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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (8/3/21)

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The Quotes of The Day


Quote I

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Friedrich Nietzsche


Quote II

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. Ronald Reagan

Quote III

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.Oscar Wilde


Quote IV

“The dystopian future of science fiction is now. It’s horrifying that Amazon is asking people to sell their bodies, but it’s even worse that people are doing it for such a low price,” Albert Fox Cahn, the executive director of the New York-based Surveillance Technology Oversight Project


Quote V

“It makes me very sad and gives me huge anxiety with going out in public wearing anything hot,”Influencer Mikaela Testa

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This is what Fascism looks like. The unelected bureaucrats of the CDC say you can't evict tenants.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Tuesday it will extend the federal eviction moratorium through October 3, 2021 after the ban lapsed over the weekend.

The announcement comes after pressure from House Democrats including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo. The White House previously said Biden did not have the authority extend the ban, given a June Supreme Court ruling that said only Congress can enact a such a ban. Congressional Democrats did not appear to have enough votes to do so, and the House is currently in recess.

Now, the CDC will instead issue a ban in counties “experiencing substantial and high levels of community transmission levels” of in Covid-19, which will cover an estimated 90% of renters, according to Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.


Waiting for the impeachment proceedings to begin? Don't hold your breath as Sunsettin' Paste Eatin' Uncle Joe says 'Fuck off constitution.'

President Biden Announces on Live TV That He Intends to Break His Oath of Office

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Finally, NPR takes the mask off. Journalists will be allowed to engage in political activism.

Taxpayers are raising renewed calls to defund NPR after the public broadcaster announced that journalists can now openly advocate for a litany of hot-button political topics.

Last month, National Public Radio loosened its ethics policy, which long prevented correspondents from taking a public position on “controversial” or “polarizing” issues, or participating in politically themed demonstrations. NPR Public Editor Kelly McBride announced on July 29:


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I can't speak for you. But, I'm enjoying the Fail!

Gwen Berry, a U.S. Olympic hammer thrower who turned away from the American flag during the playing of the national anthem, failed to medal during finals on Tuesday.

According to the New York Post, Berry finished in eleventh place out of twelve competitors, registering a distance of 71.35 meters.


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Friend and fellow Cob CBD passed this along. It's really funny.



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Shoved into the latest "Infrastructure Bill" was this little tidbit: the bill will mandate all new vehicles must have the technology to detect drunk drivers and alert systems to check backseats before turning off the vehicle.


Debbie Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, released a statement that read: "We can't wait any longer to make our roads safer from drunk driving accidents." She went on to say, "The inclusion of my bill in the bipartisan infrastructure package will help incentivize the development and implementation of technology to stop drunk driving once and for all and save lives."

Another provision in the bill was to combat deaths of children accidentally left in hot cars called a "door logic" alert that reminds drivers to check the backseat when turning off the engine.

Janette Fennell, president of Kids and Car Safety, said more than 1,000 children had died in hot cars since 1990.

"The Senate version is only requesting a reminder system that does not detect anything," Fennell said. "It does not let you know if there is an actual child in the back seat.

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Grabbing ass = bad. Letting Grandma and Grandpa die from the Kung Flu in a nursing home = Yawn.


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As they say, "Hindsight is 20/20 vision." And that holds true with Frontier Airlines.

Passenger duct-taped to seat after ‘groping flight attendants’ breasts and punching a third’

In a statement, Frontier Airlines said the ‘passenger made inappropriate physical contact with a flight attendant and subsequently physically assaulted another flight attendant’. That resulted in him needing to be ‘restrained until the flight landed in Miami and law enforcement arrived’.

Frontier Airlines added that the flight attendants were relieved of flying amid an investigation.

But in a later statement, the airline said that ‘the proper policies for restraining a passenger were not followed’ and ‘the flight attendants involved have been suspended pending further investigation’.

Drunk and combative at 35,000 feet, what the hell were they supposed to do, throw him out of the GD plane?


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Way back when, The ONT covered the story of Dan Price Co-Founder and CEO of Gravity Payments.He decided to cut his salary and give higher wages to his staff. How did that turn out? Not what you were expecting I bet.

Dan Price is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gravity Payments, a credit card processing and financial services company. In 2015, the company made headlines all over the world when Price announced that his employees would receive a minimum salary of $70,000.

To finance this move, Dan cut his own $1.1M pay by 90%. At the time, this decision received a lot of criticism but 6 years later, the company is thriving and Price said it has made him happier and a better boss.

Good on them all.


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Woke justice is corrected.

Missouri Governor Mike Parson (R) pardoned Mark and Patricia McCloskey on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported.

The McCloskeys, both lawyers, will not lose their law licenses or their rights to own firearms.


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Hell hath no fury as a woman contractor scorned. I've dealt with some crazy contractors. Glad I never ran into him.

A contractor who didn’t receive the payment he was promised rented an excavator and destroyed the façade of an apartment building he himself built.

Tenants were supposed to move into a newly completed apartment building in Blumberg, a small town in Germany’s Baden-Wurttemberg, in the next couple of weeks, but a bizarre incident has delayed their plans by at least three months. Late last month, a man operating an excavator showed up at the building and began meticulously tearing down the façade, breaking glass windows and destroying balconies, ultimately leaving the place looking like it had been in a war. Stranger still was that the man responsible for the devastation was allegedly the contractor who had been responsible for building the edifice in the first place.


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I think most of us here enjoy a good hot dog. No this isn't the ketchup vs. mustard fight. Best hot dogs in every state. (H/T Doof)

If the mere mention of the word "hot dog" makes your mouth water, you're in good company. According to Eric Mittenthal, president of the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, Americans eat approximately seven billion hot dogs just between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

Certain areas of the country are famous for their hot dogs. We all know that it would be a foodie crime to go to a place like Chicago or New York City and leave without eating at least one hot dog. But the truth is, every state has a food truck or restaurant that serves up a five-star hot dog. From the classic frankfurter to unique twists that take advantage of local ingredients (looking at you, Hawaii!), you can rest assured that no matter where you go in America, there's a place to satisfy your hankering for a hot dog.

Nope, not heading to Wisconsin Dells. Not going to do it.


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While in college the theme was, "Quantity not quality." Well so much for that with Molson Coors.

Molson Coors Just Axed 11 Cheap Beers That You Probably Regret Drinking
The beverage company is veering toward hard seltzers and "premiumization" (sorry, Keystone Ice)

Pour one out for the terrible cheap beer you drank in college, because 11 of those brands will soon be gone.

On a recent earnings call, Molson Coors CEO Gavin Hattersley announced nearly a dozen “economy” beer brands will be axed from its lineup. “This will improve supply chain flexibility for our more profitable priority brands, enhance our innovation efforts, enable us to better focus resources and ensure dependable and on-time shipments to our distributors,” he said during the call. “We’re going to invest bigger behind our fast growing global hard seltzer portfolio and we are going to permanently streamline a smaller portfolio of legacy brands.”

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Sometimes I think I have a bad day at work. Then I think, perhaps my day wasn't so bad.


Feds free trucker accused of sneaking 2,270 pounds of pot into Detroit: 'I got justice'


After 16 days of professing his innocence in an American jail cell, a Canadian trucker accused of smuggling more than 2,270 pounds of "highly potent" pot into Detroit has been freed.

And the charges have been dropped.

Tasbir Singh, 32, of Windsor, Ontario, poses in this February 2021 photo with his son. He was freed from U.S. authorities on July 23, 2021 after serving 16 days in jail on marijuana charges that were dropped.
At issue was whether or not the trucker really knew he was hauling $3.2 million worth of marijuana across international lines.

The truck driver said he had no idea weed was in the truck, but rather believed he was transporting coil rings, as was written on all the paperwork. His lawyer, Detroit-based criminal defense attorney Ellen Michaels, investigated the case and says this is what really happened: Slick marijuana dealers hacked into a trucking company's computers, created a fake order for coil springs, and then filled the truck with marijuana instead.

Dealing with Feds, I'm surprised he wasn't imprisoned for life.

If You Don’t Suspect Deep State Provocation At The Jan. 6 Riot, Start Paying Attention
It's required to ask at the outset of leftists' 1/6 'Truth Commission': How much of what led to Donald Trump supporters 'storming the capitol' was a setup?

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Just because you're cute doesn't mean that you aren't a problem.

Officials are closing some areas on the south shore of Lake Tahoe after some chipmunks tested positive for plague.

The Tahoe Daily Tribune reports that the Taylor Creek Visitor Center, Kiva Beach and their parking areas will be off limits through Friday.

During that time, the U.S. Forest Service will be conducting vector control treatments to those areas.


I wonder if Nancy Pelosi infected those little critters.

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The ONT Musical Interlude


RIP Poco's Paul Cotton


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Born on this day: 3 Aug 1926
American singer Tony Bennett who had the 1955 UK No.1 single 'Stranger In Paradise' and the 1965 UK No.25 single 'I Left My Heart In San Francisco'. In 1998, Bennett made an unlikely but highly successful appearance on the final day of a mud-soaked Glastonbury Festival in the UK dressed in an immaculate suit and tie, his whole set on this occasion consisting of songs about the weather. Bennett and Amy Winehouse recorded the duet 'Body and Soul' in March 2011 - the final recording made by Winehouse before her death on July 23, 2011 at the age of 27. When the song charted on the Billboard Hot 100 it made Bennett, at age 85, the oldest living artist ever to chart on the Hot 100. via thisdayinmusic.com


On this day: 3 Aug 1963
The Beach Boys released 'Surfer Girl', the first song Brian Wilson ever wrote and the first one he produced. via thisdayinmusic.com


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A life long dream. Gone. Genius Award Winner.

Irish boxer injures himself while celebrating win, now out of Olympics


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Earlier we celebrated Fail. Now we celebrate, Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

A Chicago-born U.S. wrestler thanked God and expressed joy at representing the United States after becoming the first African-American woman to win gold in wrestling.

Tamyra Mensah-Stock received her gold medal Tuesday at the Tokyo Olympics after defeating Nigeria’s Blessing Oborududu 4-1 in the women’s freestyle 68kg finals, according to the Olympics’ organizers.

She is the second U.S. female in the history of the Olympics to win gold in wrestling, after Helen Louise Maroulis’ gold medal victory in the 53kg category in Rio 2016.


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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 09:54 PM




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1

Whoomp! There it is...

Posted by: Zettao at August 03, 2021 08:54 PM (ndLSM)

2

Errr, ZettaI...

Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 08:55 PM (ndLSM)

3 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 03, 2021 08:55 PM (mD/uy)

4

It's really me... Honest!

Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 08:55 PM (ndLSM)

5 That picture looks very primeval.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at August 03, 2021 08:55 PM (Dc2NZ)

6 Dang, oh well. Now to check out the content! Back in about 20 min.

Posted by: Clemenza at August 03, 2021 08:56 PM (r1z5A)

7

I nooded...

Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 08:56 PM (ndLSM)

8 Wait, wait... I'm not through with JJ's headlines yet...!



Posted by: mindfuled vebverker mit funny aksent at August 03, 2021 08:56 PM (JtBPN)

9 good evening

Posted by: wing at August 03, 2021 08:56 PM (PlW9M)

10 Hello, Horde!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at August 03, 2021 08:57 PM (SRRAx)

11 Another great ONT, Mis Hum! Many thanks!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at August 03, 2021 08:57 PM (rwusL)

12 Nutz!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 08:57 PM (hOUT3)

13 8 Wait, wait... I'm not through with JJ's headlines yet...!



Posted by: mindfuled vebverker mit funny aksent at August 03, 2021 08:56 PM (JtBPN)

Everyday I compose an ONT I question if I have enough content? Then I review JJ's Morning Report and think I have a long way to go.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 03, 2021 08:58 PM (aA3+G)

14 Drunk and combative at 35,000 feet, what the hell were they supposed to do, throw him out of the GD plane?

I keep telling you all, when I an elected King TP I, there's gonna be some changes.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 03, 2021 08:58 PM (mD/uy)

15 Muddy Waters & James Cotton- Got My Mojo Working 1966 - NOW you're cookin'!

Posted by: mudville cottonpicker - rekrowbew at August 03, 2021 08:58 PM (JtBPN)

16 You have to have a fucking breathalyzer in your car?!?!? So much for my plans to ever buy a new car again. I don't drink!

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 03, 2021 08:59 PM (8548M)

17 Evening, Horde...How goes it?

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 03, 2021 08:59 PM (K5n5d)

18
Drunk and combative at 35,000 feet, what the hell were they supposed to do, throw him out of the GD plane?

__________

Stuff him in the overhead. And that squalling brat, too.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 03, 2021 09:00 PM (/U27+)

19 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 03, 2021 09:00 PM (arJlL)

20 Something tells me that despite the pardon from Governor Parsons, the McCloskeys' woes are far from over...

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 03, 2021 09:00 PM (K5n5d)

21 So basically the CDC just went and did what many cynics have been predicting it would: crown itself shadow emperor and make political and governmental policy decisions. One less reason to trust them...

Posted by: CppThis at August 03, 2021 09:00 PM (8h1h1)

22 You have to have a fucking breathalyzer in your car?!?!? So much for my plans to ever buy a new car again. I don't drink!
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 03, 2021 08:59 PM (8548M)
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I don't drink and I don't have kids. Yet I need to have a nanny in my car with me every second I'm driving. No thanks.

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 03, 2021 09:01 PM (K5n5d)

23 There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche says there's "madness in love"
Gets syphilis. Goes insane.
QED

Posted by: 29Victor at August 03, 2021 09:02 PM (BJKQV)

24 So if my 50lb work bag is in the back seat, I can't shut my engine off.


Great.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 03, 2021 09:02 PM (6FeV1)

25 Shoppers stare at me in disgust because my outfits are too skimpy but I just want to look hot

Poor little insecure look@me gal. One can look hot, maybe even hotter, without going to the grocery in your underwear.

Posted by: mindful webworker - totally not an Internet influenza at August 03, 2021 09:02 PM (JtBPN)

26 I think that garage owner will may live to regret that color palette!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 09:02 PM (hOUT3)

27 So basically the CDC just went and did what many cynics have been predicting it would: crown itself shadow emperor and make political and governmental policy decisions. One less reason to trust them...
Posted by: CppThis at August 03, 2021 09:00 PM (8h1h1)
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Let us all bow our heads and give thanks and praise to our benevolent overlords!

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 03, 2021 09:02 PM (K5n5d)

28 Exdem13

Seems someone is trying to make real Gundam Build Fighters real but seems more like the original Mech Warrior - https://youtu.be/REkNEdhql8g

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 03, 2021 09:04 PM (M5FBC)

29 Holy crap, that's a lot of content.

Would you say we have a plethora of content, Jefe?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 03, 2021 09:05 PM (4fSQf)

30 Happy ONT!

Posted by: Muad'dib at August 03, 2021 09:05 PM (2U9Ls)

31 You have to have a fucking breathalyzer in your car?!?!? So much for my plans to ever buy a new car again. I don't drink!
Posted by: Mrs. Peel
So basically the CDC just went and did what many cynics have been predicting it would: crown itself shadow emperor and make political and governmental policy decisions. One less reason to trust them...
Posted by: CppThis

This is all fascism, straight up. We are ruled by the senile, dotard Fuhrer, and his gang of fools.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....lost in a lost world at August 03, 2021 09:05 PM (tjZg/)

32 Wow, girthy ONT.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 03, 2021 09:05 PM (r1z5A)

33 That Gravity Payments story is so damn cool.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 03, 2021 09:06 PM (YglAn)

34 Would you say we have a plethora of content, Jefe?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

A veritable cornucopia!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 03, 2021 09:06 PM (mD/uy)

35 26 I think that garage owner will may live to regret that color palette!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 09:02 PM (hOUT3)

Depends if it is a marital community law state.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 03, 2021 09:06 PM (aA3+G)

36 Nietzsche says there's "madness in love"
Gets syphilis. Goes insane.
QED
Posted by: 29Victor at August 03, 2021 09:02 PM (BJKQV)

Isn't it ironic?

Posted by: Alanis at August 03, 2021 09:07 PM (4fSQf)

37 Y'know, Nietzsche says: "Out of chaos comes order." "And hot dogs."

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 03, 2021 09:07 PM (bCkNL)

38 Everyday I compose an ONT I question if I have enough content? Then I review JJ's Morning Report and think I have a long way to go.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 03, 2021 08:58 PM (aA3+G)

^^COBS are human too! :-) Another awesome ONT. Thank you so much!

Posted by: Iris at August 03, 2021 09:07 PM (6lKe4)

39 GREAT ONT, MisHum!!!

Good evening, Horde!

Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 09:07 PM (TdMsT)

40
The AKC has confirmed that Delilah has accumulated enough points to become a Gold-level Grand Champion. So she's now GCHG Soyara's Devilish Delilah.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 03, 2021 09:07 PM (/U27+)

41 RE: CDC unilaterally declaring that renters don't have to pay rent...Help my out here, I'm struggling with something.
1. Shadowy orgs are buying up single-family homes to turn them into rental properties, presumably so they can generate revenue.
2. Government says people don't have to pay rent.
3. ????
4. Profit!
What am I missing here?

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 03, 2021 09:07 PM (K5n5d)

42 Muddy Waters & James Cotton- Got My Mojo Working 1966 - NOW you're cookin'!
Posted by: mudville cottonpicker - rekrowbew at August 03, 2021 08:58 PM (JtBPN)
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Cooking with gas! Great song!!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at August 03, 2021 09:08 PM (rwusL)

43 Simone Bilies cheered on the Chinese who was competed against her? Who does that? I think she has an advertising deal with China. What a traitor to this country.

Posted by: Tamminator at August 03, 2021 09:08 PM (ylaH+)

44 So your kid's in the back seat. You get out of the car to get the kid out of the back seat, because the Government Mandated child door locks are enabled, and now you got a kid locked into a running vehicle with the windows closed and no driver in it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 03, 2021 09:08 PM (6FeV1)

45 Hey all, I haven't been around much...well Ive been stalking but not flapping my gums in the comments. Did I understand that Jewells is moving to AZ?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 03, 2021 09:08 PM (l5R6/)

46 Depends if it is a marital community law state.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 03, 2021 09:06 PM (aA3+G)


Not to worry, the lawyers will still make money either way!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 09:08 PM (hOUT3)

47 It is here, Picard, where you hold the key to all future life on earth.- Q

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 03, 2021 09:08 PM (WFMLs)

48 {{{Ladyl}}}

Posted by: wing at August 03, 2021 09:08 PM (PlW9M)

49 40
The AKC has confirmed that Delilah has accumulated enough points to become a Gold-level Grand Champion. So she's now GCHG Soyara's Devilish Delilah.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 03, 2021 09:07 PM (/U27+)

Congrats playing politics in the doggeh world!
A job well done.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 03, 2021 09:08 PM (aA3+G)

50 So basically the CDC just went and did what many cynics have been predicting it would: crown itself shadow emperor and make political and governmental policy decisions. One less reason to trust them...
Posted by: CppThis

This is all fascism, straight up. We are ruled by the senile, dotard Fuhrer, and his gang of fools.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....l


I vote for 4 count em 4! Feds. Yet there are millions of them mandating what I can and cannot do.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 03, 2021 09:09 PM (r1z5A)

51 Gonna be a bourbonless ONT for me tonight *sad trombone* I actually have to leave for work at about 9:30 Central.

Late arrival compounded by an even later delayed flight. See y'all in the wee hours, Horde!


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 03, 2021 09:09 PM (QzJWU)

52 My company is full-on Karen - considering mandating the vaccine. Going back to masks. And one manager mentioned (to general acclaim) that he met Fauci over the weekend at the WWII memorial and told him "thanks for everything you do". Zero ability to comprehend the facism and gaslighting of the ruling elite.

Posted by: Iris at August 03, 2021 09:09 PM (6lKe4)

53 The Dells are Wisconsin's version of Gatlinburg.

Every state has a version of Gatlinburg.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 03, 2021 09:09 PM (vuisn)

54
I just saw this. The director of the NIH apparently said parents should wear masks at home when with their children. He said that on some XiNN show this afternoon.

He has now clarified that statement, that no, he didn't mean wear mask at home, he meant (bunch of crap)...

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (f1Vqw) at August 03, 2021 09:09 PM (f1Vqw)

55 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 03, 2021 09:07 PM (/U27+)

Hadrian, that is great news, Congratulations to the three of ye!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 09:10 PM (hOUT3)

56 Paul Cotton was also in Illinois Speed Press.

Posted by: klaftern at August 03, 2021 09:10 PM (r4sI4)

57 The AKC has confirmed that Delilah has accumulated enough points to become a Gold-level Grand Champion. So she's now GCHG Soyara's Devilish Delilah.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 03, 2021 09:07 PM (/U27+)
* * * *
Congratulations to all!! A well-deserved honor indeed!!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at August 03, 2021 09:10 PM (rwusL)

58 The unelected bureaucrats of the CDC say you can't evict tenants.

All your property are mine.


Posted by: Uncle Sam Joe at August 03, 2021 09:10 PM (Jd8Rz)

59 CDC already lost in court WTF

Posted by: Jean at August 03, 2021 09:10 PM (U/0zO)

60 A Norwegian Olympic hurdler set a world, and Olympic, record in the 400 meter hurdles. The record time, 45.94 was also better than the 400 meter Olympic record of 45.70, without hurdles. Amazing feat.

Posted by: Javems at August 03, 2021 09:10 PM (8SSHh)

61 28 Exdem13

Seems someone is trying to make real Gundam Build Fighters real but seems more like the original Mech Warrior - https://youtu.be/REkNEdhql8g
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That's some sweet stuff right there Anna. I actually ran a UC Gundam RPG for my Saturday group using 1/144 scale MS models about 15 years ago now. Two hobby pleasures united!

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 09:11 PM (W+kMI)

62 Dear {{{Ladyl}}}!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 09:11 PM (hOUT3)

63
Get vaccinated so you can continue to wear a mask!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 03, 2021 09:11 PM (/U27+)

64 Just saw the following words of wisdom in the chat in LOTRO:

give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. teach a man to fish and you can get a portion of his catch for a lifetime and never go hungry

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 03, 2021 09:11 PM (K5n5d)

65 Debbie Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, is another politician who inherited her job. I guess politicians' families can't be expected to get real jobs like the rest of us.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 03, 2021 09:11 PM (+lVUW)

66 Speaking of the CDC, during a lull at work I went snooping around the Internet trying to find some cold hard data on exactly how deadly this C19 delta variant actually is compared to the OG stuff. Surprise surprise, there doesn't seem to be very much out there in terms of cold hard metrics like case fatality rate to do much of a comparison, but plenty of hyperventilating op-ed using scary looking but largely meaningless and overspecific percentages trying to argue that it's either the most worstest thing ever or ain't no thang, depending on the ideological affiliation of the source. Fucking useless, but as usual it lets everyone shout "we're following the data!" without straying from their own predetermined path.

Posted by: CppThis at August 03, 2021 09:11 PM (8h1h1)

67 59 CDC already lost in court WTF
Posted by: Jean at August 03, 2021 09:10 PM (U/0zO


lol. Rules don't matter any more. Laws are for thee, not me.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 03, 2021 09:12 PM (4fSQf)

68 I've eaten the the "best hot dog" place in Tennessee.

They aren't bad, but I don't think they deserve that billing. Honestly, I'd rather eat a Sonic chili cheese coney.

The best hot dog I've had around here is at a gas station chain that makes their own bean-less chili/hot dog meat sauce.

The place in the article slathered their hit dog with mayo, which in my opinion was pretty disgusting.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 03, 2021 09:12 PM (5We2S)

69 give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. teach a man to fish and you can get a portion of his catch for a lifetime and never go hungry
Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 03, 2021 09:11 PM (K5n5d)

Teach a man to fish, and then he'll teach someone else how to fish, and soon you'll have to find another guy to teach how to stock the stream...

Fuck it. Just give him a fish and tell him to go away.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 03, 2021 09:12 PM (6FeV1)

70 (cont.)

Naturally, this included a couple of CDC info blasts featuring some fairly impressive rhetorical gymnastics attempting to persuade me that being vaccinated would both protect me from the delta variant while also not protecting me from it. Pick a side, guys: either it works, it doesn't work, or you don't actually know if it works. Because after 18 months of essentially everyone in with any sort of power spewing constant bullshit, exploiting the crisis for short term political gain, and changing course every couple of weeks, "just trust our executive summary, we're from the government and we're here to help" is simply not good enough.

Posted by: CppThis at August 03, 2021 09:13 PM (8h1h1)

71 Ah, modern American technology-assisted fascism. The government won't do the 1984-style intrusive stuff, they'll just hire out to Bezos and allied Leftard-run corporations instead. Isn't this the sort of situation that the SF movies of the Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties were worried about?

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 09:13 PM (W+kMI)

72 Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 03, 2021 09:08 PM (6FeV1)

My mechanic said that the rule in his shop is that you roll down the front windows before you start any car in for service and you do not roll them back up until servicing is complete!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 09:13 PM (hOUT3)

73 Kentucky Fried Movie was a vision of the future:

tinyurl.com/5bvnd2aj

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2021 09:14 PM (Sq5xa)

74 41 RE: CDC unilaterally declaring that renters don't have to pay rent...Help my out here, I'm struggling with something.
1. Shadowy orgs are buying up single-family homes to turn them into rental properties, presumably so they can generate revenue.
2. Government says people don't have to pay rent.
3. ????
4. Profit!
What am I missing here?
Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 03, 2021 09:07 PM (K5n5d)

Landlords are going bankrupt because they can't collect rent. When the rule finally expires there will be mass evictions because the renters won't have the money for the back rent. Banks pick up cheap foreclosed properties.

It used to be a bad thing for banks to own a bunch of foreclosed properties. Now it's becoming a good thing and that ain't good.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 03, 2021 09:14 PM (BJKQV)

75 Heh Exdem13

Hopefully our mutual explanations of the universe and the kits did not make Alabama's roll backwards.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 03, 2021 09:14 PM (M5FBC)

76 A veritable cornucopia!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 03, 2021 09:06 PM



A surfeit, some may say...

Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 09:14 PM (ndLSM)

77 66 Speaking of the CDC, during a lull at work I went snooping around the
Internet trying to find some cold hard data on exactly how deadly this
C19 delta variant actually is compared to the OG stuff. Surprise
surprise, there doesn't seem to be very much out there in terms of cold
hard metrics like case fatality rate to do much of a comparison...
Posted by: CppThis at August 03, 2021 09:11 PM (8h1h1)


Saw some data from GB a while back that suggested that the mortality rate was about 0.13%.

Posted by: Javems at August 03, 2021 09:15 PM (8SSHh)

78 Everyday I compose an ONT I question if I have enough content? Then I review JJ's Morning Report and think I have a long way to go.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 03, 2021 08:58 PM (aA3+G)

You can always just add more music. I never click it because I need to be in the proper mood for music. But I know adding more music would piss off some people that always complain. And it's always funny to laugh at the content whiners.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 03, 2021 09:15 PM (vMCab)

79 Isn't this the sort of situation that the SF movies of the Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties were worried about?
Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 09:13 PM (W+kMI)
---
As has been pointed out many times before, who in their right mind looks at those movies and says, "Hey, that sounds like a great idea!"?

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 03, 2021 09:15 PM (K5n5d)

80 69 give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. teach a man to fish and you can get a portion of his catch for a lifetime and never go hungry
Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 03, 2021 09:11 PM (K5n5d)

Teach a man to fish, and then he'll teach someone else how to fish, and soon you'll have to find another guy to teach how to stock the stream...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 03, 2021 09:12 PM (6FeV1)

Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a few hours.
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 03, 2021 09:15 PM (BJKQV)

81 >>>and alert systems to check backseats before turning off the vehicle.

Wetness? Empty bottles? Weapons?
Face palm, the pizza.

Posted by: Uncle Sam Joe at August 03, 2021 09:15 PM (Jd8Rz)

82 Poor little insecure look@me gal. One can look hot, maybe even hotter, without going to the grocery in your underwear.
OTOH, that surfer girl video makes me glad to be a dude.

Posted by: pep at August 03, 2021 09:15 PM (ZsR3z)

83 Gwen Berry and Debbie Dingell should get married. Then they can be Debbie and Gwen Dingell-Berry.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2021 09:15 PM (Sq5xa)

84 My mechanic said that the rule in his shop is that you roll down the front windows before you start any car in for service and you do not roll them back up until servicing is complete!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 09:13 PM (hOUT3)

I always do that when I work on mine. It's incredibly likely that you'll be closing the door with the key in it, and equally likely that muscle-memory will make you lock the door when you get out of it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 03, 2021 09:15 PM (6FeV1)

85 Al Pacino Approved ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/media

*scroll down

Posted by: kbdabear at August 03, 2021 09:15 PM (qAR6u)

86 Yeah, when did Demolition Man become a documentary?

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 03, 2021 09:15 PM (8548M)

87 Debbie Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, is another politician who inherited her job. I guess politicians' families can't be expected to get real jobs like the rest of us.
Posted by: nerdygirl


A flow chart of how many relatives of policos work for or advise the gov. sector would give us all pause.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 03, 2021 09:15 PM (r1z5A)

88 72 Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 03, 2021 09:08 PM (6FeV1)

My mechanic said that the rule in his shop is that you roll down the front windows before you start any car in for service and you do not roll them back up until servicing is complete!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 09:13 PM (hOUT3)


Good advice!
I've had so many different company cars over the years that do magical shit on their own such as locking doors, etc.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 03, 2021 09:15 PM (aA3+G)

89 I don't drink and I don't have kids. Yet I need to have a nanny in my car with me every second I'm driving. No thanks.
Posted by: Lord Squirrel


Yeah, but you're just being selfish. Imagine if some drunk steals your car, eh? eh? You're not thinking fourth-dimensionally.

Obey your Communist Directive Controllers!

Posted by: mindful webworker - ve know vot iz besst for you at August 03, 2021 09:15 PM (JtBPN)

90 The Beach Boys suck donkey dick.

Posted by: FriscoYoda at August 03, 2021 09:15 PM (+56GQ)

91 40
The AKC has confirmed that Delilah has accumulated enough points to become a Gold-level Grand Champion. So she's now GCHG Soyara's Devilish Delilah.
=======
Your Delilah has made the big time! Will have to watch her on the AKC vids sometime soon.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 09:16 PM (W+kMI)

92 Welp, half of my cheep college brews are getting the axe. Beast Lite survives, and Magnum Malt Liquor will be no more. The former, for putting away a 12 pack at a time, the latter for 40oz funtime.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 03, 2021 09:16 PM (05ACv)

93 80 69 give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. teach a man to fish and you can get a portion of his catch for a lifetime and never go hungry
Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 03, 2021 09:11 PM (K5n5d)

Teach a man to fish, and then he'll teach someone else how to fish, and soon you'll have to find another guy to teach how to stock the stream...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 03, 2021 09:12 PM (6FeV1)

Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a few hours.
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Posted by: 29Victor at August 03, 2021 09:15 PM (BJKQV)


***SNORT***

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 03, 2021 09:17 PM (aA3+G)

94 Howdy Hordelings! Greetings Mis Hum!

Hey, I got a hat tip above. Hot dog!!
(See what I did there??)

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 09:17 PM (mZUr4)

95 Rules don't matter any more. Laws are for thee, not me.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 03, 2021 09:12 PM (4fSQf)


They''ll change ONE word in the original submissions and judge shop for a more favorable venue on the "new" regulations!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 09:17 PM (hOUT3)

96 76 A veritable cornucopia!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 03, 2021 09:06 PM


A surfeit, some may say...
Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 09:14 PM (ndLSM)

Those that don't consider it a plenitude.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 03, 2021 09:17 PM (4fSQf)

97 Saw some data from GB a while back that suggested that the mortality rate was about 0.13%.
Posted by: Javems at August 03, 2021 09:15 PM (8SSHh)

That's right around ingrown toenail territory for mortality, isn't it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 03, 2021 09:17 PM (6FeV1)

98 37 Y'know, Nietzsche says: "Out of chaos comes order." "And hot dogs."
Posted by: Dr. Bone a


Oh blow it out your ass, Howard.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 09:17 PM (U2p+3)

99 I got a rental car recently. I put my lunch in the passenger's seat and it thought it was a passenger and wouldn't stop the seat-belt beeping.

How many of these cars are going to beep or flash or whatever when you have groceries in the back seat?

Posted by: 29Victor at August 03, 2021 09:18 PM (BJKQV)

100 90 The Beach Boys suck donkey dick.
Posted by: FriscoYoda at August 03, 2021 09:15 PM (+56GQ)

I hear there is a Musical Critic position open over at Slate. Feel free to use me for a reference.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 03, 2021 09:18 PM (aA3+G)

101 God Bless Brian Wilson. RIP Dennis and Carl.

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated american at August 03, 2021 09:18 PM (4I/2K)

102
Unsympathetic managment defined. Bernard Montgomery took over command of 5th Corps after Dunkirk. In his words:

"I ordered that at every headquarters the whole staff, officers and men, would turn out on one afternoon each week and do a seven-mile run. This applied to everyone under forty, and there would be no exception; those who didn't want to run the whole course could walk and trot, but they must go round the whole course...

"I remember the case of a somewhat stout old colonel who went to the doctor and said that if he did the run it would kill him... I then said that if he was thinking of dying it would be better to do it now, as he could be replaced easily and smoothly; it is always a nuisance if officers die when the battle starts and things are inclined to be hectic. His state of health was clearly not very good, and I preferred him to do the run and die."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 03, 2021 09:19 PM (/U27+)

103 Speaking of starter Gundam models, there are enough of the venerable RX-78 to be able to find "just the right one". Ditto for the Strike Gundam for the newer generation. But I must say, the real Gundam fans start with the MS-06 Zaku II.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 09:19 PM (W+kMI)

104
"Please check the passenger seat"
"Please check the back seat"
"Please check your voter registration"

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2021 09:19 PM (Sq5xa)

105 But in a later statement, the airline said that 'the proper policies for restraining a passenger were not followed' and 'the flight attendants involved have been suspended pending further investigation'.

You have to be kidding me. I watched part of the video. What the hell is wrong with Frontier? Our society has become overrun with people who don't have the balls to stand up to bad behavior that affects others.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 03, 2021 09:19 PM (+lVUW)

106 I guess I just don't understand why people would get a vaccine to keep a job.

But then again I've worked for 34 different employers in my life.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 03, 2021 09:19 PM (5We2S)

107 Didn't Brian Wilson get high with the Manson family? I think he even stole one of Charlie's songs.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 03, 2021 09:19 PM (4fSQf)

108 >>>Teach a man to fish, and then he'll teach someone else how to fish, and
soon you'll have to find another guy to teach how to stock the stream...<
>Some asshole Brit just bought a bunch of trout, like 250, and they were all devoured by predators.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 03, 2021 09:20 PM (bCkNL)

109 Everyday I compose an ONT I question if I have enough content? Then I review JJ's Morning Report and think I have a long way to go.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 03, 2021 08:58 PM (aA3+G)

There are more sober Moron's / ette's in the morning. You have to work with a different group dynamic.

Posted by: tbodie at August 03, 2021 09:20 PM (jyliz)

110 From the hot dog list:

MONTANA: Mr. Hot Dogs in Butte


giggle

Posted by: Cave Johnson at August 03, 2021 09:20 PM (Obsrs)

111 "Perrier, or, as it is more commonly known, Coors Light. --Art Thieme, folksinger.

Posted by: Introverted Elephocentric Hypochondriac at August 03, 2021 09:20 PM (rw/ga)

112 Everyday I compose an ONT I question if I have enough content?...
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian


I thought you just pulled up to the Internet pump, stuck the nozzle into the ONT tank, and ran it 'til the nozzle clicked off. I'm pretty sure that's what JJ does. Nu?

Posted by: mindful webworker - fill 'er up with Premium corn-free gasomeme at August 03, 2021 09:20 PM (JtBPN)

113 I bought a little humidor and a whole bunch of cigars to fill it with. Something i've always wanted to do.

It makes me happy, and I just wanted to brag, that's all.

So.... Yay!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 03, 2021 09:20 PM (6FeV1)

114 Two quotes and three good stories would be enough content. You are far too hard on yourself.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2021 09:21 PM (Sq5xa)

115 Hey everybody.

Warai: Monica's on her way!

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 09:21 PM (L2ZTs)

116 I bought a little humidor and a whole bunch of cigars to fill it with. Something i've always wanted to do.
Monica Lewinsky jokes in 3...2...1..

Posted by: pep at August 03, 2021 09:21 PM (ZsR3z)

117 To whomever said Beach Boys suck donkey dick:
BURN THE WITCH!!!!

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 09:21 PM (L2ZTs)

118 75 Heh Exdem13

Hopefully our mutual explanations of the universe and the kits did not make Alabama's roll backwards.
=====
Gundams are all over-rated. He should really build a Zaku. Sieg Zeon!

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 09:21 PM (W+kMI)

119 113 I bought a little humidor and a whole bunch of cigars to fill it with. Something i've always wanted to do.

It makes me happy, and I just wanted to brag, that's all.

So.... Yay!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 03, 2021 09:20 PM (6FeV1


Winston Churchill got nuts on you.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 03, 2021 09:21 PM (4fSQf)

120 Too slow.

Posted by: pep at August 03, 2021 09:22 PM (ZsR3z)

121 Our society has become overrun with people who don't have the balls to stand up to bad behavior that affects others.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 03, 2021 09:19 PM (+lVUW)


We have been conditioned to believe that tolerance is always an unalloyed good thing, when this is obviously NOT true!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 09:22 PM (hOUT3)

122 43 Simone Bilies cheered on the Chinese who was competed against her? Who does that? I think she has an advertising deal with China. What a traitor to this country.
Posted by: Tamminator


You've no comprehension of sportsmanship, do you.

I'll speak slowly and in short sentences so you can understand.

A true sportsman cheers for the other competitors to do their very best. Because a champion is the best of the best. Not the best of the ones who fell.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 09:22 PM (U2p+3)

123 Zaku? Piffle that.

There is only one Zaku and it shows up in H Beam Piper's Fuzzy books. Humans call them land prawns.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 03, 2021 09:22 PM (M5FBC)

124 Mark Twain tried surfing when he was in Hawaii.

Wish there was a picture.

Posted by: Miklos Langhorne Clemens at August 03, 2021 09:22 PM (QzkSJ)

125 failed to medal during finals on Tuesday.

That is quite the understatement. She had some good throws back in May but that's been it for this year.

Posted by: t-bird at August 03, 2021 09:22 PM (2nFxy)

126
John Dingell, Sr.: served 1933-1955

John Dingell, Jr.: served 1955-2015

Debbie Dingell: served 2015-present

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 03, 2021 09:22 PM (/U27+)

127 CDC already lost in court WTF
Posted by: Jean at August 03, 2021 09:10 PM (U/0zO
lol. Rules don't matter any more. Laws are for thee, not me.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 03, 2021 09:12 PM

Prolly gonna take frontier justice, rhetorically speaking of course, to right things

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 03, 2021 09:22 PM (05ACv)

128 Miklos, I can't imagine Mark Twain going "cowabunga dude!!"

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 09:23 PM (L2ZTs)

129 Humidor based hot dog warmer. Need little bands for the pups.

Posted by: klaftern at August 03, 2021 09:23 PM (r4sI4)

130 Posted by: mindful webworker - fill 'er up with Premium corn-free gasomeme at August 03, 2021 09:20 PM (JtBPN)

Not sure how JJ does it. Me? I wish it was that easy.


Posted by: ... at August 03, 2021 09:21 PM (Sq5xa)

Thanks.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 03, 2021 09:24 PM (aA3+G)

131 Babylon Bee covers John Lennon's Imagine

https://youtu.be/Cg1ISl2u5Lg

Potato, horde.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 03, 2021 09:24 PM (ybIRR)

132 CDC already lost in court WTF
Posted by: Jean at August 03, 2021 09:10 PM (U/0zO
lol. Rules don't matter any more. Laws are for thee, not me.
Posted by:AlaBAMAat August 03, 2021 09:12 PM

Then I guess governors can ignore Roe v Wade.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 03, 2021 09:24 PM (BJKQV)

133 All ONTs containing Beach Boys content arouse contentment amongst the content connoisseurs that comprise the celebrated Commentariat of The ONT.

Thank you, Mr. Humanitarian!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 03, 2021 09:24 PM (a3Q+t)

134 Potato, horde.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 03, 2021 09:24 PM (ybIRR)

I busted up at that part.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 03, 2021 09:25 PM (BJKQV)

135 128 Miklos, I can't imagine Mark Twain going "cowabunga dude!!"
Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 09:23 PM (L2ZTs


If you really want to see Sammy in a bathing suit:

https://tinyurl.com/453v8f77

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 03, 2021 09:25 PM (4fSQf)

136 They're 86'ing Henry Weinhard's. Wow.

Posted by: SFGoth (KAi1n) at August 03, 2021 09:25 PM (KAi1n)

137 The Gundam series I want to see - when the Earth Federation and the Zeon forces realize Anaheim Electronics has been playing both sides for their bottom line.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 03, 2021 09:25 PM (M5FBC)

138 Speaking of ugly shitstain democrats, was it Dingle or Waxman that had nostril hairs visible from orbit? *shudders*

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 03, 2021 09:25 PM (05ACv)

139 SFGoth, not Henry Weinhard's Root Beer! That stuff is addictive!!

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 09:26 PM (L2ZTs)

140 Good evening y'all! Thank you for the ONT Mis Hum!


Colorado Morondezvous
Saturday August 21st
6:30pm til .......
Central Denver (not downtown)

wds dot aoshq at proton mail dot com

You know you want to be there: )

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 03, 2021 09:26 PM (YLX54)

141 Biden violates oaf of office, ta da! Prez Harris.

Posted by: klaftern at August 03, 2021 09:26 PM (r4sI4)

142 A true sportsman cheers for the other competitors to do their very best. Because a champion is the best of the best. Not the best of the ones who fell.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 09:22 PM (U2p+3)

.....

I gotta say, I never really cheered for the other team as they smashed our face in when I played football and never really said "Hey man, that was awesome the way you dunked on me" when I played basketball.

I just said "Good game" at the end after we got thrashed or on the odd occasion when we won.

I actually considered the opponent to be my mortal enemy during the game.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 03, 2021 09:26 PM (5We2S)

143 The Beach Boys landed in my life about the same time I noticed girls were beautiful. The association has remained pleasant.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 03, 2021 09:26 PM (r1z5A)

144 That Coors CEO has the corporate gobbledygook patois down pat. "...we are going to permanently streamline a smaller portfolio of legacy brands."

Aka, fire most everyone involved. Okay, moar gook --

During that time, the U.S. Forest Service will be conducting vector control treatments to those areas.

Aka, killing every chipmunk they can find.

Evening, y'all.

Posted by: GnuBreed (FoYaR) at August 03, 2021 09:26 PM (F0YaR)

145 We have been conditioned to believe that tolerance is always an unalloyed good thing, when this is obviously NOT true!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 09:22 PM (hOUT3)
* * * *
Those of us who follow the Golden Rule are not accustomed to dealing with those who do not. We are not wrong but we do need to change our tune pronto, and start giving as good as we get.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at August 03, 2021 09:26 PM (rwusL)

146 ...I'd rather eat a Sonic chili cheese coney....
Posted by: Bitter Clinger


For years, decades. I've been fighting the urge to pull into Sonic and order a chili cheese coney. This doesn't help, Bitter. (Do they still have tater tots?)

I'm afraid that I'd be disappointed, but I can be sure that if I never buy one again I wont be.

Posted by: mindful webworker - still digesting my delicious Braum's cheeseburger at August 03, 2021 09:27 PM (JtBPN)

147 102
"I remember the case of a somewhat stout old colonel who went to the doctor and said that if he did the run it would kill him... I then said that if he was thinking of dying it would be better to do it now, as he could be replaced easily and smoothly; it is always a nuisance if officers die when the battle starts and things are inclined to be hectic. His state of health was clearly not very good, and I preferred him to do the run and die."
========
Good old Uncle Monty, ever the heart-warming inspirational leader. (I call him uncle because he has a great resemblance to my great-grandfather Montgomery, who was gainfully employed as a farmer and lock operator on the Ohio river.) To be fair, General Montgomery was desirous to clean out the deadwood that had accumulated between the wars. The sitzkrieg and the rapid retreat to the Channel had convinced him at least that the Army would have to toughen up and get ready to fight a long hard war. Colonel Blimps and muddling along wouldn't defeat the Wehrmacht.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 09:27 PM (W+kMI)

148 Bitter Clinger, in hold'em poker when your great hand gets beat with the opponent's miracle hand, saying "nice hand" really means "fcuk you."

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 09:27 PM (L2ZTs)

149 The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson have songs that, as you get older, the meaning gets deeper.

Not sure you can say that with a lot of Beatles songs.

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 09:28 PM (L2ZTs)

150 Oscar Wilde was nuts.

I don't think too highly of others.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 03, 2021 09:28 PM (xopIz)

151 >>>I think most of us here enjoy a good hot dog. No this isn't the ketchup vs. mustard fight. Best hot dogs in every state. (H/T Doof)

======

I skimmed through pretty fast. But didn't see a hot dog I didn't want to try among them.

Posted by: Swingin' for the downs at August 03, 2021 09:28 PM (RWcKd)

152 >> Mark Twain tried surfing when he was in Hawaii.

You know what they say, if everybody had an ocean across the USA, then everybody'd be surfin' like califon-I-ay.

Now, whether he wore baggies and Huarache sandals, I don't know.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (f1Vqw) at August 03, 2021 09:29 PM (f1Vqw)

153 I actually considered the opponent to be my mortal enemy during the game.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 03, 2021 09:26 PM (5We2S)

And I don't picture Jesse Owens cheering on any German runners in 1936.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 03, 2021 09:29 PM (BJKQV)

154 The AKC has confirmed that Delilah has accumulated enough points to become a Gold-level Grand Champion. So she's now GCHG Soyara's Devilish Delilah.
--------------
Awesome! I call dibs on the tenderloins!
Forget the Wagyu!

Posted by: Barry Soetero at August 03, 2021 09:29 PM (llGBY)

155 Everyday I compose an ONT I question if I have enough content? Then I review JJ's Morning Report and think I have a long way to go.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 03, 2021 08:58 PM (aA3+G)



JJ's Morning Report is the best way to fill the void left by Rush Limbaugh having passed away. JJ has a opening narrative (monologue) and a metric f*ck-ton of links (stack of stuff).

If only JJ had parody songs

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 09:30 PM (mZUr4)

156 Bitter Clinger,
Individual sports are totally different than team sports.

One of my coaches, one of the few who wasn't a pervert, used to say,
If you don't win, make the other guy set a record.

Did you see the men's 400m hurdles last evening? The SECOND place guy beat the existing world record.

You can't say you lost when you set a record.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 09:30 PM (U2p+3)

157 Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at August 03, 2021 09:26 PM (rwusL)

It is really hard for honest people to believe that so very many other people are actually rotten at their core, but we need to wake up quickly and begin sorting through the ample evidence to see which ones are the worst offenders!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 09:30 PM (hOUT3)

158 A hotdog isn't a sandwich; it's a bivalve.

Posted by: SFGoth (KAi1n) at August 03, 2021 09:31 PM (KAi1n)

159 Getting belligerent on a passenger plane seems like a monumentally bad idea--sooner or later someone is going to pull that stunt and the next passenger over assumes it's 9/11 v2.0 and takes matters into their own hands.

Posted by: CppThis at August 03, 2021 09:31 PM (8h1h1)

160 The AKC has confirmed that Delilah has accumulated enough points to become a Gold-level Grand Champion. So she's now GCHG Soyara's Devilish Delilah.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


I'll bet she's a pretty one.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 03, 2021 09:32 PM (+lVUW)

161 Brian Wilson stole Manson's song Cease To Exist and turned it into Never Learn Not To Love.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 03, 2021 09:32 PM (4fSQf)

162 123 Zaku? Piffle that.

There is only one Zaku and it shows up in H Beam Piper's Fuzzy books. Humans call them land prawns.
-----
Okay, fine, there's the MS-07B2 Gouf Custom, the MS-09 Dom Tropen, and the almighty Kampfer. All HG, easy to paint, easy to assemble, easy to pose, and lots of weapons and gear to assist in the posing. And they all look cooler than a GM or basic Gundam.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 09:32 PM (W+kMI)

163 137 The Gundam series I want to see - when the Earth Federation and the Zeon forces realize Anaheim Electronics has been playing both sides for their bottom line.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 03, 2021 09:25 PM (M5FBC)



I recently rewatched Gundam Wing. God that is more of a confusing mess than I remember. So much changing and switching of sides and new factions forming.

Posted by: buzzion (vMCab) at August 03, 2021 09:33 PM (vMCab)

164 AlaBAMA, actually that was Dennis Wilson.

When Charlie confronted Dennis about it, he responded by beating the shit out of him. (Manson had also threatened his and his family's lives.)

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 09:33 PM (L2ZTs)

165
I'll bet she's a pretty one.

Posted by: nerdygirl 

________

http://soyaraborzoi.com/Delilah.htm

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 03, 2021 09:33 PM (/U27+)

166 Sonic has really good Chicago style hot dogs.

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 09:34 PM (mZUr4)

167 For years, decades. I've been fighting the urge to pull into Sonic and order a chili cheese coney. This doesn't help, Bitter. (Do they still have tater tots?)
YES!

I'm afraid that I'd be disappointed, but I can be sure that if I never buy one again I wont be.
I Eat the chili cheese coney with tater tots 2x a month. have not been disappointed once.
Posted by: mindful webworker - still digesting my delicious Braum's cheeseburger at August 03, 2021 09:27 PM (JtBPN)

FYI

Posted by: tbodie at August 03, 2021 09:34 PM (jyliz)

168 @Lord Squirrel, what lotro server?

Posted by: davidt at August 03, 2021 09:34 PM (F7Ght)

169 Thirst!

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at August 03, 2021 09:34 PM (4UtlE)

170 164 AlaBAMA, actually that was Dennis Wilson.

When Charlie confronted Dennis about it, he responded by beating the shit out of him. (Manson had also threatened his and his family's lives.)
Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 09:33 PM (L2ZTs


Ah. I thought it was Brian. Either way, dick move.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 03, 2021 09:34 PM (4fSQf)

171 Stranger still was that the man responsible for the devastation was allegedly the contractor who had been responsible for building the[b/ edifice in the first place.

******

Edifice wrecks

Posted by: Muldoon at August 03, 2021 09:34 PM (Xwt96)

172 There is no such thing as a "good" Chicago style hot dog.

Posted by: FriscoYoda at August 03, 2021 09:34 PM (+56GQ)

173 Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 09:30 PM (U2p+3)

....

I hear you.

I get the feeling Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert didn't really like each other or root for each other though.

I'd say it's more like different sports have different cultures. Snow boarding dudes cheer on their competitors, but mainly because it's not a real sport and they all smoke pot together afterwards.

I'm just not sure pulling for your opponent is an absolute measure of sportsmanship. I would say being gracious in defeat/victory is.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 03, 2021 09:34 PM (5We2S)

174 "Do not speak of laws to bureaucrats with hypodermics."
-- some old Roman dude

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 03, 2021 09:35 PM (a3Q+t)

175 George Carlin on the newspeak soft language --

https://youtu.be/T_p3VXH97o8

Posted by: GnuBreed (FoYaR) at August 03, 2021 09:35 PM (F0YaR)

176 And the women's hurdles are insultingly short. Wtf.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 09:35 PM (U2p+3)

177 @Lord Squirrel, what lotro server?
Posted by: davidt at August 03, 2021 09:34 PM (F7Ght)
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Either Brandywine or Crickhollow (it varies)

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 03, 2021 09:35 PM (K5n5d)

178 Think about this:

A humidor, but filled hot dogs instead of cigars?

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 03, 2021 09:35 PM (sJHOI)

179 funny: when Henry Wienhard beer came out it the late 70's, it was upscale beer, with more flavor than Buttwiper, etc...

how fallen are the mighty.

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at August 03, 2021 09:35 PM (4UtlE)

180 I lost respect for the Beach Boys when they played at my college and trashed their dressing room.
This was '87-ish which would put them in their mid-40's at that point.
Way to go, Boys.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 03, 2021 09:35 PM (vuisn)

181 http://soyaraborzoi.com/Delilah.htm

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 03, 2021 09:33 PM



That's one handsome canid...

Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 09:36 PM (ndLSM)

182 nice ONT, MH!

The garage pic made me LOL

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 03, 2021 09:36 PM (oEn12)

183 AlaBAMA, it's widely believed that when Manson family members invaded Sharon Tate's house in August 1969, they were actually looking for the Beach Boys and members of their family, to get revenge for Charlie.

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 09:36 PM (L2ZTs)

184 with

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 03, 2021 09:36 PM (sJHOI)

185 -
Did you see the men's 400m hurdles last evening? The SECOND place guy beat the existing world record.



You can't say you lost when you set a record.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 09:30 PM -
-
By the time he finished, the existing world record had been quickened a bit, so, still too slow.

Posted by: irright at August 03, 2021 09:36 PM (BB7pQ)

186 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 03, 2021 09:33 PM (/U27+)

What a beautiful girl is Miss Delilah!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 09:36 PM (hOUT3)

187 Catch A Wave

https://youtu.be/CFwLp2iM73Q

has pretty girls and surfing dogs.

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated american at August 03, 2021 09:36 PM (4I/2K)

188 175 George Carlin on the newspeak soft language

.....

"Fuck you, I'm getting *in* the plane!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 03, 2021 09:37 PM (6FeV1)

189 Who puts cream cheese on a hotdog??? That was on several of the hotdog places menus.

Posted by: four seasons at August 03, 2021 09:37 PM (PisyI)

190 So, I went to La Jolla shores and Mission Beach at Belmont Park.

No very many surfer girls there anymore.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 03, 2021 09:37 PM (xopIz)

191 I haven't been Governor Parson's biggest fan, but good on him for getting the McCloskey case right. I was afraid he'd go RINO on this one.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 03, 2021 09:37 PM (Vgw1E)

192 Well, this has been a strange day. Ate 3 different meals.

Posted by: Eromero at August 03, 2021 09:38 PM (0OP+5)

193 Either Brandywine or Crickhollow (it varies)

Posted by: Lord Squirrel

My main on Crick is Muggles. On Brandy Schnicklefritz. Send a tell if you see me online, we'll run a couple skirms.

Posted by: davidt at August 03, 2021 09:38 PM (F7Ght)

194 Dear{{{Hrothgar}}} and {{{Wing}}}

Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 09:39 PM (TdMsT)

195 There is no such thing as a "good" Chicago style hot dog.
Posted by: FriscoYoda at August 03, 2021 09:34 PM (+56GQ)


I would go so far as to say that there exists no thing with a "Chicago-style" version that I don't prefer almost any other style.

I'm mostly thinking about pizza and bagels. In general, but also right now on this topic.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 03, 2021 09:39 PM (ghoDT)

196 Bitter Clinger,
All sports are somewhat different.
I was taught that after age ten, you stopped rooting for your fellow competitors to fall or wipe out.

I was taught that you want to win when everyone else did their best. Beating someone when they are off their game is a win, yes. But it isn't as satisfying as when they cranked it out and you beat their ass.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 09:39 PM (U2p+3)

197 There is no such thing as a "good" Chicago style hot dog.
Posted by: FriscoYoda at August 03, 2021 09:34 PM (+56GQ)


Disagree! I'm a big fan. But I get it - the "dragged through the garden" thing isn't for everyone

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 09:39 PM (mZUr4)

198 A true sportsman cheers for the other competitors to do their very best.

Yes, that is the way it is done today, but it's bewildering. In our day, everyone was the enemy. The USSR, the Steelers, even the other team in gym class.

Posted by: t-bird at August 03, 2021 09:39 PM (/2aWP)

199 I just saw this. The director of the NIH apparently said parents should wear masks at home when with their children. He said that on some XiNN show this afternoon.

He has now clarified that statement, that no, he didn't mean wear mask at home, he meant (bunch of crap)...
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (f1Vqw)


What he really meant is that they have to slip these authoritarian policies in more gradually or people might rebel.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 03, 2021 09:39 PM (+lVUW)

200 Hey, Eromero.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 03, 2021 09:39 PM (ghoDT)

201 My main on Crick is Muggles. On Brandy Schnicklefritz. Send a tell if you see me online, we'll run a couple skirms.
Posted by: davidt at August 03, 2021 09:38 PM (F7Ght)


I really need to bite the bullet and buy that "ONT-to-English/English-to-ONT" dictionary...

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 09:39 PM (L2ZTs)

202 The AKC has confirmed that Delilah has accumulated enough points to become a Gold-level Grand Champion. So she's now GCHG Soyara's Devilish Delilah.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Congrats!!!

does that mean she's gonna retire from show biz and settle down now?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 03, 2021 09:39 PM (oEn12)

203 I don't like sweet pickle relish, so I agree Chicago dogs are overrated

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 03, 2021 09:39 PM (sJHOI)

204 >Posted by: davidt at August 03, 2021 09:38 PM (F7Ght)

I know all but one of those words.

I do not know what they mean in this order.

Now get off my lawn.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 03, 2021 09:40 PM (8548M)

205 137 The Gundam series I want to see - when the Earth Federation and the Zeon forces realize Anaheim Electronics has been playing both sides for their bottom line.
======
Oh, both sides have always known it, but Anaheim was the best game in town for top-drawer MS, and everyone knew that too. Lean on the #1 manufacturing corporation too much, and suddenly your foes appear on the battlefield with some OP gear. Anaheim's executives were of the mind that they really mattered in the Inner Sphere, and to a certain extent, they had a point. Didn't mean they had to be manipulative assholes about it at times, but the Federation did them wrong too often in the time of the Titans. So hop, Feddie frog!

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 09:40 PM (W+kMI)

206 ghost: you know you can order it without relish.
The only ironclad rule is, no ketchup on the frank.

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 09:40 PM (L2ZTs)

207

Tamyra Mensah-Stock > Simone Biles!

Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 09:40 PM (ndLSM)

208 Yes, that is the way it is done today, but it's bewildering. In our day, everyone was the enemy. The USSR, the Steelers, even the other team in gym class.
Posted by: t-bird at August 03, 2021 09:39 PM (/2aWP)


Especially the Steelers!

Posted by: Ben Roethlisberger at August 03, 2021 09:41 PM (jyliz)

209 Congrats to Delilah and you, Hadrian!

Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 09:41 PM (TdMsT)

210 Zettai: isn't Tamyra great?

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 09:41 PM (L2ZTs)

211 Friedrich Nietzsche: God is dead.


God: Nietzschie is dead.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 03, 2021 09:42 PM (xopIz)

212 Did you see the men's 400m hurdles last evening?

No, but I saw the time. Someone tweeted that he beat 18 of the Olympic 400m runners, but HE had ten hurdles to jump over to do it.

Posted by: t-bird at August 03, 2021 09:42 PM (2nFxy)

213 Thanks again for a great ONT MisHum. I'll have to send Jules the link to Poco clip, she was a big fan. Yes, RIP Paul Cotton.

Posted by: Farmer at August 03, 2021 09:42 PM (55Qr6)

214 Looks like Coldcock malt liquor survived the cut.

https://youtu.be/zwzG3e5IUxg

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at August 03, 2021 09:42 PM (uhPTO)

215 My main on Crick is Muggles. On Brandy Schnicklefritz. Send a tell if you see me online, we'll run a couple skirms.
Posted by: davidt at August 03, 2021 09:38 PM (F7Ght)

I really need to bite the bullet and buy that "ONT-to-English/English-to-ONT" dictionary...
Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 09:39 PM (L2ZTs)
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Translation: davidt's main character is named Muggles and is on the Crickhollow server. His alternate is named Schnicklefritz and is on the Brandywine server. He's offering to run a couple of skirmish instances with me.

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 03, 2021 09:43 PM (K5n5d)

216 The best thing about Delilah isn't just that she's a beautiful dog. She's in great condition. I know in the hunting classes, the dogs have to be in "hard working condition". Delilah looks like she could run all day.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at August 03, 2021 09:43 PM (YynYJ)

217 Think about this:

A humidor, but filled hot dogs instead of cigars?
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 03, 2021 09:35 PM (sJHOI)
* * * *
A sous vide by any other name...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at August 03, 2021 09:43 PM (rwusL)

218 Lord Squirrel: okay that helps a little. :-)
Thanks.

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 09:43 PM (L2ZTs)

219 Everyday I compose an ONT I question if I have enough content? Then I review JJ's Morning Report and think I have a long way to go.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 03, 2021 08:58 PM (aA3+G)



I am not much for who's dick is bigger competitins.

But when I am in such a competitn, I never show more than necessary to win.

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 03, 2021 09:43 PM (8tNUK)

220 nic recalibration

Posted by: tbodie at August 03, 2021 09:43 PM (jyliz)

221 My Atlas Heavy Battlemech says your Gundams can suck his shiny metal balls... NERDS!

Posted by: tRusty Hudson at August 03, 2021 09:44 PM (iJCGt)

222 is this dark web talk?

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 03, 2021 09:44 PM (sJHOI)

223

You know you want to be there: )
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 03, 2021 09:26 PM (YLX54)


I DO want to be there... but the date doesn't work...

Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 09:44 PM (TdMsT)

224 In fairness, Nietzsche is the most important philosopher in a few hundred years.

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 03, 2021 09:44 PM (8tNUK)

225 ...isn't Tamyra great?

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 09:41 PM



True joy, true champion, true patriot...

Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 09:45 PM (ndLSM)

226 Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at August 03, 2021 09:43 PM (rwusL)

***SNORT***

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 03, 2021 09:45 PM (aA3+G)

227 But when I am in such a competitn, I never show more than necessary to win.
Posted by: confederatefifth

Stand back Son.

Posted by: Zombies Forrest Tucker and Milton Berle at August 03, 2021 09:45 PM (mD/uy)

228 Stand back Son.
Posted by: Z


Posted by: confederatefifth at August 03, 2021 09:45 PM (8tNUK)

229 Lord of the Rings Online(lotro) is a massive multiplayer online game set in Tolkien's Middle-Earth at the time of the War of the Ring. Similar to World of Warcraft or Dungeons and Dragons. It's free to play, or subscribe for all the vip perks, or purchase piece-meal with points earned through game-play. Look it up on YouTube to get an idea what it's like if you enjoy Tolkien's mythology.

Posted by: davidt at August 03, 2021 09:46 PM (F7Ght)

230 In fairness, Nietzsche is the most important philosopher in a few hundred years.
Posted by: confederatefifth at August 03, 2021 09:44 PM (8tNUK)

Any reading recommendations?

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 03, 2021 09:46 PM (WF/xn)

231 198 A true sportsman cheers for the other competitors to do their very best.

Yes, that is the way it is done today, but it's bewildering. In our day, everyone was the enemy. The USSR, the Steelers, even the other team in gym class.
=========
Cute little girls who are doing their best individually and together and relatively honestly can cheer each other on, even when they're on different teams. the Commies and the Steelers were and are dirty stinking cheaters who cheat like the Really Rottens, and grinding them into the turf at every chance is appropriate.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 09:46 PM (W+kMI)

232 It was Trump who started the rent-blocking thing, wasn't it? (So long ago in another age.) I've been a landlord. One late or hold-out tenant ate most profit for a month, two was disastrous.

I was freaked that mister New York real estate billionaire would declare something so anti-landlording. You want to help tenants? Give 'em tenant vouchers. That so hard?

Or do I have that all wrong?

Posted by: mindful webworker - no longer in that biz - whew! at August 03, 2021 09:46 PM (JtBPN)

233 "A Chicago-born U.S. wrestler thanked God and expressed joy at representing the United States after becoming the first African-American woman to win gold in wrestling."

She appears to be a genuine person. unlike

Here's her winning match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEhEIy_YHx8

Couldn't find a vid of her running to her coach. I think it is a spontaneous expression of joy:
https://is.gd/mH9OCX

And another with our Flag:
https://is.gd/zQWGnP

Posted by: Uncle Sam Joe at August 03, 2021 09:46 PM (Jd8Rz)

234 If "Imagine" is the most overrated song ever, then "Because" is underrated pallet cleaner palate cleanser.

https://youtu.be/4TJmSKxh7r4

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 03, 2021 09:46 PM (ybIRR)

235 davidt, thanks.
Sounds like J.K. Rowling stole ther term "muggles" from Tolkien?

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 09:46 PM (L2ZTs)

236 In fairness, Nietzsche is the most important philosopher in a few hundred years.
Posted by: confederatefifth


Which makes him less important than every blue collar worker ever born.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 03, 2021 09:46 PM (r1z5A)

237 Muggles? Brandywine? I someone mixing Harry Potter with the Hobbit/LOTR?

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 03, 2021 09:47 PM (xopIz)

238 Aw, geees, stinking sock

Posted by: Braenyard at August 03, 2021 09:47 PM (Jd8Rz)

239 I was taught that you want to win when everyone else did their best. Beating someone when they are off their game is a win, yes. But it isn't as satisfying as when they cranked it out and you beat their ass.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 09:39 PM (U2p+3)
....

I don't disrespect that perspective.

I was just taught different. Mine lesson was victory at all costs. If you saw a player struggling, you picked on him until you made him cry or quit. You exploited an opponents weakness to obtain victory.

And if you were the inferior player, then you used any tactic in your employ to make your opponent fail. So yes, sometimes I would trash talk a player if it threw them off their game. Foul them hard. Get them agitated. Talk about their mom. Whatever it took. But then again that's probably not true sportsmanship.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 03, 2021 09:47 PM (5We2S)

240 Commies and the Steelers were and are dirty stinking cheaters who cheat like the Really Rottens, and grinding them into the turf at every chance is appropriate.
Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 09:46 PM (W+kMI)

This guy gets it!

Posted by: tbodie at August 03, 2021 09:48 PM (jyliz)

241 True joy, true champion, true patriot...
Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 09:45 PM (ndLSM)


Sad part is that I was waiting for the let-down, based on nearly every athletic "performance" recently, and it took me a while to realize this is a really nice person!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 09:48 PM (hOUT3)

242 Something tells me that despite the pardon from Governor Parsons, the McCloskeys' woes are far from over...
Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 03, 2021 09:00 PM (K5n5d)

Parsons should give them some no bag limit tags for Soros DA's.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2021 09:48 PM (O85c6)

243 Lord of the Rings Online(lotro) is a massive multiplayer online game set in Tolkien's Middle-Earth at the time of the War of the Ring. Similar to World of Warcraft or Dungeons and Dragons. It's free to play, or subscribe for all the vip perks, or purchase piece-meal with points earned through game-play. Look it up on YouTube to get an idea what it's like if you enjoy Tolkien's mythology.
Posted by: davidt at August 03, 2021 09:46 PM (F7Ght)
---
I've played about 4-5 different MMOs (WoW, D&D, Rift, Aion, LOTRO) and LOTRO is the only one I still play because it's been consistently awesome for over a decade.

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 03, 2021 09:48 PM (K5n5d)

244 Looks like Coldcock malt liquor survived the cut.

https://youtu.be/zwzG3e5IUxg
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at August 03, 2021 09:42 PM (uhPTO)


That is one of my favorite clips from when SNL was good.

In return, I give you another.

Schmidt's Gay
https://youtu.be/hCOSejS1SSY

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 09:48 PM (mZUr4)

245 Philosopher:

"If you marry well, you will become happy. If you don't you will become a philosopher." -Socrates.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 03, 2021 09:49 PM (xopIz)

246 It was the Raiders who played dirty, not the Steelers.

Posted by: SFGoth (KAi1n) at August 03, 2021 09:49 PM (KAi1n)

247 221 My Atlas Heavy Battlemech says your Gundams can suck his shiny metal balls... NERDS!
------
Yeah, but my Gundam doesn't have to fight in his underwear and take a time-out every three turns to cool off his fusion reactor that is older than Hiden.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 09:49 PM (W+kMI)

248 "By all means marry..."

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 03, 2021 09:49 PM (xopIz)

249 Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 09:46 PM (W+kMI)

And Da Bears still suck

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 03, 2021 09:50 PM (aA3+G)

250 And if you were the inferior player, then you used any tactic in your employ to make your opponent fail. So yes, sometimes I would trash talk a player if it threw them off their game. Foul them hard. Get them agitated. Talk about their mom. Whatever it took. But then again that's probably not true sportsmanship.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 03, 2021 09:47 PM (5We2S)


That's probably a bit of direct competition though. Baseball, football etc. Rather than say a solo competition event.

Posted by: buzzion (vMCab) at August 03, 2021 09:50 PM (vMCab)

251 It was the Raiders who played dirty, not the Steelers.
Posted by: SFGoth (KAi1n) at August 03, 2021 09:49 PM (KAi1n)

And.

You are not new here. You know the powers of And!

Posted by: tbodie at August 03, 2021 09:50 PM (jyliz)

252
Which makes him less important than every blue collar worker ever born.
Posted by: S


not much reasn to waste time here then.

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 03, 2021 09:50 PM (8tNUK)

253 In our day, everyone was the enemy. The USSR, the Steelers, even the other team in gym class.

*******

I considered everyone in Dodgeball during gym class to be Satan. Many have felt the might of my murderously thrown balls.

Posted by: The Maskless Ranger at August 03, 2021 09:50 PM (hQVBP)

254 214 Looks like Coldcock malt liquor survived the cut

You know, after a long day of bricking buckets and shredding the Constitution, nothing beats sucking down a couple cold 'cocks!

Posted by: The Purple-Lipped preznit at August 03, 2021 09:51 PM (05ACv)

255 There was a Catholic Saint that said that studying Philosophy is a waste of time.

But then St. Thomas Aquinas did a pretty good job of it.

But most after don't.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 03, 2021 09:51 PM (xopIz)

256 Sonic has really good Chicago style hot dogs.
Posted by: Doof (mZUr4)

A shell casing in EVERY one !

Posted by: JT at August 03, 2021 09:51 PM (arJlL)

257 Gundam Seed was terrific, although I might change my mind if I go back and watch again. But melodrama where bad things will affect the arc of the whole show make a good soap opera.

They released the LOTR show still that has a city that is tall and white like Gondor, but arched surfaces like Rivendell. There are 2 trees, one dark and one light ... you nerds know what that means ... there may be a lot of the first age in it.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 03, 2021 09:51 PM (ybIRR)

258 Hiya Cannibal !

Posted by: JT at August 03, 2021 09:51 PM (arJlL)

259 Some great hot dogs I've had at baseball parks.

Dodger Stadium. Footlong Dodger Dog with Mac and cheese and Fritos.

Camden Yards. Hot dog with Mac and cheese with crabmeat on top. Heavy dusting of Old Bay - of course!

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 09:51 PM (mZUr4)

260 Sounds like J.K. Rowling stole ther term "muggles" from Tolkien?<

Heh, his original name was Testicus, but apparently someone thought it was inappropriate and flagged me, forcing a name change. I came up with Muggles because I thought it sounded like a Hobbit name. I've never read any of the Potter stuff or seen the movies, and had no idea muggles was a Potter word.

Posted by: davidt at August 03, 2021 09:52 PM (F7Ght)

261 Regards to Heidi !

Posted by: JT at August 03, 2021 09:52 PM (arJlL)

262 It was the Raiders who played dirty, not the Steelers.
Posted by: SFGoth (KAi1n) at August 03, 2021 09:49 PM (KAi1n)

*ahem*

Posted by: Conrad Dobler at August 03, 2021 09:52 PM (4I/2K)

263 not much reasn to waste time here then.
Posted by: confederatefifth


I post, therefore, I am.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 03, 2021 09:52 PM (r1z5A)

264 240 Commies and the Steelers were and are dirty stinking cheaters who cheat like the Really Rottens, and grinding them into the turf at every chance is appropriate.
Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 09:46 PM (W+kMI)

This guy gets it!
========
Watching the Miracle On Ice and Mary Lou Retton defeat the entire USSR gymnastics team by herself like a miniature Rambo was proof that God blesses America. And I'm a Bengals fan, so I know in my hate-filled heart that the Steelers only don't wear the Lidless Eye because it's already copyrighted.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 09:53 PM (W+kMI)

265 I've played about 4-5 different MMOs (WoW, D&D, Rift, Aion, LOTRO) and LOTRO is the only one I still play because it's been consistently awesome for over a decade.
Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 03, 2021 09:48 PM (K5n5d)



I've tried several MMOs. One was a space mmo. Also Star Wars Galaxies and Star Wars The Old Republic. Also tried LOTRO for like a month. I do not have the MMO gene. Because even Free to Play LOTRO couldn't keep me.

Posted by: buzzion (vMCab) at August 03, 2021 09:53 PM (vMCab)

266 In our day, everyone was the enemy. The USSR, the Steelers, even the other team in gym class.


Bungle fans are just bitter.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 03, 2021 09:53 PM (rq2WB)

267 Sonic has really good Chicago style hot dogs.
Posted by: Doof (mZUr4)

A shell casing in EVERY one !
Posted by: JT at August 03, 2021 09:51 PM (arJlL)


That's what gives them that SNAP!

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 09:54 PM (mZUr4)

268 Good evening morons.

God bless you Gov. Parsons for a small measure of justice.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 03, 2021 09:54 PM (EZebt)

269 221 My Atlas Heavy Battlemech says your Gundams can suck his shiny metal balls... NERDS!
Posted by: tRusty Hudson at August 03, 2021 09:44 PM (iJCGt)


A couple of weeks ago I discovered a guy who sells 28mm scale Battletech resin casts: https://battlemechclub.blogspot.com

I might pick up one of the light mechs--it'd be a great centerpiece for a diorama. I've got some 28 scale scifi (40k, Infinity) and some CGL Battletech stuff, but they don't play together very well because of the different scales.

Posted by: CppThis at August 03, 2021 09:54 PM (8h1h1)

270 That's probably a bit of direct competition though. Baseball, football etc. Rather than say a solo competition event.

Posted by: buzzion (vMCab) at August 03, 2021 09:50 PM (vMCab)

......

True.

But I knew how to rattle my opponent in tennis as well.

I think the culture of judged sports is a lot different.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 03, 2021 09:54 PM (5We2S)

271 Heh, his original name was Testicus, but apparently someone thought it was inappropriate and flagged me, forcing a name change. I came up with Muggles because I thought it sounded like a Hobbit name. I've never read any of the Potter stuff or seen the movies, and had no idea muggles was a Potter word.
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LOTRO sometimes spawns some pretty cool random names. I have two hobbits: Spamblo and Chilihil, both of which were created by the game. I also have a dwarf named Kugelblitz, which translates into "ball lightning" in English, but I came up with that name.

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 03, 2021 09:54 PM (K5n5d)

272 Reading today's content, ran across this, in regards to NYC passports:
"The policy is one of the first of its kind in the United States and comes amid a nationwide spike in COVID-19 infections, driven largely by the spread of the delta variant in people who are unvaccinated."

They can say it's unvaccinated people all they want, but it doesn't make it true. The "delta" variant --for which, afaik, there is no test to day what "variant" it is -- is worst in areas that have the highest rate of people who got the jabs.

Posted by: Flyover at August 03, 2021 09:54 PM (Rbu5d)

273 hogmartin, I bought a few tickets on 5K 9mm, didn't win. Scrounging for MoMe.

Posted by: Eromero at August 03, 2021 09:54 PM (0OP+5)

274 And nice ONT. MisHum, thank you.

Posted by: Flyover at August 03, 2021 09:55 PM (Rbu5d)

275 The Hot Dog is Nature's Perfect Food.

Change my mind.

Posted by: West at August 03, 2021 09:55 PM (QY+6a)

276 Bitter Clinger,
My opponent was the apparatus. And my ability to perform.
Team sports, or sports where you physically engage your opponent are totally different. Then you have to play the mental game as well.

I dunno. I guess I was just taught differently.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 09:55 PM (U2p+3)

277 I think muggles is an old word.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 03, 2021 09:56 PM (Jd8Rz)

278 They can say it's unvaccinated people all they want, but it doesn't make it true. The "delta" variant --for which, afaik, there is no test to day what "variant" it is -- is worst in areas that have the highest rate of people who got the jabs.
Posted by: Flyover at August 03, 2021 09:54 PM (Rbu5d)

You are not supposed to notice this. Much less talk about it!

Posted by: tbodie at August 03, 2021 09:56 PM (jyliz)

279 If you're at the museum with the kids, steer clear of the frieze 12 Labors of Testiclese.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 03, 2021 09:56 PM (ybIRR)

280 The Hot Dog is Nature's Perfect Food.

Change my mind.
Posted by: West at August 03, 2021 09:55 PM (QY+6a)

*ahem*

Posted by: The Banana at August 03, 2021 09:56 PM (4I/2K)

281 The Hot Dog is Nature's Perfect Food.

.....

Bacon.

Novice.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 03, 2021 09:56 PM (5We2S)

282 It was the Raiders who played dirty, not the Steelers.

Nonsense. An internal investigation found them completely clean! I'd give you the report but it stuck to Fred Biletnikoff's fingers.

Posted by: t-bird at August 03, 2021 09:57 PM (KDCRD)

283 257 Gundam Seed was terrific, although I might change my mind if I go back and watch again. But melodrama where bad things will affect the arc of the whole show make a good soap opera.

They released the LOTR show still that has a city that is tall and white like Gondor, but arched surfaces like Rivendell. There are 2 trees, one dark and one light ... you nerds know what that means ... there may be a lot of the first age in it.
-----------
The first Gundam SEED anime was a classic, with drama and action aplenty, and plenty of cool MS, and the Haro squad. The sequel was so bad it effectively killed the 'verse, although some side manga bravely soldiered on. Amazon's LOTR show isn't really LOTR related, it's set in the Second Age and focuses on Numenor. 'Cause the Woketards need their moral equivalence and freedom from narrative. *spits*

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 09:57 PM (W+kMI)

284 Oh, yeah, my favorite was Howard Johnson's Daily Double, butter grilled dogs on sliced toasted buns.

Sadly, no more.

Posted by: West at August 03, 2021 09:57 PM (QY+6a)

285 Change my mind.
Posted by: West at August 03, 2021 09:55 PM (QY+6a)

*ahem*
Posted by: The Banana

Double ahem

Posted by: The pig at August 03, 2021 09:57 PM (r1z5A)

286 Coconuts are nature's perfect food. That is a fact.

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2021 09:58 PM (V13WU)

287 The Hot Dog is Nature's Perfect Food.

Bacon.

Novice.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 03, 2021 09:56 PM (5We2S)

Sonic has a hot dog with bacon. This is Nature's Perfect Food.

Posted by: tbodie at August 03, 2021 09:58 PM (jyliz)

288 A plumber will stop shit from running into your house. A philosopher will tell you that shit is actually not running into your house, or that it is and you deserve it, or it doesn't really matter if shit is running into your house or not.

Posted by: irright at August 03, 2021 09:58 PM (BB7pQ)

289 Just learned there's a petition at Change.org to deport Prince Harry.

Seems the little woke princeling actively doesn't want a green card or US citizenship.

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 09:58 PM (L2ZTs)

290 Sonic has a hot dog with bacon. This is Nature's Perfect Food.
Posted by: tbodie at August 03, 2021 09:58 PM (jyliz)
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Throw some mac & cheese on there and you've really got something...

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 03, 2021 09:59 PM (K5n5d)

291

Sushi is Nature's Perfect Food...

Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 09:59 PM (ndLSM)

292 Just learned there's a petition at Change.org to deport Prince Harry.


==


this is hilariously funny !

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2021 09:59 PM (V13WU)

293 It was the Raiders who played dirty, not the Steelers.

Nonsense. An internal investigation found them completely clean! I'd give you the report but it stuck to Fred Biletnikoff's fingers.
Posted by: t-bird at August 03, 2021 09:57 PM (KDCRD)

Heh.

This is, as they say, a clue.

Posted by: tbodie at August 03, 2021 09:59 PM (jyliz)

294 runner, thanks I think :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 09:59 PM (L2ZTs)

295 I never drink and drive, ever. I obviously have no babies or children. So the do gooders want me to pay lord knows how much extra for technology that is absolutely useless to me or society. Of course they do.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 03, 2021 10:00 PM (+lVUW)

296
Sushi is Nature's Perfect Food...
Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 09:59 PM (ndLSM)


For dolphins.

Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:00 PM (TdMsT)

297 247 221 My Atlas Heavy Battlemech says your Gundams can suck his shiny metal balls... NERDS!
------
Yeah, but my Gundam doesn't have to fight in his underwear and take a time-out every three turns to cool off his fusion reactor that is older than Hiden.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 09:49 PM (W+kMI)

Balls, now I need to go dig through my old stuff for my Mech compendium... the one still full of Robotech (etc...) knock-offs and what-not.

Posted by: tRusty Hudson at August 03, 2021 10:00 PM (iJCGt)

298 https://www.theatlantic.com
Before Harry Potter, 'Muggles' Meant Pot - The Atlantic
Jul 14, 2011... "We used to roll our cigarettes right out in the open and light up like you would on a Camel or a Chesterfield. To us a muggle wasn't any more...

Posted by: Braenyard at August 03, 2021 10:00 PM (Jd8Rz)

299 "Deport Prince Henry !"

🤣 🤣 🤣

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2021 10:00 PM (V13WU)

300 I did the lotro trick of subscribing for one month to unlock stuff for characters logged onto while subbed. I created lots of characters on all the servers while subbed so I would have them in reserve if wanted/needed. I mainly play hunters.

Posted by: davidt at August 03, 2021 10:00 PM (F7Ght)

301 266 In our day, everyone was the enemy. The USSR, the Steelers, even the other team in gym class.

Bungle fans are just bitter.
=========
We have reasons to be bitter, yes we do.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 10:00 PM (W+kMI)

302 True.

But I knew how to rattle my opponent in tennis as well.

I think the culture of judged sports is a lot different.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 03, 2021 09:54 PM (5We2S)


That's still direct competition. You are one-on-one against that person. Solo competition would be like gymnastics, figure skating, pole vaulting, other track and field events besides races. And in the races its probably gonna be frowned on to try and cause your opponents to trip.

Posted by: buzzion (vMCab) at August 03, 2021 10:00 PM (vMCab)

303 For dolphins.

Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:00 PM



Ha!

Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 10:01 PM (ndLSM)

304 Sushi is Nature's Perfect Food...
Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 09:59 PM (ndLSM)


Correct!

Posted by: Filthy gas stations everywhere, we even have dick pills! at August 03, 2021 10:01 PM (rq2WB)

305 299 "Deport Prince Henry !"

========
This! *applauds*

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 10:01 PM (W+kMI)

306 I believe the way to rattle your opponent in tennis is to hit the ball, HARD and FAST, right at their face.

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 10:01 PM (L2ZTs)

307 Sonic has a hot dog with bacon. This is Nature's Perfect Food.
Posted by: tbodie

Deep fry it and now you've got something!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 03, 2021 10:01 PM (mD/uy)

308 I never drink and drive, ever. I obviously have no babies or children. So the do gooders want me to pay lord knows how much extra for technology that is absolutely useless to me or society. Of course they do.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 03, 2021 10:00 PM (+lVUW)


Comrade ng, we will use you as a meaningless example so that others will comply!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 10:02 PM (hOUT3)

309 I also have a dwarf named Kugelblitz, which translates into "ball lightning" in English, but I came up with that name.
Posted by: Lord Squirrel

LOL, the hell Kugelblitz means "ball lightning". You might want to look up "Kugel" and then understand why "Kugelblitz" means superfvckingfast egg noodle pudding.

Posted by: SFGoth (KAi1n) at August 03, 2021 10:02 PM (KAi1n)

310 Sonic has a hot dog with bacon. This is Nature's Perfect Food.
Posted by: tbodie

Deep fry it and now you've got something!
Posted by: Tonypete at August 03, 2021 10:01 PM (mD/uy)

Texas State Fair, here I come!

Posted by: tbodie at August 03, 2021 10:02 PM (jyliz)

311 I believe the way to rattle your opponent in tennis is to hit the ball, HARD and FAST, right at their face.
Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 10:01 PM (L2ZTs)

then you do the same to the umpire and you are golden !

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2021 10:02 PM (V13WU)

312

ngl, the sushi from Wegmans is quite good...

Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 10:03 PM (ndLSM)

313 They can say it's unvaccinated people all they want, but it doesn't make it true. The "delta" variant --for which, afaik, there is no test to day what "variant" it is -- is worst in areas that have the highest rate of people who got the jabs.

Posted by: Flyover at August 03, 2021 09:54 PM (Rbu5d)


I don't about how they test for the variants, but here in MS most new infections are of the delta variant. And we are the lowest vaccinated state in the country.

Posted by: GnuBreed (FoYaR) at August 03, 2021 10:03 PM (F0YaR)

314 Just don't trust sushi from Subway. :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 10:04 PM (L2ZTs)

315 hogmartin, I bought a few tickets on 5K 9mm, didn't win. Scrounging for MoMe.
Posted by: Eromero at August 03, 2021 09:54 PM (0OP+5)


I got some of that off the shelf at Superior on Broadway (not a lot, but some) and a Quantity of .45, also for the MoMe.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 03, 2021 10:04 PM (ghoDT)

316 297 247 221 My Atlas Heavy Battlemech says your Gundams can suck his shiny metal balls... NERDS!
------
Yeah, but my Gundam doesn't have to fight in his underwear and take a time-out every three turns to cool off his fusion reactor that is older than Hiden.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 09:49 PM (W+kMI)

Balls, now I need to go dig through my old stuff for my Mech compendium... the one still full of Robotech (etc...) knock-offs and what-not.
==========
Clan omnimechs are for power gamers and easy-mode casuals. Real mechwarriors know where the override switch for the power plant is, and USE it!!

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 10:04 PM (W+kMI)

317 Don't really care about football anymore. But I was a Raider fan for a looooong time. Also the Ravens when they arrived here.

Therefore, I hate the Steelers. But even worse are those dorky towels. A grown ass man waving a yellow towel is less hetero than Paul Lynde in the Center Square.

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 10:04 PM (mZUr4)

318 286 Coconuts are nature's perfect food. That is a fact.
Posted by: runner at August 03, 2021 09:58 PM (V13WU)



Coconut is disgusting. Its ok on coconut shrimp. Everything else is disgusting. I would do horrible on survivor.

Posted by: buzzion (vMCab) at August 03, 2021 10:04 PM (vMCab)

319 Just don't trust sushi from Subway. :-P
Posted by: q


do not trust subway from subway

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 03, 2021 10:04 PM (8tNUK)

320 The place in the article slathered their hit dog with mayo, which in my opinion was pretty disgusting.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger


I had a friend in college who dipped her French fries in tartar sauce.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 03, 2021 10:04 PM (+lVUW)

321 The Hot Dog is Nature's Perfect Food.

Change my mind.
Posted by: West at August 03, 2021 09:55 PM (QY+6a)

Are you that weird looking guy from The Happening?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, not a fake x8Wzq at August 03, 2021 10:04 PM (x8Wzq)

322 280 The Hot Dog is Nature's Perfect Food.

Change my mind.
Posted by: West at August 03, 2021 09:55 PM (QY+6a)

*ahem*
Posted by: The Banana at August 03, 2021 09:56 PM (4I/2K)

Say what?

Posted by: Pizza at August 03, 2021 10:04 PM (oHd/0)

323 Ya gotta kill and butcher a pig, then cook. Coconuts need to be opened and coconut milk can give you the shits.

Me ya just peel and eat. I reign supreme.

Posted by: The Banana at August 03, 2021 10:04 PM (4I/2K)

324 ngl, the sushi from Wegmans is quite good...
Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 10:03 PM (ndLSM)


Surprisingly it is quite good, as is their gyoza.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 10:05 PM (hOUT3)

325 The hot dog doesn't even rank in the top 10 of ground meats stuffed in an intestine.

If it did, one would not roll in drunk at 2 am and microwave it for 30 seconds and wrap it in a piece of white bread with a squirt of watery yellow mustard purchased three years prior.

The hot dog is disrespected in this fashion because it is the Phillip Rivers of sausages, widely known with all kinds of stats, but with no championships.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 03, 2021 10:05 PM (5We2S)

326 Okay...most of those "Best XYZ Food In All 50 States" lists are bullshit, but Hiram's in Fort Lee really does have great hot dogs!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 03, 2021 10:05 PM (Q9lwr)

327 224 In fairness, Nietzsche is the most important philosopher in a few hundred years.
Posted by: confederatefifth at August 03, 2021 09:44 PM (8tNUK)

That's not a really high bar

Posted by: 29Victor at August 03, 2021 10:05 PM (BJKQV)

328
I had a friend in college who dipped her French fries in tartar sauce.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 03, 2021 10:04 PM (+lVUW)

In Italy the fries go in mayo

Posted by: 29Victor at August 03, 2021 10:06 PM (BJKQV)

329 Clan omnimechs are for power gamers and easy-mode casuals. Real mechwarriors know where the override switch for the power plant is, and USE it!!
Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 10:04 PM (W+kMI)

Clan Heatsinks in an Awsome 80.

Nuf said.

Posted by: Pizza at August 03, 2021 10:06 PM (oHd/0)

330 In fairness, Nietzsche is the most important philosopher in a few hundred years.
Posted by: confederatefifth at August 03, 2021 09:44 PM (8tNUK)

That's not a really high bar
Posted by: 29Victor


that is def true, but it is worth noting

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 03, 2021 10:06 PM (8tNUK)

331 I had a friend in college who dipped her French fries in tartar sauce.
Posted by: nerdygirl

On a blind date my gal poured ketchup on her fish. Flounder if memory serves.

That didn't last long.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 03, 2021 10:06 PM (mD/uy)

332 328
I had a friend in college who dipped her French fries in tartar sauce.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 03, 2021 10:04 PM (+lVUW)

In Italy the fries go in mayo
Posted by: 29Victor a

Curry ketchup ftw

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 10:06 PM (U2p+3)

333 Okay...most of those "Best XYZ Food In All 50 States" lists are bullshit, but Hiram's in Fort Lee really does have great hot dogs!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 03, 2021 10:05 PM (Q9lwr)

Do they, perchance, put maple syrup on their dogs?

Posted by: tbodie at August 03, 2021 10:07 PM (jyliz)

334 mh thanks for the girthy ONT. It's not the size it's what you do with it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 03, 2021 10:07 PM (EZebt)

335 nurse: I recently found and got some German curry ketchup. It was delish.

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 10:07 PM (L2ZTs)

336 Local sports radio guy apparently got the double-tap jab a few months ago but recently got teh rona and wound up in the ER. He claims that the vax saved him from a worse fate, but I've got some questions about how exactly that's supposed to work given that this line of logic runs counter to what we know about other mutation-happy viruses like influenza (get a new one every year) and rhinovirus/cold-type coronavirus (don't even bother with vax research, it mutates too much).

Posted by: CppThis at August 03, 2021 10:07 PM (8h1h1)

337 Do they, perchance, put maple syrup on their dogs?

Posted by: tbodie at August 03, 2021 10:07 PM (jyliz)

This is New Jersey...they are assholes, not savages.

[you're on my list now...]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 03, 2021 10:08 PM (Q9lwr)

338 Thanks for the ONT.

Fuck this is going to be a long night. Already on energy drink #2. At least five hours to go and an hour drive home.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 03, 2021 10:08 PM (LYEvi)

339 Steve,
I learned about curry ketchup from a friend from Holland. And Strobeler. Damn. Good. Stuff.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 10:09 PM (U2p+3)

340 Okay...most of those "Best XYZ Food In All 50 States" lists are bullshit, but Hiram's in Fort Lee really does have great hot dogs!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 03, 2021 10:05 PM (Q9lwr)


Note to self. Next time I come across one of these articles, send it to CBD instead of Mis Hum. Food thread, here I come!!

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 10:09 PM (mZUr4)

341 Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 10:09 PM (U2p+3)

Ever have bitterballen?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 03, 2021 10:09 PM (Q9lwr)

342 nurse, yup. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 10:10 PM (L2ZTs)

343 This is New Jersey...they are assholes, not savages.

[you're on my list now...]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 03, 2021 10:08 PM (Q9lwr)

You posted a food comment on the ONT. Neither one of us made a good decision.

Posted by: tbodie at August 03, 2021 10:10 PM (jyliz)

344 BW I know what's behind the great chipmunk plague in CA. The southern California Bigfoots, who are a more surly bunch on the average than the northern groups, have been on the rampage this year. So the park and wildlife bureaucrats, who 've long been sworn to public denial of Bigfoot on pain of job security, have manufactured a "crisis" out of the whole cloth to get the sheeple out and away from the parks and general high timber. This gives the gubmint folks the chance to get the Bigfoot critters under control again.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 10:10 PM (W+kMI)

345 Acceptable sauces for fries: ketchup/mustard mix, fry sauce, buffalo sauce, ranch dressing, bleu cheese.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, not a fake x8Wzq at August 03, 2021 10:10 PM (x8Wzq)

346 These vaccines do not work like I was taught vaccines work.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 03, 2021 10:10 PM (LYEvi)

347 Ya gotta kill and butcher a pig, then cook. Coconuts need to be opened and coconut milk can give you the shits.

Me ya just peel and eat. I reign supreme.
Posted by: The Banana


We recommend you do not cook.

Posted by: Trichinosis at August 03, 2021 10:10 PM (r1z5A)

348 Coconut is disgusting. Its ok on coconut shrimp. Everything else is disgusting. I would do horrible on survivor.
Posted by: buzzion (vMCab) at August 03, 2021 10:04 PM (vMCab)

too bad; coconut water has the same composition/nutrients as your blood (or something like that) so it can replenish quickly; the meat is full of ...important things, oils , so you can survive on coconuts even on a desert island...unless you are allergic to coconuts..then you will not survive..

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2021 10:10 PM (V13WU)

349 Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 10:09 PM (U2p+3)

Ever have bitterballen?

.....

Want to?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 03, 2021 10:10 PM (5We2S)

350 Hadrian, that's a gorgeous dog. I always liked the Icart art deco prints with borzois They're so elegant.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 03, 2021 10:10 PM (+lVUW)

351 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo a


??????? No!


Where do I procure?

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 10:11 PM (U2p+3)

352 334 mh thanks for the girthy ONT. It's not the size it's what you do with it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 03, 2021 10:07 PM (EZebt)


It's not the size of the army, it's the fury of the attack.

Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:11 PM (TdMsT)

353 A hot dog cooked on a stick over a campfire is pretty good. Cooked any other way you gotta load it up with lots of condiments, chili and cheese being the best.

Posted by: davidt at August 03, 2021 10:11 PM (F7Ght)

354 345 Acceptable sauces for fries: ketchup/mustard mix, fry sauce, buffalo sauce, ranch dressing, bleu cheese.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, not a fake x8Wzq at August 03, 2021 10:10 PM (x8Wzq)



You're gonna upset those poutine swilling canucks with that list.

Posted by: buzzion (vMCab) at August 03, 2021 10:11 PM (vMCab)

355 165...http://soyaraborzoi.com/Delilah.htm
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 03, 2021 09:33 PM (/U27+)

She's gorgeous!!

Posted by: Flyover at August 03, 2021 10:11 PM (Rbu5d)

356 These vaccines do not work like I was taught vaccines work.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

And this time around, no medical professional at the CDC has heard of herd mentality. Or so it seems.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 03, 2021 10:11 PM (mD/uy)

357 Also, the Poles knew kielbasa was a hit when both Germany *and* Russia stole and tried to take credit for it.

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 10:12 PM (L2ZTs)

358 Thought of this old gem tonight.

https://youtu.be/PZuHAsf6qO0

NSF farm animals, may be NSFW.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -(SchxB)- moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at August 03, 2021 10:12 PM (SchxB)

359 I wonder if curry ketchup is like what I used to have in Germany. Kind of ketchup-y, but not at all sugary. German ketchup is pretty good.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, not a fake x8Wzq at August 03, 2021 10:13 PM (x8Wzq)

360 too bad; coconut water has the same composition/nutrients as your blood (or something like that) so it can replenish quickly; the meat is full of ...important things, oils , so you can survive on coconuts even on a desert island...unless you are allergic to coconuts..then you will not survive..
Posted by: runner at August 03, 2021 10:10 PM (V13WU)


I think its very texture based for me. Hate carrot cake and pineapple as well.

Posted by: buzzion (vMCab) at August 03, 2021 10:13 PM (vMCab)

361 ...ranch dressing, bleu cheese.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, not a fake x8Wzq at August 03, 2021 10:10 PM



No love for malt vinegar?

Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 10:13 PM (ndLSM)

362 Clan omnimechs are for power gamers and easy-mode casuals. Real mechwarriors know where the override switch for the power plant is, and USE it!!

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 10:04 PM (W+kMI)

Ah, the cobwebs clear... A guy could do a lot with a Hunchback...

Related... I do need to dig out my Battletech stuff... my boys had a good time 'rolling-their-own' rules with the old 'Squad Leader' game over our vacation... Need to let them figure out giant lumbering Mechs...

Posted by: tRusty Hudson at August 03, 2021 10:13 PM (iJCGt)

363 348 Runner...

That was funny..

Posted by: NALNAMSAM- not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at August 03, 2021 10:13 PM (+ldAm)

364 Pug, that's how the German curry ketchup I had was. It was plenty savory and just sweet enough.

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 10:13 PM (L2ZTs)

365
Ever have bitterballen?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 03, 2021 10:09 PM (Q9lwr)

Uh, er... hmmm.

Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:13 PM (TdMsT)

366 Where do I procure?

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 10:11 PM (U2p+3)

Uh...in Holland? Or a mediocre Dutch restaurant on the Upper East Side of Manhattan!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 03, 2021 10:14 PM (Q9lwr)

367 ...ranch dressing, bleu cheese.

Posted by: Pug M


who eats that with french toast?

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 03, 2021 10:14 PM (8tNUK)

368
Ah, modern American technology-assisted fascism. The government won't do the 1984-style intrusive stuff, they'll just hire out to Bezos and allied Leftard-run corporations instead. Isn't this the sort of situation that the SF movies of the Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties were worried about?
Posted by: exdem13


1984 or Brave New World or a combination thereof?

https://tinyurl.com/vz7jn9dj

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 03, 2021 10:14 PM (63Dwl)

369 Si, si, The Paolo's kielbasa was , how you say, molto popolare, very popolare, in Germany and in Russia.

Posted by: The Paolo at August 03, 2021 10:14 PM (V13WU)

370 "The inclusion of my bill in the bipartisan infrastructure package will help incentivize]/b]...
--------

My bullshit detector went active.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 03, 2021 10:14 PM (pK7cg)

371 Keith Olberman has shrunken bitterballen.

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 03, 2021 10:14 PM (L2ZTs)

372 The hot dog doesn't even rank in the top 10 of ground meats stuffed in an intestine.
...
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 03, 2021 10:05 PM (5We2S)
===
Not from Coney Island. Obviously

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 03, 2021 10:14 PM (EZebt)

373 And I am done for the day. Good night Horde, and sweet dreams!

Posted by: tbodie at August 03, 2021 10:14 PM (jyliz)

374 Hate carrot cake and pineapple as well.<

Maybe try putting chili in your carrot cake.

Posted by: davidt at August 03, 2021 10:14 PM (F7Ght)

375 Whew. A brush with the barrel

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 03, 2021 10:14 PM (pK7cg)

376 Thought of this old gem tonight.

NSF farm animals, may be NSFW.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

They'll never be another Ewe.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 03, 2021 10:15 PM (mD/uy)

377
No love for malt vinegar?
Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 10:13 PM (ndLSM)


Catsup mixed with Mayo?

Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:15 PM (TdMsT)

378 A Philosopher Plumber can cause a nasty vortex. Don't try this at home.

Posted by: klaftern at August 03, 2021 10:15 PM (r4sI4)

379 A hot dog cooked on a stick over a campfire is pretty good. Cooked any other way you gotta load it up with lots of condiments, chili and cheese being the best.
Posted by: davidt at August 03, 2021 10:11 PM (F7Ght)

when I was a kid, I would split a hot dog longitudinally and fry it, then put it between two slices of toast, add mustard.

Srsly! why do I not do this now? *jots notes in margins of Moron Cookbook*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, not a fake x8Wzq at August 03, 2021 10:16 PM (x8Wzq)

380 Mixing A1 and ketchup in equal parts is great fry dipping sauce.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 03, 2021 10:16 PM (r+sAi)

381 The Hot Dog is Nature's Perfect Food
.....

Bacon.
Novice.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 03, 2021 09:56

LMAO, no this is not the food thread...it doesn't work like this...
you'all crack me up. TY

Posted by: Farmer at August 03, 2021 10:16 PM (55Qr6)

382 Hate carrot cake and pineapple as well.
--------

[serves up a slice of zucchini bread]

Enjoy!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 03, 2021 10:16 PM (pK7cg)

383 Ah Robotech.

The Eick-Minmei-Lisa love triangle.

Roy (you can tell I am a hero by my hair) Fokker.

That green haired Zentraidi chick who fell in love with Max after he defeated her in battle. Who's to say that's not how that works?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 03, 2021 10:16 PM (LYEvi)

384 Those of us who follow the Golden Rule are not accustomed to dealing
with those who do not. We are not wrong but we do need to change our
tune pronto, and start giving as good as we get.
Sorry - no idea how to italicize to denote a quote, but remember - the golden rule is do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That is often misconstrued as requiring you to be nice to everyone all the time. But that is actually a misreading of the rule. If you steal, lie, assault someone, etc. would you not expect or allow punishment on you for that act? If you would accept something done to you fairly in recognition of your violation of a social norm, it is not a violation of the golden rule to do the same to someone who violates that same norm. Short version - you have no obligation to be nice to cultural Marxists who want to kill you if you would not expect them to be nice to you if you were acting the same way toward them.

Posted by: DPICM at August 03, 2021 10:16 PM (M2VUX)

385 Ladyl......so bad so sad.....the rest of us ettes will just have to have fun without you

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 03, 2021 10:17 PM (YLX54)

386 Mayochup.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 03, 2021 10:17 PM (rq2WB)

387 We got military modelers, we got SF modelers, we got Gundam fans & players, we got Battletech/Mechwarrior fans & players, we got LOTRO players (Guardians and Burglars for me!), yeah we are the mighty nerds who taught the young 'uns what was really cool.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 10:17 PM (W+kMI)

388 A Philosopher Plumber can cause a nasty vortex. Don't try this at home.
Posted by: klaftern at August 03, 2021 10:15 PM (r4sI4)

To plunge, or not to plunge. Is that a question?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2021 10:18 PM (6bS/2)

389 Catsup mixed with Mayo?

Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:15 PM



If I'm going to eat a deep-fried spud, the last thing I should want on it is more grease...

Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 10:19 PM (ndLSM)

390 Local sports radio guy apparently got the double-tap jab a few months ago but recently got teh rona and wound up in the ER. He claims that the vax saved him from a worse fate,

What objective evidence does he have that the mRNA injection reduced the severity of the symptoms?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 03, 2021 10:19 PM (ImQ9z)

391 Mayochup.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 03, 2021 10:17 PM (rq2WB)

Squoze out of Mayochupcabras?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2021 10:19 PM (6bS/2)

392 When I was growing up, we used to get our hot dogs from this guy who had a little hot dog stand built on the front of his house. I think he was retired, and just did it to make some extra money.

His kids opened up a hot dog shop on the other side of town. Still going to today, and still good hot dogs.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 03, 2021 10:20 PM (CAJOC)

393

Mon estomac...

Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 10:20 PM (ndLSM)

394 We got military modelers, we got SF modelers, we got
Gundam fans players, we got Battletech/Mechwarrior fans
players, we got LOTRO players (Guardians and Burglars for me!), yeah we
are the mighty nerds who taught the young 'uns what was really cool.

Posted by: exdem13

And the Head Ewok is a tabletop DandD player.

Posted by: davidt at August 03, 2021 10:20 PM (F7Ght)

395 nerd thread is up there.

*points upstairs*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 03, 2021 10:20 PM (EZebt)

396 Ever have bitterballen?

******

No.

Mildly resentful perhaps...

Posted by: Muldoon at August 03, 2021 10:20 PM (Xwt96)

397 What objective evidence does he have that the mRNA injection reduced the severity of the symptoms?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 03, 2021 10:19 PM (ImQ9z)

The nice shiny check from moderna?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2021 10:20 PM (6bS/2)

398 Uh...in Holland? Or a mediocre Dutch restaurant on the Upper East Side of Manhattan!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at

Well I'm not getting to Holland anytime soon.

I can't remember the name of it, but there's a famous Dutch dish with mussels. Ive had it before.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 10:21 PM (U2p+3)

399 No love for malt vinegar?
Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 10:13 PM (ndLSM)


Thrashers French fries. On the boardwalk in Ocean City MD. Malt vinegar and Old Bay. Perfection!!

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 10:21 PM (mZUr4)

400 I remember watching Magnum force one time with a lunch of hotdogs, mustard and ketchup on top.

"Who puts ketchup on a hotdog?!?"

Thanks to Dirty Harry, I didn't put ketchup on a hotdog for the better part of a year.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 10:22 PM (W+kMI)

401 One America News Network 8/3, 2021

Election analyst Seth Keshel discovered at least 8.1 million fraudulent votes nationwide cast for Joe Biden last November.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 03, 2021 10:22 PM (Jd8Rz)

402 There is a subtle art to watching the water rising in the bowl and correctly divining, every time, plunge or no.

Being wrong once can shatter one's confidence. Hard to come back from that.

Posted by: klaftern at August 03, 2021 10:22 PM (r4sI4)

403 Ever have bitterballen?

NO TEETH!![b/]

Posted by: Tonypete at August 03, 2021 10:22 PM (mD/uy)

404 To further clarify, the golden rule doesn't require you to be polite to a known liar whom you catch in a lie, for example. You can call him out as a bullshitter and humiliate him. So long as you would accept the same treatment if you were caught in a lie, there is no violation of the golden rule.
The golden rule is not "be nice", it's "don't be a hypocrite."

Posted by: DPICM at August 03, 2021 10:22 PM (M2VUX)

405

Muldoon:

**SNORT**

Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 10:22 PM (ndLSM)

406 Thrashers French fries. On the boardwalk in Ocean City MD. Malt vinegar and Old Bay. Perfection!!
Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 10:21 PM (mZUr4)

*rubs chin*

Yes. Yes. I have both on hand. that might be friggin' awesome.

Gracias.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, not a fake x8Wzq at August 03, 2021 10:23 PM (x8Wzq)

407
If I'm going to eat a deep-fried spud, the last thing I should want on it is more grease...
Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 10:19 PM (ndLSM)

Mmmmm. Grease...

Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:23 PM (TdMsT)

408 I can't remember the name of it, but there's a famous Dutch dish with mussels. Ive had it before.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 10:21 PM (U2p+3)

So many mussels, you have to arm-wrassle it into submission before you can eat it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2021 10:23 PM (6bS/2)

409 No love for malt vinegar?
Posted by: Zettai


Yes

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 03, 2021 10:23 PM (r1z5A)

410 The golden rule is not "be nice", it's "don't be a hypocrite."
Posted by: DPICM at August 03, 2021 10:22 PM (M2VUX)

Well said. If you would expect a smack in the nose for doing something? The Golden Rule says its OK to do unto others.

Posted by: Pizza at August 03, 2021 10:23 PM (oHd/0)

411 385 Ladyl......so bad so sad.....the rest of us ettes will just have to have fun without you
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 03, 2021 10:17 PM (YLX54)


Please don't make me cry...

Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:24 PM (TdMsT)

412 If I'm going to eat a deep-fried spud, the last thing I should want on it is more grease...
Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 10:19 PM (ndLSM)

Mmmmm. Grease...
Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:23 PM (TdMsT)

Is, the Word!

Posted by: Pizza at August 03, 2021 10:24 PM (oHd/0)

413 We are also messing with the definition of having a disease. I always figured it was only when two conditions were present, you had symptoms and the disease was present. We have gotten so psychotic with testing we are saying that people without symptoms but the disease present are 'sick.' sick means symptoms. No symptoms mean your body is fighting the infection .

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 03, 2021 10:24 PM (LYEvi)

414 Election analyst Seth Keshel discovered at least 8.1 million fraudulent votes nationwide cast for Joe Biden last November.
Posted by: Braenyard


Heh, so?

Posted by: The deep state at August 03, 2021 10:25 PM (r1z5A)

415 Half life...Far Cry1...Redneck Rampage...Fallout 1/2.

My life for you.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 03, 2021 10:25 PM (qoz/n)

416 Yes. Yes. I have both on hand. that might be friggin' awesome.

Gracias.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, not a fake x8Wzq at August 03, 2021 10:23 PM (x8Wzq)


Oh, there is no "might be". Fresh cut fries, about 1/4 inch thick, cooked in peanut oil. In the heart of the summer, Thrashers has long lines.

And they don't have ketchup!

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 10:27 PM (mZUr4)

417 Moules frits. Mussels with French fries. Very good stuff.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 03, 2021 10:27 PM (rq2WB)

418 We are also messing with the definition of having a disease. I always figured it was only when two conditions were present, you had symptoms and the disease was present. We have gotten so psychotic with testing we are saying that people without symptoms but the disease present are 'sick.' sick means symptoms. No symptoms mean your body is fighting the infection .
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 03, 2021 10:24 PM (LYEvi)

Actually, many of the symptoms mean your body is fighting the infection. Fever, runny nose, cough; all are evidence of your body's efforts to shed the virus.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2021 10:27 PM (6bS/2)

419 What can change the nature of a Man?

Name that game.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 03, 2021 10:28 PM (LYEvi)

420 So is the idea that the car won't start if you don't pass the breathalyzer? The upshot of that will be assault and murder, as the government will have dictated that you cannot flee your assailant in your own vehicle, simply because you're drunk.

Posted by: Brett at August 03, 2021 10:29 PM (D+HzM)

421 Regarding chipmunks:

When I was 3, we went camping in Estes Park, CO with my cousins. I was a picky eater, so I wandered off at supper and tried to feed my food to the closest wildlife. My dad turned from the campstove to see me holding still and screaming at the chipmunk firmly attached to my thumb. He rescued me (of course), and I became Little Chipmunk on all camping adventures. Fast forward to two years ago, while camping in Duluth my husband found a chipmunk puppet at a gift shop and named it Thumbiter. For some odd reason, it keeps appearing on the steering wheel and on the gearshift before I get into the car, with lots of giggles from the backseat.

Posted by: pookysgirl, aka Little Chipmunk at August 03, 2021 10:29 PM (XKZwp)

422 394 We got military modelers, we got SF modelers, we got
Gundam fans players, we got Battletech/Mechwarrior fans
players, we got LOTRO players (Guardians and Burglars for me!), yeah we
are the mighty nerds who taught the young 'uns what was really cool.
Posted by: exdem13
And the Head Ewok is a tabletop DandD player.
Posted by: davidt at August 03, 2021 10:20 PM (F7Ght)

D&D from when it started... and Chainmail.
Napoleonics in 15mm... Civ War... Modern Micro armor.
Battletech... Warhammer and Warhammer 40K....
yes.... nerd. If I had bothered with college... Lambda Lambda Lambda.

Posted by: Pizza at August 03, 2021 10:30 PM (oHd/0)

423 No symptoms mean your body is fighting the infection .

*****

Not strictly true. No symptoms means you have successfully defeated the infection, don't have the infection, or are not yet fighting off the infection.
The four hallmarks of inflammation, which is the body's immune system in action are:
Rubor (redness)
Calor (heat)
Dolor (pain)
Tumor (swelling)

These symptoms mean the immune system is fighting off an infection.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 03, 2021 10:30 PM (Xwt96)

424 421 Regarding chipmunks:

When I was 3, we went camping in Estes Park, CO with my cousins. I was a picky eater, so I wandered off at supper and tried to feed my food to the closest wildlife. My dad turned from the campstove to see me holding still and screaming at the chipmunk firmly attached to my thumb. He rescued me (of course), and I became Little Chipmunk on all camping adventures. Fast forward to two years ago, while camping in Duluth my husband found a chipmunk puppet at a gift shop and named it Thumbiter. For some odd reason, it keeps appearing on the steering wheel and on the gearshift before I get into the car, with lots of giggles from the backseat.
Posted by: pookysgirl, aka Little Chipmunk at August 03, 2021 10:29 PM (XKZwp)

That's super cute. How fun to have a running joke like that!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 10:31 PM (U2p+3)

425 Games are just books that move.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 03, 2021 10:31 PM (qoz/n)

426 Posted by: pookysgirl, aka Little Chipmunk


Heh, most animal attacks can be laid at the feet of Disney.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 03, 2021 10:32 PM (r1z5A)

427 Half life...Far Cry1...Redneck Rampage...Fallout 1/2.



My life for you.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 03, 2021 10:25 PM (qoz/n)

I really want to play fallout 1 and 2. I did 3 and 4 and they were frigging stellar.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 03, 2021 10:32 PM (VwHCD)

428 Posted by: Pizza at August 03, 2021 10:30 PM (oHd/0)

Sockioso! /flick and swish

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 03, 2021 10:32 PM (oHd/0)

429 D&D from when it started... and Chainmail.
Napoleonics in 15mm... Civ War... Modern Micro armor.
Battletech... Warhammer and Warhammer 40K....
yes.... nerd. If I had bothered with college... Lambda Lambda Lambda.
Posted by: Pizza at August 03, 2021 10:30 PM (oHd/0)



Hardcore History Addendum just had a new episode released about War Gaming and there was a discussion with a video game developer about a game they have that has some war gaming involved. He did talk a little bit about Chainmail in his earlier discussion about the more classic war gaming and miniatures.

Posted by: buzzion (vMCab) at August 03, 2021 10:33 PM (vMCab)

430 A true sportsman cheers for the other competitors to
do their very best. Because a champion is the best of the best. Not
the best of the ones who fell.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 09:22 PM (U2p+3)


We see the world as we are, not as it is.

It is a bit different in competitions that are on on one instead of performing for points. In gymnastics and track and field you are looking at each other for success and say good job during the competition, in sports that compete directly you are going for blood and afterwards you say good job.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 03, 2021 10:33 PM (ssx3L)

431 Posted by: pookysgirl, aka Little Chipmunk at August 03, 2021 10:29 PM (XKZwp)

I guess he wanted a hula hoop instead of food??

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 10:34 PM (mZUr4)

432

"Gebakken mosselen," a Dutch dish made from barnacles mussels sourced from the hulls Asian-flagged freighters in the canals of Rotterdam the cool, clear waters of the Dutch Alps, fried in oil, and served on toast...

Posted by: Zettai at August 03, 2021 10:34 PM (ndLSM)

433 Games are just books that move.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot



Monopoly, to drive friends, siblings, parents into bankruptcy and drink the tears of their sorrow....

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 03, 2021 10:35 PM (r1z5A)

434 I always figured it was only when two conditions were present, you had symptoms and the disease was present

*****

Aetius- you are spot on with this part of your comment. On the political and public front we are so far away from handling the COVID from a medical condition with an actual case definition, constellation of symptoms, assessment of severity and confirmatory testing as to. be comical if it weren't so impactful.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 03, 2021 10:35 PM (Xwt96)

435 419 What can change the nature of a Man?

Name that game.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 03, 2021 10:28 PM (LYEvi)

Come on Cutter...

-Planescape: Torment

Posted by: tRusty Hudson at August 03, 2021 10:35 PM (iJCGt)

436 Posted by: pookysgirl, aka Little Chipmunk at August 03, 2021 10:29 PM (XKZwp)

I guess he wanted a hula hoop instead of food??


Probably a carnivorous subspecies.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -(SchxB)- moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at August 03, 2021 10:35 PM (SchxB)

437 Mmmmm. Grease...
Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:23 PM (TdMsT)


Please, let us be specific here, Bacon Grease!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 10:35 PM (hOUT3)

438 Tamyra Mensah-Stock graduated High School in Houston ( Katy) .

Posted by: Just a side note at August 03, 2021 10:36 PM (2DOZq)

439 433 Games are just books that move.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot

Monopoly, to drive friends, siblings, parents into bankruptcy and drink the tears of their sorrow....
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 03, 2021 10:35 PM (r1z5A)

The game of Life... where even if you had 4 people playing, only ONE won.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 03, 2021 10:37 PM (oHd/0)

440
Please, let us be specific here, Bacon Grease!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 10:35 PM (hOUT3)lol

The God Emperor of all grease!

Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:37 PM (TdMsT)

441 Mr Berserker...You must buy Fall1 now.

It is so good....wives have gone.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 03, 2021 10:38 PM (qoz/n)

442 Leave the peanuts, eat the thumbs.

Posted by: Variant Chipmonk at August 03, 2021 10:38 PM (F7Ght)

443
Monopoly, to drive friends, siblings, parents into bankruptcy and drink the tears of their sorrow....
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 03, 2021 10:35 PM (r1z5A)


Life can be so very satisfying.

Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:38 PM (TdMsT)

444 Posted by: Muldoon at August 03, 2021 10:35 PM (Xwt96)

But COVID is primarily a political condition and it is being treated almost perfectly once you understand that point of view.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 10:39 PM (hOUT3)

445 Leave the peanuts, eat the thumbs.
Posted by: Variant Chipmonk


Told you guys they're out there.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -(SchxB)- moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at August 03, 2021 10:39 PM (SchxB)

446 Games are just books that move.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot

Monopoly, to drive friends, siblings, parents into bankruptcy and drink the tears of their sorrow....
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 03, 2021 10:35 PM (r1z5A)

The game of Life... where even if you had 4 people playing, only ONE won.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 03, 2021 10:37 PM (oHd/0)

I have seen Risk cause year long retributions .

Posted by: Just a side note at August 03, 2021 10:39 PM (2DOZq)

447 438 Tamyra Mensah-Stock graduated High School in Houston ( Katy) .
Posted by: Just a side n


I would not want to piss her off and then meet her in a dark alleyway.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 10:40 PM (U2p+3)

448 Mixing A1 and ketchup in equal parts is great fry dipping sauce.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 03, 2021 10:16

I'll have to try that w/ fries from the new fry crisper. Those always go well into burgers or meat loaf too.

Posted by: Farmer at August 03, 2021 10:40 PM (55Qr6)

449 Edifice wrecks
Posted by: Muldoon at August 03, 2021 09:34 PM (Xwt96)


dentifrice Rex is Sophocles' great tragedy about toothpaste

Posted by: Kindltot at August 03, 2021 10:40 PM (ssx3L)

450
well
they announced all the kids in the school district need a mask indoors thisw fall


we shall see what happens next

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 03, 2021 10:40 PM (bTQ72)

451 Life can be so very satisfying.
Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:38 PM (TdMsT)


Remind me again why I do not want to play Monopoly with you!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 10:40 PM (hOUT3)

452 The God Emperor of all grease!
Posted by: Ladyl


Some hollywood type is ripping you off as we speak.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 03, 2021 10:40 PM (r1z5A)

453 For pookysgirl...

A short track from the band Madness (best know for the 80s hit "Our House").

"Chipmunks Are Go"
https://youtu.be/5xVx8VCnZFA

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 10:40 PM (mZUr4)

454 Dear {{{Nurse}}}!!!

Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:40 PM (TdMsT)

455 452 The God Emperor of all grease!
Posted by: Ladyl


Some hollywood type is ripping you off as we speak.
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 03, 2021 10:40 PM (r1z5A)

John Travolta?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 03, 2021 10:41 PM (oHd/0)

456 Games are just books that move.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot
------

Spite

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 03, 2021 10:42 PM (pK7cg)

457 we shall see what happens next

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 03, 2021 10:40 PM (bTQ72)


Budget increase for CPS!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 10:42 PM (hOUT3)

458 Ladyl!!!

How are you, love?

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 10:42 PM (U2p+3)

459 458 Ladyl!!!

How are you, love?
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 10:42 PM (U2p+3)


Oh dahlin...you know...

Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:42 PM (TdMsT)

460 How are you doing, Nurse?

You going to Colorado?

Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:43 PM (TdMsT)

461 John Travolta?
Posted by: Romeo13


Nice.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 03, 2021 10:44 PM (r1z5A)

462 When Nietzche said that God is dead, he was not celebrating, he was predicting horrors that mankind would visit on itself

Posted by: Kindltot at August 03, 2021 10:45 PM (ssx3L)

463 Ladyl,
Jordan and I are heading to the Colorado Morondesvouz. I'm excited to meet other folks and gather some hugs from like-hearted American Patriots. It will be lovely.

I wish you could make it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 10:45 PM (U2p+3)

464
451 Life can be so very satisfying.
Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:38 PM (TdMsT)

Remind me again why I do not want to play Monopoly with you!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 10:40 PM (hOUT3)


I can't stop laughing.

One of my many flaws is that I am too competitive.

When I was a child, my mother wouldn't let me play board games. She said: you're a terrible loser, and an even worse winner!

Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:46 PM (TdMsT)

465 463 Ladyl,
Jordan and I are heading to the Colorado Morondesvouz. I'm excited to meet other folks and gather some hugs from like-hearted American Patriots. It will be lovely.

I wish you could make it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 10:45 PM (U2p+3)


I'm so envious! You'll have a great time! Give my love to everyone there.

Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:47 PM (TdMsT)

466 When I was a child, my mother wouldn't let me play board games. She said: you're a terrible loser, and an even worse winner!
Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:46 PM (TdMsT)


As the twig is bent, so grows the tree!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 10:47 PM (hOUT3)

467
Mr Berserker...You must buy Fall1 now.



It is so good....wives have gone.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 03, 2021 10:38 PM (qoz/n)

Is it made for the modern consoles yet, like Xbox one, or is it a pc game still?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 03, 2021 10:47 PM (VwHCD)

468 Posted by: nurse ratched


Dang girl, you and Jordan are quite the social butterflies!! Lucky you two! (smiley face icon here)

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 03, 2021 10:48 PM (r1z5A)

469 If "Imagine" is the most overrated song ever, then "Because" is underrated pallet cleaner palate cleanser.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 03, 2021 09:46 PM (ybIRR)


Used in Valerian. The Siouxie and the Banshees cover of Dear Prudence just about made the 16yo me short out.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 03, 2021 10:48 PM (ssx3L)

470 I can't stop laughing.

One of my many flaws is that I am too competitive.

When I was a child, my mother wouldn't let me play board games. She said: you're a terrible loser, and an even worse winner!
Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:46 PM (TdMsT)


Oh no. You're Monica Gellar!

Posted by: buzzion (vMCab) at August 03, 2021 10:49 PM (vMCab)

471 Ladyl.......there will be Texas

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 03, 2021 10:49 PM (YLX54)

472 471 Ladyl.......there will be Texas
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 03, 2021 10:49 PM (YLX54)


Can't WAIT to see you in TX, dahlin!

Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:50 PM (TdMsT)

473 Fresh cut fries with the skins on. Eat them every day any way!

Posted by: dartist at August 03, 2021 10:51 PM (+ya+t)

474
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 10:47 PM (hOUT3)


I can't stop laughing

Posted by: Ladyl at August 03, 2021 10:51 PM (TdMsT)

475 Ok. Synchronized swimming is stupid.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 10:52 PM (U2p+3)

476 Slidin in to the ONT like....something slippery.

Posted by: Funsize (EiPf6) at August 03, 2021 10:53 PM (EiPf6)

477 "Repeat after me, The PCR tests don't work!"

https://tinyurl.com/zbzxu4v4

Posted by: Kindltot at August 03, 2021 10:55 PM (ssx3L)

478 My comments are occasionally disappearing. I reiterate, is that a coulee in the top pic

Because, it looks like a coulee.
Posted by: Mike Hammer


Creme Coulee Brulee

*Fritz Feld POP!*

Posted by: Chef Miklos at August 03, 2021 10:55 PM (QzkSJ)

479 462 When Nietzche said that God is dead, he was not celebrating, he was predicting horrors that mankind would visit on itself
Posted by: Kindltot at August 03, 2021 10:45 PM (ssx3L)


Nietzsche was a complex guy...yes, one of the big trends in his writing was describing the impending collapse of the old social order and the necessity that people think for themselves and not just blindly follow others.

Posted by: CppThis at August 03, 2021 10:55 PM (8h1h1)

480 The Siouxie and the Banshees cover of Dear Prudence just about made the 16yo me short out.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 03, 2021 10:48 PM (ssx3L)


Ever heard their cover of The Passenger? I dare say it's as good as, if not slightly better than Iggy Pop's original.

https://youtu.be/4nAON-MwUPY

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 10:56 PM (mZUr4)

481 I, for one, look forward to being ruled by power hungry scientists without elected politicians interferi1ng in their scientific decisions. . What could go wrong?

Posted by: Ripley at August 03, 2021 10:56 PM (PTDkx)

482
how is the CDC in charge of rents at any level?

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 03, 2021 10:58 PM (bTQ72)

483 I don't understand why that influencer has 1.3 million followers. She isn't that attractive. Honestly, she's a 0 for me. Hunter's cousin is more attractive, even knowing she's a Biden.

And the CDC announcement means nothing. If I'm a landlord I'm evicting. They can't stop me. SCOTUS ruled only Congress can make that law, so CDC is powerless to stop me.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 03, 2021 10:58 PM (5p7BC)

484 So now the cat is out of the bag! nurse and Jordan61 will be here for the Colorado Morondezvous!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 03, 2021 10:58 PM (YLX54)

485 Ever heard their cover of The Passenger? I dare say it's as good as, if not slightly better than Iggy Pop's original.

https://youtu.be/4nAON-MwUPY
Posted by: Doof

I almost got into a fist fight over that once

Iggy has passionate defenders

Posted by: Diverse and tolerant Miklos at August 03, 2021 10:58 PM (QzkSJ)

486 "Repeat after me, The PCR tests don't work!"

https://tinyurl.com/zbzxu4v4
Posted by: Kindltot


Seems someone test their Cola drink live, and it tested positive.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 03, 2021 10:59 PM (r1z5A)

487 Some barnacles are edible. High protein, low carb.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 03, 2021 10:59 PM (KAi1n)

488 how is the CDC in charge of rents at any level?
Posted by: will choose a nic later

This unquestion is disinformation

Posted by: Fakebook at August 03, 2021 10:59 PM (QzkSJ)

489 Some barnacles are edible. High protein, low carb.
Posted by: SFGoth

Text me

Posted by: Mike Barnacle at August 03, 2021 11:00 PM (QzkSJ)

490 how is the CDC in charge of rents at any level?
Posted by: will choose a nic later at


I think we all know the reason.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 03, 2021 11:00 PM (r1z5A)

491 Mechwarrior 2: Ghost Bear's Legacy was the first game I ever worked on. So much fun.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at August 03, 2021 11:01 PM (uhPTO)

492 Some barnacles are edible. High protein, low carb.
Posted by: SFGoth


Bitch to shell thou.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 03, 2021 11:01 PM (r1z5A)

493 Janette Fennell, president of Kids and Car Safety, said more than 1,000 children had died in hot cars since 1990.
-----
So more than COVID.

Just to set some perspective.

Many more children die of poisoning every year, but let's have mask theater.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 03, 2021 11:02 PM (5p7BC)

494 I, for one, look forward to being ruled by power hungry scientists without elected politicians interferi1ng in their scientific decisions. . What could go wrong?
Posted by: Ripley
--------------------
See: Stubbins Ffirth

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 03, 2021 11:02 PM (pK7cg)

495 so CDC is powerless to stop me.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

I need the t-shirt

Posted by: Miklosian First and Fourth Amendments at August 03, 2021 11:02 PM (QzkSJ)

496 "Repeat after me, The PCR tests don't work!"
https://tinyurl.com/zbzxu4v4
Posted by: Kindltot


My primary care doc told me this fifteen months ago!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 03, 2021 11:02 PM (hOUT3)

497 I almost got into a fist fight over that once

Iggy has passionate defenders
Posted by: Diverse and tolerant Miklos at August 03, 2021 10:58 PM (QzkSJ)


Howdy Miklos! Thumb drive topped 12GB. Coming your way later this week

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 11:02 PM (mZUr4)

498 Please give generously.

Posted by: Karz and Kidz Against Janette Ferrell at August 03, 2021 11:04 PM (QzkSJ)

499 Howdy Miklos! Thumb drive topped 12GB. Coming your way later this week
Posted by: Doof

No hurry-car is in the shop!

Posted by: Thankful and appreciative Miklos at August 03, 2021 11:05 PM (QzkSJ)

500 I, for one, look forward to being ruled by power hungry scientists without elected politicians interferi1ng in their scientific decisions. . What could go wrong?
Posted by: Ripley


Mikey Mann has only the purist of intentions.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 03, 2021 11:06 PM (r1z5A)

501 481 I, for one, look forward to being ruled by power hungry scientists without elected politicians interferi1ng in their scientific decisions. . What could go wrong?
====
"Science freed from the restraints of petty morality!!"
- Bioshock

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 11:07 PM (W+kMI)

502 491 Mechwarrior 2: Ghost Bear's Legacy was the first game I ever worked on. So much fun.
-----
You worked on a Mechwarrior game? Cool.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 11:08 PM (W+kMI)

503 Mikey Mann has only the purist of intentions.
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp

Tire iron or Hockey Stick?

Posted by: Judge Miklos considers at August 03, 2021 11:09 PM (QzkSJ)

504 I can't remember the name of it, but there's a famous Dutch dish with mussels. Ive had it before.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 10:21 PM (U2p+3)


I always thought mussels tasted like low tide.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 03, 2021 11:09 PM (ssx3L)

505 Ooops! Sorry. Didn't want to frighten others away!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 11:09 PM (U2p+3)

506 How does one become an influencer? Please send money.

Posted by: dartist at August 03, 2021 11:10 PM (+ya+t)

507 Janette Fennell, president of Kids and Car Safety, said more than 1,000 children had died in hot cars since 1990.
----------

The number of child hot car deaths for 2020 was 25. So far in 2021, seven deaths have been reported.

Very sad, and disturbing, but not not staggering. Compared to other reasons, it's very small.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 03, 2021 11:10 PM (GBHAb)

508 Tire iron or Hockey Stick?
Posted by: Judge Miklos considers


Pike, we'll tie a windsock to him and plant em at the airport.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 03, 2021 11:11 PM (r1z5A)

509 I always thought mussels tasted like low tide.
Posted by: Kindltot at


Oooo. I steam them in red curry, coconut milk and lime. Mangrood leaves and lemongrass. Some thai basil.

Yum!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 11:11 PM (U2p+3)

510 So now the cat is out of the bag! nurse and Jordan61 will be here for the Colorado Morondezvous!
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 03, 2021 10:58

Dang WDS, wish I could be there. Maybe next yr. Trip this yr is to bury my MIL Jo in AZ this month.

Posted by: Farmer at August 03, 2021 11:13 PM (55Qr6)

511 When Nietzche said that God is dead, he was not celebrating, he was predicting horrors that mankind would visit on itself

....

Meh.

Nietzsche wasn't necessarily an adherent to the idea that mankind was inherently evil. He merely thought the driving force for mankind was the desire to influence and dominate the world around them.

He surmised that man could express his will to power more formidably by serving others rather than oppressing them, that oppression was a weaker expression of power over another than was benefiting those around them and indenting themselves to oneself.

He did propose that weaker men would express their will to power by placing guilt upon the strong for their accomplishments and status.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 03, 2021 11:13 PM (5We2S)

512 Ants make decisions based on science. Or rather, science guides all their actions.They would make great rulers.

Posted by: Ripley at August 03, 2021 11:13 PM (PTDkx)

513 You worked on a Mechwarrior game? Cool.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 11:08 PM (W+kMI)

I was a terror with just machine guns in multiplayer until someone figured out how to take me out at range.

Wish we'd done more with that license.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at August 03, 2021 11:13 PM (uhPTO)

514 Oooo. I steam them in red curry, coconut milk and lime. Mangrood leaves and lemongrass. Some thai basil.

Yum!!!
Posted by: nurse ratched

Nurse has always appeared to be a sensible sort.

Posted by: Chef Miklos approves at August 03, 2021 11:14 PM (QzkSJ)

515 NBCommie edited out the part of Tamyra Mensah-Stock's interview where she praised God and effused with pride at loving the USA.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 03, 2021 11:15 PM (r+sAi)

516 He did propose that weaker men would express their will to power by placing guilt upon the strong for their accomplishments and status.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

I'll have what Nietzsche was drinking

Posted by: NeverTrumper at August 03, 2021 11:16 PM (QzkSJ)

517 Oooo. I steam them in red curry, coconut milk and lime. Mangrood leaves and lemongrass. Some thai basil.

Yum!!!
Posted by: nurse ratched
-------------
I've said it before but the people you feed are lucky.

Posted by: dartist at August 03, 2021 11:17 PM (+ya+t)

518 Yum!!!
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 11:11 PM (U2p+3)

Sounds great.

Try them in the sous vide

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 03, 2021 11:18 PM (WF/xn)

519 A hotdog isn't a sandwich; it's a bivalve.

********

clams hot dogs got legs!!!!!!

/B.C.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 03, 2021 11:19 PM (Xwt96)

520 Ants make decisions based on science. Or rather, science guides all their actions.They would make great rulers.
Posted by: Ripley

Sure.

Try to get twelve inches on ants stay in place.

Posted by: Miklos notes a flaw in the concept at August 03, 2021 11:19 PM (QzkSJ)

521
Ants make decisions based on science. Or rather, science guides all their actions.They would make great rulers.
Posted by: Ripley


I would gladly welcome my ant overlords.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 03, 2021 11:19 PM (63Dwl)

522 Thank you, dartist.

I live alone now, so cooking for my boys and my friends (who aren't afraid) is a privilege and a joy.

I hope to meet you and hug you someday.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 11:20 PM (U2p+3)

523 That breathalyzer will be great for brothers and sisters who share cars. Very sanitary. Congrats to the Demoncrats for thinking so much about VIRUSES in these trying times. We're all in this together.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2021 11:20 PM (tZUwc)

524 Try them in the sous vide
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway

Ffs. Killmenow.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 03, 2021 11:21 PM (U2p+3)

525 I hope to meet you and hug you someday.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Now see?

Some people can have nice things.

Posted by: Miklos "El Copacetico" at August 03, 2021 11:22 PM (QzkSJ)

526
Oooo. I steam them in red curry, coconut milk and lime. Mangrood leaves and lemongrass. Some thai basil.

Yum!!!
Posted by: nurse ratched
-------------


You put the lime in the coconut?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 03, 2021 11:22 PM (63Dwl)

527 I hope to meet you and hug you someday.
------------
The pleasure would be mine nurse.

Posted by: dartist at August 03, 2021 11:22 PM (+ya+t)

528 Not that many of us will see it, but I predict that this years Super Bowl will be the first official Wokelympics of commercials.

In previous years they've danced around the edges of Woke with some being worse than others.

But I think will be the first year an SB commercial goes viral for being completely pathetic and embarrassing.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2021 11:23 PM (tZUwc)

529 Repeat after me, The PCR tests don't work
This won't stop various sports, music, theater, schools and political entities from ostracizing someone who tests positive and cancelling whole events.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 03, 2021 11:23 PM (r+sAi)

530 Ever heard their cover of The Passenger? I dare say it's as good as, if not slightly better than Iggy Pop's original.


https://youtu.be/4nAON-MwUPY
Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 10:56 PM (mZUr4)


I think a lot of Siouxie's appeal was so much of the instruments were played like percussion. It is hard to describe, but Passenger was good, most of what they did was notably good.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 03, 2021 11:23 PM (ssx3L)

531 You put the lime in the coconut?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot

"de", not "the"

Posted by: Miklos stickler for authenticity at August 03, 2021 11:23 PM (QzkSJ)

532 "Science freed from the restraints of petty morality!!"

- Bioshock
Posted by: exdem13 at August 03, 2021 11:07 PM (W+kMI)


This quote needs to be printed in BOLD over a pic of St Fauci, and posted on a million power poles in downtowns across this country

Posted by: Kindltot at August 03, 2021 11:25 PM (ssx3L)

533 Ants? It's the Mantoids who run the universe.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 03, 2021 11:26 PM (vuisn)

534 The number of child hot car deaths for 2020 was 25. So far in 2021, seven deaths have been reported.

Very sad, and disturbing, but not not staggering. Compared to other reasons, it's very small.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 03, 2021 11:10 PM (GBHAb)

25 per year for 30 years would be 750 such deaths. So 2020 must have been an anomalously low year, or else "hot car" deaths have been on a steady decline, anyway.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2021 11:26 PM (6bS/2)

535 Try them in the sous vide
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 03, 2021 11:18 PM (WF/xn)

"Sous vide" is French for "empty drunk".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2021 11:27 PM (6bS/2)

536 He did propose that weaker men would express their will to power by placing guilt upon the strong for their accomplishments and status.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 03, 2021 11:13

Ya know this Nietzsche sounds crazy, what does that mean? Sounds like BS to me.

Posted by: Farmer at August 03, 2021 11:28 PM (55Qr6)

537 Oh Farmer! Sorry about the loss of your mil

I do so hope to see you again!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 03, 2021 11:28 PM (YLX54)

538 The Sniffer With A Swiffer just came charging in through the open window. She's funny like that.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 03, 2021 11:28 PM (KAi1n)

539 AOP

Can I haz AOP car question?

Posted by: Humble Miklos at August 03, 2021 11:29 PM (QzkSJ)

540 #536, Neetch was absolutely correct.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 03, 2021 11:29 PM (KAi1n)

541 He surmised that man could express his will to power
more formidably by serving others rather than oppressing them, that
oppression was a weaker expression of power over another than was
benefiting those around them and indenting themselves to oneself.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 03, 2021 11:13 PM (5We2S)


My father mentioned to me that the times he tried to screw other people over he wound up screwing himself over.
What he didn't tell me, but lots of people are now telling me , is that he spent huge amount of time helping other people out and getting them on their feet.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 03, 2021 11:30 PM (ssx3L)

542 Why don't we find a way to prevent every type of accident at the cost of everybody's precious time and money?

How many drunk people fell off of ladders in 2020? Let's put a breathalyzer on every ladder.

And glue on every rung to keep people in place.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2021 11:30 PM (tZUwc)

543 ... LOL

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 03, 2021 11:31 PM (YLX54)

544 That doesn't look like a coulee in the top pic. Looks like a seasonal lake almost all dried up into a mud flat. Coulees are (mostly) dry glacial outwash channels. Some have successor streams in them, but those little streams have none of the erosional power of the original melt-off.

Lots of coulees in my neck of the woods.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2021 11:32 PM (6bS/2)

545 Why don't we find a way to prevent every type of accident at the cost of everybody's precious time and money?

******

How many people in this country live in a bubble wrap desert? When will the madness end?

Posted by: Muldoon at August 03, 2021 11:32 PM (Xwt96)

546 Can I haz AOP car question?
Posted by: Humble Miklos at August 03, 2021 11:29 PM (QzkSJ)

Sure.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2021 11:33 PM (6bS/2)

547 How many drunk people fell off of ladders in 2020? Let's put a breathalyzer on every ladder.

And glue on every rung to keep people in place.
Posted by: ... at August 03, 2021 11:30 PM (tZUwc)

Nursing mothers should be obliged to wear nets hung from a garter belt, so in the event that the kid gets dropped, or de-latches, it won't fall on the floor.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2021 11:35 PM (6bS/2)

548 I think a lot of Siouxie's appeal was so much of the instruments were played like percussion. It is hard to describe, but Passenger was good, most of what they did was notably good.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 03, 2021 11:23 PM (ssx3L)


Good points. Plus her voice is unique and great

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 11:37 PM (mZUr4)

549 Too Bad Trump went along with all those court decisions against him. Especially the judge who ruled that Trunp could reverse Obama's illegal act creating DACA.

Trump overlooked the power of the CSC

Posted by: JM in Florida at August 03, 2021 11:37 PM (HCeRP)

550 BTW Miklos -- that version of The Passenger is definitely on that thumb drive. Within a playlist comprised exclusively of cover versions

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 11:39 PM (mZUr4)

551 Tonya harding had a routine in 1991 competition using Siouxie and the Banshee's cover of The Passenger

(it is on YouTube)

Posted by: Kindltot at August 03, 2021 11:39 PM (ssx3L)

552 Sure.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Well. I Have a fun around town driver 2001 VW Cabrio. I am now informed that the top of the column containing the front right strut is seriously rusted out from below. The metal is rusted and cracked, could give way, which would be unpleasant.

A couple of maybe solutions involving welding are under consideration.

Your thoughts?

Posted by: Humble Miklos, thanks in advance at August 03, 2021 11:39 PM (QzkSJ)

553 Arrgg - ruled that Trump could NOT reverse DACA .

Posted by: JM in Florida at August 03, 2021 11:39 PM (HCeRP)

554 How many drunk people fell off of ladders in 2020?

******

Most of them have voluntarily participated in a 12-step program

Posted by: Muldoon at August 03, 2021 11:40 PM (Xwt96)

555 or maybe not. I am half asleep.
night all

Posted by: Kindltot at August 03, 2021 11:40 PM (ssx3L)

556 BTW Miklos -- that version of The Passenger is definitely on that thumb drive. Within a playlist comprised exclusively of cover versions
Posted by: Doof

Ok that does it

*buys new Road Trip car*

Posted by: Mobile Miklos at August 03, 2021 11:40 PM (QzkSJ)

557 Lots of coulees in my neck of the woods.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2021 11:32

We had a creek running thru the farm to the Rock River. It drained a nearby area, but sometimes it ran dry. Always got a kick when a wet year produced a load of toads and frogs.

Posted by: Farmer at August 03, 2021 11:42 PM (55Qr6)

558 MisHum, I LOVE Poco. So nice to hear that song!

Posted by: keena at August 03, 2021 11:42 PM (RiTnx)

559 night all
Posted by: Kindltot

*****

Goodnight,sir.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 03, 2021 11:42 PM (Xwt96)

560 I tried to qualify for the U. S. Olympic Hopscotch Team, but they told me I'd have tape my package to my leg and slap on a pair of tits.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 03, 2021 11:43 PM (bCkNL)

561 Ok that does it

*buys new Road Trip car*
Posted by: Mobile Miklos at August 03, 2021 11:40 PM (QzkSJ)

That's a good idea. Also a good idea -- a high quality set of ear buds. Or my favorite -- old school over the ear headphones. The kind that make you look like you're in a recording studio

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 11:43 PM (mZUr4)

562 Most of them have voluntarily participated in a 12-step program

Posted by: Muldoon at August 03, 2021 11:40 PM (Xwt96)

I hate you.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2021 11:44 PM (tZUwc)

563
How many people in this country live in a bubble wrap desert? When will the madness end?
Posted by: Muldoon


The famous "Cowboy After OSHA"

https://tinyurl.com/72bhu2m

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 03, 2021 11:45 PM (63Dwl)

564 That's a good idea. Also a good idea -- a high quality set of ear buds. Or my favorite -- old school over the ear headphones. The kind that make you look like you're in a recording studio
Posted by: Doof

Nope.

Top down and music cranked.

Posted by: Old Skool Miklos at August 03, 2021 11:45 PM (QzkSJ)

565 "Friend and fellow Cob CBD passed this along. "

Jeez o p. I read that as "fellow Cob CBD passed away"

I almost choked right then.

phrasing phrasing. With all the people dying suddenly these days it doesn't strike one as impossible. Startling but possible.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 03, 2021 11:46 PM (wb4G5)

566 The famous "Cowboy After OSHA"

https://tinyurl.com/72bhu2m
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.


******

I love that!!

Posted by: Muldoon at August 03, 2021 11:47 PM (Xwt96)

567 That's a good idea. Also a good idea -- a high quality set of ear buds. Or my favorite -- old school over the ear headphones. The kind that make you look like you're in a recording studio
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I just don't like headphones or earbuds, I have to hear what's going on around me.

Posted by: dartist at August 03, 2021 11:48 PM (+ya+t)

568 Well. I Have a fun around town driver 2001 VW Cabrio. I am now informed that the top of the column containing the front right strut is seriously rusted out from below. The metal is rusted and cracked, could give way, which would be unpleasant.

A couple of maybe solutions involving welding are under consideration.

Your thoughts?
Posted by: Humble Miklos, thanks in advance at August 03, 2021 11:39 PM (QzkSJ)

The Cabrio is the convertible version of the Golf or Rabbit, right?

Number one suggestion: before spending hard earned $$$ fixing rust in one area, go over car thoroughly to ensure there is no hidden structural rust in other areas. Look at the inside of the cowl, under the dash, maybe take the vent grille below the windshield out, and use a borescope-style cam to view inside. Pull up carpets; check where floor meets door pillars. Check jacking points, and the places where suspension loads are transferred to the unibody structure.

If all else is good, a welded repair is worth doing. If the tinworms have spread farther, it might become too extensive to fix for the money you are prepared to spend.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2021 11:48 PM (6bS/2)

569 Interesting that Democrats have started building into their laws untouchable "czars" like Sebelius was, who can do anything and everything they want.

The trick is the czars who will use their power to do anything and everything are inherently going to be lefty big gov control freaks.

And if a righty sneaks by and does something untoward with the power, like granting people more freedom, the Left will just challenge it in court and get a Hawaiian judge to put a stop to it.

Mindnumbingly brilliant in the simplest most stupid way. It's basically what children would do if they wrote laws and controlled courts.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2021 11:49 PM (tZUwc)

570 Automatic high volume "Whoa!"

Posted by: Muldoon at August 03, 2021 11:49 PM (Xwt96)

571 Nope.

Top down and music cranked.
Posted by: Old Skool Miklos at August 03, 2021 11:45 PM (QzkSJ)


Okee dokee. But there's a lot of layers in music that are sometimes only heard through high quality headphones or ear buds.

I'll save that persuasion for another day. Sleep time for me.

Good night Hordelings!!

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 11:51 PM (mZUr4)

572 I drove the dual-ie to the coulee but the coulee was dry.

Posted by: Funsize (EiPf6) at August 03, 2021 11:51 PM (EiPf6)

573 Night y'all!

Colorado Morondezvous
Sidebar

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 03, 2021 11:52 PM (YLX54)

574 I just don't like headphones or earbuds, I have to hear what's going on around me.
Posted by: dartist at August 03, 2021 11:48 PM (+ya+t)

Understandable. I like to focus just on the music sometimes. When flying, for example. But I get it - the full immersion approach isn't for everyone

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 03, 2021 11:54 PM (mZUr4)

575 Oh, PCR tests "work". If used properly. Which I think would be as quick/cheap confirmation tests (below 30 cycles, I think) for seriously symptomatic people, who then would move on to antibody tests and treatment. At which point, the PCR results confirmed, they would be counted as a "case".

I believe I just described the procedure for all infectious diseases including influenza as it has been done until March 2020.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 03, 2021 11:54 PM (OTzUX)

576 If all else is good, a welded repair is worth doing. If the tinworms have spread farther, it might become too extensive to fix for the money you are prepared to spend.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I paid $2000 for this car with 59k on it. After three years it has 74K. I think it's worth another G or two, just wondering about the welding options. Weld on some steel? Cut off the top of the column and weld on a new one?

These are the options under discussion.

Posted by: Miklos who is not and has never been a welder at August 03, 2021 11:55 PM (QzkSJ)

577 When I went out to californication, I was shocked to find beers that I'd never heard of. Not even in ads.

Like Coors and Olympia and Lucky Lager? (or something like that) Then there was the beer in the Philippines like San Miquel.

Now you tell me they were peddling more crap elsewhere.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 03, 2021 11:56 PM (wb4G5)

578 That doesn't look like a coulee in the top pic.
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I'll be the judge of this.

Posted by: The Grand Coulee at August 03, 2021 11:57 PM (bPH26)

579 I believe I just described the procedure for all infectious diseases including influenza as it has been done until March 2020.

Posted by: rhomboid


******

I've said all along, if we tested for influenza like we have tested for COVID, the numbers would blow your mind.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 03, 2021 11:57 PM (Xwt96)

580 Muldoon - I just started the earlier book by James Holland on Italy in WWII, "Italy's Sorrow", which he actually wrote before "Sicily 1943". It starts in May 1944, after most of the agony of Casino, and when the krauts were stepping back from trying to drive your dad into the sea at Anzio.

Same formula as the other book. Mix of 10,000-foot Big Strategy and leadership, with a cast of Everymen, German, Italian partisans, US and British soldiers, etc. Good approach to make a war history approachable and draw you through it.

Anyway, just thought I'd mention it. Every thought of the Italian campaign brings to mind your father and his buddies, as well as Bob Dole, who was actually pretty f***ing funny in real life in the Senate.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 03, 2021 11:59 PM (OTzUX)

581 I've said all along, if we tested for influenza like we have tested for COVID, the numbers would blow your mind.
Posted by: Muldoon

*blows nose*

My people call it....pollen

Posted by: Miklos in pollen central USA at August 03, 2021 11:59 PM (QzkSJ)

582 That "Czar" stuff comes from the Ivy league schools. I know of at least one and that's Yale. Very common for groups to resort to electing someone who will control something or be in charge of others doing stuff is a "Czar".

I guess it comes from that old infiltration of the '30's because the place I found it in was an old cooperative house that was founded back then.

No Secretary or President or this or that in Charge. No it had to be some permutation of Caesar such as Meister, Commisar, Tsar, Czar. No Hauptmann's tho.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 04, 2021 12:02 AM (wb4G5)

583 Well I know people (mostly lefty retards) that tell me that the "flu disappeared" last year and that proves that masks work.

I'm the type of person that will happily allow the other person to see something I don't, and be right. I consider it at all times because I want to learn. But these fucking people... they're not even worth arguing with. I don't even bother saying to them "well if masks work why did COVID spread so much" because I know their answer will be "because everyone didn't wear masks". And down the rabbit hole we go.

I didn't know about the PCR test that doesn't distinguish influenza from COVID a month ago but I sensed something like it was happening. As Judge Judy likes to say "if it doesn't make sense then it's probably not true". Those are words to live by.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2021 12:02 AM (tZUwc)

584 Posted by: The Grand Coulee

I think there's a Cajun song named that

Posted by: Zydeco Miklos at August 04, 2021 12:02 AM (QzkSJ)

585 I paid $2000 for this car with 59k on it. After three years it has 74K. I think it's worth another G or two, just wondering about the welding options. Weld on some steel? Cut off the top of the column and weld on a new one?

These are the options under discussion.
Posted by: Miklos who is not and has never been a welder at August 03, 2021 11:55 PM (QzkSJ)

Well, it depends upon where in that "column" (shock tower) the rust is. Because they intended to be strong points that carry the weight of the car, they are often two or three layers of stamped steel, joined by spot welds. There may be factory-made repair panels available, made by offshore suppliers, that offer a quick and mostly-certain way of making the repair.

Simply welding metal over the rusted spots might add a little strength, but the rust will continue to grow beneath the patch.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 12:03 AM (6bS/2)

586 The Mary Jo Kopeckne breathalyzer Act of 2021?

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 04, 2021 12:03 AM (/aiGx)

587 Of course the "death count" from C19 is also extremely suspect - but that, unlike the testing regime, is not new or unique to C19. Cause of death attribution when infectious disease is involved (or even often when it's not) has always been a bit complicated and arbitrary - which merely was a recognition of the limits of our understanding. Nothing sinister.

Having given up on the topic, and much else, many months back, I haven't kept up on anyone bird-dogging this key aspect, but I did notice that one big county in CA *halved* their C19 mortality count a few months ago. Didn't look into it, past the predictable/eye-roll-inducing/idiotic statement by the county health witch doctor that C19 "was still serious!!!" notwithstanding the massive revision in data. So I don't know how they scrubbed their numbers.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 04, 2021 12:04 AM (OTzUX)

588 Anyway, just thought I'd mention it
Posted by: rhomboid


*****

One of the amazing things to me is that there were Italian families on working farms living in the No-Man's land at the Anzio beach head. Cows, chickens, German tanks, British infantry, eh, just another day on the farm.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 04, 2021 12:04 AM (Xwt96)

589 Plague skwerls??!!

WTF??

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid's dog at August 04, 2021 12:05 AM (n/szn)

590 But "Reichsfuhrer" or "Obersturmbannfuhrer" have so much more of a distinctive ring than "tsar". Not to mention snappier uniforms.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 04, 2021 12:06 AM (OTzUX)

591 the rust will continue to grow beneath the patch.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Hey-no need to get personal!

*thank you*

Posted by: Miklos needs moar cars anyway at August 04, 2021 12:07 AM (QzkSJ)

592 But "Reichsfuhrer" or "Obersturmbannfuhrer" have so much more of a distinctive ring than "tsar". Not to mention snappier uniforms.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 04, 2021 12:06 AM (OTzUX)

The journalismists don't want to do all that typing.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2021 12:07 AM (tZUwc)

593 Plague skwerls??!!

WTF??
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid's dog at August 04, 2021 12:05 AM (n/szn)

Plague beavers, carriers of Pubonic Plague.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 12:07 AM (6bS/2)

594 "because everyone didn't wear masks". And down the rabbit hole we go.

Same mentality that claims communism has never been tried "the right way".

It's never the idea at fault with the left. It's always how it was done or presented. Never heard of a lefty dissing an idea. Always who was doing it and how they tried to get others involved.

They used to do that after every election when they lost. They'd all gather around and discuss how to change their messaging and approach to people. Never that the ideas they were touting were wrong and full of shit.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 04, 2021 12:07 AM (wb4G5)

595 Not to mention snappier uniforms.
Posted by: rhomboid

Like a BOSS

Posted by: unstylish Miklos at August 04, 2021 12:09 AM (QzkSJ)

596 Muldoon, listened to a podcast done by Holland and another guy ("We Have Ways to Make You Talk"), about Malta (about which Holland has also written a book), they were reading the diary of an RAF pilot. The Maltese farmer was harvesting or digging or something right up to the line of his aircraft revetment during an air raid. Forget what it was, but he helped the RAF guys with something when they motioned to him. Then, after the raid, back to hoe-ing or whatever.

You might enjoy that podcast, it's entirely WWII.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 04, 2021 12:09 AM (OTzUX)

597 Hey-no need to get personal!

*thank you*
Posted by: Miklos needs moar cars anyway at August 04, 2021 12:07 AM (QzkSJ)

Is there a Web site or Forum dedicated to the water-cooled VW products? Don't know if The Samba.com has a water-cooled forum. The best place to get specific information related to a specific type of problem in your car is a marque forum. That's where you would learn where to source pre-made patch panels, for instance.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 12:11 AM (6bS/2)

598 I always thought Veruca Salt's way of pronouncing "skewerel Daddy" was cute.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 04, 2021 12:12 AM (wb4G5)

599 It's kind of like time travel. People with some rational scientific orientation, being abused and surrounded by medieval peasants gripped by superstitions and silliness.

You could ask the airheads how they explain the massive Danish RCT last year (which confirmed decades of research on masks), or even the CDC statement in an FOIA response stating they had no research confirmed efficacy of masks against influenza-like illnesses. Or just refer them to the CDC's own website for its May 2020 meta-study confirming lack of mask efficacy (reviewing research back to the late 1940s).

Depending on the person, could be amusing, though usually pointless, of course.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 04, 2021 12:13 AM (OTzUX)

600 Posted by: ... at August 04, 2021 12:07 AM (tZUwc)

Yeah German can be a pisser for some names.

English appropriates words (steals) from other languages.

German strings a bunch of words together until they get tired.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 04, 2021 12:15 AM (wb4G5)

601 Then, after the raid, back to hoe-ing or whatever.

You might enjoy that podcast, it's entirely WWII.
Posted by: rhomboid

******

Some of my dad's diary entries were about the civilians who owned some of the places that served as command posts for his unit. Very mundane, every day type observations. I always found that interesting, and wondered if the same families who treated my dad and his mates well did the same when occupied by the Germans.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 04, 2021 12:15 AM (Xwt96)

602 I know I wish I still had my diesel Rabbit.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 04, 2021 12:16 AM (wb4G5)

603 Meanwhile, Bill Blass was part of the Allied deception unit (603rd Camouflage Battalion) creating fake forces etc to bamboozle the pretty clueless and also disloyal German intelligence service. Fashion against fascism, or something.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 04, 2021 12:17 AM (OTzUX)

604 jakee: LOL.
My (sane conservative) BIL just got himself a 20-year-old diesel Golf for $2500.

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 04, 2021 12:20 AM (L2ZTs)

605 Muldoon, one X factor in Italy was, of course, the many GIs with fresh/recent Italian roots and connections. There's a great scene in the movie "Night of the Shooting Stars" (think that's it) where a Sherman and some infantry pull up to a village in Italy. Some tension. Then the hatch flies open, and the tank commander jumps out yelling, in Italian, to his relatives - the village was where his father was from. Something like that.

Such things actually did happen.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 04, 2021 12:21 AM (OTzUX)

606 After the liberation of Rome:

Paul and I spent a very enjoyable evening at one of the finer Italian homes here near Rome. A very beautiful garden is what prompted us to look the place over. An old gardener and his wife first showed us the place - and when we came back later we talked to the owner - a well educated lady, about 35, who spoke very good English - and her cousin - not bad looking, and 20, who spoke a "leetle" English. We just relaxed for a while - stretched out in big easy chairs - for the first time since we landed on the beachhead.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 04, 2021 12:21 AM (Xwt96)

607 Is there a Web site or Forum dedicated to the water-cooled VW products? Don't know if The Samba.com has a water-cooled forum. The best place to get specific information related to a specific type of problem in your car is a marque forum. That's where you would learn where to source pre-made patch panels, for instance.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 12:11 AM (6bS/2)

VWVortex.com is probably the biggest forum in the US.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at August 04, 2021 12:21 AM (uhPTO)

608 I wish i still had my '96 Saturn SL2.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 04, 2021 12:22 AM (KAi1n)

609 And on that note I shall take my leave. Thanks for letting me play

Endeavor to persevere!!

Posted by: Muldoon at August 04, 2021 12:25 AM (Xwt96)

610 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 12:11 AM (6bS/2)

VWVortex.com is probably the biggest forum in the US.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor

Thanks.

This is already helping.

Posted by: max 30 MPH Miklos at August 04, 2021 12:26 AM (QzkSJ)

611 Well, I am going to call it a night. Be well, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 12:30 AM (6bS/2)

612 Lol at the Babylon Bee -- They have done an Imagine - Communism parody song, and towards the end they have a guy holding a potato pic, and you'll never guess who they show a pic of next...

Okay, most of you can guess.

https://youtu.be/Cg1ISl2u5Lg

I'm not really sure who started the whole 'potato' thingy, but at a minimum Ace rode that horse often and early. Schlichter also luvs that meme.

Posted by: GnuBreed (FoYaR) at August 04, 2021 12:41 AM (F0YaR)

613 Hi Horde, Just getting here, my nights are so screwed up. How are you all tonight? I am laying some serious groundwork for going to the Texas MoMe, it has become an obsession. I need to recharge my batteries so to speak, I am experiencing total burnout as a caregiver.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 04, 2021 01:04 AM (a4EWo)

614 Hi, DDS. Hear ya on the screwed up nights and caregiver burnout...

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 04, 2021 01:09 AM (dB4Iz)

615 Hi JQ, I know that you are going through some serious stuff too, I try not to be a one trick pony here with all the Alzheimer's stuff, but it seems overwhelming at times, and people here are so supportive.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 04, 2021 01:12 AM (a4EWo)

616 41 RE: CDC unilaterally declaring that renters don't have to pay rent...Help my out here, I'm struggling with something.
1. Shadowy orgs are buying up single-family homes to turn them into rental properties, presumably so they can generate revenue.
2. Government says people don't have to pay rent.
3. ????
4. Profit!
What am I missing here?
Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 03, 2021 09:07 PM (K5n5d)

They buy homes from distressed landlords who cannot hold on knowing that they are powerful enough to evict the deadbeat tenants soon. Then they can raise the rent on new tenants. They also pay about one percent interest on the loan.

Posted by: WhyBanned at August 04, 2021 01:14 AM (YkawN)

617 Late nights are the only time for peace n quiet. Maybe get some time to myself without having to explain my every move if I must be 'out-of-sight' for more than a few moments. It's exhausting.

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 04, 2021 01:15 AM (dB4Iz)

618 Can't imagine dealing w/ alzheimers!

But it is, sometimes, like dealing with a 6 year old.

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 04, 2021 01:17 AM (dB4Iz)

619 My 6 year-old 'patient', not alzheimers.

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 04, 2021 01:18 AM (dB4Iz)

620 But it is, sometimes, like dealing with a 6 year old.
Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 04, 2021 01:17 AM (dB4Iz)

619 My 6 year-old 'patient', not alzheimers.
Posted by: JQ

6 year olds are not very patient.

They act like babies.

Posted by: 7 year old Miklos at August 04, 2021 01:20 AM (QzkSJ)

621 Same here, late nights, with occasional interruptions, are for peace and quiet, listening to music or watching a good old movie. Tonight's movie was Vertigo, one of my favorites. I am off to bed soon though, obligations in the morning. Hang in there JQ.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 04, 2021 01:21 AM (a4EWo)

622 Yes, Miklos. Hubby is like a 6 year old in many ways.

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 04, 2021 01:21 AM (dB4Iz)

623 JQ and Debby, I hear you with the burn-out.

This is something I'd do again for mom, but it still makes me feel guilty that I'm praying for it to end.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 01:22 AM (tSR17)

624 Thanks, Debby. You hang in there, too!

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 04, 2021 01:23 AM (dB4Iz)

625 Miklos, I hope that you had a wonderful birthday, how are Mama and Darleen?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 04, 2021 01:23 AM (a4EWo)

626 {{{MLii}}}

I'm sure your mom, at some level, is also praying for it to end.

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 04, 2021 01:25 AM (dB4Iz)

627 Slapweasel is the one who 1st said to me that his parents were sometimes like a 5 year olds. It made me laugh but oh so true! I tell people that somedays mom is like a naughty 5 year old

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 01:25 AM (tSR17)

628 MLiI, You must be having trouble sleeping, I pray for mercy for both hubby and I, life can't be fun for him either.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 04, 2021 01:25 AM (a4EWo)

629 Excellent point, Debby-- I'm guilty of forgetting how hard this is on hubby.

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 04, 2021 01:29 AM (dB4Iz)

630 JQ a few days ago she kept saying she just wanted to go home. At 1st I wondered if there was a deeper meaning, but I think she really thought at that moment that she was still in the hospital.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 01:29 AM (tSR17)

631 Wow, MLii, must've been shocking at first.

Yeah, she likely enough meant home vs hospital.

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 04, 2021 01:32 AM (dB4Iz)

632 Debby, you are correct. In her more lucid moments i think she gets that she is failing and gets weepy. Trying to keep her involved can be a challenge though because she is incapable of so much.

Yeah, sleep doesnt come easy, but the peaceful moments at night are my blessing also

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 01:34 AM (tSR17)

633 "Friend and fellow Cob CBD passed this along. "
Jeez o p. I read that as "fellow Cob CBD passed away"
I almost choked right then....
Posted by: jakee308


I wasn't going to mention it, but I had the same momentary "GULP!WHUU?" moment.

Posted by: mindful webworker - wandering through randomly at August 04, 2021 01:34 AM (JtBPN)

634 Heavy thunderstorm overhead.

I should probably shut down.

Hang in there, MLii and Debby!

G'night Horde. May be back later.

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 04, 2021 01:37 AM (dB4Iz)

635 “Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,

- Bill Shakespeare

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 04, 2021 01:41 AM (bPH26)

636 635 Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care

- Bill Shakespeare
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 04, 2021 01:41 AM (bPH26)

Nice; thanks.

Posted by: m at August 04, 2021 01:44 AM (fVJPF)

637 Physically even though she is slowing down, she has amazed the visiting nurse and therapists with her ability to move and be mobile. It's mostly just her mind.

What worries me is I'm seeing the signs in Mr I of memory issues. (Dr. now has him on some drugs for it). And, the selfish me thinks there's no way I can continue to do this after mom. We just had our 40th anniversary this past weekend. I admit it's been a rocky 35 years. Just don't know if I can handle more years of sadness and stress.

I have so much respect for you two, and how well you handle your burdens, Debby and JQ.



Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 01:44 AM (tSR17)

638 Prayers for all.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 04, 2021 01:51 AM (WD9ZA)

639 Debby, I'm happy to hear you are working it out to get to the TX MoMe!

For now I bask in the few hours a week being able to bike ride or take a walk, the occasional lunch with a friend between work and mom duty. It does help recharge my batteries!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 01:55 AM (tSR17)

640 Whoa-- lotta lightning n thunder! Not a single drop of rain. Wonder how many fires got started tonight.
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MLii, I don't believe I'm handling it that well. We just had our 12th anniversary (not our first rodeos) and the couple of years before he got sick were... sub-optimal. Mostly I was caring for Dad, too, all that time. Dad didn't live with us, so took *more time* out of my days. Seemed like hubs resented it.

At any rate, I fully understand the 'here we go again and I'm just not into it' frame of mind! Another source of guilt. Ugh.

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 04, 2021 02:21 AM (dB4Iz)

641 >>Seemed like hubs resented it.


I see that here. The angry, "just go to your mom's" comes out. My commitment to her is not his. I do get that. Still annoys me. He helped his sister take care of his mom during her last couple years and it made me see a better side of him.

That stress I get from his attitude wears thin

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 02:31 AM (tSR17)

642 We had a thunder storm last evening with no rain overhead. It all passed us by. Really need the rain here

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 02:34 AM (tSR17)

643 Big Brown mask update:
I was "allowed" to work all day yesterday w/o a mask.
End of day the center manager approached me and said "There's always one" I replied "Someone has to pee standing up."
He laughed and then said management is not sure how they are going to deal with those who refuse to mask up, yet.
Several drivers are also refusing to wear a mask.

Posted by: Fool Otto at August 04, 2021 02:35 AM (DB16e)

644 Hope you are able to turn the tide on masks at work, Fool Otto. Stand together and hopefully it will be enough.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 02:36 AM (tSR17)

645 I bet management is worrying how hard it would be to replace all of you at once. Around here everyone is looking for help

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 02:38 AM (tSR17)

646 Holy crap! The more I see of Andrew Cuomo, the more I realize he is Bill Clinton with a tiny little Italian penis.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 04, 2021 02:39 AM (bCkNL)

647 Don't know which is worse, MLii: Angry outbursts or silent rage?

It's especially disheartening that your husband *knows* how hard caregiving can be, but would still direct anger at you over it!

Prayers up for ALL of us...

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 04, 2021 02:39 AM (dB4Iz)

648 Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 02:38 AM (tSR17)

I was the only one on pre load that refused yesterday. Today I will see how many will follow my lead. I had 4 people catch me in the parking lot and asked how I "got away with not wearing a mask."

Posted by: Fool Otto at August 04, 2021 02:41 AM (DB16e)

649 643 I replied "Someone has to pee standing up."
Posted by: Fool Otto at August 04, 2021 02:35 AM (DB16e)

A good comeback in many circumstances.

Posted by: m at August 04, 2021 02:42 AM (fVJPF)

650 A local, very large healthcare organization here has given employees letters stating vaccnes will be required for continued employment. But they are giving a date in Nov. for compliance. As a conservative talk show host pointed out: if this is important, why the delay? The vaccine is easily available around here now. Are they bluffing? Are they really going to fire their nurses and drs and any support staff? Talk about possible nightmare scenarios

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 02:43 AM (tSR17)

651 >>Prayers up for ALL of us...
Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 04, 2021 02:39 AM (dB4Iz)

Thanks! I am praying too...

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 02:45 AM (tSR17)

652 >>Posted by: Fool Otto at August 04, 2021 02:41 AM (DB16e)

I'll bet there will be more today.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 02:47 AM (tSR17)

653 I'd better start thinking about breakfast, my stomach is getting noisy.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 02:55 AM (tSR17)

654 612 Babylon Bee -- They have done an Imagine - Communism parody song

https://youtu.be/Cg1ISl2u5Lg

Posted by: GnuBreed (FoYaR) at August 04, 2021 12:41 AM (F0YaR)

That's so wonderful.

Posted by: m at August 04, 2021 02:55 AM (fVJPF)

655 Once I had a vaccine passport. It's rammed up my ass right there next to my driver's license and voter ID. I have a fishing license and a couple of game tags too but they may be a little harder to extract ever since COVID.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 04, 2021 02:56 AM (bCkNL)

656 Ah, the mask BS. I've heard my employer isn't requiring masks but is encouraging (don't know if it's full-blown coercion) The Stab.

I've been staying far away from the jerb and cow-orkers the last few months, so only get bits of news.

Anyway, will fight it tooth and nail if I end up going back.

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 04, 2021 02:56 AM (dB4Iz)

657 650 A local, very large healthcare organization here has given employees letters stating vaccnes will be required for continued employment. But they are giving a date in Nov. for compliance. As a conservative talk show host pointed out: if this is important, why the delay?
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 02:43 AM (tSR17)

Maybe a reporter can ask the White House!

Posted by: m at August 04, 2021 02:57 AM (fVJPF)

658 November is ~90 days away. Sufficient notice, I guess.

How far apart are The Stabs supposed to be given?

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 04, 2021 03:02 AM (dB4Iz)

659 >>>That's so wonderful
Posted by: m at August 04, 2021 02:55 AM (fVJPF)

Thanks for bringing that forward m! It's great!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 03:02 AM (tSR17)

660 >>How far apart are The Stabs supposed to be given?
Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 04, 2021 03:02 AM (dB4Iz)

I think 2 weeks. Not certain of that tho

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 03:03 AM (tSR17)

661 Wonder what enterprising lawyer is going to take a crack at that?

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2021 03:09 AM (Cxk7w)

662 I've been building my case for Stab-noncompliance. Not done yet, but here's a start for anyone else:

http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/nuremberg/

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 04, 2021 03:11 AM (dB4Iz)

663 And what happens if da EffDeeAy gets beaten into submission and "approves" The Stabs?

Are we well and truly fooked at that point?

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 04, 2021 03:17 AM (dB4Iz)

664 I hope that you had a wonderful birthday, how are Mama and Darleen?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

Today three (3) doctor and ER visits for Old Mama.

Thank you, thoughts and prayers much appreciated.

Posted by: Miklos at August 04, 2021 03:27 AM (QzkSJ)

665 https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/why i refuse to be vaccinated
https://tinyurl.com/w9sa64w3

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2021 03:27 AM (Cxk7w)

666 Miklos, I can relate to your days and worries. Prayers up for you and your mama.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 03:29 AM (tSR17)

667 Actually, I am thinking and praying about Slapweasel.

His road is even harder than mine.

Posted by: Miklos at August 04, 2021 03:29 AM (QzkSJ)

668 Aaargh! I was expecting redc1c4 to swoop in and get the all 6s

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 03:31 AM (tSR17)

669 Yes, Miklos, I feel that way too.

My prayer list from this place is long!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 03:32 AM (tSR17)

670 I can relate to your days and worries. Prayers up for you and your mama.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity

If a good thought can help, and do I hope, you have had many from me.

*offers coffee with chicory, Nawlins Style*

Posted by: Miklos at August 04, 2021 03:34 AM (QzkSJ)

671 Great article, Skip! Thank you.

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 04, 2021 03:35 AM (dB4Iz)

672 Thanks, Miklos. And "sharing" coffee in the early a.m. helps make my day.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 03:37 AM (tSR17)

673 Aaargh! I was expecting redc1c4 to swoop in and get the all 6s

Posted by: My Life is Insanity

Maybe he blew his own self up

cic4 ain't for chirrens

Posted by: the Miklos abides at August 04, 2021 03:37 AM (QzkSJ)

674 Thanks for that link, Skip. I know a few people I'm going to ask to read it.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 03:38 AM (tSR17)

675 Now is the time on ONT when we dance

https://tinyurl.com/xrvwd3tc

Posted by: the Miklos abides, and dances at August 04, 2021 03:40 AM (QzkSJ)

676 The Locomotion! That's one I haven't heard in ages

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 03:43 AM (tSR17)

677 Welp, hubby's awake again. Was nice to have a few hours "off" LOL.

'Night all. Blessings to you!

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 04, 2021 03:43 AM (dB4Iz)

678 Have the best day possible JQ! You two will be in my prayers

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 03:44 AM (tSR17)

679 Posted by: My Life is Insanity

I would like to send you something

https://tinyurl.com/yx4yje

Posted by: the Miklos abides, and dances, and drinks covfefe at August 04, 2021 03:45 AM (QzkSJ)

680 https://www.americanthinker.com/the biden military witchhunt

Said many times now, Leftists have wanted to destroy the military for 50 years, they took over the top and found a way to do it finally.

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2021 03:45 AM (Cxk7w)

681 661 Wonder what enterprising lawyer is going to take a crack at that?
Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2021 03:09 AM (Cxk7w)

I would like a chance to watch Patrick Philbin lawyering again like he did in PDT's first impeachment trial.

Posted by: m at August 04, 2021 03:47 AM (fVJPF)

682 675 Now is the time on ONT when we dance

https://tinyurl.com/xrvwd3tcPosted by: the Miklos abides, and dances at August 04, 2021 03:40 AM (QzkSJ)I have been leaning towards this lately:
https://youtu.be/u5lSeYd_riw

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 04, 2021 03:47 AM (ufFY8)

683 672 Thanks, Miklos. And "sharing" coffee in the early a.m. helps make my day.
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 03:37 AM (tSR17)

We really are lucky to have this place.

Posted by: m at August 04, 2021 03:49 AM (fVJPF)

684 Miklos that last link goes to the tiny URL page....

That what you intended?

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 03:49 AM (tSR17)

685 That what you intended?
Posted by: My Life is Insanity

Tries . again

https://tinyurl.com/yx4yje74

Posted by: Error prone Miklos at August 04, 2021 03:52 AM (QzkSJ)

686 Miklos! Sweet. I see the Cafe du Monde brand in a store here but haven't purchased any...yet.

* and doing the tiny URL on my.phone is probably the most difficult thing for me to do here

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 03:56 AM (tSR17)

687 >>Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 04, 2021 03:47 AM (ufFY

Ha! In the comments there someone said he wants that played at the walkout procession of his funeral. Love that!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 03:58 AM (tSR17)

688 665 https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/why i refuse to be vaccinated
https://tinyurl.com/w9sa64w3
Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2021 03:27 AM (Cxk7w)

Best line:

protecting constitutional rights encourages societal solidarity

Posted by: m at August 04, 2021 03:59 AM (fVJPF)

689 I haven't tried a tiny url on phone, so far a comment or two is all I have done.

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2021 04:03 AM (Cxk7w)

690 For some things, for some reason, I have to change my phone screen to look like a desktop version for it to work. For ne to convert a link to Tiny URL is one of those things. Kind of a pain.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 04:05 AM (tSR17)

691 Can't read what's on bottom of garage door on my tablet

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2021 04:07 AM (Cxk7w)

692 OK, I'll never catch up here, just wanted to say hi and I'm off to sleep.

Posted by: Farmer at August 04, 2021 04:08 AM (55Qr6)

693 Hi Farmer!

'Nite Farmer! Sleep well

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 04:10 AM (tSR17)

694 691 Can't read what's on bottom of garage door on my tablet
Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2021 04:07 AM (Cxk7w)

I can't either, and I'm using an enormous desktop monitor. There's something written toward the top of the door to the left, too.

Posted by: m at August 04, 2021 04:10 AM (fVJPF)

695 That garage door picture cracks me up. I can't read the bottom either, but I'm guessing it's snarky

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 04:12 AM (tSR17)

696 Ok with that I'm heading out.

You guys have a wonderful day!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 04, 2021 04:15 AM (tSR17)

697 Can't read what's on bottom of garage door on my tablet
Posted by: Skip

If there is a garage door on your tablet you have $558 problem

Posted by: iPad Miklos at August 04, 2021 04:23 AM (QzkSJ)

698 Vive la France!

https://tinyurl.com/ttmtyja4

Posted by: m at August 04, 2021 04:30 AM (fVJPF)

699 At least France has a past of putting tyranny to the blade.

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2021 04:32 AM (Cxk7w)

700 https://tinyurl.com/ttmtyja4
Posted by: m

Laissez les bon temps roulez!

Posted by: Zydeco Miklos at August 04, 2021 04:33 AM (QzkSJ)

701 Should head out
Cool today only mid 70s here
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2021 04:37 AM (Cxk7w)

702 >>>Once again, western civilization's canary in the fascism coal mine is in CHAOS

(from the France article)

I don't know if "France" would have leapt to mind to me on reading that description. Maybe?

Posted by: m at August 04, 2021 04:37 AM (fVJPF)

703 Have a great day horde
Posted by: Skip

We trust you, Skip

Posted by: the US GDP at August 04, 2021 04:38 AM (QzkSJ)

704 Going to say a prayer that God's face turn to shine on all the morons caring for dependent loved ones.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 04, 2021 04:39 AM (EZebt)

705 Today evictions, tomorrow guns. Seriously, if the CDC doesn't get smacked down hard, they will up their game.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 04, 2021 04:39 AM (oWBc3)

706 Once again, western civilization's canary in the fascism coal mine is in CHAOS


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

Posted by: Miklos "Lee" Dorsey at August 04, 2021 04:41 AM (QzkSJ)

707 Today evictions, tomorrow guns. Seriously, if the CDC doesn't get smacked down hard, they will up their game.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks

I hope not. I like being ruled by unelected officials.
The elected officials just weren't officious enough for me

Posted by: Bruce at August 04, 2021 04:41 AM (vd8XM)

708 Pixy is NOOD

Posted by: Bruce at August 04, 2021 04:43 AM (vd8XM)

709 Going to say a prayer that God's face turn to shine on all the morons caring for dependent loved ones.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

*thoughts and prayers received and amplified*

Posted by: Miklos at August 04, 2021 04:43 AM (QzkSJ)

710 https://tinyurl.com/ttmtyja4

Yes, it is time to fight for liberty.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 04, 2021 04:45 AM (EZebt)

711 701 Should head out
Cool today only mid 70s here
Have a great day horde
Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2021 04:37 AM (Cxk7w)

Missed Pixy by 3 minutes!

Posted by: m at August 04, 2021 04:50 AM (fVJPF)

712 Huh, Apparently Michael Stanley died back in March. Did not know that. I liked him, MSB was a pretty good band. If you grew up in Ohio/West PA in the 70s and 80s, you probably heard of him.

Posted by: Puddleglum, golfing in Amish Country at August 04, 2021 04:55 AM (LUyqH)

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