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Monday Overnight Open Thread (8/12/19)

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The Quotes of The Day


Quote I

The politics of envy leads to an evil place.Eaton Rapids Joe


Quote II

“You’re right that when there’s a gun in the household you’re more likely to have a child get shot or the owner get shot than to kill, let’s say, an intruder into the house. Those are just numbers; those are just the facts.” Andrew Yang


Quote III

"The Israeli government can do what they want. It's fake news," Stephanie Grisham


Quote IV

“However, while I agree that women can do things in a different way, if you’re trying to stop no-deal Brexit then the key thing is to bring people together, not to divide them on the basis of their gender." UK MP Anna Soubry


Quote V

“It’s enough to eat a little less. You talk about environmental pollution. It’s enough to poop every other day. That will be better for the whole world,” Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro


Quote VI


"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." Vernon Sanders


Quote VII


“Given this generous millionaire is voicing concern for the fate of the Open Arms migrants, we thank him: he can take back to Hollywood, on his private plane, all the people aboard and support them in his villas. Thank you Richard!” Interior Minister Matteo Salvini

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The SJW (How ironic Warriors) and the Thought Police, have failed when it comes to the Washington Redskins.

A new survey of Native American opinions on the Washington Redskins' nickname once again demonstrates underwhelming opposition to the moniker and just how out of touch the so-called "mainstream media" really is. The new survey duplicates the Washington Post's 2016 poll finding that 90 percent of Natives are not offended by the Redskins' nickname ― much to the disappointment of writers at the Post. Like Theresa Vargas, who insists the name is a dictionary-defined slur, no matter how many people accept the word.

The Post polled 504 self-identified Native Americans and found universal acceptance of Indian nicknames. A 2016 Post poll and a 2008 Annenberg Public Policy Center poll told the same story. "I know, I know. We’ve all already given a lot of emotional energy to this issue, and three years ago, we agreed, whether or not we said it, to move on," writes a disappointed Vargas.


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Is there a link between pot use and mass shootings? Some people think so.

And, in all honesty, we cannot rule out a connection between increasing marijuana use, mental illness and the recent spate of mass shootings by disturbed young males.

We don’t yet know much about the mental state or drug use of the El Paso or Dayton killers. But a former girlfriend of Dayton killer Connor Betts, 24, has indicated he was mentally ill, and two of his friends interviewed by reporters this week mentioned his previous drug use.

Just last year, the Parents Opposed to Pot lobby group tried to sound the alarm on the link between marijuana and mass shootings, compiling a list of mass killers it claims were heavy users of marijuana from a young age, from Aurora, Colo., shooter James Holmes and Tucson, Ariz., shooter Jared Loughner to Chattanooga, Tenn., shooter Mohammad Abdulazeez.


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Elections have consequences. And Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY)isn't prepared to let the Kavanaugh confirmation go.

The latest mobilization against now-Justice Kavanaugh doesn’t relate to fantasyland, however, it’s his emails from the Bush White House…because Democrats just can’t let it go (via Washington Examiner):

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday demanded access to Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s records from his employment in the George W. Bush White House, citing the panel’s role in “judicial disqualification and misconduct.”

Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler sent a letter to the National Archives asking the records department “to complete its review and release records,” to the panel related to Kavanaugh’s 2001-2006 White House service.

[…]

According to Nadler, the Archives has completed processing records related to Kavanaugh’s time in the White House counsel’s office and he is seeking all of his emails and office files from that time.

Nadler also asked the Archives to work with panel Democrats to speed up the production of the documents from Kavanaugh’s staff secretary tenure, which is not scheduled for release until 2021.

The House plays no role in confirming judicial nominees.

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Maybe Congress will listen now? No, don't hold your breath..............


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Free college. Free health care. What else can Bernie Sanders give us if elected? Everything you wanted to know about aliens but the government wouldn't tell you. Sorry it's a Rolling Stone link.

Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), during an interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast this week, promised the host that he would expose what the government may know about aliens because his wife Jane would insist he do so.

Rogan asked how a possible future President Sanders would handle what some might consider sensitive information: “If you found out something about aliens. If you found out something about UFOs, would you let us know?”

“Well, I’ll tell you, my wife would demand that I tell you,” Sanders replied with a laugh.

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The ONT isn't saying that the Clintons did in Epstein. But he isn't the first mysterious death in their circle.

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The most popular social app by state.


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The ONT Musical Interlude



Born on this day: 12 Aug 1949
Mark Knopfler British songwriter, guitarist, singer with Dire Straits who had the 1985 US No.1 single 'Money For Nothing', the 1986 UK No.2 single 'Walk Of Life', and the 1985 world-wide No.1 album Brothers In Arms. Knopfler has recorded and performed with many prominent musicians, including Chet Atkins, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Bryan Ferry, Emmylou Harris, Van Morrison, Steely Dan, Sting, and James Taylor. via thisdayinmusic.com


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Born on this day: 12 Aug 1929
Buck Owens, American singer and guitarist, who scored twenty number-one hits on the Billboard country music charts, and pioneered what has come to be called the Bakersfield sound’a reference to Bakersfield, California. Died March 25th 2006. via thisdayinmusic.com

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Nothing says romance like going to Denny's and being chased by police. Genius Award Winner.

Finding love in this crazy world is hard enough. First dates can often range from awkward meet-cutes, to near-disasters, to having a perfect evening. However, one woman in Florida may think twice about swiping right after her latest first date decided to flee from police when he was pulled over for a tag violation.

According to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office, deputies attempted to make a traffic stop on Thursday in Palm Coast, Florida of a gray Dodge Charger. The driver initially pulled over near a church, but as deputies then fled, according to the arrest report. Deputies gave chase with their lights and sirens blazing, pursuing the vehicle onto U.S. Highway 1. Seeking to stop the chase as soon as possible, deputies deployed "stop-sticks," which hit the tires, but the car was able to keep going.

The chase ended after deputies discovered the vehicle and a woman who was standing behind the Dodge Charger, but the driver was nowhere to be found.

The woman informed deputies she'd been along for the ride and that she'd met the Orlando-area man on an online dating site and had agreed to go to Denny's before heading back to her house. When her date was pulled over for a tag violation, the date reportedly told the woman that he'd go to jail if he were caught and decided to flee the deputies anyway. The woman told her date to stop for police, but he refused because he said he would go to jail.


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Woman who celebrates her 100th birthday had a surprise. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

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Comments

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1 Jes!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at August 12, 2019 10:00 PM (BiNEL)

2 Damn

Posted by: Ha at August 12, 2019 10:00 PM (MAstk)

3 close but no Clinton cigar

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 10:01 PM (sy5kK)

4 Thirſt!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 12, 2019 10:01 PM (wgV7k)

5 Top ten ONT!

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 12, 2019 10:01 PM (t6MX/)

6 Top Ten on the ONT?

Posted by: Surfperch, 0% Italian, 100% Italican at August 12, 2019 10:01 PM (tVQUs)

7 Portland Head Light!

What do I win?

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 12, 2019 10:02 PM (wgV7k)

8 Strange how Twatter's only popular in DC.

Posted by: Surfperch, 0% Italian, 100% Italican at August 12, 2019 10:02 PM (tVQUs)

9 Top ten?

Posted by: BifBewalskiBot - sofa king we todd did at August 12, 2019 10:03 PM (VcFUs)

10 Aw, an SJW has the sadz over not getting xis way about the Redskins? Awww, that's too bad.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 12, 2019 10:04 PM (2PXwn)

11 1 Jes!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at August 12, 2019 10:00 PM (BiNEL)

Congrats oh great Commissar......

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:04 PM (aA3+G)

12 Evening Horde!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2019 10:04 PM (Y4EXg)

13 Portland Head Light AND Mark Knopfler?

Da-yum, gonna have to read content!

Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 12, 2019 10:04 PM (8AONa)

14 Yo!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 12, 2019 10:04 PM (438dO)

15
I was just reading at the Daily Mail: Some says AG Barr himself paid a visit to that MCC jail right after Epstein's "suicide attempt" a while back. They say Barr was pissed off about that and went there in person to chew some people out.

After this, Barr is probably topping cotton shore nuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 12, 2019 10:04 PM (NMAzL)

16 Oh hello!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 12, 2019 10:05 PM (kQs4Y)

17 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:04 PM (aA3+G)

I owe all my successes to my faithful companion Conor!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at August 12, 2019 10:05 PM (BiNEL)

18 Nadler is a fucking little maggot. He needs to crawl back into the pile of shit from whence he came.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 12, 2019 10:05 PM (dUJdY)

19 Whoa. Who's Eaton Rapids Joe? Eaton Rapids is about 20 miles from here. And I know that's the Eaton Rapids he's talking about, because it's the only the one.

https://stoatnet.org/eatonrapids.jpg

Posted by: hogmartin at August 12, 2019 10:05 PM (t+qrx)

20 Thanks for the Monday ONT, Mis Hum!

Experience is indeed a hard teacher, no grading on the curve. But the lessons one learns, stay learned! (Unless you are a Genius Award Winner type!)

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 12, 2019 10:05 PM (bHlGF)

21 So, I've got a black and white video that I want to export so that the white background is transparent. I've tried various render engines, masks and alpha channel settings, but I cannot get rid of the white background.

I'm a victim of white supremacy.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 12, 2019 10:06 PM (l9m7l)

22 17 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:04 PM (aA3+G)

I owe all my successes to my faithful companion Conor!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at August 12, 2019 10:05 PM (BiNEL)

I expect a doggeh custard now, Pops

Posted by: Conor The Pooch at August 12, 2019 10:06 PM (aA3+G)

23 Very nice photo Mis Hum. Almost looks like it is a painting. Would enjoy seeing that place in real life.

Posted by: cfo mom at August 12, 2019 10:06 PM (RfzVr)

24 That Bolsonaro quote has got to be out of context or sarcasm. Don't think he's on the stoopid train on these issues.


Oh - and according to the UToober who posted the video of Fredo Cuomo going nutz, the guy asking the question literally thought his name was Fredo, based on talk radio references.


If true, THAT is effing hilarious.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 12, 2019 10:06 PM (QDnY+)

25 All ist Klar? I love that song.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:06 PM (PUmDY)

26 Hello Dear, how was your day?

Posted by: ALH at August 12, 2019 10:07 PM (GaOgf)

27 20 Thanks for the Monday ONT, Mis Hum!

Experience is indeed a hard teacher, no grading on the curve. But the lessons one learns, stay learned! (Unless you are a Genius Award Winner type!)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 12, 2019 10:05 PM (bHlGF)


You're welcome.
And you are correct in your observations.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:07 PM (aA3+G)

28 The more Mark Knopfler I listen to, the better I like him as an artist!
There's a great utube where he talks about having a custom guitar built for him! I am too challenged to find it right now!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at August 12, 2019 10:07 PM (BiNEL)

29 A great day here.
How about you?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:07 PM (aA3+G)

30 Is there a link between pot use and mass shootings?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:00 PM

Since I've heard that continued Marijuana use can lead to anger issues, a link wouldn't surprise me.

Posted by: Surfperch, 0% Italian, 100% Italican at August 12, 2019 10:08 PM (tVQUs)

31 Portland Head Light at Fort Williams Park, Cape Elizabeth, Maine...

There used to be a hot dog vendor there, "Frank's Franks", I believe it was called... One's meal was served on an inverted Frisbee -- which he got to keep...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 12, 2019 10:08 PM (wgV7k)

32 >>The more Mark Knopfler I listen to, the better I like him as an artist!
There's a great utube where he talks about having a custom guitar built for him!


The Pensa Suhr guitars he had made were real nice.

He's a technical wonder. Neck and Neck with Chet Atkins is a good primer on his skills.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:08 PM (NE8ji)

33 Even other maggots hate Nadler.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 12, 2019 10:09 PM (dUJdY)

34 >>Is there a link between pot use and mass shootings?


What did JackStraw do?

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:09 PM (NE8ji)

35 love Telegraph Road. and Solid Rock, Skateaway, Private Investigations, Tunnel of Love, even Industrial Disease. Great tunes.

Posted by: jhawk90 at August 12, 2019 10:09 PM (G8KCj)

36 My day was very nice. Thank you for asking!

Posted by: ALH at August 12, 2019 10:09 PM (GaOgf)

37 The sign in that photo looks like it could have been from the erstwhile JR's in NC. They had wedding dresses next to whole hams next to perfume next to car parts next to old time candy next to leather motorcycle jackets.

Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2019 10:10 PM (Sd66L)

38 Romeo and Juliet is amazing.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:10 PM (PUmDY)

39 Good Evening Horde

Posted by: wing at August 12, 2019 10:10 PM (JFzNN)

40 I like the way Salvini thinks - take the SJW boo-hoo about "migrants" and turn it around on the pampered celebrity. Love that he told Richard Gere to take the migrants to his villas and take care of them!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 12, 2019 10:10 PM (bHlGF)

41 Since I've heard that continued Marijuana use can lead to anger issues, a link wouldn't surprise me.
Posted by: Surfperch, 0% Italian, 100% Italican at August 12, 2019 10:08 PM (tVQUs)


Given how often I hear that marijuana is not only harmless but a wonder drug for lots of things, I take it for granted it has all sorts of nasty side effects we'll only find out much later.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 12, 2019 10:10 PM (2PXwn)

42 Is there a link between pot use and mass shootings?

I thought marijuana mellowed you out and gave you a bad case of the munchies.

Posted by: ALH at August 12, 2019 10:11 PM (GaOgf)

43 Strange how Twatter's only popular in DC.
Posted by: Surfperch, 0% Italian, 100% Italican at August 12, 2019 10:02 PM (tVQUs)

I noticed that, too. It should tell the media and people something, but it won't.

Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 12, 2019 10:11 PM (Rz2Nc)

44 18 Nadler is a fucking little maggot. He needs to crawl back into the pile of shit from whence he came.
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 12, 2019 10:05 PM (dUJdY)

Jewels, I don't think GoNadler is little anything.

Posted by: clutch at August 12, 2019 10:11 PM (Z3oWA)

45 "You're right that when there's a gun in the household you're more likely to have a child get shot or the owner get shot than to kill, let's say, an intruder into the house. Those are just numbers; those are just the facts."

Also loads of deception and fraud.

to "get shot" is quite different than "to kill". Look at HeyJackAss and see that quite a number of people get shot while relatively few get killed. Also, he narrows down the range of defensive play to the one "intruder in your house" scenario - most intruders don't enter in to occupied dwellings.

Also, the vast majority of "owners who get shot" are suicides. At least a self inflicted gunshot clears up any mystery on the cause of death in the view of the life insurance investigator, whereas driving full speed into a bridge abutment, dragging many people into this suicide event, may result in fraud.

Leftists love death, misery and pain. So when a gun prevents death and injury from some criminal, Andrew Yang and others bury it as the preservation of life, liberty, property and peace are anathema to their death cult's demands for blood.

It is a complete waste of time dealing with these soulless subhumans. They are cancer. They lie all the time. They never enter into any discussion in good faith - it is always to rob you of your freedom, wealth, dignity and soul.

Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 12, 2019 10:12 PM (lD3vL)

46 What did JackStraw do?
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:09 PM (NE8ji)
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Evidently he caught a lot of strippers today.

Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2019 10:12 PM (aXucN)

47 Is there a link between pot use and mass shootings?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:00 PM


How could possibly there be any linkage between a psychotropic drug and irrational behavior?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at August 12, 2019 10:12 PM (BiNEL)

48 Dude, I was Sicilian, not Italian. And I want respect!

Posted by: Zombie Fredo Corleone at August 12, 2019 10:12 PM (np91H)

49

In my experience, the anger management issues come from whiskey and tequila.

Pot issues are primarily food-related.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 10:13 PM (sy5kK)

50 From Nadler's theme song:
Myiasis the glory of the coming of the Lord,.....

Posted by: stumck at August 12, 2019 10:13 PM (IpZ/y)

51 The anger management issues come from bad parenting.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:13 PM (NE8ji)

52 In my experience, the anger management issues come from whiskey and tequila.

Pot issues are primarily food-related.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 10:13 PM (sy5kK)

Indeed.

Posted by: ALH at August 12, 2019 10:14 PM (GaOgf)

53 Reddit only being popular in Ultra-Blue states tells you all you need to know about the site and it's userbase.

Posted by: Surfperch, 0% Italian, 100% Italican at August 12, 2019 10:14 PM (tVQUs)

54

She told deputies her date had gone by "Craig and Mike" online.




Oh, yeah. There's a good sign.

I suspect this woman is no award-winner for her decision-making skills, either.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 12, 2019 10:14 PM (oVJmc)

55 You're right clutch.. he's a big fat fucking maggot.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 12, 2019 10:14 PM (dUJdY)

56
Leftists love death, misery and pain. So when a gun prevents death and injury from some criminal, Andrew Yang and others bury it as the preservation of life, liberty, property and peace are anathema to their death cult's demands for blood.

It is a complete waste of time dealing with these soulless subhumans. They are cancer. They lie all the time. They never enter into any discussion in good faith - it is always to rob you of your freedom, wealth, dignity and soul.

Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 12, 2019 10:12 PM (lD3vL)


Wheat Supremacist.

Heh.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 10:14 PM (sy5kK)

57 Love that he told Richard Gere to take the migrants to his villas and take care of them!

"take care of them" translates in to: "work the hell out of them in your yard, pool, kitchen and bedroom".

Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 12, 2019 10:15 PM (lD3vL)

58 I get a little irritable when I can't get my tokes.

Posted by: Towelie at August 12, 2019 10:15 PM (np91H)

59
Love that he told Richard Gere to take the migrants to his villas and take care of them!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient


And your little gerbil, too!

Posted by: Wicked witch of the west at August 12, 2019 10:15 PM (aKsyK)

60 37 The sign in that photo looks like it could have been from the erstwhile JR's in NC. They had wedding dresses next to whole hams next to perfume next to car parts next to old time candy next to leather motorcycle jackets.
Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2019 10:10 PM (Sd66L)


A multi-faceted 'ette. Shopping expert, recipe book connoisseur and prison sporker, extraordinaire.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:15 PM (aA3+G)

61 Bite me.

Posted by: Fredo Lay at August 12, 2019 10:15 PM (gx73s)

62 Given how often I hear that marijuana is not only harmless but a wonder drug for lots of things, I take it for granted it has all sorts of nasty side effects we'll only find out much later.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 12, 2019 10:10 PM (2PXwn)



Come on, we're government scientists and we know what we're doing!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar's High Carb Diet Pyramid Scheme at August 12, 2019 10:16 PM (BiNEL)

63 A multi-faceted 'ette. Shopping expert, recipe book connoisseur and prison sporker, extraordinaire.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:15 PM (aA3+G)


She has very good handwriting, too.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 12, 2019 10:16 PM (t+qrx)

64 Dude, I was Sicilian, not Italian.


As they say, Garibaldi did not unite Italy, he divided Africa.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 12, 2019 10:16 PM (fuK7c)

65 Think driving home from work sucks now, wait until weed gets legal everywhere. Smoking this stuff now is like pounding shots. No comparison to the Mexican ditch weed of old.

Posted by: dartist at August 12, 2019 10:16 PM (K22Va)

66 Not on Twitter, do they send notifications when someone responds to a tweet? It sounds very irritating.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:16 PM (PUmDY)

67 bad parenting

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:13 PM (NE8ji)

So you blame your parents for your Croc wearing?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2019 10:16 PM (wYseH)

68 Posted by: Wicked witch of the west at August 12, 2019 10:15 PM (aKsyK)


You'd have to have a heart of tin not to laugh at that one.

Posted by: The Tin Man at August 12, 2019 10:17 PM (np91H)

69 favorite scene in Battleship comin up. old navy guys bring it!!

Posted by: vivi at August 12, 2019 10:17 PM (11H2y)

70 I get a little irritable when I can't get my tokes.
Posted by: Towelie at August 12, 2019 10:15 PM (np91H)
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That's it! That's the melody to Funkytown.

Posted by: jhawk90 at August 12, 2019 10:17 PM (G8KCj)

71 Buck Owens and Dwight Yoakum... the "Bakersfield sound".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB7oUI32E1Y

Posted by: cfo mom at August 12, 2019 10:18 PM (RfzVr)

72 Id = liberal
Ego = libertarian
Superego = conservative

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 12, 2019 10:18 PM (LxTcq)

73 The left isn't right, it's wrong.

Posted by: Oh look there's a nazi squirrel at August 12, 2019 10:18 PM (64PZ4)

74 General stores in very small towns generally have a wide range of items for sale that are not usually found in the same store, let alone the same aisle. Love to poke around there because you never know what you might find.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 12, 2019 10:18 PM (bHlGF)

75 Garrett wears crocs? In public?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:18 PM (PUmDY)

76 15


I was just reading at the Daily Mail: Some says AG Barr himself
paid a visit to that MCC jail right after Epstein's "suicide attempt" a
while back. They say Barr was pissed off about that and went there in
person to chew some people out.



After this, Barr is probably topping cotton shore nuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 12, 2019 10:04 PM (NMAzL)


The warden is Shirley Skipper-Scot. She sued the DOJ claiming racism in 2013.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 12, 2019 10:18 PM (rnXGe)

77 70 I get a little irritable when I can't get my tokes.
Posted by: Towelie at August 12, 2019 10:15 PM (np91H)
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That's it! That's the melody to Funkytown.
Posted by: jhawk90 at August 12, 2019 10:17 PM (G8KCj)


Funniest episode ever.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 12, 2019 10:18 PM (h2Bdk)

78 73 children died of accidental firearm discharge in their home in 2018. 20 children died drowning in a bucket in 2018.

I agree guns are more dangerous than buckets.

But no snark , over 450 kids under five drowned in a home pool, bathtubs , containers, etc.

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at August 12, 2019 10:19 PM (2DOZq)

79 Telegraph Road is my favorite Dire Straits song.

Alchemy is an excellent live album btw.

Posted by: Puddleglum, job huntin' at August 12, 2019 10:19 PM (Qt2ya)

80 I didn't know Buck Owens and Liberace had the same tailor! You learn something new at the HQ every danged day!

Posted by: Gref at August 12, 2019 10:19 PM (AMIL/)

81 Pot helps me with my sleeping-on-the-couch-all-day addiction.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 12, 2019 10:19 PM (oVJmc)

82 Message for Chris Cuomo:

"Mario Chris, assenza me! Tu sei un proprio sfaccim."

Posted by: Zombie Bob Grant at August 12, 2019 10:19 PM (gAXBD)

83 Surgery status update. Had my post-op doctor appt and got mu staples pulled (except for the one i tore when laughing at shiz garrett posted). Prognosis is that everything is healing just fine and i need to stay on the couch in fvck-off mode until labor day.

Give me a chance to study for my ham level 2 license and post here (sans pants).

Posted by: BifBewalskiBot - sofa king we todd did at August 12, 2019 10:19 PM (VcFUs)

84 A multi-faceted 'ette. Shopping expert, recipe book connoisseur and prison sporker, extraordinaire.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:15 PM (aA3+G)
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Hey, it was one-stop shopping!

Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2019 10:19 PM (aXucN)

85 antifa! boycott civilization and see the world.

Posted by: Oh look there's a nazi squirrel at August 12, 2019 10:19 PM (64PZ4)

86 General stores in very small towns generally have a wide range of items for sale that are not usually found in the same store, let alone the same aisle. Love to poke around there because you never know what you might find.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 12, 2019 10:18 PM (bHlGF)


Same with a small town hardware store.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at August 12, 2019 10:20 PM (BiNEL)

87 I'm watching the "Fredo" Cuomo clip with delight. "I'll fuckin' ruin your ass!" Yeah, that's like the N-word for Italians, a real slur.

N*apolitan.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 12, 2019 10:20 PM (kQs4Y)

88 The most popular social app by state.

I don't consider youtube a "social app". That's not its main function. That's not even its secondary function.

And I'm glad to say that I use none of the other applications listed. None.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2019 10:20 PM (nmtEZ)

89 CBD mocks my tasteful apronage.

I am not a croc wearer.

Nor do I have a messenger bag.

Also, I am lacking a degree from Berkeley...

Unlike some marital aides that cob the logs around these here parts.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:20 PM (NE8ji)

90
67 bad parenting

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:13 PM (NE8ji)

So you blame your parents for your Croc wearing?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2019 10:16 PM (wYseH)


75 Garrett wears crocs? In public?
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:18 PM (PUmDY)

Oh boy.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:20 PM (aA3+G)

91 @41 Given how often I hear that marijuana is not only harmless but a wonder drug for lots of things, I take it for granted it has all sorts of nasty side effects we'll only find out much later.

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

People have mentioned here in the comments that it apparently stunts the emotional growth of teenagers.

Problem is, the federal government has completely banned any and all testing of it. And I'm not aware of research into the effects taking place in any other country, either. So most of the "information" about its possible effects is pure propaganda pushed by those most heavily for or against its use.

Posted by: junior at August 12, 2019 10:21 PM (Fp6vo)

92 I love Telegraph Road - the song, the album it was on originally. Love over Gold.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2019 10:21 PM (V2Yro)

93 30 Since I've heard that continued Marijuana use can lead to anger issues, a link wouldn't surprise me.
Posted by: Surfperch, 0% Italian, 100% Italican at August 12, 2019 10:08 PM (tVQUs)


There seems to be some merit to the idea that long-term use of a drug produces the opposite effect that the drug does, when you are not on it. So mellow potheads get pissed off, coke addicts get depressed, alcoholics become really sensitive to everything, and so on.

Posted by: Splunge at August 12, 2019 10:21 PM (ed8K1)

94 40 I like the way Salvini thinks - take the SJW boo-hoo about "migrants" and turn it around on the pampered celebrity. Love that he told Richard Gere to take the migrants to his villas and take care of them!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient


There's a pervy hamster joke in there somewhere.
And I just laughed out loud thinking about an old South Park episode.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 12, 2019 10:21 PM (+lVUW)

95 N*apolitan.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 12, 2019 10:20 PM (kQs4Y)


I don't know whether to clutch my pearls, cover the childrens' ears, or just faint dead away.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 12, 2019 10:21 PM (t+qrx)

96 CNN.

I'll ruin your ass.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 12, 2019 10:21 PM (gAXBD)

97 The effects of marijuana are certainly unknown and, if try to do a study the dopers and their lawyers, swarm out and scream at you.
Given the mass medicating of kids, especially boys, the last 20-30 years, combine with much more powerful weed. No one knows anything about the effects.
The stuff may well make for paranoia and possibly schizo-affective disorders.
Add in literally billions of opioid pills, fentanyl from China, we're screwed.
But, that's raciss and hater-y

Posted by: Winston a dreg of society at August 12, 2019 10:21 PM (FXmGD)

98 Surgery status update.
Posted by: BifBewalskiBot - sofa king we todd did at August 12, 2019 10:19 PM (VcFUs)
* * * *

Keep up the good work! And good luck on the ham level 2 license.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 12, 2019 10:22 PM (bHlGF)

99 Ahhh...Denny's!

Thanks for a thoughtful ONT, MisHum!

Posted by: ibguy at August 12, 2019 10:22 PM (EHVbt)

100 >>Love over Gold.


I listened to the Quiex II Promo Pressing of that one last night. Good stuff.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:22 PM (NE8ji)

101 The warden is Shirley Skipper-Scot. She sued the DOJ claiming racism in 2013.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 12, 2019 10:18 PM (rnXGe)


And, IIRC, the guards are all union members, what could possibly go wrong!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at August 12, 2019 10:23 PM (BiNEL)

102 Between CNN's Michael Avenatti and Chris Cuomo, which one represents the values and honor of Italian-Americans better?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 12, 2019 10:23 PM (gAXBD)

103 bluebell is a true Renaissance woman.

But that is true of all 'ettes I've met.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 12, 2019 10:23 PM (u82oZ)

104 What I love about Knopfler is that he's one of those where his music tells the story, even without any words.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2019 10:23 PM (V2Yro)

105 18 Nadler is a fucking little maggot. He needs to crawl back into the pile of shit from whence he came.
Posted by: Jewells45

Awesome! Someone who knows the correct usage of "whence"

Posted by: Oh look there's a grammar nazi squirrel at August 12, 2019 10:23 PM (64PZ4)

106 My indication of what pot does to you comes from one of its greatest proponents, Tommy Chong, who always plays a stoner who is addle-brained. If he thinks that's what happens to you, why shouldn't I?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 12, 2019 10:23 PM (oVJmc)

107 The Knights who say Nyah.

Posted by: Miklos, prolly trashed by now at August 12, 2019 10:23 PM (QzkSJ)

108 82,
And he IS!

Let's be heard!

I was listening to Bob Grant when Rush Limbaugh was still a rock jock...

Posted by: JoeF. at August 12, 2019 10:23 PM (o1fzk)

109 I remember Sultans of Swing coming onto my radio, and it was like a sunburst, an extraordinary flash of talent that you just knew was going places. I still treasure pretty much every note of Dire Straits' first album, and I have a sentimental attachment to Making Movies, except for that last song that I can't stand and pretend does not exist.

Posted by: Splunge at August 12, 2019 10:23 PM (ed8K1)

110 Then on to your Bacon Level 3 license!

Posted by: stumck at August 12, 2019 10:24 PM (IpZ/y)

111 Anecdata is more reliable than your bullshit studies.

I've known a couple of potheads -- the real wake and bake kind -- who are rage machines under the surface. The pot doesn't make them that way, it's what they use to stay Bruce Banner.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 12, 2019 10:24 PM (fuK7c)

112 89 CBD mocks my tasteful apronage.

I am not a croc wearer.

Nor do I have a messenger bag.

Also, I am lacking a degree from Berkeley...

Unlike some marital aides that cob the logs around these here parts.
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:20 PM (NE8ji)


I was doing great, until this.

Now, I'm a broken down human being with no hope or desire for living.


And it's only Monday.

Maybe if I can find me some Sara Silverman in blackface, I can recover.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 10:24 PM (sy5kK)

113 102 Between CNN's Michael Avenatti and Chris Cuomo, which one represents the values and honor of Italian-Americans better?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 12, 2019 10:23 PM (gAXBD)


My money is on Chef Boyardee

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:24 PM (aA3+G)

114 The most popular social app by state.

I'm surprised that California's most popular social app isn't grindr.

Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 12, 2019 10:24 PM (lD3vL)

115 Since I've heard that continued Marijuana use can lead to anger issues, a link wouldn't surprise me.

Posted by: Surfperch, 0% Italian, 100% Italican at August 12, 2019 10:08 PM (tVQUs)


Pot ==> Anger Issues??

Doubtful.

Pot use can lead to schizophrenia, though. That's for sure. Not usually, but in a not-insignificant percentage of cases. And paranoia as a side effect of being high is well-known and has been since people started smoking pot.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2019 10:24 PM (nmtEZ)

116 What I love about Knopfler is that he's one of those where his music tells the story, even without any words.
Posted by: Tom Servo

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Like "Going Home"? Always brings a tear to my eye.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2019 10:25 PM (Y4EXg)

117

just kidding.

Posted by: Oh look there's a grammar nazi squirrel at August 12, 2019 10:25 PM (64PZ4)

118 Between CNN's Michael Avenatti and Chris Cuomo, which one represents the values and honor of Italian-Americans better?

Chico Marx.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 12, 2019 10:25 PM (oVJmc)

119 Garrett wears crocs? In public?
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:18 PM


Some say white Crocs.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 12, 2019 10:25 PM (UnTQ1)

120 I think he writes his lyrics. They are awesome. He did that 9/11 song with Emmylou Harris.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:25 PM (PUmDY)

121 I would give Nadler a copy of every document the government produced during the Bush admin. Enjoy the next forty years of reading, Jerry.

Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at August 12, 2019 10:25 PM (KBMHm)

122 To be fair...I don't know that CBD matriculated from Berkeley.

Only that he went there to study Humanities or some shit.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:25 PM (NE8ji)

123 Given how often I hear that marijuana is not only harmless but a wonder drug for lots of things, I take it for granted it has all sorts of nasty side effects we'll only find out much later.
Posted by: Dr. T


I used to watch "Cops" and, more recently, "Live PD" and have pretty much given up on those shows because watching them leaves me depressed for society. Almost everything the cops deal with, domestic violence, public fighting, driving under the influence, involves substance abuse. Almost all of it.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 12, 2019 10:26 PM (+lVUW)

124 LOL

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 12, 2019 10:26 PM (gAXBD)

125 General stores in very small towns generally have a wide range of items for sale that are not usually found in the same store, let alone the same aisle. Love to poke around there because you never know what you might find.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 12, 2019 10:18 PM (bHlGF)

It's why Dollar General has taken off. Their motto is that they serve the unserved. They plop down stores in little nowhere hamlets and carry everything from kids' tennis shoes, to motor oil, to canned goods. I was in PA a couple of years ago, and was on my way to visit the Flight 93 memorial. Out in the middle of absolutely nowhere, down at the bottom of a mountain road was a Dollar General. The modern day version of Ike's store from the Waltons.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 12, 2019 10:26 PM (NzAFo)

126 I don't consider youtube a "social app". That's not its main function. That's not even its secondary function.

And I'm glad to say that I use none of the other applications listed. None.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2019 10:20 PM (nmtEZ)

I look at youtube a fair amount, mainly for music. The rest? naaahhh.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2019 10:26 PM (V2Yro)

127 So most of the "information" about its possible effects is pure propaganda pushed by those most heavily for or against its use.

Posted by: junior at August 12, 2019 10:21 PM (Fp6vo)


Comrade, there are no "known" problems with long term use of marijuana at any level or frequency!

Posted by: Hrothgar's Big Marijuana Consortium at August 12, 2019 10:26 PM (BiNEL)

128 I'm watching the "Fredo" Cuomo clip with delight. "I'll fuckin' ruin your ass!" Yeah, that's like the N-word for Italians, a real slur.

N*apolitan.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 12, 2019 10:20 PM (kQs4Y)

Naples is an insult to the whole of Italy.

Posted by: Surfperch, 0% Italian, 100% Italican at August 12, 2019 10:26 PM (tVQUs)

129 >>He's a technical wonder. Neck and Neck with Chet Atkins is a good primer on his skills.

I like the album a lot. I saw Dire Straits at the Worcester Centrurm, really, later 1980 something and he was worth the shitty auditorium.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 12, 2019 10:27 PM (ZLI7S)

130 Heads up.

My latest Miklosism comment got an immediate redirect to this:

https://www.intermarkgroup.com/

Pixy Activate!

Posted by: Miklos, watch this at August 12, 2019 10:27 PM (QzkSJ)

131 115 Since I've heard that continued Marijuana use can lead to anger issues, a link wouldn't surprise me.

Posted by: Surfperch, 0% Italian, 100% Italican at August 12, 2019 10:08 PM (tVQUs)

Pot ==> Anger Issues??

Doubtful.

Pot use can lead to schizophrenia, though. That's for sure. Not usually, but in a not-insignificant percentage of cases. And paranoia as a side effect of being high is well-known and has been since people started smoking pot.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2019 10:24 PM (nmtEZ

I would love to see the complete medical records of all of the mass shooters/killers since Columbine. I wonder how many drugs were prescribed and how many of them also used pot.

It wasn't too many years ago where there were shooting teams in school, never heard about a team member going off and shooting someone.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:27 PM (aA3+G)

132 Dollar Tree is the true dollar store.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:27 PM (PUmDY)

133 >>Naples is an insult to the whole of Italy.


You would have to explain that joke to the Calabrese. And they aren't ever going to get it.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:28 PM (NE8ji)

134 Hey Did Truk come up here he is commenting about Barr's dad hiring Epstein

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at August 12, 2019 10:28 PM (BqBId)

135 I suspect this woman is no award-winner for her decision-making skills, either.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 12, 2019 10:14 PM (oVJmc)

1. meet on line.
2. first date: dinner at Denny's
3. Planning to "go back to her place"
4. Being the uninvolved passenger in an "attempting to elude"...

Need i go on?

Posted by: Fox2! at August 12, 2019 10:28 PM (MwFQu)

136 Only that he went there to study Humanities or some shit.
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:25 PM (NE8ji)
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Cowboy poetry, with a minor in Womyn's Studies. He was ahead of his time.

Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2019 10:28 PM (aXucN)

137 132 Dollar Tree is the true dollar store.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:27 PM (PUmDY)

Love this store! Everything a $1.

Posted by: ALH at August 12, 2019 10:29 PM (GaOgf)

138 You would have to explain that joke to the Calabrese. And they aren't ever going to get it.
Posted by: garrett

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HEY!! I'm right here you know!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2019 10:29 PM (Y4EXg)

139 Knopfler is #1 on my list. I especially like his slower stories / ballads, like Brothers in Arms and Drowned Submariner.

Posted by: Halfwise at August 12, 2019 10:29 PM (kLxSO)

140 Dollar General is overpriced.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:29 PM (PUmDY)

141 Democrats:

Majority Rule!
(majority disagrees with us..?)
Minority Rights!
(minority disagrees with us, too?)
Constitutional Rights!
(wait, nothing in the Constitution about that, either..?)
Fairness! Justice! You're a racist! (etc)

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at August 12, 2019 10:29 PM (ZqRa6)

142 42 Is there a link between pot use and mass shootings?

I thought marijuana mellowed you out and gave you a bad case of the munchies.

Posted by: ALH


I think there's a big difference between people who use it occasionally and people who are using it on a daily basis. I've known people who use it on a daily basis, and they are not the kind of people you aspire to be like. Think "useless, fu**ing bum".

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 12, 2019 10:30 PM (+lVUW)

143 But that is true of all 'ettes I've met.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 12, 2019 10:23 PM (u82oZ)


There you go again, speaking the truth!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at August 12, 2019 10:30 PM (BiNEL)

144 136 Only that he went there to study Humanities or some shit.
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:25 PM (NE8ji)
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Cowboy poetry, with a minor in Womyn's Studies. He was ahead of his time.
Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2019 10:28 PM (aXucN)





Rumor had it he was a roadie for Milli Vanilli

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:30 PM (aA3+G)

145 "AG Barr himself
paid a visit to that MCC jail right after Epstein's "suicide attempt" a
while back. They say Barr was pissed off about that and went there in
person to chew some people out."

I was called idiotic and dumb for saying Barr was responsible for his department, and should have intervened and assigned someone trusted to be directly involved.


Only idiots think the head of the department are responsible for their department.


Interesting if Barr went there with that intent ... too bad he left it at that and didn't make other changes, like SuperMax or getting his own guys right there babysitting.


When I say "Barr is responsible" that is what I mean, and Barr seemed to agree ... he went down there personally. He is still responsible for not taking better steps ... but that does not mean he was part of the DeepState effort to make those arrangements to leave Epstein alone, remove his cellmate, not check on him ... but Barr was responsible for oversight and failed. simple ... I don't get all the name calling over that obvious statement.


Barr trusted the bureaucracy too much imo ... should have taken stronger measures ... never underestimate DeepState reach. ... tick tock.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 12, 2019 10:30 PM (Cus5s)

146 Seeking advice from the horde. My exit from California is still some years off, barring single-payer health care. I've been assuming Arizona for a destination, but am tempted by Texas, and I want to give it full consideration.

The thing is, I hate humid summers, and especially the bugs they attract (cockroaches foremost, followed by mosquitos), and tornados are not something I ever want to risk. Somehow they bother me more than hurricanes. I want to live near an interesting city, but not in it, have about 5 acres, and be in an area with horses.

Anything come to mind? I'm planning an exploratory trip to the San Antonio/Austin area before too long, but is there anything else I should look at? People like to say Hill Country, but that seems to take a lot of cash.

Posted by: Splunge at August 12, 2019 10:30 PM (ed8K1)

147 I guess Denny's being the pick wasn't enough of a clue.

Posted by: jsg at August 12, 2019 10:30 PM (gx73s)

148 If Cuomo has a problem with Fredo, take it up with Martin Scorcese.

By the way, Fredo was born in America just like you Chris. He was an American. You're an American.

If you don't like stereotypes, don't wrap yourself in one.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 12, 2019 10:30 PM (gAXBD)

149 So my kids start school next Tuesday. I just realized that the 2 older ones were supposed to read 2 books over the summer....crap!

Posted by: lin-duh, was deplorable now a committed racist! at August 12, 2019 10:30 PM (UUBmN)

150 I look at youtube a fair amount, mainly for music.

Most of the music I get these days I download from youtube. If I really, really really want a better copy I'll download it, but the youtube versions are usually more than good enough for my listening needs.

The rest? naaahhh.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2019 10:26 PM (V2Yro)


Yeah. Those applications are pretty much all crap. Twitter is the only one that I can see a reason for possibly using, but hopefully competitors will really get off the ground and leave Twitter in ashes. Hopefully.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2019 10:30 PM (nmtEZ)

151 >>Rumor had it he was a roadie for Milli Vanilli


This is true.

If by Roadie you mean 'Fluffer'.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:30 PM (NE8ji)

152 My Mom turned me on to it. It is awesome.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:30 PM (PUmDY)

153 Pot users? Paranoid. Schizo. Brain-free. Democrat.
Not all dems are pot heads but all pot heads are dem.

Posted by: Oh look there's a nazi squirrel at August 12, 2019 10:31 PM (64PZ4)

154 Rumor had it he was a roadie for Milli Vanilli
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:30 PM (aA3+G)
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You misspelled groupie.

Love the lighthouse pic, by the way.

Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2019 10:31 PM (aXucN)

155 It wasn't too many years ago where there were shooting teams in school, never heard about a team member going off and shooting someone.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:27 PM (aA3+G)
* * * *

It was about that same time that I went to work at an office where some of the bosses kept a shotgun under the credenza. I asked if it was to go shoot skeet after work, and was told it was for dove hunting after work. They did not have an appropriate vehicle or want to leave the firearms in the parked vehicles outside an office building.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 12, 2019 10:31 PM (bHlGF)

156 I'm assuming the fleeing date didn't own the car he was driving either.

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at August 12, 2019 10:31 PM (2DOZq)

157 140 Dollar General is overpriced.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:29 PM (PUmDY)

Their advantage is being every where. If you live in an area with few stores, you shop at Dollar General.
Their Fresh Market Stores are like the old corner store from my childhood.

Posted by: ALH at August 12, 2019 10:32 PM (GaOgf)

158 Dwight.
You know, you look good in that hat.
"Thank you, Buck."
Well, you know, I wouldn't take it off as much as you've been lately in those movies, if I was you."

Posted by: Buck Owens at August 12, 2019 10:32 PM (+iFWN)

159 The weed now is way stronger than it used to be. Whether you get mad or not is your thing, but it will get you wasted.

Posted by: dartist at August 12, 2019 10:32 PM (K22Va)

160 General stores in very small towns generally have a wide range of items for sale that are not usually found in the same store, let alone the same aisle. Love to poke around there because you never know what you might find.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 12, 2019 10:18 PM (bHlGF)


My favorite stores in the whole world are old ma and pa hardware stores. They have stuff you really need. The ones with basements or attics are the best.

Posted by: DR.WTF at August 12, 2019 10:32 PM (aS1PU)

161 I live in California, the Bay Area. The idea that long-term pot use produces angry people seems very plausible here. There are a lot of angry, grey-bearded hippies.

Posted by: Splunge at August 12, 2019 10:32 PM (ed8K1)

162 I'm assuming the fleeing date didn't own the car he was driving either.
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at August 12, 2019 10:31 PM (2DOZq)


Too bad, that would've been a keeper. His own car and everything.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 12, 2019 10:33 PM (t+qrx)

163 Not all dems are pot heads but all pot heads are dem.


Well that's going to come as some surprise to JackStraw.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 12, 2019 10:33 PM (fuK7c)

164 I had a few friends who'd hallucinate JUST from pot use. The first one I thought "she's being dramatic" but then there were more than swore they heard voices, saw things, etc.

Honestly do we even know what the potential downside is? It's been pushed so heavily as a "wonder drug."

What a turnaround! And..why? It went from sinful to saintly with no stops in between.

What the heck is going on with the Italy stuff around here btw? And the Napolitans, Calabrese...they're...welp. They're Southern.

The craziest Italians are the ROMANS (like, from Rome). They are the "psycho harass New Yorkers" of Italy. Something not quite right with them.

Rich Zeoli always calls Chris "The Lesser Cuomo" - but fredo is pretty good too.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 12, 2019 10:33 PM (Rarvo)

165 Is there a link between pot use and mass shootings?

I thought marijuana mellowed you out and gave you a bad case of the munchies.

Posted by: ALH at August 12, 2019 10:11 PM


Unlike all other drugs, marijuana has only one effect, no side effects, and all users experience exactly the same effect. It's science.

Posted by: Chuck C at August 12, 2019 10:33 PM (zCabI)

166 It wasn't too many years ago where there were shooting teams in school, never heard about a team member going off and shooting someone.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:27 PM (aA3+G)


It used to be that the only thing that could set off a mass shooter was working at the post office.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2019 10:33 PM (nmtEZ)

167 >>The ones with basements or attics are the best.


Yep. Awesome old appliances and kitchenware in those places.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:33 PM (NE8ji)

168 Problem is, the federal government has completely
banned any and all testing of it.
And I'm not aware of research into
the effects taking place in any other country, either. So most of the
"information" about its possible effects is pure propaganda pushed by
those most heavily for or against its use.



Posted by: junior at August 12, 2019 10:21 PM (Fp6vo)

This is no longer the case. As for beneficial effects and those looking to capitalize on such uses through research, why should the federal government fund it?

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 12, 2019 10:33 PM (t6MX/)

169 More stellar Musical-type Interludes, MisHum. Well done.

I'd never heard Telegraph Road before. What a great tune. And one can never have too much Buck Owens and the Buckaroos.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #PurgeProgressivism at August 12, 2019 10:33 PM (HaL55)

170 46 What did JackStraw do?
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:09 PM (NE8ji)
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Evidently he caught a lot of strippers today.

Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2019 10:12 PM (aXucN)

What kind of bait was he using?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 12, 2019 10:34 PM (NWiLs)

171 harass was autocucumbered version of "hard-ass"

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 12, 2019 10:34 PM (Rarvo)

172 Dollar Tree is kind of crazy that everything there is a dollar.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:34 PM (PUmDY)

173 Hey everybody.

I've only been listening to SXM's Yacht Rock station for two weeks and already I'm annoyed by the repetition. I've heard enough disco-era Dr Hook songs to last a lifetime!

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2019 10:34 PM (L2ZTs)

174 I wonder what working for the Clintons does, actuarially, to the average life expectancy.

Posted by: t-bird at August 12, 2019 10:34 PM (DCYln)

175 One of those days, Horde. Imma just crawl into bed and pretend it never happened.

Posted by: Totally not joncelli at August 12, 2019 10:34 PM (1FhAQ)

176 Pot use can lead to an editor's gig at Reason.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 12, 2019 10:35 PM (oVJmc)

177 It wasn't too many years ago where there were shooting teams in school, never heard about a team member going off and shooting someone.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:27 PM (aA3+G)


Jerry Pournelle used to point out when he was a kid in TN you could bring your rifle to school during hunting season. There was a special cabinet in the back of the room where the guns got locked up during the day, and after school you'd get your gun and go hunting with your buddies.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 12, 2019 10:35 PM (h2Bdk)

178 162 I'm assuming the fleeing date didn't own the car he was driving either.
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at August 12, 2019 10:31 PM (2DOZq)

Too bad, that would've been a keeper. His own car and everything.
Posted by: hogmartin at August 12, 2019 10:33 PM (t+qrx)

I wonder how many teeth they had between the 2 of them.
Did I really think that outloud?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:35 PM (aA3+G)

179 re 118: das'a right, boss.

(I think it was Harpo in his autobiography who wrote that that line was sort of an accidental throw-away but it became Chico's favorite line when he forgot what to say.)

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at August 12, 2019 10:35 PM (ZqRa6)

180 Unlike all other drugs, marijuana has only one effect, no side effects,
and all users experience exactly the same effect. It's science.

Lol, you must be high.

Posted by: dartist at August 12, 2019 10:35 PM (K22Va)

181 So my kids start school next Tuesday. I just realized that the 2 older ones were supposed to read 2 books over the summer....crap!
Posted by: lin-duh, was deplorable now a committed racist! at August 12, 2019 10:30 PM (UUBmN)


I miss a lot about when my kids were young, but what you just said isn't one of those things. Good luck.

Posted by: DR.WTF at August 12, 2019 10:35 PM (aS1PU)

182 74 General stores in very small towns generally have a wide range of items for sale that are not usually found in the same store, let alone the same aisle. Love to poke around there because you never know what you might find.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 12, 2019 10:18 PM (bHlGF)


The Sportsman in Sonora, CA serves cold beer, guns, and ammo.

Posted by: Average Guy at August 12, 2019 10:35 PM (BaHwF)

183 165 Is there a link between pot use and mass shootings?

I thought marijuana mellowed you out and gave you a bad case of the munchies.

Posted by: ALH at August 12, 2019 10:11 PM

Unlike all other drugs, marijuana has only one effect, no side effects, and all users experience exactly the same effect. It's science.

Posted by: Chuck C at August 12, 2019 10:33 PM (zCabI)


Did someone order another pizza?

Posted by: Stoners at August 12, 2019 10:36 PM (sy5kK)

184 My favorite stores in the whole world are old ma and pa hardware stores. They have stuff you really need. The ones with basements or attics are the best.
Posted by: DR.WTF

-----

Agreed. With the entire store's inventory resident in the owner's head - NOT online.

Hey Pops, I need a left-hand wentworth threaded 3/8" rod 6 inch long with one end knurled.

Downstairs, under the steps - in an old wooden American cheese box. There's three of them.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2019 10:36 PM (Y4EXg)

185 174 I wonder what working for the Clintons does, actuarially, to the average life expectancy.
Posted by: t-bird at August 12, 2019 10:34 PM (DCYln)


There is a longevity problem for some, yes, but you can lick it if you try really hard.

Posted by: Huma at August 12, 2019 10:36 PM (ed8K1)

186 Anecdotal but my friend's son is worse off because of his heavy marijuana use . He's slowed down but he does have some lingering cognitive deficits.

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at August 12, 2019 10:36 PM (2DOZq)

187 The weed now is way stronger than it used to be.

Posted by: dartist at August 12, 2019 10:32 PM (K22Va)


It's a lot stronger than it used to be 60 years ago. It isn't much stronger than it was 30 years ago. Killer weed has been around for a while.

But, in the end, it's still just weed. It's not acid or DMT or bath salts or heavy duty psychiatric drugs or stuff like that.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2019 10:36 PM (nmtEZ)

188 I hope Nadler's lap band crawls up his esophagus, into his windpipe and chokes him to death.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 12, 2019 10:36 PM (NWiLs)

189 >>Downstairs, under the steps - in an old wooden American cheese box. There's three of them.


Hahaha - this is accurate.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:37 PM (NE8ji)

190 Did someone order another pizza?
Posted by: Stoners at August 12, 2019 10:36 PM (sy5kK)

I'll make brownies.

Posted by: ALH at August 12, 2019 10:37 PM (GaOgf)

191 Like Moe Greene as the caretaker for the slow and dumb Fredo, a CNN spokesperson has come out to defend Chris Cuomo's inflammatory and violent remarks.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 12, 2019 10:37 PM (gAXBD)

192 My Dad calls it mydollahtree when my Mom has been there.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:37 PM (PUmDY)

193 Marijuana is the wonder of our age.

Posted by: Big Dorito at August 12, 2019 10:37 PM (oVJmc)

194
Hey everybody.



I've only been listening to SXM's Yacht Rock station for two weeks
and already I'm annoyed by the repetition. I've heard enough disco-era
Dr Hook songs to last a lifetime!

Posted by: qdpsteve

..............

Yeah.. when was the last time you heard "sharing the night together" or "when you're in love with a beautiful woman" or "Silvia's mother" ? and multiple times!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 12, 2019 10:37 PM (438dO)

195 173 Hey everybody.

I've only been listening to SXM's Yacht Rock station for two weeks and already I'm annoyed by the repetition. I've heard enough disco-era Dr Hook songs to last a lifetime!
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2019 10:34 PM (L2ZTs)


Dr Hook has more than one song?

Posted by: Splunge at August 12, 2019 10:38 PM (ed8K1)

196 What a turnaround! And..why? It went from sinful to saintly with no stops in between.

Part of the problem is the government published a bunch of bogus propaganda trying to get people to stop smoking pot. Now if the CDC (or whoever) says "pot does this" nobody will believe them.

The other problem is to do a study on pot you have to get permission from the government, and they make sure you don't get that permission unless you're going to come up with results they like.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 12, 2019 10:38 PM (h2Bdk)

197 Anything come to mind? I'm planning an exploratory trip to the San Antonio/Austin area before too long, but is there anything else I should look at? People like to say Hill Country, but that seems to take a lot of cash.

Its predicted to be 40C in this area tomorrow. Plus you win all of the humidity.

Arizona might be your better bet.

Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 12, 2019 10:38 PM (lD3vL)

198 You can fill 4 bags with stuff at the Dollar Store for less than $20.

YMMV

Posted by: ALH at August 12, 2019 10:38 PM (GaOgf)

199 177 It wasn't too many years ago where there were shooting teams in school, never heard about a team member going off and shooting someone.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:27 PM (aA3+G)

Jerry Pournelle used to point out when he was a kid in TN you could bring your rifle to school during hunting season. There was a special cabinet in the back of the room where the guns got locked up during the day, and after school you'd get your gun and go hunting with your buddies.
Posted by: Ace's liver



Growing up in W. PA, there were guns racks in trucks with actual guns in them. Hunting is pretty popular in W.PA. This was the 70s and 80s.

Posted by: Puddleglum, job huntin' at August 12, 2019 10:38 PM (Qt2ya)

200 Posted by: Big Dorito at August 12, 2019 10:37 PM (oVJmc)

How big we talkin'?

Posted by: hogmartin at August 12, 2019 10:38 PM (t+qrx)

201 @168
This is no longer the case. As for beneficial effects and those looking to capitalize on such uses through research, why should the federal government fund it?

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

I didn't say that the federal government should subsidize a study of it. I said that they'd come down like a ton of bricks on anyone who did try and conduct a study of it.

There's a pretty big difference between the two.

I do recall hearing about a change in policy. But iirc it's a pretty recent change. The current attitude toward marijuana use would probably discourage any such study that had even the slightest chance of coming up with something suggesting that marijuana use isn't a good thing.

Posted by: junior at August 12, 2019 10:38 PM (Fp6vo)

202 I'm planning an exploratory trip to the San Antonio/Austin area before too long, but is there anything else I should look at? People like to say Hill Country, but that seems to take a lot of cash.
Posted by: Splunge at August 12, 2019 10:30 PM (ed8K1)
* * * *

If you go to south central Texas in the fall, you will really enjoy the weather. (Same for the winter and spring.) But now is when our former home (New Braunfels) is having its usual string of 100+ degree days with humidity that kicks the heat index about ten degrees up from that. We couldn't take the hot and humid summers anymore so relocated to points west. I would visit by mid-September to get a real feel for the place.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 12, 2019 10:38 PM (bHlGF)

203 >> I've heard enough disco-era
Dr Hook songs to last a lifetime!


You can't go wrong.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:39 PM (NE8ji)

204 I had a few friends who'd hallucinate JUST from pot use.

Sorry, but I'm calling bullshit on that one. If that's what they told you then either they're liars or they're too stupid to know what hallucinating is.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2019 10:39 PM (nmtEZ)

205 Bicycle Riders ONT Compliance Pics

https://tinyurl.com/y5naq95b

https://tinyurl.com/y6q7kxvv

https://tinyurl.com/y3ce5udc

https://tinyurl.com/y4v2tefq

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Posted by: kbdabear at August 12, 2019 10:39 PM (qAR6u)

206 It wasn't too many years ago where there were shooting teams in school, never heard about a team member going off and shooting someone.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:27 PM (aA3+G)

Where I live the parochial schools still have varmint week. Public schools used to have it, too. Now they use the honor system, you used to have to bring the tails in.

Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 12, 2019 10:39 PM (Rz2Nc)

207 or "Silvia's mother"


I do not listen to Yacht Rock and yet I've had a Sylvia's Mother earworm for the last couple of weeks.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 12, 2019 10:39 PM (fuK7c)

208 My favorite stores in the whole world are old ma and pa hardware stores.
They have stuff you really need. The ones with basements or attics are
the best.

Posted by: DR.WTF



-----


Agreed but they are all gone hereabouts.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 12, 2019 10:39 PM (438dO)

209 Before you go - a contrapuntal love song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMUDgeDUy8w

Posted by: Cisco yo Kid at August 12, 2019 10:39 PM (xj2l7)

210 ***TOP FIVE MOST SURPRISING FINDS ON JEFF EPSTEIN'S PEDO ISLAND***

5. Shrine to Joy Behar

4. Guest chalet especially designed for Michael Jackson, carefully preserved since his death

3. World's largest collection of Barney merchandise

2. The only pic in the world of Epstein NOT smirking

1. Jars filled with Mitt Romney's balls, Hillary's heart, and Joe Biden's brain

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2019 10:40 PM (L2ZTs)

211 The other problem is to do a study on pot you have to get permission from the government, and they make sure you don't get that permission unless you're going to come up with results they like.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 12, 2019 10:38 PM (h2Bdk)


Yes, it is in the RFP for any climate/global warming study.

Has been for over 20 years now.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 10:40 PM (sy5kK)

212 They say Barr was pissed off about that and went there in person to chew some people out.

As the Deep State laughs. Will he be going to Pedo Island after they botch that investigation?

Posted by: t-bird at August 12, 2019 10:40 PM (OiC69)

213 Part of the problem is the government published a
bunch of bogus propaganda trying to get people to stop smoking pot. Now
if the CDC (or whoever) says "pot does this" nobody will believe them.



The other problem is to do a study on pot you have to get permission
from the government, and they make sure you don't get that permission
unless you're going to come up with results they like.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 12, 2019 10:38 PM (h2Bdk)

William Randolph Hurst published and financed the propaganda because the hemp plant was a threat to the paper mills he had purchased. The gov't was in his pocket and otherwise beholden to his media empire to keep their jobs. When marijuana eradication began it was growing everywhere.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 12, 2019 10:40 PM (rnXGe)

214
Sorry, but I'm calling bullshit on that one. If that's what they told you then either they're liars or they're too stupid to know what hallucinating is.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2019 10:39 PM (nmtEZ)

What he said.

Posted by: ALH at August 12, 2019 10:40 PM (GaOgf)

215 What kind of bait was he using?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 12, 2019 10:34 PM (NWiLs)

$20s.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 12, 2019 10:40 PM (t6MX/)

216 Do the Yang quote with kitchen appliances, stairs, tubs, and automobiles.

He sounds even more insightful.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 12, 2019 10:40 PM (1g7ch)

217 I've only been listening to SXM's Yacht Rock station for two weeks and already I'm annoyed by the repetition. I've heard enough disco-era Dr Hook songs to last a lifetime!
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2019 10:34 PM (L2ZTs)


My iToonz playlist has a deeper well than XM, or radio, by a helluva lot.

Turns out bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest have more than THREE FUCKING SONGS!

I blame Oy Hart.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 12, 2019 10:41 PM (cYu9Z)

218 More Bicycle Riders ONT Compliance Pics

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Posted by: kbdabear at August 12, 2019 10:41 PM (qAR6u)

219 What I love about Knopfler is that he's one of those where his music tells the story, even without any words.

And the sound he gets from a Strat is unlike anyone else out there. I definitely need to increase my consumption of DS and Knopfler.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #PurgeProgressivism at August 12, 2019 10:41 PM (HaL55)

220 188 I hope Nadler's lap band crawls up his esophagus, into his windpipe and chokes him to death.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 12, 2019 10:36 PM (NWiLs)

The Heimlich would be fun to see

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:41 PM (aA3+G)

221
1. Jars filled with Mitt Romney's balls, Hillary's heart, and Joe Biden's brain
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2019 10:40 PM (L2ZTs)


qdpsteve, you haz outsdunz yourself!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 10:41 PM (sy5kK)

222 Dollar Tree is kind of crazy that everything there is a dollar.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:34 PM (PUmDY)

Their kitchen supplies/ utensils were the biggest surprise for me the first time I went into a Dollar Tree. I don't know where they get that stuff they can sell for a dollar and make a profit.

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at August 12, 2019 10:41 PM (2DOZq)

223 Chi-Town, Splunge and Garrett, I actually called SiriusXM and asked how many freakin' Dr Hook songs they have in the Yacht Rock playlist.

They replied, "Only Sixteen!"
:-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2019 10:42 PM (L2ZTs)

224 Dollar Tree is pretty good, so long as you know you're not going to find every thing you want every time. Pity they don't carry fried chicken.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at August 12, 2019 10:42 PM (ZqRa6)

225 Sorry, but I'm calling bullshit on that one. If that's what they told you then either they're liars or they're too stupid to know what hallucinating is.


it's not bullshit oh and fuck you also. I even SAID that the first person I ran into who said she heard things that were not being said/people not in the room - I thought she was making it up. but then I have since experienced more people hearing things/hearing people/seeing things NOT THERE while we are all, you know, there with them. That would be to me hallucinating but maybe there's some Super Science version of a hallucination which does not cover hearing or seeing things that are not there? whatever.

I like pot myself from time to time but some people DO react oddly/strongly to it. Jeebus Christmas you're going way too far one way with this.

like anything - moderation!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 12, 2019 10:42 PM (Rarvo)

226 MSNBC's Joe Scarborough deleted his tweet blaming Russia for murdering Jeffrey Epstein.

Posted by: Ha at August 12, 2019 10:42 PM (MAstk)

227 202
I'm planning an exploratory trip to the San Antonio/Austin area before
too long, but is there anything else I should look at? People like to
say Hill Country, but that seems to take a lot of cash.

Don't bring weed if the law is like it used to be.

Posted by: dartist at August 12, 2019 10:42 PM (K22Va)

228 #BREAKING on @OANN: One of Jeffrey Epstein's guards the night he hanged himself wasn't a correctional officer.

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at August 12, 2019 10:43 PM (BqBId)

229 Fredo is trending at the top on Twitter

He's finally getting some respect!!

Posted by: kbdabear at August 12, 2019 10:43 PM (qAR6u)

230 pug, yup! Same with my collection, I think. I bet I could program a great classic rock and pop station.

LeftCoast, thank youse! :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2019 10:43 PM (L2ZTs)

231 212 They say Barr was pissed off about that and went there in person to chew some people out.

As the Deep State laughs. Will he be going to Pedo Island after they botch that investigation?
Posted by: t-bird at August 12, 2019 10:40 PM (OiC69)

And why weren't they out there months ago?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 12, 2019 10:43 PM (NWiLs)

232 204 I had a few friends who'd hallucinate JUST from pot use.

Sorry, but I'm calling bullshit on that one. If that's what they told you then either they're liars or they're too stupid to know what hallucinating is.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2019 10:39 PM (nmtEZ)

Ah, but they were self Indetifying as Hallucinating!

Which makes it Valid in todays Psychiatric and Political circles.

Posted by: Don Q at August 12, 2019 10:43 PM (NgKpN)

233 It's always possible there was a TV or Radio on in the other room, too.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:43 PM (NE8ji)

234 My Mom has a hundred pairs of scissors from there.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:43 PM (PUmDY)

235 >> What kind of bait was he using?

Me, I use jail.

Posted by: Zombie Juan Epstein at August 12, 2019 10:43 PM (NMAzL)

236 Pic: Cue the Jaws theme

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2019 10:44 PM (fZcn6)

237 Yes, it is in the RFP for any climate/global warming study.

Has been for over 20 years now.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 10:40 PM (sy5kK)


Comrades, we are just trying to make it easier for you to write the winning proposal, da?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at August 12, 2019 10:44 PM (BiNEL)

238 Dollar Tree is pretty good, so long as you know you're not going to find every thing you want every time. Pity they don't carry fried chicken.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at August 12, 2019 10:42 PM (ZqRa6)


In many ways, this is the story of Aldi.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 12, 2019 10:44 PM (t+qrx)

239 Problem is, the federal government has completely
banned any and all testing of it.


Yeah right.

Its been heavily studied in pretty much every major program in Universities coast to coast since at least the late fifties.

Weed has been tested more thoroughly than Free Cell solitaire on a company issued Windows computer.

Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 12, 2019 10:44 PM (lD3vL)

240 Apparently some rag posted a whole page of victim names of mass shootings, to show how big the problem really is, to dumb people.

My first thought was "now do Islamic terrorists."

My second was to remember a similar stunt that Time magazine did, back when Time magazine was a thing. They published pictures of every "victim of gun violence" in a week.

The next week, they did "balance." Did they show the perps' pictures? Did they show people who stopped themselves from being victims from having a firearm? No, they put the head of the NRA on the cover, with "I'm the NRA." The narrative they were going for could not have been clearer.

I am beside myself with joy when I think how poorly that shit works now.

Posted by: Splunge at August 12, 2019 10:44 PM (ed8K1)

241 Also, the vast majority of "owners who get shot" are suicides.

Whether a person commits suicide by gun, hanging, or pills, the person is just as dead. I've known four families who have had young people, in their teens or early twenties, commit suicide. And yes, one of the kids killed himself by gunning his car.

I've also known of two people who had terminal cancer, one used a gun, the other used pills that he had saved up.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 12, 2019 10:44 PM (+lVUW)

242 'And why weren't they out there months ago?'

They sure didn't waste any time after he kicked. Almost like it was planned.

Posted by: freaked at August 12, 2019 10:45 PM (Tnijr)

243 re 220: help help! we need someone with unusually long arms!

actually, with someone who's really heavy, you can practically do the Heimlich by having the person on the floor and forcing down just above the distended belly button.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at August 12, 2019 10:45 PM (ZqRa6)

244 >> Posted by: kbdabear

This is not the first time I wish I were a bicycle seat. Well, my face at least.

Posted by: Zombie Juan Epstein at August 12, 2019 10:45 PM (NMAzL)

245 General stores in very small towns generally have a wide range of items for sale that are not usually found in the same store, let alone the same aisle. Love to poke around there because you never know what you might find.

Growing up there was an old time department store in the tiny town my Grandmother lived in called Wiprud's in North Central Montana. The floor was uneven planks and of course wooden sidewalk out front. That store had unbelievable amount of things for sale.

She would drop us off at the store and head down to one of the taverns to wait. Still have an inscribed metal spatula from the store.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 12, 2019 10:45 PM (duxRF)

246 Their kitchen supplies/ utensils were the biggest surprise for me the first time I went into a Dollar Tree. I don't know where they get that stuff they can sell for a dollar and make a profit.
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at August 12, 2019 10:41 PM (2DOZq)


I hope you aren't surprised when the spatula you bought there melts to your frying pan.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 12, 2019 10:45 PM (h2Bdk)

247 I just drove from north to central Texas today to get home. Can't escape humidity here, sorry.
It is really pretty around Mason, TX also in Blanco and still reasonable. Blanco is about an hour from SA and Austin. Mason is about 2 hours from Austin.

Posted by: lin-duh, was deplorable now a committed racist! at August 12, 2019 10:45 PM (UUBmN)

248 #BREAKING on @OANN: One of Jeffrey Epstein's guards the night he hanged himself wasn't a correctional officer.
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit
--------

Is he from Arkansas?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2019 10:45 PM (fZcn6)

249 There's a pretty big difference between the two.



I do recall hearing about a change in policy.



Posted by: junior at August 12, 2019 10:38 PM (Fp6vo)

A difference that is no longer the case. 2014. The primary vehicle for federally funded research and sanctioned supply is FIDA, which has as its congressional mandate to study the negative effects, which is why the potheads are always screaming about the man hiding the benefits of their wonder drug. States can fund and conduct medical research as they see fit.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 12, 2019 10:45 PM (t6MX/)

250 #BREAKING on @OANN: One of Jeffrey Epstein's guards the night he hanged himself wasn't a correctional officer.
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at August 12, 2019 10:43 PM (BqBId)


I'm shocked, SHOCKED.

Posted by: DR.WTF at August 12, 2019 10:45 PM (aS1PU)

251 And why weren't they out there months ago?

Sloppy Seconds?

They wanted a fresh batch of children to "interview" ?

Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 12, 2019 10:46 PM (lD3vL)

252
That was a bad sock fail. Terrible.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 12, 2019 10:46 PM (NMAzL)

253 I will tell my cats that they are only allowed to poop every other day. The world is saved!

Posted by: Aud at August 12, 2019 10:46 PM (uBywd)

254 Lol, they sell not prepackaged food? I did not know that.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:46 PM (PUmDY)

255 Its been heavily studied in pretty much every major program in Universities coast to coast since at least the late fifties.



Weed has been tested more thoroughly than Free Cell solitaire on a company issued Windows computer.



Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 12, 2019 10:44 PM (lD3vL)

Not true. Ole Miss has the only federally-licensed grow facility in the country for research purposes.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 12, 2019 10:46 PM (rnXGe)

256 Anything come to mind? I'm planning an exploratory trip to the San Antonio/Austin area before too long, but is there anything else I should look at? People like to say Hill Country, but that seems to take a lot of cash.
Posted by: Splunge


anywhere on a north/south line between Nagadoches and Longview gets you some prime hill country in Texas. i prefer a more arid geography so my own preferences would lead to a east/west line between Tyler an Corsicana.

find some bottom land near a creek if you wanna bait a kill feral hogs. dont plan on having an outside yard dog under 60lbs unless you let it inside at night or the Coyotes will kill it.

Posted by: BifBewalskiBot - sofa king we todd did at August 12, 2019 10:46 PM (VcFUs)

257 Nadler is a fucking little maggot. He needs to crawl back into the pile of shit from whence he came.
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 12, 2019 10:05 PM (dUJdY)

He's a maggot, but he's not "little". He's bloated, fat, and greasy. Like a slug inflated with antifreeze.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2019 10:46 PM (a72/q)

258 I remember around 1980, our family taking a summer vacation where we spent a lot of time poking around northern California. Saw a lot of the following:

- Ben Franklin stores
- Stores with a name I can't quite remember, but it looked something like 'Sprouse-Git'
- Terrible Herbst gas stations

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2019 10:46 PM (L2ZTs)

259 Seeking advice from the horde.

Posted by: Splunge at August 12, 2019 10:30 PM



I'm not sure that Texas is going to get you away from humidity and tornadoes. If you can get past those, I'd look into Middle and East Tennessee. Depending on what you want from a city, you could pick from Nashville, Knoxville, or Chattanooga. Like TX, no state income taxes (except on taxable interest and dividends...and they're in the process of eliminating that as well, by 2022). Also, land is probably a little cheaper.

Posted by: Bert G at August 12, 2019 10:46 PM (OMsf+)

260 I'd never heard Telegraph Road before. What a great tune. And one can never have too much Buck Owens and the Buckaroos.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #PurgeProgressivism at August 12, 2019 10:33 PM (HaL55)

It was one of those fabulous songs that, because it is "too long" was never ever played on any radio station, unless you were lucky enough to find one that played albums in the 80's.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2019 10:47 PM (V2Yro)

261 Gere is a Hollywood Buddhist who spouts "Free Tibet" while badgering Italy to succumb to cultural extinction through mass migration.

Guess what? There is no real "Free Tibet"-movement anymore. Why? Because of mass migration. China has flooded the country with ethnic Chinese. There is no longer a "Tibet" to free--only China.

And Gere wants the same for Italy? Not to mention the USA.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 12, 2019 10:47 PM (Ndje9)

262 Sorry, but I'm calling bullshit on that one. If that's what they told you then either they're liars or they're too stupid to know what hallucinating is.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2019 10:39 PM


I have hallucinated once while driving after being up for over 24 hours (no drugs, no alcohol). But obviously there is no way pot can possibly do that. Because it effects everyone the same, unlike all other drugs.

Posted by: Chuck C at August 12, 2019 10:47 PM (zCabI)

263 My Mom has a hundred pairs of scissors from there.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:43 PM (PUmDY)


I bought something like 20 retractable tape measures from the Dollar Tree. I couldn't believe they were $1 and I like to have one always withing arm's reach of wherever I'm at.

I also bought a shitload of "shammy" towels they just got in. THese are the good ones - the same as the "Sammy's" I used to use in diving. $1 each ... I grabbed 15 or 20 of those, too. I used to pay a lot for those when I was diving and the ones I usually see around are not the same.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2019 10:47 PM (nmtEZ)

264 >> One of Jeffrey Epstein's guards the night he hanged himself wasn't a correctional officer.

He was an employee, he just wasn't "certified" to be a guard.

So maybe they had one of the janitors watching him.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 12, 2019 10:47 PM (NMAzL)

265 Growing up in W. PA, there were guns racks in trucks with actual guns in
them. Hunting is pretty popular in W.PA. This was the 70s and 80s.


Back home in Alabama, we'd throw our guns in the trunk in the morning along with a change of clothes and go dove hunting after school when they cut the cornfields. Nobody ever shot anybody up or even thought about doing it or threatened it like Fredo Cuomo did.


There was this thing we all had called "self-control..."

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #PurgeProgressivism at August 12, 2019 10:47 PM (HaL55)

266 >>Like TX, no state income taxes (except on taxable interest and dividends...and they're in the process of eliminating that as well, by 2022). Also, land is probably a little cheaper.


You left out the best part. It's Not Texas!

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:48 PM (NE8ji)

267 I like the way Salvini thinks - take the SJW boo-hoo about "migrants" and turn it around on the pampered celebrity. Love that he told Richard Gere to take the migrants to his villas and take care of them!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 12, 2019 10:10 PM (bHlGF)

Indeed, that guy has his head screwed on right.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2019 10:48 PM (a72/q)

268 #BREAKING on @OANN: One of Jeffrey Epstein's guards the night he hanged himself wasn't a correctional officer.
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at August 12, 2019 10:43 PM (BqBId)


A sergeant isn't a CO.

Neither is a LT.

Need more info other than omg....

Posted by: WUT at August 12, 2019 10:48 PM (MAstk)

269
Supposedly, only 1 inmate successfully committed suicide at the MMC facility in the past few decades.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 12, 2019 10:49 PM (NMAzL)

270

More people in the US are killed with fists, or hammers, than with AR-15's, according to FBI statistics.


But since that looks like it could be a math question, please ignore.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 10:49 PM (sy5kK)

271 I remember around 1980, our family taking a summer vacation where we spent a lot of time poking around northern California. Saw a lot of the following:

- Stores with a name I can't quite remember, but it looked something like 'Sprouse-Git'
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2019 10:46 PM (L2ZTs)


Sprouse Reitz (or something like that). I remember those but I don't remember what they sold.

Posted by: DR.WTF at August 12, 2019 10:49 PM (aS1PU)

272
He was an employee, he just wasn't "certified" to be a guard.



So maybe they had one of the janitors watching him.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 12, 2019 10:47 PM (NMAzL)


There are severe shortages of correctional officers in every jail/prison. Turns out a booming economy provides employment options more appealing than being gassed with shit and piss for $15/hr.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 12, 2019 10:49 PM (rnXGe)

273 Not true. Ole Miss has the only federally-licensed grow facility in the country for research purposes.


Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 12, 2019 10:46 PM (rnXGe)

For federally sanctioned research. And he was being facetious.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 12, 2019 10:50 PM (t6MX/)

274 Social apps is what killed Toys R Us.

Posted by: Cisco yo Kid at August 12, 2019 10:50 PM (xj2l7)

275 And why weren't they out there months ago?

I would have expected something the day of his arrest, at least.

Posted by: t-bird at August 12, 2019 10:50 PM (NpvYf)

276 Supposedly, only 1 inmate successfully committed suicide at the MMC facility in the past few decades.

Which coincidentally is the same time the Clintons were in Office.

Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 12, 2019 10:50 PM (lD3vL)

277 Shamwow?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:50 PM (PUmDY)

278 DrWTF, that's it! Thanks!

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2019 10:51 PM (L2ZTs)

279 The Sportsman in Sonora, CA serves cold beer, guns, and ammo.

Posted by: Average Guy at August 12, 2019 10:35 PM (BaHwF)


When I was in junior high in the 60s, I remember buying .22 ammo in a bar, in a town in South Dakota that was too small for even a general store. (My grandparents had a farm 5 miles from the town; I went there in the summers.)

They sold ammo to people under 21, in a place selling hard liquor, yet there was never a mass shooting in that town.

Posted by: Gref at August 12, 2019 10:51 PM (AMIL/)

280 196 What a turnaround! And..why? It went from sinful to saintly with no stops in between.

Part of the problem is the government published a bunch of bogus propaganda trying to get people to stop smoking pot. Now if the CDC (or whoever) says "pot does this" nobody will believe them.
-------------------

OMG!


The palms of my hands!


They are turning HAIRY!

Posted by: Stoners at August 12, 2019 10:51 PM (sy5kK)

281 266 >>Like TX, no state income taxes (except on taxable interest and dividends...and they're in the process of eliminating that as well, by 2022). Also, land is probably a little cheaper.


You left out the best part. It's Not Texas!
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:48 PM (NE8ji)

Needling the CBD
Now needling TX
This could be interesting.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:51 PM (aA3+G)

282 Social apps is what killed Toys R Us.

Also some genius in their Community Outreach and Charity division donated large sums to Planned Parenthood.

Nothing like paying to kill off your clientele.

Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 12, 2019 10:51 PM (lD3vL)

283 >>Social apps is what killed Toys R Us.


It has been reported that Jeffrey took no less than 13 trips to Pedo Island between 1994 and 1996.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:52 PM (NE8ji)

284 Yeah I saw on the Crawl on Fux they quoting an source in the union that said that understaffing was because of ................ wait for it........................... wait some more Trump's Budget cuts in other words ORANGEMANBAD

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at August 12, 2019 10:52 PM (BqBId)

285 Boker tov from Tel Aviv horde.

Arrived last night. No, papers, no interview, no search. Apparently they will let any moron into Israel.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2019 10:52 PM (ngh4B)

286 Gere is a Hollywood Buddhist who spouts "Free Tibet" while badgering Italy to succumb to cultural extinction through mass migration.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 12, 2019 10:47 PM (Ndje9)


Remember when Gere was staying in INdia, being a Buddhist, and got an actress into big trouble - BIG TROUBLE - because he kissed her on the lips in public (or on camera) which is really, really, really illegal there. NO KISSING ON FILM ALLOWED!!! But Gere had no idea. He knew as much about India as he knew about Buddhism. The actress was under serious threat of jail time for that.

It's a shame because he's an excellent actor and has picked some really good roles and done them well. But he's just such an asshole loser.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2019 10:53 PM (nmtEZ)

287 More people in the US are killed with fists,

OK, I had a busy week.

Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 12, 2019 10:53 PM (lD3vL)

288
Sprouse Reitz (or something like that). I remember those but I don't remember what they sold.
Posted by: DR.WTF at August 12, 2019 10:49 PM (aS1PU)


A PacNW version of Woolworth's. They were everywhere when I was a kid, but that was before the discovery of electricity of course.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 10:54 PM (sy5kK)

289 You left out the best part. It's Not Texas!

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:48 PM



I've got nothing against Texas, and my job may eventually take me there.

My ex does live in Texas, though (San Antonio). And I used to needle her that if it weren't for Tennessee, there might not be a Texas.

Posted by: Bert G at August 12, 2019 10:54 PM (OMsf+)

290
Fredo Cuomo pretty much guaranteed that is how folks will refer to him from this point forward. One moment of weakness, numbnuts, in which you showed how to get your goat. Heh.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 12, 2019 10:54 PM (pNxlR)

291 anywhere on a north/south line between Nagadoches and Longview gets you some prime hill country in Texas. i prefer a more arid geography so my own preferences would lead to a east/west line between Tyler an Corsicana."

the midpoint on that line is Athens, and that's where the trees start to get small and scrubby. I like the woods. (okay any paying attention know I'm in Tyler) But I can't say it don't get humid.

For Hill Country, Fredericksburg is always worth a visit.

I think if I was really going to pick a place to move away from everything, I'd pick Port Aransas, because I love the coast.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2019 10:54 PM (V2Yro)

292 >>>It's why Dollar General has taken off. Their motto is that they serve the unserved.

Yup. I am a suburban girl. I can drive to 3 Walmarts, 4 Targets, a couple Home Depots and a host of other stores in less than 30 minutes.

But I have visited enough places that are out in the boonies that I understand the idea of here it is, close by, you don't have to drive an hour to get something you need right now. Selection may be limited, but you can get something to fill the gap.

Posted by: cfo mom at August 12, 2019 10:54 PM (RfzVr)

293 More people in the US are killed with fists, or hammers, than with AR-15's, according to FBI statistics.





But since that looks like it could be a math question, please ignore.





Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 10:49 PM (sy5kK)

Fredo has been busy.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 12, 2019 10:54 PM (t6MX/)

294 long ago IF I may have hallucinated a little ONCE, I made it back to my room in the dorm and wondered wtf did they put in that pipe?

Posted by: illiniwek at August 12, 2019 10:54 PM (Cus5s)

295 For federally sanctioned research. And he was being facetious.


Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 12, 2019 10:50 PM (t6MX/)

The claim was that every university has done extensive research on marijuana. Not if they wish to continue receiving federal funding considering possession, growing or transporting across state lines is still a federal crime.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 12, 2019 10:54 PM (rnXGe)

296 OK Hordelings, it's bedtime for Bonzo.

Y'all try to behave. Pray for protection and for our President.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #PurgeProgressivism at August 12, 2019 10:55 PM (HaL55)

297 For those interested in seeing the video
twitter link: https://tinyurl.com/y52x8zqu

Ryan Saavedra
@RealSaavedra

A man in NY yesterday approached CNN's Chris Cuomo and called him "Fredo"

Cuomo: "You're going to have a problem"

Man: "What are you going to do about it?"

Cuomo: "I'll fuckin ruin your shit. I'll fucking throw you down these stairs"

Credit: "THAT'S THE POINT with Brandon"

1:23
6:05 PM - 12 Aug 2019

Posted by: David at August 12, 2019 10:55 PM (jY1B4)

298 I have hallucinated once while driving after being up for over 24 hours (no drugs, no alcohol). But obviously there is no way pot can possibly do that. Because it effects everyone the same, unlike all other drugs.

Posted by: Chuck C at August 12, 2019 10:47 PM (zCabI)


Not sure what point you're trying to make but if you hallucinated from being up driving for 24 hours then you should really get that checked out. We're not talking about seeing little mirage puddles int eh road, but full-on hallucinations? That's not right.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2019 10:55 PM (nmtEZ)

299 285 Boker tov from Tel Aviv horde.

Arrived last night. No, papers, no interview, no search. Apparently they will let any moron into Israel.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2019 10:52 PM (ngh4B)

they scanned your browsing history and saw many AoS entries.

"this guy is good to go"

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 10:55 PM (sy5kK)

300 Still waiting on the shooter/head med study.

Side effects may include explosive diariha, and suicidal thoughts or actions.

Posted by: nip at August 12, 2019 10:55 PM (RXwUQ)

301 Also good Knopfler.

https://tinyurl.com/yx9lf2cu

Posted by: JackStraw at August 12, 2019 10:55 PM (ZLI7S)

302 Slave to Love is a very cool song.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:55 PM (PUmDY)

303 I read or heard that guys in solitary commit suicide by stuffing a sock down their throat because they don't have anything to hang themselves with.

Posted by: dartist at August 12, 2019 10:55 PM (K22Va)

304 I'm not sure that Texas is going to get you away from humidity and tornadoes. If you can get past those, I'd look into Middle and East Tennessee. Depending on what you want from a city, you could pick from Nashville, Knoxville, or Chattanooga. Like TX, no state income taxes (except on taxable interest and dividends...and they're in the process of eliminating that as well, by 2022). Also, land is probably a little cheaper.
Posted by: Bert G at August 12, 2019 10:46 PM (OMsf+)

I think Tennessee taxes capital gains/investment income.

Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 12, 2019 10:56 PM (Rz2Nc)

305 Shamwow?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:50 PM (PUmDY)


No. Real diving shammys - which was the point I was making.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2019 10:56 PM (nmtEZ)

306 I wonder how many teeth they had between the 2 of them.
Did I really think that outloud?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:35 PM (aA3+G)
* * * *

LOL

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 12, 2019 10:56 PM (bHlGF)

307 East TN for us, if we can ever get the house on the market. We are now chasing a water leak under the house. I may have to quit work to force this, but then we'd have even less money to spend on it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 12, 2019 10:56 PM (Lqy/e)

308 Yeah I saw on the Crawl on Fux they quoting an source in the union that said that understaffing was because of ................ wait for it........................... wait some more Trump's Budget cuts in other words ORANGEMANBAD

It must be the only thing in all of Federal Government Budgeting History to ever receive a genuine cut, not a reduction in the rate of growth, but a bona fide cut.

More likely to find unicorns, Bigfoot and Obama's long form birth certificate than a budget cut.

Also, isn't the first year of any presidency running on the previous administration's budget?

Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 12, 2019 10:56 PM (lD3vL)

309 The claim was that every university has done
extensive research on marijuana. Not if they wish to continue receiving
federal funding considering possession, growing or transporting across
state lines is still a federal crime.


Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 12, 2019 10:54 PM (rnXGe)

Feds backed off medical in 2014 under obama. This is known. Otherwise, he was being facetious about a bunch of hippie freaks - not actual research.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 12, 2019 10:56 PM (t6MX/)

310
Arrived last night. No, papers, no interview, no search.
-------

I'm guessing that they had all of that mapped out before you got on the plane.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2019 10:56 PM (YvUf/)

311 Woof.

Posted by: Elizabeth at August 12, 2019 10:57 PM (amw5z)

312 I think Tennessee taxes capital gains/investment income.

Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 12, 2019 10:56 PM



I mentioned that: "(except on taxable interest and dividends...and they're in the process of eliminating that as well, by 2022)".

Posted by: Bert G at August 12, 2019 10:57 PM (OMsf+)

313 What TS said. It's all nice.

Now needling TX
This could be interesting.


Dont get me wrong, i lurve me some Texas, but east Tennessee is where I shall retire.

Posted by: BifBewalskiBot - sofa king we todd did at August 12, 2019 10:57 PM (VcFUs)

314
Air conditioner finally fixed. Hosanna!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2019 10:57 PM (Wx/+I)

315 Telegraph Road. US 24 between Toledo and Detroit.

Anyways, made a tape copy of that in the early 80's, when "Love over Gold" came out.

Played it on the old Alpine tape player in my old car.

Played it one night when I was driving back to Columbus from Dayton, during a big thunderstorm in November. The lightening strikes were almost synchronized with the song.
It was kind of an awesome drive for the length song.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at August 12, 2019 10:57 PM (S6Pax)

316 oh, seen on Twitchy this morning, from a certain senile person not named Joe Biden:

Every American, regardless of income, is entitled to:

The right to a decent job that pays a living wage.
The right to quality health care.
The right to a complete education.
The right to affordable housing.
The right to a clean environment.
The right to a secure retirement.

-- Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders)

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at August 12, 2019 10:58 PM (ZqRa6)

317 Air conditioner finally fixed. Hosanna!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2019 10:57 PM (Wx/+I)

--------

Don't get used to it, peasant.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 12, 2019 10:59 PM (amw5z)

318 The claim was that every university has done extensive research on marijuana.

You haven't ever been in dorm rooms, have you?

Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 12, 2019 10:59 PM (lD3vL)

319 >>East TN for us, if we can ever get the house on the market. We are now chasing a water leak under the house.


You need a baboon.

Put it in a cage and don't let it drink for like 3 days.

Then, let it loose in the crawl space under the house.

It'll find your leak.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 10:59 PM (NE8ji)

320 I love the roadside sign. I'd do all my shopping there.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 12, 2019 10:59 PM (amw5z)

321 garrett: yeah but then the baboon will spring a leak... :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2019 10:59 PM (L2ZTs)

322 Definitely go to TN instead of TX. Or anywhere else really. We are suffering terribly in TX. You wouldn't like it, especially if you are from CA. Our two biggest exports are preowned chewing gum and beef-flavored soda water. Avoid.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 12, 2019 11:00 PM (H5knJ)

323 Posted by: Splunge at August 12, 2019 10:30 PM (ed8K1)


If humidity is a deal breaker, I'd avoid any part of Texas east of Odessa. Problem with that is that you are then living in West Texas. My favorite low-humidity areas of the country are eastern Oregon and most of Utah. If Boise, Salt Lake City or Vegas are interesting enough cities to suit you, you might have a look around. Land is still cheap in both areas, and there are not many natural disasters in either place. Both get hot, but it is, as they say, a dry heat.

Posted by: Velvet glove, iron fist at August 12, 2019 11:00 PM (bI6lC)

324 Dont get me wrong, i lurve me some Texas, but east Tennessee is where I shall retire.

Dittos. Texas will be blue by then and I'll be too old for New Zealand.

Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 12, 2019 11:00 PM (lD3vL)

325 Boker tov from Tel Aviv horde.

Arrived last night. No, papers, no interview, no search. Apparently they will let any moron into Israel.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2019 10:52 PM (ngh4B)


Wasn't yesterday Tish B'av? They thought screw it, something bad's going to happen so just let him in.

Posted by: DR.WTF at August 12, 2019 11:00 PM (aS1PU)

326 298 I have hallucinated once while driving after being up for over 24 hours (no drugs, no alcohol). But obviously there is no way pot can possibly do that. Because it effects everyone the same, unlike all other drugs. "

I remember one of my hard marker flags telling me to quit driving would be when I was on some lonely stretch of road in West Texas, it's 2 am, and slowly I start seeing this huge black forest on either side, growing bigger and bigger til all I can see is this little tunnel in front of me where the headlights are cutting through. Yep, you see that, pull off the road, get out of the car, Right Now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2019 11:00 PM (V2Yro)

327 Texas is truly diverse in that it is so big it has significant regional differences in both geography and culture.

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at August 12, 2019 11:01 PM (2DOZq)

328 Numerous things can cause hallucinations.

If your body temp gets too high (above 105 or thereabouts), you can start hallucinating.

Brain fluids don't like being heated up.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2019 11:01 PM (L2ZTs)

329 Dittos. Texas will be blue by then and I'll be too old for New Zealand.
Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 12, 2019 11:00 PM (lD3vL)

Doesn't New Zealand also have limits on how much land foreigners can buy there?

Posted by: Surfperch, 0% Italian, 100% Italican at August 12, 2019 11:02 PM (tVQUs)

330 My favorite stores in the whole world are old ma and pa hardware stores. They have stuff you really need. The ones with basements or attics are the best.
Posted by: DR.WTF


They have people who can give you good advice on your project, or on which product to buy

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 12, 2019 11:02 PM (+lVUW)

331 Not sure what point you're trying to make but if you hallucinated from being up driving for 24 hours then you should really get that checked out. We're not talking about seeing little mirage puddles int eh road, but full-on hallucinations? That's not right.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair
---------

Hallucinations consequent of sleep deprivation are common. It has happened to me twice. Once after working for 36 hours straight, the other time after being awake for almost 30 hours of driving.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2019 11:02 PM (KoKdw)

332 I been to Chatanooga once, it was beautiful, loved everything about it except all those idiot Chatanoogans that lived in the place and made a mess of everything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2019 11:02 PM (V2Yro)

333 I think too much capsaicin can also cause hallucinations.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2019 11:02 PM (L2ZTs)

334 Beer, Bait and Ammo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7NLYiBzdPA

Posted by: cfo mom at August 12, 2019 11:02 PM (RfzVr)

335 328
Numerous things can cause hallucinations.



If your body temp gets too high (above 105 or thereabouts), you can start hallucinating.



Brain fluids don't like being heated up.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2019 11:01 PM (L2ZTs)

And the devil's weed.
/s

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 12, 2019 11:03 PM (t6MX/)

336 I think he writes his lyrics. They are awesome. He did that 9/11 song with Emmylou Harris.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 10:25 PM (PUmDY)

Another Mark Knopfler song I like:

https://hooktube.com/watch?v=bc4egSH5Kd0

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2019 11:03 PM (a72/q)

337 Epstein's safety was the responsibility of BOP, of the Executive branch of govt. The buck stops at the chief executive. If this had happened under Obama, we'd all be screaming it was Obama's fault.

I don't regret voting for President Trump, and I doubt any better candidate for 2020 exists. But like his failure to secure our borders, this incident undermines my trust in the guy. He convinced us that he himself is not of the elite, and we look sillier every day we go on believing that.

Posted by: gp Goes There at August 12, 2019 11:04 PM (mk9aG)

338 Pot can lead to all sorts of revelations. Once, in my distant youth, after indulging I realized that I could hold my breath and swallow at the same time! It was an amazing discovery, which I shared with my amazed assembled friends.

Posted by: NOT THAT GUY at August 12, 2019 11:04 PM (4epXx)

339 I just saw Simone Biles perform a triple twisting double back flip at the US Championships.

No man has even attempted it.

She was perfect.

Suck that tranny fucktards. Suck that.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:04 PM (PkVlr)

340 Not sure what point you're trying to make but if you hallucinated from being up driving for 24 hours then you should really get that checked out. We're not talking about seeing little mirage puddles int eh road, but full-on hallucinations? That's not right.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2019 10:55 PM

My brain interpreted the short set of streetlights from an on-ramp as lighted windows of a passenger train running alongside the expressway. Then it added passengers waving at me.

Got coffee at the next exit. That was after three days with 4 hours sleep per day on a business trip. Only happened that one time.

Posted by: Chuck C at August 12, 2019 11:04 PM (zCabI)

341 He convinced us that he himself is not of the elite, and we look sillier every day we go on believing that.

Posted by: gp Goes There at August 12, 2019 11:04 PM (mk9aG)

Got a concerned mouse in your pocket?

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 12, 2019 11:05 PM (t6MX/)

342 Who was the opening band that Bowie fired after they said Bryan Ferry was cooler?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 11:05 PM (PUmDY)

343 Doesn't New Zealand also have limits on how much land foreigners can buy there?

They have many restrictions that pretty much eliminates everybody accept those in high demand professions with guaranteed private jobs and proof of adequate medical coverage.

Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 12, 2019 11:05 PM (lD3vL)

344 And the devil's weed.
/s

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 12, 2019 11:03 PM



I recall my grandmother referring to tobacco as "heathen weed"... (My mother smoked, much to her mother's disappointment...)

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 12, 2019 11:05 PM (wgV7k)

345 Dont get me wrong, i lurve me some Texas, but east Tennessee is where I shall retire.
Posted by: BifBewalskiBot
---------

Bonus: East Tennessee Special Reserve whiskey.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2019 11:05 PM (KoKdw)

346 337
Epstein's safety was the responsibility of BOP, of the Executive branch
of govt. The buck stops at the chief executive. If this had happened
under Obama, we'd all be screaming it was Obama's fault.



I don't regret voting for President Trump, and I doubt any better
candidate for 2020 exists. But like his failure to secure our borders,
this incident undermines my trust in the guy. He convinced us that he
himself is not of the elite, and we look sillier every day we go on
believing that.

Posted by: gp Goes There at August 12, 2019 11:04 PM (mk9aG)


Please. I don't remember anyone ever criticizing Obama for any of the thousands of suicides or murders of BOP inmates. Was Trump supposed to be doing the rounds?

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 12, 2019 11:05 PM (rnXGe)

347 Posted by: gp Goes There at August 12, 2019 11:04 PM (mk9aG)

Don't forget him promoting white terrorism. You forgot that part of your trolling.

Now complain how we are a mob that picks on you,

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at August 12, 2019 11:06 PM (2DOZq)

348 I been to Chatanooga once, it was beautiful, loved everything about it except all those idiot Chatanoogans that lived in the place and made a mess of everything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2019 11:02 PM



'Nooga would be last choice of the three. If it's me, somewhere between there and Knoxville, maybe around Oak Ridge or Maryville. Land around Nashville is starting to get expensive due to the growth, but isn't quite yet unattainable. Stay far, far away from West Tennessee: Memphis politics and the New Madrid fault.

Posted by: Bert G at August 12, 2019 11:06 PM (OMsf+)

349 Don't worry about who you vote for. Voting against the other clown is too important.

Posted by: Burger Chef at August 12, 2019 11:06 PM (RuIsu)

350 >>You need a baboon.

>>Put it in a cage and don't let it drink for like 3 days.

>>Then, let it loose in the crawl space under the house.

>>It'll find your leak.

What part of Montana do you live in?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 12, 2019 11:06 PM (ZLI7S)

351 Didja see this? Never Trumper Max Boot calls Never Trumpers the National Review white supremacists?

https://bit.ly/33rVQXC

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 12, 2019 11:07 PM (+y/Ru)

352 I'm really enjoying all this wonderful advice. Thank you to the horde!

Posted by: Splunge at August 12, 2019 11:07 PM (ed8K1)

353 Incoming Instalanche at 10:58.on the First Amendment

Posted by: Fox2! at August 12, 2019 11:07 PM (Arprc)

354 I hallucinate all the time, and have never taken recreational drugs. I think it's just that brain chemistry is very fragile, and outside stimuli can certainly upset this.

But brains can be upset just on their own. Like puppies left alone when the food-person leaves. Brains are a lot like puppies, except less fun. Where is the toy, asks the brain. The puppy says, I've got the toy, fight me for it.

The brain says, you have fangs and claws, all I have is a spinal column I can whip around like a snake. You've seen the movie, right?

The puppy says, I'm gonna wait for the Blu-Ray.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 12, 2019 11:07 PM (l9m7l)

355 Got a concerned mouse in your pocket?
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 12, 2019 11:05 PM (t6MX/)

-------

Heh.

Damn Disney.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 12, 2019 11:07 PM (amw5z)

356 I think too much capsaicin can also cause hallucinations.

That may explain the wild rantings of antifa types - they have breathed in far more of that than your usual person.

Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 12, 2019 11:07 PM (lD3vL)

357 I recall my grandmother referring to tobacco as "heathen weed"... (My mother smoked, much to her mother's disappointment...)

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 12, 2019 11:05 PM (wgV7k)

There was a faux documentary in 1936 called, "Marijuana - The Devil's Weed," I saw so many years ago on late-night TV. It was pretty funny.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 12, 2019 11:08 PM (t6MX/)

358 Re - Marijuana research. It's human nature to think we have a pretty good insight on how things like drugs work on us and the brain but we really don't. In a hundred years from now our current knowledge of the brain and mind altering drugs will look primitive. I think most scientist that study the brain, if they were completely honest, would tell you we don't know shit.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 12, 2019 11:08 PM (4thlk)

359 In my experience, there is definitely a link between pot and mass chewing.

Doritos, particularly.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 12, 2019 11:08 PM (gKGWw)

360 Just found out about this story online:

Man travels 1500 miles to surprise girlfriend, finds her... with another man

"You bitter?"
"Yup. Bit HIM too!"

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2019 11:08 PM (L2ZTs)

361 Posted by: BifBewalskiBot - sofa king we todd did at August 12, 2019 10:57 PM (VcFUs)

My cousin retired to TN
He left Milwaukee County 4 years ago
Loves it there

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 11:09 PM (aA3+G)

362 Parkinson's disease can cause hallucinations.

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at August 12, 2019 11:09 PM (2DOZq)

363 I mentioned that: "(except on taxable interest and dividends...and they're in the process of eliminating that as well, by 2022)".
Posted by: Bert G at August 12, 2019 10:57 PM (OMsf+)

Capital gains does not fall under interest and dividends. Is that being cut or eliminated, too? We like the idea of Tenn, but the tax structure was looking for workers not retirees. It sounds like they are changing that.

Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 12, 2019 11:10 PM (Rz2Nc)

364 Got a concerned mouse in your pocket?"

It's a Concerned Conservative Christian Commenter who's Concerned. And A Conservative.

Or Something.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 12, 2019 11:10 PM (6qErC)

365
There was a faux documentary in 1936 called, "Marijuana - The Devil's Weed," I saw so many years ago on late-night TV. It was pretty funny.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 12, 2019 11:08 PM (t6MX/)


If you never saw "Reefer Madness" in the 70's -80's, usually late night, you missed out bigtime.


Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 11:10 PM (sy5kK)

366 Anon: ah, the CCCCCC reader

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2019 11:10 PM (L2ZTs)

367 hogmartin, you got it right about Aldi. So much of their stuff is seasonal.

I've been shopping there long enuf now to know what's coming up when and to stock up before it ends up gone for 6 months.

Posted by: cfo mom at August 12, 2019 11:10 PM (RfzVr)

368 'Nooga would be last choice of the three. If it's me, somewhere between there and Knoxville, maybe around Oak Ridge or Maryville.

Considering the amount of truck traffic going through 'Nooga, that is almost a No Go zone.

I had an opportunity there, and after doing some recce decided to look elsewhere. Yes it is beautiful, but also the terrain imposes a number of serious limitations.

Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 12, 2019 11:10 PM (lD3vL)

369
226 MSNBC's Joe Scarborough deleted his tweet blaming Russia for murdering Jeffrey Epstein.
Posted by: Ha at August 12, 2019 10:42 PM (MAstk)


Delete a tweet, delete an intern. Joe has the most comprehensive and best tested deleting skills of anybody at PMSNBC.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 12, 2019 11:11 PM (pNxlR)

370 Didja see this? Never Trumper Max Boot calls Never Trumpers the National Review white supremacists?

https://bit.ly/33rVQXC
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 12, 2019 11:07 PM (+y/Ru)

When Max left the GOP for the Last Time the other day, he left Conservatism too. As an Independent Leftist, he views all Conservatives (even the fake ones) through the same lens.

Posted by: Surfperch, 0% Italian, 100% Italican at August 12, 2019 11:11 PM (tVQUs)

371 199 177 It wasn't too many years ago where there were shooting teams in school, never heard about a team member going off and shooting someone.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 10:27 PM (aA3+G)

Jerry Pournelle used to point out when he was a kid in TN you could bring your rifle to school during hunting season. There was a special cabinet in the back of the room where the guns got locked up during the day, and after school you'd get your gun and go hunting with your buddies.
Posted by: Ace's liver

Growing up in W. PA, there were guns racks in trucks with actual guns in them. Hunting is pretty popular in W.PA. This was the 70s and 80s.
Posted by: Puddleglum, job huntin'


Geez, you deplorable white supremacists clinging to your guns and bibles again?

Posted by: Barry Obama at August 12, 2019 11:11 PM (+lVUW)

372 Wasn't yesterday Tish B'av? They thought screw it, something bad's going to happen so just let him in.
Posted by: DR.WTF at August 12, 2019 11:00 PM (aS1PU)

===

Ended Sunday night...

And I mentioned on the EMT... I will be taking the prayer list to the Temple on Friday, so morons get your requests in!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2019 11:11 PM (ngh4B)

373 Since back in my college days I wasn't very law abiding, I can say with certainty that over the years Sleep Deprivation has given me far more hallucinations than cannabis or any other drug ever did. (I was never fool enough to fool with mushrooms, lets be clear)

and then my wife has always been amused/exasperated by the way, when I am very tired, that I can slip into a dream state even though my eyes are open and I'm still talking to her. Only happens if I'm real tired, but for example we can be having a conversation late at night, and it'll be going well, and suddenly I'll say "wait you gotta turn here" and she'll say "what?" and I'll say "don't miss the turn!" and she'll realize that she may be in bed talking to me, but mentally I'm in the car driving somewhere. Well that's one way to kill a conversation.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2019 11:11 PM (V2Yro)

374 No baboons. We had to take out all the insulation under the house due to rats. They punched a hole in the washer drain pipe, which we think is fixed. We are waiting for one of the crew to finish detox to put in new insulation and vapor barrier. (Rats are dead, thanks to rat poison). Same guy will sand /refinish the floor where it's needed. Stepson is supposed to put on the new shingles sitting on the roof. It will all happen in #twoweeks.

And I would not recommend moving to Oregon. Too many bureaucrats and dumb laws.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 12, 2019 11:12 PM (Lqy/e)

375 Do you want fries with that?

Drive-in sex booths proposed for historic Berlin airport...

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 12, 2019 11:13 PM (+y/Ru)

376 Link to funding and fed position on pot research and how it has changed and is changing.


https://sensiseeds.com/en/blog/funds-cannabis-research-usa/

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 12, 2019 11:14 PM (t6MX/)

377 the "responsibility" for Epstein lies at many levels. Yes the buck stop with Trump ... but given there is a war against a powerful domestic enemy (or many) ... there will be losses. This is no normal war as the enemy is hiding at every level.


Identifying the enemy is a first step ... and when the enemy has metastasized into every bureaucratic office, the white hats have to emerge and bring down their co-workers the DeepState. It will not be easy ... but this is why I include Barr's actions as a failure ... a loss. It does not mean he IS DeepState, but that he failed to stop/recognize DeepState in getting to Epstein. He went there to personally intervene ... that was not enough. A battle lost does not make Barr the enemy. (but we don't know, it is all shades of gray, in many respects).

I still think big things are going down ... tick tock.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 12, 2019 11:14 PM (Cus5s)

378 >>>>If you never saw "Reefer Madness" in the 70's -80's, usually late night, you missed out bigtime.


Followed by the Rev Gene Scott and another Doobie

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 11:14 PM (aA3+G)

379 Damn.

Reading through the comments I see a lot of Morons are headed my way to East TN.

Let me know when you get here, I'll buy y'all a drink.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 12, 2019 11:14 PM (gKGWw)

380 Hey Pops, I need a left-hand wentworth threaded 3/8" rod 6 inch long with one end knurled.

Downstairs, under the steps - in an old wooden American cheese box. There's three of them.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2019 10:36 PM (Y4EXg)

Flag on the play! That's "Whitworth" threaded.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2019 11:15 PM (a72/q)

381 MH, Thanks for the top photo. Reminds me of where I grew up. Pleasant memories.

Posted by: JTB at August 12, 2019 11:15 PM (bmdz3)

382 If I won the Powerball and didn't have to worry about the financial effects of liberal policy I would move somewhere in the northeast triad of VT, NH ,ME.

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at August 12, 2019 11:17 PM (2DOZq)

383 Pussy Queef set to endorse Biden tomorrow...

Adam Sexton
@AdamSextonWMUR

Another top NH Democrat is backing @JoeBiden: former Ambassador & Congressman Dick Swett makes his endorsement tonight at 5pm on @WMUR9 #FITN #nhpolitics #WMUR

0:39
1:59 PM - 12 Aug 2019

Posted by: David at August 12, 2019 11:17 PM (jY1B4)

384 Reefer Madness was all the rage in 1983-84, my senior year.

And it was easy to get at video rental stores. I think the movie was already in the public domain, so stores could crank out as many copies of it themselves as they wanted.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2019 11:17 PM (L2ZTs)

385
Let me know when you get here, I'll buy y'all a drink.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 12, 2019 11:14 PM (gKGWw)

--------

Wait. Whut?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 12, 2019 11:17 PM (amw5z)

386 I feel badly about driving up prices in East TN, but I guarantee we will not vote for higher taxes and more bureaucrats.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 12, 2019 11:17 PM (Lqy/e)

387 I also recall that USA's weekend videos show, Night Flight, would run clips of Reefer Madness.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2019 11:17 PM (L2ZTs)

388 Their kitchen supplies/ utensils were the biggest surprise for me the first time I went into a Dollar Tree. I don't know where they get that stuff they can sell for a dollar and make a profit.
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions


I buy the plastic table cloths for dropcloths when I paint.
I also use them for gift wrapping supplies.

Posted by: Barry Obama at August 12, 2019 11:18 PM (+lVUW)

389 My cousin retired to TN

Buddy bought a house near Nashville. Sounds like there are a lot of people moving there. Taxes are going up.

Posted by: dartist at August 12, 2019 11:18 PM (K22Va)

390 274 Social apps is what killed Toys R Us.

Posted by: Cisco yo Kid at August 12, 2019 10:50 PM (xj2l7)


Also, a royal shit-ton of unsold Star Wars toys from Disney(tm).

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 12, 2019 11:18 PM (DTX3h)

391 Reefer Madness

https://youtu.be/PLuNx1fYKtY



Marijuana - The Devil's Weed

https://youtu.be/S78AvED9kZo

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 12, 2019 11:18 PM (t6MX/)

392 Reading through the comments I see a lot of Morons are headed my way to East TN.

Let me know when you get here, I'll buy y'all a drink.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

----

Save your pennies, it's on the list. Me and the lovely Mrs. took a tour through TX Hill Country in June. Nice, but we will continue to look. We have friends in Loudon (?) and they have asked us to visit and check it out.

Whatever we decide, we gots to get out of this place.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2019 11:19 PM (Y4EXg)

393 Capital gains does not fall under interest and dividends. Is that being cut or eliminated, too? We like the idea of Tenn, but the tax structure was looking for workers not retirees. It sounds like they are changing that.

Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 12, 2019 11:10 PM



Here's a quick look at what they're doing: https://tinyurl.com/y463qfgj

They're eliminating it specifically to benefit retirees.


Here's the state's take on capital gains: https://tinyurl.com/yxawby9q

Posted by: Bert G at August 12, 2019 11:19 PM (OMsf+)

394 Buddy bought a house near Nashville. Sounds like there are a lot of people moving there. Taxes are going up.

....

Nashville and Murfreesboro are exploding in population.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 12, 2019 11:20 PM (gKGWw)

395 Flag on the play! That's "Whitworth" threaded.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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No wonder I always cross-threaded those nuts!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2019 11:20 PM (Y4EXg)

396 Tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope.

Posted by: gp The Poo Target at August 12, 2019 11:20 PM (mk9aG)

397 I think he writes his lyrics. They are awesome. He did that 9/11 song with Emmylou Harris.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie

"If This is Goodbye" ?

Is that the song?
They recorded that on "All The Road Running"

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at August 12, 2019 11:21 PM (S6Pax)

398 Yeah, too many people moving to Nashville. My husband is partial to Sneedville as they can't afford bureaucrats in Hancock county. I find it cute how folks warn about tweakers. Like we don't have them here.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 12, 2019 11:21 PM (Lqy/e)

399 >>>The ONT Musical Interlude<<<

Two very fine artists. Thanks for the reminder.

Posted by: Fritz at August 12, 2019 11:21 PM (kLDv+)

400 Danke, I'll buy the second round.

Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 12, 2019 11:21 PM (Rz2Nc)

401 Music.

is now time for the musics

Posted by: Miklos on bass at August 12, 2019 11:22 PM (QzkSJ)

402 In many ways, this is the story of Aldi.
Posted by: hogmartin


They sell a pretty nice kung pao sauce.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 12, 2019 11:22 PM (+lVUW)

403 Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2019 11:19 PM (Y4EXg)

.....

Loudon is nice.

There are lots of good places to live here if work and amenities aren't an issue.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 12, 2019 11:22 PM (gKGWw)

404 I'm still enjoying the sight of Sarah Silverman citing the New Testament. (Or maybe NT Apocrypha. The 'first stone' story didn't make the cut in the first manuscripts of the Gospel of John, and sometimes it floats into Luke. Etc etc.)

She's been throwing rocks at us for over a decade and now she realises rocks hurt.

Posted by: barry! at August 12, 2019 11:22 PM (/Ioag)

405 /soc

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 12, 2019 11:22 PM (/Ioag)

406 Do we already HAVE enough of us in the east Tennessee and north Alabama area to set up a mome?

Posted by: BifBewalskiBot - sofa king we todd did at August 12, 2019 11:23 PM (VcFUs)

407 How do cnn and msnbc get away with reporting Michael Brown nonsense quotes and not challenging the bs?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 11:23 PM (PUmDY)

408
There was this thing we all had called "self-control..."
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #PurgeProgressivism


That is a tool of the White Supremearchy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2019 11:23 PM (aKsyK)

409 We could pre reserve most of Cades Cove camp ground slots and have damned good time.

Posted by: BifBewalskiBot - sofa king we todd did at August 12, 2019 11:24 PM (VcFUs)

410 Do we already HAVE enough of us in the east Tennessee and north Alabama area to set up a mome?

Posted by: BifBewalskiBot - sofa king we todd did at August 12, 2019 11:23 PM



I'd drive up for one. I keep hoping to see one for GA/SC/NC as well.

Posted by: Bert G at August 12, 2019 11:24 PM (OMsf+)

411 hello ONT!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:25 PM (GBteo)

412 Well, I was happy about the Dwight Yoakum song as I was thinking about posting the chorus here. IT's almost a Deplorables theme song.

"well you don't know me but you don't like me.
Say you care less how I feel.
How many of you that sit and judge me
Ever walked the streets of Bakersfield?"

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 12, 2019 11:25 PM (Lqy/e)

413 Tennessee is eliminating the Hall Income Tax, 1% a year over 5 years until it's completely gone.

Already down to 3%.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 12, 2019 11:25 PM (gKGWw)

414 -- Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at August 12, 2019 10:58 PM (ZqRa6)


And how do we get those "rights"? Only by curtailing those actual, inalienable rights bestowed on us by the Creator.

Also notice that each of those "rights" have a pie-in-the-sky adjective attached, all of which will be null-and-void if the commies ever succeed in securing those "rights" for everyone (everyone not in the gulags, that is).

Posted by: Average Guy at August 12, 2019 11:25 PM (BaHwF)

415 Hey Harry!

How's life in the fast lane?

Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:26 PM (PkVlr)

416 378 >>>>If you never saw "Reefer Madness" in the 70's -80's, usually late night, you missed out bigtime.


Followed by the Rev Gene Scott and another Doobie
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 11:14 PM (aA3+G)

U of Wash neighborhood, late 70's, Neptune Theater, Reefer Madness was the first of two midnight movies. The other was "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".

For at least 5 years, every Saturday night.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 11:26 PM (sy5kK)

417 Who was the opening band that Bowie fired after they said Bryan Ferry was cooler?
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie


Roxy Music? Brian Ferry was the lead singer

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at August 12, 2019 11:26 PM (S6Pax)

418 Throwing Stones kind of rocks.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 11:27 PM (PUmDY)

419 415 Hey Harry!

How's life in the fast lane?
Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:26 PM (PkVlr)

Oh pretty good, I'd say. Had a lovely evening with a, how do you say, respectable ho last night. Was up until 4 am, went to work, came home, slept for many hours, and ... here I am.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:27 PM (GBteo)

420 Nobody likes the lower 2/3rds of Indiana? Kinda nice but nowhere near flat. Taxes are better than Wi, Il, Mi.

Posted by: dartist at August 12, 2019 11:27 PM (K22Va)

421 LCD,

I used to frequent the Neptune theatre in the late 80s. So fun.

I haven't been there since it's been refurbished. Have you?

Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:28 PM (PkVlr)

422 ...and how are you doing, nurse?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:28 PM (GBteo)

423 407 How do cnn and msnbc get away with reporting Michael Brown nonsense quotes and not challenging the bs?
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 11:23 PM (PUmDY)


I believe you answered your own question.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 11:28 PM (sy5kK)

424 We could pre reserve most of Cades Cove camp ground slots and have damned good time.

Posted by: BifBewalskiBot - sofa king we todd did at August 12, 2019 11:24 PM

....

Screw Cade's Cove.

We could reserve Windrock ATV Park, start bonfires, drink whisky from the bottle, drive four wheelers, and shoot guns.

Then we could start partying after that.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 12, 2019 11:28 PM (gKGWw)

425 I think it was Depeche Mode.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 11:29 PM (PUmDY)

426 Tennessee is eliminating the Hall Income Tax, 1% a year over 5 years until it's completely gone.

Already down to 3%.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 12, 2019 11:25 PM (gKGWw)

Awesome, and I double checked, they don't tax capital gains. Tennessee, back on the list!

Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 12, 2019 11:29 PM (Rz2Nc)

427 Another Mark Knopfler song I like:

https://hooktube.com/watch?v=bc4egSH5Kd0
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2019 11:03 PM (a72/q)


Knopfler has something to suit just about everyone's taste.

Posted by: Average Guy at August 12, 2019 11:29 PM (BaHwF)

428 I'll take two of these basalty looking rocks, the big flat piece of shale and of course the packet of gravel

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 12, 2019 11:29 PM (/Ioag)

429
Humidity? Hitting about 80% late this afternoon. It was only 83F or so, but I went out in the garden and did nothing but spray.

I soaked my T shirt with sweat. THere was absolutely no breeze. In those conditions, you have to keep moving to keep air flow over your skin. Standing there, you'll quickly make a little cloud of saturated water vapor around you and sweat become ineffective. That's when you start sweating like a pig.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 12, 2019 11:30 PM (NMAzL)

430 Horde, I need prayers, but can't say more than that right now. God knows the "whos" and the "whys".

Can someone let Fen know for me?

Thanks in advance.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at August 12, 2019 11:31 PM (zSM15)

431 Thanks for the ONT.

ace does Columbo. Huh.


Also, with all due respect to the president of Brazil, I would prefer not to poop every other day, thank you very much.

The poop Hill is the one to die on lads.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 12, 2019 11:31 PM (gmtFW)

432 425 I think it was Depeche Mode.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 11:29 PM (PUmDY)

-------

They were no REO Speedwagon.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 12, 2019 11:31 PM (amw5z)

433 244 >> Posted by: kbdabear

This is not the first time I wish I were a bicycle seat. Well, my face at least.
Posted by: Zombie Juan Epstein at August 12, 2019 10:45 PM (NMAzL)

BICYCLE!

BICYCLE!

I want to ride my BI-CYC-LE!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 11:31 PM (sy5kK)

434 I've already seen a conspiracy theory on Twitter that Epstein isn't dead but was spirited away to Israel.

I love watching tinfoil hat guys do their thing, I don't know why. Epstein is going to provide me with years of entertainment. Seems fitting.

P.S.
I miss Art Bell

Posted by: 29Victor at August 12, 2019 11:31 PM (BJKQV)

435 Colofornia is trying to repeal the taxpayer bill of rights.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 12, 2019 11:31 PM (/Ioag)

436 reefer madness would play at midnight in the auditorium at the south side of the Illinois quad ... I saw Styx there ... saw Jethro Tull at the Assembly Hall ... but surprising Reefer Madness was still a hit ten years later ... maybe (conspiracy theory) they wanted everybody to stay stoned while they were taking over the world?

Posted by: illiniwek at August 12, 2019 11:32 PM (Cus5s)

437 Of course prayers for your intention Teresa.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2019 11:32 PM (Y4EXg)

438 Harry,

I'm ok. Was a stressful weekend with kitteh in the ICU with an acute kidney injury. She got home with four medications and I have to give her IV fluids twice a day.

Other than that, range time was excellent and I got to spend time talking with Insom.

How many cats until I'm the crazy cat lady?

Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:33 PM (PkVlr)

439 Did anybody outside the St. Louis metro get the real Mikey B. story. I'm guessing no.

Posted by: Burger Chef at August 12, 2019 11:33 PM (RuIsu)

440

Many cowboys buried on Poop Hill.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2019 11:33 PM (aKsyK)

441 Also, with all due respect to the president of Brazil, I would prefer not to poop every other day, thank you very much.

The poop Hill is the one to die on lads.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 12, 2019 11:31 PM (gmtFW)

LOL, yes, I'll poop when I need too.

Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 12, 2019 11:34 PM (Rz2Nc)

442 We could reserve Windrock ATV Park, start bonfires, drink whisky from the bottle, drive four wheelers, and shoot guns.

Then we could start partying after that.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger


That's why I'm not allowed to plan the fun stuff, i dont know shit from shinola shoe polish.

Posted by: BifBewalskiBot - sofa king we todd did at August 12, 2019 11:34 PM (VcFUs)

443 It's a shame because he's an excellent actor and has picked some really good roles and done them well. But he's just such an asshole loser.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2019 10:53 PM (nmtEZ)

Judging from his pic at the link, he's well past his "best before" date. Looks dissipated, with one foot in the grave, and the other on a banana peel.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2019 11:34 PM (a72/q)

444 Teresa,
I will pray for you.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:34 PM (PkVlr)

445 *Columbo turns to leave. Stops, thinks better of it*

Just one more question: if the shelves did fall accidently, killing your visitor, why was the drill in his hand set to reverse?

ace: ....

Columbo: thank you!

Posted by: Masterpiece Theater at August 12, 2019 11:34 PM (gmtFW)

446 I don't mind the heat and humidity in Houston I just don't like the all or nothing rain patterns we have been experiencing the past decade.

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at August 12, 2019 11:34 PM (2DOZq)

447
Colofornia is trying to repeal the taxpayer bill of rights.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo


What is that?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2019 11:34 PM (aKsyK)

448 LOL, yes, I'll poop when I need too.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 12, 2019 11:34 PM (Rz2Nc)

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It's like a manifesto or something.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 12, 2019 11:35 PM (amw5z)

449 42 Is there a link between pot use and mass shootings?



I thought marijuana mellowed you out and gave you a bad case of the munchies.

******
It has been well documented, but possibly forgotten by most, that withdrawing from regular marijuana use can cause severe depression and paranoia

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 12, 2019 11:35 PM (h1jJh)

450 Many cowboys buried on Poop Hill.

Hey, Brokeback Mountain was about shepherds.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 12, 2019 11:35 PM (/Ioag)

451 'Nooga would be last choice of the three. If it's me, somewhere between there and Knoxville, maybe around Oak Ridge or Maryville. Land around Nashville is starting to get expensive due to the growth, but isn't quite yet unattainable. Stay far, far away from West Tennessee: Memphis politics and the New Madrid fault.
Posted by: Bert G

Memphis is kind of a shitty river town. Hot and humid almost all the time. And Elvis. It's still all about Elvis. Sort of.

My sister and her husband moved to Nashville from Naples (God's waiting room), because her husband grew up in Nashville, and his kids live there, and also his best friend.
Nashville and the surrounding area are really nice. But house prices are getting really high, and it's becoming more expensive to live there. Confluence of something like 5 interstate highways. Traffic there is horrendous at times.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at August 12, 2019 11:35 PM (S6Pax)

452 I'm ok. Was a stressful weekend with kitteh in the ICU with an acute kidney injury. She got home with four medications and I have to give her IV fluids twice a day.

Other than that, range time was excellent and I got to spend time talking with Insom.

How many cats until I'm the crazy cat lady?
Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:33 PM (PkVlr)

Excellent!

The answer is two. Two cats the acceptable number of cats before you become a crazy cat lady. Any more than two cats, and it's an exponential growth in craziness. Hope that helps.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:35 PM (GBteo)

453 421 LCD,

I used to frequent the Neptune theatre in the late 80s. So fun.

I haven't been there since it's been refurbished. Have you?
Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:28 PM (PkVlr)

Nope.

Drove past it a couple of months ago, and they have replaced their old readerboard sign with an LED-style one.

Back then, there was more toast thrown in there some nights than some entire countries possess.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 11:35 PM (sy5kK)

454 Posted by: BifBewalskiBot - sofa king we todd did at August 12, 2019 11:34 PM (VcFUs)

.....

Lol.

Just messin' with ya.

The Smokies are great and good trout fishing out there.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 12, 2019 11:36 PM (gKGWw)

455 also, ONT, I will break the news here first. I will eventually tell the daywalkers, but I have accepted a new job in NYC. I have mixed feelings about it, but it's a great opportunity, careerwise.

Unfortunately, that means I will have to leave the Great State of New Hampshire, cross the iron curtain (sell my guns, ahem), and move to the Occupied Territories.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:36 PM (GBteo)

456 LCD,

Don't forget the newspapers and the water pistols!

Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:37 PM (PkVlr)

457 Unfortunately, that means I will have to leave the Great State of New Hampshire, cross the iron curtain (sell my guns, ahem), and move to the Occupied Territories.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:36 PM (GBteo)

Whole new vistas of crazy ladies.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 12, 2019 11:37 PM (gmtFW)

458 Cabot: Proposition CC.
https://tinyurl.com/y298bx5m

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 12, 2019 11:38 PM (/Ioag)

459 Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:36 PM (GBteo)

No
Not the guns

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 11:38 PM (aA3+G)

460 Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:33 PM (PkVlr)

Also, sorry to hear about kitteh.

I occasionally watch Crazy Cat Ladies cats, and one needs a twice daily insulin injection, two are on medications, and all of them have feline herpes which requires occasional oral medication.

I do feel bad for the kittehs. But the one who gets the insulin handles the injection like a champ. I think cats just get used to it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:38 PM (GBteo)

461 455 also, ONT, I will break the news here first. I will eventually tell the daywalkers, but I have accepted a new job in NYC. I have mixed feelings about it, but it's a great opportunity, careerwise.

--------

From we in the dark hell of California, congratulations!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 12, 2019 11:39 PM (amw5z)

462 Excellent!

The answer is two. Two cats the acceptable number of cats before you become a crazy cat lady. Any more than two cats, and it's an exponential growth in craziness. Hope that helps.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:35 PM (GBteo)

See I would disagree. I would say a relationship can invalidate the crazy cat lady moniker. Part of the thing about the Crazy Cat Lady is the sense of isolation- except for the cats.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 12, 2019 11:39 PM (gmtFW)

463 No
Not the guns
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 11:38 PM (aA3+G)

Well, one of my buddies up here is a cop and he has graciously offered to be a caregiver for my grandfathers guns that were left to me when he died.

Other than that -- yep, fuck it. Time to liquidate my arsenal.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:39 PM (GBteo)

464
congrats, Harry!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2019 11:40 PM (13CQC)

465 Harry, you're gonna take a boating trip?

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2019 11:40 PM (L2ZTs)

466 Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:38 PM (GBteo)

Luckily, mine should make a full recovery and not need anything after another week or so. Fingers, toes and eyes crossed!

Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:41 PM (PkVlr)

467 441 LOL, yes, I'll poop when I need too.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 12, 2019 11:34 PM (Rz2Nc)


To quote Gabe from Penny Arcade: "You should poop whenever it's pooping time. That's my rule. And it's served me well."

https://bit.ly/2OTRdm6

Posted by: Splunge at August 12, 2019 11:41 PM (ed8K1)

468
Other than that -- yep, fuck it. Time to liquidate my arsenal.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:39 PM (GBteo)

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I can.

Canoe?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 12, 2019 11:41 PM (amw5z)

469 Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:39 PM (GBteo)

I suspect you should be able to sell them easily in NH

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 11:41 PM (aA3+G)

470 From we in the dark hell of California, congratulations!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 12, 2019 11:39 PM (amw5z)

Thanks Cicero!

It's not quite Big Law, but it's definitely a solid lateral move from my job in Boston, with way more growth potential and a decent pay bump.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:41 PM (GBteo)

471 My brother and publius are planning to make a coconut bra for me, but it will take some engineering.
My life - it's not a normal one.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at August 12, 2019 11:41 PM (NMAzL)

472
Unfortunately, that means I will have to leave the Great State of New Hampshire, cross the iron curtain (sell my guns, ahem), and move to the Occupied Territories.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:36 PM (GBteo)



NEVER get rid of the guns.

Ship them to a relative in a free state.

Store them outside of NY.

NEVER get rid of the guns.


Seriously.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 11:41 PM (sy5kK)

473 The new survey duplicates the Washington Post's 2016 poll finding that
90 percent of Natives are not offended by the Redskins' nickname


Really wish those whiners would shut up and listen to the people they're trying to white knight for.

For example, this is how offended the Navajo's are: https://hs.rmusd.net/

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targetting at August 12, 2019 11:41 PM (xkSJa)

474 I suspect you should be able to sell them easily in NH
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 11:41 PM (aA3+G)

Yeah, won't be an issue.

I can.

Canoe?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 12, 2019 11:41 PM (amw5z)

Nah, I'm not going to risk being caught in NYC with firearms. They take that shit seriously.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:42 PM (GBteo)

475 My brother and publius are planning to make a coconut bra for me, but it will take some engineering.
My life - it's not a normal one.



They must be having trouble finding coconuts big enough.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targetting at August 12, 2019 11:42 PM (xkSJa)

476 337 Epstein's safety was the responsibility of BOP, of the Executive branch of govt. The buck stops at the chief executive. If this had happened under Obama, we'd all be screaming it was Obama's fault.

I don't regret voting for President Trump, and I doubt any better candidate for 2020 exists. But like his failure to secure our borders, this incident undermines my trust in the guy. He convinced us that he himself is not of the elite, and we look sillier every day we go on believing that.
Posted by: gp Goes There at August 12, 2019 11:04 PM (mk9aG)
----------------
This makes no sense to me.

If he wasted any time getting personally involved, all his comms regarding it would get FOIA'd and we'd have 5 yrs of "PedoGate" special counsels looking into who he told what.

Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs, still needs a new Nic! at August 12, 2019 11:42 PM (6b6MO)

477 My kids told me five cats would be the benchmark. Or one on the freezer.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:43 PM (PkVlr)

478 congrats, Harry!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2019 11:40 PM (13CQC)

Thanks!

Luckily, mine should make a full recovery and not need anything after another week or so. Fingers, toes and eyes crossed!
Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:41 PM (PkVlr)

I'm sure it'll be fine. Cats are resilient parasites loving creatures.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:43 PM (GBteo)

479 No
Not the guns
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 11:38 PM (aA3+G)

I was trying to think of a good joke about covering the ears of a rifle.

What would you all say would be the ears on a rifle?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 12, 2019 11:43 PM (gmtFW)

480 They must be having trouble finding coconuts big enough.


Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targetting at August 12, 2019 11:42 PM (xkSJa)

Exactly.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at August 12, 2019 11:43 PM (NMAzL)

481 Every American, regardless of income, is entitled to:

The right to a decent job that pays a living wage.
The right to quality health care.
The right to a complete education.
The right to affordable housing.
The right to a clean environment.
The right to a secure retirement.

-- Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken


What about a car? I want a car!

Posted by: democrat freeloader at August 12, 2019 11:44 PM (+lVUW)

482 >>Nah, I'm not going to risk being caught in NYC with firearms. They take that shit seriously.


I grew up in NY. We always had guns. Legally. Living in Manhattan makes it more challenging. But it is not impossible to do.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 11:44 PM (NE8ji)

483 NEVER get rid of the guns.

Ship them to a relative in a free state.

Store them outside of NY.

NEVER get rid of the guns.


Seriously.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 11:41 PM (sy5kK)

The ones I plan on keeping (my grandfathers') will eventually make a trip to my parent's house in Florida. The rest of my family lives on the other side of the Iron Curtain, where guns are verboten.

As for everything else? Eh, fuck it -- I can always replace them later when/if I move to the 'burbs and back to CT or NJ or wherever I end up.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:44 PM (GBteo)

484 Harry, before you sell those guns, let me give you a boating lesson.


Posted by: Joseph Hazelwood former captain, Exxon Valdez at August 12, 2019 11:45 PM (sy5kK)

485 My kids told me five cats would be the benchmark. Or one on the freezer.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:43 PM (PkVlr)

I always figured that more than 2 cats=never getting laid again.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at August 12, 2019 11:45 PM (NMAzL)

486 Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:33 PM (PkVlr)

I'm glad Lucy is home.

Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 12, 2019 11:45 PM (Rz2Nc)

487 I grew up in NY. We always had guns. Legally. Living in Manhattan makes it more challenging. But it is not impossible to do.
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 11:44 PM (NE8ji)

I'll either be in Manhattan or possibly Brooklyn (still nailing down an apartment), either way -- huge fucking headache.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:45 PM (GBteo)

488 Every American, regardless of income, is entitled to:

The right to a decent job that pays a living wage.
The right to quality health care.
The right to a complete education.
The right to affordable housing.
The right to a clean environment.
The right to a secure retirement.

-- Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken


What, no refrigerator? What about clothes? What about a bed? You expect me to buy that shit myself?

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 12, 2019 11:46 PM (+lVUW)

489 484 Harry, before you sell those guns, let me give you a boating lesson.


Posted by: Joseph Hazelwood former captain, Exxon Valdez at August 12, 2019 11:45 PM (sy5kK)

Heh. Frankly, I wouldn't mind the money right now either. Not that I'm hurting for cash, but my living expenses are about to go way the fuck up.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:46 PM (GBteo)

490 Personal Jesus is very excellent.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 11:46 PM (PUmDY)

491 Evasiveboat,

Thank you. Insom was so sweet and supportive. Even 3000 miles away.

Our little fur friends are so special to us.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:47 PM (PkVlr)

492 Every American, regardless of income, is entitled to enslave all those people who work for a living, to support their lazy ass.

Posted by: Splunge at August 12, 2019 11:47 PM (ed8K1)

493 317 Air conditioner finally fixed. Hosanna!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


Send the bill to Bernie Sanders. He thinks you should get everything for free.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 12, 2019 11:47 PM (+lVUW)

494 My brother and publius are planning to make a coconut bra for me, but it will take some engineering.
My life - it's not a normal one.
Posted by: Miley

----

Ummmm. It frightens me to cop to this but, I have one you can have.



It's a long story.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2019 11:48 PM (Y4EXg)

495 Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:47 PM (PkVlr)

So that's what you kids are calling it these days

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2019 11:48 PM (aA3+G)

496 I'll either be in Manhattan or possibly Brooklyn (still nailing down an apartment), either way -- huge fucking headache.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:45 PM (GBteo)

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Brooklyn is workable. Small, concealable, 9mm.

I'm seeing a Glock 43.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 12, 2019 11:48 PM (amw5z)

497 Good evening ONT denizens.

Repeating my beg. Vote for Arlo, early and often (contest want you to vote every 24 hours thru Aug 19) He has a slender lead right now. Huge Thank You to all horde members that have helped him and Lost Fantasy get there.

https://tinyurl.com/vote-for-Arlo

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at August 12, 2019 11:49 PM (vrfMC)

498 >>I'll either be in Manhattan or possibly Brooklyn (still nailing down an apartment), either way -- huge fucking headache.


I would look at the possibility of a Gun Club with an onsite storage locker.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 11:49 PM (NE8ji)

499 Hadrian!!!!


Whoooohooooo!

Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:49 PM (PkVlr)

500 489 484 Harry, before you sell those guns, let me give you a boating lesson.


Posted by: Joseph Hazelwood former captain, Exxon Valdez at August 12, 2019 11:45 PM (sy5kK)

Heh. Frankly, I wouldn't mind the money right now either. Not that I'm hurting for cash, but my living expenses are about to go way the fuck up.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:46 PM (GBteo)


You are making the assumption that after you leave NY in a few years, you will still be able to buy guns.


Take the drive to FL and store them all there. The parents always like to see their kid in person.

Of course, I don't know if you liked your mother's cooking, so there is that........

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 11:49 PM (sy5kK)

501
Picture "Jessica" Yaniv in a coconut bra. But instead of a grass skirt, it's made of tampons.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 12, 2019 11:49 PM (NMAzL)

502 >>Personal Jesus is very excellent.


Violator is a great LP.

Nice that you get to see Ferry. I have never.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 11:50 PM (NE8ji)

503 My kids told me five cats would be the benchmark. Or one on the freezer.
Posted by: Nurse ratched

I used to have three cats and a big old Yellow Lab.

It was quite a circus at one time. The Lab was quite cat friendly, and my one older female cat and the Lab were buddies. The Lab and my old male cat kind of didn't like each other.

Course, they're all dead now. I have a new set of cats now. And one of my cats got re-homed with Hogmartin.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at August 12, 2019 11:50 PM (S6Pax)

504 -- Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken

What about a car? I want a car!
Posted by: democrat freeloader at August 12, 2019 11:44 PM (+lVUW)

----+--

You BASTARD!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 12, 2019 11:50 PM (amw5z)

505 Cicero,

I prefer the Glock 42. Either way though. You really want to be in NYC unprotected?

Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:50 PM (PkVlr)

506 Brooklyn is workable. Small, concealable, 9mm.

I'm seeing a Glock 43.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 12, 2019 11:48 PM (amw5z)

Well ... I'm not trying to lose my bar card over a hobby. Yeah, I'm bummed, but what can you do?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:51 PM (GBteo)

507 Exactly.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at August 12, 2019 11:43 PM (NMAzL)

Watermelons FTW!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2019 11:51 PM (a72/q)

508 Watermelons FTW!


.....

Damn.

What a woman!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 12, 2019 11:52 PM (gKGWw)

509 I prefer the Glock 42. Either way though. You really want to be in NYC unprotected?
Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:50 PM (PkVlr)

It's a remarkably safe city. And I'm not going to live in a bad area. Upper East side or Greenpoint. Shit, I'm not moving to Baltimore or Chicago.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:52 PM (GBteo)

510 Well ... I'm not trying to lose my bar card over a hobby. Yeah, I'm bummed, but what can you do?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:51 PM (GBteo)
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Don't get me started.

The social compact is broken, at least in CA. I'll do what I think I need to do.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 12, 2019 11:52 PM (amw5z)

511 Garrett, he has a ridiculous band.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 12, 2019 11:52 PM (PUmDY)

512 I would be amazed if he didn't!

Should be a fun show. You get to see a ton of great acts.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 11:53 PM (NE8ji)

513 You are making the assumption that after you leave NY in a few years, you will still be able to buy guns.


Take the drive to FL and store them all there. The parents always like to see their kid in person.

Of course, I don't know if you liked your mother's cooking, so there is that........
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 11:49 PM (sy5kK)

It's an assumption I feel safe making.

And yeah, I would, but my parents are up north for the summer.

I plan on driving down there in a few months though. Like I said, I'm keeping 4 firearms, so it's not like I'll be a total gun free person.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:54 PM (GBteo)

514
Screw Cade's Cove.

We could reserve Windrock ATV Park, start bonfires, drink whisky from the bottle, drive four wheelers, and shoot guns.

Then we could start partying after that.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 12, 2019 11:28 PM (gKGWw)
----------------
Now your are f'in talking- lets do this.
I'm in Northern GA and have been meaning to checkout Windrock in the Jeep.

Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs, still needs a new Nic! at August 12, 2019 11:55 PM (6b6MO)

515 509 I prefer the Glock 42. Either way though. You really want to be in NYC unprotected?
Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:50 PM (PkVlr)

It's a remarkably safe city. And I'm not going to live in a bad area. Upper East side or Greenpoint. Shit, I'm not moving to Baltimore or Chicago.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:52 PM (GBteo)


We are just morons giving you shit because that's what morons do, and also when you are in a really effed situation, you will immediately think, "damn, why didn't I listen to those morons?"

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 11:55 PM (sy5kK)

516 Don't get me started.

The social compact is broken, at least in CA. I'll do what I think I need to do.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 12, 2019 11:52 PM (amw5z)

Eh. If I did criminal law, I'd be more apt to worry about self protection I guess. But with corporate law and a sprinkling of employment law, no one is coming after me.

And like I said, NYC is a very safe city. I'm there all the time, grew up in the 'burbs and spent a lot of time in the city, and have never felt unsafe.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:55 PM (GBteo)

517 Watermelons FTW!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2019 11:51 PM (a72/q)

Overkill.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at August 12, 2019 11:56 PM (NMAzL)

518 ...Unfortunately, that means I will have to leave the Great State of New Hampshire, cross the iron curtain (sell my guns, ahem), and move to the Occupied Territories.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:36 PM (GBteo)



First of all congratulations on the job offer! I sure hope it's better by far, than your wildest imaginings. Damn shame you've gotta leave New Hampster though, it's a beautiful state.

That said, my email is in my nic. Send me a list of the "For Sale", with details, asking price, etc.

Very strong odds I'll be sending you a Postal Money Order for at least one of 'em.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 12, 2019 11:56 PM (QzJWU)

519 Knopflers stuff with Dylan is quite good if memory serves. Only heard it once, forget what album. But it was immediately obvious it was him.

Posted by: TexasDan at August 12, 2019 11:56 PM (hr5kG)

520 We are just morons giving you shit because that's what morons do, and also when you are in a really effed situation, you will immediately think, "damn, why didn't I listen to those morons?"
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 11:55 PM (sy5kK)

Heh. Well, if it happens, I shall let the ONT know.

"Dear ONT, tonight the most fucked up shit happened to me... I realized the ONT was right!"

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:56 PM (GBteo)

521 First of all congratulations on the job offer! I sure hope it's better by far, than your wildest imaginings. Damn shame you've gotta leave New Hampster though, it's a beautiful state.

That said, my email is in my nic. Send me a list of the "For Sale", with details, asking price, etc.

Very strong odds I'll be sending you a Postal Money Order for at least one of 'em.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 12, 2019 11:56 PM (QzJWU)

Thanks Jim! I might take you up on that!

Fact is, I mentioned my move to a few friends at the range, and I think everything mayyy be spoken for (fingers crossed). But if not, I'll shoot you a note!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:57 PM (GBteo)

522 Ummmm. It frightens me to cop to this but, I have one you can have.







It's a long story.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2019 11:48 PM (Y4EXg)

I don't want to hear this story.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at August 12, 2019 11:57 PM (NMAzL)

523

You won't need a car in BernieWorld.
Everything will be a short walk away.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2019 11:57 PM (aKsyK)

524 and yes, I will definitely miss the beautiful state of NH. It really is a hidden gem up in here in New England, despite the influx of Masshole refugees.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:58 PM (GBteo)

525 Damn.



What a woman!


Well, she is an 'ette, so.....

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targetting at August 12, 2019 11:58 PM (xkSJa)

526 Thank you. Insom was so sweet and supportive. Even 3000 miles away.

Our little fur friends are so special to us.
Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:47 PM (PkVlr)

Of course Insomniac is being supportive!
Yes, the fur friends are special. I get to take three of the four dogs to the vet tomorrow. My wife is temporarily working at the vets, so two will have to visit with her at the desk while me and the other is in with the vet. Good luck vet office cats!

Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 12, 2019 11:58 PM (Rz2Nc)

527 Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken

What about a car? I want a car!
Posted by: democrat freeloader at August 12, 2019 11:44 PM (+lVUW)

No Cars! In the eco-Communist utopia of tomorrow, there will be no need for such environmentally, inherently bourgeoisie constructs such as private automobiles, Comrade.

Posted by: Bernout Sanders (I-VT) at August 12, 2019 11:58 PM (tVQUs)

528 And like I said, NYC is a very safe city. I'm there all the time, grew up in the 'burbs and spent a lot of time in the city, and have never felt unsafe.


That's because you're a child. I moved there when it still looked like a Scorcese movie.

I never felt unsafe, I just felt mean, but it was a dangerous place.

Fucking Giuliani and his Disney fucking overlords.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 12, 2019 11:58 PM (fuK7c)

529 Oh, and Harry, congrats on the new job.

No BS!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 11:58 PM (sy5kK)

530 I don't want to hear this story.

I do.

Posted by: Obama's Gerbil at August 12, 2019 11:58 PM (UFLLM)

531 If Democrats take the House, Senate, & Presidency how long do you think your freedom & America will last?
It will be over in an instant. Nothing politically will stop it.

Harry Reid: The Filibuster Is Suffocating the Will of the American People
https://t.co/Hw62xFAIlM

To save our country's future, Democrats must abolish this arcane Senate rule.

By Harry Reid

...If a Democratic president wants to tackle the most important issues facing our country, then he or she must have the ability to do so - and that means curtailing Republicans' ability to stifle the will of the American people. It's time to allow a simple majority vote instead of the 60-vote threshold now required for legislation. When the American people demand change and elect a new Senate, a new majority leader must be able to respond to that call and pass legislation

Posted by: David at August 12, 2019 11:59 PM (jY1B4)

532 It's a remarkably safe city. And I'm not going to live in a bad area. Upper East side or Greenpoint. Shit, I'm not moving to Baltimore or Chicago.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:52 PM (GBteo)

Fine, man. When the collander face mask times come and you are stuck in that urban shooting gallery unarmed. While you are running and hiding, remember some guys in grey boxes on the internet a while back told you so.

j/k (only partially, big cities give me the heebie jeebies)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 12, 2019 11:59 PM (gmtFW)

533 >>That's because you're a child. I moved there when it still looked like a Scorcese movie.


Ah, the early 80s in NYC.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2019 11:59 PM (NE8ji)

534 That's because you're a child. I moved there when it still looked like a Scorcese movie.

I never felt unsafe, I just felt mean, but it was a dangerous place.

Fucking Giuliani and his Disney fucking overlords.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 12, 2019 11:58 PM (fuK7c)

I hear you're moving across the river?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2019 11:59 PM (GBteo)

535 You won't need a car in BernieWorld.
Everything will be a short walk long wait in a line away.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2019 11:57 PM (aKsyK)

FIFY.

Posted by: Bernout Sanders (I-VT) at August 13, 2019 12:00 AM (tVQUs)

536

And YOU don't get a car!

And YOU don't get a car!

And YOU don't get a car!


- the rebooted Oprah show in WOKE times.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 13, 2019 12:00 AM (sy5kK)

537 Overkill.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at August 12, 2019 11:56 PM (NMAzL)

Well, you needn't use an entire half-melon for each cup. You could trim 'em down. And the stripes are way cool.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 12:00 AM (a72/q)

538 529 Oh, and Harry, congrats on the new job.

No BS!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 12, 2019 11:58 PM (sy5kK)

Thanks! I'm really excited / nervous. It'll be a big change of pace from what I've been used to these last several years.

But I'm looking forward to a new job, new co workers, a new social scene, and hopefully an improved dating scene, to be honest. ha.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 12:01 AM (GBteo)

539 Melons?

Whut?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 13, 2019 12:01 AM (amw5z)

540 Every American, regardless of income, is entitled to:

The right to a decent job that pays a living wage.
The right to quality health care.
The right to a complete education.
The right to affordable housing.
The right to a clean environment.
The right to a secure retirement.

-- Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken



And a pony? Got to have a pony on that list.

A chicken in every pot and a unicorn in every driveway. Utopia, Yo!

Posted by: Puddleglum, job huntin' at August 13, 2019 12:01 AM (Qt2ya)

541 I like Melons.



...and Pie.

Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 12:01 AM (NE8ji)

542 539 Melons?

Whut?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 13, 2019 12:01 AM (amw5z)

*fistbump* I started seeing references to watermelons and cocunuts and had to backtrack to find out what I was missing.

I am retardedly predictable.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 12:02 AM (gmtFW)

543 "Tell You Children," is persuasive on the violence issue.

https://www.amazon.com/Tell-Your-Children-Marijuana-Violence/dp/1982103663

Posted by: Marooned at August 13, 2019 12:03 AM (8hRlF)

544 No Cars! In the eco-Communist utopia of tomorrow, there will be no need for such environmentally, inherently bourgeoisie constructs such as private automobiles, Comrade.
Posted by: Bernout Sanders (I-VT) at August 12, 2019 11:58 PM (tVQUs)

Of course, you will have the onerous duty of riding around in a chauffeur-driven gummint Lincoln, eh Bern?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 12:03 AM (a72/q)

545 That's because you're a child. I moved there when it still looked like a Scorcese movie.


Ah, the early 80s in NYC.
Posted by: garrett

Whaddya mean? Taxi Driver?

What a movie.

Are you talkin' to me?

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at August 13, 2019 12:04 AM (S6Pax)

546 I hear you're moving across the river?


Way across. Where's it's almost Pennsylvania or NYS.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 12:04 AM (fuK7c)

547
*sob* and strings dammit! Fishing line! Anything, PLEASE, to pull me out...

Posted by: Obama's Gerbil at August 13, 2019 12:04 AM (UFLLM)

548 Knopflers stuff with Dylan is quite good if memory serves. Only heard it once, forget what album. But it was immediately obvious it was him.
Posted by: TexasDan


Since RickL isn't here tonight, I think it was "Slow Train Comin'".

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at August 13, 2019 12:05 AM (S6Pax)

549 Enjoy the Silence is very great, also.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 12:05 AM (PUmDY)

550

Now let me get this straight;
You put the lime in the coconut
You drank them both up
You put the lime in the coconut,
You drank them both up
put the lime in the coconut,
you drank them both up
put the lime in the coconut,
called your doctor, woke him up?

Posted by: philosopher Harry Nilsson at August 13, 2019 12:07 AM (sy5kK)

551 Way across. Where's it's almost Pennsylvania or NYS.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 12:04 AM (fuK7c)

Oh, yikes.

Well, as a general rule, I don't go farther than exit 63.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 12:07 AM (GBteo)

552 Are there any New Jerseyists at hand? Like young Paratestes I'm going to have to accommodate to some new gun laws and I'd like to understand them better.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 12:07 AM (fuK7c)

553 I thought people were talking about the Mekons.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 12:07 AM (PUmDY)

554 Work is proceeding apace on my transmission overhaul. The rotating assembly is all back inside the case, hopefully in the correct sequence. Another day's work should see it ready to go back into the Suburban.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 12:08 AM (a72/q)

555 Thanks! I'm really excited / nervous. It'll be a big change of pace from what I've been used to these last several years.

But I'm looking forward to a new job, new co workers, a new social scene, and hopefully an improved dating scene, to be honest. ha.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 12:01 AM (GBteo)

Best of luck to you! I've only been to Manhattan a few times for work. Never felt unsafe. Something everyone should experience, but really not my thing, city, shudders.

Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 13, 2019 12:08 AM (Rz2Nc)

556 Speak Like A Child is an awesome Weller somg.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 12:10 AM (PUmDY)

557 >>Work is proceeding apace on my transmission overhaul.


Damn. That's some fiddly shit. You are a brave man.

Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 12:10 AM (NE8ji)

558 Goodnight good people!

Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 13, 2019 12:10 AM (Rz2Nc)

559
Hi AOP,

you previously rebuilt a Ford F-150 transmission, and now a Chevy Suburban transmission.


I'm curious, which one do you prefer? Pros/cons?


You really have a knack to fix mechanical stuff that few possess.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 13, 2019 12:11 AM (sy5kK)

560 Goodnight, Evasiveboat!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at August 13, 2019 12:11 AM (NMAzL)

561 Best of luck to you! I've only been to Manhattan a few times for work. Never felt unsafe. Something everyone should experience, but really not my thing, city, shudders.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 13, 2019 12:08 AM (Rz2Nc)

Thanks. Yeah, I grew up not to far from the city, and have spent a lot of time there for work. Plus most of my family lives in the city these days and I visit them regularly.

But yeah, I never really wanted to live there. But between breaking up with my fiance a year ago, and getting this great job offer (unsolicited) I was like of like -- fuck it, why not?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 12:11 AM (GBteo)

562 >>But between breaking up with my fiance a year ago, and getting this great job offer (unsolicited) I was like of like -- fuck it, why not?


Pro Tip : Don't tell women you broke up. Tell them she died.


Posted by: George Costanza at August 13, 2019 12:13 AM (NE8ji)

563 Also, with all due respect to the president of Brazil, I would prefer not to poop every other day, thank you very much.

The poop Hill is the one to die on lads.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop


You're not willing to save the environment with constipation? How selfish of you.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 13, 2019 12:14 AM (+lVUW)

564 Pro Tip : Don't tell women you broke up. Tell them she died.


Posted by: George Costanza at August 13, 2019 12:13 AM (NE8ji)

Sorry. I meant -- ever since my fiance died on me ...

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 12:15 AM (GBteo)

565 But yeah, I never really wanted to live there. But between breaking up with my fiance a year ago, and getting this great job offer (unsolicited) I was like of like -- fuck it, why not?


Here's the upside for you. It's the people who move to NYC who make it NYC. You can grow up as provincial in Queens as in Peoria.

The people who go to Manhattan (to work, you can live in Brooklyn) are the people who said there must be something better than East Bumfuck. You'll gravitate toward those people and you'll meet nice girls who want to do things to you.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 12:16 AM (fuK7c)

566 ...it's not a lie if you believe it, Harry!

Posted by: George Costanza at August 13, 2019 12:16 AM (NE8ji)

567
One. Square. Only.

Posted by: The EcoGreen Poopist at August 13, 2019 12:17 AM (UFLLM)

568 To save our country's future, Democrats must abolish this arcane Senate rule.

I agree with him, but not for the dodgy reasons he gives. Also, the Democrats will never get rid of the filibuster.

The reason I want it gone is it mostly benefits the party in power. You can vote for something secure in the knowledge it won't pass because you voted no on cloture. You still get your 100% rating from whatever group your constituents care about while simultaneously taking money from political pressure groups acting against your constituents' interest.

Filibusters are theater for the rubes, and nearly every successful filibuster is successful because the majority wants it to be successful.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 12:17 AM (h2Bdk)

569 I'm reading "Nancy Drew and the Mystery on Pedo Island." Excerpt:

Nancy hung up the phone and excitedly ran to the other room, where her friends George (it/their) and Bess (she/her) were waiting. "Dad says to pack - he has a new client with a big mystery to solve. And I'm going with him!"
The slender blond sleuth could barely stand still. Her father, Carson Drew, was a respected attorney in River Heights, and had many fascinating cases. This latest one would plunge them all into a world of intrigue and betrayal.
...

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at August 13, 2019 12:17 AM (NMAzL)

570 Sorry. I meant -- ever since my fiance died on me ...
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 12:15 AM (GBteo)


Also problematic.

Posted by: Velvet glove, iron fist at August 13, 2019 12:17 AM (bI6lC)

571 @214

One of the side effects of pot smoking is indeed hallucinations.


Pot is an incredibly harmful drug that is being mainstreamed and for the life of me I can't figure out why.

Posted by: Radical Centrist at August 13, 2019 12:17 AM (HKEA4)

572 I lived in London back then. This was a huge hit there...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlCCva6rr-s

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 12:17 AM (PUmDY)

573 Work is proceeding apace on my transmission overhaul.


Damn. That's some fiddly shit. You are a brave man.
Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 12:10 AM (NE8ji)

------

Oh come on now. Every half-assed plastic surgeon is a tranny technician now.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 13, 2019 12:18 AM (amw5z)

574 One of the side effects of pot smoking is indeed hallucinations.


No, it isn't.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 12:18 AM (fuK7c)

575 The people who go to Manhattan (to work, you can live in Brooklyn) are the people who said there must be something better than East Bumfuck. You'll gravitate toward those people and you'll meet nice girls who want to do things to you.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 12:16 AM (fuK7c)

I like that way of looking at it.

Like I said -- I'm stoked. We'll see. I'll miss my little piece of paradise out here in the woods, but I won't miss my hellish commute. Plus, like I said, it'll be nice to live somewhere with a more ... eligible ... dating pool.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 12:18 AM (GBteo)

576 One of the side effects of pot smoking is indeed hallucinations.


Pot is an incredibly harmful drug that is being mainstreamed and for the life of me I can't figure out why.
Posted by: Radical Centrist at August 13, 2019 12:17 AM (HKEA4)

Huh?

You must get way better pot than I ever had.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 12:19 AM (GBteo)

577 Yay! I canned another 9 pints of applesauce.

This has not been a good year for apples, but I have so many pears and plums I am despairing of getting even part of them preserved.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2019 12:20 AM (q2o38)

578 >>. Plus, like I said, it'll be nice to live somewhere with a more ... eligible ... dating pool.


What, you want a woman with those fancy teeth or somethin'!?

Posted by: Women of New Hampshire at August 13, 2019 12:20 AM (NE8ji)

579 >>One of the side effects of pot smoking is indeed hallucinations.


Try putting less PCP on there.

Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 12:20 AM (NE8ji)

580 >>>One of the side effects of pot smoking is indeed hallucinations.

Yeah I don't think so. Been getting high since 1971.




Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at August 13, 2019 12:20 AM (NMAzL)

581 You must get way better pot than I ever had.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 12:19 AM (GBteo)


there is getting to be a need for rehab for pot, and unfortunately it is laughed at.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2019 12:21 AM (q2o38)

582 Hi AOP,

you previously rebuilt a Ford F-150 transmission, and now a Chevy Suburban transmission.


I'm curious, which one do you prefer? Pros/cons?


You really have a knack to fix mechanical stuff that few possess.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 13, 2019 12:11 AM (sy5kK)

Thanks! And to garrett, too.

The Ford tranny was actually easier to work on. I did not need any spring compressors to remove snap rings. No, wait, I used my drill press for one. And the Ford does not have triple-nested clutches and servos like the input drum on the Chevy tranny.

But the re and re on the Chevy is a lot easier, so there's that.

And as far as utility (to me) goes, a Suburban is a lot more useful rig to own, and haul stuff with, than the F150 Super-Crew. As a truck, the Super-Crew makes a very fine car. Quiet, comfortable, good on gas, but you cannot haul an object longer than 5 and a half feet without the tailgate down. I could get 12-foot lumber into the 'burb, and close the barn doors. Advantage: 'burb.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 12:21 AM (a72/q)

583
Harry wants a Natural Born Vagina.

H8ter.

Posted by: Roo Poo at August 13, 2019 12:21 AM (UFLLM)

584 Like I said -- I'm stoked. We'll see. I'll miss my little piece of paradise out here in the woods, but I won't miss my hellish commute. Plus, like I said, it'll be nice to live somewhere with a more ... eligible ... dating pool.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 12:18 AM (GBteo)

-------

And bodegas!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 13, 2019 12:21 AM (amw5z)

585 571 @214

One of the side effects of pot smoking is indeed hallucinations.

Pot is an incredibly harmful drug that is being mainstreamed and for the life of me I can't figure out why.
Posted by: Radical Centrist at August 13, 2019 12:17 AM (HKEA4)


I know a hell of a lot of people who've smoked pot in the past and some who still do. Never heard of anyone being plagued with hallucinations.

And no, pot is not "incredibly harmful". It may be somewhat harmful. Or maybe not. We don't know. From what I can see the most harmful effects are likely to be the same sorts of thing you see in smokers - emphysema, lung cancer, coronary artery disease, etc.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 12:22 AM (h2Bdk)

586 What, you want a woman with those fancy teeth or somethin'!?
Posted by: Women of New Hampshire at August 13, 2019 12:20 AM (NE8ji)

Shit, this ain't west virginia.

But yes, finding a woman of eligible age without children, a million cats, a drug problem, or tattooed enough to be in a carnival is not as easy as you may think up here.

Plus, basically my entire social circle is lawyers in MA and NH. And female lawyers are tough to date, as you can imagine. No offense to female lawyers in the horde.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 12:22 AM (GBteo)

587 ...What, you want a woman with those fancy teeth or somethin'!?

Posted by: Sturdy Women of New Hampshire at August 13, 2019 12:20 AM (NE8ji)




Minor edit.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 13, 2019 12:22 AM (QzJWU)

588 Plus, basically my entire social circle is lawyers in MA and NH. And female lawyers are tough to date, as you can imagine. No offense to female lawyers in the horde.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 12:22 AM (GBteo)

------

Ugh. What a nightmare.

I avoid socializing with lawyers at all costs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 13, 2019 12:24 AM (amw5z)

589 No, it isn't.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 12:18 AM (fuK7c)

One of the most common pot-induced hallucinations is the belief that pot does not cause hallucinations.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 12:24 AM (a72/q)

590

No man who's ever been up my Hershey Highway has ever complained about my ink and piercings!

Posted by: New Hampshire Tranny at August 13, 2019 12:24 AM (UFLLM)

591 One of the side effects of pot smoking is indeed hallucinations.

Yeah I don't think so. Been getting high since 1971.



Maybe you just got high in 1971, and hallucinated the rest of it?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targetting at August 13, 2019 12:25 AM (xkSJa)

592 So here's a thing that's new to me. I'm looking to rent a house. Just hear from a realtor who said the move in price is N.

I was like, first last and security only adds up to L, how do you get N? And it turns out that one month's rent is the realtor fee.

Y'all seen anything like that?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 12:25 AM (fuK7c)

593 there is getting to be a need for rehab for pot, and unfortunately it is laughed at.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2019 12:21 AM (q2o3

I mean it already exists. Because most first time offenders get offered "criminal conviction or rehab" as part of the plea, and they almost all take "rehab."

But I've definitely smoked a my fair share of weed over the years. Way less so these days, but I have to say -- it's harmful in the same way alcohol is harmful. Like, yeah, if you smoke weed all day every day, probably not healthy.

Occasionally smoking weed? Eh, I don't see the big deal.

It doesn't really fit my current lifestyle to get high regularly, but I'll still occasionally eat some edibles or smoke weed. I've never hallucinated or had any adverse reactions beyond being lazy and goofy. Which, again, is not how I'd want to spend all day every day of my life, but occasionally? Eh, I don't really see the problem.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 12:25 AM (GBteo)

594 @552

The gun laws in jersey are pretty straight forward.

In order to buy any firearm you need a firearms ID card.

In order to buy a handgun you need a firearms ID card and apply for a permit.

If you want a carry permit, well forget about ever getting a carry permit, because you're not.


All purchased firearms will need to be NJ compliant.


And that's it for the acquisition part, transporting and storing the arms are seperate category of hell.

Posted by: Radical Centrist at August 13, 2019 12:26 AM (HKEA4)

595 Maybe you just got high in 1971, and hallucinated the rest of it?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targetting at August 13, 2019 12:25 AM (xkSJa)


Be pretty cool to hallucinate 47 years and then wake up to live them over.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 12:26 AM (h2Bdk)

596 592 So here's a thing that's new to me. I'm looking to rent a house. Just hear from a realtor who said the move in price is N.

I was like, first last and security only adds up to L, how do you get N? And it turns out that one month's rent is the realtor fee.

Y'all seen anything like that?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 12:25 AM (fuK7c)

That's how it works in NYC, too.

Kind of ridiculous, but yeah. $2500 in rent = first month, security deposit, and realtors fees. So $7500 to move in.

Never saw that in CT or NH. But whatever. It is what it is.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 12:26 AM (GBteo)

597 The right to a decent job that pays a living wage.

The right to quality health care.

The right to a complete education.

The right to affordable housing.

The right to a clean environment.

The right to a secure retirement.


-- Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders)



Well, you can't have that, but if you're an American citizen you are entitled to:
a heated kidney shaped pool,
a microwave oven--don't watch the food cook,
a Dyna-Gym--I'll personally demonstrate it in the privacy of your own home,
a kingsize Titanic unsinkable Molly Brown waterbed with polybendum,
a foolproof plan and an airtight alibi,
real simulated Indian jewelry,
a Gucci shoetree,
a year's supply of antibiotics,
a personally autographed picture of Randy Mantooth
and Bob Dylan's new unlisted phone number,
a beautifully restored 3rd Reich swizzle stick,
Rosemary's baby,
a dream date in kneepads with Paul Williams,
a new Matador,
a new mastadon,
a Maverick,
a Mustang,
a Montego,
a Merc Montclair,
a Mark IV,
a meteor,
a Mercedes,
an MG,
or a Malibu,
a Mort Moriarty,
a Maserati,
a Mac truck,
a Mazda,
a new Monza,
or a moped,
a Winnebago--Hell, a herd of Winnebago's we're giving 'em away,
or how about a McCulloch chainsaw,
a Las Vegas wedding,
a Mexican divorce,
a solid gold Kama Sutra coffee pot,
or a baby's arm holding an apple?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2019 12:27 AM (q2o38)

598 style council's money go round is also very great.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 12:27 AM (PUmDY)

599 Be pretty cool to hallucinate 47 years and then wake up to live them over.

Especially if you could remember all the mistakes you made and not make them over again for real.

*sobs over missing wiener*

Posted by: New Hampshire Tranny at August 13, 2019 12:28 AM (UFLLM)

600 One of the most common pot-induced hallucinations is the belief that pot does not cause hallucinations.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 12:24 AM (a72/q)

Whoa, bro, thats meta as fuck.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 12:28 AM (GBteo)

601 Oh, you don't have background checks to buy ammo? Luuuxury.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 12:28 AM (h2Bdk)

602 So here's a thing that's new to me. I'm looking to rent a house. Just hear from a realtor who said the move in price is N.

I was like, first last and security only adds up to L, how do you get N? And it turns out that one month's rent is the realtor fee.

Y'all seen anything like that?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 12:25 AM (fuK7c)

In my career as renter, thankfully now long ago, I never dealt with realtors. Direct with landlords, or rental agencies. And the normal drill with realtors, is that the seller pays the fee.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 12:28 AM (a72/q)

603 >>>One of the side effects of pot smoking is indeed hallucinations.

Yeah I don't think so. Been getting high since 1971.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at August 13, 2019 12:20 AM (NMAzL)

I think a couple of Mindful Webworker's old comics mention hallucinations caused by pot.

I also recall that when I was in High School a kid told me that he had hallucinated a leprechaun the first time he smoked pot. I don't know how trustworthy he was though.

I imagine the drug does different things to different people.

Posted by: Surfperch at August 13, 2019 12:28 AM (tVQUs)

604 Free shit for everybody!


WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Posted by: boing boing bernie at August 13, 2019 12:28 AM (vqIkG)

605 Whadda you want from life?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 13, 2019 12:28 AM (amw5z)

606 Ugh. What a nightmare.

I avoid socializing with lawyers at all costs.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 13, 2019 12:24 AM (amw5z)

law school friends + co workers, etc. I don't know. But yeah, it can a bit tough at time. Lots of egos in the room, as you can imagine.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 12:28 AM (GBteo)

607 And that's it for the acquisition part, transporting and storing the arms are seperate category of hell.


That's the hell I need help with. I'll assume I've acquired all I'm going to acquire for a while.

(Did I tell this thread I got a new bang bang today? I'm really subtly trying to tell every thread).

I need to get what I've got to the new place I'll get and keep it there without going to jail. Or losing my job. I'm going to be a school teacher.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 12:28 AM (fuK7c)

608 421 LCD,

I used to frequent the Neptune theatre in the late 80s. So fun.

I haven't been there since it's been refurbished. Have you?
Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 12, 2019 11:28 PM (PkVlr)

Remember seeing Twister there in 1995. We snuck in a couple of half quarts of Schmidt beer.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 13, 2019 12:29 AM (DjiZK)

609 Remember seeing Twister there in 1995. We snuck in a couple of half quarts of Schmidt beer.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 13, 2019 12:29 AM (DjiZK)

What's that in pints?

Posted by: A Millennial at August 13, 2019 12:31 AM (a72/q)

610
Meteor shower should be picking up now for you East Coasters. Supposed to be a slower than average year.

Posted by: Door to Door Nothing Salesman & Itenerant Sperm Donor at August 13, 2019 12:32 AM (UFLLM)

611 Remember seeing Twister there in 1995. We snuck in a couple of half quarts of Schmidt beer.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 13, 2019 12:29 AM (DjiZK)

What's that in pints?
Posted by: A Millennial at August 13, 2019 12:31 AM (a72/q)

What's a pints?

Posted by: A Gen Zer at August 13, 2019 12:32 AM (tVQUs)

612 @574

Well take it up with the NIH as hallucinations are indeed listed as a side effect from smoking pot.

Posted by: Radical Centrist at August 13, 2019 12:33 AM (HKEA4)

613 What's a pints?

$10, same as in town.

Posted by: Door to Door Nothing Salesman & Itenerant Sperm Donor at August 13, 2019 12:33 AM (UFLLM)

614 What's a pints?

6/10th of a Gill.

Posted by: Door to Door Nothing Salesman & Itenerant Sperm Donor at August 13, 2019 12:34 AM (UFLLM)

615 What's a pints?

About 3 lbs.

Posted by: Door to Door Nothing Salesman & Itenerant Sperm Donor at August 13, 2019 12:34 AM (UFLLM)

616 365 LCD

Thanks I was trying to remember the name of the movie we saw in college that's it Reefer Madness I think there was a showing on the Friday nights that we had University movies. It was put out by the feds to make people crazy about how bad marijuana was and to establish their Bureau, FDA I think was the agency.

Posted by: Farmer posting from stupid smartphone at August 13, 2019 12:34 AM (dT/pJ)

617 Meteor shower should be picking up now for you East Coasters. Supposed to be a slower than average year.
Posted by: Door to Door Nothing Salesman & Itenerant Sperm Donor at August 13, 2019 12:32 AM (UFLLM)

Well, in my corner of Alberta, it's socked in solid. 10/10 overcast, and low-hanging clouds, too. No sunset. It just became dark (er).

Posted by: A Millennial at August 13, 2019 12:34 AM (a72/q)

618

No Bluebell, not the Sporking, I'll quit, I swear!

Posted by: Door to Door Nothing Salesman & Itenerant Sperm Donor at August 13, 2019 12:34 AM (UFLLM)

619 What's a pints?
Posted by: A Gen Zer at August 13, 2019 12:32 AM (tVQUs)

--------

A tenth of a henway.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 13, 2019 12:35 AM (amw5z)

620 >>I need to get what I've got to the new place I'll get and keep it there without going to jail. Or losing my job. I'm going to be a school teacher.


Gun Parts are not necessarily Guns.

Take it in 2 trips?

Or, send an inert portion in a package and take the rest buried in your boxes?

Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 12:35 AM (NE8ji)

621 Off, milli-ennal sock.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 12:35 AM (a72/q)

622
Whats a Henway?

Posted by: Door to Door Nothing Salesman & Itinerant Sperm Donor at August 13, 2019 12:36 AM (UFLLM)

623 I'm pretty sure Millennials have been indoctrinated to believe we're switching to metric any day now.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 12:37 AM (h2Bdk)

624
I also recall that when I was in High School a kid told me that he had hallucinated a leprechaun the first time he smoked pot. I don't know how trustworthy he was though.

Was he munching on Lucky Charms?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2019 12:37 AM (aKsyK)

625 Gun Parts are not necessarily Guns.

Take it in 2 trips?

Or, send an inert portion in a package and take the rest buried in your boxes?
Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 12:35 AM (NE8ji)

The receiver prolly counts as a "gun" in Jersey law. But you could hide it inside a giant rubber dildo.

It's not a receiver! It's a "Gay Deceiver".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 12:37 AM (a72/q)

626 Whats a Henway?
Posted by: Door to Door Nothing Salesman & Itinerant Sperm Donor at August 13, 2019 12:36 AM (UFLLM)

In my experience about, 2-3 pounds.

Posted by: Surfperch at August 13, 2019 12:38 AM (tVQUs)

627 Garrett, Bryan Ferry kills every cover he does.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 12:38 AM (PUmDY)

628 Whats a Henway?
Posted by: Door to Door Nothing Salesman & Itinerant Sperm Donor at August 13, 2019 12:36 AM (UFLLM)

About 3 pounds, same as downtown.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 12:38 AM (a72/q)

629
It's not a receiver! It's a "Gay Deceiver".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 12:37 AM (a72/q)

--------

LOL

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 13, 2019 12:38 AM (amw5z)

630 Well take it up with the NIH as hallucinations are indeed listed as a side effect from smoking pot.


People who haven't done drugs shouldn't talk about drugs.

Pot does not cause hallucinations. Coke and speed can maybe make you see things that haven't quite happened yet. Acid makes stuff weird and wavy but I never saw anything that wasn't there. And the only time I had 'ludes I woke up having sex with the girl who gave them to me.

So, so far I'm pro-ludes.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 12:39 AM (fuK7c)

631 From what I can
see the most harmful effects are likely to be the same sorts of thing
you see in smokers - emphysema, lung cancer, coronary artery disease,
etc.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 12:22 AM (h2Bdk)

I'd take schizophrenia, loss of short-term memory, paranoia, and a-motivation as somewhat serious and now pretty non-controversial effects of pot. Add in withdrawal symptoms that include depression.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 13, 2019 12:40 AM (t6MX/)

632 Mobile leprechaun?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 12:40 AM (PUmDY)

633

If you think your cat is ignoring you on purpose, you could be right.

A study published this spring by researchers at the University of Tokyo found that house cats tend to recognize cues from their humans, including recognizing their name.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2019 12:41 AM (aKsyK)

634 I can believe someone who stayed up for 24 hours and smoked pot might have hallucinations. Lack of sleep can cause hallucinations.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 12:41 AM (h2Bdk)

635 What's a pints?
Posted by: A Gen Zer
----------

1680th of a tun

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2019 12:41 AM (LxqES)

636 What's a pints?
Posted by: A Gen Zer
----------

1680th of a tun
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2019 12:41 AM (LxqES)

--------

Metric or Imperial?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 13, 2019 12:42 AM (amw5z)

637 What's a pints?

Most common side effect of doing the French Mistake.

Posted by: Door to Door Nothing Salesman & Itinerant Sperm Donor at August 13, 2019 12:42 AM (UFLLM)

638 @607

Well technically you cannot transport any firearm into the state without a firearms ID card.

You cannot transport any handgun into the state without a permit for every handgun.


When transporting any firearm, the firearm cannot be loaded and the ammunition needs to be in a locked storage container that is seperate from the firearm.


NJ cops do not play around with otherwise solid citizens running afoul of its gun laws, you do not want to get popped on a gun infraction in NJ.

Posted by: Radical Centrist at August 13, 2019 12:43 AM (HKEA4)

639 I'd take schizophrenia, loss of short-term memory, paranoia, and a-motivation as somewhat serious and now pretty non-controversial effects of pot. Add in withdrawal symptoms that include depression.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 13, 2019 12:40 AM (t6MX/)


"pretty non-controversial"? Among what group of people? How are these things being measured when there's almost no double-blind research whatsoever?

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 12:43 AM (h2Bdk)

640
What's a pints?
Posted by: A Gen Zer


Half a quartz.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2019 12:43 AM (aKsyK)

641 Well technically you cannot transport any firearm into the state without a firearms ID card.

You cannot transport any handgun into the state without a permit for every handgun.

--------

And where the Commerce Clause should actually mean something?


Nothing.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 13, 2019 12:44 AM (amw5z)

642 NJ cops do not play around with otherwise solid citizens running afoul of its gun laws, you do not want to get popped on a gun infraction in NJ.
Posted by: Radical Centrist at August 13, 2019 12:43 AM (HKEA4)


Isn't NJ the state where they were gonna put someone away for a decade for a flintlock? That's worse than CA.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 12:44 AM (h2Bdk)

643 Of course, you will have the onerous duty of riding around in a chauffeur-driven gummint Lincoln, eh Bern?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 12:03 AM (a72/q)


Bernie? Bernie wants a Zil

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2019 12:45 AM (q2o38)

644
Isn't NJ the state where they were gonna put someone away for a decade for a flintlock? That's worse than CA.
Posted by: Ace's liver


Worse than King George III

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2019 12:45 AM (aKsyK)

645 a Zil

The Black Turd.

Posted by: Door to Door Nothing Salesman & Itinerant Sperm Donor at August 13, 2019 12:45 AM (UFLLM)

646 Well technically you cannot transport any firearm into the state without a firearms ID card.

You cannot transport any handgun into the state without a permit for every handgun.



Shit. For realz?

I was sort of counting on from my residence where I'm legal to my new residence all unloaded and locked and stuff.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 12:45 AM (fuK7c)

647 Maybe you should just hire a boat and go around all the crapola. Worth a shot.

Posted by: Imitation Commentater at August 13, 2019 12:46 AM (vqIkG)

648 What's a pints?
Posted by: A Gen Zer

Half a quartz.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2019 12:43 AM (aKsyK)

And quartz is like a metal, right?

Posted by: A Gen Zer at August 13, 2019 12:46 AM (tVQUs)

649 592 So here's a thing that's new to me. I'm looking to rent a house. Just hear from a realtor who said the move in price is N.

I was like, first last and security only adds up to L, how do you get N? And it turns out that one month's rent is the realtor fee.

Y'all seen anything like that?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 12:25 AM (fuK7c)


Have 3 good friends in Property Management, each 20 years+.

The fee is paid by the home owner for services rendered to manage the property and find and manage the renter.

One month's rent is the going rate, but the renter doesn't pay it.

Between the 3 good friends, they probably manage well over 500 individual properties, some being apartment complexes.

I've never heard anything like yours.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 13, 2019 12:46 AM (sy5kK)

650 Bernie? Bernie wants a Zil
Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2019 12:45 AM (q2o3

--------

Bernie wants a Zil

He'd settle for a Lada

He'll get a Trabant

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 13, 2019 12:46 AM (amw5z)

651 @630

Hey I get it you're pro drug, that's fine but literally every health organization and abuse counseling service lists hallucinations as a side effect from smoking pot.


So um, good day sir.

Posted by: Radical Centrist at August 13, 2019 12:46 AM (HKEA4)

652 Worse than King George III
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2019 12:45 AM (aKsyK)

------

Hither and thither, man.

Hither and thither.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 13, 2019 12:47 AM (amw5z)

653 "pretty non-controversial"? Among what group of
people? How are these things being measured when there's almost no
double-blind research whatsoever?

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 12:43 AM (h2Bdk)

The people doing the studies that suggest increased risks of the same. I'll leave the study criticisms to you.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 13, 2019 12:47 AM (t6MX/)

654

I HATE fucking Henways.

Posted by: Door to Door Nothing Salesman & Itinerant Sperm Donor at August 13, 2019 12:47 AM (UFLLM)

655 I was sort of counting on from my residence where I'm legal to my new residence all unloaded and locked and stuff.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 12:45 AM (fuK7c)


You should be really careful. I mean, really, really careful. I've seen multiple articles about people trying to drive through on a move and ending up making a 3-5 year stop.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 12:48 AM (h2Bdk)

656 Shit. For realz?



I was sort of counting on from my residence where I'm legal to my new residence all unloaded and locked and stuff.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 12:45 AM (fuK7c)

IIRC, there was a lady a few years back passing through who got the book thrown at her. Not something you want to mess with.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 13, 2019 12:49 AM (t6MX/)

657 Ian Dury and the Blockheads were awesome.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 12:49 AM (PUmDY)

658 I HATE fucking Henways.


Well they'd do more than lie there and wait til it's over if you'd put some effort in and find out where their excitey parts are.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 12:49 AM (fuK7c)

659 Talk to CBD about NJ gun laws

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2019 12:49 AM (aA3+G)

660 I HATE fucking Henways.
Posted by: Door to Door Nothing Salesman & Itinerant Sperm Donor at August 13, 2019 12:47 AM (UFLLM)

Those Henway vacuum cleaners really suck...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 12:49 AM (a72/q)

661 Just a few search results.

https://duckduckgo.com/?

q=are+hallucinations+a+side+effect+of+pot&ia=web

Posted by: Imitation Commentater at August 13, 2019 12:49 AM (vqIkG)

662 @642

Actually they were going to bang that dude with 25 years.


One of the few good thing Chris Christie ever did as Governor was pardon people and commute sentences of people caught up in NJs crazy gun law nonsense.

Posted by: Radical Centrist at August 13, 2019 12:50 AM (HKEA4)

663 New Zealand Confiscation Update
August 12, 2019 https://t.co/nxmlNSUS7E?amp=1
The first month of the NZ MSSA Amnesty is past, and the results are in.

"Buyback" Events: 90
Firearms turned in: 10,242
Average firearms/event: 113

This isn't looking good for the government. As previously noted, there are a rough-guesstimated 158,730 affected guns.

Overall running compliance rate: 6.45%

On average, with 250 scheduled "buybacks," they need to collect 635 guns per event. They're getting less than one-fifth of that: 17.8% of what they need.

ETA: It's also worth noting that every time I get new numbers on buyback events, the average number of firearms turned in drops. Compliance is getting worse as the deadline approaches.

They're on track to approximately match Australia's 20% compliance rate.

Bear in mind that rate of compliance is based on my own calculations (based on actual payouts and the government's estimate of how much it will cost) of 158,730 affected firearms. Other people are still tossing around estimates of 1.2-1.5 MILLION. If it is 1.5 million, the compliance rate is a hilarious 0.68% so far.

Posted by: David at August 13, 2019 12:50 AM (jY1B4)

664 Isn't NJ the state where they were gonna put someone away for a decade for a flintlock? That's worse than CA.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 12:44 AM (h2Bdk)

That's one of my only bits of solace here in the Land of Fruits and Nuts, no matter how bad the gun laws get here, New Jersey will always be worse.

Posted by: Surfperch, knowing full well that guns don't really work underwater at August 13, 2019 12:51 AM (tVQUs)

665 So, Bander, you really think a job in New Jersey is worth giving up your guns? Surely there are other States with teaching jobs open.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 12:51 AM (a72/q)

666 Maybe you should just hire a boat and go around all the crapola. Worth a shot.
Posted by: Imitation Commentater
--------

That raises an interesting question. I dubious that a state can assert it's law off of the shoreline.

Anyone know?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2019 12:51 AM (LxqES)

667
Thanks I was trying to remember the name of the movie we saw in college that's it Reefer Madness I think there was a showing on the Friday nights that we had University movies. It was put out by the feds to make people crazy about how bad marijuana was and to establish their Bureau, FDA I think was the agency.
Posted by: Farmer posting from stupid smartphone at August 13, 2019 12:34 AM (dT/pJ)


That's it!

I heard a rumor long ago that Budweiser helped finance or influence it, because it was 1936, Prohibition was over, but times were still tough and for over a decade people got high with the strangest things, including the wildwood weed.

Making a scare-tactic movie was supposedly their idea, to get people to like beer again.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 13, 2019 12:51 AM (sy5kK)

668 Christie ended up pardoning the Philadelphia woman, Shaneen Allen, who admitted she had a gun in her purse, upon a traffic stop in New Jersey.

Nightmare.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 13, 2019 12:52 AM (t6MX/)

669

Ginger swimsuit models cause tachycardia, hypertension, decreased blood flow to the brain and delusions of possibility...

Posted by: Door to Door Nothing Salesman & Itinerant Sperm Donor at August 13, 2019 12:52 AM (UFLLM)

670 I would not be surprised if Bolsinaro's response was against a criticism of logging in the Amazon, a snarky, "if you want to stop pollution try sh#tting less"

He tends to pop off like that, one of his more endearing qualities.


Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2019 12:53 AM (q2o38)

671 They're on track to approximately match Australia's 20% compliance rate.

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20%? Really?

I have a newfound contempt for the Ozzies.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 13, 2019 12:53 AM (amw5z)

672
That raises an interesting question. I dubious that a state can assert it's law off of the shoreline.

Anyone know?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2019 12:51 AM (LxqES)


12 miles off shore, it's all international.

One foot away from the dock in any navigable water, and Coast Guard / federal rules apply.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 13, 2019 12:53 AM (sy5kK)

673 There is a Federal Law titled something along the lines of the Firearms Owner's Protection Act.

It SPECIFICALLY provides for the legal transport of firearms through hellholes like NY and NJ, as when driving from TX to NH.

Yeah, no.

Those states IGNORE the fuck out of that law, and prosecute EVERYTHING they can get their hands on as regards "firearms offenses" as might be traveling through their jurisdictions.

The U.S. Supreme Court just whacked Maryland's pee-pee, as regards using scans of out of state plates to see who has a CCW, as "probable cause" for a traffic stop and search.

They're still DOING it, of course.

You drive the Eastern Seaboard at your own risk, PERIOD.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 13, 2019 12:53 AM (QzJWU)

674 That raises an interesting question. I dubious that a state can assert it's law off of the shoreline.

Anyone know?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2019 12:51 AM (LxqES)

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Littorally?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 13, 2019 12:54 AM (amw5z)

675 Shit. For realz?

I was sort of counting on from my residence where I'm legal to my new residence all unloaded and locked and stuff.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 12:45 AM (fuK7c)

Bander, there's a federal law that allows you to drive through a state transporting firearms.

But some states (NJ is famous for this) take it VERY literally.

Like if you stop in NJ for the cheap gas (less cheap now that Christie upped the gas tax) you're no longer "driving through" and have now stopped in the state.

So, IDK. I'd do some research first. As far as I know, NJ is one of the least firearm friendly states in the country.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 12:54 AM (GBteo)

676 Mobile leprechaun?
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 12:40 AM (PUmDY)

From how the kid described it, yes.

Posted by: Surfperch at August 13, 2019 12:54 AM (tVQUs)

677
From what I was just reading, hallucinations happen only with very large doses of THC. Remember that idiot Maureen Dowd eating too many pot brownies (that's common, as it takes a long time to effect via the edible route).

Very high doses can induce a type of psychosis, and the hallucinations happen with that.

It's possible some small percentage of the population might be hypersensitive and experience these effects in smaller doses, but it's very rare.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 13, 2019 12:55 AM (NMAzL)

678 @646

Also if you are renting you must disclose to your landlord that you will have firearms on premise, he may allow this, he may not.

You better make sure you get your shit sorted out before even thinking about bringing firearms into the wonderful Garden State.

Posted by: Radical Centrist at August 13, 2019 12:55 AM (HKEA4)

679 657 Ian Dury and the Blockheads were awesome.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 12:49 AM (PUmDY)


Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, very good indeed!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 13, 2019 12:56 AM (sy5kK)

680 NO.

Posted by: The Entire Text of New Jersey Gun Laws at August 13, 2019 12:57 AM (tVQUs)

681 To all the anti pot people -- I get it. Weed has it's side effects, like everything else.

But this reefer-madness silliness where people exaggerate the side effects does nothing to dissuade people from using pot. It's so untrue and ... well, silly, that you're not convincing anyone and you sound like a propagandist.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 12:57 AM (GBteo)

682
Around here the MJ is orders of magnitude stronger than it was 20 years ago, and unless you buy from a grower or outlet store, essentially ALL of the street stuff is adulterated with heroin, fentanyl, meth - lots of meth, salts, whatever the cooker has left over, dolphin jizz, whatever. Who knows what is causing what symptoms... but I have seen some seriously fucked up people who were just smoking a joint that have gone ape shit or seen Leo D'Crapio get raped by a bear or whatever.

Posted by: Door to Door Nothing Salesman & Itinerant Sperm Donor at August 13, 2019 12:58 AM (UFLLM)

683 @675

The issue is not that he's driving through the state, he's moving into the state.

He needs to get his shit sorted before he transports firearms into the state.

Posted by: Radical Centrist at August 13, 2019 12:58 AM (HKEA4)

684 ....One foot away from the dock in any navigable water, and Coast Guard / federal rules apply.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 13, 2019 12:53 AM (sy5kK)



No. Not only "No", but HELL FUCKING NO!

State jurisdiction applies in Coastal Waters out to Three Miles, everywhere.

Mr. Game Warden would be happy to prove this to you.

And in Texas? The Texas Rangers routinely have Game Wardens along with 'em for "raids". Game Wardens don't need warrants to investigate possible wildlife crimes.

Which include stuffed deer heads in dens and living rooms, everywhere.

As I understand it, the State of Maine rakes in HUGE bucks from fines within that three mile limit.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 13, 2019 12:59 AM (QzJWU)

685 669

Ginger swimsuit models cause tachycardia, hypertension, decreased blood flow to the brain and delusions of possibility...
Posted by: Door to Door Nothing Salesman & Itinerant Sperm Donor at August 13, 2019 12:52 AM (UFLLM)


yeah, I saw kbdabear's links for tonight.

that blood flowed somewhere.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 13, 2019 12:59 AM (sy5kK)

686 One of the side effects of pot smoking is indeed hallucinations.


Posted by: Radical Centrist at August 13, 2019 12:17 AM (HKEA4)


That's not true. No one hallucinates from pot. NO ONE. You can eat handfuls of the most powerful weed on Earth and you aren't going to be hallucinating.

Whoever tells you stuff like that is full of shit. Pot is not acid. It's not even 1/1000000000th acid. Totally different worlds.

It seems that a lot of people like to play fast and loose with the definition of "hallucinate". Optical illusions and fuzzy vision are not "hallucinating". Paranoid suspicions of people and things and possible sounds are not "hallucinations". Trip on acid and you'll know what hallucinating is and then you'll never even try to apply that notion to pot.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 13, 2019 01:00 AM (nmtEZ)

687 fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 01:00 AM (fuK7c)

688 Oh, using a search engine? Why didn't I think of that?

The problem is these are all self reported. There are no controls for other drugs or prescription meds. They don't address the problem of self selection (i.e. are people with depression or schizophrenia more likely to smoke pot?).

If you tried to get a drug through the FDA with this quality of data they'd laugh at you.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 01:00 AM (h2Bdk)

689 681
To all the anti pot people -- I get it. Weed has it's side effects, like everything else.



But this reefer-madness silliness where people exaggerate the side
effects does nothing to dissuade people from using pot. It's so untrue
and ... well, silly, that you're not convincing anyone and you sound
like a propagandist.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 12:57 AM (GBteo)

To all the pot religionists, it is not a wonder drug. It would be wise to take the data as it comes, rather than sounding like a paranoid, tinfoil hat-wearing contrail watcher, every time you think someone is coming for your binky.

Congrats on the new job.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 13, 2019 01:01 AM (t6MX/)

690 Trip on acid and you'll know what hallucinating is and then you'll never even try to apply that notion to pot.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 13, 2019 01:00 AM (nmtEZ)

--------

Better listen to him Flounder. He's pre-med.

Posted by: Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman at August 13, 2019 01:01 AM (amw5z)

691 684 ....One foot away from the dock in any navigable water, and Coast Guard / federal rules apply.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 13, 2019 12:53 AM (sy5kK)


No. Not only "No", but HELL FUCKING NO!

State jurisdiction applies in Coastal Waters out to Three Miles, everywhere.


I was thinking of boating rules, not the rest.

And yes, local police have boats as well.

Usually in Seattle lakes, they are looking for drunken boaters, and oh boy, do they find them.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 13, 2019 01:02 AM (sy5kK)

692 http://www.notaryrotary.com/archive/forum/2005/Octo

ber/where_does_state_juristiction_end_in_the_ocean_.

html


Florida goes about 3 miles. From what I understand 1.5 -2 miles is the norm where a state can exercise its law.

That also depends on if the feds will let them. I remember seeing something years ago about the end of the longest jettie in the state being the limit.

Posted by: Imitation Commentater at August 13, 2019 01:02 AM (vqIkG)

693 Maybe you just got high in 1971, and hallucinated the rest of it?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targetting at August 13, 2019 12:25 AM (xkSJa)

Jacob's Ladder was an odd movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:02 AM (gmtFW)

694
If you tried to get a drug through the FDA with this quality of data they'd laugh at you.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 01:00 AM (h2Bdk)

Aspirin would have zero chance of getting approved today.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 13, 2019 01:03 AM (sy5kK)

695 To all the pot religionists, it is not a wonder drug


I don't think anyone here is saying if only Trump and Macron could share a spliff we'd have world peace, man.

People are just saying pot isn't a hallucinogen because it isn't.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 01:03 AM (fuK7c)

696 People are just saying pot isn't a hallucinogen because it isn't.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 01:03 AM (fuK7c)

Different discussions. I am out of the halucination debate.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 13, 2019 01:05 AM (t6MX/)

697 Nadler's skull is empty, but his diaper is full of Schiff.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at August 13, 2019 01:06 AM (WRSbt)

698 Hey I get it you're pro drug, that's fine but
literally every health organization and abuse counseling service lists
hallucinations as a side effect from smoking pot.





So um, good day sir.

Posted by: Radical Centrist at August 13, 2019 12:46 AM (HKEA4)

Yeah, no hallucinations.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at August 13, 2019 01:06 AM (NMAzL)

699

569 I'm reading "Nancy Drew and the Mystery on Pedo Island." Excerpt:


Yeah, not your mother's Nancy Drew, that's for sure.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 13, 2019 01:06 AM (sy5kK)

700
Water causes me to hallucinate. I'm trying to desensitize myself to it by adding a few drops of it, very cold, to my single malt.

So far, so good...

Posted by: Door to Door Nothing Salesman & Itinerant Sperm Donor at August 13, 2019 01:06 AM (UFLLM)

701 LCD, very great....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vPkSTQyXkYk

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 01:06 AM (PUmDY)

702

Are we at war with France?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2019 01:07 AM (aKsyK)

703 Are we at war with France?

Dibs on the docks of Marseilles...

Posted by: Door to Door Nothing Salesman & Itinerant Sperm Donor at August 13, 2019 01:08 AM (UFLLM)

704 From what I was just reading, hallucinations happen only with very large doses of THC. Remember that idiot Maureen Dowd eating too many pot brownies (that's common, as it takes a long time to effect via the edible route).

Very high doses can induce a type of psychosis, and the hallucinations happen with that.

It's possible some small percentage of the population might be hypersensitive and experience these effects in smaller doses, but it's very rare.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 13, 2019 12:55 AM (NMAzL)


I suppose it's possible, but I've taken some high dosages of medical tinctures from CA (not on purpose, I trusted crazy cat lady on her dosages) and... yeah, I definitely have never hallucinated, but it can be a bit unpleasant. Nothing like, you know, hallucinogenics though.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 01:08 AM (GBteo)

705 693 Maybe you just got high in 1971, and hallucinated the rest of it?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targetting at August 13, 2019 12:25 AM (xkSJa)

Jacob's Ladder was an odd movie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:02 AM (gmtFW)


That movie scared the shit out of me. I had nightmares for weeks.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 01:08 AM (h2Bdk)

706
Here's a paper on the subject:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
articles/PMC5908416/

Remove line feed.

Cannabis has been historically classified as a hallucinogen. However, subjective cannabis effects do not typically include hallucinogen-like effects. Empirical reports of hallucinogen-like effects produced by cannabis in controlled settings, particularly among healthy research volunteers, are rare and have mostly occurred after administration of purified delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) rather than whole plant cannabis.

....

Acute cannabis exposure in a healthy adult male resulted in self-reported hallucinations that rated high in magnitude on several subscales of the HRS. However, the hallucinatory experience in this case was qualitatively different than that typically experienced by participants receiving classic and atypical hallucinogens, suggesting that the hallucinatory effects of cannabis may have a unique pharmacological mechanism of action. This type of adverse event needs to be considered in the clinical use of cannabis.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 13, 2019 01:09 AM (NMAzL)

707 ...Aspirin would have zero chance of getting approved today.


Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 13, 2019 01:03 AM (sy5kK)



I'm one of the lucky ones for whom aspirin is a Wonder Drug.

NONE of the Tylenol/Iburprofen/Advil/etc things do much more for me than to piss me off.

For me, it's Aspirin in increasing doses, until I have to Break Glass in case of Emergency, and reach for the Vicodin.

And the fuckers are making that option impossible, now.

Here's how conservative I am with that stuff.

Gimme a bottle of 60 pills of 500 mg. Vicodin.

I will still have "leftover" pills, more than two years later.

Mostly, I'll snap one in half, which will suffice as to take the edge off. Old injuries don't tend to show much mercy when wintertime Blue Northers blow through.

And now doctors are scared shitless to prescribe more than a dozen at a time.

*much hate for Carrie Nation, of any era*



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 13, 2019 01:10 AM (QzJWU)

708 To all the pot religionists, it is not a wonder drug. It would be wise to take the data as it comes, rather than sounding like a paranoid, tinfoil hat-wearing contrail watcher, every time you think someone is coming for your binky.

Congrats on the new job.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 13, 2019 01:01 AM (t6MX/)

Thanks. And I'm not a pot religionist, I just happen to work and spend a lot of my time in a state where pot is recreationally legal and I occasionally use it. I used to smoke a decent amount of pot when I was younger.

I personally would not encourage people to use pot -- as South Park succinctly put it, I think pot makes people okay with being lazy and doing nothing.

But, at the same time, I could say a lot worse about alcohol.

As for the medicinal benefits of pot or cbd oil? I don't know, I don't have any medical issues. But I know enough people who swear by it that I can't discount it. I'm talking about people in their 60s who are rock ribbed anti-hippy conservatives who never (or rarely) smoked pot in their youth, and swear that small dosages of weed are better for their ailments then pharmaceutical drugs.

So, like I said -- I can't discount that.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 01:11 AM (GBteo)

709 Yeah, not your mother's Nancy Drew, that's for sure.



Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 13, 2019 01:06 AM (sy5kK)

They keep rewriting them to reflect cultural changes. According to Wiki, Nancy used to be unruly and violent. Can't wait to get hold of some of the 1930s versions.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at August 13, 2019 01:12 AM (NMAzL)

710 The whole reason people smoke pot is to get an altered sense of reality, aka "getting high". Which is, in itself, a type of hallucination. When you are high, you see humor is stuff that normally would bore you death, and Cheetos seem like food. Are those not hallucinations?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 01:12 AM (a72/q)

711 Nothing like, you know, hallucinogenics though.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 01:08 AM (GBteo)

Could be a difference of terms. People who have never tried real hallucinogens may term a heavy dose of mental effects as hallucinating.

I have never tried hallucinogens myself and am not stepping into this one on one side or another.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:12 AM (gmtFW)

712
So there you go. They have one reliable case of someone hallucinating, well someone who claims to have experienced auditory hallucinations, on THC. By reliable, I mean under laboratory conditions where things are known and controlled.

One case.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 13, 2019 01:13 AM (NMAzL)

713 We have always been at war with Eurasia.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 01:13 AM (PUmDY)

714 Smoking pot and taking industrially concentrated THC are two different things. It's virtually impossible to OD on pot by smoking it, but pure THC? That seems unwise.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 01:13 AM (h2Bdk)

715 Okay. We've hit on a solution. Simply live on a boat anchored 3+ miles off the coast of NJ. The morning commute will be more pleasant than in most cities.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2019 01:13 AM (LxqES)

716 710 Nope. Hallucinations are like when you see the ceiling dripping. That takes LSD. At least for me. Even mushrooms didn't give me hallucinations.

Maybe I'm just too practical, and don't get hallucinations.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at August 13, 2019 01:13 AM (NMAzL)

717 Uh oh. Begun, the Cheeto Wars have.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:14 AM (gmtFW)

718 Uh oh. Begun, the Cheeto Wars have.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:14 AM (gmtFW)

Meh, I'm just stirring the pot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 01:15 AM (a72/q)

719 Could be a difference of terms. People who have never tried real hallucinogens may term a heavy dose of mental effects as hallucinating.

I have never tried hallucinogens myself and am not stepping into this one on one side or another.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:12 AM (gmtFW)

Could be. It's hard to describe the affects of marijuana to someone who has never used it.

Basically, you find shit funny, you grub out on food, and you feel a close bond to people around you. Kind of similar to alcohol I guess, but it's a very different feeling.

Also, various strains affect different people differently, so even that is generalizing. But if I had to say, in general, what pot is like -- it's like drinking a few glasses of wine.

Oh, and sometimes people get mildly paranoid. Like not in a super weird way, just in a "dude, did you hear that noise? I think someone is breaking in to the house" way. haha

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 01:15 AM (GBteo)

720 ...So there you go. They have one reliable case of someone hallucinating, well someone who claims to have experienced auditory hallucinations, on THC. By reliable, I mean under laboratory conditions where things are known and controlled.

One case.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 13, 2019 01:13 AM (NMAzL)




I'm having flashbacks to the ONT from March, 1974. Shhhhh..... don't harsh my mellow, dude!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 13, 2019 01:15 AM (QzJWU)

721 710 The whole reason people smoke pot is to get an altered sense of reality, aka "getting high". Which is, in itself, a type of hallucination. When you are high, you see humor is stuff that normally would bore you death, and Cheetos seem like food. Are those not hallucinations?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 01:12 AM (a72/q)


What these studies (if you can call them that) are referring to are mostly auditory hallucinations, i.e. sounds that only you can hear.

The Cheetos thing is legit, though.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 01:16 AM (h2Bdk)

722 Prayers for you, Theresa in Fort Worth.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 13, 2019 01:16 AM (a4EWo)

723 Posted by: Jim at August 13, 2019 01:10 AM (QzJWU)

I don't do vicodin but totally agree with the non aspirin.
Can't take any of that stuff. Makes me sicker than taking nothing.

Aspirin or nothing, for me.

Posted by: Imitation Commentater at August 13, 2019 01:16 AM (vqIkG)

724 >I personally would not encourage people to use pot -- as South Park
succinctly put it, I think pot makes people okay with being lazy and
doing nothing.


We agree, as do professionals who observe the same, even if not part of a double-blind clinical study, which is why I take it as non-controversial.


>But, at the same time, I could say a lot worse about alcohol.



Which says nothing pro or con pot, BTW. A red herring.


>As for the medicinal benefits of pot or cbd oil?


CBD strains do seem to show promise for pain relief, and there are other promising avenues being studied for the treatment of PTSD.


Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 01:11 AM (GBteo)

As I said, take the data as it comes. It's likely not all the roses that the stinking hippies promised.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 13, 2019 01:17 AM (t6MX/)

725 He convinced us that he himself is not of the elite, and we look sillier every day we go on believing that.

Posted by: gp Goes There at August 12, 2019 11:04 PM (mk9aG)

---
your concern is noted.

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 13, 2019 01:17 AM (SXMRB)

726 The Cheetos thing is legit, though.


Nuh uh. Best thing I did in college was train myself to not get the munchies. Everyone around me gained 15-20 lbs. and I stayed fighting lean.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 01:18 AM (fuK7c)

727 What these studies (if you can call them that) are referring to are mostly auditory hallucinations, i.e. sounds that only you can hear.

The Cheetos thing is legit, though.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 01:16 AM (h2Bdk)

You mean like listening to the whole 18 minutes of Inna Gadda Davida, and understanding the lyrics?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 01:18 AM (a72/q)

728
So I think we can say that science pretty much calls bullshit on the whole "pot cause hallucinations" thing.

Not very damn likely.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 13, 2019 01:18 AM (NMAzL)

729 Every American, regardless of income, is entitled to:



The right to a decent job that pays a living wage.

The right to quality health care.

The right to a complete education.

The right to affordable housing.

The right to a clean environment.

The right to a secure retirement.



-- Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders)

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken
---
cue The Tubes song

What Do You Want From Life?

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 13, 2019 01:19 AM (SXMRB)

730 714 Smoking pot and taking industrially concentrated THC are two different things. It's virtually impossible to OD on pot by smoking it, but pure THC? That seems unwise.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 01:13 AM (h2Bdk)

My on again / off again whatever-she-is, affectionately known as "crazy cat lady" does a lot of tinctures ("industrially concentrated THC") and I've done it with her a few times.

idk, edibles are definitely a different high than smoking. I don't particularly enjoy it. At low dosages, it definitely chills you out (she takes it before bed instead of taking sleeping pills. In that context, it's perfect.)

At higher dosages, it's ... for me, a bit unpleasant. Like we have fun together, but I feel like I just drank several cups of coffee after being up for a day but am still tired (so, racing heart, kind of edgy, but feel like I've been awake for 24+ hours)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 01:19 AM (GBteo)

731 Will pot make you think you are being kidnapped by little green men in a flying saucer that want to probe your anus?

Posted by: Imitation Commentater at August 13, 2019 01:20 AM (vqIkG)

732 The local coroner who diagnosed the first ever overdose death from marijuana because it just felt right is running for re-election unopposed. Sad.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 13, 2019 01:20 AM (rnXGe)

733 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 01:18 AM (a72/q)


For sure Dude

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2019 01:20 AM (aA3+G)

734
What Do You Want From Life?
Posted by: redc1c4


To hear the lamentations of Kathy Griffin.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2019 01:20 AM (aKsyK)

735 Oh, and sometimes people get mildly paranoid. Like not in a super weird way, just in a "dude, did you hear that noise? I think someone is breaking in to the house" way. haha
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 01:15 AM (GBteo)


I dated a girl whose friend was a call girl. She wanted my girlfriend to sub for her with a client who did industrial quantities of cocaine. Had been doing them for so long he was off-the-deep-end paranoid. "You don't even have to sleep with him. Every time he gets frisky say 'What was that? Did you hear that?' and he'll spend the next hour running around looking for the DEA surveillance team."

It was funny, but I told her she'd need to find a new boyfriend if she wanted to do stuff like that.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 01:20 AM (h2Bdk)

736 >> People who have never tried real hallucinogens may term a heavy dose of mental effects as hallucinating.

Bingo. That's just what I was reading.

All know "real hallucinogens" effect various receptors in the brain. THC has no effect on those receptors.

So, even in very high doses where the "THC pyschotic state" is induced, any "hallucinations" are something different that what real hallucinations are.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 13, 2019 01:21 AM (NMAzL)

737 Will pot make you think you are being kidnapped by little green men in a flying saucer that want to probe your anus?
Posted by: Imitation Commentater at August 13, 2019 01:20 AM (vqIkG)

some flying saucers are very kinky.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 01:21 AM (a72/q)

738 The whole reason people smoke pot is a funny premise.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 01:21 AM (PUmDY)

739
Miley, we weren't going to tell you but, your lesbians, they weren't really there...

Posted by: Rockery Hudpeck at August 13, 2019 01:22 AM (UFLLM)

740 As I said, take the data as it comes. It's likely not all the roses that the stinking hippies promised.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 13, 2019 01:17 AM (t6MX/)

Because marijuana is a schedule I drug, there really haven't been a ton of studies on it in the US.

I'm just going by my personal experience, and the experiences of virtually everyone around me (nearly all of whom have smoked weed.)

Granted, it's anecdotal.

I prefer a few beers over smoking some weed, but I don't really see the problem with people smoking weed. As far as I can tell, used in moderation, it's not any more problematic than drinking some beers.

Obviously, if people sit around smoking weed (or drinking beer) all day, that's problematic.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 01:22 AM (GBteo)

741 Amusing round-up of idiot racist-authoritarians [media, Dems, et al] of all sorts using "Fredo" as a derogatory term against Trump and his family the last few years on Sean Davis' twatters.



Posted by: rhomboid at August 13, 2019 01:22 AM (QDnY+)

742 some flying saucers are very kinky.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 01:21 AM (a72/q)

Now you tell me.

Posted by: Whitley Streiber at August 13, 2019 01:23 AM (vqIkG)

743 718 Uh oh. Begun, the Cheeto Wars have.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:14 AM (gmtFW)

Meh, I'm just stirring the pot.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 01:15 AM (a72/q)


You're making hash of it.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 01:23 AM (h2Bdk)

744 Oh, and sometimes people get mildly paranoid. Like not in a super
weird way, just in a "dude, did you hear that noise? I think someone is
breaking in to the house" way. haha

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 01:15 AM (GBteo)

I am pretty sure the dude at 7-11 KNEW when I was trying to get that chili cheese nachos and big gulp. He could see into my soul, man.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 13, 2019 01:23 AM (t6MX/)

745 You're making hash of it.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 01:23 AM (h2Bdk)

Oil get over it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 01:23 AM (a72/q)

746 >>Meh, I'm just stirring the pot.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 01:15 AM (a72/q)

>>You're making hash of it.



Oh, stuff it in your pipe.


Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 01:24 AM (NE8ji)

747 Oh, and sometimes people get mildly paranoid. Like not in a super weird way, just in a "dude, did you hear that noise? I think someone is breaking in to the house" way. haha
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 01:15 AM (GBteo)

Since I am on a work computer... a 'friend' of mine who only experimented once or twice in college had pretty severe mental effects those one or two times.

IIRC, he said he found Family Guy not just funny, but remarked that what they were saying was truly outrageous and could not possibly be approved for being on the air (first run.)

Also something about it making his OCD worse (which some might term paranoia anyway.) One time he did not smoke at all, the other he smoked like two packs of cigarettes in a few hours. He also reported that the high started to make him wonder if it would ever end.

Not a completely unpleasant experience, so he says, but not as good as a good drunk of alcohol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:24 AM (gmtFW)

748 Hong Kong protestors singing the Star Spangled Banner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYWuLoAYrgE

Suddenly it's gotten a little dusty in here.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2019 01:24 AM (tY4MP)

749 A lot of the paranoia has always had a lot to do with the illegality of the entire scene.

Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 01:25 AM (NE8ji)

750 731 Will pot make you think you are being kidnapped by little green men in a flying saucer that want to probe your anus?
Posted by: Imitation Commentater at August 13, 2019 01:20 AM (vqIkG)

No, definitely not. And that's what I mean by it doesn't make you hallucinate at all.

Like if you're on acid or shrooms, you see / hear shit that doesn't exist. It's bizarre and, frankly, a bit horrifying.

On weed ... eh, as I put it with my friends who do a bit too much weed -- you just get way too much in your own head. You kind of overthink things.

But you're not seeing / thinking things that are not there. You just tend to get worried about shit that you wouldn't be worried about when you're not high.

Like if I hear a noise right now, I'd assume it was my neighbor, or a car driving by, or whatever, and not care about it. If I were super high, I might think it was the cops coming to break in my door or something else. The noise actually happened, it's just how you process it that changes when you're high.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 01:26 AM (GBteo)

751 Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 01:25 AM (NE8ji)

Totally agree with you on that point.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2019 01:27 AM (aA3+G)

752 749 A lot of the paranoia has always had a lot to do with the illegality of the entire scene.
Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 01:25 AM (NE8ji)

that's true, too. I used to get way more 'paranoid' about shit when I was younger. Now that weed is basically legal where I live, and completely legal where I work and spend most of my time hanging out, when I use weed, I'm wayyyy less paranoid.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 01:27 AM (GBteo)

753 751
Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 01:25 AM (NE8ji)



Totally agree with you on that point.



Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2019 01:27 AM (aA3+G)

He KNOWS, garrett.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 13, 2019 01:27 AM (t6MX/)

754 Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 01:25 AM (NE8ji)



Totally agree with you on that point.



Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2019 01:27 AM (aA3+G)

He KNOWS, garrett.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 13, 2019 01:27 AM (t6MX/)

Bro, be cool. And don't make eye contact, he can tell that your eyes are red.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 01:29 AM (GBteo)

755 Time for bed here work beckons tomorrow. I'm still binge-watching It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, it's pretty funny sometimes lame but it's a blast I'm on season 3 episode 10. I got to make this episode the last one and go to bed, be well you Morons.

Posted by: Farmer posting from stupid smartphone at August 13, 2019 01:30 AM (dT/pJ)

756 Garrett, Roxy's the Main Thing is very Depeche Modish.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 01:30 AM (PUmDY)

757 Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 01:29 AM (GBteo)


Hasn't my giggling given it away?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2019 01:30 AM (aA3+G)

758 Night Farmer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:30 AM (gmtFW)

759 > Hong Kong protestors singing the Star Spangled Banner.


I don't suppose we could work out a swap of our "Antifa" shitstains for these guys?

Let them experience their socialist paradise up close and personal.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2019 01:31 AM (tY4MP)

760 I am woefully unknowledgable when it coes to the Roxxy Music catallog.

I should fix that.

Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 01:31 AM (NE8ji)

761 Also something about it making his OCD worse (which some might term paranoia anyway.) One time he did not smoke at all, the other he smoked like two packs of cigarettes in a few hours. He also reported that the high started to make him wonder if it would ever end.

Not a completely unpleasant experience, so he says, but not as good as a good drunk of alcohol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:24 AM (gmtFW)

Driving over Lion's Gate Bridge while high on pot was interesting. Seemed like it would never end, possibly because I was going about 15 mph.

And I ate some hash brownies once, maybe ate too much, and the only effect was extreme vertigo. I clung to the floor like a limpet, in mortal fear of being flung off it. Managed to crawl into bed, and it subsided, and I went to sleep. Never puked though.

I came to the conclusion that pot is not for me, and I now avoid it. And if I were ever piss tested, and pissed hot for MJ, I could lose my job ( to the extent that I even have one, right now). So why indulge in a drug that:

1. costs money

2. I don't like

3. could ruin my livelihood?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 01:32 AM (a72/q)

762 Yeah, to be sure. Not a fan of anti zealots making up stuff anymore than I am of fanbois creating elaborate explanations of why to disbelieve what can be observed or derived from other's observations.

And unless you are causing harm to others, I don't really care a whole lot what you want to put in your body.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 13, 2019 01:32 AM (t6MX/)

763 >>He KNOWS, garrett.


Where'd I put that Visine?

Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 01:32 AM (NE8ji)

764 Do you think that Major Ed Dames and his crack team of elite remote viewers were just shrooming out? Maybe a hit of lsd thrown in?

They were just hallucinating what's in that safe?

Posted by: Whitley Streiber at August 13, 2019 01:32 AM (vqIkG)

765 From Cali.
Shootout in Riverside with CHP and a lone gunman with a heavy black gun. Based on the devastation this now at room temp perp threw downrange, prob. a mil. grade 7.62 or 308 based on on the pass through' s to the cruisers. The total SUCK for LEO's when it goes from 0 to 100 with this s*^t flying at you. There is rumor only that this guy was "French Cartel" but more curious, why is the hospital the 3 officers were taken to look more like a FOB in southern Afgan tonight.

Posted by: Nightwatch.overwatch at August 13, 2019 01:33 AM (kFkpX)

766 Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 01:31 AM (NE8ji)


Some is ok, to much I can't handle. Too soft popish, I'm not certain what the perfect description.


Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2019 01:34 AM (aA3+G)

767 I am woefully unknowledgable when it coes to the Roxxy Music catallog.


They had half nekkid chicks on their album covers is what I remember.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 01:34 AM (fuK7c)

768 1. costs money

2. I don't like

3. could ruin my livelihood?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 01:32 AM (a72/q)

Agreed. One thing I (or my friend, whichever) have always said about alcohol is that, unless you have shotgunned a high amount of shots at once, you stop drinking, you start getting sober. This was not the case with pot. The lack of control of the experience was also a detriment, to his mind.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:37 AM (gmtFW)

769 They were all Ferry's girlfriends at the time of the pictures.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 01:37 AM (PUmDY)

770 767 I am woefully unknowledgable when it coes to the Roxxy Music catallog.


They had half nekkid chicks on their album covers is what I remember.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 01:34 AM (fuK7c)


I remember liking the music, but this many years later I can't recall a single song.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 01:37 AM (h2Bdk)

771 Hasn't my giggling given it away?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2019 01:30 AM (aA3+G)

Bro, keep a straight face!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 13, 2019 01:37 AM (GBteo)

772 Too soft popish,
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So now we're onto the Wars of Religion?

Posted by: Captain Obvious at August 13, 2019 01:38 AM (iB1oa)

773 Posted by: Captain Obvious at August 13, 2019 01:38 AM (iB1oa)

Ha

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2019 01:40 AM (aA3+G)

774 Agreed. One thing I (or my friend, whichever) have always said about alcohol is that, unless you have shotgunned a high amount of shots at once, you stop drinking, you start getting sober. This was not the case with pot. The lack of control of the experience was also a detriment, to his mind.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:37 AM (gmtFW)

Yeah. Alcohol is a lot more predictable in its effects. And the potency of the alcohol you buy at the bar or the liquor dealers is a known quantity, and printed right on the container. Pot potency is wildly variable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 01:40 AM (a72/q)

775 > Pot potency is wildly variable.

Here it's printed right on the label in the marijuana store.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2019 01:41 AM (tY4MP)

776
The NASA Meteor Watch FB page is full of idjits trying to figure out time zones e.g. "It peaks at 2 AM Eastern" followed by "What time is that Central"

a) they must be high, and
b) America is Doomed

Posted by: Rockery Hudpeck at August 13, 2019 01:41 AM (UFLLM)

777
Dizziness is a common side effect of THC. This is likely to do to its effect on blood pressure. It will lower blood pressure, and seems to lower cerebral blood pressure even more or something.

That's about all THC will do for me. Make me dizzy. And sleepy.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 13, 2019 01:42 AM (NMAzL)

778 >>They had half nekkid chicks on their album covers is what I remember.
Posted by: Bandersnatch (fuK7c)



This is exactly what I would have expected you to type.

Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 01:42 AM (NE8ji)

779 They had half nekkid chicks on their album covers is what I remember.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 01:34 AM (fuK7c)

Which half?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 01:43 AM (a72/q)

780 775 > Pot potency is wildly variable.

Here it's printed right on the label in the marijuana store.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2019 01:41 AM (tY4MP)

Just out of curiosity, are the variances between individuals about the same as with alcohol (difference between light weights and pro-am drinkers) when consuming a given amount of the drug? I just wonder how predicative the labels are.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:43 AM (gmtFW)

781 ya can't see it cuz the effin MOON is blowin the zen of the darkness to actually enjoy it.

Posted by: Nightwatch.overwatch at August 13, 2019 01:44 AM (kFkpX)

782 Yeah, Aetius. Different strains hit people differently.

Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 01:45 AM (NE8ji)

783 Just out of curiosity, are the variances between individuals about the same as with alcohol (difference between light weights and pro-am drinkers) when consuming a given amount of the drug? I just wonder how predicative the labels are.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:43 AM (gmtFW)

And how accurate are the analyses for THC content? I doubt that exercise is as easy to do as the one for alcohol.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 01:46 AM (a72/q)

784 > Just out of curiosity, are the variances between individuals about the same as with alcohol

I would expect so, but have no real knowledge one way or the other.

I don't smoke the stuff myself (have, but like others here I don't care for the effects) but the legal stores don't seem to have caused any major problems (certainly not the crazypants stuff that goes here on at bar closing time).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2019 01:46 AM (tY4MP)

785 is this thread up in smoke?....or is that skunk I smell?

Posted by: Nightwatch.overwatch at August 13, 2019 01:46 AM (kFkpX)

786 I went to the local vape shop I frequent to pick up some juice yesterday, and they have given over an entire section of the shop to CBD oil infused E-liquid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:46 AM (gmtFW)

787 How does anyone not remember Out of the Blue?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 01:46 AM (PUmDY)

788 Yeah, Aetius. Different strains hit people differently.
Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 01:45 AM (NE8ji)

Strained peas =/= strain to pee.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 01:47 AM (a72/q)

789 And how accurate are the analyses for THC content? I doubt that exercise is as easy to do as the one for alcohol.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 01:46 AM (a72/q)

I know a buddy of mine at an old place I worked was saying that an HPLC could be used to determine THC content in pot. He was suggesting it as a business idea when another friend and I were working on setting up an analytical food lab. The thing was, unlike when you had food tested, you could not ship it across state lines legally, so the lab would have to be set up in Colorado.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:49 AM (gmtFW)

790 The NASA Meteor Watch FB page is full of idjits trying to figure out time zones e.g. "It peaks at 2 AM Eastern" followed by "What time is that Central"

a) they must be high, and
b) America is Doomed
Posted by: Rockery Hudpeck at August 13, 2019 01:41 AM (UFLLM)

Maybe one of the meteors will put us out of our misery.

Posted by: Surfperch at August 13, 2019 01:49 AM (tVQUs)

791 Someone wanted hallucinations?


I'm right here.

Posted by: Peyote from Arizona at August 13, 2019 01:50 AM (+JS0o)

792 I know a buddy of mine at an old place I worked was saying that an HPLC could be used to determine THC content in pot. He was suggesting it as a business idea when another friend and I were working on setting up an analytical food lab. The thing was, unlike when you had food tested, you could not ship it across state lines legally, so the lab would have to be set up in Colorado.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:49 AM (gmtFW)

HPLC? High pressure liquid chromatography?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 01:50 AM (a72/q)

793 Maybe one of the meteors will put us out of our misery.
Posted by: Surfperch at August 13, 2019 01:49 AM (tVQUs)
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I'd prefer for it to put them out of our misery.

Posted by: Captain Obvious at August 13, 2019 01:51 AM (iB1oa)

794 Let's try and work on parameters with the wacky tabaccy.

If I drive, I do not drink. It is just a responsible action. It may have no effect on me BUT there is no reason to roll a D20 if it is not necessary. You are 21 and want to drink, don't drive. If you are at home and get blotto, more power and keep aspirin for the aftereffects.

The maryjawanna should be treated the same way. You want to drive buzzed, you are saying you are willing to roll the D20 and all the consequences. You want to buzz in the home, fine. But don't subject me to your D20 roll.
The thing is, I see the hooka bars that cater to pot smokers. Subjects exit said facility and clamber into a vehicle and drive off.
YOU think you are good to go, be sure you are willing to suffer the full consequences if you get a 'lucky' roll. If the worst happen, we may be on the receiving end.

Ow! Both index finger hurt after typing that much.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at August 13, 2019 01:51 AM (e1mEI)

795 And to answer the question more directly, an HPLC analysis is pretty damn simple, what would be harder would be the extraction you would need to do on non-liquid forms of what you wanted to test.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:51 AM (gmtFW)

796 OUT OF THE BLUE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=9nnA72_kSkE

Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 01:51 AM (NE8ji)

797 > And how accurate are the analyses for THC content?

As I understand it, most of the growers used cloned strains of known potency. The state requires the submission of samples from each crop to an independent lab for testing for THC content, as well as stuff like E. coli, mold, solvents, heavy metals, etc.





Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2019 01:51 AM (tY4MP)

798 Is rolling a D20 some sort of nerd thing?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 01:52 AM (fuK7c)

799 >>Is rolling a D20 some sort of nerd thing?


Bulldozer I think.

Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 01:53 AM (NE8ji)

800 HPLC? High pressure liquid chromatography?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 01:50 AM (a72/q)

Ja.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:53 AM (gmtFW)

801 > He was suggesting it as a business idea when another friend and I were working on setting up an analytical food lab.

There's actually a state licensing and certification program for marijuana testing labs here.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2019 01:54 AM (tY4MP)

802 Is rolling a D20 some sort of nerd thing?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2019 01:52 AM (fuK7c)

Rolling under a D9 was a downer for me.

Posted by: zombie St. Pancake at August 13, 2019 01:54 AM (a72/q)

803 I still remember Mr. Haney trying to sell Oliver Douglas a truck that had been used to smuggle mari-juwana from Tia-juwana.

Posted by: Captain Obvious at August 13, 2019 01:54 AM (iB1oa)

804 Bulldozer I think.
Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 01:53 AM (NE8ji)

We need to get Rachel Corrie's opinion now?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:54 AM (gmtFW)

805 Did you get me that Mexican Pot, Jack?

Posted by: Mr Furley at August 13, 2019 01:55 AM (NE8ji)

806 End of the Line from Siren is bad ass.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 01:55 AM (PUmDY)

807 Or High Performance LC, I have actually heard it both ways.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:55 AM (gmtFW)

808 We need to get Rachel Corrie's opinion now?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:54 AM (gmtFW)
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*sigh*

Posted by: Flat zombie Rachel Corrie at August 13, 2019 01:56 AM (iB1oa)

809 or a baby's arm holding an apple?


When music was great. Or was it just grating?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targetting at August 13, 2019 01:57 AM (xkSJa)

810 Have you checked out that Black Pumas LP Charlie?

Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 01:57 AM (NE8ji)

811
If you are a SF/Fantasy person the DragonCon ballots for best novels, games etc are open. This is the VERY NOT SJW op unlike Hugo/Nebs. Larry among others is on the ballot. Vote some!

Posted by: Rockery Hudpeck at August 13, 2019 01:58 AM (UFLLM)

812 There's actually a state licensing and certification program for marijuana testing labs here.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2019 01:54 AM (tY4MP)

I would assume there would be. You would need a small, but significant sample of the material in order to test, but that small amount would be significant to a user, and since most people when they send material to a lab have no idea how much to send- they send a lot.

Lot of ways you could get up to some stupid shenanigans that way.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:58 AM (gmtFW)

813 Well, just about midnight here. Time for me to go to bed. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2019 01:58 AM (a72/q)

814
Did you get me my THC-Wiz, boy?

Posted by: Blues Brothers 2020 at August 13, 2019 01:59 AM (UFLLM)

815 No, I will however.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 02:00 AM (PUmDY)

816 Posted by: Rockery Hudpeck at August 13, 2019 01:58 AM (UFLLM)
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I'm guessin' by your nic that you're a Gilligan's Island fan.

Posted by: Captain Obvious at August 13, 2019 02:00 AM (iB1oa)

817 I could tell that I was getting old when the "little blue pill" I was looking forward to taking was Naproxen.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2019 02:01 AM (q2o38)

818 I'm guessin' by your nic that you're a Gilligan's Island fan.

A couple parts of it.

Posted by: Blues Brothers 2020 at August 13, 2019 02:03 AM (UFLLM)

819 Aetius451

Did you catch my post the end of one of the ONTs lately? I had to Google your nic to see what it was about and spent half the night reading about Roman history. It was interesting but I stayed up way too late. Why did you choose that nic?

Posted by: Farmer posting from stupid smartphone at August 13, 2019 02:04 AM (dT/pJ)

820 Night AOP.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 02:05 AM (gmtFW)

821 Garrett, Just Another High from Siren is also great.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 02:06 AM (PUmDY)

822 804 Bulldozer I think.
Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2019 01:53 AM (NE8ji)

We need to get Rachel Corrie's opinion now?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 01:54 AM (gmtFW)


You could, but I hear she's been feeling a bit run down.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 02:08 AM (h2Bdk)

823
Aetius was the last of the great Roman Republicans, and utter hell on the barbarians. Also, he could make a mean blintz.

Civilizations do not survive without men like him.

*cough cough*

Posted by: Blues Brothers 2020 at August 13, 2019 02:09 AM (UFLLM)

824 I remember LGF pre and post bike accident in Pacific Palisades before banning .....did someone get their brain cells altered by a direct trauma from the "Stompy Boots" here? Maybe some Val-U-Rite post dated for expiration and still consumed?

I see, you ate of pudding cups with puffed up seals!!

Shame....... hobos turn their heads......

Posted by: Nightwatch.overwatch at August 13, 2019 02:10 AM (kFkpX)

825 i've never seen, AFAIK, a blue naprosyn...

and i LIVE on that shit.

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 13, 2019 02:10 AM (SXMRB)

826 819 No, I didn't Farmer. I usually just check in when I get home and then wander off when it is time to go to bed, unremarked.

I chose it because: 1) I am a fan of Roman History. and 2) I am fascinated by stories like El Cid or Aetius who were devoted servants (at least that is how they were portrayed the actuality is more complicated or different) who were either assassinated or reviled by the very people they served. The story of Valentian boasting of having Aetius assassinated and a member of the court saying 'What I do know is that you have cut off your Right hand with your Left.' is evocative to me.

Later Roman history to me feels like a Greek tragedy. You know how it has to end, and some people struggle to prevent it, but everyone keeps doing the same stupid shit and it all falls apart.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 02:10 AM (gmtFW)

827 Night AOP.



ONT in a nutshell

Posted by: Miklos, barely hanging on at August 13, 2019 02:10 AM (QzkSJ)

828 D20? Supernerd thing. See DandD.

Let me be clear. You have a hand of five cards in poker. There are a 2 of hearts, 3 of spades, 5 of clubs, 7 of hearts and a Jack of diamonds. You keep the Jack and discard 4 in the hopes of a royal flush.

Same odds of a D20. Roll a die with 20 sides.
A roll of 20 is remote. But it usually results in really unusual events.

The whole post was an attempt to make sure that if you are willing to smoke or drink and drive or use any substance that *ucks up your motor skills, you had better accept the consequences.

Washington State has done some research on this and yeah, you can smoke too much to drive safely.

Ow! Fingers.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at August 13, 2019 02:12 AM (e1mEI)

829 One must ask

What is social media apps?

I got something in the mail about that from AARP and the Democratic Socialists on the same day.

Posted by: Miklos, Early Bird beneficiary at August 13, 2019 02:15 AM (QzkSJ)

830 I remember liking the music, but this many years later I can't recall a single song.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 01:37 AM (h2Bdk)

Love is the Drug

Posted by: A dude in MI at August 13, 2019 02:16 AM (SxBH1)

831 830 I remember liking the music, but this many years later I can't recall a single song.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 01:37 AM (h2Bdk)

Love is the Drug
Posted by: A dude in MI at August 13, 2019 02:16 AM (SxBH1)


Okay. Remember that one.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 02:18 AM (h2Bdk)

832 Virginia Plain is cool, even with the warbling.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 02:19 AM (PUmDY)

833

Purge the Degenerate Heretic! Cast Out the Perfidious Xenos! Burn the Vile Mutant!

Posted by: Commissar Rockery Hudpeck at August 13, 2019 02:23 AM (UFLLM)

834 Do the Strand is also great.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 02:25 AM (PUmDY)

835 Purge the Degenerate Heretic! Cast Out the Perfidious Xenos! Burn the Vile Mutant!
Posted by: Commissar Rockery Hudpeck at August 13, 2019 02:23 AM (UFLLM)

How did we get on Warhammer 40K?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 02:28 AM (gmtFW)

836 Miley, we weren't going to tell you but, your lesbians, they weren't really there...


Posted by: Rockery Hudpeck at August 13, 2019 01:22 AM (UFLLM)

They were as real as you and I. Of course, I don't know about you for sure...

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at August 13, 2019 02:29 AM (NMAzL)

837 You could, but I hear she's been feeling a bit run down.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 02:08 AM (h2Bdk)

She has a flat affect.

Posted by: Fox2! at August 13, 2019 02:29 AM (Arprc)

838 How did we get on Warhammer 40K?

I'm reading the latest - #11? - Ciaphis Cain novel. Quite good. The last couple were more Contractual Obligation books. Then he took a break for a few years and it shows.

Posted by: Commissar Rockery Hudpeck at August 13, 2019 02:34 AM (UFLLM)

839 Much better than original, imo....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hRzGzRqNj58

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 02:39 AM (PUmDY)

840 I have never read a 40K novel. Working on the latest MHI book from Corriea right now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 02:40 AM (gmtFW)

841 THE REAL REASON THE LEFT TRIES TO DENY AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM: Because the very idea of America is infective and dangerous to all those who think they were born wearing spurs in order to ride the backs of others. And while the idea of America lives in one heart, they can't kill it. Protesters singing the American national anthem (video.)

Posted at 12:32 am by Sarah Hoyt

From over at Instapundit. This lady gets it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 02:41 AM (gmtFW)

842 Later Roman history to me feels like a Greek tragedy. You know how it has to end, and some people struggle to prevent it, but everyone keeps doing the same stupid shit and it all falls apart.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 02:10 AM (gmtFW)


Good thing present day US doesn't feel like that. Not at all.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 02:46 AM (h2Bdk)

843 Good thing present day US doesn't feel like that. Not at all.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 02:46 AM (h2Bdk)

Yep. No parallels at all. No sir.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 02:53 AM (gmtFW)

844 2HB is also very great. Play It Again, Sam.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 13, 2019 02:54 AM (PUmDY)

845 Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2019 12:27 AM (q2o3

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there's an echo in here.

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 13, 2019 03:04 AM (SXMRB)

846 in 2016 america was great thanks to liberals and despite conservative. Jan. 2017 it became AMERIKKKA! Make america grat again.

Posted by: raimondo at August 13, 2019 03:19 AM (33vXj)

847 I never liked Grat. He always smelled faintly of Cheetos and despair.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 13, 2019 03:34 AM (2B9A/)

848 Mornin, all.

Looks like everyone went to sleep.

Posted by: My life is insanity at August 13, 2019 04:06 AM (MDEY2)

849 I'm up, 800s already

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2019 04:08 AM (BbGew)

850 Ive been watching for life...almost pronounced before it twitched

Posted by: A dude in MI at August 13, 2019 04:09 AM (SxBH1)

851 Make america grat again.

Posted by: raimondo at August 13, 2019 03:19 AM (33vXj)
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LOL. GF.

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 13, 2019 04:13 AM (SXMRB)

852 Well, we better step it up if there's any chance for 1K

Posted by: My life is insanity at August 13, 2019 04:15 AM (MDEY2)

853 MLii
My back has been bothering me lately and have baseboards to do today and there is a ladder to be installed inside and thing has to weigh 500 pounds.

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2019 04:16 AM (BbGew)

854 Skip, that sucks. Heating Pad and Ice Packs your best friends?

I had to help move a water heater (purchased for up north project) and also a new washing machine for mom on Saturday. Both things I shouldn't have done! Still feeling it.

Posted by: My life is insanity at August 13, 2019 04:23 AM (MDEY2)

855 I bid everyone good night, but Aaron Neville did it better-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh7LJPM_ILE

Posted by: Miklos, time a-waitin' at August 13, 2019 04:24 AM (QzkSJ)

856 'Nite, Miklos

Posted by: My life is insanity at August 13, 2019 04:30 AM (MDEY2)

857 Beautiful song, beautiful voice.

Posted by: My life is insanity at August 13, 2019 04:33 AM (MDEY2)

858 852 Well, we better step it up if there's any chance for 1K
Posted by: My life is insanity at August 13, 2019 04:15 AM (MDEY2)

Steppin' it up here, boss.

Posted by: m at August 13, 2019 04:35 AM (r666Q)

859 Might take along Motrin.

They'll get to 1K after we leave.

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2019 04:37 AM (BbGew)

860 I have a series of stretches i should be doing for my back. They help. I need to get into that routine again.

Posted by: My life is insanity at August 13, 2019 04:39 AM (MDEY2)

861 I read somewhere stretching doesn't actually do anything beneficial.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 04:40 AM (h2Bdk)

862 Have cheese omelet, bacon and toast today.

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2019 04:40 AM (BbGew)

863 So yesterday my mom told my son ( he's there with her on weekdays) that she's older than all of us, knows more than all of us, and she doesn't need anyone staying with her...

Posted by: My life is insanity at August 13, 2019 04:43 AM (MDEY2)

864 They were doing the dishes at the time, she was drying. Then without missing a beat, she asks him, "Does the cookie sheet go in the silverware drawer?"

Posted by: My life is insanity at August 13, 2019 04:45 AM (MDEY2)

865 Mmmm, bacon!

Posted by: My life is insanity at August 13, 2019 04:45 AM (MDEY2)

866 The stretches are part of a series that work up to strengthening and resistance. Helped me immensely when I had a herniated discthat was healing.

Posted by: My life is insanity at August 13, 2019 04:47 AM (MDEY2)

867 Re: mom. This from the woman who no longer understands what time of day it is, or when to take her pills, or how to prepare any food, or do the laundry, or remember who are her children and who are her siblings, etc. etc.

Gotta laugh about it, or you'll cry!

Posted by: My life is insanity at August 13, 2019 04:53 AM (MDEY2)

868 She's that far gone that she doesn't remember her children?

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 04:55 AM (h2Bdk)

869 Oh yes stretching does help. Often as now back muscle starts out stiff and moving throughout the day it gets better.

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2019 05:00 AM (BbGew)

870 Somedays. She remembers ny older brother as he was as a younger man. (He's 67) so when she sees him she thinks he's "grandpa". Somedays thinks I'm her sister. She confuses my younger brother with my son. My older sister lives in another state and doesn't see her more than once a year, but it takes mom a long time to understand who she's talking to on the phone.

Posted by: My life is insanity at August 13, 2019 05:01 AM (MDEY2)

871 Oh. My grandmother was like that. She'd have really good days, and everyone would get excited. Then she'd have bad days.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 05:02 AM (h2Bdk)

872 I do my part making YouTube the #1 app in Pa

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2019 05:04 AM (BbGew)

873 Yeah, she's been on a downward slide lately. A day or two sometimes of relatively normal, than like the faucet was turned off: insanity.

Posted by: My life is insanity at August 13, 2019 05:05 AM (MDEY2)

874 870 Not knowing much about it but that makes sense, her brain is locked in a early time, I bet it's confusing to her but she goes through with it anyway.

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2019 05:06 AM (BbGew)

875 I can get lost in the YouTubes, Skip!

Ok, gotta go. Have a good day, all.

Count your Blessings; we've all got them, sometimes we just have to look harder!

Posted by: My life is insanity at August 13, 2019 05:08 AM (MDEY2)

876 Skip, yeah. She constantly is surprised at how old she looks when she looks in the mirror, or at her hands. She says, "I have old people's hands!"

Well...you're 89, mom...i guess that's why!

Posted by: My life is insanity at August 13, 2019 05:10 AM (MDEY2)

877
863 So yesterday my mom told my son ( he's there with her on weekdays) that she's older than all of us, knows more than all of us, and she doesn't need anyone staying with her...
Posted by: My life is insanity at August 13, 2019 04:43 AM (MDEY2)

864 They were doing the dishes at the time, she was drying. Then without missing a beat, she asks him, "Does the cookie sheet go in the silverware drawer?"
Posted by: My life is insanity at August 13, 2019 04:45 AM (MDEY2)


My mother at 90 still has her wits about her. Work in her kitchen, though, and you do not dare use her dish towel as a hand towel or vice versa.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 13, 2019 05:16 AM (pNxlR)

878 Insanity, she's lucky to have you as a son.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 05:20 AM (h2Bdk)

879 I had ACL replacement some years ago, so am a firm believer in stretching, just not in practice, and should.

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2019 05:25 AM (BbGew)

880 I'm out, did my part getting to 1K, so march on.

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2019 05:30 AM (BbGew)

881 Thanks, Ace's liver. But daughter.

Ok, at work now and I really need to go.

Have a great day, all.

Take it easy today, Skip!

Posted by: My life is insanity at August 13, 2019 05:32 AM (fInJv)

882 Sorry. Have a nice day.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 05:33 AM (h2Bdk)

883 Morning!
I haven't check my rain gauge yet, but I think someone is lying to me.
At 5 AM yesterday, the weather apps were promising about an inch to an inch and a half of rain.
All right, we needed it!!
It finally started to "rain" about 4 PM. If we got a scant quarter I will be surprised.
Brought to you by the same people that tell us in 14 years the world is going to end

Posted by: Bruce at August 13, 2019 05:40 AM (vd8XM)

884 Deep state we know who you are,deep state this time you've gone too far.You did it you did it you did it.


hummed to tune of 'Cheap Date' by Mothers of Invention.
You're welcome.

Posted by: Eromero at August 13, 2019 05:45 AM (UUkQp)

885 Woof.
Posted by: Elizabeth

Woof-Woof !

Posted by: JT at August 13, 2019 05:47 AM (arJlL)

886 Your know, at the end of even the worst day, we're still all Americans. Sadly, we've reached the place where there's more that divides us than unites us. That is to be lamented. But one thing we cannot do is widen the fractures between us by listening to these negative spirits and small minds who constantly pump out, just for mere money, these ridiculous and absurd conspiracy theories. That is not who we are as individuals and that is not who we need to be as a society. Stop listening to the lies. Believe the best, like the good book teaches. Besides, we know where you live.

Posted by: The Clintons. We love each and every one of you. at August 13, 2019 05:56 AM (1Ze3Q)

887
Good morning, Hordians.

Let's get out there and shame the lunatics by living a good life today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2019 06:10 AM (Wx/+I)

888 OK, so a man in Australia shouted Aloha Snackbar and started stabbing people.

And the authorities are saying that it's NOT terrorism.

WTF?

Posted by: Hikaru at August 13, 2019 06:13 AM (pgXNG)

889 OK, so a man in Australia shouted Aloha Snackbar and started stabbing people.

And the authorities are saying that it's NOT terrorism.

WTF?

Posted by: Hikaru at August 13, 2019 06:13 AM (pgXNG)


It's the Religion of Peace, man. Didn't you get the memo?

On, and I see you got the Hitler post cubed. Congrats!

Posted by: RickZ at August 13, 2019 06:18 AM (Y8PSl)

890 886 Besides, we know where you live.
Posted by: The Clintons. We love each and every one of you. at August 13, 2019 05:56 AM (1Ze3Q)

heh

Posted by: m at August 13, 2019 06:18 AM (r666Q)

891 Peace-->Pieces

Posted by: m at August 13, 2019 06:18 AM (r666Q)

892 Yes, I am a powder puff fluff bottom...

Posted by: Chris Gheydo Blomo at August 13, 2019 06:19 AM (yhf6w)

893 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 13, 2019 06:19 AM (cqNba)

894 OK, so a man in Australia shouted Aloha Snackbar and started stabbing people.

And the authorities are saying that it's NOT terrorism.

WTF?

Posted by: Hikaru at August 13, 2019 06:13 AM (pgXNG)

--

Ah yes, Democrat bigotry at work.

They fully expect Muslims to do it because bless their hearts the poor stupid things' brains don't work like white people's and they can't help it because they don't know any better, so that's not terrorism, silly.

And somehow REAL racism is the belief that Muslims are fully capable of learning, interacting, and behaving appropriately in society.

It's amazing when you think about it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -Eight Has No Home Here at August 13, 2019 06:24 AM (A8W5E)

895 "Still useful to God" a devotional from "The Upper Room

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2019 06:28 AM (+0VWg)

896
https://tinyurl.com/y2rm4jwf

Link for 895

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2019 06:29 AM (+0VWg)

897 Good morning!

Let's smile and be happy and strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2019 06:33 AM (u82oZ)

898 897 Good morning!

Let's smile and be happy and strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2019 06:33 AM (u82oZ)

Et tu, NaCly Dog.

Posted by: m at August 13, 2019 06:35 AM (r666Q)

899 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2019 06:35 AM (u82oZ)

900 888 OK, so a man in Australia shouted Aloha Snackbar and started stabbing people.

And the authorities are saying that it's NOT terrorism.

WTF?
Posted by: Hikaru at August 13, 2019 06:13 AM (pgXNG)


Hey man, numbers don't lie. All the terrorists are, you know, right wing guys. Everybody else who shoots up a school is misunderstood.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2019 06:36 AM (h2Bdk)

901 Moron Robbie -Eight Has No Home Here

We need a name for the new Age we are in. Because the Age of Reason and the Enlightenments are in the rear view mirror.

The Age of Reactionary Stupidity?

America, even today, is still a shining city on a hill compared with other societies like the UK, France, Russia, Germany, and China. We are still revolutionary with our inalienable individual rights.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2019 06:38 AM (u82oZ)

902 Bruce, that rain fell on us yesterday. Sorry for using it all up. It was glorious. The cracks in my yard even healed, hurrah!

Posted by: lizabth at August 13, 2019 06:39 AM (RFh5Y)

903 The Age of Reactionary Stupidity?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2019 06:38 AM (u82oZ)


The Age of Feelz Trump Facts.

Posted by: RickZ at August 13, 2019 06:43 AM (Y8PSl)

904 G'morning, Salty.

So Little VIA missed the AW board by one question. Three wrong out of 150. Max is two.
Re-Board in two weeks.

He is upbeat, and I am proud as hell of both him, and a Squadron that still maintains such high standards.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 13, 2019 06:43 AM (cqNba)

905 Boats and Ho's.

Posted by: FBI at August 13, 2019 06:50 AM (gx73s)

906 I have that Chet Atkins/Mark Knoffler album.

Posted by: Vic at August 13, 2019 06:51 AM (mpXpK)

907 The Age of Reactionary Stupidity?

--

We need a catchier acronym.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -Eight Has No Home Here at August 13, 2019 06:51 AM (A8W5E)

908 Morning.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 13, 2019 06:51 AM (p0A33)

909 Bruce, that rain fell on us yesterday. Sorry for using it all up. It was glorious. The cracks in my yard even healed, hurrah!
Posted by: lizabth

RAIN HOG!!!

I just got back from driving a friend to dialysis.
I did check the rain gauge and it showed a quarter inch.
Better then nothing, but like all the good democrats,

I wanted MORE!

Posted by: Bruce at August 13, 2019 06:51 AM (vd8XM)

910 We need a catchier acronym.
Posted by: Moron Robbie -Eight Has No Home Here at August 13, 2019 06:51 AM (A8W5E)

Human History?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 13, 2019 06:52 AM (ycWCI)

911 So Little VIA missed the AW board by one question. Three wrong out of 150. Max is two.
Re-Board in two weeks.

He is upbeat, and I am proud as hell of both him, and a Squadron that still maintains such high standards.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 13, 2019 06:43 AM (cqNba)

Sigh. Hey Rome was not built in a day

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 13, 2019 06:52 AM (p0A33)

912 Sigh. Hey Rome was not built in a day
Posted by: Nevergiveup

That's because the code people got involved.

Posted by: Bruce at August 13, 2019 06:53 AM (vd8XM)

913 We were supposed to get more rain overnight Bruce, but got very little. Looks like we're in for some clear and cool for a few days, which is good. We're still burning stuff that fell from last winter over here. Want to get it down before the gales of autumn, haha.

Posted by: lizabth at August 13, 2019 06:55 AM (RFh5Y)

914
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson
Save the Date!!!
the MiMoMe & Emporium is 21SEP19
in Chelsea, MI
at August 13, 2019 06:55 AM (cuot+)

915 Village Idiot's Apprentice

I'm sure he will ace the next test and board. Experience will help next time. Two weeks can go fast at sea.

Please tell him we are all pulling for him.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2019 06:56 AM (u82oZ)

916 "Sigh. Hey Rome was not built in a day"

Two words...

Unions.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 13, 2019 06:56 AM (cqNba)

917 >>>Whether it's Dove soap challenging body fascism in the beauty industry or Gillette attempting to tackle toxic masculinity in the name of selling razors, our woke pounds are there for the taking.

*Your* woke pounds.

These people will never learn.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y5bogqof

Posted by: m at August 13, 2019 06:56 AM (r666Q)

918 Shame on the moon. We only saw four meteors night.

Hay, all. Happy Tuesday.

Posted by: creeper at August 13, 2019 06:57 AM (RK98Q)

919 We were supposed to get more rain overnight Bruce, but got very little. Looks like we're in for some clear and cool for a few days, which is good. We're still burning stuff that fell from last winter over here. Want to get it down before the gales of autumn, haha.
Posted by: lizabth

The warm and humid is with us again. A very strange summer, though I will take that there has not been many tornadoes, or high wind storms.

Posted by: Bruce at August 13, 2019 06:57 AM (vd8XM)

920 A year before Jeffrey Epstein apparently killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, he told a New York Times reporter that he thought criminalizing sex with teen girls was a cultural aberration.

I guy like that aughta hang

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 13, 2019 06:57 AM (p0A33)

921 Village Idiot's Apprentice and Nevergiveup

The Seventh Fleet Jagmans show what happens when PQS becomes a sign-off, not a rigorous standard. Bad things. People die.

The aviation community has always set high standards, because of the continual need to land, at night, on a flight deck.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2019 06:59 AM (u82oZ)

922 "Please tell him we are all pulling for him."

Sure will.

But Like I said, he has become very old school in his two short years of service.

And he, as well as many of his friends all desire a return to standards, discipline and eliminating the 'Participation trophy' mentality of their youth.

I told him yesterday..'the older I get, the more I sound like you'.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 13, 2019 07:00 AM (cqNba)

923 "The aviation community has always set high standards, because of the continual need to land, at night, on a flight deck."


That...and Dolphins.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 13, 2019 07:01 AM (cqNba)

924 That's true, Bruce. I think we had one storm all summer, and it wasn't bad. It really has been an odd summer.

Posted by: lizabth at August 13, 2019 07:02 AM (RFh5Y)

925 Whether it's Dove soap challenging body fascism in the beauty industry or Gillette attempting to tackle toxic masculinity in the name of selling razors, our woke pounds are there for the taking.

There is less advertising about the quality and usefulness of the product. Now it's all about the feels of it and what the corporate manifesto is.

We are all things, to all peoples and also non-peoples.

Posted by: Bruce at August 13, 2019 07:02 AM (vd8XM)

926 So Little VIA missed the AW board by one question. Three wrong out of 150. Max is two.

Re-Board in two weeks.



He is upbeat, and I am proud as hell of both him, and a Squadron that still maintains such high standards.


Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 13, 2019 06:43 AM

---

I missed my first go. Got every question wrong about the Aim9L Sidewinder for some reason.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at August 13, 2019 07:02 AM (JUOKG)

927 We've finally been getting lots of rain for a couple weeks, and the water still keeps going out all the time. I'm starting to think it's not the well (like everybody told me) but the oump (what I thought from the beginning).

Posted by: Meh at August 13, 2019 07:02 AM (BSNxZ)

928 "It really has been an odd summer. "

2019 has been an odd year.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 13, 2019 07:03 AM (cqNba)

929 928 "It really has been an odd summer. "

2019 has been an odd year.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 13, 2019 07:03 AM (cqNba)

I'll sure as hell take the weather we have been having in Kentucky for August. A bit on the dry side, but nowhere near as miserable as usual.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 13, 2019 07:04 AM (ycWCI)

930 Freakout Fredo can't control his emotions. Sad!

Posted by: Trump Twitter at August 13, 2019 07:07 AM (gx73s)

931 "I missed my first go. Got every question wrong about the Aim9L Sidewinder for some reason. "

I remember my ESWS Board, waylay back in (s) 1981 (/s) the day.

Summoned into the CPO Mess.

The Commanding Officer chaired the Board.

He opened it with 'What is the mission of the United States Navy, as defined in Title X of the U.S. Code'

If you missed that one, your Board was terminated on the spot.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 13, 2019 07:08 AM (cqNba)

932 Village Idiot's Apprentice

True.

I used to read the Submarine blog The Stupid Shall Be Punished. And of course the aviation blog Neptunus Lex. Still miss Lex. Lots of good stories from a different perspective.

"No matter how elite the unit, there is still a finite amount of stupidity." I have generalized my saying to include our so-called societal elites, but their standard is much lower than in the aviation or submarine community.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2019 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

933 "Still miss Lex. Lots of good stories from a different perspective. "

I still feel the gut punch going to his blog on the day his death was announced.

And damn.....that man could write.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 13, 2019 07:10 AM (cqNba)

934 Village Idiot's Apprentice

I remember my SWO board. Was not asked a single question on Engineering. But Combat Systems, oh yes. Oh well, you need the slackers to make a Watch Quarter and Station bill healthy for all.

We also serve who are not the deep-selected hot runners.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2019 07:11 AM (u82oZ)

935 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Same here about Lex. The time I was hit harder was when my Dad died.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2019 07:13 AM (u82oZ)

936 What is the mission of the United States Navy, as defined in Title X of the U.S. Code'

A search for parties? AKA A Force for Good Times?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2019 07:14 AM (u82oZ)

937 Well, those back-to-school chores need doing. Meet with parents tonight, so must have things ready.

Have a great day, everyone.

May every traffic light turn green as you approach.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2019 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

938 Mornin' Horde

Posted by: wing at August 13, 2019 07:18 AM (JFzNN)

939 "A search for parties? AKA A Force for Good Times?"

I still ask folks, 'So this new policy...how does it support, enhance or advance the mission of the United States Navy?'

The looks of dumb incomprehension are not fun to see.

As you suddenly realize that these big brained folks who make policy have no idea what the Navy is supposed to be doing.

(Maintain preparedness to conduct prompt and sustained combat operations at sea)

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 13, 2019 07:19 AM (cqNba)

940 Re: all pulling for him

-

This right here

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Eight Has No Home Here at August 13, 2019 07:20 AM (RMwSd)

941 he told a New York Times reporter that he thought criminalizing sex with teen girls was a cultural aberration.

Because it is.

Posted by: Muslim Men Everywhere at August 13, 2019 07:23 AM (A7Sfu)

942 What is the mission of the United States Navy, as defined in Title X of the U.S. Code'



Kill people and break things?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2019 07:23 AM (xkaSw)

943 "Kill people and break things?"

Be prepared to kill people and break things at sea, quickly, and for a long time.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 13, 2019 07:26 AM (cqNba)

944 'mornin

Talking about boards reminded me of my e-5 board waaay back. Good memories.

Posted by: BifBewalskiBot - sofa king we todd did at August 13, 2019 07:26 AM (VcFUs)

945 There is less advertising about the quality and usefulness of the product. Now it's all about the feels of it and what the corporate manifesto is.

Considering that lying is as natural as breathing for most people, since we have "evolved" from concrete thinking to allegedly abstract thinking, since the English language has been deconstructed from dictionary definitions to triggers to guide emotional journeys , it makes perfect sense from a marketing standpoint.

Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 13, 2019 07:27 AM (A7Sfu)

946 Be prepared to kill people and break things at sea, quickly, and for a long time.... in service to the political interests and ambitions of The State.

Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 13, 2019 07:29 AM (A7Sfu)

947 " it makes perfect sense from a marketing standpoint. "

Hey...does this wrench work?


That's not the point, think about how many Chinese workers were able to eat because you bought it.


Oh...right.
Let me get the screwdriver as well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 13, 2019 07:30 AM (cqNba)

948 Talking about boards reminded me of my e-5 board waaay back. Good memories.

I remember my E-5 board.

"You're breathing. Great. We were prepared to waiver you if you weren't"

Posted by: Orville Snorkle at August 13, 2019 07:30 AM (vqIkG)

949 Ahh! Portland head light. I have sailed and steamed into that port, past that light, many times in my life. One of the most beautiful sights, and ports, I have ever put into. Absolutely beautiful and makes you proud to be an American.

In honor of that - and before willowing - here is Schooner Fair's version of "Portland Town"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AFekx6dHWg

Posted by: Publius Redux at August 13, 2019 07:31 AM (LV+BN)

950 A search for parties? AKA A Force for Good Times?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2019 07:14 AM


Old-schoolers would substitute a November for the Romeo in the subject of the search,

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 13, 2019 07:31 AM (uL22A)

951 "I remember my E-5 board.

"You're breathing. Great. We were prepared to waiver you if you weren't"

Had a Chief Engineer on USS First Ship who's degree was in interpretive dance.

I shit you not.

When things would go sidewise, the OPs Boss came down to help out.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 13, 2019 07:32 AM (cqNba)

952 Be prepared to kill people and break things at sea, quickly, and for a long time.... in service to the political interests and ambitions of The State.
Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 13, 2019 07:29 AM (A7Sfu)

Don't forget:

I am committed to excellence and the fair treatment of all.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 13, 2019 07:32 AM (p0A33)

953 "Don't forget:

I am committed to excellence and the fair treatment of all."

Just had to go there...

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 13, 2019 07:34 AM (cqNba)

954 Pass me the chainsaw these hot dogs are tougher than a 2 day old POOP.

Posted by: saf at August 13, 2019 07:34 AM (5IHGB)

955 I am committed to excellence and the fair treatment of all."

Just had to go there...
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 13, 2019 07:34 AM (cqNba)

To me that's an indication of when the confusion of the mission started

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 13, 2019 07:35 AM (p0A33)

956 Don't forget: I am committed to excellence and the fair treatment of all.

As long as that phrase is vocalized in up-talk.

Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 13, 2019 07:36 AM (A7Sfu)

957 "I am committed to excellence and the fair treatment of all."

Just one of the reasons we 'love' you.

Posted by: Bremerloes & Grotonpotomii at August 13, 2019 07:37 AM (uL22A)

958 CNN is claiming cuomo is a victim of racism. LOL

Idiots..A bunch of Fredos, the whole of them

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 13, 2019 07:38 AM (p0A33)

959 Just one of the reasons we 'love' you.
Posted by: Bremerloes & Grotonpotomii at August 13, 2019 07:37 AM (uL22A)


That, and that sweet BAH/BAS.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 13, 2019 07:39 AM (t+qrx)

960 The IDF has cancelled the training of various reserve divisions, including elite Ground Forces and in the Northern Command, due to budgetary concerns.

According to a report in Haaretz, senior reserve officers were informed on Monday that division drills for combat on the southern and northern fronts have been cancelled until the end of the year.

Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 13, 2019 07:41 AM (p0A33)

961 CNN is claiming...

Yeah, they do a lot of that.
One of the many reasons we ignore them.

Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 13, 2019 07:43 AM (A7Sfu)

962 894 Ah yes, Democrat bigotry at work.

They fully expect Muslims to do it because bless their hearts the poor stupid things' brains don't work like white people's and they can't help it because they don't know any better, so that's not terrorism, silly.

And somehow REAL racism is the belief that Muslims are fully capable of learning, interacting, and behaving appropriately in society.

It's amazing when you think about it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie -Eight Has No Home Here at August 13, 2019 06:24 AM (A8W5E)

God forbid society hold them to any actual standards.

Posted by: Hikaru at August 13, 2019 07:44 AM (sm6Pk)

963 Cuomo is a victim of his own mouth.

Posted by: Case, gimme back my bullets at August 13, 2019 07:45 AM (K8FS4)

964 "You're breathing. Great. We were prepared to waiver you if you weren't"
Posted by: Orville Snorkle

While ot wasn't quite that bad, it was pretty easy to pass. Getting boarded for WO1 was a whole different thing four years later.

Posted by: BifBewalskiBot - sofa king we todd did at August 13, 2019 07:46 AM (VcFUs)

965 Ah, Navy boards. The day I went for my dolphins, people were giving me sad looks at breakfast. Reported to the closet that passed for a library, waited a bit, and in came the.two officers...the freaking XO and the Engineer. The board went well, and the walkthrough only left me with 5 or 6 lookups. There were 4 of us and everybody made it.
Then the real work started

Posted by: Gooshy at August 13, 2019 07:47 AM (/hiIY)

966 God forbid society hold them to any actual standards.

And by "them" you can mean either "Democrat bigots" or "Muslims".

Posted by: Wheat Supremacist
Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at August 13, 2019 07:47 AM (A7Sfu)

967 CNN is claiming cuomo is a victim of racism. LOL



Idiots..A bunch of Fredos, the whole of them


Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 13, 2019 07:38 AM

---

Problem is numerous hosts on cnn have used that exact same word against people they don't like, so they are calling themselves racist.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at August 13, 2019 07:50 AM (JUOKG)

968 If Cuomo were short could I call him a Frodo?

Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at August 13, 2019 07:51 AM (fAuEJ)

969 Ah, Navy boards. The day I went for my dolphins,
people were giving me sad looks at breakfast. Reported to the closet
that passed for a library, waited a bit, and in came the.two
officers...the freaking XO and the Engineer. The board went well, and
the walkthrough only left me with 5 or 6 lookups. There were 4 of us and
everybody made it.

Then the real work started


Posted by: Gooshy at August 13, 2019 07:47 AM

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You don't want to be on the Dink list.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at August 13, 2019 07:52 AM (JUOKG)

970
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman

What about, 'Bye, Felicia'? I've heard a few CNN talking heads use that one. I'm thinking that can be equated to a Fredo comment?

Posted by: squeakywheel at August 13, 2019 07:52 AM (TpZ98)

971 I qualified as a launcher systems and warhead warrant for this bad boy. https://tinyurl.com/y63l4wbc

Was a couple years back. The senior warrant on my board was at that time the senior warrant in the army. Dude was a spec 4 manning the missile battery in key west during the crisis in the early 60s

Posted by: BifBewalskiBot - sofa king we todd did at August 13, 2019 07:54 AM (VcFUs)

972 That, and that sweet BAH/BAS.
Posted by: hogmartin at August 13, 2019 07:39 AM


How could you ever think such a thing?

It's those uniforms. Every woman loves a sharp-dressed man.

Posted by: Bremerloes & Grotonpotomii at August 13, 2019 07:54 AM (uL22A)

973 967 Problem is numerous hosts on cnn have used that exact same word against people they don't like, so they are calling themselves racist.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at August 13, 2019 07:50 AM (JUOKG)

Oh, fuck him with a goddamn chainsaw.

He so badly wants to be able to play the race card so he can get just as much Progressive Victim points as his black, Hispanic, and muslim co-workers.

But he isn't, and he can't, he's a privileged little fucktard of below-average intellect.

And he can stew in his shit-stained inferiority forever.

Posted by: Hikaru at August 13, 2019 07:56 AM (sm6Pk)

974 JJ is NOOD

Posted by: Bruce at August 13, 2019 07:56 AM (vd8XM)

975 Any boards that I did in the Army were pretty standard. But, I had one one soldier who I put up for soldier of the month board that while a bright and squared away young man could be a bit of a smart ass. When the board was asking chain of command questions, he was asked who the Commander-in Chief was. He replied with a totally straight face and perfect military bearing, Hillary Clinton (Bill was in office the the time.). While my soldier maintained his composure, the entire board fell out laughing. My soldier was awarded soldier of the month.

Posted by: Tennessee Jed at August 13, 2019 07:58 AM (KbCvz)

976 "I qualified as a launcher systems and warhead warrant for this bad boy. https://tinyurl.com/y63l4wbc "

I can still find some of the old installations around the greater Baltimore area.

And few people remember the batteries down at Ft Meade, to protect the capitol.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 13, 2019 07:58 AM (cqNba)

977 Oh yeah, the dink list. As if being a non-qual puke wasn't bad enough!

Wouldn't trade a minute of it.

Posted by: Gooshy at August 13, 2019 08:01 AM (9n9yW)

978 I can still find some of the old installations around the greater Baltimore area.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 13, 2019 07:58 AM

I remember there was a Nike site along Lake Michigan in Chicago. It was on the south side around 87th st. Used to see it on the way to the Museum of Science Industry. They would give them some sun light on occasion.

Posted by: Cicero Skip at August 13, 2019 08:04 AM (FIrEF)

979 and Morning report is up.

Posted by: Cicero Skip at August 13, 2019 08:05 AM (FIrEF)

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