or pecans.
Way to start an argument betwixt me & Milady, Miiiiley!
She immediately and emphatically said, "walnuts!"
And I thoughtlessly and instantly countered with "pecans!"
I acknowledged that walnuts would be more traditional and she concurred that pecans would be good, too.
Marriage saved. It was a close thing, though.
Posted by: mindful webworker at December 23, 2018 01:38 AM (Xjx9o)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 01:39 AM (xLvb0)
There's also a song on the Breakfast In America album, Lord Is It Mine, that I would *swear* would have been perfect for Michael Jackson to sing. In fact the way Roger Hodgson sang it, it *already* sounds like MJ a little...
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 01:40 AM (miE9U)
I have chocolate, sugar, and butter, barely held together by a little flour. should I mix in some dry pocket of weak, dry wood, t make it taste worse?
like mixing collard greens and chitlins into a chocolate bar.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 01:41 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 01:42 AM (MTjB1)
This is a vid of a chicken-plucking machine?
Yeah, no thanks.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 23, 2018 01:35 AM (xLvb
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Heh, go ahead, plug "chicken plucking machine" into Youtube and click Search. All kindsa cool stuff. A girl in an evening gown plucking chickens. Guy showing you how to turn a washing machine into a chicken plucker. Also, something very funky from Russia.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 23, 2018 01:43 AM (oGNNA)
Posted by: Ruthless at December 23, 2018 01:43 AM (md3fh)
Posted by: Miklos, just askin' at December 23, 2018 01:44 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Ruthless at December 23, 2018 01:45 AM (md3fh)
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at December 23, 2018 01:45 AM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 01:45 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Ruthless at December 23, 2018 01:46 AM (md3fh)
Consider my assertion refuted. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 01:46 AM (miE9U)
I am not a chicken plucker, I'm a chicken plucker's son. I am only plucking chickens 'till the chicken plucker comes.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2018 01:47 AM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Evasiveboat42
Removing the lungs is the worst, did God weld them in?
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 01:47 AM (LOq4H)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitairan at D
double especially those cocksuckers.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 01:48 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Ruthless at December 23, 2018 01:46 AM (md3fh)
Yes, I worded it poorly, but with the nerve reaction you might want to kill each one multiple times, running around like a chicken without it's head is a saying for a reason.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at December 23, 2018 01:48 AM (Rz2Nc)
Oh, wait, wait...
2013 Oct 13 Washington DC
Linked in nic
Posted by: mindful webworker at December 23, 2018 01:49 AM (Xjx9o)
Posted by: Jim at December 23, 2018 01:24 AM (QzJWU)
No lawn to mow, but you have maintenance to do. No property tax
bill, sure, but you don't pay property taxes out of escrow when you rent
an apartment either.
TANSTAAFL is all I'm saying. A liveaboard sounds like an apartment
without a maintenance agreement. Or maybe I'm just too cynical about how
lax I'd be on upkeep.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 23, 2018 01:34 AM (t+qrx)
and what if you have accumulated too much shite? btw. am with the anti renters. The USA favors home ownership in so many ways it is not even fair. And it probably is not fair, but it is the way it is.
Posted by: Quint at December 23, 2018 01:50 AM (n13/j)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at December 23, 2018 01:47 AM (LOq4H)
LOL,yes, they are in ther good.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at December 23, 2018 01:50 AM (Rz2Nc)
when we go hunting we just give the pheasants to the butcher. hour later is is done.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 01:51 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 23, 2018 01:51 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: Ruthless at December 23, 2018 01:53 AM (md3fh)
Posted by: Ruthless at December 23, 2018 01:56 AM (md3fh)
Posted by: Quint at December 23, 2018 01:56 AM (n13/j)
Posted by: Ruthless at December 23, 2018 01:57 AM (md3fh)
when we go hunting we just give the pheasants to the butcher. hour later is is done.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 01:51 AM (MTjB1)
If I have 10
r less I do it myself.if over that I'll take them in and it's about 2 bucks each. If you're paying 5 bring them here and I'll do them for 4 bucks each.Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at December 23, 2018 01:59 AM (Rz2Nc)
Marriage saved. It was a close thing, though.
Posted by: mindful webworker at December 23, 2018 01:38 AM (Xjx9o)
I divided the dough to make some of each. And no, Y5, nuts don't taste like wood.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 02:01 AM (NMAzL)
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at D
yeah, 5 is high but they screw us because it is hunting season.
we often have the discussion of
"hey y5, let's go hunting!"
"I am busy but you can take a group out if you want. I will tell them you are going to be there."
"what if I clean the birds"
"ok, when should we go?"
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 02:03 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 02:04 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2018 02:05 AM (fDU8w)
Then, I poured another drink. I had another handful of food.
Then, I read a bunch more comments.
Then, I brushed my teeth again.
I think I'd better break the cycle here. Busy and difficult days ahead.
Merry Christmas, onscreen peoples. And g'night.
Two batches - clever, Miley.
Pecans are the best in chocolate chip cookies.
Posted by: mindful webworker at December 23, 2018 02:05 AM (Xjx9o)
Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at December 23, 2018 02:09 AM (wWUkD)
I hear that. Quail is actually quick and is to process, I used to raise them.takes about 30 seconds, Dre ally no different than cleaning a fish.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at December 23, 2018 02:13 AM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at December 23, 2018 02:15 AM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at D
very cool.
my friend is the great white hunter. if it swims, crawls, flies he hunts it and is good.
there is no reason for me to shoulder even when only one bird jumps.
some have suggested that I have shouted hen to throw him off and get a shot in now and then.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 02:15 AM (MTjB1)
have gone all in on a couple of other shotguns since. that old gun still shoulders, swings, and shoots better than anything I have bought since.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 02:19 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: mindful webworker at December 23, 2018 02:05 AM (Xjx9o)
A half batch of each - and yes, I think the pee-cans are better.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 02:31 AM (NMAzL)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 02:43 AM (NMAzL)
y'all know the naughty and nice lists were set in stone a month ago. no need to try and get all nice now.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 02:44 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 02:49 AM (NMAzL)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at D
good to know
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 03:02 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 03:05 AM (NMAzL)
bugged me even back in the eighties...
Posted by: Anachronda at December 23, 2018 03:09 AM (YvN+i)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at D
magic is gone.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 03:09 AM (MTjB1)
This year it's boiled custard, for publius' dad.
Close enough to eggnog.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 03:29 AM (NMAzL)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 03:38 AM (NMAzL)
My advice is to not watch it.
Know that the left advocates for those same people to be allowed to come across the southern border to claim 'asylum' without question.
I've been down here on the border for a few decades now. It is beginning to feel like the bad old days.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Si vis Pacem, Para Bellum) at December 23, 2018 03:43 AM (l7Kbv)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at D
you never taunt your hos. bad for business. want to save hix energy for the clients.
he sassed me so I cut his rate in half, which is ok since I do not smoke more than a couple a year.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 03:49 AM (MTjB1)
bitch is so angry and scared he has started vomiting about how he does not care.
methinks he doth protest too much.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 03:53 AM (MTjB1)
Acourse, the Christmas dick flag could be particularly spicy.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 04:00 AM (NMAzL)
Acourse, the Christmas dick flag could be particularly spicy.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at D
well, we are going to let him know that none of this is going out until after the first. not sure if that is better or worse for him.
who knew how much you could do with a couple of little things you could find on the internets.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 04:16 AM (MTjB1)
As for the Christmas parties at work. The company shit-canned ours (and all of the company parties) because of liability concerns for DUI.
And we used to have an annual "pig pickin'/camping get together in the woods next to the lake every year after it turned cold. That was not organized by "the company" even though it had some members of management involved. But alas only males were invited due to concerns by employee's wives. That ended when two new hire scrunts complained of sex discrimination.
It just shows you, you never can keep something good for having fun in this day and age.
Posted by: Vic at December 23, 2018 04:19 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Vic at December 23, 2018 04:36 AM (mpXpK)
Mom is awaiting a transfer to a hospital bed from the Urgent Care where they made a preliminary diagnosis of severe anemia. So they need to find out where it's coming from.
And I am The Worst Daughter Ever, for calling her malingering bluff, refusing her an extra oxy, telling her I'd see her in the morning. So she called 911 on her own, and I met the ambulance drivers in her living room.
I came home to shower, sleep, and reach out to the empty halls of the ONT.
Posted by: Shopgirl #PatrickIsMahomesie at December 23, 2018 04:42 AM (zFqvn)
Posted by: m at December 23, 2018 04:45 AM (vcxAT)
Posted by: m at December 23, 2018 04:47 AM (vcxAT)
Prayers for you and your mom.
Posted by: Vic at December 23, 2018 04:49 AM (mpXpK)
malingering bluff, refusing her an extra oxy, telling her I'd see her in
the morning. So she called 911 on her own, and I met the ambulance
drivers in her living room.
I came home to shower, sleep, and reach out to the empty halls of the ONT.
Posted by: Shopgirl #PatrickIsMahomesie at December 23, 2018 04:42 AM (zFqvn)
You have my prayers, but you aren't alone. I'm also A Disappointment as a Sister.
The moon sets and the world goes on, with us or without us.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 04:52 AM (NMAzL)
My advice is to not watch it.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Si vis Pacem, Para Bellum) at December 23, 2018 03:43 AM (l7Kbv)
Thank you.
Posted by: m at December 23, 2018 04:55 AM (vcxAT)
And don't be too hard on yourself.
By the way, been loving what you've done with your nic.
Don't watch any games but I hear results on radio.
Pull up PM highlight vids on utube just so I can watch how right I was about that kid after watching some of the stuff he did at T Tech.
Posted by: teej at December 23, 2018 04:55 AM (W8e/N)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 04:56 AM (NMAzL)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 04:56 AM (NMAzL)
I have a good friend who thought it was very, very important for him to watch the very first of the ISIS videos. He steeled himself for it, and was very glad that he gained that information. But advised me not to watch it.
Posted by: m at December 23, 2018 04:58 AM (vcxAT)
You can't know what your words mean. I feel like hands are pulling me up out of the depths. The Lord bless and keep you.
Been reading about anemia in the elderly, and it's now a little less frightening.
Going to sleep for three hours. I guess that's the equivalent of putting the oxygen mask on me first.
Posted by: Shopgirl #PatrickIsMahomesie at December 23, 2018 05:01 AM (zFqvn)
Of course you would drop in out of nowhere to be on my side. {hugs}
p.s.: I smiled at the Pat ref. MVP all the way!
Posted by: Shopgirl #PatrickIsMahomesie at December 23, 2018 05:03 AM (zFqvn)
Posted by: Shopgirl
Exactly so. And don't let guilt weaken you. It's a useless waste of energy.
(I'm talking to myself, too).
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 05:05 AM (NMAzL)
Our problem is we have been too soft on these animals thanks to bleeding heart assholes. Which reminds me of my days at Townhall. We used to have an elderly black woman who posted there often. She had a saying that I remember to this day; "Sometimes all a bleeding heart gets you is blood on the floor".
Posted by: Vic at December 23, 2018 05:05 AM (mpXpK)
Going to sleep for three hours. I guess that's the equivalent of putting the oxygen mask on me first.
Posted by: Shopgirl #PatrickIsMahomesie at December 23, 2018 05:01 AM (zFqvn)
I love this! Exactly. Food and water and deep breaths, too.
Posted by: m at December 23, 2018 05:07 AM (vcxAT)
Don't say much any more. Never did really.
But saw your comment and,,, well.
And if you're where I think you might be ( red Fridays? ) then you're only about 1.5 hrs away.
If you need anything...
Posted by: teej at December 23, 2018 05:09 AM (W8e/N)
Posted by: Vic at December 23, 2018 05:10 AM (mpXpK)
Maybe grammie will see it.
Christmas Tree on Main Street has gone over 10,000 listens this year.
We've gone cardboard!!!!
Less than 90,000 listens to gold!!!
Posted by: teej at December 23, 2018 05:13 AM (W8e/N)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2018 05:17 AM (/rm4P)
Our problem is we have been too soft on these animals thanks to bleeding heart assholes. Which reminds me of my days at Townhall. We used to have an elderly black woman who posted there often. She had a saying that I remember to this day; "Sometimes all a bleeding heart gets you is blood on the floor".
Posted by: Vic at D
no way. you cannot do what they do without becoming them. just kill them all.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 05:19 AM (MTjB1)
Maybe grammie will see it.
Christmas Tree on Main Street has gone over 10,000 listens this year.
We've gone cardboard!!!!
Less than 90,000 listens to gold!!!
Posted by: teej at December 23, 2018 05:13 AM (W8e/N)
Could you repost the link, teej?
Posted by: m at December 23, 2018 05:19 AM (vcxAT)
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 05:19 AM (MTjB1)
Exodus 21:23-25 But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
Posted by: Vic at December 23, 2018 05:25 AM (mpXpK)
Keeps getting shared forward or something I guess.
There are a few around here who have it or had it but very few.
Don't know how to get it from this phone to somewhere it could be listened to.
And I am incredibly overprotective of the individual who has it on their fb page.
They mean the world and then some to me.
Posted by: teej at December 23, 2018 05:27 AM (W8e/N)
Posted by: Vic at December 23, 2018 05:27 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Vic at D
Ok then, you can be the one doing the torturing.
besides, that is old testament, you might have noticed that the new testament is pretty successful as a basis for society.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 05:29 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Vic at D
you should leave them on all the time so that when it gets dark you will be able to find them.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 05:30 AM (MTjB1)
Lowes has them.
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2018 05:34 AM (/rm4P)
For unto us a child is born...
He came the first time as the Lamb of God.
When He returns,,, hoooo boy.
It's Lion of the Tribe of Judah time.
Posted by: teej at December 23, 2018 05:36 AM (W8e/N)
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 23, 2018 05:30 AM (MTjB1)
That could be expensive.
Posted by: Vic at December 23, 2018 05:37 AM (mpXpK)
A complete Milankovitch axial tilt cycle is 41,000 years. The earths axis tilts between 22.1° and 24.5° degrees. Progressively in one direction for about 20,500 years, then gradually over the next 20,500 years returning to the starting point. We're midpoint in the direction of progressively less winter sunlight on the Northern Hemisphere. In about 10,000 years that will begin to reverse.
We all need to get used to progressively colder winters, unless Global Warming provides us some relief.
https://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles#Axial_tilt_(obliquity)
Posted by: Newest Nic at December 23, 2018 05:42 AM (jYje5)
https://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles#Axial_tilt_(obliquity)
Posted by: Newest Nic at December 23, 2018 05:42 AM (jYje5)
That assumes we have "global warming".
Posted by: Vic at December 23, 2018 05:43 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: redc1c4 at December 23, 2018 05:44 AM (zJ7J0)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2018 05:46 AM (/rm4P)
Posted by: Vic at December 23, 2018 05:48 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Eromero at December 23, 2018 05:49 AM (zLDYs)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2018 05:50 AM (/rm4P)
That assumes we have "global warming".
Posted by: Vic at December 23, 2018 05:43 AM
If the guy who got a D- in his college Earth Sciences class is to believed, yeah.
The cool thing about Milankovitch cycles is that there are three of them. When all three coordinate in the worst way possible, the planet slips into an Ice Age. Right now we're only hitting two out of the three.
Al Gore doesn't take a single one of the three cycles into account for the planets constantly changing climate. He's happy with a single variable, carbon dioxide. Which is certainly the absurd work of a D- student.
Posted by: Newest Nic at December 23, 2018 05:50 AM (jYje5)
We do have a flashlight that stays plugged into the wall as a night light and you can take it out to use it .
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2018 05:46 AM (/rm4P)
I had a couple of those types of lights that would come on automatically if you lost power. I had them plugged into the island in the kitchen and over one of the kitchen counters. They both went bad after a couple of years.
Posted by: Vic at December 23, 2018 05:50 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 23, 2018 05:51 AM (NMAzL)
Posted by: Vic at December 23, 2018 05:51 AM (mpXpK)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 23, 2018 05:53 AM (KCxzN)
Justice Department spokesman told The Hill that Muellers office is funded from a permanent indefinite appropriation and would be unaffected in the event of a shutdown.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2018 05:55 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: m at December 23, 2018 05:56 AM (vcxAT)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2018 05:46 AM (/rm4P)
Nice present for somebody, maybe everybody.
Posted by: m at December 23, 2018 05:58 AM (vcxAT)
Posted by: Vic at December 23, 2018 06:01 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Vic at December 23, 2018 05:43 AM (mpXpK)
Some of use are old enough to remember when our teachers in the 1970s told us of the impending Ice Age. They also told us that the US was now metric so get used to it. A year or so later they stopped talking about metric an the "next ice age". But like normals, and unlike now, they did not try to force global warming on us either, they let it die.
Maybe global warming is a thing, the issue has become so politicized that it is almost impossible to hear any proponent without a lot of skepticism. These people politicized the issue and marginalized themselves. If man is truly causing a catostrophe, I would think some smart people with no agenda would be proving this to all.
I think it was Rush who first brought up the idea of watermelons. Watermelons are leftists who are green on the outside and red on the inside. The idea is that when the Soviet Union fell, pinko Americans who hated capitalism needed a new schtick. They were reds, but they cloaked their anti capitalism in green. If the Commies could not take down America, the greenies could by saying capitalism is destroying the earth.
I am open to proof that global warming is real and man is causing it by building things. But the issue needs to be de politicized, the fake news has to end and people need to bring verifiable facts to the table without other agendas.
Posted by: Quint at December 23, 2018 06:02 AM (n13/j)
man is causing it by building things. But the issue needs to be de
politicized, the fake news has to end and people need to bring
verifiable facts to the table without other agendas.
Posted by: Quint at December 23, 2018 06:02 AM (n13/j)
All the "fact" they have brought to the table so far have turned out to be lies. I would not trust a single thing that any liberal says about globull warming. Especially since my own measurements show we have been cooling since I began keeping records.
And that is backed up by the raw numbers measured by reputable sources that haven't been "normalized by NOAA or NASA.
Posted by: Vic at December 23, 2018 06:08 AM (mpXpK)
Your science is better than mine I am sure. I am very sceptical about the whole thing but it is clear they have convinced a crap load around the world. Hell, in the UK, when it rains they blame "climate change". Funny, because I thought when it went from not raining to raining, that is kinda the definition of climate change.
Again, I blame the politicization by the left. They politicized it, they cried wolf over and over, and now they are mad when we don't believe them. Again, provide proof and we can discuss this. But turning out all the lights and moving into caves is a non starter. And I don't want to fund your hair brained green start up with Uncle Sam's money either.
Posted by: Quint at December 23, 2018 06:16 AM (n13/j)
The physics the models are based on demands that a persistent "hot spot" be present in the upper troposphere over the equatorial band. Nothing of the sort has appeared and thus the hypothesis has been falsified.
Not a single metric of weather we are and have been experiencing falls outside the parameters of natural variability according to what we know of the climate history of this planet. And the temperature has been much lower at times in the past when the level of CO2 was much higher.
The issue cannot be "de-politicized" because it was a fabrication created for political/social change/financial change objectives in the first place! It should always be remembered that the UN is a political body concerned with expanding it's power and authority more than anything else and the IPCC is it's creation. Every word of the periodic reports from climate change reports they create is parsed by politicians before they are published.
Posted by: rah at December 23, 2018 08:47 AM (QGdgs)
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