Monday Overnight Open Thread (8/7/23)

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Weekly commenter stats for week of 8-6-2023

Top 10 commenters:
1 [489 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir' [68.62 posts/day]
2 [489 comments] 'Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)'
3 [374 comments] 'Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden'
4 [335 comments] 'whig'
5 [333 comments] 'Skip'
6 [318 comments] 'Puddinhead'
7 [317 comments] 'Warai-otoko'
8 [315 comments] 'Aetius451AD Work Laptop'
9 [309 comments] 'REDACTED'
10 [303 comments] 'Bulgaroctonus '

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [87 names] 'Miklos gets along well with the Locals' [12.21 unique names/day]
2 [78 names] 'Quarter Twenty '
3 [54 names] 'Matter matters '
4 [51 names] 'Doensn't. '
5 [50 names] 'Duncanthrax'
6 [46 names] 'Deplorable Ian Galt'
7 [42 names] 'Moron Analyst'
8 [41 names] 'Senor Grandpa'
9 [40 names] '18-1'
10 [40 names] 'Moon Dog'

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Oh my. Someone did not have a very good day.

‘Help me, Jesus!’: Snake falls out of sky, lands on woman, then both attacked by a hawk
‘Help me, Jesus!’ is all Peggy Jones could think to say during the snake/hawk attack.

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I
“The senior prom was like 6 years ago, bro! It’s over! It’s over, bro. You still trying to be the prom queen. It’s a wrap. You took that money. He pop [sic] up this time every year. We know you can throw the ball, bro.” That is, as they say, gonna leave a mark. Former NFL player,Terence Garvin

Quote II
“We witnessed the murder of a young man at the hands of another young man that had gone through the family court Raise the Age process and was a beneficiary there at a minimum of three times.” Albany DA David Soares

Quote III
“women’s tennis is turning into a laughing stock because of these terrible policies prioritizing the mental health and identity of men over women who have discovered a love of tennis.” Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) founder Kim Shasby Jones

Quote IV
"I really think that is regrettable, and I wish that wasn’t happening right now," American Library Association President Emily Drabinski

Quote V
"I don’t believe we have enough police staffing, and with events like last night we see that we truly have an issue here," Councilman Mike Barbanica

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Just a guess on my part. There will be no need to bring up President Trump at this next family reunion to make it interesting.

Two Florida men are facing charges after authorities accused him of throwing an explosive device into his father's home. The Volusia Sheriff's Office said the explosion happened on June 24 at a home on Covington Drive in Deltona.
Deputies allege Christopher Cruz Ayala and his friend Jason Smith used a bottle of Don Juli Tequila, a firework, and copper foil to create the bomb. The men then tossed the explosive device through the front bedroom window of the home of Ayala's father, according to the sheriff's office. No injuries were reported.
Officials learned the fire happened because Ayala got into a dispute with his father for dating his incarcerated brother's girlfriend.

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Oh goody. Harry's Razors is "socially-minded".

‘It’s Harry’s turn’: Harry’s Razors features trans ‘man’ with double mastectomy scars in ad
Harry’s Razors may have just cut its own metaphorical throat with a new ad that features a topless biological “trans man” woman with enormous double-mastectomy scars celebrating her first Pride “with facial hair.”

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One cannot waive its magic wand to make the green energy appear? Shocked I am.

UK offshore wind at ‘tipping point’ as funding crisis threatens industry
Industry figures warn climate crisis goals cannot be met unless government pumps more money into renewables

Britain faces being left with no hope of meeting its crucial climate crisis goals and losing its status as a world leader in offshore wind energy without an urgent overhaul of government support, ministers are being warned.
The sudden halting of one of the country’s biggest offshore windfarm projects last month could signal a “tipping point” in the construction of new sites unless ministers intervene, a number of senior energy industry figures told the Observer.
Rain clouds gather behind four wind turbines in the Kelmarsh wind farm next to the A14 dual carriageway in Northamptonshire
Sunak U-turn on wind farms in England draws wrath of green Tories
Read more
They warn that a swathe of new projects, which Britain is relying on to meet key climate targets, could also become economically unviable under the existing regime. While the industry has been hit by huge price inflationary pressures, it warns that the government has failed to adjust the scheme that guarantees the price it is paid for energy.
“If the government doesn’t do something, there’s a very real risk that, come September, just before party conferences, the story won’t just be about getting rid of the ‘green crap’ – it’ll be about failing to deliver on the projects they’ve already said that they wanted,” said one industry insider.

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Do you enjoy drinking Mai Tais? If you do, The ONT Is Always Looking Out For You^TM

What’s not to love about the Mai Tai? The simple concoction of full-flavored rum, lime juice, almond orgeat syrup, and orange curaçao, smartly garnished with lime and mint, is a crowd-pleaser. It’s tart, fruity, a bit nutty, rum-forward and undeniably refreshing. The Mai Tai is the perfect drink for a hot summer day poolside and is almost synonymous with a tropical vacation.
This delightful and unassuming drink has somehow found itself at the center of a small but very devoted following. The near-religious fervor for the drink has even led some adherents to devote their life to the search for the ultimate Mai Tai. Others pore over old cocktail guides and historical documents. They treat menus from long-shuttered bars like ancient texts to be deciphered. All are trying to glean some sort of hidden knowledge about the cocktail, its history and the legendary rum at the heart of its creation. If these devotees were wearing hooded robes instead of Hawaiian shirts and Panama hats, there would be no mistaking this loosely-knit group for what they are: a cult.

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As an evangelical Christian I am somewhat versed in the Sacrament of Baptism. There is a new take on it now by our Genius Award Winner.

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (WMBB) — A Georgia man who broke into a Panama City Beach church had an unusual encounter in the baptismal, Bay County Sheriff’s deputies said.
Derek Porter used a cinderblock to smash a window at the Emerald Beach Church of God on Alf Coleman Road and get inside Friday morning. A woman working in the church heard the sound and fled, deputies added.

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Should the need of a small minority outweigh the business philosophy of an airline carrier?

A woman with a severe nut allergy bought every single packet of peanuts on a Eurowingsflight after she claims cabin crew “ignored” her request not to serve them.
Leah Williams, 27, said she spent £144 buying up all 48 packets of nuts onboard, costing almost three times the price of the £50 airfare she’d paid to travel from London to Dusseldorf.
Ms Williams asked flight attendants to alert other passengers to her allergy and request that they not buy or consume any nuts onboard, she told The Mirror, but crew allegedly refused.
In response, the design firm worker from Hampshire says she asked to buy every packet of nuts they had and bagged them up.
“The stewards looked at me blankly like I was crazy and said, ‘But there is a lot, we’ll have to count them all.’ I said, ‘Please do count them and I will pay for them all, seeing as you have left me with no choice,’” she said.

“Eurowings should be ashamed of how they handled this situation and for the way they made me feel.”
Ms Williams said she is requesting a refund for the nuts she purchased from the airline.

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Forcing workers back to the office may be backfiring: Flexible workplaces are hiring talent twice as fast as those requiring full-time attendance

Two years into the return-to-office battle, and it’s becoming apparent that its staunchest supporters are facing headwinds.
Employers following in the footsteps of Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan by mandating a full-time office return may be inadvertently making themselves unattractive to job seekers, new research shows.
According to an analysis of more than 4,500 companies by Scoop, a software firm that tracks workplace policies, and People Data Labs, a data technology company, companies with remote or hybrid policies appear to be hiring people at about twice the rate of those requiring full-time attendance.
The research, or The Flex Index July 2023 Job Growth Report, maintains that some form of flexible work is the only way forward for workplaces that want to keep a competitive edge in the current tight labor market.

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The ONT Musical Interlude & Mepps No. 3 Spinner Emporium

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No word how long you will be on the trails before it runs out of juice.

Why stop at a 4×4 when you can spring for an 8×8?
Finnish company 18 Wheels say they have developed and produced a unique patented suspension for the so-called “eco ATV” that utilizes 18 wheels so as not to overly disturb the soil underneath it.
“Our ATV does not destroy the soil, is safe for nature, and has a significantly better dynamic performance and cross-country ability than any ATV,” said the company, ensuring any doubters that this machine is not a party piece.

No thank you. I'll keep my ICE ATV.

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:00 PM

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1 Yay, Beach Party Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 07, 2023 10:00 PM (Bd6X8)

2 Yes!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 07, 2023 10:00 PM (hOUT3)

3 xxx

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 07, 2023 10:00 PM (mvzCn)

4 top 10?

Posted by: TecumsehTea at August 07, 2023 10:00 PM (JrYM1)

5 Darn it Blanco, you have ruined my Monday and dashed my dreams, yet again!

But congrats anyway!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 07, 2023 10:01 PM (hOUT3)

6 Top 10 > Top Men.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornia at August 07, 2023 10:01 PM (QGaXH)

7 NOOD duties have been performed.

Howdy Mis Hum!

Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2023 10:01 PM (yUjc0)

8 Thank you all for coming. Now for my prepared remarks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 10:01 PM (bQKgA)

9 Greetings Everyone! Yay ONT! Thank you Mis Hum

Now on to content......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornia at August 07, 2023 10:02 PM (QGaXH)

10 Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2023 10:01 PM (yUjc0)

Hiya Doof

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at August 07, 2023 10:02 PM (aA3+G)

11 Whee Doggies!

Posted by: Fastly Strokewater - Backstroking. Barely. at August 07, 2023 10:03 PM (gWAUD)

12 According to an analysis of more than 4,500 companies by Scoop, a software firm that tracks workplace policies, and People Data Labs, a data technology company, companies with remote or hybrid policies appear to be hiring people at about twice the rate of those requiring full-time attendance.

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I other words, allowing remote work lets you rapidly lard up your payroll with layabouts and losers.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 10:04 PM (bQKgA)

13 Harry's can go horsefuck. So sick of pandering to these mentally ill freaks. Just FOAD already!

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 07, 2023 10:04 PM (mvzCn)

14 10th?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 07, 2023 10:05 PM (xTRSc)

15 *snake shrug* We got a little too rowdy and they kicked us off mid-flight.

Posted by: Snakes On A Plane at August 07, 2023 10:05 PM (Xrfse)

16 Damn. Read the content.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 07, 2023 10:06 PM (xTRSc)

17 A woman with a severe nut allergy bought every single packet of peanuts on a Eurowingsflight after she claims cabin crew “ignored” her request not to serve them.

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This is what's known as a "seller's market."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 10:06 PM (bQKgA)

18 So, snakes just fall out of the sky in Texas?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2023 10:06 PM (ZLI7S)

19 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2023 10:06 PM (QG3cQ)

20 Hiya Doof
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at August 07, 2023 10:02 PM (aA3+G)

On a morning thread today, while discussing that purple haired soccer fool, someone mentioned Mia Hamm. I got a good chuckle thinking about your TX MoMe name tag!

Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2023 10:06 PM (yUjc0)

21 Yo Doof!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 07, 2023 10:06 PM (hOUT3)

22 A woman with a severe nut allergy bought every single packet of peanuts on a Eurowingsflight after she claims cabin crew “ignored” her request not to serve them.

Peanuts aren't nuts.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 10:07 PM (VQo8k)

23 ‘Help me, Jesus!’ is all Peggy Jones could think to say during the snake/hawk attack.

When the SHTF, there really isn't a better prayer.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2023 10:07 PM (QG3cQ)

24 Hey, Doof is here. Hey, Brother!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 07, 2023 10:07 PM (xTRSc)

25 As far as remote work goes, my own field is well-situated to take advantage of that. Many of my colleagues at the institutional mothership don't work there. They work from home or from the satellite campuses close to where they live.

If/when I ever lose my job, then I'll definitely be looking for a remote work option. Saves me A LOT of money in moving costs, obviously, as well as alleviates the stress of relocating to a strange place. And I can probably save the institution money since the cost of living here is pretty low, so I don't need to demand a top salary.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2023 10:07 PM (BpYfr)

26 My work went hybrid with full-time WFH if supervisor approved last year. My group has been burned with a new hire not wanting to work on what WE needed, so they are imposing hybrid, must be in office 2 or 3 days a week on new hires, to make it easier to supervise and redirect if the newbie is going off on a tangent from what is needed. The latest new hire is supposed to help reduce my workload, so it may be interesting. Hopefully they like the group and and work and don't get huffy about having to come in when I am 100% WFH.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 07, 2023 10:08 PM (3cGpq)

27 Don't know where that river is that is pictured, but it's going on my list of 'Will not be paddled'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2023 10:08 PM (FSo+R)

28 Bulgaroctonus! Hrothgar! Howdy to you both!

Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2023 10:08 PM (yUjc0)

29 19 Hey, Antonius Petrus!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 07, 2023 10:08 PM (xTRSc)

30 Allergy Chick: "I want to buy your nuts."

Gen. Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 10:09 PM (bQKgA)

31 Darn it Blanco, you have ruined my Monday and dashed my dreams, yet again!

But congrats anyway!

Thanks, it's just a thing I do.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 07, 2023 10:09 PM (Bd6X8)

32 Marxist ALA President Emily Drabinski does not look at all like I expected

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 07, 2023 10:10 PM (vHIgi)

33 Ms Williams said she is requesting a refund for the nuts she purchased from the airline.

"Nuts"
- Zombie General Anthony McAuliffe USA

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2023 10:10 PM (QG3cQ)

34 Allergy Chick: "Yes. That's what I said. Your nuts."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 10:10 PM (bQKgA)

35 I don’t see the problem. A nutty woman with a nut allergy bought all the nuts.

Since I’m allergic to nutty people, I would have asked that she be placed on another flight to prevent my allergies from flaring up..,,

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 07, 2023 10:10 PM (oGiDo)

36 27 Don't know where that river is that is pictured, but it's going on my list of 'Will not be paddled'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2023 10:08 PM (FSo+R)

Class VI rapids?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 07, 2023 10:10 PM (hOUT3)

37 Thanks for the dandy ONT, Mis Hum!

Great photo up top.

After reading about the son tossing an explosive device in his father's house, I am grateful for the family that I have!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 07, 2023 10:10 PM (iR1lM)

38 DeSantis dismisses Trump 2020 claims: ‘Of course he lost’
“While inside, Porter caused approximately $8,000 worth of damage to the church. Porter then loaded several electronics including a television and a computer into his truck along with the church’s money bag,” deputies wrote.

Ummm....

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2023 10:10 PM (eOEVl)

39
In other words, allowing remote work lets you rapidly lard up your payroll with layabouts and losers.
Posted by: Cicero
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Yeah, curious that it would require ~twice as many people.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2023 10:10 PM (FSo+R)

40 Bought a 4 pack of disposable Harry's razors at Walmart a month ago. Won't be buying any more of them.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2023 10:11 PM (63Dwl)

41 27 Don't know where that river is that is pictured, but it's going on my list of 'Will not be paddled'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2023 10:08 PM (FSo+R)

So glad you enjoy your work!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 07, 2023 10:11 PM (hOUT3)

42 27 my list of ‘Will not be paddled.’

Let me tell ya about Martha’s Vineyard…

Posted by: The Late Obama Chef at August 07, 2023 10:11 PM (xTRSc)

43 37 Thanks for the dandy ONT, Mis Hum!

Great photo up top.

After reading about the son tossing an explosive device in his father's house, I am grateful for the family that I have!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 07, 2023 10:10 PM (iR1lM)

That's not what you said at Thanksgiving Dinner

Posted by: Legally Sufficient's Sisters In Law at August 07, 2023 10:12 PM (aA3+G)

44 Yo! Big B!!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2023 10:12 PM (QG3cQ)

45 >>>Finnish company 18 Wheels say they have developed and produced a unique patented suspension for the so-called “eco ATV” that utilizes 18 wheels so as not to overly disturb the soil underneath it.

Only 18? Bastards! Why not 100 of them. If you really cared, it would be 100.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 07, 2023 10:12 PM (klJTj)

46 Peanuts aren’t nuts

What are DEEZ?

Posted by: The Late Obama Chef at August 07, 2023 10:13 PM (xTRSc)

47 The Horde Mind - it's a beautiful thing!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2023 10:13 PM (QG3cQ)

48 That 18-wheeler ATV: let me see it back up over a fallen log that's just 6" off the ground.

If you are going with that many little bogie wheels, may as well wrap a set of tracks around them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 10:13 PM (VQo8k)

49 How does other passengers eating nuts affect the allergic snowflake?

Posted by: butch at August 07, 2023 10:13 PM (cHvOo)

50 Prepare for President Kameltoe Harris!

Even Obama can't stop it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9GqCVQ_87TM

The Biden administration should be hearing the beating of the wings of the Angel of Death.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 07, 2023 10:13 PM (FVME7)

51 31 41

Nuts

Thanks, it's just a thing I do.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

So glad you enjoy your work!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 07, 2023 10:13 PM (hOUT3)

52 I like Mai Tais, but to make them properly, you need to make your own orgeat (almond syrup) and grenadine (pomegranate syrup). That's a lot of work.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2023 10:14 PM (eOEVl)

53 Off, late chef sock

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 07, 2023 10:14 PM (xTRSc)

54 Officials learned the fire happened because Ayala got into a dispute with his father for dating his incarcerated brother's girlfriend.

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*?*
Ambiguous antecedent. Who was dating the girl, father or son?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2023 10:14 PM (SbsCg)

55 Who on the marketing team at Harry's Razors saw what happened to Bud Light snd then decided, "you know, this would be a great time to feature a mutilated tranny chick in our ads"?

HEINERSCHEID!!!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 10:14 PM (bQKgA)

56 While inside a BCSO K9 “decides to beat the heat and cool off in the baptismal,” deputies wrote

Uhhhh... Pretty sure that'd be a disqualifying incident for a service dog. Not sure about K9 dogs, but I would imagine they have the same standards, possibly even stricter.

Posted by: pookysgirl, fresh off of recertification at August 07, 2023 10:15 PM (dtlDP)

57 How does other passengers eating nuts affect the allergic snowflake?
Posted by: butch at August 07, 2023 10:13 PM (cHvOo)
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The tiniest amount of peanut dust can set them off, I suppose.

Of course, the simple answer for this lady is, WEAR A MASK! (or three!) This is one instance where a mask might do some good.

If a mask will keep you safe from COVID, surely it will also prevent peanut dust from tickling your delicate nose hairs.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2023 10:15 PM (BpYfr)

58 How does other passengers eating nuts affect the allergic snowflake?
Posted by: butch

HA! That's the thing. It doesn't matter how it affects her - rather, she wants to impose her beliefs on others.

There's a lot of that going around these days.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2023 10:15 PM (QG3cQ)

59 Harry’s Razors features trans ‘man’ with double mastectomy scars in ad

Amazing. The fascist corporate shills keep turning up the rainbow heat. There's something going on here that I just don't quite grok. One might call it corporate suicide but why?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 07, 2023 10:16 PM (Xrfse)

60 Only 18? Bastards! Why not 100 of them. If you really cared, it would be 100.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous

Or 1000. Call it the Millipede.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 07, 2023 10:16 PM (FVME7)

61 "How much for your gluten? We want to buy it."

Posted by: Jake Blues at August 07, 2023 10:16 PM (bQKgA)

62 56 While inside a BCSO K9 “decides to beat the heat and cool off in the baptismal,” deputies wrote

Uhhhh... Pretty sure that'd be a disqualifying incident for a service dog. Not sure about K9 dogs, but I would imagine they have the same standards, possibly even stricter.
Posted by: pookysgirl, fresh off of recertification at August 07, 2023 10:15 PM (dtlDP)

De-SNACK the PD K9s.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at August 07, 2023 10:16 PM (aA3+G)

63 Ambiguous antecedent. Who was dating the girl, father or son?
Posted by: Mike Hammer

I going to go with 'Yes'.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2023 10:17 PM (QG3cQ)

64 >>Peanuts aren't nuts.

A legume allergy just sounds gay.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2023 10:17 PM (ZLI7S)

65 How does other passengers eating nuts affect the allergic snowflake?
Posted by: butch

HA! That's the thing. It doesn't matter how it affects her - rather, she wants to impose her beliefs on others.

Even if it did affect her, it isn't like it's a big secret that they serve peanuts on airplanes. She could have asked if they were being served, and if so, taken another flight, or just not flown. This is pure petulance.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2023 10:18 PM (eOEVl)

66 Good evening MisHum.

Great mystery click (brings back HS memories).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 07, 2023 10:18 PM (R16B6)

67
If/when I ever lose my job, then I'll definitely be looking for a remote work option. Saves me A LOT of money in moving costs, obviously, as well as alleviates the stress of relocating to a strange place. And I can probably save the institution money since the cost of living here is pretty low, so I don't need to demand a top salary.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2023 10:07 PM (BpYfr)

Best thing is, you won't need to wear any pants! So we won't need to on the Book Thread either.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2023 10:18 PM (Angsy)

68 "Leah Williams, 27, said she spent £144 buying up all 48 packets of nuts onboard, costing almost three times the price of the £50 airfare she’d paid to travel from London to Dusseldorf."

She flew to Dusseldorf for $64? And it included a snack?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 07, 2023 10:19 PM (z+89e)

69 I mean, if you are so allergic to nuts that the potential for nut dust in the air to be lethal to you, maybe you should arrange for alternate, private transport.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2023 10:19 PM (up/3i)

70 “Our ATV does not destroy the soil,
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Well, that's not much of a claim. It would be a lot more interesting if it DID claim to 'destroy the soil'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2023 10:19 PM (WTJmT)

71 Peanuts aren't nuts.

A legume allergy just sounds gay.

You could say goober peas, but that just sounds like you're eating boogers.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2023 10:19 PM (eOEVl)

72 Greetings, fellow Trads-

Fun parody of "Try That" from Restore DC Catholicism:
https://tinyurl.com/bdf5tvfv

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at August 07, 2023 10:20 PM (hAfUZ)

73 I mean, if you are so allergic to nuts that the potential for nut dust in the air to be lethal to you, maybe you should arrange for alternate, private transport.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Mask...a mask would have solved the problem. I'm betting that she is an inveterate mask wearer.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2023 10:20 PM (WTJmT)

74 Even if it did affect her, it isn't like it's a big secret that they serve peanuts on airplanes.

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I thought everyone switched to pretzels.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 10:20 PM (bQKgA)

75 Ms Williams said she is requesting a refund for the nuts she purchased from the airline.

Eat deez nutz, bitch.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 07, 2023 10:20 PM (Xrfse)

76 How does other passengers eating nuts affect the allergic snowflake?
Posted by: butch at August 07, 2023 10:13 PM (cHvOo)

She's allergic to being ignored.

Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2023 10:21 PM (Ed8Zd)

77 Finished changing up all of the switches, outlets and plates.

Next up, door knobs and other assorted hardware.

I need a Gimlet or three.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2023 10:21 PM (up/3i)

78 Thx MisHum, evening all. Soares, the Albany county DA was I believe Soros' first DA who he sponsored. He's a liberal but he is rational and he recognizes that the 18 yr old rule is idiocy. Albany has had several other murders committed by utes and they quickly are recycled.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2023 10:21 PM (po2eO)

79 54

The cop's fb post says :
"The motive for the arson was determined to be a family dispute over a relationship Ayala was having with his brother’s girlfriend during his brother’s incarceration in Seminole County."

So the son was dating the brother's gf

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 07, 2023 10:21 PM (vHIgi)

80 A legume allergy just sounds gay

Bastard.

Posted by: Heather Mills McCartney at August 07, 2023 10:22 PM (xTRSc)

81 Mask...a mask would have solved the problem. I'm betting that she is an inveterate mask wearer.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2023 10:20 PM (WTJmT)

Anyone with an allergy that severe to a common food item should wear a respirator, and pack a sack full of Epi-pens.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 10:23 PM (VQo8k)

82 Mask...a mask would have solved the problem. I'm betting that she is an inveterate mask wearer.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2023 10:20 PM (WTJmT)

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Mollusk?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 10:23 PM (bQKgA)

83 76 How does other passengers eating nuts affect the allergic snowflake?
Posted by: butch at August 07, 2023 10:13 PM (cHvOo)

She's allergic to being ignored.
Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2023 10:21 PM (Ed8Zd)

Where does one with peanut allergy rank in the vegan,crossfit..etc?

Posted by: a dude in MI at August 07, 2023 10:23 PM (+I6Y/)

84 Obama’s let’s go branden rally >>>

Having never been heckled like that in his gilded life, Generalissimo Obama was on the edge of having a full on Tiananmen Square meltdown.

The hell, that goes on loop to lull me to sleep tonight

Posted by: 13times at August 07, 2023 10:24 PM (IGmai)

85 She flew to Dusseldorf for $64? And it included a snack?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 07, 2023 10:19 PM (z+89e)

I sit corrected. The snack was extra. Now wtf are we paying for?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 07, 2023 10:24 PM (z+89e)

86 As of 3:00 today, I'm officially a grandma!

Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2023 10:24 PM (Ed8Zd)

87 Greetings, fellow Trads-

Fun parody of "Try That" from Restore DC Catholicism:
https://tinyurl.com/bdf5tvfv
Posted by: sal

Heh. At my previous parish, the Priest one Sunday yelled at a communicant when he knelt. The next Sunday, a dozen or so knelt. He refused the Eucharist to them. The week following 50 or more, well, you get the idea. The priest gave it up on week four. Asshole.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2023 10:24 PM (QG3cQ)

88 Best thing is, you won't need to wear any pants! So we won't need to on the Book Thread either.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2023 10:18 PM (Angsy)
----
You seem to be operating under the delusion that I wear pants to the office...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2023 10:24 PM (BpYfr)

89 Mask...a mask would have solved the problem. I'm betting that she is an inveterate mask wearer.

For some reason I read that as "invertebrate mask wearer."

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 07, 2023 10:25 PM (Bd6X8)

90 As of 3:00 today, I'm officially a grandma!
Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2023 10:24 PM (Ed8Zd)

You want some blue rinse for your hair? A walker?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 10:25 PM (VQo8k)

91 As of 3:00 today, I'm officially a grandma!

Congratulations!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 07, 2023 10:25 PM (Bd6X8)

92 Our local NextDoor is all aflame about violin fraud. Apparently, there is a faux busker in town fingersyncing playing the violin but actually it's recorded music. Apparently, this is sweeping the country. Doesn't seem to me to rank with the Babi Yar Massacre but NextDoor is all upset about it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 07, 2023 10:26 PM (FVME7)

93 Congrats Grandma!! There is nothing like being a Grandparent. I am so happy for you and your family.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2023 10:26 PM (QG3cQ)

94 As of 3:00 today, I'm officially a grandma!
Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2023 10:24 PM (Ed8Zd)
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Congrats!

Better warm up that oven and start baking cookies...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2023 10:26 PM (BpYfr)

95 As of 3:00 today, I'm officially a grandma!
Posted by: LASue
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Has the baby selected a gender yet? ;-)

Congrats Grandma!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2023 10:26 PM (gJagN)

96 For some reason I read that as "invertebrate mask wearer."
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 07, 2023 10:25 PM (Bd6X

Mitt Romney: inveterate invertebrate. He's never had a spine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 10:27 PM (VQo8k)

97 Congrats LASue!

Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2023 10:27 PM (yUjc0)

98 90 As of 3:00 today, I'm officially a grandma!
Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2023 10:24 PM (Ed8Zd)

You want some blue rinse for your hair? A walker?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 10:25 PM (VQo8k)

Blue hairs usually hit the restaurant around 4:30..friendly reminder

Posted by: a dude in MI at August 07, 2023 10:27 PM (+I6Y/)

99 LASue, congrats!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 07, 2023 10:27 PM (vHIgi)

100 LASue -- congrats. Being a grandparent is the best. I often say we should have had the grandkids first . . .

Posted by: TecumsehTea at August 07, 2023 10:27 PM (JrYM1)

101 Congrats, LASue!

Hope your cookie-making skills are up to the challenge!

Posted by: Heather Mills McCartney at August 07, 2023 10:27 PM (xTRSc)

102 86 As of 3:00 today, I'm officially a grandma!
Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2023 10:24 PM (Ed8Zd)

Congrats! Now spoil the grandchild with gusto!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at August 07, 2023 10:28 PM (aA3+G)

103 Blue hairs usually hit the restaurant around 4:30..friendly reminder
Posted by: a dude

Well yeah! Earlybird Special are over at 5:00pm.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2023 10:28 PM (QG3cQ)

104 86 As of 3:00 today, I'm officially a grandma!
Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2023 10:24 PM (Ed8Zd)

---------

Can I interest you in some velcro-closure sneakers?

*congratulations*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 10:28 PM (bQKgA)

105

Snakes fall down from the sky
Everytime. You walk by.

Posted by: Zombie Karen Carpenter at August 07, 2023 10:28 PM (63Dwl)

106 How does other passengers eating nuts affect the allergic snowflake?
Posted by: butch

She might hear them and the rule is no fun aloud.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 07, 2023 10:28 PM (FVME7)

107 After reading about the son tossing an explosive device in his father's house, I am grateful for the family that I have!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 07, 2023 10:10 PM (iR1lM)

That's not what you said at Thanksgiving Dinner
Posted by: Legally Sufficient's Sisters In Law at August 07, 2023 10:12 PM (aA3+G)
* * * *
*SNORT*

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 07, 2023 10:28 PM (iR1lM)

108 59
'One might call it corporate suicide but why?'

I share your confusion. There are no more self interested entities than corporations. Yet here they are pushing something as grossly unpopular as trans-ism.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 07, 2023 10:29 PM (roH4R)

109 "40 Bought a 4 pack of disposable Harry's razors at Walmart a month ago. Won't be buying any more of them.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr."
********
I buy the drug store or supermarket generics with the handle and half a dozen or so blade cartridges. Never had a problem and cost less than 10 bucks a year.

Posted by: Cosda at August 07, 2023 10:29 PM (cxidI)

110
Mitt Romney: inveterate invertebrate. He's never had a spine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 10:27 PM (VQo8k)

I thought it was spelled "slug"

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at August 07, 2023 10:29 PM (aA3+G)

111 Congratulations!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 07, 2023 10:29 PM (FVME7)

112 Didn’t Harry’s Razors already come out as a woke company a few years ago? Or was that another mail order razor company?

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2023 10:29 PM (MNhXM)

113 Legu, legume…

— Lionel Ritchie

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 07, 2023 10:29 PM (xTRSc)

114 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at August 07, 2023 10:16 PM (aA3+G)

NO TREATS FOR YOU!

Posted by: pookysgirl, turning into the Treat Nazi at August 07, 2023 10:29 PM (dtlDP)

115 Snakes fall down from the sky
Everytime. You walk by.
Posted by: Zombie Karen Carpenter at August 07, 2023 10:28 PM (63Dwl)

Snakes come out of the sky,

And they stand there.

Posted by: Not Yes, but maybe. at August 07, 2023 10:29 PM (VQo8k)

116 Mitt Romney: inveterate invertebrate. He's never had a spine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Related to Lisa Lubener's Dad?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2023 10:30 PM (QG3cQ)

117 86 As of 3:00 today, I'm officially a grandma!
Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2023 10:24 PM (Ed8Zd)

Congrats to you LASue!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornia at August 07, 2023 10:30 PM (QGaXH)

118 The White House is apparently going to push for Federal workers to return to the office in September and October. Many only come in for one day per pay period now, if that. Many have moved from DC and probably not happy to return. Guessing nothing will happen soon (public employee unions, etc.) but you can we're heading towards an election!

Posted by: TRex at August 07, 2023 10:30 PM (IQ6Gq)

119 40 Bought a 4 pack of disposable Harry's razors at Walmart a month ago. Won't be buying any more of them.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I had a 'plan' that sent them..cancelled as soon as I heard

Posted by: a dude in MI at August 07, 2023 10:30 PM (+I6Y/)

120 You seem to be operating under the delusion that I wear pants to the office...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2023 10:24 PM (BpYfr)

(thinks) Perfessor's not saying "something" is he?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2023 10:30 PM (Angsy)

121 They warn that a swathe of new projects, which Britain is relying on to meet key climate targets, could also become economically unviable under the existing regime.

It gets better - Britain kept a couple of old coal plants operational as an emergency reserve - I think last summer they were turned on five times, and actually served load once.

They emitted almost no CO2, of course, because they were almost never on, but they were the last line of defense against a blackout.

Naturally, they were shut down before this summer, because they were eviiillll coal plants, with no replacement.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 07, 2023 10:30 PM (2tUFv)

122 The work from home thing is interesting.

From an employee perspective getting an extra hour or 2 a day from not commuting is worth a lot of money...let alone the money saved on work clothes, lunch at a restaurant, and gas.

From an employer perspective you lose some ability to monitor employees if they work from home.

I think the "socialize in the office" thing is overrated since I've seen that work...and fail spectacularly.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2023 10:31 PM (lc5cP)

123
As of 3:00 today, I'm officially a grandma!
Posted by: LASue

Hey Grandma, you're so young

https://youtu.be/jdI7uqCBKd0

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2023 10:31 PM (63Dwl)

124 Victoria Nuland, the Angel of Death, flew into Niger to explain to the new Niger government that they had engaged in an Unapproved Coup.  

Amusingly, she was not allowed to meet with either the new president of Niger or the old president (who is under house arrest).  

She described the new Niger government as "Putschists".

Curiously, when there was a coup against the elected democratic government in Ukraine in 2014, she did not describe the Ukrainian coup plotters as "Putschists".  

I wonder what the difference is...

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 07, 2023 10:32 PM (2tUFv)

125 112 Didn’t Harry’s Razors already come out as a woke company a few years ago? Or was that another mail order razor company?
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2023 10:29 PM (MNhXM)

Seems most corp's are eager to get their woke on and tell you all about it.

Posted by: a dude in MI at August 07, 2023 10:32 PM (+I6Y/)

126 Mother: Cookie-making skills
Wife: Sammich-making skills
Grandmother: Cookie-making skills

It’s the cycle of life.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 07, 2023 10:32 PM (xTRSc)

127 The story about the tranny suing his ex boyfriend to get his severed testicles back is even weirder than that. The tranny claims to be a Muslim. I wonder if the mosque knows. If so I assume he'll be a dent in the pavement soon enough

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2023 10:32 PM (po2eO)

128 Our local NextDoor is all aflame about violin fraud. Apparently, there is a faux busker in town fingersyncing playing the violin but actually it's recorded music. Apparently, this is sweeping the country. Doesn't seem to me to rank with the Babi Yar Massacre but NextDoor is all upset about it.

Shit's worse than The Holocaust. At least in The Holocaust they played their own violins.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 07, 2023 10:32 PM (KFhLj)

129 MH are you trying to slip in a subliminal message in your posts?

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2023 10:33 PM (MNhXM)

130 >>Snakes fall down from the sky
Everytime. You walk by.

Seriously, I want to know more about this. The article just blithely mentions a snake fell out of the sky with no explanation as if this is just something that happens all the time in Texas.

I've seen some stuff. I ain't never seen a snake fall out of the sky. Is this because of climate change?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2023 10:33 PM (ZLI7S)

131 They emitted almost no CO2, of course, because they were almost never on, but they were the last line of defense against a blackout.

Naturally, they were shut down before this summer, because they were eviiillll coal plants, with no replacement.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 07, 2023 10:30 PM (2tUFv)

Alberta has actually put the brakes on permitting new "green" energy generators, both wind and solar. Projects with permits are going ahead, but there is a pause on all new permits.

https://tinyurl.com/ykdzn9tr

Posted by: Not Yes, but maybe. at August 07, 2023 10:33 PM (VQo8k)

132 Thanks y'all!! I'm over the moon.

Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2023 10:34 PM (Ed8Zd)

133 Victoria Nuland, the Angel of Death, flew into Niger to explain to the new Niger government that they had engaged in an Unapproved Coup.  

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 07, 2023 10:32 PM (2tUFv)

Why would they let her in? And, are they going to let her out?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2023 10:34 PM (Angsy)

134 I wish I had a Harry's Razor subscription that I could cancel.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 10:34 PM (bQKgA)

135 129 MH are you trying to slip in a subliminal message in your posts?
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2023 10:33 PM (MNhXM)

I don't think so

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at August 07, 2023 10:35 PM (aA3+G)

136 I've seen some stuff. I ain't never seen a snake fall out of the sky. Is this because of climate change?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2023 10:33 PM (ZLI7S)

Had to be a hawk/eagle dropped it and came back to get it, what else could it be?

Posted by: a dude in MI at August 07, 2023 10:35 PM (+I6Y/)

137 As of 3:00 today, I'm officially a grandma!
Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2023 10:24 PM (Ed8Zd)
* * * *
Congratulations!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 07, 2023 10:35 PM (iR1lM)

138 LASue, congrats!

While you’re near the moon, go ahead and plant a Grandma flag there.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 07, 2023 10:35 PM (oGiDo)

139 Is this the wrong time to bring up GILFs?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 07, 2023 10:36 PM (KFhLj)

140 I wonder what the difference is...
Posted by: The ARC of History!! at August 07, 2023 10:32 PM (2tUFv)

10%!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 07, 2023 10:36 PM (hOUT3)

141 The traditional answer to woke politics at companies is that normal people will buy less from them, rewarding other companies that are a-political or mirror normie political views.

The problem is we don't have a capitalist system. The woke-istas are getting support from the governments of the world, and woke companies have often been given spots within what are essentially national or even international cartels.

The correct answer then is to acquire political power for conservative/normie citizens and destroy these companies. Not, temporarily revoke some of their perks. Give them the Trump treatment...you'll find something and then levy fines that will put them out of business, and this is really the important part, part the woke architects in prison.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2023 10:36 PM (lc5cP)

142 The story about the tranny suing his ex boyfriend to get his severed testicles back is even weirder than that. The tranny claims to be a Muslim. I wonder if the mosque knows. If so I assume he'll be a dent in the pavement soon enough
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2023 10:32 PM (po2eO)

Well, the muzzie dictatorship in Iran was was castrating fags, and forcing them to trans, because, if they was wimmenz, what they were doing was halal. Or something.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 10:36 PM (VQo8k)

143 I've seen some stuff. I ain't never seen a snake fall out of the sky. Is this because of climate change?

It's probably related to the alligator lizards that are in the air around Ventura Highway.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 07, 2023 10:36 PM (Bd6X8)

144 Why is Nuland titled "Acting Secretary of State"?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 07, 2023 10:37 PM (vHIgi)

145 ... since the cost of living here is pretty low ...

I never fully understood the "cost of living" being lower in one area rather than another. Is it purely dwelling expenses (structure, taxes, insurance) and nothing more?

Fuel and food often cost more in rural than urban areas because the amortization of the costs of transport and lower volume would seem to contradict the idea of living in an area with a low cost of living.

Here in ETX, my daily costs are higher than it was in CTX, but I get a lot more house for my money here than in Austin. (ERCOT electricity is a few cents a kWh more expensive than SPP)

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 07, 2023 10:37 PM (p8A+W)

146 I haven’t seen any sublim

#FJB

inal messages in the ONT

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 07, 2023 10:37 PM (oGiDo)

147 Posted by: LASue

Congrats!
Start planning how to sneak the munchkin candy now!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 07, 2023 10:38 PM (R16B6)

148 139 Is this the wrong time to bring up GILFs?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 07, 2023 10:36 PM (KFhLj)

b
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Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornia at August 07, 2023 10:38 PM (QGaXH)

149 Why would they let her in? And, are they going to let her out?

Refusing to let her meet with either the current or former president was a pretty good snub.

As someone put it:

TLDR: Victoria Nuland went to Niger, asked for the manager, was refused, and left.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 07, 2023 10:38 PM (2tUFv)

150 Had to be a hawk/eagle dropped it and came back to get it, what else could it be?
Posted by: a dude in MI at August 07, 2023 10:35 PM (+I6Y/)

Nervously scans horizon for the glint of sunlight off binocular objectives, loads another cobra into the trebuchet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 10:38 PM (VQo8k)

151 Harry's Razors is specifically called out for wokeness and hating their customers in the classic Jeremy's Razor ads.

https://tinyurl.com/42wpfxe8

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2023 10:38 PM (eOEVl)

152 Oh acting deputy ...never mind

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 07, 2023 10:38 PM (vHIgi)

153 If anyone is interested I posted my latest landscape oil painting to my website. A desert landscape.

Stuppleart.com

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2023 10:39 PM (MNhXM)

154 141
'The correct answer then is to acquire political power for conservative/normie citizens and destroy these companies. ;

Quite right. You're bloody well right.

I'm so impatient for this to happen.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 07, 2023 10:39 PM (roH4R)

155 Why is Nuland titled "Acting Secretary of State"?

Blinken's off somewhere?

Nuland just got promoted to the #2 position in the State Department.

After all, I think she has the highest body count of anyone in the State Department.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 07, 2023 10:40 PM (2tUFv)

156 Refusing to let her meet with either the current or former president was a pretty good snub.

As someone put it:

TLDR: Victoria Nuland went to Niger, asked for the manager, was refused, and left.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 07, 2023 10:38 PM (2tUFv)

Niger could have done the world a solid by arranging a tragic plane crash.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 10:40 PM (VQo8k)

157 If so I assume he'll be a dent in the pavement soon enough
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2023 10:32 PM (po2eO)

they probably have thicker concrete reinforced with rebar, or at least a steel mesh. You know, to save wear-and-tear. Also some solid underlayment, sand and gravel.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at August 07, 2023 10:41 PM (T/Lqj)

158 From an employer perspective you lose some ability to monitor employees if they work from home.

Hire better employees that don't need monitoring.

OR find ways to make them accountable to other team members. People always know who is pulling their weight and who isn't.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 07, 2023 10:41 PM (p8A+W)

159 >>Had to be a hawk/eagle dropped it and came back to get it, what else could it be?

Maybe, I don't know. Around here the deadly animals don't just fall out of the sky on us.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2023 10:41 PM (ZLI7S)

160 86 As of 3:00 today, I'm officially a grandma!
Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2023 10:24 PM (Ed8Zd)

----------

Must Haves:

Candy dish with stale ribbon candy
Clear vinyl covers on the furniture
Doilies
Tea cozy
Reverse mortgage
Housecoats, lots of them
Adorable Hummel figurines

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 10:41 PM (bQKgA)

161 I never fully understood the "cost of living" being lower in one area rather than another. Is it purely dwelling expenses (structure, taxes, insurance) and nothing more?

Posted by: Reuben Hick

For me, yes. My yearly prop taxes now are what my monthly property taxes where previously. Also, no state income taxes here - in my old AO, much of my retirement income was state taxable. My state gas taxes are also less here. I have roughly the same house sq footage for 70% of what it cost me previously.

Food may be a bit higher, but certainly not so much as to wipe out the other savings I enjoy.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2023 10:41 PM (QG3cQ)

162
Ciampino's Rescue kitties

There's another more extensive photo update #139 at the link.
Take a look if interested. Make sure to click on
"See Older Updates" as well if it's your first time.
https://is.gd/WQ5JcT

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Posted by: Ciampino -- as long as you keep the hubcaps polished at August 07, 2023 10:42 PM (qfLjt)

163 TLDR: Victoria Nuland went to Niger, asked for the manager, was refused, and left.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 07, 2023 10:38 PM (2tUFv)

Sure, but why didn't they refuse entry to the country? And why didn't they arrest her as a saboteur?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2023 10:42 PM (Angsy)

164 Stuppleart.com
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2023 10:39 PM (MNhXM)

One of those paintings just seems to be so familiar...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 07, 2023 10:42 PM (hOUT3)

165
Fuel and food often cost more in rural than urban areas because the amortization of the costs of transport and lower volume would seem to contradict the idea of living in an area with a low cost of living.

While there are variances, in my experiences suburban areas tend to have the lowest cost of living for everything outside of housing and perhaps food (where rural wins).

Space is expensive in cities and the there are taxes and regulations on everything - and you usually have to bribe the elected officials to run any kind of mid sized or above business.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2023 10:44 PM (lc5cP)

166 160 86 As of 3:00 today, I'm officially a grandma!
Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2023 10:24 PM (Ed8Zd)

----------

Must Haves:

Candy dish with stale ribbon candy
Clear vinyl covers on the furniture
Doilies
Tea cozy
Reverse mortgage
Housecoats, lots of them
Adorable Hummel figurines
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 10:41 PM (bQKgA)

It sounds if you have studied this job Cicero.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at August 07, 2023 10:44 PM (aA3+G)

167 Stuppleart.com
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2023 10:39 PM (MNhXM)

One of those paintings just seems to be so familiar...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 07, 2023 10:42 PM (hOUT3)

Hah. I hope you found the nicest corner in your closet for it. 😀

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2023 10:44 PM (MNhXM)

168 134 I wish I had a Harry's Razor subscription that I could cancel.
Posted by: Cicero

It's like boycotting Bud Light. I'd have to had drunk it first. I'll stick with my trusty electric razor. Norelco at the moment. They tend to last a while. Just change out the blades now and then.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 07, 2023 10:45 PM (sAmhv)

169 Had to be a hawk/eagle dropped it and came back to get it, what else could it be?

Maybe, I don't know. Around here the deadly animals don't just fall out of the sky on us.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2023 10:41 PM (ZLI7S)

Maybe it was from Snakes on a Plane ?

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2023 10:46 PM (MNhXM)

170 My shaving regimen involves a Braun clipper on the zero setting, and a cheap-ass Bic razor for the neck and cheeks. I do this every three or four months.

I do, however, shower regularly. Spring, summer, fall, winter.

JK. I am currently clean and sparkly. I like showering at night.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at August 07, 2023 10:46 PM (T/Lqj)

171 Amazing. The fascist corporate shills keep turning up the rainbow heat. There's something going on here that I just don't quite grok. One might call it corporate suicide but why?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 07, 2023 10:16 PM (Xrfse)

It's all about their ESG scores and pleasing their stakeholders*, not stockholders or customers or even employees.

* Stakeholders are not stockholders in the same way equity is not equality.

Posted by: RickZ at August 07, 2023 10:46 PM (emlEe)

172 The housing thing is interesting as well if you mention it to young lefty LIVs.

Point out that in the sticks they can rent for a fraction of what they are paying now, and that if they want to buy a downpayment would be much more reasonable.

Though...make sure to point out as well that Biden-flation has doubled the cost of mortgages...though they'll tell you bankers suddenly because greedy right at the same time Biden started printing all those dollars.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2023 10:46 PM (lc5cP)

173 It sounds if you have studied this job Cicero.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at August 07, 2023 10:44 PM (aA3+G)

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I have a beautiful four year-old g-baby so this is one of my many areas of expertise.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 10:47 PM (bQKgA)

174 Amazing. The fascist corporate shills keep turning up the rainbow heat. There's something going on here that I just don't quite grok. One might call it corporate suicide but why?

They aren't do it to increase market share. They don't care about market share. In Soviet America the goal of business is to advance the leftist narrative. And employees that do so will be rewarded.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2023 10:48 PM (lc5cP)

175 I moved from NY to Texas. My cost of living expense went down tremendously.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2023 10:48 PM (MNhXM)

176 I wonder where Harry's Razors firetrap factory is located?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 10:48 PM (VQo8k)

177 Shhh. Paul's trying to be erudite!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 10:49 PM (bQKgA)

178 They aren't do it to increase market share. They don't care about market share. In Soviet America the goal of business is to advance the leftist narrative. And employees that do so will be rewarded.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2023 10:48 PM (lc5cP)

Comrade Obama would approve of your reasoning Comrade 18-1!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 07, 2023 10:49 PM (hOUT3)

179 Out: Why do you wingnuts keep calling us pedos? You believe PizzaGate and the Epstein thing? Conspiracy theorists!

In: Banging 13 year olds is tight.

Posted by: The Left at August 07, 2023 10:49 PM (lc5cP)

180 MILF storage
Do they rent by the hour?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 07, 2023 10:49 PM (MeG8a)

181 FL has cancelled Shakespeare
Posted by: Paul

Link, or go back to licking windows.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 07, 2023 10:50 PM (RXV6T)

182 Posted by: Paul at August 07, 2023 10:48 PM (ybkv0)

Fortunately for you, 14 isn't too young to suck Paki trucker dick in a truckstop glory hole.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 10:50 PM (VQo8k)

183 Link, or go back to licking windows.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 07, 2023 10:50 PM (RXV6T)

Those brown things aren't windows.

Posted by: Paul's Tongue at August 07, 2023 10:51 PM (Angsy)

184 "As of 3:00 today, I'm officially a grandma!
Posted by: LASue "
****************
Grand kids are what life is about! Congratulations. Hope everyone is healthy.

Posted by: Cosda at August 07, 2023 10:51 PM (cxidI)

185 69 I mean, if you are so allergic to nuts that the potential for nut dust in the air to be lethal to you, maybe you should arrange for alternate, private transport.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2023 10:19 PM (up/3i)

. . . or just kill herself so she don't pass her defective genes on to a new generation of whiny crybabies.

I know, harsh, but I'm sick of these assholes. When did this hyper sensitivity to pretty much everything start? I don't remember hearing about nut allergies before, maybe, 1980. Now peanut butter is banned in schools because little Ezra or Paisley will die if one of their classmates opens a pack of peanut butter crackers.

Posted by: a.moron at August 07, 2023 10:51 PM (F6Xpw)

186
I have a beautiful four year-old g-baby so this is one of my many areas of expertise.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 10:47 PM (bQKgA)

Congrats. I have no doubts it is a beautiful child when it's all sugar intoxicated riding home in the parent's car

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at August 07, 2023 10:51 PM (aA3+G)

187 My razors suck. And so do I.

Posted by: Harry at August 07, 2023 10:51 PM (Xrfse)

188 Gillette had trouble a few years ago, I got curious enough to look it up. In early 2019 they ran ads based on "toxic masculinity", and had lost a lot of money by July of that year. It was attributed to competition from other brands....

One of the ads is on Tube of the You, and it was pretty bad.

Posted by: Lirio100 at August 07, 2023 10:52 PM (w/VHS)

189 Paul Reubens>> Paul Schaeffer>>> Paul

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at August 07, 2023 10:52 PM (T/Lqj)

190 159 >>Had to be a hawk/eagle dropped it and came back to get it, what else could it be?

Maybe, I don't know. Around here the deadly animals don't just fall out of the sky on us.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2023 10:41 PM (ZLI7S)

somewhere in the story, it implies that the hawk was carrying the snake, dropped it, and was pissed off that it's meal got away and wasn't gonna let the big mean human take its food.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2023 10:52 PM (S6gqv)

191 If she says she's allergic to nut dust (a) she's probably lying; and (b) should probably stop blowing mummies though just in case.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 07, 2023 10:53 PM (KFhLj)

192 Those brown things aren't windows.
Posted by: Paul's Tongue

The brown eye is the window to the soul...

Posted by: Preezy Gaylord McGayballz at August 07, 2023 10:53 PM (RXV6T)

193 I know, harsh, but I'm sick of these assholes. When did this hyper sensitivity to pretty much everything start? I don't remember hearing about nut allergies before, maybe, 1980. Now peanut butter is banned in schools because little Ezra or Paisley will die if one of their classmates opens a pack of peanut butter crackers.
Posted by: a.moron at August 07, 2023 10:51 PM (F6Xpw)

One thing is for sure, the extreme allergy sensitivity to so many common products has absolutely nothing to do with required vaccinations for infants and children!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 07, 2023 10:53 PM (hOUT3)

194 Posted by: a.moron at August 07, 2023 10:51 PM (F6Xpw)

If I'm not happy neither you should be is today's mantra.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at August 07, 2023 10:53 PM (aA3+G)

195 Is it just me, or has the quality of trolls her dropped in the last year? Tonight’s troll doesn’t seem to be trying too hard.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 07, 2023 10:54 PM (oGiDo)

196 "As of 3:00 today, I'm officially a grandma!
Posted by: LASue "

So wonderful. Blessings to you and yours.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at August 07, 2023 10:54 PM (T/Lqj)

197 I got some nuts Paul can practice being allergic to.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2023 10:55 PM (S6gqv)

198 Was it Dollar Shave Club or Harry’s that was proudly progressive?

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2023 10:55 PM (MNhXM)

199 Prolapse Paul!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2023 10:55 PM (TZ75n)

200 Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2023 10:52 PM (S6gqv)

An extra month of Cardboard Privileges for reading the story.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at August 07, 2023 10:55 PM (aA3+G)

201 @59: "One might call it corporate suicide but why?"

Underpants gnome logic. Chasing ESG loans is the quick and easy play. Then you invest all those ESG funds into something and magically grow your business. When the bill comes due, and you've got nothing to show for your work, then you feign confusion, say everyone else in big business was doing the same thing, and there was no way anyone coulda foreseen that it wouldn't be successful.

The alternative, of course, is doing the long, hard work of improving customer service, brand loyalty, unique products, supply chain management, etc., and few wanna bother doing that kinda thing, and even fewer know how to do it well.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 07, 2023 10:55 PM (k1Qly)

202 The brown eye is the window to the soul...

Posted by: Preezy Gaylord McGayballz at August 07, 2023 10:53 PM (RXV6T)

I looked into Gaylord's brown eye and knew I could do business with him.

Posted by: Tafari Campbell at August 07, 2023 10:56 PM (Angsy)

203 Nuland just got promoted to the #2 position in the State Department.

After all, I think she has the highest body count of anyone in the State Department.

Which is sort of pointless because Nuland is arguably the most powerful person on earth.

• Cheney put Nuland in a position to massively benefit Cheney's Haliburton pals
• orchestrate overthrow of governments in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and most recently Ukraine.
• ran the weapons infiltration program into Syria
• ordered the NordStream pipeline demolished
• engineered a "war" between Russia and Ukraine
• managed the utterly corrupt Oil For Food program
• boosted the "Steel Dossier"
• key person who will likely get FUSA into WW3

Name a President or a General who can get that much done and not be under impeachment, rather profit and be promoted.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 07, 2023 10:56 PM (p8A+W)

204 188 Gillette had trouble a few years ago, I got curious enough to look it up. In early 2019 they ran ads based on "toxic masculinity", and had lost a lot of money by July of that year. It was attributed to competition from other brands....

--------

P&G had bought Gillette a few years earlier. It wrote down the value of Gillette as an asset by several billion dollars, IIRC.

But it had nothing to do with Wokeness, don't you know! Market forces, inflationary pressure, facial hair trends, yada yada yada.

Just like Disney.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 10:56 PM (bQKgA)

205 195 Is it just me, or has the quality of trolls her dropped in the last year? Tonight’s troll doesn’t seem to be trying too hard.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Well, they're bots. Due to Soros sending his loot elsewhere to destroy western Civilization, these bots are being programmed by cheap labor in Bangladesh and India. You get what you pay for.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 07, 2023 10:56 PM (sAmhv)

206 I saw Prolapse Paul and the Analites open for Big head Todd and the Monsters in 94 at JLA

Posted by: a dude in MI at August 07, 2023 10:56 PM (+I6Y/)

207 Is it just me, or has the quality of trolls her dropped in the last year? Tonight’s troll doesn’t seem to be trying too hard.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Paul is trying. He's just fucking retarded.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2023 10:56 PM (TZ75n)

208 38 DeSantis dismisses Trump 2020 claims: ‘Of course he lost’
“While inside, Porter caused approximately $8,000 worth of damage to the church. Porter then loaded several electronics including a television and a computer into his truck along with the church’s money bag,” deputies wrote.

Ummm....
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2023 10:10 PM (eOEVl)

yeah I wondered about that too.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2023 10:57 PM (S6gqv)

209 Paul is trying. He's just fucking retarded.

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I suppose we shouldn't laugh about this.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 10:58 PM (bQKgA)

210 As of 3:00 today, I'm officially a grandma!
Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2023 10:24 PM (Ed8Zd)

Congratulations!!!
You're gonna love it!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2023 10:58 PM (e4fEA)

211 Tonight’s troll doesn’t seem to be trying too hard.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Prolapse Paul!
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Sounds like somebody else is busting his ass for him. Sad.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 07, 2023 10:58 PM (RXV6T)

212 somewhere in the story, it implies that the hawk was carrying the snake, dropped it, and was pissed off that it's meal got away and wasn't gonna let the big mean human take its food.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2023 10:52 PM (S6gqv)

Some friends of mine were fishing on their river bank when a good sized fish splashed into the water about twenty feet away. They were looking at each other and wondering where that big fish had come from when the local eagle dropped in and retrieved his catch!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 07, 2023 10:58 PM (hOUT3)

213 If anyone is interested I posted my latest landscape oil painting to my website. A desert landscape.

Stuppleart.com
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2023 10:39 PM (MNhXM)

That's incredible! I love art but can't even draw stick figures.

Posted by: pookysgirl, not blessed with the Art Gene at August 07, 2023 10:58 PM (dtlDP)

214 When did this hyper sensitivity to pretty much everything start?

Posted by: a.moron at August 07, 2023 10:51 PM (F6Xpw)

Once people with such allergies became victims, their status increased along with their numbers.

And I'm not easily discounting the childhood vax schedule for some of the increase.

Posted by: RickZ at August 07, 2023 10:58 PM (emlEe)

215 Love the mystery click, Mis Hum. I've always liked that song.

It wasn't until a couple years ago that I learned Lawrence Welk liked it too and had his singers do it. He was, it appears, completely unaware of the fact thatits about pot. Forgive me if someone has already posted a link to this sublime video:

https://tinyurl.com/9ncxkj2y

Posted by: 496 at August 07, 2023 10:58 PM (/rK9l)

216 Paul is trying. He's just fucking retarded.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2023 10:56 PM (TZ75n)

His head movies make his eyes rain.

Never go full retard.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at August 07, 2023 10:59 PM (T/Lqj)

217 Harcourt Fenton Mudd, your razors are dull!

Posted by: Stella at August 07, 2023 10:59 PM (63Dwl)

218 Posted by: pookysgirl, not blessed with the Art Gene at August 07, 2023 10:58 PM (dtlD

Thanks 😀

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2023 11:01 PM (MNhXM)

219 I know, harsh, but I'm sick of these assholes. When did this hyper sensitivity to pretty much everything start?

• according to RFK Jr, vaccines
• genetic entropy
• extra $$$ from Uncle Sugar for having allergies
• preservative chemicals

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 07, 2023 11:01 PM (p8A+W)

220 Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 07, 2023 11:01 PM (p8A+W)

Not just RFK Jr...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 07, 2023 11:02 PM (hOUT3)

221 The ham-stuffed chicken breast is on the grill. I just flipped it over. May have to flip it again. Not cooking real fast.

I got all the big pieces of the cut-up '63 Studebaker Lark 4-door sedan stuffed into the old Ford van on the car trailer. Did a lot off turning and flipping on the last big piece to make it set right, but I think I have it now.

Will hitch onto the trailer tomorrow, fill the van body with what loose scrap steel I have, and make a run to the scrap dealer. (makes money-rubbing motion with fingers)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 11:03 PM (VQo8k)

222 Another feel good story of the day. The NY post has a story about the hipsters and cool kids in Williamsburg, Brooklyn being upset about illegals being housed in local community centers and park facilities. Boo fucking hoo

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2023 11:03 PM (po2eO)

223 I saw Prolapse Paul and the Analites open for Big head Todd and the Monsters in 94 at JLA

Posted by: a dude in MI at August 07, 2023 10:56 PM (+I6Y/)

Were there chemical showers at the exits?

Posted by: pookysgirl gets the joke, don't worry at August 07, 2023 11:04 PM (dtlDP)

224 Pretty cool, polynikes

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2023 11:04 PM (TZ75n)

225 "Gillette had trouble a few years ago, I got curious enough to look it up. In early 2019 they ran ads based on "toxic masculinity", and had lost a lot of money by July of that year."

I was a satisfied Gillette customer for my 29ish years, until those fucking woke commercials started. No more.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 07, 2023 11:04 PM (RXV6T)

226 His head movies make his eyes rain.

*single tear rolls down cheek*

Posted by: Fake Indian at August 07, 2023 11:04 PM (KFhLj)

227 When I was a kid school lunch had peanuts on the lunch menu a couple of times a week. I was not aware of anyone with the allergy.

So either much of the peanut allergy crazy is an exaggeration - like most gluten allergies, or something has fundamentally changed either in people or peanuts in a generation.

Option 1 passes Occam's razor.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2023 11:04 PM (lc5cP)

228 Wow. Not only is this place still around and active, but I recognize so many names. Hope all is well with you all!
Is it a sin that I came back from oblivion for a visit?

Posted by: Ghost Of Chi at August 07, 2023 11:04 PM (0kWMY)

229 Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2023 10:39 PM (MNhXM)

So cool. I work mostly with pencil, charcoal and ink. Painting is something I want to expand to. More color.

Very nice.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at August 07, 2023 11:05 PM (T/Lqj)

230 It wasn't until a couple years ago that I learned Lawrence Welk liked it too and had his singers do it. He was, it appears, completely unaware of the fact thatits about pot. Forgive me if someone has already posted a link to this sublime video:

https://tinyurl.com/9ncxkj2y
Posted by: 496 at August 07, 2023 10:58 PM (/rK9l)

It's a good song, dammit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 11:06 PM (VQo8k)

231 I had a daughter who was allergic to eggs. It was a pain. Once she ended up in the ER when she had a slice of pizza. It was a large pizza, and they used 2 eggs per 24 large doughs. It's a real thing, but a pain in the ass for all involved.

Posted by: 496 at August 07, 2023 11:06 PM (bwl/U)

232 The brown eye is the window to the soul...

Word.

Posted by: Hope's Rolo at August 07, 2023 11:07 PM (Xrfse)

233 Another feel good story of the day. The NY post has a story about the hipsters and cool kids in Williamsburg, Brooklyn being upset about illegals being housed in local community centers and park facilities. Boo fucking hoo
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Remember, cool kids, no human being is illegal. Suck it!

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 07, 2023 11:07 PM (RXV6T)

234 Wow. Not only is this place still around and active, but I recognize so many names. Hope all is well with you all!
Is it a sin that I came back from oblivion for a visit?
Posted by: Ghost Of Chi

Come on in. I have no idea who you are, but what the hell?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2023 11:07 PM (TZ75n)

235 I know, harsh, but I'm sick of these assholes. When did this hyper sensitivity to pretty much everything start? I don't remember hearing about nut allergies before, maybe, 1980. Now peanut butter is banned in schools because little Ezra or Paisley will die if one of their classmates opens a pack of peanut butter crackers.
Posted by: a.moron at August 07, 2023 10:51 PM (F6Xpw)
***

I read something awhile back, can't find the source now though, that looked to link the wheat grown today to increased sensitivities. Most wheat is no longer old or native wheat, but a super hybrid.
No idea if it's true but it is interesting.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2023 11:08 PM (e4fEA)

236 I was a satisfied Gillette customer for my 29ish years, until those fucking woke commercials started. No more.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 07, 2023 11:04 PM (RXV6T)

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Gillette is like Bud Light. A mediocre product that is easily replaced and forgotten.

They forced me to find out that Bic makes a far superior disposable razor and Barbasol is the equal of Gillette shaving cream in every way. But it's cheaper.

Thanks Gillette, and goodbye forever.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 11:08 PM (bQKgA)

237 LASue, I hope your spoiling skills are in order.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 07, 2023 11:08 PM (xTRSc)

238 I read something awhile back, can't find the source now though, that looked to link the wheat grown today to increased sensitivities. Most wheat is no longer old or native wheat, but a super hybrid.
No idea if it's true but it is interesting.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2023 11:08 PM (e4fEA)

Quadro-triticale.

Posted by: Arne Darvin at August 07, 2023 11:09 PM (Angsy)

239 The stewards looked at me blankly like I was crazy
-
Yes, I bet they did.

Posted by: Methos at August 07, 2023 11:10 PM (Dnobf)

240 Posted by: Ghost Of Chi at August 07, 2023 11:04 PM (0kWMY)

Holy carp, Chi is un-alive!

Posted by: pookysgirl has been around awhile at August 07, 2023 11:10 PM (dtlDP)

241 180 MILF storage
Do they rent by the hour?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 07, 2023 10:49 PM (MeG8a)

I thought they might do cryogenic storage for MILFs...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2023 11:10 PM (ynpvh)

242 220 Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 07, 2023 11:01 PM (p8A+W)

Not just RFK Jr...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 07, 2023 11:02 PM (hOUT3)

although I'm not sure that they've got the cause right, I've lived long enough to realize there's been a huge change in the population. The under 30's aren't nearly as healthy and all that goes with it as that age segment was just 30 years ago. And couldn't hold a candle to the generation that fought WW2.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2023 11:11 PM (S6gqv)

243 I just noticed that good part of the right side of the painting was cut off when it was posted. Crap.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2023 11:11 PM (MNhXM)

244 Rain coming down hard here in NoVa.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 07, 2023 11:12 PM (xTRSc)

245 MILF storage
Do they rent by the hour?
Posted by: gourmand

I was more hoping to store something in a milf...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 07, 2023 11:13 PM (RXV6T)

246 231 I had a daughter who was allergic to eggs. It was a pain. Once she ended up in the ER when she had a slice of pizza. It was a large pizza, and they used 2 eggs per 24 large doughs. It's a real thing, but a pain in the ass for all involved.

Posted by: 496 at August 07, 2023 11:06 PM (bwl/U)

Son is allergic to eggs and milk (both give him the runs). No cheese, either. He uses these fake eggs (JUST Egg). When I make Chorizo and Eggs, what I make for him has to be cooked differently, but the fake eggs do work.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2023 11:13 PM (ynpvh)

247 Come on in. I have no idea who you are, but what the hell?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Old timer here - thanks for the invite, though!
MH may feel differently? I'll have to take a hot minute to see if this Smart Military Blog is the same as it used to be...
Hello to all the late nighters from a decade ago - great to see so many familiar names here.

Posted by: Ghost Of Chi at August 07, 2023 11:13 PM (0kWMY)

248 Rain coming down hard here in NoVa.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

We had a hell of a thundstorm in Central TN earlier today. High winds and pouring rain so, trees down and power outages all over the place.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2023 11:13 PM (QG3cQ)

249
https://tinyurl.com/9ncxkj2y
Posted by: 496 at August 07, 2023 10:58 PM (/rK9l)

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Whoa, from Algona, Iowa? That town has a population of around 5300. I just sent that link to a friend of mine from Lu Verne, a town of 250 that's a few miles away from Algona.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 07, 2023 11:14 PM (lCaJd)

250 I work predominantly from home but go into the office a couple times a month. Having done long commutes for 30 years, I'm quite content with my situation. However, my closest office is in Salem, OR and the commie city council decided that they really, really need a local income tax to help the homeless.

So my days of going to the office will end in December. Oregon already has an income tax of up to 9.9%.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 07, 2023 11:14 PM (JqMqI)

251 I had a daughter who was allergic to eggs. It was a pain. Once she ended up in the ER when she had a slice of pizza. It was a large pizza, and they used 2 eggs per 24 large doughs. It's a real thing, but a pain in the ass for all involved.
Posted by: 496 at August 07, 2023 11:06 PM (bwl/U)

Funny allergy story, which I have told before: my bro-in-law, who is a builder and cool dude, is deathly allergic to yellowjacket hornet stings. We were spending Thanksgiving weekend at a cabin on Galiano Island (one of the Gulf Islands between Vancouver Island and the B.C. mainland) that he and my Sis had a share in. Cabin was right near the high ridge on the island. Fact: you could sit on the shitter in the outhouse, and look one way, and see Vancouver Island, or look the other way, and see the high-rise towers of Vancouver city on the mainland.

So we went on a tramp through the woods, intending to go to the beach. Randy smashed through an old rotten tree stump, and began hooting and hollering. I was right behind him, and got hit by a couple of yellowjackets. They hurt, but I'm not allergic. He got hit, bad. Sis gave him an Epi-pe shot, and loaded him in the car, and took him to the local...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 11:15 PM (VQo8k)

252 MILF storage
Do they rent by the hour?
Posted by: gourmand du jour

It's MILF Self-Storage.

So, it's for mothers who find themselves so attractive that they'd sleep with themselves?

These Pr0nhub categories are getting quite specific.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2023 11:15 PM (DgGvY)

253 243 I just noticed that good part of the right side of the painting was cut off when it was posted. Crap.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2023 11:11 PM (MNhXM)

oh, the part with the dancing girls.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2023 11:15 PM (S6gqv)

254 Posted by: Ghost Of Chi at August 07, 2023 11:13 PM (0kWMY)

Hello.
Glad you stopped by.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at August 07, 2023 11:16 PM (aA3+G)

255 oh, the part with the dancing girls.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2023 11:15 PM (S6gqv)

Nekkid dancing harem girls.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2023 11:16 PM (MNhXM)

256 I just noticed that good part of the right side of the painting was cut off when it was posted. Crap.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2023 11:11 PM (MNhXM)

oh, the part with the dancing girls.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2023 11:15 PM (S6gqv)

The dancing goats.

Posted by: The Camel Driver at August 07, 2023 11:16 PM (Angsy)

257 Holy carp, Chi is un-alive!
Posted by: pookysgirl has been around awhile

Hey, stranger.

Posted by: Ghost Of Chi at August 07, 2023 11:17 PM (0kWMY)

258 Paul's an idiot but Hillsborough County schools has apparently changed its language arts to include excerpted portions of Shakespeare rather than full plays in some cases. The reportage on this is complete propagandistic shit. The articles quote people blaming both the Parental Rights in Education Act as well as the relatively new B.E.S.T. standards from the Florida DOE. Upon review, neither of these require Hillsborough County to do any of this, and they certainly don't require removing Shakespeare plays from high school English/Language Arts because some of them may have naughty bits or subtext. It's ginned up bullshit to create bad press for Gov. DeSantis, conservatives, and the State of Florida so idiotic progressive shit-for-brains retards like Paul here will go around claiming (falsely) "hurp durp them toothless Florida redneck sister-humpers banned Shakespeare! Hurp durp!"

Posted by: Stupid fuck probably works for the Hillsborough County School District at August 07, 2023 11:18 PM (q1Zxb)

259 I am not a grandpa yet. My brother is. I met his grandkids a few weeks ago. Wonderful little kids.

My elder son wants to be a dad. But he is not gonna do anything dumb. He is a man of faith. If he finds the right woman I might become a grandpa. If not, so be it.

Both of my sons are good men and will not do something stupid like knock up a stripper named Starla. "I can save her."

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at August 07, 2023 11:18 PM (T/Lqj)

260 I just noticed that good part of the right side of the painting was cut off when it was posted. Crap.

Posted by: polynikes

oh, the part with the dancing girls.

Posted by: Tom Servo

The dancing goats.
Posted by: The Camel Driver

Not the dancing Itos?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2023 11:18 PM (QG3cQ)

261 OH DAMN

Forgot my wine...BRB.....

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 07, 2023 11:18 PM (UsQA1)

262 ...clinic, where they gave him more shots of epinephrine, and turned him loose. He goes back to the cabin, and began work on a dining table made from one big slab of log. It was like watching a speeded-up video on Ewetoob. He worked like lightning, never making a mistake, but so fast you could not follow it. Table got built, we had Thanksgiving Dinner on it. Half-way through the meal, Randy did a slow-motion face plant right into the turkey and gravy. The epinephrine had worn off. Sis put him to bed, and he was fine as frogs' hair the next day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 11:19 PM (VQo8k)

263 Read somewhere that a treatment for peanut allergy is to give the patient small amounts of peanut and gradually increase to build a tolerance. Once that is done no problem.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2023 11:20 PM (po2eO)

264 Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at August 07, 2023 11:05 PM (T/Lq

Send some of your sketches to MH for the hobby thread.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2023 11:20 PM (MNhXM)

265 The under 30's aren't nearly as healthy and all that goes with it as that age segment was just 30 years ago. And couldn't hold a candle to the generation that fought WW2.

As for the WW2 generation, the weak ones died in infancy, the stupid ones died before OSHA and product liability lawyers could keep them from Darwining out.

Crap diets, lots of chemicals, much lower exercise combine to take out the Mills. Will be interesting to see if Gen-Z has the same health as Mills since that aspect of the culture hasn't changed in three generations.

I also hold on to genetic entropy has a significant factor. Considering that the average person has 100 or so SNV mutations in a life time, the kids inherit the mutations the parents got from their ancestors plus the new mutations before conception.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 07, 2023 11:21 PM (p8A+W)

266
“Eurowings should be ashamed of how they handled this situation and for the way they made me feel.”

Ms Williams said she is requesting a refund for the nuts she purchased from the airline.

__________

You bloody slag.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2023 11:21 PM (MoZTd)

267 244 Rain coming down hard here in NoVa.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Hasn't reached my little corner of NoVA yet. Already had quite a bit today.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 07, 2023 11:21 PM (sAmhv)

268 263 Read somewhere that a treatment for peanut allergy is to give the patient small amounts of peanut and gradually increase to build a tolerance. Once that is done no problem.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2023 11:20 PM (po2eO)

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Then there is the familiar hot iron method.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 11:22 PM (bQKgA)

269 Mx. Drabinski looks like Bill Gates and William H. Macy had a baby.

Posted by: PabloD at August 07, 2023 11:22 PM (3ZV2p)

270 I saw Prolapse Paul and the Analites open for Big head Todd and the Monsters in 94 at JLA
Posted by: a dude in MI

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE "BIG HEAD" AND "MONSTER" COULD BE REFERRING TO A REASON FOR PAUL'S CONDITION.

Posted by: BEN ROFLCOPTER at August 07, 2023 11:23 PM (DgGvY)

271 Read somewhere that a treatment for peanut allergy is to give the patient small amounts of peanut and gradually increase to build a tolerance. Once that is done no problem.

In time the tolerance reverts if exposure to peanuts drops.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 07, 2023 11:23 PM (p8A+W)

272 Not the dancing Itos?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2023 11:18 PM (QG3cQ)

No yellow!

Posted by: The Smartest Man Joe Knows at August 07, 2023 11:23 PM (Angsy)

273 Read somewhere that a treatment for peanut allergy is to give the patient small amounts of peanut and gradually increase to build a tolerance. Once that is done no problem.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Great, now peanuts are a vaccine.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2023 11:24 PM (DgGvY)

274 Ol' Sneaky-snek goes dancin', a wigglin' and a hissin'!

Posted by: Zombie Tom T. Hall at August 07, 2023 11:24 PM (3Or4S)

275
Hello.
Glad you stopped by.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

Thank you for the warm welcome, sir.

I think that NoVa rain is supposed to hit me tomorrow or Wednesday....

Posted by: Ghost Of Chi at August 07, 2023 11:25 PM (0kWMY)

276 Well hey Horde, just checking in, I wish that my life was different from what it is in some ways, but not in others. I hope you all are enjoying a happy Monday.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 07, 2023 11:25 PM (a4EWo)

277 In time the tolerance reverts if exposure to peanuts drops.

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Eat a booster peanut every six months.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 11:25 PM (bQKgA)

278
Eat a booster peanut every six months.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 11:25 PM (bQKgA)

I'll never have legume allergies because I've always got nuts in my mouth.

Posted by: Pawl at August 07, 2023 11:26 PM (Angsy)

279 Hey DDS! Good to see you.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2023 11:26 PM (QG3cQ)

280 Mx. Drabinski looks like Bill Gates and William H. Macy had a baby.
Posted by: PabloD

Drab? Yes. Inski? No

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 07, 2023 11:26 PM (RXV6T)

281 Jim - my daughter was allergic to milk as well. Pretty much outgrew that by age 6 or so. But eggs caused an anaphylactic reaction every time. We'd administer benadryl and head to the ER. All mucosal membranes would swell... throat, nose, privates. Her intestines would be inflamed for days. It was a definite ordeal. Hopefully yours will outgrow one or both.

I think the worst would be soy. Looking at labels, you'd swear it's in absolutely everything.

Posted by: 496 at August 07, 2023 11:26 PM (/rK9l)

282 276 Well hey Horde, just checking in, I wish that my life was different from what it is in some ways, but not in others. I hope you all are enjoying a happy Monday.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 07, 2023 11:25 PM (a4EWo)

Good evening, you are here early

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at August 07, 2023 11:27 PM (aA3+G)

283 damn it, it hasn't rained here in a month, everything is dried out bad. Back under the burn ban.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2023 11:27 PM (S6gqv)

284
I can't eat oysters because they make me sick. But I don't stop Her Majesty from gobbling them down.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2023 11:27 PM (MoZTd)

285 Fact: you could sit on the shitter in the outhouse, and look one way, and see Vancouver Island, or look the other way, and see the high-rise towers of Vancouver city on the mainland.

That's some damn good planning.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2023 11:29 PM (TZ75n)

286 Well, the ham and Swiss stuffed chicken breast is yummy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 11:29 PM (VQo8k)

287 AOP - fantastic story. I can visualize the whole thing!

Posted by: 496 at August 07, 2023 11:29 PM (/rK9l)

288 If/when I ever lose my job, then I'll definitely be looking for a remote work option. Saves me A LOT of money in moving costs, obviously, as well as alleviates the stress of relocating to a strange place. And I can probably save the institution money since the cost of living here is pretty low, so I don't need to demand a top salary.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2023 10:07 PM (BpYfr)

I was trying to get a friend of mine to do continuing education programs remotely for mental health counselors. She used to do it IRL and had some medical issues that kept her from doing it. She had all the connections to do it too, but her health was not good.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2023 11:29 PM (xhaym)

289 In time the tolerance reverts if exposure to peanuts drops.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

Let me be clear. I will not tolerate less exposure to penis! Er, peanuts.

Posted by: Bareback Obama at August 07, 2023 11:29 PM (RXV6T)

290 Catching up on my 'stories' (golf and racing). Lucas Glover won in Greensboro Sunday. Good to see. Always liked that dude. Watching the IMSA race in Lime Rock, CT a couple of weeks ago. That's a track I'd like to visit someday. Pretty part of the state. Drove through it years ago. The track looks like no matter where you sit, it's a good view.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 07, 2023 11:30 PM (sAmhv)

291 1-3/4" of in about 30 minutes in my corner of NoVA. Seems to have stopped for the nonce!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 07, 2023 11:31 PM (hOUT3)

292 damn it, it hasn't rained here in a month, everything is dried out bad. Back under the burn ban.

Gregg county just joined the burn ban club even though the rain deviation is

I think that is an odd way to determine if a county should be under a burn ban; would think it would have to do more with soil and plant hydrometer readings.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 07, 2023 11:31 PM (p8A+W)

293 That's some damn good planning.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2023 11:29 PM (TZ75n)

It was. Nobody could sneak up on you there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 11:31 PM (VQo8k)

294 most amusing story I saw in the last couple days is that Oberlin College (remember them?) is suing it's insurers because it's insurers are refusing to reimburse Oberlin for the $36 Million judgment they had to pay. The insurers say they forfeit coverage for intentional acts. And intense woke stupidity. Well I may have added that last part.

fun fact - at the height of the most idiotic decisions that brought this financial disaster on their heads, the VP behind it was named Raimondo.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2023 11:33 PM (S6gqv)

295 Eat a booster peanut every six months.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2023 11:25 PM (bQKgA)

Instead, eat a circus peanut once a year.

Posted by: RickZ at August 07, 2023 11:33 PM (emlEe)

296 AOP - fantastic story. I can visualize the whole thing!
Posted by: 496 at August 07, 2023 11:29 PM (/rK9l)

The slow-motion face plant was a thing of beauty. Like air slowly being let out of an air-filled figure.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 11:34 PM (VQo8k)

297 Eat a booster peanut every six months.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Instead, eat a circus peanut once a year.
Posted by: RickZ

Wouldn't that be for normal hay-fever allergies? Circus peanuts are just compressed and dyed dust bunnies, right?

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2023 11:35 PM (DgGvY)

298 You could shred circus peanuts and use it for insulation. Horrid shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2023 11:36 PM (TZ75n)

299 263 Read somewhere that a treatment for peanut allergy is to give the patient small amounts of peanut and gradually increase to build a tolerance. Once that is done no problem.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2023 11:20 PM (po2eO)

It works for Iocane as well...

Posted by: The Dred Pirate Roberts at August 07, 2023 11:36 PM (CCSxw)

300 So I found the paintings of Hans Andersen Brendekilde recently.

He be a Dutchman with some talent in the late 1800's and his paintings are in the "realist" format of the time.

His reason for the majority of his paintings did have a political bent as to the trials of the poor working class vs. the upper entitled class.

A couple of his works are surely haunting in that tension. I would but cannot post the paintings so you are own your own for the look up.

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 07, 2023 11:37 PM (UsQA1)

301 I think the worst would be soy. Looking at labels, you'd swear it's in absolutely everything.

Posted by: 496 at August 07, 2023 11:26 PM (/rK9l)

My friend is a breast cancer survivor. She was told to go easy on soy so she started reading packaging labels. She was horrified. When she told me, I started reading package ingredient lists. I, too, was amazed; the products containing soy boggle the mind because it's more than you would think, as in soy is in everything.

Posted by: RickZ at August 07, 2023 11:37 PM (emlEe)

302 On a morning thread today, while discussing that purple haired soccer fool, someone mentioned Mia Hamm. I got a good chuckle thinking about your TX MoMe name tag!
Posted by: Doof

Good lord, I still lmao when I think about that moment. Classic Diane!

Posted by: SnailRacer at August 07, 2023 11:37 PM (WKAfF)

303 The White House is apparently going to push for Federal workers to return to the office in September and October. Many only come in for one day per pay period now, if that. Many have moved from DC and probably not happy to return. Guessing nothing will happen soon (public employee unions, etc.) but you can we're heading towards an election!
Posted by: TRex at August 07, 2023 10:30 PM (IQ6Gq)

They were pretty damned fast at firing employees that didn't get the vaxx.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2023 11:38 PM (xhaym)

304 Read somewhere that a treatment for peanut allergy is to give the patient small amounts of peanut and gradually increase to build a tolerance. Once that is done no problem.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2023 11:20 PM (po2eO)

It works for Iocane as well...
Posted by: The Dred Pirate Roberts at August 07, 2023 11:36 PM (CCSxw)

That was the standard treatment for allergies back when I was a kid. Identify the source of the allergy; administer slowly-increasing doses until the patient's immune system gets trained to deal with it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 11:39 PM (VQo8k)

305 My mother would buy circus peanuts as a treat once in a great while. I still love them as do my siblings.

Of course, they probably contain soy.

Posted by: 496 at August 07, 2023 11:40 PM (Gpu6T)

306 most amusing story I saw in the last couple days is that Oberlin College (remember them?) is suing it's insurers because it's insurers are refusing to reimburse Oberlin for the $36 Million judgment they had to pay. The insurers say they forfeit coverage for intentional acts. And intense woke stupidity. Well I may have added that last part.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2023 11:33 PM (S6gqv)

Thank you for that most delicious update.

Posted by: RickZ at August 07, 2023 11:40 PM (emlEe)

307 In her post, Shasby Jones added that female players are beginning to complain privately about how unfair it is to allow men to compete against them.

Well there ya go.

If you aren't willing to speak up in public, you tacitly accept it.

If you will not risk anything for the truth, then prepare to lose it all.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 07, 2023 11:41 PM (1ZbaF)

308 My mother would buy circus peanuts as a treat once in a great while. I still love them as do my siblings.

When order is restored, your family will be tried for warcrimes.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 07, 2023 11:41 PM (KFhLj)

309 the products containing soy boggle the mind because it's more than you would think, as in soy is in everything.

Posted by: RickZ at August 07, 2023 11:37 PM (emlEe)
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Yes - once you start looking it shows up everywhere. Again, I think that'd be the worst allergy.

Posted by: 496 at August 07, 2023 11:42 PM (Gpu6T)

310 by: Tom Servo

Oberlin College (remember them?)
If I'm not mistaken, that incident at Oberlin is responsible for 90% of the memes currently on the interwebs.

Posted by: Ghost Of Chi at August 07, 2023 11:42 PM (0kWMY)

311 >>> Officials learned the fire happened because Ayala got into a dispute with his father for dating his incarcerated brother's girlfriend.

Heh. "Dating".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 07, 2023 11:43 PM (ga8qR)

312 I was right up until now unaware peanuts aren't nuts.
Sure enough, they are a legume.

Thank you, AOP.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 07, 2023 11:43 PM (43xH1)

313 309 the products containing soy boggle the mind because it's more than you would think, as in soy is in everything.

Posted by: RickZ at August 07, 2023 11:37 PM (emlEe)
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Yes - once you start looking it shows up everywhere. Again, I think that'd be the worst allergy.
Posted by: 496 at August 07, 2023 11:42 PM (Gpu6T)

Huh? Try honest work.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at August 07, 2023 11:43 PM (aA3+G)

314 When order is restored, your family will be tried for warcrimes.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 07, 2023 11:41 PM (KFhLj)
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It's not exactly the Final Solution is it, but I'll stand as charged.

Posted by: 496 at August 07, 2023 11:43 PM (Gpu6T)

315 So I found the paintings of Hans Andersen Brendekilde recently.

He be a Dutchman with some talent in the late 1800's and his paintings are in the "realist" format of the time.
Posted by: Nightwatch

CBD has featured him a number of times in the Art Thread. Great stuff. Check out his Worn Out - truly Horde-worthy.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2023 11:43 PM (QG3cQ)

316 most amusing story I saw in the last couple days is that Oberlin College (remember them?) is suing it's insurers because it's insurers are refusing to reimburse Oberlin for the $36 Million judgment they had to pay. The insurers say they forfeit coverage for intentional acts. And intense woke stupidity. Well I may have added that last part.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2023 11:33 PM (S6gqv)

Thank you for that most delicious update.
Posted by: RickZ at August 07, 2023 11:40 PM (emlEe)

I think the insurers are in pretty firm ground here. Intentionally doing an act that results in an insurance claim is morally the same as arson.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 11:44 PM (VQo8k)

317 * Stakeholders are not stockholders in the same way equity is not equality.
Posted by: RickZ at August 07, 2023 10:46 PM (emlEe)

Stakleholders is like charging the customers extra to make up for "externalities in production and sales"

Like they are actually going to give money to the damaged troposphere or "degrated soil"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2023 11:45 PM (xhaym)

318 Huh? Try honest work.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at August 07, 2023 11:43 PM (aA3+G)
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Heavy is the cross you bear, Hunty.

Posted by: 496 at August 07, 2023 11:45 PM (Gpu6T)

319 Officials learned the fire happened because Ayala got into a dispute with his father for dating his incarcerated brother's girlfriend.

Heh. "Dating".
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Yeah. The word 'dating' implies a dignity that that particular relationship did not deserve.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2023 11:46 PM (QG3cQ)

320 If you aren't willing to speak up in public, you tacitly accept it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 07, 2023 11:41 PM (1ZbaF)

Acquiescence by silence is approval through fiat. ~ Me.

Posted by: RickZ at August 07, 2023 11:47 PM (emlEe)

321 Officials learned the fire happened because Ayala got into a dispute with his father for dating his incarcerated brother's girlfriend.

Heh. "Dating".
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Yeah. The word 'dating' implies a dignity that that particular relationship did not deserve.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2023 11:46 PM (QG3cQ)

"Had to keep her tuned up. Your bro would not want her cooch to get stale, yannow."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 11:48 PM (VQo8k)

322 Hey Tonypete, prayers up for your friend from last night.

MisHum, I know, what the f*ck is the matter with me? No business being here before 1 in the morning.

LASue, congrats to you, I love my grandson more than I can say, he brings me endless joy.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 07, 2023 11:48 PM (a4EWo)

323 I'll add the peanut is a legume to the list of trivia I share at work. Along with, Whitney Houston's hit 'I will always love you' is a cover and was written by Dolly Parton (to the absolute shock of my Black female co-workers!), and that Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice has always been dubbed over (into German) in the German releases of his movies.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 07, 2023 11:49 PM (43xH1)

324 If one is allergic to peanuts, don't eat them. It is a bit of a stretch to assume that opening a pack of peanuts creates a deadly cloud of peanut allergens. I am allergic to shellfish. Couldn't give a r@ts @ss if you eat it next to me. Don't like the odor of it anymore, though.

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at August 07, 2023 11:50 PM (mCh4j)

325 Of course you will all remember when the MARXIST PETA ORG...

Took Down the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus...because that is what MARXISTS do.

Destroy every and all social constructs that support the REPUBLIC.

Yet...no one here seems that pissed off and angry to do anything about it.

When will you all be pissed of enough?

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 07, 2023 11:50 PM (UsQA1)

326 I think the insurers are in pretty firm ground here. Intentionally doing an act that results in an insurance claim is morally the same as arson.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 11:44 PM (VQo8k)

Depending on how the lawsuit was written the insurance company still probably paid for the defense costs. Before providing a defense they would have written a Reservation of Rights letter to Oberlin advising them that though they are providing a defense they reserve all the rights under the policy and went on to specifically state policy language of what is not covered.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2023 11:51 PM (MNhXM)

327 Yet ALL our TECH that we punch our keyboards on...

Be owned by those that would do us harm...

Try not to vomit in your mouth...

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 07, 2023 11:53 PM (UsQA1)

328 I never fully understood the "cost of living" being lower in one area rather than another. Is it purely dwelling expenses (structure, taxes, insurance) and nothing more?'

Used to be #1 was schools. People would pay big money to be in a 'good' schoolssystem. Next is proximity to work. Then, not to be underestimated, social opportunities (i.e. potential friends, work advancement, sexual hookups).

When moving to my present location I looked at comparable houses 6 miles apart in different small cities: in one a house was $90K, in the other the same house was $30K. Reputation and perceived reputation also has a lot to do with it.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 07, 2023 11:54 PM (43xH1)

329 Later...

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 07, 2023 11:54 PM (UsQA1)

330 He be a Dutchman with some talent in the late 1800's and his paintings are in the "realist" format of the time.
Posted by: Nightwatch

Yes he’s excellent ( he’s Danish IIRC)

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2023 11:55 PM (MNhXM)

331 Hello there Chi!

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 07, 2023 11:56 PM (3eKCA)

332
I think the insurers are in pretty firm ground here. Intentionally doing an act that results in an insurance claim is morally the same as arson.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 11:44 PM (VQo8k

I would love to see the complete file on this suit. The policy, the complaint, discovery and depos should be a hoot.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at August 07, 2023 11:56 PM (aA3+G)

333 Oberlin College should be burnt to the ground. Preferably with the faculty chained to the floor.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2023 11:58 PM (TZ75n)

334 I still buy one Gillette product: Astra double edged razor blades, manufactured in a Russia.

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at August 07, 2023 11:58 PM (mCh4j)

335 >>Jan Matthiesen, head of offshore wind at the Carbon Trust thinktank, said: “The UK offshore wind industry is at a tipping point. The maximum prices set are now too low. Last month, we saw Vattenfall withdraw from the Norfolk Boreas windfarm. This may be the first of many if bold and swift action is not taken.”

Prices? What prices? I thought renewable energy is free because it renews itself every day when the sun comes up and the morning breezes begin. I must be missing something.

Posted by: Gref at August 07, 2023 11:59 PM (AMIL/)

336 I read something awhile back, can't find the source now though, that looked to link the wheat grown today to increased sensitivities. Most wheat is no longer old or native wheat, but a super hybrid.
No idea if it's true but it is interesting.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2023 11:08 PM (e4fEA)

Yep. When Norman Borlaug "saved the world" with his hybridized wheat, it was a godsend for those in the third world. He won a Nobel Prize for his contribution.

Unfortunately, something in that wheat doesn't play nice with some people. It used to be that a small percentage of people had a gluten intolerance, but the numbers have steadily climbed in the years following that miracle - whether it is due to a change in the wheat or a better understanding of ALL of the manifestations of gluten intolerance and/or Celiac Disease we may never know for sure.

Happily, the worst thing most people with CD or GS will experience is usually a disturbance in their gut performance until it all gets out of their system. I don't think I have ever heard of anaphylactic shock from gluten.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at August 07, 2023 11:59 PM (SRRAx)

337 My friend is a breast cancer survivor. She was told to go easy on soy so she started reading packaging labels. She was horrified. When she told me, I started reading package ingredient lists. I, too, was amazed; the products containing soy boggle the mind because it's more than you would think, as in soy is in everything.
Posted by: RickZ at August 07, 2023 11:37 PM (emlEe)

Soy emulsifiers and other soy products turn a lot of processed food palatable at a very cheap price. I tend to buy staples and cook from those for that reason, but my wife does insist on buying granola bars because they are supposed to be healthy.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2023 12:00 AM (xhaym)

338 323:Along with, Whitney Houston's hit 'I will always love you' is a cover and was written by Dolly Parton (to the absolute shock of my Black female co-workers!),

It was a hit song with Dolly too.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 08, 2023 12:02 AM (sAmhv)

339 Legal Insurrection was the go-to for Oberlin Lawsuit info, I wonder if they'll pick it back up. This new one sounds utterly delightful.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 12:02 AM (43xH1)

340 Yet ALL our TECH that we punch our keyboards on...

Be owned by those that would do us harm...

Try not to vomit in your mouth...
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 07, 2023 11:53 PM (UsQA1)

Well, not all of it, but not for lack of trying. My present computer? Win7, now deprecated by Macrosnot. They get no $$$ from me. The hardware? All pretty old, but it still works for my purposes.

And if the Win7 box shits the bed, I have 3 Linux boxen ready to put on line.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2023 12:03 AM (VQo8k)

341 Officials learned the fire happened because Ayala got into a dispute with his father for dating his incarcerated brother's girlfriend.
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Too bad he wasn't a Biden. Slow Joe and DR Jill approved of Hunter shtupping Beau's widow soon after Beau's death.
Wonder what happened to her? Is she paid off to keep quiet? I thought I read she had moved and dropped the Biden name, wanting nothing more to do w/ the family.

Posted by: Farmer at August 08, 2023 12:05 AM (55Qr6)

342 The movie that should have been, Barbieheimer:

https://youtu.be/4xlFU6u3-DU

Watch out for the game ads at the beginning and end.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 08, 2023 12:06 AM (Bd6X8)

343 HiJinx!
(pun definitely intended)

Posted by: Ghost Of Chi at August 08, 2023 12:06 AM (0kWMY)

344 301 I think the worst would be soy. Looking at labels, you'd swear it's in absolutely everything.

Posted by: 496 at August 07, 2023 11:26 PM (/rK9l)

My friend is a breast cancer survivor. She was told to go easy on soy so she started reading packaging labels. She was horrified. When she told me, I started reading package ingredient lists. I, too, was amazed; the products containing soy boggle the mind because it's more than you would think, as in soy is in everything.

Posted by: RickZ at August 07, 2023 11:37 PM (emlEe)

Wife is not supposed to. She takes hormone suppresant medicines (at one point taking the same stuff used for "gender" reassignment) due to her estrogen and progesterone-positive cancer. She's not supposed to eat much soy or drink much alcohol, but she does what she wants to do.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 12:08 AM (ynpvh)

345 Tonight I watched the 1965 film, "The Flight of the Phoenix," for the umpteenth time. What a film. A true classic IMHO.

Posted by: Gref at August 08, 2023 12:10 AM (AMIL/)

346 Hasn't it been determined that the consumption of soy raises the estrogen level in human beings? Is it a conceived plan?
Alex Jones may not have been too far off with his "they're turning the frogs gay!" rant...

Posted by: Ghost Of Chi at August 08, 2023 12:11 AM (0kWMY)

347 324 If one is allergic to peanuts, don't eat them. It is a bit of a stretch to assume that opening a pack of peanuts creates a deadly cloud of peanut allergens. I am allergic to shellfish. Couldn't give a r@ts @ss if you eat it next to me. Don't like the odor of it anymore, though.

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at August 07, 2023 11:50 PM (mCh4j)

Family friend is alergic to all seafood. If a pan was used for cooking seafood, not cleaned properly, and used to cook her food, she gets a reaction.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 12:11 AM (ynpvh)

348 AOP, I am allergic to bee stings too, I act like a three year old when bees are around. Accidentally injected myself once with the Epipen, don't ask, it was a freaking nightmare. I could totally envision myself in your brother-in-laws situation.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 08, 2023 12:11 AM (a4EWo)

349 Alex Jones comes across as a nut with high entertainment value, but he's turning out to be right more often than not.

Posted by: 496 at August 08, 2023 12:12 AM (z/SvP)

350 I'm number one...

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 08, 2023 12:13 AM (NBVIP)

351 AOP, I am allergic to bee stings too, I act like a three year old when bees are around. Accidentally injected myself once with the Epipen, don't ask, it was a freaking nightmare. I could totally envision myself in your brother-in-laws situation.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 08, 2023 12:11 AM (a4EWo)

Bees are pretty mellow critters. They usually won't sting unless really, really provoked. Yellowjackets are hostile rat bastards, and don't make honey, so have no reason for being.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2023 12:14 AM (VQo8k)

352 Chi. Don't make yourself a stranger. I hope all is well and you are keeping Tidewater from turning to madness.

Got to turn in now, for I have to.get a part tomorrow that requires a long drive. In fact I made the same drive today. Only to find the part was broken when I got it home.

I even opened the box at the parts counter to see that it was all sealed up in its packaging.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 08, 2023 12:14 AM (3eKCA)

353 Tonight I watched the 1965 film, "The Flight of the Phoenix," for the umpteenth time. What a film. A true classic IMHO.
Posted by: Gref
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As you must certainly know, the pilot, Paul Mantz, was killed during the filming. I've often wondered if the short bit that they show of flames was his actual crash.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2023 12:14 AM (bJHK5)

354 351 AOP, I am allergic to bee stings too, I act like a three year old when bees are around. Accidentally injected myself once with the Epipen, don't ask, it was a freaking nightmare. I could totally envision myself in your brother-in-laws situation.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 08, 2023 12:11 AM (a4EWo)

Bees are pretty mellow critters. They usually won't sting unless really, really provoked. Yellowjackets are hostile rat bastards, and don't make honey, so have no reason for being.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2023 12:14 AM (VQo8k)

They eat flesh of other insects, and will eat meat. I wait until dark and spray their nests with the 30' spray stuff. Works real well.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 12:15 AM (ynpvh)

355 I was right up until now unaware peanuts aren't nuts.
Sure enough, they are a legume.
Thank you, AOP.
Posted by: LenNeal

Not many "culinary nuts" are also "botanical nuts."

Hazelnuts and chestnuts are nuts to both chefs and botanists.

Peanuts are legumes, like beans, as you've said.

Cashews, walnuts, pecans, almonds, and pistachios are "drupes." Botanically, they're like peach or cherry pits.

Pine nuts are seeds.

And Brazil nuts are botanical "capsules," like some lily flowers' seed capsules.

Same idea as a tomato being a botanical fruit but a culinary veggie.....

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2023 12:17 AM (DgGvY)

356 I would love to see the complete file on this suit. The policy, the complaint, discovery and depos should be a hoot.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at August 07, 2023 11:56 PM (aA3+G)

Did you ever see the flier that the staff from Oberlin was handing out? It looked like it was straight from some 70s protest, crappy copier and all:

https://tinyurl.com/5n7c6vub

The fact that they had the flier, not a social media post, immediately ready to go was always a clue (at least to me) that this was not an organic student protest. It just seemed like someone was trying to relive the glory days of the civil rights movement or something.

Posted by: pookysgirl, making some guesses at August 08, 2023 12:20 AM (dtlDP)

357 Alex Jones averages 6 million visits per month at InfoWars.

He's living proof you don't need big tech to drive traffic. He's fully banned from nearly all major tech platforms.

That's why I do t get apoplectic when conservatives whine about being shadow banned or silenced. Conservative need to stop providing content for these platforms.

Go out on your own. Go to smaller platforms that support free speech. Stop whining and asking Congress to "do something".

Break these platforms by taking your audience away from them.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 08, 2023 12:20 AM (Gf3mx)

358 Hi Yo ONT! Awaaay! Processing content:

🎶
Snake falls out of sky and it stands therrrre
*git🎸riff*
___________

Two Florida men are facing charges after authorities accused him
Must be using their pronoun.
___________

Try saying crucial climate crisis goals five times real fast with a mouthful of crackers.
___________

Mai Tai? The simple concoction of full-flavored rum, lime juice, almond orgeat syrup, and orange curaçao, smartly garnished with lime and mint, is a crowd-pleaser.

* stares critically at my mere rum and oj - with a squirt of lime *
___________

Better hit Post before Pixy thinks I'm sp@mming.

Posted by: mindful webworker - rubberbabybuggybumpers at August 08, 2023 12:22 AM (HXHT+)

359 They eat flesh of other insects, and will eat meat. I wait until dark and spray their nests with the 30' spray stuff. Works real well.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 12:15 AM (ynpvh)

Many years ago, I destroyed a paper wasp nest, football-size, with a home made firework consisting of black powder, or some substitute, rolled up in newspaper, with a cannon fuse wound into it. Waited until sunset, when all the wasps were back in the nest, and stuffed the firework into the hole at the bottom of the nest, and lit the fuse. Ran like Hell! There was an Earth-shattering Kaboom! and the air was filled with confetti, made of wasp wings, nest paper, and newspaper. Nary a wasp survived.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2023 12:22 AM (VQo8k)

360 353 Do not, I repeat, do not watch the 2004 remake of Flight of the Phoenix. Easily one of the worst movies ever re-made.

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at August 08, 2023 12:22 AM (mCh4j)

361 Peanuts are legumes, like beans, as you've said.

Cashews, walnuts, pecans, almonds, and pistachios are "drupes." Botanically, they're like peach or cherry pits.

Pine nuts are seeds.

And Brazil nuts are botanical "capsules," like some lily flowers' seed capsules.

Same idea as a tomato being a botanical fruit but a culinary veggie.....
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2023 12:17 AM (DgGvY)

The peanut plant is a legume, but the actual peanut is a tuber that grows underground on the root of the plant, and not as a pod from a fertilized flower.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2023 12:25 AM (VQo8k)

362 Oh you want allergy stories, do you...

Was on an archaeological survey in the North River watershed in Hanson/Pembroke, Mass (Strangely enough, there's a North River south of Boston and a South River north of Boston, but that's the People's Republic for you).

We were doing survey work to put in half meter excavation units (or squares for you squares) and I stepped on a large nest of Yellow Jackets and was stung like 12 times - my right ear swelled up to Dumbo Size. But being the idiot I was, I didn't go to the hospital.

9 days later, I did end up in the hospital with an atrial fibrillation and they found my heart was pausing greatly when I was sleeping/at rest: like 9 seconds at a time.

So, they had to put in a pacemaker and I was 27 at the time. I remember my mother coming in to the hospital room crying.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 08, 2023 12:26 AM (TGPs7)

363 If I'm not mistaken, that incident at Oberlin is responsible for 90% of the memes currently on the interwebs.

Oberlin literally told the bakery that if they caught a student shoplifting, they were not to call the police, bit could only call the college.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 08, 2023 12:27 AM (2tUFv)

364 359 They eat flesh of other insects, and will eat meat. I wait until dark and spray their nests with the 30' spray stuff. Works real well.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 12:15 AM (ynpvh)

Many years ago, I destroyed a paper wasp nest, football-size, with a home made firework consisting of black powder, or some substitute, rolled up in newspaper, with a cannon fuse wound into it. Waited until sunset, when all the wasps were back in the nest, and stuffed the firework into the hole at the bottom of the nest, and lit the fuse. Ran like Hell! There was an Earth-shattering Kaboom! and the air was filled with confetti, made of wasp wings, nest paper, and newspaper. Nary a wasp survived.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2023 12:22 AM (VQo8k)

Found an old yellow jacket inside a shed we had (that we almost never used). Nest must've been used for more than a decade; was about 18" to 24" in diameter. Fortunately, wasn't in use when we found it, so made removal much easier.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 12:28 AM (ynpvh)

365 Go out on your own.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 08, 2023 12:20 AM (Gf3mx)

That's what the smart newsies are doing. Long interview format, no editing of topics/vocabulary/opinion and work from home. What's not to love? Megyn Kelly* is a good example. Tucker will be another good example once he figures out how he wants to do what he wants to do; I don't think 'X' is going to do it for him.

* No way she would be able to wear a red 'Make Women Female Again' hat on a corporate media broadcast.

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2023 12:29 AM (emlEe)

366 Late claps for the ONT, MisHum.

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Neon Lights.

Sad to say, whenever I see one of these kinds of pix, I think, edited. In fact, I think of how I would do just that in my paint program. Everything is presumed fake now.

Mad Magazine, back in the 1960s or so, had an article illustrating signs with burned-out letters. Only one I remember is some cruise line's slogan, "Getting there is half the fun" — "there" became "_her_". Mom let us read that stuff! (If she only knew.)

Posted by: mindful webworker - dawk! at August 08, 2023 12:30 AM (HXHT+)

367 Has anyone seen my old friend Kurt? Can you tell me where he's gone?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2023 12:30 AM (63Dwl)

368 The peanut plant is a legume, but the actual peanut is a tuber that grows underground on the root of the plant, and not as a pod from a fertilized flower.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

It's been a long time since Junior High biology.

Wait, I'm only 29. Maybe I just wasn't paying enough attention.

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2023 12:31 AM (DgGvY)

369 368 The peanut plant is a legume, but the actual peanut is a tuber that grows underground on the root of the plant, and not as a pod from a fertilized flower.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

It's been a long time since Junior High biology.

Wait, I'm only 29. Maybe I just wasn't paying enough attention.

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2023 12:31 AM (DgGvY)

I certainly don't remember that in sex ed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 12:32 AM (ynpvh)

370 334 I still buy one Gillette product: Astra double edged razor blades, manufactured in a Russia.
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at August 07, 2023 11:58 PM (mCh4j)

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Did you know that Nicholas II was the Tsar of All the Russias?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2023 12:32 AM (bQKgA)

371 If you're allergic to peanuts, but want the smell and taste, maybe this fruit is for you.

https://is.gd/ehrL9U

Unless you're allergic to it, too...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 12:34 AM (ynpvh)

372 Oberlin literally told the bakery that if they caught a student shoplifting, they were not to call the police, bit could only call the college.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 08, 2023 12:27 AM (2tUFv)

Oberlin could make that request of the bakery, but the bakery has every legal right to ignore it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2023 12:34 AM (VQo8k)

373 Waited until sunset, when all the wasps were back in the nest, and stuffed the firework into the hole at the bottom of the nest, and lit the fuse. Ran like Hell! There was an Earth-shattering Kaboom! and the air was filled with confetti, made of wasp wings, nest paper, and newspaper. Nary a wasp survived.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2023 12:22 AM (VQo8k)

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That would have made an awesome YouTube video, in the Hold My Beer Series.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2023 12:34 AM (bQKgA)

374
[begins to sing 'Eating Goober Peas']

Posted by: Carl Sandburg at August 08, 2023 12:35 AM (qlgfj)

375 370 334 I still buy one Gillette product: Astra double edged razor blades, manufactured in a Russia.
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at August 07, 2023 11:58 PM (mCh4j)

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Did you know that Nicholas II was the Tsar of All the Russias?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2023 12:32 AM (bQKgA)

Until he wasn't

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 12:35 AM (ynpvh)

376 Oberlin literally told the bakery that if they caught a student shoplifting, they were not to call the police, bit could only call
the college.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 08, 2023 12:27 AM (2tUFv)

Just like how Danny Masterson's rape victims were told by scientology not to go to the police, only the 'church'. A power-tripping cult is a power-tripping cult.

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2023 12:36 AM (emlEe)

377 That would have made an awesome YouTube video, in the Hold My Beer Series.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2023 12:34 AM (bQKgA)

There was a furious buzzing as the firework entered the nest, but they could do nothing, as the exit hole was blocked. They could probably chew through the wall of the nest, but they didn't have time for that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2023 12:37 AM (VQo8k)

378 376 Oberlin literally told the bakery that if they caught a student shoplifting, they were not to call the police, bit could only call
the college.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 08, 2023 12:27 AM (2tUFv)

Just like how Danny Masterson's rape victims were told by scientology not to go to the police, only the 'church'. A power-tripping cult is a power-tripping cult.

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2023 12:36 AM (emlEe)

So Oberlin lied about things to call the shop owners racist. It was pretty evil, and Oberlin needed to pay. I hope they not only lose their suit against their insurance company, but they have to pay all the legal fees for said insurance company which I hope comes to $10s of millions more.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 12:38 AM (ynpvh)

379 Is be moor peeple muse the Brattleboro FART Tubes then we be nots has these storms because of Humin Greehouse Gas causing Globill Warming.

Posted by: Mary Cloginstien from Brattleboro, VT at August 08, 2023 12:38 AM (Htl4B)

380 There was a furious buzzing as the firework entered the nest, but they could do nothing, as the exit hole was blocked. They could probably chew through the wall of the nest, but they didn't have time for that.

Well, they obviously didn't stick around to complain so you know they had a blast.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 08, 2023 12:38 AM (Bd6X8)

381 Also, Oberlin is probably uninsurable right now.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 12:38 AM (ynpvh)

382 Did I miss anything in the first 350 comments? Any critical news, Moron prayers, booby links, new AoSHQ memes, or entertaining trolls?

Posted by: mindful webworker - entertaining trolls - ha! as if! at August 08, 2023 12:38 AM (HXHT+)

383 382 Did I miss anything in the first 350 comments? Any critical news, Moron prayers, booby links, new AoSHQ memes, or entertaining trolls?

Posted by: mindful webworker - entertaining trolls - ha! as if! at August 08, 2023 12:38 AM (HXHT+)

How about a fruit that is not a peanut, but smells and tastes like one?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 12:40 AM (ynpvh)

384 With housing costs, I think a lot of it is address status. When I worked on the Chicago-area North Shore a lot, Lake Forest was by far the wealthiest, most expensive place. But it was obvious that many of the people there could just as easily had their mansions and pretty much the same life somewhere else for far, far less, but did it there anyway. Some of it was schools, some of it was for social life and/or networking, but a lot of it was sheer address status. Identity.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 12:40 AM (43xH1)

385 "When properly ripened, it even has a smooth, dense pulp with a texture that’s comparable to what you’d find in a jar of the creamy spread. In addition to the nutty taste, there are also hints of sweet potatoes and berries. A more appropriate name might be 'peanut butter and jelly fruit.'"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 12:41 AM (ynpvh)

386 Dear Baby Jesus,

If I could be like any other person in history, I'd like to be Hunter Biden. That fool is sick, ya'll!

Amen!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 08, 2023 12:41 AM (fY84s)

387 San Francisco Giants, on the road against the Angels, down 3-2 entering the top of the 9th, 3 miserable outs away from coughing up a 2-1 lead, paste the Angels for 6 runs and then strike out the side in the bottom of the 9th.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 08, 2023 12:41 AM (KAi1n)

388 How about a fruit that is not a peanut, but smells and tastes like one?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 12:40 AM (ynpvh)

Found a peanut, found a peanut,
"Neath the sofa last night...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2023 12:42 AM (VQo8k)

389 So Oberlin lied about things to call the shop owners racist. It was pretty evil, and Oberlin needed to pay. I hope they not only lose their suit against their insurance company, but they have to pay all the legal fees for said insurance company which I hope comes to $10s of millions more.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 12:38 AM (ynpvh)

Meh. Bankrupt them them and have them go out of business. That would make a great example to other schools, The Budd Light story of academia, and 'this could happen to you' moral. Besides, we could use the buildings to shelter homeless vets (first).

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2023 12:44 AM (emlEe)

390 Ha! Lake Forest, IL is the only place I've ever genuinely gotten lost in a private home. The lady took me to the upper floor to examine a dormer leak, then turned around and disappeared. That floor was laid out in a series of suites without a central hallway, and the floorplan was a kind of hockey-stick deal. It took me the better part of 20 minutes, calling out, to follow her voice back to the front door.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 12:44 AM (43xH1)

391 She's not supposed to eat much soy or drink much alcohol, but she does what she wants to do.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 12:08

Boy do I know what you mean. After several trips to see 87 yo Dad during his his hospitalization/rehab, I've of course come to the same realization.

It's been a couple of weeks since he's been home. He was moderate at drinking at first, only Miller Lite. Then gin & tonics, cause they aren't as bad as bourbon on the rocks.

Now he's back on the bourbon, WTF am I supposed to do?

Posted by: Farmer at August 08, 2023 12:47 AM (55Qr6)

392 Did I miss anything in the first 350 comments? Any critical news, Moron prayers, booby links, new AoSHQ memes, or entertaining trolls?
Posted by: mindful webworker
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86 -> New Grandma

Posted by: Carl Sandburg at August 08, 2023 12:48 AM (oeYLT)

393 Lake Forest also had an independent, small supermarket right downtown the residents kept around for convenience. They did home deliveries and everything. I met a girl who worked there and she informed me shoplifting was a HUGE problem. Long before anyone else they had cameras up all over, and had a guy whose sole job was to watch the cameras and tally up what the rich wives stole, and then send bills to the households. They had several customers where hubby would come in every month and cut a check for everything their wife took.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 12:49 AM (43xH1)

394 But wait, there's more allergy stuff...

Later in life I was over at my mother's aunt's house (she was an old Italian lady named Carmalina) who emigrated to this country from Sicily and married my mother's Uncle Philip {but Aunt Carmalina always called him Fully} in New Jersey before they relocated to the People's Republic.

So, I was at her house pruning her hedges with the electric trimmer and I saw this big wasp/hornet on the hedges. It was really large and strangely enough, had this white dot on its
abdomen. I'm like, I'm just not going to bother it and just work around it, because this was one Big Ass Hornet.

Despite my precautions, the hornet wasn't having any of the electric trimmer and stung me in the arm. And holy sweet God of all mercy, it hurt like hell. That thing really packed a wallop and I started to become nauseous and sweaty and clammy... and I'm like, I've got to get myself to the hospital.

I drove to the hospital and I was just telling the emergency room personnel, I need a shot of Epinephrine, because I was about ready to pass out. And it was so bad, they had to give me two shots. And when I got out of the hospital...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 08, 2023 12:49 AM (TGPs7)

395 391 She's not supposed to eat much soy or drink much alcohol, but she does what she wants to do.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 12:08

Boy do I know what you mean. After several trips to see 87 yo Dad during his his hospitalization/rehab, I've of course come to the same realization.

It's been a couple of weeks since he's been home. He was moderate at drinking at first, only Miller Lite. Then gin & tonics, cause they aren't as bad as bourbon on the rocks.

Now he's back on the bourbon, WTF am I supposed to do?

Posted by: Farmer at August 08, 2023 12:47 AM (55Qr6)

FIL has gout, diabetes, and his kidneys are failing (needs dialysis, put surgery for his fistula graft off another two months). We go out to eat at a Chinese Restaurant, I tell him that he needs to avoid shell fish (high in purines, bad for Gout sufferers). His response?
"All Cantonese food is good for me".
Well, I understand. He probably doesn't have too many years left, so he wants to enjoy his food...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 12:50 AM (ynpvh)

396 I had hives the size of my fist all over my body for a week. And they were itchy as hell, despite the various steroids and creams I used.

It turned out I had been bitten by a Pepsis Wasp and on the scale of most painful stings/bites, they are Number 5 after rattlesnakes.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 08, 2023 12:51 AM (TGPs7)

397 paper wasp nest:

"Wait, captain," said Dersu, taking his ax out of his bag. Then, choosing a slender sapling, he cut it down and trimmed off the twigs, and then tied a piece of bark at the end. When the hornets had settled down again, he lit the piece of bark and held it under the nest. It blazed up like paper. As he burnt them out, Dersu addressed them …”

Excerpt From
Dersu Uzala: Tracker • Hunter • Trapper
V. K. Arseniev

Posted by: 13times at August 08, 2023 12:52 AM (Y9FAc)

398 382 Did I miss anything in the first 350 comments? Any critical news, Moron prayers, booby links, new AoSHQ memes, or entertaining trolls?

Posted by: mindful webworker - entertaining trolls - ha! as if! at August 08, 2023 12:38 AM (HXHT+)

Not really. Talk about snakes falling from the sky. Some people complaining about a woman complaining about peanuts. Also, a link showing Barry Soetoro being heckled... which, sadly, never actually happened. The video was edited, unfortunately. Anyway, quiet night.

Posted by: E. A. Blair at August 08, 2023 12:52 AM (d+R+j)

399 396 I had hives the size of my fist all over my body for a week. And they were itchy as hell, despite the various steroids and creams I used.

It turned out I had been bitten by a Pepsis Wasp and on the scale of most painful stings/bites, they are Number 5 after rattlesnakes.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 08, 2023 12:51 AM (TGPs7)

What fun...not.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 12:53 AM (ynpvh)

400 It will always be a mystery if anyone on Welk's show knew what the song was about. Not even Myron Florin?

I heard that Brewer asked Shipley how he was doing.

Shipley replied he was "one toke over the line."

That's all the depth that phrase has. Stoner one-liner.

I might be confusing my Shipley with my Brewer, but I heard the interview fer realz, Sweet Jesus!

Posted by: mindful webworker - hoping that the train is on time at August 08, 2023 12:55 AM (HXHT+)

401 re 397

I am convinced that there is no topic; literary, technical, medical, mechanical, scientific, philosophical, geographical, ad infinitum that an assemblage of the Horde could not, with knowledge, address.

Posted by: Carl Sandburg at August 08, 2023 12:57 AM (bJHK5)

402 On the Oberlin college newspaper, or somewhere similar, it was the College, they asked for, and printed, responses from alumni regarding the original lawsuit. One mentioned that the shoplifting case was a nonstarter, but that at least one of the arrested students was contacted by a trustee; and put in touch with the The Plain Dealer to blow it all up. It seemed like it was a trustee that engineered the whole thing, and it's very obscure. No idea exactly why, or who it was. But the original case apparently was a nothingburger until one specific trustee got involved.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 12:57 AM (43xH1)

403 Oooops /Sandburg

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2023 12:57 AM (bJHK5)

404 Is be moor peeple muse

I think Mary's box wine has expired.

Posted by: mindful webworker - pour another one just like the other one at August 08, 2023 12:58 AM (HXHT+)

405 I am convinced that there is no topic; literary, technical, medical, mechanical, scientific, philosophical, geographical, ad infinitum that an assemblage of the Horde could not, with knowledge, address.
Posted by: Carl Sandburg'

Never underestimate bored people with Internet access and given a subject to obsess about.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 12:58 AM (43xH1)

406 Mr. Ghost, I go to lunch in Pembroke once a month, hubs and I did for many years, we actually went every week. Do you want to grab lunch some time or have you relocated?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 08, 2023 12:58 AM (a4EWo)

407 I am convinced that there is no topic; literary, technical, medical, mechanical, scientific, philosophical, geographical, ad infinitum that an assemblage of the Horde could not, with knowledge, address.

Posted by: Carl Sandburg at August 08, 2023 12:57 AM (bJHK5)

The Horde: Faster than a set of Encyclopedia Britannicas and more accurate than Wikipedia.

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2023 12:59 AM (emlEe)

408 Posted by: Ghost Of Chi at August 08, 2023 12:11

Is this who I think it is? Shoot me an email if you recall conversing w/ a mentally declining farmer/historian.

Posted by: Farmer at August 08, 2023 01:00 AM (55Qr6)

409 390 Ha! Lake Forest, IL is the only place I've ever genuinely gotten lost in a private home. The lady took me to the upper floor to examine a dormer leak, then turned around and disappeared. That floor was laid out in a series of suites without a central hallway, and the floorplan was a kind of hockey-stick deal. It took me the better part of 20 minutes, calling out, to follow her voice back to the front door.
Posted by: LenNeal

This is how horror stories start.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 08, 2023 01:00 AM (sAmhv)

410 "soy is in everything"

Soy is each one of us, individually. [It's a pun.]

Posted by: SFGoth at August 08, 2023 01:02 AM (KAi1n)

411 The Horde: Faster than a set of Encyclopedia Britannicas and more accurate than Wikipedia.
Posted by: RickZ '

"Alexa, give me a paraphrase of, 'Damning with faint praise.'"

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 01:02 AM (43xH1)

412 410 "soy is in everything"

Soy is each one of us, individually. [It's a pun.]

Posted by: SFGoth at August 08, 2023 01:02 AM (KAi1n)

Sí.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 01:03 AM (ynpvh)

413 The Horde: Faster than a set of Encyclopedia Britannicas and more accurate than Wikipedia.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2023 12:59 AM (emlEe)

Guy goes into the library: "you got a copy of that acetylene book?" Librarian: "You mean Modern Gas Welding, Theory and Practice?"

"No, acetylene cyclopedia Brittanica."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2023 01:03 AM (VQo8k)

414 jim (in Kalifornia): How about a fruit that is not a peanut, but smells and tastes like one?

Yeah, saw that. Similarities, like scents, can trigger allergy symptoms, if only psychologically. The mind-body unit is weird.

I haven't had a peanut in decades. Which is funny, because as a kid I ate a lot of those big PayDay bars.

Ummmmm. PayDaaaay…

No, no, peanuts, like soy, are not meant for human consumption.

Posted by: mindful webworker - if only hypochondriacally at August 08, 2023 01:04 AM (HXHT+)

415 Sorry, but the Snake vs Hawk battle? would not have been invoking Jesus...

Zeus? saying get yer kids under control maybe...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2023 01:05 AM (oHd/0)

416 The Pepsis wasp is also known as the tarantula hawk

they hunt and kill tarantulas, and lay their eggs inside the spider's body

Posted by: DB - at August 08, 2023 01:05 AM (geLO8)

417 Also, a link showing Barry Soetoro being heckled... which, sadly, never actually happened. The video was edited, unfortunately.
Posted by: E. A. Blair

FAKE BUT ACCURATE!!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 08, 2023 01:05 AM (sAmhv)

418 407 I am convinced that there is no topic; literary, technical, medical, mechanical, scientific, philosophical, geographical, ad infinitum that an assemblage of the Horde could not, with knowledge, address.

Posted by: Carl Sandburg at August 08, 2023 12:57 AM (bJHK5)

The Horde: Faster than a set of Encyclopedia Britannicas and more accurate than Wikipedia.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2023 12:59 AM (emlEe)

The Gestalt Horde mind... Knows all... sees all... blabs all...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2023 01:06 AM (oHd/0)

419 No, no, peanuts, like soy, are not meant for human consumption.

Posted by: mindful webworker - if only hypochondriacally at August 08, 2023 01:04 AM (HXHT+)

Then I guess Williamsburg, VA's famous peanut soup is not for you.

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2023 01:06 AM (emlEe)

420 Used to have Paper Wasps build nests in the crevices of the doors of my car. I'd wait till nightfall and then spray the nests with some Chemical Warfare (RAID). It worked just fine.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 08, 2023 01:07 AM (sAmhv)

421 Well, I'm here tonight because I'm off Real Work, so restarted a website and am trying to remember how to use cPanel. I don't bother with WordPress because i will not do links to pdfs, which is how all my stuff is formatted. Damned if I'm going to 'link' from a website to my *personal* storage. No. Way.
My first one I used Dreamweaver (I know! but I actually liked it) but cPanel, if I can remember what to do, is actually pretty simple.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 01:09 AM (43xH1)

422 Also, a link showing Barry Soetoro being heckled

Dang. I so want it to be true.

Posted by: 13times at August 08, 2023 01:09 AM (Y9FAc)

423
Also, a link showing Barry Soetoro being heckled... which, sadly, never actually happened. The video was edited, unfortunately.
Posted by: E. A. Blair

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

Dammit.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2023 01:10 AM (lCaJd)

424 OH DAMN
Forgot my wine...BRB.....
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 07, 2023 11:18

Yep, I know that line. Maybe I should have some water...oh no, here's the wine...~~takes a slug~~sips like a snooty liberal...this has a nice bouquet

Posted by: Farmer at August 08, 2023 01:11 AM (55Qr6)

425 Barry will always make sure he attends large gatherings to those who adore him. The other half of the country he'll just stay away from. I should have remembered his narcissism is his god.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 08, 2023 01:12 AM (sAmhv)

426 Carl Sandburg: 86 -> New Grandma

LASue: 86 As of 3:00 today, I'm officially a grandma!

Oh, my, yes. This! Quickscanned comments, but did not see if the newborn was boy or girl.

We won't ponder how LASue accomplished this at the age of 29… 🚫no math

Posted by: mindful webworker - grandkids held captive at August 08, 2023 01:12 AM (HXHT+)

427 .this has a nice bouquet
Posted by: Farmer
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The finish, though, Farmer...the finish , you must comment on it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2023 01:13 AM (gKzkw)

428 No wine here. Just Yuengling.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 08, 2023 01:13 AM (sAmhv)

429 but did not see if the newborn was boy or girl.
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Only a cis-normal would think like that.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2023 01:14 AM (gKzkw)

430 "Modern Gas Welding, Theory and Practice?"

How far back in time do you have to go before your advanced technology of acetylene gas welding becomes indistinguishable from magic?

Posted by: SFGoth at August 08, 2023 01:14 AM (KAi1n)

431 The epinephrine had worn off. Sis put him to bed, and he was fine as frogs' hair the next day.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2023 11:19

That is quite the story AOP.

Posted by: Farmer at August 08, 2023 01:14 AM (55Qr6)

432 How far back in time do you have to go before your advanced technology of acetylene gas welding becomes indistinguishable from magic?
Posted by: SFGoth
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I'm guessing mid/late 1800's.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2023 01:15 AM (qlgfj)

433 {{ Snail Racer}} I hope to see you in October.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 08, 2023 01:17 AM (a4EWo)

434 https://tinyurl.com/3m94v2zp

Oberlin College Board Of Trustees. Seems they have not updated their meeting minutes since December, 2018! The pdfs are well worth reading, they're the stuff of Woke Wet Dreams.
Also, how they're broke.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 01:17 AM (43xH1)

435 Ever notice you can’t buy or ever seen Cashews in the shell? It is poisonous iirc. That’s why. They sure are tasty.

Granola has a completely undeserving reputation as “healthy”. Good on fiber, and Oats are pretty good protein level for a grain. But a lot of carbs, and then include lots of sugar, or corn syrup. Probably better than a Snickers bar, though not by much.

I make it once in a while, it’s easy to make. Use bacon fat or butter in lieu of the execrable industrial seed oils. I bet coconut oil would be good.

Speaking of, I’ve been meaning to ask. Why is it that Coconut oil we buy for cooking doesn’t smell like Coconuts? You know, the stuff chics used to slather on their golden bronzed bodies at the beach?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2023 01:19 AM (ttNwz)

436 I'm guessing mid/late 1800's.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

They could totally understand the concepts behind acetylene gas welding by mid-1800's if you explained it to them. What gets them is the engineering. They can't actually build it. But they could understand it. Heck, oxygen was discovered in the late 1700's and phlogiston theory was invented/created in 1667.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 08, 2023 01:20 AM (KAi1n)

437 How far back in time do you have to go before your advanced technology of acetylene gas welding becomes indistinguishable from magic?
Posted by: SFGoth at August 08, 2023 01:14 AM (KAi1n)

It is magic, you know. How can a tiny blue flame, no bigger than a match head, melt steel and fuse it together into one solid piece?

Operating an acetylene torch is really a trip. Welding or cutting, the power to bend metal to your will is exhilarating.

You ever come to Peon Manor, I will put a torch in your hand and let you play with it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2023 01:22 AM (VQo8k)

438 "Speaking of, I’ve been meaning to ask. Why is it that Coconut oil we buy for cooking doesn’t smell like Coconuts"

Get it unrefined. Coconut was my favorite lifesaver as a kid. It is such a unique taste. That's why you don't taste it unless you look for the tasteable kind.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 08, 2023 01:22 AM (KAi1n)

439 Night, Horde, I is done in.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 08, 2023 01:23 AM (a4EWo)

440 E. A. Blair: Also, a link showing Barry Soetoro being heckled... which, sadly, never actually happened. The video was edited, unfortunately.

Though it was bogus because I remember the video. Whatever JEF was dealing with in that vid clip, the audio wasn't that.

Posted by: mindful webworker - artificially realistic at August 08, 2023 01:23 AM (HXHT+)

441 My mind is so disorded now

All I can think about is how to get a Customer Support job for people in India

Posted by: Murican Miklos at August 08, 2023 01:23 AM (6PEWs)

442 I really enjoyed welding in 8th grade metal shop. Too bad we weren't allowed to use the arc welder. Only Mr. Gibble could, because it was a safety thing, though he caught his lab coat on fire one day and didn't know until some kid shouted at him that he was on fire.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 08, 2023 01:24 AM (KAi1n)

443 "Speaking of, I’ve been meaning to ask. Why is it that Coconut oil we buy for cooking doesn’t smell like Coconuts"

Get it unrefined. Coconut was my favorite lifesaver as a kid. It is such a unique taste. That's why you don't taste it unless you look for the tasteable kind.
Posted by: SFGoth

Ahem

Posted by: The Professor, who can make ANYTHING from coconuts at August 08, 2023 01:24 AM (6PEWs)

444 I am convinced that there is no topic; literary, technical, medical, mechanical, scientific, philosophical, geographical, ad infinitum that an assemblage of the Horde could not, with knowledge, address.
Posted by: Carl Sandburg at August 08, 2023 12:57

I'd have to agree Carl. This an erudite collection of Morons. One recent inspiration from here is to use an unusual word every day. It's about stimulating your mind as you get older (w/out having to take premagen to keep on thinking).

My word for today is erudite. Any suggestions for tomorrow? What's a big word for complicated bribery schemes?

Posted by: Farmer at August 08, 2023 01:26 AM (55Qr6)

445 How far back in time do you have to go before your advanced technology of acetylene gas welding becomes indistinguishable from magic?
Posted by: SFGoth'

Hm. Good question. I'd say maybe 1850s? Like, to the general public, or to what became engineers? Weird gases in bottles were known pretty far back, but an actual welding rig, I'd say 1850s. Just a guess off the top of my head. You need the metal head itself, the bottles, hoses, so rubber, definitely, but that could have been done with metal tubes. So yeah, I'm leaning 1850s. Ha! Maybe earlier, the first diving helmet was 1820s.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 01:26 AM (43xH1)

446 I really enjoyed welding in 8th grade metal shop. Too bad we weren't allowed to use the arc welder. Only Mr. Gibble could, because it was a safety thing, though he caught his lab coat on fire one day and didn't know until some kid shouted at him that he was on fire.
Posted by: SFGoth

You lie

never saw that at Punahou Elite Private Skool

Posted by: the Choom Bunch at August 08, 2023 01:26 AM (6PEWs)

447 Acetylene is synthesized. Coke (carbon) is reacted with lime in an electric furnace to make calcium carbide, which reacts spontaneously with water to make calcium hydroxide and acetylene gas. So, late 19th century. Acetylene for illuminating gas was in widespread use in the early 1900's.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2023 01:26 AM (VQo8k)

448 Also

Miley and Publius have a Bountiful Harvest.

They actually give you food, if you go there.

Posted by: Il Mikosero at August 08, 2023 01:28 AM (6PEWs)

449 Cashews need to be roasted. They are the seeds of a south American fruit, which is edible.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 01:29 AM (ynpvh)

450
Is this who I think it is? Shoot me an email if you recall conversing w/ a mentally declining farmer/historian.
Posted by: Farmer

I can neither confirm nor deny that I am that dude you're thinking of, but how are you, brother? It's truly great to see your name!

Posted by: Ghost Of Chi at August 08, 2023 01:29 AM (0kWMY)

451 Ben Franklin could understand it. He certainly would not think it was magic.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 08, 2023 01:30 AM (KAi1n)

452 Any suggestions for tomorrow?

Posted by: Farmer at August 08, 2023 01:26 AM (55Qr6)

Tittup, followed by zymurgy. You could even pair them together.

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2023 01:31 AM (emlEe)

453 Well, getting sleepy here. Going to make a run into Calgary with a trailer load of scrap steel tomorrow. Got to hitch up, and fix a couple of lamps on the trailer, and load some some small scrap while I am at it.

Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2023 01:31 AM (VQo8k)

454 Acetylene for illuminating gas was in widespread use in the early 1900's.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon'

Fun fact: the technology that led to 'motion pictures', also known at the time as Motography, was limited not so much by the film, but by the light source: until acetylene lamps, it wasn't feasible to produce an intense enough light source to project an image onto a surface many yards away. Many technological advancements led to Film as we know it, but probably the most important for 'Movies' was the light source.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 01:32 AM (43xH1)

455 The toy “Big Bang Cannon”, as every schoolboy knows, was offered for sale in every comic book and magazine of some repute back in the day.

They do not use gunpowder, rather they utilize acetylene gas liberated from carbide pellets and water. Very fun, and VERY loud indeed. Great toy.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2023 01:32 AM (ttNwz)

456 RickZ: The Horde: Faster than a set of Encyclopedia Britannicas and more accurate than Wikipedia.

The real miracle is, not only is the Horde Knowledge Trove rich and deep, fountains of learning beyond college courses, but that questions brought to the AoSoracle actually get connected to answers!

All in this dear, cumbersome comment format, besides!

Posted by: mindful webworker - alexa, make me a sandwich at August 08, 2023 01:32 AM (HXHT+)

457 Then I guess Williamsburg, VA's famous peanut soup is not for you.
Posted by: RickZ

Didn't peanut soup originate in Smithfield?

Posted by: Ghost Of Chi at August 08, 2023 01:33 AM (0kWMY)

458 Ben Franklin could understand it. He certainly would not think it was magic.
Posted by: SFGoth'

Hence my caveat: the general public, or scientists of the day? Also the reason for my comment about early movies.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 01:36 AM (43xH1)

459 WTF am I talking about, the general public NOW thinks EBT cards are magic.
Nevermind.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 01:36 AM (43xH1)

460 The Gibson v Oberlin story would make good movie -- for a conservative filmmaker.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 08, 2023 01:37 AM (3AQME)

461 "Going to make a run into Calgary with a trailer load of scrap steel tomorrow."

Is Calgary short for Calgarret?

Posted by: SFGoth at August 08, 2023 01:37 AM (KAi1n)

462 RickZ: Then I guess Williamsburg, VA's famous peanut soup is not for you.

Mmm. Smells good. I wouldn't turn down a cup.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Aint really that picky at August 08, 2023 01:37 AM (HXHT+)

463 Yes, but the Cashew parts contain Urushiol, that’s why they aren’t sold in the shell.

I used to like buying mixed nuts in the shell once in a while, they just look cool sitting in a big wooden bowl. A little more work. They are either hard to find now, and/or stupid expensive, which makes no sense. A grocery worker looked at me like I was from Mars when I asked, and claimed they only offer them around Christmas. Diamond brand, I think.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2023 01:37 AM (ttNwz)

464 Hence my caveat: the general public, or scientists of the day? Also the reason for my comment about early movies.
Posted by: LenNeal

The people H.L. Mencken were talking about.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 08, 2023 01:38 AM (KAi1n)

465 "until acetylene lamps, it wasn't feasible to produce an intense enough light source to project an image onto a surface many yards away."

Did not know that. But when you think about it....

Posted by: SFGoth at August 08, 2023 01:39 AM (KAi1n)

466 zymurgy

Was an excellent home brewing magazine. Can probably find it digitized at archive.org. I still have the how to all grain edition.

Posted by: 13times at August 08, 2023 01:40 AM (AoMz2)

467 For an excellent background in the 'difference' between Magic and Technology, if you haven't read it, is Jack Lindsay's 'Blast Power And Ballistics: Concepts Of Force And Energy In The Ancient World'.
It's available cheaply from numerous outlets and well, very well, worth the read. It's one of those books nobody ever reads, and it's a great foundation to understanding technology and the handling of such.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 01:42 AM (43xH1)

468 Didn't peanut soup originate in Smithfield?

Posted by: Ghost Of Chi at August 08, 2023 01:33 AM (0kWMY)

Peanuts were relatively easy to store and transport so I'm sure versions of peanut soup can be found all throughout the Tidewater area. Back then, peanuts were food for humans and livestock.

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2023 01:43 AM (emlEe)

469 The finish, though, Farmer...the finish , you must comment on it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2023 01:13

Yes indeed Mr Hammer, the finish was sublime, tho w/ some harsh merlot tones as this wine is well priced at ca $4.59 a bottle, if you buy 6.

Posted by: Farmer at August 08, 2023 01:47 AM (55Qr6)

470 Mmm. Smells good. I wouldn't turn down a cup.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Aint really that picky at August 08, 2023 01:37 AM (HXHT+)

Have you ever had it? I've had it like maybe 10 times over the course of many years visiting Historic Williamsburg. It is so good and served with snippets. I tried to make it at home from a Wiliamsburg cookbook. The first attempt . . . wasn't. Next time, guessed mistake corrected (and worked), and I had Williamsburg Peanut Soup at home, just with no snippets. I lived.

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2023 01:48 AM (emlEe)

471 463 Yes, but the Cashew parts contain Urushiol, that’s why they aren’t sold in the shell.

I used to like buying mixed nuts in the shell once in a while, they just look cool sitting in a big wooden bowl. A little more work. They are either hard to find now, and/or stupid expensive, which makes no sense. A grocery worker looked at me like I was from Mars when I asked, and claimed they only offer them around Christmas. Diamond brand, I think.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2023 01:37 AM (ttNwz)

And some of that can leach into the part we eat, so they are either steamed (so called "raw") or roasted.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 01:49 AM (ynpvh)

472 440
Though it was bogus because I remember the video. Whatever JEF was dealing with in that vid clip, the audio wasn't that.

Posted by: mindful webworker - artificially realistic at August 08, 2023 01:23 AM (HXHT+)

Yeah, sadly the sheep are still sheep. I see videos like that and get my hopes up, but then I research a little, and I'm reminded that most people are still falling for the constant propaganda. They haven't reached a tipping point yet. Maybe they never will. It's difficult to be optimistic these days.

Posted by: E. A. Blair at August 08, 2023 01:49 AM (d+R+j)

473 The people H.L. Mencken were talking about.
Posted by: SFGoth

Grammar, please

Posted by: Henry Louis Miklos-Mencken at August 08, 2023 01:50 AM (6PEWs)

474 Grammar, please
Posted by: Henry Louis Miklos-Mencken'

Hello! I am an American! Az országod gulyásszagú!

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 01:54 AM (43xH1)

475 This is my exit. Catch y'all later. Stay cool.

Posted by: mindful webworker - *fades* at August 08, 2023 01:56 AM (HXHT+)

476 Peanuts and Peanut butter are an inexpensive source of good protein, and pack a lot of nutrients and vitamins as well. And kids like it. On that score it (was) perfect for school nutrition.

Back in the day of USDA farm commodity price supports, the public schools were given huge quantities practically for free. Since parents already paid for it through taxes, at least it took some of the sting away. I think I’m revealing my age, but lunch was forty cents as I recall.

Outlawing peanuts because a vanishingly small percentage of individuals are allergic is pretty stupid. I do recall a kid in grade school had a severe food allergy.. i think it might have been coconut. He knew to watch out for it, and so did the school, and the lunch room ladies.

Competence, responsibility and discretion are practically extinct. Since younger generations have never hardly seen it, they think chaos and everything fucked up, is normal. They expect everyone to be treated like tards.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2023 02:00 AM (ttNwz)

477 The low-footprint ATVs that actually work are chubby little things with six to eight huge, very underinflated tires.

Also they float.

Posted by: MartynWW at August 08, 2023 02:01 AM (sHP7b)

478 I can neither confirm nor deny that I am that dude you're thinking of, but how are you, brother? It's truly great to see your name!
Posted by: Ghost Of Chi at August 08, 2023 01:29

Neither confirm or deny, WTF are testifying before Congress as a Biden lackey? LOL

I've tried calling your phone w/ no success, give me a holler sometime you rascal. My email is still the same.

Posted by: Farmer at August 08, 2023 02:04 AM (55Qr6)

479 Peanuts are a good source of aflatoxins too!

Posted by: SFGoth at August 08, 2023 02:05 AM (KAi1n)

480 Now I'm looking through the rest of Jack Lindsay's corpus, and it's pretty interesting. Strange guy. Just ordered his book, 'The Crisis In Marxism' (Abebooks, $4.23 shipped!) seems he 'converted' to Marxism at the age of 36. But in a rather eccentric way. He then set about applying Marx's theories against and into situations and applications. Now he's been relegated to the Dustbin of History. No mention on Marxists.org or Spartacus, where I would expect to find him.
'Blast Power And Ballistics', though, is an outstanding book.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 02:11 AM (43xH1)

481 All in this dear, cumbersome comment format, besides!
Posted by: mindful webworker - alexa, make me a sandwich at August 08, 2023 01:32

Seriously you have a point. I've been involved other forums, mostly history and rock music, but the diverse commentary shared here is amazing.

Posted by: Farmer at August 08, 2023 02:11 AM (55Qr6)

482 Also they float.
Posted by: MartynWW'

Boobs?

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 02:14 AM (43xH1)

483 Did you know that Nicholas II was the Tsar of All the Russias?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2023 12:32

Poor SOB, he was totally unprepared for his role. His father Alexander III didn't plan well. It's complicated but Nicholas was set up to fail, sadly for him and his family.

Posted by: Farmer at August 08, 2023 02:17 AM (55Qr6)

484 What's a big word for complicated bribery schemes?
Posted by: Farmer'

SubStealistamicationist!

https://tinyurl.com/j2aaxcs4

Posted by: Oswald Bates at August 08, 2023 02:18 AM (43xH1)

485 "Wait, captain," said Dersu, taking his ax out of his bag. Then, choosing a slender sapling, he cut it down and trimmed off the twigs, and then tied a piece of bark at the end. When the hornets had settled down again, he lit the piece of bark and held it under the nest. It blazed up like paper. As he burnt them out, Dersu addressed them …”

Excerpt From
Dersu Uzala: Tracker • Hunter • Trapper
V. K. Arseniev
Posted by: 13times'

I haven't forgotten about your question about Russian translations. I'm thinking about it and exploring options.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 02:21 AM (43xH1)

486 Did you know that Nicholas II was the Tsar of All the Russias?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2023 12:32 AM (bQKgA)

Until he wasn't
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2023 12:35

That has to be one of history's biggest falls from power. From controlling Russia's vast wealth, much of which was held by the Romanovs...to dying in a cellar in Ekaterinburg is a very long fall.

Posted by: Farmer at August 08, 2023 02:22 AM (55Qr6)

487 Grammar, please
Posted by: Henry Louis Miklos-Mencken

Grammar, BITCH please.
FIFY

Posted by: SFGoth at August 08, 2023 02:23 AM (KAi1n)

488 Farmer -
If you remember my full name, I'm easy to reach at Gmail.
Unfortunately, I have lost/broken so many phones over the years that I can't find my old contacts.

I came here tonight looking specifically for Cthulhu (and Elle Jaye) because the number I have for him isn't going through...

I do not know how to reach you without posting my personal info - otherwise I would have by now!
The "link" in your signature doesn't give me your email like it used to...

Posted by: Ghost Of Chi at August 08, 2023 02:24 AM (0kWMY)

489 Poor SOB, he was totally unprepared for his role. His father Alexander III didn't plan well. It's complicated but Nicholas was set up to fail, sadly for him and his family.
Posted by: Farmer

It happens

Posted by: Team Kamala at August 08, 2023 02:25 AM (6PEWs)

490 I think this is the only place I have ever seen anyone relate Nicholas II to Kamala Harris.

Well done.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 02:26 AM (43xH1)

491 What's a big word for complicated bribery schemes?
Posted by: Farmer'

Bidenomics?

Posted by: Ghost Of Chi at August 08, 2023 02:27 AM (0kWMY)

492 Poor SOB, he was totally unprepared for his role. His father Alexander III didn't plan well. It's complicated but Nicholas was set up to fail, sadly for him and his family.
Posted by: Farmer

Timing is everything and his was awful. He wasn't that bad as royals go. Every age needs it's fall guy. I guess he was it in Russia. Always felt bad for him and his family. Bolsheviks were scumbags.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 08, 2023 02:30 AM (sAmhv)

493 Also they float.
Posted by: MartynWW at August 08, 2023 02:01 AM (sHP7b)

Saw one float on out into Cook Inlet when some dipshit left it on the beach at Kasilof with the tide coming in. Hilarious. Floated nicely, unmanned. Probably cost a dime or two, I'd think. Probably better to move it up above the tideline, and then go take a dump.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 08, 2023 02:30 AM (LOVUx)

494 FIFY
Posted by: SFGoth

You are now Official Friend of Mencken

Posted by: Miklos, who actually lived Mencken's house at August 08, 2023 02:30 AM (6PEWs)

495 The toy “Big Bang Cannon”, as every schoolboy knows, was offered for sale in every comic book and magazine of some repute back in the day.

They do not use gunpowder, rather they utilize acetylene gas liberated from carbide pellets and water. Very fun, and VERY loud indeed. Great toy.
Posted by: Common Tater
-----

Not only do I have my own (155 MM Howitzer), but also my Dad's from the 20's, looks like: https://tinyurl.com/24txzg7w

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2023 02:32 AM (KtPtl)

496 Competence, responsibility and discretion are practically extinct. Since younger generations have never hardly seen it, they think chaos and everything fucked up, is normal. They expect everyone to be treated like tards.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2023 02:00 AM (ttNwz)

The idiotic notion that one peanut somewhere in a building or one latex balloon that crosses the threshold of the school is going to cause anaphylactic shock in some kid is proof that teachers are idiots.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 08, 2023 02:32 AM (LOVUx)

497 RethugliKKKans are trying to prevent the will of the voters passing of abortion protection on ballot by raising from 50% to 60% for vote to pass in ohio election tomorrow. This is why we need tough democrats like AOC and the squad to run the democratic party not corrupt and snile old fools like biden.

Posted by: raimondo at August 08, 2023 02:35 AM (VSL+2)

498 This is why we need tough democrats like AOC and the squad to run the democratic party not corrupt and snile old fools like biden.
Posted by: raimondo'

I delve into Substacks on the hard-left side (that's where they all went) and this is what I'm reading from the anti-Corporate Lefties, if you can even call them that anymore, they've all fully embraced Climate Change Panic and are reading a lot more like an apocalyptic cult, much more than before. I have a quote:

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 02:40 AM (43xH1)

499 Smells like pig vomit and failure in here all of a sudden.

Oh...

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 08, 2023 02:40 AM (sAmhv)

500 'Humanity's major problems arise from the impulse to control. Ecocide arises from the impulse to control nature. Empire arises from the impulse to control civilizations. Oligarchy arises from the impulse to control political outcomes. Ego arises from the impulse to control life.
A healthy humanity would be free of the impulse to manipulate and exert control: over life, over people, over nature. But it would be so different from the humanity we know now that falling into that way of functioning would be a kind of death. And it would feel like a death.
Sometimes it seems like people want the world to end, want humanity to go extinct. I'd suggest that this may be a confused expression of an intuited truth: that there's something good on the other side of ending all this. But it's the end of our dysfunction, not of our species.'

Direct copy from a Lefty Climate Change Substack.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 02:41 AM (43xH1)

501 I have a quote:
Posted by: LenNeal

And my post wasn't it. Like I said above, timing is everything! Heh!

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 08, 2023 02:42 AM (sAmhv)

502 The "link" in your signature doesn't give me your email like it used to...
Posted by: Ghost Of Chi at August 08, 2023 02:24

I shall change in this post, hopes it works. I might have cooth's latest phone #.

Posted by: Farmer at August 08, 2023 02:43 AM (55Qr6)

503 "I sent you an eagle, lady, what else you want?"

- Jesus

(Because I'm sure it's at least been a little while since someone has said this)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2023 02:43 AM (9UlRk)

504 I have a quote:
Posted by: LenNeal

And my post wasn't it. Like I said above, timing is everything! Heh!
Posted by: Puddleglum'

It did involve Resident Retard Raimondo so.. appropriate.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 02:46 AM (43xH1)

505 Sometimes it seems like people want the world to end, want humanity to go extinct. I'd suggest that this may be a confused expression of an intuited truth: that there's something good on the other side of ending all this. But it's the end of our dysfunction, not of our species.'

Revelation 21

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 08, 2023 02:48 AM (sAmhv)

506 I think this is the only place I have ever seen anyone relate Nicholas II to Kamala Harris.
Well done.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 02:26

Hey, this is a classy joint!

Well they both sucked at their jobs, OK I won't mention Willie Brown.

Did you know amongst the surviving belongings that Alexandra had a merkin? Kinky.

Posted by: Farmer at August 08, 2023 02:51 AM (55Qr6)

507 Ecocide arises from the impulse to control nature.'

Hence, farming must end to save humanity.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 02:53 AM (43xH1)

508 Bidenomics?
Posted by: Ghost Of Chi at August 08, 2023 02:27

And you are the winner!

BTW how is that rugrat of a dog you have?

Posted by: Farmer at August 08, 2023 02:54 AM (55Qr6)

509 There a kernel truth to that. Except what they describe is not humanity. It's Stupidity. Unvarnished, uncivilized, uncultured primates. We seek to control because we, when considered only as primates, come from a world where it was Control or Die. It's why most children are insufferable sociopathic bastards, but we manufacture the polite fiction that children are sweet innocent angels. They haven't learned how to be human yet, they only know how to be primates. That's what humans are, until you civilize and acculturate them.

And it's also why political movements that place barbarism and vae victis at the center of life lead to misery. Strip away civilization to create your New Man, and you're just left with a zoo animal. This person is describing the root cause of modern barbarity and then completely whiffing on the actual implications of their thought because they're, stupidly and barbarously, obsessed by railroading others into their chicken little cult.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2023 03:00 AM (9UlRk)

510 and are reading a lot more like an apocalyptic cult, much more than before.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 02:40 AM (43xH1)

Like? They are an apocalyptic death cult.

Such death cults have been around forever. It's just the first time it's gone really mainstream. Back when, such death cults were kept to the jungles of Guyana.

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2023 03:01 AM (emlEe)

511 When I'm over in the Orthodox Christian Place, there are wall murals up for Nicholas II as he got sainted for some reason. I have a lot of problems with that, guy was a pussy-whipped douchebag obsessed over his kid while allowing millions to be sent to their deaths, and a weak suck all around. His wife was more or less of a Germanic Occultist, the whole thing is bullshit.
I'm okay with the kids. Canonize them, that's fine. But the Royal Couple?
Nah.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 03:02 AM (43xH1)

512 Timing is everything and his was awful. He wasn't that bad as royals go. Every age needs it's fall guy. I guess he was it in Russia. Always felt bad for him and his family. Bolsheviks were scumbags.
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 08, 2023 02:30

Yes indeed. What I find revealing in history is the details. I guess Lenin's wife just reveled in the fact she was now dining on the royal family's ornate table.

Yeah, they were really for the common worker, my ass. They wanted power and murdered to get it.

Posted by: Farmer at August 08, 2023 03:05 AM (55Qr6)

513 I know the Modern Climate Change is a Death Cult, it's just in that one short comment it was summarized so well. And I said 'much more than before'. Yes, it's gone mainstream due to social media.
Question is, what to do about it. The Christian response of 'turn the other cheek' isn't going to work, here. I'm not advocating anything explicitly, but what do you do, when YOU want to live and eat and breathe, but are surrounded by those bent on self-annihilation?

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 03:07 AM (43xH1)

514 It's why most children are insufferable sociopathic bastards, but we manufacture the polite fiction that children are sweet innocent angels. They haven't learned how to be human yet, they only know how to be primates. That's what humans are, until you civilize and acculturate them.
.
.
.

Strip away civilization to create your New Man, and you're just left with a zoo animal.
------------

Lord of the Flies comes to mind.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2023 03:08 AM (WTJmT)

515 The fundamental theorem of Liberalism (actual Liberalism) is that humanity is awful and no one should be trusted with enough power to actually do much of anything beyond kill foreign invaders and keep one's countrymen from killing each other over squabbles. And the people we choose to do even *that* much should be chosen democratically and rotated out on a regular basis.

It's every other system that says "basically that, but for everyone else except me". Doesn't matter if it's a king or a general secretary or a president. As soon as you subscribe to some Special Person theory where Fixing Things becomes more important than Law and Liberty, you're on the road to everything going to hell.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2023 03:10 AM (9UlRk)

516 512 Wanted power and murdered to get it? My God, man, what are you suggesting? Are Revolutions orchestrated by the rich for their own benefit or something?

Posted by: Neo-Kulak at August 08, 2023 03:10 AM (CaNG3)

517 Lenin's wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, was a total fanatic who, after being put in charge of Education, was essentially the Library Science Czar of the USSR until 1939, when she finally went to that Big Commune In the Sky.

Biggest Book Burner in modern history.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 03:10 AM (43xH1)

518 Are Revolutions orchestrated by the rich for their own benefit or something?
Posted by: Neo-Kulak'

Interesting point about that. The Founding Fathers of the USA went to a great deal of trouble to stamp out popular 'mob' actions, once they were in power, to defray international accusations of what then might be called 'Leveling' politics. Successful revolutions occur when the aspirational middle class with enough weapons overthrow the next stair-step above them, and take their place. It was this case in the USA, but for some bizarre reason they embarked on an Experiment.
I've never figured out why they did that.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 03:18 AM (43xH1)

519 Just when you think the public school cult couldn't get any more FUBARed; Houston Independent School District is removing entire libraries from schools and converting the space into "teen spaces."

Also, Charlotte NC schools: 60% of high school students are scoring below grade level on standardized tests; yet 80% are graduating. The public school cult believes this makes sense.

P.S. WTF am I doing awake.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at August 08, 2023 03:18 AM (9X60i)

520 I'm okay with the kids. Canonize them, that's fine. But the Royal Couple?
Nah.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 03:02

I suppose it's because of their gruesome deaths. As a Baptist I'm not into the idea of canonization.

Tho I seldom go to church I very much ascribe to the non ritualistic approach of Baptists. Just the way I was raised.

Posted by: Farmer at August 08, 2023 03:19 AM (55Qr6)

521 It was this case in the USA, but for some bizarre reason they embarked on an Experiment.
I've never figured out why they did that.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 03:18 AM (43xH1)

Same reasons anyone does anything. Vanity, boredom, and they thought they could make a buck.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2023 03:20 AM (9UlRk)

522 Yes sir. That unanswered question is what defines American Exceptionalism. And probably a question best left alone.

Posted by: Neo-Kulak at August 08, 2023 03:22 AM (CaNG3)

523 Strangest thing about George Washington, to me at least, was his obsessive pursuit of one of his highly skilled slaves who ran off and fought for the British to win his freedom. The guy eventually went to Liberia. But Washington, really, pursued this one guy in what has to be described as a personal vendetta out of Les Miserables, for decades! Through courts, personal string-pulling, who knows why. I can only assume it was some personal grudge, because it was otherwise embarrassing and totally irrational.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 03:23 AM (43xH1)

524 Lord of the Flies comes to mind.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

That story was based on an actual event that didn't turn out anything like 'Lord of the Flies' portrayed it. FYI.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 08, 2023 03:23 AM (sAmhv)

525 It's why most children are insufferable sociopathic bastards, but we manufacture the polite fiction that children are sweet innocent angels. They haven't learned how to be human yet, they only know how to be primates. That's what humans are, until you civilize and acculturate them.
Strip away civilization to create your New Man, and you're just left with a zoo animal.
------------
Lord of the Flies comes to mind.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2023 03:08

I'm gonna have to save this one, too funny.

Posted by: Farmer at August 08, 2023 03:23 AM (55Qr6)

526 Sorry, Sierra Leone. Not Liberia.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 03:27 AM (43xH1)

527 P.S. WTF am I doing awake.

I work midshift so staying up all night is easy. I'm an east coaster too. Any farther east I'd be in, well, Maryland. I can see it from my condo! It's not that big a deal.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 08, 2023 03:28 AM (sAmhv)

528 P.S. WTF am I doing awake.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner'

"DOES THERE HAVE TO BE A REASON?!"

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 03:28 AM (43xH1)

529 523: Our founding Fathers were profoundly wise and extraordinarily flawed. Humanity is like that.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 08, 2023 03:31 AM (sAmhv)

530 Same reasons anyone does anything. Vanity, boredom, and they thought they could make a buck.
Posted by: Warai-otoko'

I'm not sure about that. Well those are all obvious motives (similar to how people take my statement: 'Human beings are murdering monkeys fighting over bananas'), but I actually believe a lot of it was competition with the Indian Nations, to which, before the Euros achieved True Dominance, which was much later than most people think, they kept losing all their slaves and indentured servants to the Indian Nations. Where, if not retrieved by force, NEVER came back.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 03:32 AM (43xH1)

531 If a guy who beats his wife saves me from drowning, should i feel guilty about being alive?

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533 I think it was Franklin? Who got embarrassed when trying to put together a Government, and made a comment something like, "Look at these savages around us! Our people keep running away from us, to them! We maybe better up our game."

Interestingly, the Indian Nations were genocidal, tribalist War Machines. I've sometimes wondered if American Exceptionalism and the resultant MIC wasn't baked into the cake from the beginning.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 03:36 AM (43xH1)

534 531: Hypothetical question, hypothetical answer:

Thank God. He put a flawed, horrible man, in a position to save you. Witness to this guy about the saving grace of Jesus. Maybe you'll save him from Hell.

Just spitballin' here. :-)

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 08, 2023 03:36 AM (sAmhv)

535 People who are inherently immoral (by most standards) are nonetheless capable of moral acts, even selfless moral acts.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2023 03:37 AM (KtPtl)

536 If a guy who beats his wife saves me from drowning, should i feel guilty about being alive?
Posted by: Warai-otoko'

I'd check out his wife and see if she's hot. I mean, after I'm on dry land. She might be looking to trade up.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 03:37 AM (43xH1)

537 Interestingly, the Indian Nations were genocidal, tribalist War Machines. I've sometimes wondered if American Exceptionalism and the resultant MIC wasn't baked into the cake from the beginning.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 03:36 AM (43xH1)

Most of Europe was genocidal tribalist war machines at the time. The Indians just had more conviction and creativity about it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2023 03:40 AM (9UlRk)

538 Oh, I've accomplished everything I set out to do, with websites and whatnot so now I'm just at the office.

And, I work nights and have for decades so this is my daytime. So I'm rambling.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 03:41 AM (43xH1)

539 I just woke up in the middle of the night for no damn reason.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2023 03:42 AM (9UlRk)

540 Anybody like holsters? I have a Fobus (Israeli) for a S&W snubbie, OWB, I like a lot. For service automatics I like Safariland.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 03:42 AM (43xH1)

541 Holy Shit, comment 504. That's pretty high, even for AoS.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 03:45 AM (43xH1)

542 537:Most of Europe was genocidal tribalist war machines at the time. The Indians just had more conviction and creativity about it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Europeans had better music!

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 08, 2023 03:51 AM (sAmhv)

543 Dvorak, The New World

https://tinyurl.com/yc6vtw55

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 03:54 AM (43xH1)

544 Europeans had better music!
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 08, 2023 03:51 AM (sAmhv)

Dancing in circles changes the weather.
Dancing in squares does not.
No one has ever tried dancing in triangles yet. It might actually cause earthquakes. Best avoided if possible.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2023 03:54 AM (9UlRk)

545 Dancing in circles changes the weather.
Dancing in squares does not.
No one has ever tried dancing in triangles yet. It might actually cause earthquakes. Best avoided if possible.
Posted by: Warai-otoko'

If you flail around randomly in a non-geometric pattern it causes Africa.

https://tinyurl.com/2nj4spxc

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 03:56 AM (43xH1)

546 Supertramp, Breakfast in America

https://youtu.be/hbqVPYZgK48

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 08, 2023 03:57 AM (sAmhv)

547
Power here has been restored. It went out at the start of a group of thunderstorms that passed through here sometime between 7 and 8 PM last night. Luckily, there was enough light for me to get something to eat, bathe and finish putting things away before turning in for the evening.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 08, 2023 03:58 AM (xG4kz)

548 https://youtu.be/yEtOtX5jiuQ

Figured if I looked enough, I'd find the whole album.

Supertramp-Breakfast in America

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 08, 2023 03:59 AM (sAmhv)

549 That's a good album

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2023 03:59 AM (MOY79)

550 "We'll kill you and take your stuff so that you can't kill us and take our stuff. Everyone does that. But we're also gonna cut a piece of your scalp off, just to be safe."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2023 04:01 AM (9UlRk)

551 At the supermarket we have a repeating setlist scientifically created to make people buy Stuff. I get to hear all of them at least twice each shift. It's targeted to cash customers, i.e. Rock Listening White People Of a Certain Age. We cannot do earbuds because of equipment and customers. So anything, for me, by Journey, is DEAD. Foreigner. DEAD. Just... the music selections here are for me, crucifying. I just can't listen to any 1970s Rock anymore with very certain exceptions.
It's Muzak.
But.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 04:01 AM (43xH1)

552
The 'splainer of cuck video is incoherent, even if what he was trying to 'splain was simp instead.

Forget it, Jake, it's TikToc.

Speaking of simps, the "Gurlz Rule Sokker!" crowd sure took one to its collective glass jaw. It's only bragging until you do it, ladies (and ditch the toxic waste dump that is MeAgain RappinHo).

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 08, 2023 04:05 AM (xG4kz)

553 The Tech Thread is late.

(folds arms, looks on disapprovingly)

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 08, 2023 04:05 AM (sAmhv)

554 I never get tired of James Gang, The Bomber. I look forward every time to that line, 'I'll be back tomorrow for the punchline of the joke'.
Gerry Rafferty, 'Baker Street'.
Beck, 'Strange Apparition', with the line, 'Did you think that you were lucky? You should see yourself now?'

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 04:06 AM (43xH1)

555 PIXY NOOD IS UP

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2023 04:06 AM (MOY79)

556
It's targeted to cash customers, i.e. Rock Listening White People Of a Certain Age.

But they ROCK their Greek Fisherman's caps and greying ponytails, I'd bet!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 08, 2023 04:08 AM (xG4kz)

557 But they ROCK their Greek Fisherman's caps and greying ponytails, I'd bet!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

They do. Their wives are the worst. If I didn't work nights there is no way I'd stay employed for more than a week. That 'Blah-Blah Nyborg' sock is real.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 08, 2023 04:10 AM (43xH1)

558 If only America's night shift Greek-hatted night grocery shoppers could get hip to how much smarter their stockboys are than they are, maybe they'd stop buying all that annoying Stuff and put you back into the open labor pool where you'd be happy.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 08, 2023 04:21 AM (4PZHB)

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Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 08, 2023 07:00 AM (lE1L7)

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There’s your answer.

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