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Throw Tonight's ONT Into The Harbor!
Howdy Horde! Welcome to Thursday night! Did you ever get the feeling that there is nothing new under the sun?
*Note to self: Copyright “The ONT experience”. When it becomes either a band or a catchphrase, it doesn't matter, I'll be rich!
First Up, Content From Jim SND
What can I say? He's a cat guy. OTOH, it does capture cats perfectly. Who knew demanding that humans serve you would be a good survival strategy (Besides Democrats, I mean)?
Musical Jenga Two weeks ago I posted a video of a group of people who made a great song that started with a clip of a cat lapping up milk. Musician after musician added their own talent to create a crowd sourced video. Frankly, I liked it. I liked it a lot. I even used lyrics from the last guy in the clip as the titles for both my ONTs that week (I investigated and found out that he's a guy who likes to contribute to videos like this, and ad-libs the lyrics. (If you missed it, the clip is here)) In any event, that kind of thing, enabling human creativity, voluntarily, collectively, is one of the things that I like best about the internet. (There's a dark side to it, see below) I've since found out that there is a sub-reddit devoted to things like this that's called “Musical Jenga”. I dunno where the name came from, in Jenga you're subtracting blocks, while this is adding blocks, but it is what it is. Here's a link to the sub-reddit if you're interested: Musical Jenga
The Dark Side The internet allows creative people to come together and produce something wonderful, as above, but it also amplifies the tiniest bizarre thing and makes it seem mainstream, even normal. For example, suppose someone gets the idea in their mind that they want to stick their dick in a garbage disposal. In the past, if they mentioned it to anyone, they would rightfully be told that they were crazy, and would be encouraged (sometimes forcefully), to just drop the whole thing. Now, however, our perspective dick eviscerator can go online and find a group of people who share his fetish, and they will support and encourage him, telling him that his desire is normal, even beneficial. It doesn't even matter that the community is comprised of a couple of dozen people out of a worldwide population of billions. No, the smallest, craziest, most bizarre thing will be amplified all out of proportion, and this is not a good thing. Couple that with a western society that seems determined to coddle the weirdest and kinkiest fetish as “your truth”, and you get a society on the express train to collapse.
Pretty Cool
*record scratch*
— Dreadnought Holiday (@TheDreadShips) May 22, 2021
*freeze frame*
You're probably wondering how we got into this situation... pic.twitter.com/HjU67S5MfS
In 1923, Captain Edward H Watson of the US Navy had the unexpected honour of discovering California. The inevitable court martial didn't quite describe it in those terms.Brilliant stuff. Click through and read all of his stories, it'll occupy you for hours.
How To Be A MAN
This is everything we need to learn about ego and living in the moment. In one sound bite. I just became a forever fan..pic.twitter.com/ckRGYs9Y7F
— Andrew Brandt (@AndrewBrandt) July 17, 2021
What If Star Wars Was A Western?
Tea Time Today is the 248th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. If you'd like background on the event, and context as to where it fit in the timeline leading up to the American Revolution, I gotcha covered, fam. American Revolution: Boston Tea Party Particularly notable is the following passage:
Taking great care to avoid damaging private property, they ventured into the ships' holds and began removing the tea. Breaking open the chests, they tossed it into Boston Harbor. In the course of the night, all 342 chests of tea aboard the ships were destroyed. The East India Company later valued the cargo at £9,659. Quietly withdrawing from the ships, the "raiders" melted back into the city.The only property damage outside of property belonging to the East India Company was the breaking of a single lock that belonged to the captain of one of the ships, and some patriots returned the next day and reimbursed him for the cost of the lock. Now tell me, which does that sound more like, the Tea Party rallies a decade ago, or any leftist demonstration since?
Just A Reminder
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) December 16, 2021
Question Of The Day What was something that was common and fun when you were a kid that they don't do anymore? I offer balloon ascensions. We used to do them when I was in elementary school. All the kids would but a balloon (or more than one) with a post paid card attached with their name on it. On ascension day all the balloons would be released, and whoever's card was mailed back from furthest away won a prize. It was a lot of fun. What you got, Horde? Stop, He's Already Dead! Here's a link to @Gitabushi absolutely flaying a never Trumper (who may be familiar to some of y'all) to absolute whale shit.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2021 09:59 PM (Do5/p)
Posted by: mindful webworker - F5 - the tornado that refreshes at December 16, 2021 10:00 PM (3CXto)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:00 PM (eA1RV)
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2021 10:00 PM (mZUr4)
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Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:01 PM (eA1RV)
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Posted by: Braenyard, in the yard at December 16, 2021 10:01 PM (xcd1u)
Posted by: Half Dozen at December 16, 2021 10:01 PM (dJs6r)
[We're] goin' off the rails on a crazy train!
Posted by: Ozzy Osbourne at December 16, 2021 10:01 PM (Do5/p)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2021 10:01 PM (Q9lwr)
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Ok, but that's not really a high bar, you know.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:02 PM (eA1RV)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:01 PM (eA1RV)
CBD doing some COB voodoo. Glad you saw it too Duke. He's not as much of a ninja as he likes to think!
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2021 10:02 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at December 16, 2021 10:03 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2021 10:03 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Zeera Hunkering down here, Boss at December 16, 2021 10:04 PM (eFR3E)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 16, 2021 10:04 PM (+WWsf)
Posted by: wing at December 16, 2021 10:04 PM (PlW9M)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:04 PM (eA1RV)
Posted by: mindful webworker - don't you want somebody to blame at December 16, 2021 10:05 PM (A5B6s)
Posted by: Zettai at December 16, 2021 10:05 PM (FDLxH)
Posted by: Gref at December 16, 2021 10:06 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 16, 2021 10:07 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 16, 2021 10:07 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Iris at December 16, 2021 10:08 PM (6lKe4)
https://tinyurl.com/2p8ycumk
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2021 10:08 PM (MKwdS)
When I saw them open for the Fugs, I thought it was "Prospective Dick Eviscerator," but it was a long time ago, I might be mis-remembering.
Posted by: mindful webworker - disposal f*ckers, a new category with toasters, couches, mailboxes, et al.[/i at December 16, 2021 10:08 PM (A5B6s)
Hear, hear. Well stated, WeirdDave. I wrote something similar, yet much less eloquent years ago. - https://bit.ly/3IVVPjk
You know, I tire of the superficial definitions society throws out there for "what makes a man". Such as "the clothes make the man" or "the watch makes the man" or "the shoes make the man" or "the (alcoholic drink) makes the man" or "you become a man" when you have sex. None of that superficial nonsense has anything to do with "being a man".
Your character makes you a man. Your integrity makes you a man. Treating others - especially women - with respect makes you a man. Taking personal responsibility for your actions makes you a man. Dealing with success with humility and dealing with failure with maturity and resilience makes you a man.
Manhood comes from within.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2021 10:09 PM (Do5/p)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2021 10:09 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Gref at December 16, 2021 10:06 PM (AMIL/)
Way to set attainable goals, Gref!
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2021 10:09 PM (Y+IGD)
Posted by: Iris at December 16, 2021 10:08 PM (6lKe4)
I've got my eye on you...
Posted by: Jeff Bozos at December 16, 2021 10:10 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Jeff Bozos at December 16, 2021 10:10 PM (hOUT3)
Used clothes pens from the laundry line to clip playing cards into the spokes.of my bike.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2021 10:10 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at December 16, 2021 10:10 PM (SchxB)
The Honda Point disaster. The worst grounding since Sir Cloudsley Shovell ran an armada into the Isles of Scilly.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2021 10:11 PM (/U27+)
Looking at you Michael Shellenberger.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2021 10:11 PM (EZebt)
I might decide to say that it's all in how you look at it.
Posted by: Weirddave at December 16, 2021 10:12 PM (HR93a)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 16, 2021 10:12 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Zombie Jimi Hendrix at December 16, 2021 10:12 PM (mNhhD)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2021 10:09 PM (Do5/p)
BUT, it needs nurturing preferably by a responsible father figure and a supportive mother!!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 16, 2021 10:12 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2021 10:13 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 16, 2021 10:07 PM (hOUT3),
Do any of us really know what time it is? I mean, hell, it's changing all the time!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2021 10:13 PM (axyOa)
I, for one, blame the railways.
Bring back hyper local sun synchronized times!
Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 16, 2021 10:14 PM (+WWsf)
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 16, 2021 10:14 PM (DTX3h)
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 16, 2021 10:14 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at December 16, 2021 10:14 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: banana Mega-Awsome-Kickin-Ass Dream at December 16, 2021 10:14 PM (h/pNJ)
Posted by: Caliban at December 16, 2021 10:14 PM (HgGBT)
Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2021 10:14 PM (jacU8)
Take my kids on the ferry from Edmonds to Kingston in gale force winds, big waves and raining sideways. I'd bundle them up, put on our rain boots and run the length of the ferry, topsides until it docked.
Walk off to the hamburger joint right off the dock. Grab a burger, fries and some hot chocolate.
Ride the ferry home. Run some more.
Boy, did we all sleep well.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2021 10:14 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 16, 2021 10:12 PM (KZzsI)
Best part is the people we throw cash at to do our jobs have absolutely NO accountability or consequences for their failure!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 16, 2021 10:15 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2021 10:15 PM (qAR6u)
Piker.
Posted by: USS Enterprise, Aground In San Francisco Bay! at December 16, 2021 10:15 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: CppThis at December 16, 2021 10:15 PM (UewuT)
Posted by: Muad'dib at December 16, 2021 10:16 PM (1rrXc)
Sleeping in a tent in a backyard with a bunch of pre-teen friends, the night after everyone bought $10 of 4th of July fireworks, and sneaking out at 1 AM to set-off firecrackers all over the neighborhood. Using punks as a delay fuse so we could be back in the tent as the firecrackers went off on the front steps of twenty houses. (Hopefully this is still done in some small Red State towns.)
Posted by: Gref at December 16, 2021 10:16 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2021 10:14 PM (U2p+3)
Dayum, nurse, that sounds like a blast!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 16, 2021 10:16 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2021 10:17 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2021 10:18 PM (ERcy3)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 16, 2021 10:18 PM (3cGpq)
Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2021 10:18 PM (jacU8)
Posted by: Muad'dib at December 16, 2021 10:18 PM (1rrXc)
Posted by: Gref at December 16, 2021 10:16 PM (AMIL/)
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Yep. Weave the fuse into a matchbook and then put the lighted punk into the book. Punk burns down, lights the matches, and bang bang bang.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:19 PM (eA1RV)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2021 10:19 PM (ZLI7S)
Murphy MacManus : And when it all falls down?
Rocco : We build it right back up again.
Connor MacManus : But this time bigger. BETTER!
Rocco : Look! Look what we can do. Look how fuckin' beautiful we are. You think the men that built all this had it easy?
Murphy MacManus : Hard men!
Connor MacManus : Doing hard shit!
Rocco : Men do not cry. Men do not pout. Men jack you in the fuckin' jaw and say...
Detective Greenly : Thanks for comin' out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8pJBCCrZl8
Posted by: Boondock Saints at December 16, 2021 10:20 PM (Do5/p)
Some of my fondest memories.
I used to take them on all sorts of wild outdoor adventures.
I have a picture of the three of us in the Cascade mountains, Wallace Falls. My youngest, the Marine was maybe three. He hiked all the way up and most of the way back. Round trip is just over 5 miles round trip.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2021 10:21 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2021 10:21 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: butch at December 16, 2021 10:22 PM (cHvOo)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2021 10:22 PM (ZLI7S)
Yep. Weave the fuse into a matchbook and then put the lighted punk into the book. Punk burns down, lights the matches, and bang bang bang.
Posted by: Duke Lowell
That's the Stalag 17 method.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2021 10:22 PM (63Dwl)
What was something that was common and fun when you were a kid that they don't do anymore?
Lawn darts.
Hopscotch.
Ride tailgunner in a station wagon.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2021 10:23 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Infidel at December 16, 2021 10:23 PM (qpolg)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 16, 2021 10:12 PM
Agreed! My rant at the time was a reply specifically to the message that "X makes the man".
But you are 100% correct and that is likely the problem with our current culture. Absentee fathers and the demonization of even the need for fathers by feminists has left an entire generation of boys without good fathers for role models. This is especially true in the black community.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2021 10:23 PM (Do5/p)
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at December 16, 2021 10:23 PM (MFZ8i)
Posted by: Ladyl at December 16, 2021 10:24 PM (TdMsT)
As to the responsibility part, Captain Watson asked the court martial to assign him 100% of the blame in the disaster, refusing to blame the conditions and seeking to protect his subordinates.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2021 10:24 PM (/U27+)
I still beat your sorry ass though....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2021 10:01 PM (Q9lwr)
Ass-beating is OUR job!!
Posted by: Otters Local #469 at December 16, 2021 10:24 PM (llON8)
The progress of rectification never ends, Comrades!
Posted by: MiniTrue! at December 16, 2021 10:24 PM (I2/tG)
https://tinyurl.com/2p8ycumk
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Thanks, Fen (for this and many unacknowledged links).
With all the destruction and lives upended, you might think, what those folks need is food, water, blood, shelter, timber - necessities.
Too true, but ask those kids whose Christmas trees got lost in the whirlwind if those airplane-flying Santas are supplying a "necessity."
Posted by: mindful webworker - Immeasurable happiness for Christmas! at December 16, 2021 10:25 PM (A5B6s)
Marbles.
Posted by: davidt at December 16, 2021 10:25 PM (JH1/x)
The most perfect man ever to live both flooded the earth killing almost everyone, but then also laid down His own life to save everyone.
He cast judgement on His people and sent them into bondage and He also delivered them from slavery.
He made time stand still and bludgeoned His enemies to death with hail storms, but He also humbled Himself on the Cross and said of His enemies "Forgive them, they know not what they do."
Different times call for different measures. Savagely nurturing.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 16, 2021 10:26 PM (hhvb1)
Thanks, Dave.
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 16, 2021 10:26 PM (t0714)
It ain't just fatherhood those kind of creeps are after. A decent single mother doing her best for her kids is already becoming anathema to The Smart People.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2021 10:26 PM (6FeV1)
Weirddave -- You talking about Poly / Western? Or were you not a Baltimoron back then?
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2021 10:26 PM (mZUr4)
It's two days til Super Bowl Sunday and half of the Cowboys have tested positive. They'll have to forfeit. Too bad, Vegas.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:26 PM (eA1RV)
Smear the queer.
Climb to the topped off pine trees in the back yard and take in the view. (They were about 50 ft tall and the power company topped them to stay out of power lines.) It was a nice place to sit.
Posted by: Infidel at December 16, 2021 10:27 PM (qpolg)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 16, 2021 10:27 PM (qupmf)
What was something that was common and fun when you were a kid that they don't do anymore?
Lawn darts.
Hopscotch.
Ride tailgunner in a station wagon"
********
Shoot rats with a .22 in the trash dump behind my grandma's house.
Posted by: Cosda at December 16, 2021 10:27 PM (A+bI/)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 16, 2021 10:28 PM (wvu9n)
It's two days til Super Bowl Sunday and half of the Cowboys have tested positive. They'll have to forfeit. Too bad, Vegas.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:26 PM (eA1RV)
Cases!!! REEEEEEEE!!!1!
Posted by: Karen #85194372 at December 16, 2021 10:28 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2021 10:22 PM (63Dwl)
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Exactly where I learned it. The movie, not the POW camp.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:28 PM (eA1RV)
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Do things on your own.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 16, 2021 10:29 PM (hhvb1)
Probably why you have men as sons!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 16, 2021 10:29 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Weirddave at December 16, 2021 10:30 PM (HR93a)
Dangerous chemistry sets.
Also, Heathkit.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2021 10:30 PM (I2/tG)
It's two days til Super Bowl Sunday and half of the Cowboys have tested positive. They'll have to forfeit. Too bad, Vegas.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:26 PM (eA1RV)
Cowboys. Super Bowl this season. /snort/
Posted by: Gref at December 16, 2021 10:30 PM (AMIL/)
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BB gun wars.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:30 PM (eA1RV)
The Honda Point disaster. The worst grounding since Sir Cloudsley Shovell ran an armada into the Isles of Scilly.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2021 10:11 PM (/U27+)
Drachinifel has a video on the Honda Point Disaster that's very informative as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTveGOZo1_g
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at December 16, 2021 10:30 PM (BgMrQ)
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Smear the queer.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 16, 2021 10:30 PM (hhvb1)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2021 10:26 PM (6FeV1)
Only a Village raised child can succeed in the New World Order!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 16, 2021 10:31 PM (hOUT3)
WeirdDave.
Hear, hear! WD. I was blessed to have such a father also. I didn't always realize it at the time, but as I matured, well - you know.
If my fervent prayers are answered, I might pass a bit of that along to my sons too.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2021 10:31 PM (ERcy3)
Cap guns. We had 2 kinds - the ones that used rolls of red paper and the 6-shooters with the little red plastic discs.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2021 10:31 PM (mZUr4)
Seeing reports the live stream was pulled.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at December 16, 2021 10:31 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Weirddave
Perspective by Escher?
How does one, um, even accomplish sticking one's, um, into, um, know what? Nevermind!
Posted by: mindful webworker - talk about not sticking it into crazy!! at December 16, 2021 10:31 PM (A5B6s)
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BB gun wars.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:30 PM (eA1RV)
***no more than five pumps***
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at December 16, 2021 10:31 PM (BgMrQ)
The old Webster episode where he torches the apartment still gives me nightmare flashbacks!
Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 16, 2021 10:31 PM (+WWsf)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2021 10:11 PM (/U27+)
Sir Cantsey Shiddouthere?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2021 10:31 PM (6FeV1)
Posted by: Emmie at December 16, 2021 10:31 PM (6RgRK)
Yeah this is beyond ridiculous FFS.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 16, 2021 10:31 PM (nxdel)
It's two days til Super Bowl Sunday and half of the Cowboys have tested positive. They'll have to forfeit. Too bad, Vegas.
Make if like a Russian drinking game. You get the WuFlu you get to take another shot. At the end of the season for the Super Bowl, it isn't so much how many points are scored as it is a game of attrition. The team with the fewest heart attacks at the end of the fourth quarter wins.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 16, 2021 10:32 PM (+LCoQ)
The progress of rectification never ends, Comrades!
Posted by: MiniTrue! at December 16, 2021 10:24 PM (I2/tG)
Not only that but they put in statements saying that all the stuff before them was bad, and the people and customers who had the old stuff are bad. New TSR are suing them over it. I can't figure out if new TSR is just grifting on people's anger over woke in gaming or if they're serious.
Posted by: banana Mega-Awsome-Kickin-Ass Dream at December 16, 2021 10:32 PM (h/pNJ)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:32 PM (eA1RV)
Posted by: Stephen Price Fogerty at December 16, 2021 10:33 PM (CX3cf)
Playing.
Everything is regimented and organized these days.
Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2021 10:33 PM (BvZkh)
Posted by: Weirddave at December 16, 2021 10:30 PM (HR93a)
OK then.
You returning to these parts for a visit any time soon?
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2021 10:33 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2021 10:33 PM (NAPmw)
Parents who let kids be kids. Somehow we all lived through it.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2021 10:33 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:32 PM (eA1RV)
Fistbump from me at #89
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2021 10:34 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2021 10:22 PM (63Dwl)
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Exactly where I learned it. The movie, not the POW camp.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:28 PM (eA1RV)
We didn't use matchbooks. Simply threaded a broken-off section of a punk through the fuse tangle of a ten or twenty pack. That worked 9 times out of 10.
Posted by: Gref at December 16, 2021 10:34 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2021 10:14 PM (U2p+3)
One of the greatest things my family did when I was young was to ride a boat through the Soo Locks at Sault Ste Marie, MI. It was impressive. By the way, there is also Saulte Ste Marie, Canada.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 16, 2021 10:35 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 16, 2021 10:35 PM (+WWsf)
https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/
1471518128031117312
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 16, 2021 10:36 PM (cSs/W)
Posted by: banana Mega-Awsome-Kickin-Ass Dream at December 16, 2021 10:36 PM (h/pNJ)
Posted by: Weirddave at December 16, 2021 10:37 PM (HR93a)
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Be outside all the time when not in school/doing homework. In all types of weather. Just exploring and using your imagination.
Posted by: lin-duh at December 16, 2021 10:37 PM (UUBmN)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 16, 2021 10:35 PM (+WWsf)
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Yep. I was pretty pissed off when the discontinued Bag O Glass as well.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:37 PM (eA1RV)
I taught my boys how to jump out. I also taught them how to back flip out of the swings.
The other moms on the playground didn't like it when their kids would line up to learn.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2021 10:38 PM (U2p+3)
Make it an even 20 Dems who have retired or given up. Now 11 GOP reps have also not sought re-election, as the Daily Mail rightfully points out, except what they don't say
other than ultra NT douche Rep Kinzinger who was gerrymandered out of his district, all the other 10 are going to get covered by replacement GOP candidates that are expected to win.
The Dems were all in districts that have no viable chance or are real toss-ups - meaning they weren't going to win Congress (example: Tom Suozzi from Long Island). I get it that Lowenthal is old, but Long Beach, CA who he represents, has started turning red for some time now. He read the tea leaves - it's going to be a blowout.
Posted by: Boswell at December 16, 2021 10:38 PM (5iUNf)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:39 PM (eA1RV)
- your kid can't ride a bike, they might get hurt
- your kid can't ride a bike, another kid who doesn't have a bike might see it and feel "less than".
We're done with the Nanny State and full-on into the Crazy Aunt State.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2021 10:40 PM (6FeV1)
well
you're missing out
and ACTUALLY there's an excellent film about this!
Soorma
Posted by: Black Orchid the Unboosted at December 16, 2021 10:40 PM (j9HX3)
Hopscotch.
Ride tailgunner in a station wagon.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2021 10:23 PM (mZUr4)
Kids riding on the truckbed of a pickup. My dad would have been arrested if he'd allowed that today.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 16, 2021 10:40 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: davidt at December 16, 2021 10:40 PM (JH1/x)
People would be aghast at that now.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 16, 2021 10:40 PM (hhvb1)
Do they still make Slip and Slides?
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw at December 16, 2021 10:40 PM (II3Gr)
Smear the queer.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 16, 2021 10:30 PM (hhvb1)
In 6th grade we had lunchtime football games that eventually descended into smear the queer, then further descended into kick eahc other in the nuts.
My buddies and I left before it got to that point. But the principal took all of us boys into the gym to have a frank discussion about the dangers of suffering a rupture.
Same principal thought having me and another kid glove up and settle things in the ring was a good idea, because we had duked it out in the playground one day.
Funny thing is, my folks never heard about these things. Becuz, 1978.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, from Butte, America at December 16, 2021 10:40 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 16, 2021 10:41 PM (Avp4z)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2021 10:33 PM (NAPmw)
Similar here. Creek instead of pond. Lots of wiffle ball, touch football, bike riding. We played a game on bikes called PAPER CATCHERS. We'd take one of those old "circulars" - small newspaper-like advertisements / coupon pages that some dude would throw on everyone's porch once a week. Roll the circular up as tight as possible into a small ball and wrap it with as many rubberbands as possible. Then it was like "tag" on bikes. But instead of tagging a person to make them "it", you beaned them with the circular thing. Sucks when you missed and had to pick the thing up while everyone rode away and you had to catch up.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2021 10:41 PM (mZUr4)
You just described my wonderful, anachronistic husband.
Posted by: Flyover at December 16, 2021 10:41 PM (Rbu5d)
Parents who let kids be kids. Somehow we all lived through it.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2021 10:33 PM (ZLI7S)
I missed the window for that, unfortunately. It was all stranger danger and shit.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw at December 16, 2021 10:42 PM (II3Gr)
>>Looks like covid is going crazy in the nfl.
Here's a novel idea: Stop. Testing.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 16, 2021 10:41 PM (Avp4z)
But we have to know who has the cooties!
Posted by: Karen #85194372 at December 16, 2021 10:42 PM (llON8)
Lemonade and Kool-Aid stands.
Posted by: Gref at December 16, 2021 10:42 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:42 PM (eA1RV)
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Well, I've mentioned the Christmas concerts we used to do in grade school, where each class prepared a song. We also had Halloween parades. Kids would wear their costumes to school, and then the teachers would walk us around the neighborhood.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 16, 2021 10:43 PM (CAJOC)
Same. I can still hear my father saying "If you have nothing to do I've got plenty of things for you to do.".
None of them were worth having around for.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2021 10:43 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Miklos and the Elevator Kings at December 16, 2021 10:43 PM (QzkSJ)
Lemonade and Kool-Aid stands.
Posted by: Gref at December 16, 2021 10:42 PM (AMIL/)
Thank GOD code enforcement and county health departments shut those down! A total menace to society they were!
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw at December 16, 2021 10:43 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: davidt at December 16, 2021 10:43 PM (JH1/x)
It's okay, the ones who are left can take a knee when the national anthem is played. F**k 'em.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 16, 2021 10:43 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:26 PM (eA1RV)
At some point it is going to be too costly to continue, but I have no idea what comes next.
It would be terrible if the next act was to the refrain, "these people stole your life and poisoned your family."
Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2021 10:44 PM (ZMraq)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 16, 2021 10:40 PM (+lVUW)
My dad never had a pickup. But several of my friends' dads did. Riding in the open back was so awesome!!
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2021 10:44 PM (mZUr4)
Who could do the most flips before you hit the water.
Forward. Then backwards.
Whoot!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2021 10:44 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: Ford Prefect at December 16, 2021 10:44 PM (Ojki1)
A lot of salt at that link. Comrade biden has just not gone far enough. He's a right-wing plant. It's all the wreckers. It's the unvaxxed science haters. Free college and it will be the great utopia we wanted.
Posted by: banana Mega-Awsome-Kickin-Ass Dream at December 16, 2021 10:44 PM (h/pNJ)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw at December 16, 2021 10:43 PM (II3Gr)
Bunch'a snotty little tax cheats.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2021 10:44 PM (6FeV1)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 16, 2021 10:35 PM (+WWsf)
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Yep. I was pretty pissed off when the discontinued Bag O Glass as well.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:37 PM (eA1RV)
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Man, the fun I used to have with the Tin O' Rusty Nails (now with extra Rust!)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 16, 2021 10:45 PM (CAJOC)
Posted by: lin-duh
That was just daily life. Sword fights with sticks, mud pies, all the fun stuff. A little baseball game at the end of the street, or if the moms let us, down at the elementary school. Shoot hopps in the driveway. Someone was always working on a bike, or a home made go cart. Bikes, skateboards, by the time the streetlights came on you were starving.
Posted by: Infidel at December 16, 2021 10:45 PM (qpolg)
Posted by: Miklos and the Elevator Kings at December 16, 2021 10:43 PM (QzkSJ)
I'm in! Can I play the keytar??
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2021 10:45 PM (mZUr4)
When you wanted pie you went to the dessert section and perused the available varieties before selecting which kind.
That was always a blast.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2021 10:45 PM (EZebt)
Might've told this before.
Oldest brother got the chem set. It got passed down to older brother and (when I could get to it) me. Lacking many of the best ingredients by then.
I was lying on my bed, probably reading a comic book. Older brother was at the desk, his back to me. He was sprinkling iron shavings over the alcohol lamp flame, making sparklies. We all did this. But this time he let the little metal spoon get too hot and when he stuck it back in the bottle of iron shavings...
I can close my eyes and still clearly see the black silhouette of my brother in the chair, backlit by a thousand photo flashbulbs. I still chuckle at it, too.
Posted by: mindful webworker - hmm. What does this chemical do mixed with that one? UH oh... at December 16, 2021 10:45 PM (GPhem)
Posted by: pep at December 16, 2021 10:45 PM (ZsR3z)
Taking my purple bike with the banana seat off some sweet jumps.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, from Butte, America at December 16, 2021 10:45 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: Karen
*uses ball point pen to inscribe Sekrit Anti-Cootie runes on hand*
Posted by: Six Year Old Miklos at December 16, 2021 10:45 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Infidel at December 16, 2021 10:46 PM (qpolg)
_pResident Joey B., the vanilla sandman, prince of the perpetrators, king of the void
Posted by: Braenyard, in the yard at December 16, 2021 10:46 PM (xcd1u)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:42 PM (eA1RV)
We used to go into the rice fields in Louisiana on the weekend when I went to college with just a couple of small nets and few chicken necks tied to them...later that night? Crawfish boil, baby!
Posted by: Boswell at December 16, 2021 10:46 PM (5iUNf)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 16, 2021 10:46 PM (CAJOC)
The other moms on the playground didn't like it when their kids would line up to learn.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2021 10:38 PM (U2p+3)
Excellent!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2021 10:46 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Six Year Old Miklos at December 16, 2021 10:45 PM (QzkSJ)
"Pen.... fifteen...."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2021 10:46 PM (6FeV1)
we have a few like that by me - my favorite is Bonner/Prendie, but I assume that's not what you mean!
the two schools are basically separate except they share a cafeteria
(and the sports fields, sort of)Posted by: Black Orchid the Unboosted at December 16, 2021 10:46 PM (j9HX3)
When you wanted pie you went to the dessert section and perused the available varieties before selecting which kind.
That was always a blast.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2021 10:45 PM (EZebt)
An automat! I think those went extinct by the time I was born.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw at December 16, 2021 10:46 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Gref at December 16, 2021 10:47 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Six Year Old
Square with an x in the middle, palm of hand.
Posted by: Infidel at December 16, 2021 10:47 PM (qpolg)
I taught my boys how to jump out. I also taught them how to back flip out of the swings.
The other moms on the playground didn't like it when their kids would line up to learn.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2021 10:38 PM (U2p+3)
Metal sliding boards that would singe the skin on your legs
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2021 10:47 PM (mZUr4)
Running around the roof tops of the apartment buildings.
Riding our bikes to every corner of NYC, through rich neighborhoods, burned down neighborhoods, you name it.
Getting an egg cream and going to the park to shoot skellzies with my friends
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 16, 2021 10:48 PM (Avp4z)
Posted by: Miklos and the Elevator Kings at December 16, 2021 10:43 PM (QzkSJ)
I'm in! Can I play the keytar??
Posted by: Doof
Grow your hair out, so Charleen can make a Classic Mullet.
Posted by: Miklos, proud that Charleen will be State Certified in six more months at December 16, 2021 10:48 PM (QzkSJ)
accidentally igniting a whole box of black cats when your punk drops its cherry. True story. It was epic, like the fireworks factory explosion in Revenge of the Pink Panther. Well, maybe not.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, from Butte, America at December 16, 2021 10:48 PM (x8Wzq)
I guess a lot of the things we used to do they do still do - skateboarding, biking around here, stuff like that my kids also do?
we used to take the bus or the train into the city on our own. kids don't do that anymore. which is probably for the best.
the main thing I can think of is we used to sneak a smoke lol. kids today don't do that (as far as I know!)
Posted by: Black Orchid the Unboosted at December 16, 2021 10:48 PM (j9HX3)
Taking my purple bike with the banana seat off some sweet jumps.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, from Butte, America at December 16, 2021 10:45 PM (x8Wzq)
I didn't get a chance to do this until I was in my 30s. Used my kid's bike and ramp. Totally worth it.
My childhood sucked ass.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw at December 16, 2021 10:48 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Infidel
Even the Freemasons and Rosicrucians respect that.
Posted by: Miklos, cootie-free, but not really checking either at December 16, 2021 10:49 PM (QzkSJ)
People would be aghast at that now.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 16, 2021 10:40 PM (hhvb1)
Rooftop antenna. Awesome!!
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2021 10:49 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Black Orchid the Unboosted at December 16, 2021 10:48 PM (j9HX3)
Heh. Now they just vape weed.
I'm... not actually joking.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2021 10:50 PM (6FeV1)
Pretty much everything we did on Catholic School playground. The best was playing King of the Mountain on the huge snow hills created by the snowplows. You stood on the top and pushed off the other kids trying to climb up. We'd also run and slide on ice slicks. There was also "white washing" kids' faces with snow, and shoving snow down kids' shirts. Winter was actually fun. Of course, there were some split lips and bumps and bruises.
The nuns' attitude was pretty much, if you're going to play on the snow hills, it's your choice.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 16, 2021 10:50 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2021 10:47 PM (mZUr
Oh yeah, those. After they'd been roasting in the Florida sun they got a mite toasty. Could probably have baked cookies on those sumbitches.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw at December 16, 2021 10:50 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: davidt at December 16, 2021 10:43 PM (JH1/x)
And snow forts. Digging fox holes in vacant lots or in railroad embankments and playing soldier.
Posted by: Gref at December 16, 2021 10:51 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: pep at December 16, 2021 10:45 PM (ZsR3z)
I don't know, but it is kind of hard to drive into a river by accident. I suppose it is possible with really bad weather or drinking, but then again drinking makes it easier to drive into a river on purpose, too.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2021 10:51 PM (ZMraq)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 16, 2021 10:40 PM (+lVUW)
I did plenty of that as a kid. We were riding in luxury when my dad got a canopy and a board covered in shag carpet to lay in the bed.
It sucks that we GenXers were the last to experience such freedom. It's hurt our country
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 16, 2021 10:51 PM (cSs/W)
Posted by: nerdygirl
Kollidge Daze in New Orleans sometimes meant several guys and a keg in the back of the one who had a pickemup going to Pass Christian
Posted by: Miklos, Born Free *earworm, sorry* at December 16, 2021 10:52 PM (QzkSJ)
Anyone read eugyppius' substack? The round-the-world covid "temperature" thread was really interesting. I am concerned for Sweden.
Posted by: Funsize (EiPf6) at December 16, 2021 10:52 PM (EiPf6)
Posted by: Doof
Grow your hair out, so Charleen can make a Classic Mullet.
Posted by: Miklos, proud that Charleen will be State Certified in six more months at December 16, 2021 10:48 PM (QzkSJ)
I had some great hair in the 80s and early 90s. Now my hairline resembles Rich Eisen. No more mullet for the aging Doofster.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2021 10:52 PM (mZUr4)
Fireworks!
My dad and uncle would go to the Rez and buy literally hefty garbage bags full of stuff. Ladyfingers, smoke bombs, firecrackers, M80s, snakes, buzz bombs, Roman candles.... all the good stuff.
My cousins and I and my little brother were basically unsupervised all day blowing stuff up
On the beach while the "adults" got totally shitfaced.
We all have our eyes and our fingers.
We did blow up a few bullheads.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2021 10:52 PM (U2p+3)
Target practice at the pisser with cigarette butts.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 16, 2021 10:52 PM (qupmf)
Posted by: pep at December 16, 2021 10:45 PM (ZsR3z)
I don't know, but it is kind of hard to drive into a river by accident. I suppose it is possible with really bad weather or drinking, but then again drinking makes it easier to drive into a river on purpose, too.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2021 10:51 PM (ZMraq)
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Actually, it's super-easy. Barely an inconvenience.
Posted by: T. Kennedy at December 16, 2021 10:53 PM (CAJOC)
Posted by: pep
Don't know about that particular video but I sort of binged on Adventures with Purpose some time back. He and his team find all the sorts of missing folks that you mentioned. One thing strikes me, although it really shouldn't, is the wide range of LEO reactions to his work. Some departments/sheriffs are fantastic and grateful for what he does. Other guys, well, their behavior borders on criminal and they have no business sporting a badge.
Just like the rest of us, I guess.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2021 10:53 PM (ERcy3)
The other moms on the playground didn't like it when their kids would line up to learn.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2021 10:38 PM (U2p+3)
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The yentas who ruled my childhood playground would have you sent away right quick!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2021 10:53 PM (EZebt)
The other moms on the playground didn't like it when their kids would line up to learn.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2021 10:38 PM (U2p+3)
Noice. FC city park used to have epic swing sets, long radius. Me and my sons would jump off into the sand. never tried backflips.
When I was a kid the swing set was on asphalt. Extra danger. Most dangerous playground in Wyoming.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, from Butte, America at December 16, 2021 10:53 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2021 10:31 PM (mZUr4)
We had a cherry orchard, and to scare robins away from the cherries my mom gave us cap guns. My older brother and sister got to set off firecrackers.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 16, 2021 10:54 PM (+lVUW)
Forward. Then backwards.
Whoot!
Posted by: nurse ratched
And I just went Back to School
Posted by: Miklos Lemon at December 16, 2021 10:54 PM (QzkSJ)
To qualify to be what I remember they had to have some animals, some animal acts, and maybe a freak show.
They do NOT do that anymore. The small operators died out in the 50s or so. Maybe 60s cause I wasn't home then.
Oh and this took place in rural midwest/prairie states. As they could not support any full time entertainment of any kind locally. Have to drive 30 miles to go bowling. Maybe a small theatre in the county seat if that and only shows on the weekend cause everyone worked and was too tired to go to a show on a weekday evening.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 16, 2021 10:54 PM (FZzni)
Posted by: pep
Yes.
♪
There are a thousand stories in The Big River.
Posted by: mindful webworker - this is one of those stories at December 16, 2021 10:54 PM (GPhem)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw at December 16, 2021 10:55 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:39 PM (eA1RV)
My childhood in a nutshell.
Posted by: Ladyl at December 16, 2021 10:55 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Gref at December 16, 2021 10:47 PM (AMIL/)
Not in the South - as a kid, I owned every type hunting weapon known to man, starting with a Remington BB gun to similar pellet gun to 22. short rifle to an Ithaca over under shotgun - starting from age 7 up to age 13...never even thought about local LE stopping me while I shot at literally everything. But it was the 60's in Beaufort, SC - so yeah, that helps. I did have a hunting and fishing license, though - never took it out of my room now that I think about it.
Posted by: Boswell at December 16, 2021 10:55 PM (5iUNf)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2021 10:56 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 16, 2021 10:52 PM (qupmf)
Hopefully not a trough style urinal
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2021 10:56 PM (mZUr4)
Forward. Then backwards.
Whoot!
Posted by: nurse ratched
And I just went Back to School
Posted by: Miklos Lemon at December 16, 2021 10:54 PM (QzkSJ)
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The Triple Lindy!
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 16, 2021 10:56 PM (CAJOC)
I'm... not actually joking.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
Dude?
Doooood
Awesome
Posted by: Miklos, hip with the Cool Kids at December 16, 2021 10:56 PM (QzkSJ)
We used to dig tunnels into those hills and play inside them. Then having learned the trick, did the same with bales of hay in our nephews’ parents’ barn: remove selective bales to create tunnels going up and down through the stacks of hay bales.
That’s a jenga game with consequences!
And yes, I read the Three Investigators. Great Books.
Posted by: Stephen Price Fogerty at December 16, 2021 10:56 PM (CX3cf)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:39 PM (eA1RV)
My childhood in a nutshell.
Posted by: Ladyl at December 16, 2021 10:55 PM (TdMsT)
I never had a bike. But i did learn how to use a ramset at a very early age.... so you win some, you lose some.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2021 10:57 PM (6FeV1)
Posted by: Miklos Lemon at December 16, 2021 10:54 PM (QzkSJ)
Why don't you call me when you have no class
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2021 10:57 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw at December 16, 2021 10:58 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: pep at December 16, 2021 10:58 PM (ZsR3z)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 16, 2021 10:58 PM (qupmf)
We used to take the T into Boston and go sit in the bleachers at Fenway and watch the Red Sox. You could scalp a ticket for peanuts if you waited until after the first pitch or sometimes just sneak in.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2021 10:59 PM (ZLI7S)
All the neighborhood kids playing tag after supper.
Nok hockey.
Posted by: Flyover at December 16, 2021 10:59 PM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2021 10:59 PM (mZUr4)
Forward. Then backwards.
Whoot!
Posted by: nurse ratched
Haarruummpphh.
When your mom is a world class gymnast, that's not fair.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2021 10:59 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Doof
Gonna hep a good boy out
Posted by: Miklos, Trustee of the James Brown Hairpiece Endowment at December 16, 2021 10:59 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 16, 2021 11:00 PM (qupmf)
Split a pack of smokes that we bought in the vending machine at the bowling alley.
built forts.
bottle rocket fights.
try to dam up creeks.
look at buddie's unle's Playboy magazines
Posted by: Pug Mahon, from Butte, America at December 16, 2021 11:00 PM (x8Wzq)
It's two days til Super Bowl Sunday and half of the Cowboys have tested positive. They'll have to forfeit. Too bad, Vegas.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2021 10:26 PM
And the Super Bowl is in Los Angeles in 2 months. Where there are strict lockdown policies in place. It's going to be a disaster for anyone wanting to enjoy themselves at local restaurants and such. Clay Travis tweeted out yesterday that the NFL needs to move the Super Bowl to a different city and give it to L.A. next year, if they've come to their senses on the COVID lockdown BS.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2021 11:00 PM (Do5/p)
Posted by: Diogenes
My grandpa on Vashon had me and my brother out fishing at dawn by ourselves in his aluminum rowboat for breakfast.
Rockfish, eggs and biscuits. Damn.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2021 11:00 PM (U2p+3)
Wonder why Maryanne (but not Ginger) made me feel all funny. Oh wait, I still do that.
Posted by: pep at December 16, 2021 11:00 PM (ZsR3z)
Posted by: Miklos, Trustee of the James Brown Hairpiece Endowment at December 16, 2021 10:59 PM (QzkSJ)
The HELL you is.
Posted by: Maxine Waters at December 16, 2021 11:00 PM (6FeV1)
I'm talking 12' -15' or so. Which Is HUGE for a little kid.
And those metal grab on combination swing and merry go round where there were maybe 10 places and a chain came down from a round frame that pivoted on a pole and you held on the metal grab handles and then ran around and then raised your legs so you were flying. It could even be operated by one person. It was dangerous and dirty and a hella fun. Some people would walk into the swinging grab bars and lose a tooth or two.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 16, 2021 11:01 PM (FZzni)
Posted by: Funsize (EiPf6) at December 16, 2021 11:01 PM (EiPf6)
Posted by: Doof
Hmm
Waiting on my grade from an MBA level class about what I actually do from Professorina Uptalk
Posted by: Miklos, offering a chance to make $12 dollars the hard way at December 16, 2021 11:01 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 16, 2021 11:02 PM (nxdel)
I'm out of beer. Goodnight, Horde.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, from Butte, America at December 16, 2021 11:03 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: jakee308 at December 16, 2021 10:54 PM (FZzni)
I'm third generation circus. Ok it's gone with me but my dad was a poor hillbilly in a circus before he went to war in korea. He was a tightrope walker and did trapeze and he was taught by his dad. I never met my dad as he died right before I was born. But I have done some freehand climbing and repelling so maybe there's something genetic passed on.
Posted by: banana Mega-Awsome-Kickin-Ass Dream at December 16, 2021 11:03 PM (h/pNJ)
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2021 11:04 PM (mZUr4)
I'm talking 12' -15' or so. Which Is HUGE for a little kid.
And those metal grab on combination swing and merry go round where there were maybe 10 places and a chain came down from a round frame that pivoted on a pole and you held on the metal grab handles and then ran around and then raised your legs so you were flying. It could even be operated by one person. It was dangerous and dirty and a hella fun. Some people would walk into the swinging grab bars and lose a tooth or two.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 16, 2021 11:01 PM (FZzni)
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I remember merry-go-rounds that were like domes, with these indentations where you could stand, and handles to hold onto. Easy to get thrown off once that thing got spinning.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 16, 2021 11:04 PM (CAJOC)
Posted by: Funsize (EiPf6) at December 16, 2021 11:04 PM (EiPf6)
So now you can see an abortionist on Zoom and get your feticide delivered via the U.S. Mail. Kill your baby without even leaving the house. Wonderful times we live in.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 16, 2021 11:05 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: Miklos, part of his Retirement Fund stolen at December 16, 2021 11:06 PM (QzkSJ)
This was during the time the township was putting in sewer lines throughout the neighborhood. We'd take the kerosene smudge pots used to illuminate the dirt piles (yeah, I'm old!) and traffic barriers and run them up a flagpole if we could find one.
Good times.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2021 11:06 PM (ERcy3)
Posted by: banana Mega-Awsome-Kickin-Ass Dream at December 16, 2021 11:06 PM (h/pNJ)
Posted by: Frederika Wilson (D-FL) at December 16, 2021 11:07 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: the Salvation Army, Woke Division at December 16, 2021 11:08 PM (QzkSJ)
Are you a PLS? I am curious because I am in the land surveying business
Posted by: Son of Sam the Butcher at December 16, 2021 11:08 PM (VJBq9)
we traversed the alleyways (these are mostly closed off entirely) all over the nabe, playing hide and seek behind everyone's houses. these alleys are narrow like three feet wide with tall cement walls. they go thru ALL of south philly, both sides of broad
we played wall ball and polish handball
and yeah Jack, we snuck into ball games sometimes lol
the zipper - it was a ride on a truck - used to drive into the street and all the kids would ride
Posted by: Black Orchid the Unboosted at December 16, 2021 11:09 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Gref at December 16, 2021 10:42 PM (AMIL/)
> Thank GOD code enforcement and county health departments shut those down! A total menace to society they were!
A year or two ago, one of the lemonade mix companies (Country Time, I think) actually set up a free lawyer service for any kid who got fined for running a lemonade stand.
In the town where I lived for a while, some Karen called the cops on a kid with a lemonade stand. The cops showed up, bought lemonade, and left.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 16, 2021 11:09 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2021 10:19 PM
And he and the Milwaukee Bucks are the reigning NBA Champs. In a sane world, he would be the face of the league. But I think they still push LeFlop.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2021 11:09 PM (Do5/p)
(I need to get a few hours sleep before I slip out to plant delay-fused Black Cat packs on doorsteps for the first time in 50-some years; I stocked-up on the 4th of July this year)
Posted by: Gref at December 16, 2021 11:09 PM (AMIL/)
So now you can see an abortionist on Zoom and get your feticide delivered via the U.S. Mail. Kill your baby without even leaving the house. Wonderful times we live in.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 16, 2021 11:05 PM (bW8dp)
Don't you dare do that with ivermectin, though!
Posted by: Emmie at December 16, 2021 11:10 PM (6RgRK)
Oh, yeah. Those things would surgically remove the skin off the back of your legs if you made the mistake of going down one wearing shorts.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 16, 2021 11:11 PM (bW8dp)
>>A Florida man was kicked off a United flight for using a thong as a mask to protest the airline's mask mandate.
https://tinyurl.com/muxwh6rn
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2021 11:11 PM (ZLI7S)
I bet the SCA is sexist, racist, and anti-trans as well.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2021 11:12 PM (I2/tG)
Wandering off by myself. [except that I still do that...]
Posted by: Theodore at December 16, 2021 11:12 PM (GJnvT)
I remember those pot torches.
Ask a kid today what a pot torch is and you're going to get a completely different answer.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 16, 2021 11:12 PM (bW8dp)
https://tinyurl.com/2v23tx7w
Posted by: Miklos 'bout to shag , y'all at December 16, 2021 11:13 PM (QzkSJ)
https://tinyurl.com/muxwh6rn
Posted by: JackStraw
Probably went with the lace version, rookie mistake.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 16, 2021 11:13 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 16, 2021 11:14 PM (z4bSh)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 16, 2021 11:13 PM (r1z5A)
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As long as it was clean, I don't see that this would be a problem.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 16, 2021 11:14 PM (VxC1e)
we we're supposed to see.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2021 11:15 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 16, 2021 11:15 PM (QU5/8)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2021 11:16 PM (U2p+3)
Good times.
Posted by: Tonypete
Shit, I forgot, a bunch of would sneak out of the house in the middle of the night and go down a few block and play cars at the 4way stop light by the donut shop. We would make the lights change and bang into each other. when the donut shop opened we would use our allowance and buy donuts and walk home and sneak back in. Only on weekends when folks had been drinking. I think that was my first job, folding pink boxes at the donut shop for 1 or 2 cents a piece. About 10 yo.
Posted by: Infidel at December 16, 2021 11:16 PM (qpolg)
Posted by: Bigsmith at December 16, 2021 11:16 PM (G/mW5)
Posted by: JackStraw
Somehow, I think Vaclav Havel would approve.
Posted by: Miklos, who left communism, or so he naively thought at December 16, 2021 11:16 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Crazy Miklos' Tzampotli Family Fun Park and Contactless Endless Full-Contact Open Tequila Bar at December 16, 2021 11:18 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 16, 2021 11:15 PM (QU5/
Been playing that for 30+years...suckers!
Posted by: politicians everywhere at December 16, 2021 11:18 PM (+I6Y/)
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Bay-Be-Gone
Now available in the 25-dose pack Party Pack.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 16, 2021 11:18 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Funsize (EiPf6) at December 16, 2021 11:18 PM (EiPf6)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2021 11:19 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: nurse ratched
I spent a summer at Girl Scout Camp.
Don't ask.
I learned things about previously icky and irritating girl-types.
They knew Spin the Bottle, with that unfair Early Adolescence Thing girls do
Posted by: 11 year old Miklos at December 16, 2021 11:21 PM (QzkSJ)
LOL. The only guy I knew who was really into SCA was a big black dude. I forget what legend he invented to explain why he was wandering around Medieval Europe.
Yeah, wokefulness has largely killed science fiction conventions as well.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2021 11:25 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Liz Cheney Cries Out As She Stabs The Republic In The Back at December 16, 2021 11:27 PM (DxQbJ)
Posted by: Theodore at December 16, 2021 11:29 PM (GJnvT)
The neighborhood kids would get together and we'd play "Princess" (I was the maid) or "Lost in Space" or make up a story (I remember the night when we were walking around the house for "clues" and found a feather and worked it into the game.
Posted by: Iris at December 16, 2021 11:30 PM (6lKe4)
at_IAMISjp
All the times I could have used a crab.
5:19 PM - Dec 16, 2021 - https://bit.ly/3mbWHGX
Real life crane claw game!
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2021 11:32 PM (Do5/p)
Posted by: redchief at December 16, 2021 11:32 PM (Kab4E)
Posted by: Theodore
Thin ice driving...or insurance fraud.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 16, 2021 11:32 PM (r1z5A)
Still looking forward to Cheney's lavishly funded reelection campaign, considering that she doesn't dare show her face in Wyoming outside of Jackson.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2021 11:33 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Infidel at December 16, 2021 11:33 PM (qpolg)
Posted by: The ARC of History!
You can't even sell Healing Crystals or incense or any kind of Holistic Shit
Posted by: "Sparrow" AKA Brandi on Food Stamp application at December 16, 2021 11:35 PM (QzkSJ)
Do I get them?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2021 11:36 PM (66xMn)
Posted by: Half Dozen at December 16, 2021 11:36 PM (dJs6r)
Posted by: Theodore at December 16, 2021 11:36 PM (GJnvT)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 16, 2021 11:37 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Goldilocks at December 16, 2021 11:37 PM (hUjT1)
Posted by: redchief
Oh yeah. But for our kids, we've reached the point where we just write a check and one, small thing to open. So much easier.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2021 11:38 PM (ERcy3)
Now available in the 25-dose pack Party Pack.
Posted by: Cicero
The Hofbrauhaus in Munich had (has?) a condom dispenser in the much-frequented Gents Room.
About 40 kinds.
My favorite was the no-nonsense on the top row-"Anti-Baby Condom"
Posted by: Miklos, thinking of dirndls again at December 16, 2021 11:38 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Theodore
The vehicle makes its own hole.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 16, 2021 11:41 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: G. Soros, offering #2 J. Bezos a stroke or two on the long haired white cat at December 16, 2021 11:41 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2021 11:42 PM (66xMn)
Posted by: Theodore
I can't explain, but Bubba and Marleen shore could
*Bubba and Marleen just laugh....*
Posted by: Miklos, limited by Statutations at December 16, 2021 11:43 PM (QzkSJ)
I see you like me to spend my money.
Oh yeah probably will get since I do like to read. And anime printed matter is one of my collection urges. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2021 11:43 PM (66xMn)
Pretty unfair really but that is the way it is.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 16, 2021 11:44 PM (yQpMk)
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Many of his loyalists were Never-Trumpers in the beginning.
Posted by: Braenyard, in the yard at December 16, 2021 11:44 PM (xcd1u)
Cowboys and Indians
Posted by: Ripley at December 16, 2021 11:45 PM (PTDkx)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 16, 2021 11:46 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Ripley
My cousin James and I always argued about who got to be the Indians
#whitekidssoapproporiative
Posted by: Miklos, more Lumbee than any US Senator at December 16, 2021 11:49 PM (QzkSJ)
Wow, I doubt our favorite Ungrateful Loaf of Bread is going to get up off the floor after that one.
Posted by: pookysgirl remembers that CPAC at December 16, 2021 11:50 PM (XKZwp)
Posted by: Braenyard, in the yard at December 16, 2021 11:51 PM (xcd1u)
Posted by: Theodore
I was up in Canada a few years ago on business, and was out in the wilds 'way north of Toronto (well, north of Timmons, if you know where that is), and in April, winter is still holding on.
As a prank, a local restaurant parked and old VW bug out on the lake, and then knew it was Spring when the lake ice melted and the car went into the water.
Those Canadians. They're WILD!!!
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 16, 2021 11:51 PM (tjZg/)
I lived at the end of a dead end street with woods behind us. About 1/2 mile into the woods there was a pond that was our field of dreams. Adults never went there.
It was our neighborhood hockey pond and it was spectacular. There was always a game going on, always. You never even asked, there was just a game.
I never even hear about kids playing pond hockey anymore.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2021 11:51 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 16, 2021 11:52 PM (ybIRR)
Posted by: Ungrateful Loaf of Bread at December 16, 2021 11:52 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2021 11:53 PM (66xMn)
Posted by: SFGoth at December 16, 2021 11:53 PM (KAi1n)
>I remember massaging many a girl's shoulders and smelling her hair, but in my defense, we were classmates.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 16, 2021 11:53 PM (wvu9n)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2021 11:54 PM (66xMn)
Posted by: Dr. Bone
So.
They got rid of inkwells and pigtails because of you.
Posted by: Lenin said The worse, the Better, Miklos is not so sure at December 16, 2021 11:56 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Slightly stale bread is best for making Czech Knedliky or Greek Taramasalata
Posted by: Chef Miklos with Fritz Feld "POP!" at December 16, 2021 11:58 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 16, 2021 11:59 PM (h0gaF)
Trump is anti child trafficking. Considering the revelations about CNN staffers over the last week or so I think we can see where the hate is coming from.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at December 17, 2021 12:01 AM (SchxB)
Posted by: Miklos Toussaint L'Observateur at December 17, 2021 12:01 AM (QzkSJ)
Not sure how much I will get from rolling a buncha bell ringers
Don't look like they would resist much
Posted by: Five Finger Discount at December 17, 2021 12:05 AM (QzkSJ)
And many of us were lucky that the first modern ice rink in town opened nearby - most of my neighborhood buddies learned to skate and we all played ice hockey after that. One guy was good enough that he and other local (who was quite good, and went on full scholarship to an NCAA Div I-equivalent-for-the-time college) actually made the first cut when the WHA start-up team had an open try-out.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 17, 2021 12:06 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: ONT is receding from your control at December 17, 2021 12:06 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Braenyard, in the yard at December 17, 2021 12:08 AM (xcd1u)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2021 11:38 PM (ERcy3)
I'm about there. My daughter just turned 18 this year bust still has her lists.
Posted by: redchief at December 17, 2021 12:09 AM (Kab4E)
Walk/bike/whatever to/from school (after about 4th grade).
Do things outside nearly every waking minute when not in school (SoCal weather enables this nearly year-round).
Live in the canyons, hoping to find rattlesnakes, or rosy boas to catch and let go in the house of the mom who was most afraid of snakes.
Walk through a suburban neighborhood as 8th graders, carrying a WWII service rifle, without anyone noticing or caring, and shooting at the nearby quarry, where the guys working there limited their reaction to "umm, stay in the back area".
A different universe, and a vastly inferior one, without question.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 17, 2021 12:09 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 17, 2021 12:10 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: rhomboid
Darwin forgot about Entropy
Posted by: Sophisticated Thinker Miklos at December 17, 2021 12:13 AM (QzkSJ)
Some of the Minnesocoldians on my old team back east talked seriously about entering it one year, and half our team came close to entering (3 teams, I think). But it never happened for reasons lost to memory. It sounded fantastic.
Our team did travel to Montreal and Chicago for tournaments of the conventional kind, and lots guys when to tournaments in Vegas. And Amsterdam.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 17, 2021 12:14 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 17, 2021 12:14 AM (3/XaG)
All civilization comes down to the sandwich, and how fast you can get it.
Posted by: qdpklos at December 17, 2021 12:15 AM (QzkSJ)
All civilization comes down to the sandwich, and how fast you can get it.
Posted by: qdpklos at December 17, 2021 12:15 AM (QzkSJ)
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Ha!
Posted by: Braenyard, in the yard at December 17, 2021 12:18 AM (xcd1u)
Maybe a can of pork n beans or some tamales.
Posted by: Braenyard, in the yard at December 17, 2021 12:20 AM (xcd1u)
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 17, 2021 12:22 AM (3/XaG)
Looking back it was clear there were simple guidelines.
Be home by dinner (well, that was easy, because as ravenous animals, you didn't want to miss a meal).
When you get home, do *not* be accompanied by a cop, or an adult neighbor, with a slate of charges against you. Do not end up in the hospital. Don't burn anything down.
That's about it. And of course much later you realize why the moms didn't want to see your face until dinner.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 17, 2021 12:23 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Braenyard
MRE with a tiny bottle of Tabasco, if yer lucky
Posted by: qdpklos at December 17, 2021 12:23 AM (QzkSJ)
I should contact the Coast-to-Coast people.
I have real life stories of little boys flying when they heard their mamas use their middle names at dinner time
Posted by: qdpklos at December 17, 2021 12:27 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Braenyard, in the yard at December 17, 2021 12:27 AM (xcd1u)
Posted by: Robert at December 17, 2021 12:30 AM (1Yy3c)
Best friend in 6th grade's father was a Navy fighter squadron commander (Phantoms). A few times I went with my buddy when his dad went in on weekends to do paperwork at Miramar. He'd drop us kids off at a hangar, and tell the chiefs et al to show us around. So - poor us, sitting in fighter jets, and looking over the guns and engines as they were serviced. Quite the nightmare for a 6th grade boy.
A few years back I asked at Miramar and aside from special family days, this kind of thing was no longer common.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 17, 2021 12:30 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Braenyard, in the yard at December 17, 2021 12:27 AM (xcd1u)
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My 1918 Spring Offensive MREs are probably reaching their peak flavor profile right about now.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 17, 2021 12:31 AM (VxC1e)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 17, 2021 12:31 AM (OTzUX)
I've never seen The Melancholy If Haruhi Suzumiya but I understand it's very good.
Posted by: Robert at December 17, 2021 12:31 AM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 17, 2021 12:34 AM (OTzUX)
Fight me, motherfuckers.
Posted by: Robert
Sauce first, fight after
Posted by: Miklos, adhering to Redneck Rules at December 17, 2021 12:36 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Robert
Sauce first, fight after
Posted by: Miklos, adhering to Redneck Rules at December 17, 2021 12:36 AM (QzkSJ)
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Does nobody bother to shoot out the lights anymore?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 17, 2021 12:39 AM (VxC1e)
Things kids deal with today that we never did: be the only child on the block, have arranged play dates, helicopter parents.
Posted by: JuJuBee at December 17, 2021 12:39 AM (mNhhD)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2021 12:41 AM (axyOa)
So to say it was vivid us an understatement. Part of it was Johnny Cash playing Jimi Hendrix's version of The National Anthem.
Mostly it was about a woman I once knew who is the most beautiful woman in the world. Seriously. I will fucking fight you on this. Your chick is a distant second. This chick was un-fucking-real. Anyway, she popped up in my dream and we're doing this and that, driving around, watching Johnny Cash. I mean things are going supremely well. I'm making wonderful progress and things are looking good for romance
For some reason I need to run and put some money on a prepaid debit card. While I'm at the grocery store I'm being crowded at the check out on both sides while trying to organize my money. For some reason random stuff keeps piling up in front of me from this black woman and her daughter who are standing next to me. In the end, my money goes missing and I'm pissed.
So I start arguing with this black woman and for some reason were invalid different setting but one very much like the living room of a place I used to live at. (Cont...)
Posted by: Robert at December 17, 2021 12:42 AM (1Yy3c)
*Robert responds and knocks Miklos on his Miklosian ass*
*Robert offers Miklos a hand up, nothing personal*
*Miklos attempts another wild swing, Darleen's cousin from the Flyin' J intervenes*
*Robert and Miklos compete for who's buying each other drinks*
Posted by: Miklos, seriously adhering to Redneck Rules at December 17, 2021 12:43 AM (QzkSJ)
Don't ask.
I learned things about previously icky and irritating girl-types.
They knew Spin the Bottle, with that unfair Early Adolescence Thing girls do
Posted by: 11 year old M
it was weird the way that every you were spun the bottlt it was pinting at you?
Posted by: confederatefifth at December 17, 2021 12:45 AM (3J/Xz)
Posted by: confederatefifth at December 17, 2021 12:47 AM (3J/Xz)
Prayers up for Mike Hammer who I haven't seen recently and for any of the Horde in need. God knows who you are.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 17, 2021 12:50 AM (IDhUW)
1 not interested, 2 not interested, 3 not interested, 4 not interested, 5 not interested, 6 not interested, 7 not interested, 8 not interested, 9 not interested, 10 not interested, 11 not interested, 12 not interested, 13 not interested, 14 not interested,
15 hmm
16 maybe
17 how you doin'!
Posted by: confederatefifth at December 17, 2021 12:52 AM (3J/Xz)
Posted by: confederatefifth at December 17, 2021 12:52 AM (3J/Xz)
Posted by: confederatefifth at December 17, 2021 12:53 AM (3J/Xz)
~~~
Really? Robert requested this?
*reads up thread*
Huh. I guess he did.
Glad it worked out so well.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 17, 2021 12:54 AM (IDhUW)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 17, 2021 12:55 AM (IDhUW)
~~~
I just got here! What did *you* do?
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 17, 2021 12:56 AM (IDhUW)
either wasy somebody needs to email that red bastard
Posted by: confederatefifth at December 17, 2021 12:56 AM (3J/Xz)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
Hammer Down
But hopefully now Hammer Up
Also Slapweasel, he is on the permanent List and hope he is well
Posted by: Miklos at December 17, 2021 12:57 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: confederatefifth at December 17, 2021 12:57 AM (3J/Xz)
Joking, you can't get rid of me that easily.
I haven't read the comments yet.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 17, 2021 12:58 AM (IDhUW)
So we're arguing and I'm pinning the blame on this black woman for why my money is missing and then...this is where things get terribly weird...then she starts leveling a bunch of shit at me that's...fundamental to my character. I mean it's not an argument between me and a character anymore it's...completely different. Like she really hammering me on things I have to admit are major character flaws. And then she brings up God and that's when I start basically poo-pooing things and mocking her (I'm not religious) and it's just about that point my internal alarm goes off because I needed to wake up early to start heading to Laredo.
It's probably among the craziest dreams I've ever had. Thing is I don't dream much at all, unless I pop a melatonin. So it started off well enough, I mean typical dream I guess but at the end it ceased to be a dream and became...I'm going to describe it as an argument between the hemispheres of my brain. And I stopped being in it and became an observer just watching two halves of my mind just fight with each other. It was just...bizarre. (Cont...)
Posted by: Robert at December 17, 2021 01:00 AM (1Yy3c)
hordefundme
Posted by: confederatefifth at December 17, 2021 01:00 AM (3J/Xz)
whereas the thing with red is that he is being held in the trunk of a 77 thunderbird, with two hottie whores, by their daddy, until he pays their fee, and he has not been in there more than 9 or ten days so he is nowhere near out of fun.
Posted by: confederatefifth at December 17, 2021 01:04 AM (3J/Xz)
Posted by: confederate raimondo V at December 17, 2021 01:05 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: confederatefifth at December 17, 2021 01:06 AM (3J/Xz)
Posted by: sven at December 17, 2021 01:07 AM (Lzpvj)
But I woke up. Internal alarm clock goes off, my shoulder fucking hurts (and has for well over a month now) and I've got to take a giant piss. And I've been kicking this damn dream around all day. Just so strange. I don't dream hardly ever and when I do it's short, not very coherent and stupid. I can't recall anything similar. And why was part of my mind represented by a little black woman?!?
I'm drunk and tired.
Night!
Posted by: Robert at December 17, 2021 01:09 AM (1Yy3c)
is there somebody doing mashups of the andy griffith show and bob newhart?
Posted by: confederatefifth at December 17, 2021 01:10 AM (3J/Xz)
Posted by: confederatefifth at December 17, 2021 01:11 AM (3J/Xz)
same course as the 250cc ran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOArvyRiFrQ
Posted by: Braenyard, in the yard at December 17, 2021 01:11 AM (xcd1u)
Posted by: confederatefifth at December 17, 2021 01:11 AM (3J/Xz)
Posted by: confederatefifth at December 17, 2021 01:12 AM (3J/Xz)
Posted by: Miklos, with Waffle House Gift Cards in hand at December 17, 2021 01:12 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Miklos, quoting at December 17, 2021 01:16 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Braenyard, in the yard at December 17, 2021 01:16 AM (xcd1u)
In case your still reading, it seems to me you are seeking. A relationship with God doesn't put you in a box labeled religious. Seek God, see what happens.
Good night.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 17, 2021 01:16 AM (IDhUW)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 17, 2021 01:16 AM (oHd/0)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 17, 2021 01:17 AM (IDhUW)
Posted by: Miklos, quoting
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My chips are on red.
Posted by: Braenyard, in the yard at December 17, 2021 01:17 AM (xcd1u)
Posted by: confederatefifth at December 17, 2021 01:19 AM (3J/Xz)
Posted by: Political Croupier at the Roulette Table at December 17, 2021 01:21 AM (QzkSJ)
Giannis Antetokounmpo! Greek-Nigerian.
Spellcheck is not happy.
Posted by: m at December 17, 2021 01:23 AM (SWrJu)
Posted by: Natty Bumppo at December 17, 2021 01:27 AM (QzkSJ)
I think those values have diminished and our gvt is corrupted. We are losing our monetary wealth, just as we have lost our spiritual and cultural wealth.
Which is why I keep harping on the need for a spiritual revival.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 17, 2021 01:28 AM (IDhUW)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
The Horde's interpretation is SHE WANTS IT
Whatever that may be
Posted by: ONT Dr. Prof. Miklos, Healer of all Miscellanesous or Associated Modalities (note the Greek Wisdom s at December 17, 2021 01:30 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: 12 Rules for Sanity in so-called "Life" by Miklos Effendi and Honorary Sahib at December 17, 2021 01:34 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 17, 2021 01:41 AM (IDhUW)
Now I got to see what I must clean up.
Chirren,, them red plastic cups go in the Recycling, and ya'll don't need me to do that pickin' and sortin'
In the old days, they would leave me some Boone's Farm or somethin.
Posted by: Beloved 101 year old custodian "Uncle" Miklos at December 17, 2021 01:44 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: M.Klos at December 17, 2021 01:45 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 17, 2021 01:28 AM (IDhUW)
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We are having a spiritual revival, it's just not mentioned in the common media.
Posted by: Braenyard, in the yard at December 17, 2021 01:46 AM (xcd1u)
Posted by: Braenyard,
Honest historians have noted the cycles in American society.
The current academic marxists and their political puppets are, I hope, against the current tide.
King Canute tried to show that even the King cannot stop the tide. But they will try, by any means necessary.
Posted by: Miklos, actual Historian and Political Scientist (for what that's worth) at December 17, 2021 01:54 AM (QzkSJ)
The girl was getting annoyed by her mom running to the post office all the time for her online business, and more-or-less petitioned me to stop it. I said "you know I always listen to you, but she's a great mom, and it's just a couple hours a day, and the extra money is nice."
This girl looked me dead in the eye and said "See? You see this? This is what corrupted this country. The money and power."
I've taught her too well. This little black girl just Jewish-mom'd me.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 17, 2021 01:55 AM (2ABQr)
This girl looked me dead in the eye and said "See? You see this? This is what corrupted this country. The money and power."
I've taught her too well. This little black girl just Jewish-mom'd me.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
She is now Authorized to recruit/enforce the USPS Dignity Canal Brigade
Posted by: Miklosov "Bubba" Miklosevich at December 17, 2021 01:59 AM (QzkSJ)
>TL;DR
Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 17, 2021 01:59 AM (wvu9n)
Posted by: Y
it is hard to fathom how much $ is worth more time at the usps
Posted by: confederatefifth at December 17, 2021 02:01 AM (3J/Xz)
Posted by: m at December 17, 2021 02:11 AM (SWrJu)
Posted by: Millenian Miklos at December 17, 2021 02:12 AM (QzkSJ)
>TL;DR
Posted by: Dr. Bone
yep
Fergot the "sexy sexy" part in Thailand or somewhere
Posted by: Late Nite Editor Miklos at December 17, 2021 02:14 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Uncle Al Einstein at December 17, 2021 02:15 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler at December 17, 2021 02:16 AM (Mzdiz)
Listen to those guys, they know what they're talking about.
Posted by: Mr. Feynman at December 17, 2021 02:20 AM (Mzdiz)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTDn604ipYY
Posted by: Braenyard, in the yard at December 17, 2021 02:22 AM (xcd1u)
I hate to bust you bubble, but I'm not. I have nothing against anime, and in fact I enjoy animated entertainment quite a bit, but I've never been able to get into Japanese anime beyond Speed Racer from my youth. I've tried, but I always seem to run into hentai. Hentai is funny because from what I've seen it tends to run to extremes. A lot of it is bizarre, perverted and frankly sick - I was almost physically nauseated when I ran into lolicon, for example, but an awful damn lot of it tends to be almost sweet - actual real love stories told with a lot of illustrated fucking in the middle (and why can't anyone in Japan draw toes? They don't curl over like fingers, and they are not that long).
There are a lot of weebs in the meme community, however, and since I troll through that looking for ONT content, I run into clips like the one above. I couldn't have told you what it was from, but it was date appropriate, so I posted it. Is it a good story? Should I check it out? Honestly, if it's hentai and not manga I'm not interested, is see enough of that shit already.
Posted by: Weirddave at December 17, 2021 02:23 AM (HR93a)
This is MTW's bible on General Relativity and Gravitation:
https://tinyurl.com/5n6fzc38
Some math is involved. Just a little bit. You're going to be working with a lot of tensor field theory there. Even Rank-4 tensors, like the ol' Riemann Curvature Tensor.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 17, 2021 02:23 AM (Mzdiz)
Riding bikes behind the Mosquito-spray truck in the summer.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoS Ladies' Brigade Plucky Comic Relief at December 17, 2021 02:25 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: mikeski at December 17, 2021 02:40 AM (P1f+c)
My passengers tonight, were in fact, the Temptations (one remaining bandmember who played with the originals), from IAH Bush Intercontinental Airport, to their hotel in Galveston, with a chow stop along the way.
I'll be driving them around tomorrow and Saturday, and then back to the airport on Sunday. And I should have got Combat Pay for the airport congestion around Terminals C,D & E. An hour's worth of congestion, just in those terminal areas. Not complaining though. For big name entertainment, they were some very kind, gracious, cool, chill and well-humored gents. Every now'n then, my job, it does have it's benefits.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
/rrrrRRReeeeEEEdddDDD!!!! wherethefuckizya!?
Posted by: Jim at December 17, 2021 02:43 AM (QzJWU)
Lord, someone needs to stop this ghoul:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/
10.1056/NEJMp2118468
That's Fauci calling for a global crash program to create a "universal" second-generation coronavirus vaccine. One that will protect against all possible such viruses. He even mentions the need for "ethical" human challenge studies.
That latter means "ethically" intentionally infecting test subjects with various viruses to see what happens.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 17, 2021 02:45 AM (Mzdiz)
Fauci is at Bond villain levels of megalomania now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 17, 2021 02:53 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at December 17, 2021 03:03 AM (Adlwz)
Posted by: Braenyard, in the yard at December 17, 2021 01:17 AM (xcd1u)
Always bet on black
Posted by: Passenger 57 at December 17, 2021 03:08 AM (+I6Y/)
(sips coffee)
Posted by: Puddleglum at December 17, 2021 03:11 AM (sAmhv)
So now, saying something rather benign about ppl backstabbing, is "losing one's sh!t"
Gotta love it.
Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2021 03:13 AM (dB4Iz)
Posted by: Puddleglum at December 17, 2021 03:15 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Weirddave
"The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya." Yes, it's a good story. Arguably the best t.v. anime of the '00s. Certainly the one that generated the most buzz; it made Kyoto Animation a household name. The story is "unique" enough that any description would be a spoiler, though.
Check it out? It's probably not the best show to start with, but if you're familiar with anime, it's worth a watch.
It's not hentai. It's based on a series of "light novels," so it's also not manga.
Posted by: mikeski at December 17, 2021 03:19 AM (P1f+c)
Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2021 03:26 AM (2JoB8)
Posted by: Puddleglum at December 17, 2021 03:28 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2021 03:29 AM (2JoB8)
Posted by: m at December 17, 2021 03:33 AM (SWrJu)
Is that a play on "Throw the Oak Ridge Boys in the Slammer" (Austin Lounge Lizards)?
Posted by: m at December 17, 2021 03:35 AM (SWrJu)
Posted by: m at December 17, 2021 03:40 AM (SWrJu)
Roll up the drop cloth and put it out at the curb.
Posted by: klaftern at December 17, 2021 03:40 AM (taPSh)
Ride our bikes without helmets
Play football, hockey, basketball and baseball in the local schoolyard, on concrete. Neighborhood teams, no refs or coaches, hardly any protective equipment. The helicopter parents of today would have collective strokes.
Posted by: Midnight Rambler at December 17, 2021 03:41 AM (8E8Am)
Sledding on the snowy streets. Hooky-bobbing when we got older.
Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2021 03:57 AM (dB4Iz)
It was during the Clinton years, second term. A bunch of us got a tour to Ft. Marcy Park from the guy who reported Vince Fosters body. He then lead us thru the woods to the back of the Saudi Embassy's residence. It was creepy. He suggested the Saudi's did Bill "a solid".
Posted by: Paladin at December 17, 2021 07:25 AM (qbMFd)
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