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Sunday Overnight Open Thread (1/9/22) Probably Too Much Content Edition
Quote I “And, goddamnit, Joe! It is your job to make sure it is us. And if you don’t see it that way, resign. We need somebody in your chair who realizes that democracy could be dead a year from right now. We want that to be you. but if it isn’t, the rest of us don’t have any more time to wait or to waste,” Keith OlbermanI believe he needs some serious couch time. And a sporty white "sport" coat.
Quote II “We sign their checks and you best bet that I’m going to run a boatload of people against you guys, there ain’t gonna be no easy peasy election next time. … you guys are toast. I don’t care what you did in your community because this is enough. You can go do all the good you want but when you poison my kids’ mind, it’s done, you’ve crossed the line so I’m letting you know, we’re pissed and it’s enough.” California resident and parent, Jeff Perrine
Quote III
None of this has shaken my support for the Democratic agenda, which I still endorse wholesale." Angie Schmitt
Slaps head and mutters, "Same as it ever was".
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Karma strikes. Schadenboner ensues.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tested positive for COVID-19 Sunday. The Democrat politician's office released a statement saying she is experiencing symptoms and quarantining at home. “Representative Ocasio-Cortez has received a positive test result for COVID-19,” the statement said. “She is experiencing symptoms and recovering at home. The Congresswoman received her booster shot this Fall, and encourages everyone to get their booster and follow all CDC guidance.”
Massachusetts band students ordered to ‘fake play’ music, not allowed to blow into instruments
BOSTON, MA – Band students in a Massachusetts school district banned children from blowing into their instruments, citing the spread of new Covid-19 variant.
We really are a lost country. The people who are "Educators" certainly do not possess common sense or any sense of curiosity.
Texas Teacher Put 13-Year-Old Son in Car Trunk Because She Didn’t Want to Catch COVID-19: Police A teacher put her teenage son in the trunk of her car because she did not want to catch COVID-19 from him while driving, according to authorities in Houston, Texas. Sarah Hadassah Beam, 41, was taking him to get tested again, officers said. According to Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District police, a health official was at Pridgeon Stadium on Monday receiving information from vehicles in line for COVID-19 testing. Beam was there, officers said. She said her 13-year-old boy tested positive for COVID-19, and she put him in the trunk to keep her from getting exposed to the virus while driving him for more testing, according to this version of events.
Leave it to the politicians to use the carrot/stick approach on "Sin tax items".
The number of appointments for the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine has risen sharply this week in Quebec, according to Health Minister Christian Dubé. In a brief message posted to social media Friday morning, Dubé notes that in the last few days, appointments for first doses have increased from 1,500 per day to more than 6,000. The minister took a moment to thank those who finally decided to get vaccinated, reiterating that it is never too late to receive a first dose of vaccine. He explains the decision was made to curb an increase in cases of the highly contagious Omicron variant. He says he hopes this measure will be an additional incentive for some people to get their first dose of vaccine against COVID-19, as more than 50 per cent of people currently hospitalized are non-vaccinated people, though they represent about 10 per cent of the population.
Misdemeanors will not land you in prison. And there are plenty of felony charges that are watered down to get a quick conviction. Those in prison are a different type of person.
So much for prison reform: More than 40 percent of prison inmates had 5-10 prior incarcerations Seventy-eight percent of inmates had previous incarcerations. Forty-two percent had 5-10 or more incarcerations. The vast majority of prison inmates have multiple previous arrests and incarcerations. The vast majority have histories of violence.
The data below from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is from 2016. It was released in December 2021. It establishes the characteristics of prison inmates.
In case you didn't know it, Pollster Frank Lutz is stupid and on top of that a thoughtless asshole.
Frank Luntz politicizes DeSantis’ wife’s battle with cancer over Fla. governor’s stance on Covid testing Well-known establishment pollster Frank Luntz started a war that he cannot win by butting his nose into Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ affairs in a way that the governor’s supporters, including his press secretary, did not appreciate. It all started on Friday, when press secretary Christina Pushaw tweeted a video of her boss pointing out the foolhardiness of encouraging everybody to get tested for COVID.Frank I think you should have weekly mammograms. For example in 2017 2,300 cases of male breast cancer were confirmed with 500 deaths.
“Think about it. Before COVID, did anyone go out and seek testing to determine if they were sick? It’s usually that you feel like you’re sick and then you get tested to determine what you may have come down with,” the governor said in the clip. He later explained why this is an issue: “It’s essentially a lockdown by self. If you test positive but you are not sick or have no symptoms, you may have to isolate.”
Move along, nothing to see here. Just an Antifa thug with explosives.
HEY DEMS: Antifa Bro With Explosives Arrested On Anniversary Of Jan 6 … Do You Care?
Does an Antifa acolyte’s possession of explosives while loitering around a peaceful right-wing protest count as a ‘threat to Democracy’ or nah? On the anniversary of the events of January 6th, a group of 86 people gathered to protest what they considered the wrongful detention of Jeremy Brown who is accused of participating in the events of that day. They gathered outside of the Florida detention center where he has been held while he awaits trial for federal charges.
Will the SCOTUS make the correct decision on the Kung Flu pricks?
Some on the left couldn’t help finding irony that two of the state attorneys arguing against President Joe Biden’s employer COVID-19 vaccine mandates before the U.S. Supreme Court Friday tested positive for COVID and therefore had to make their case remotely. But the irony works both ways, because at least one of the two lawyers was vaccinated and boosted, while the status of the other is unknown. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments regarding the legality of two Biden employer vaccine mandates. One regulation by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration requires vaccines or testing for businesses with 100 employees or more
One freak beats another freak. The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.
University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas – who is transgender – was defeated by a swimmer from Yale University – who is also a transgender individual. The unusual showdown happened during an Ivy League tri-meet between UPenn, Yale, and Dartmouth on Saturday. Thomas – a biologically male swimmer – had been smoking the female competition while competing as a transgender athlete. This year, Thomas has obliterated several UPenn and Ivy League women's records while competing as a female. During the 1,650-yard freestyle race at the Zippy Invitational Event in Akron, Ohio, Thomas annihilated the second-place finisher by a whopping 38 seconds.
Born on this day: January 9, 1944 - Jimmy Page
Jimmy Page guitarist and producer, member of the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin. The bands fourth album released in 1971 featuring the rock classic Stairway To Heaven has sold over 37 million copies. Formed The Honeydrippers, (with Robert Plant, Jeff Beck & Nile Rodgers) who had the 1984 US No.3 single Sea Of Love. As a session guitarist in the 60s Page played on Here Comes The Night by Them, Shout by Lulu and The Who's 'Can't Explain'. via thisdayinmusic.com
Born on this day: January 9, 1967 - Dave Matthews
South African-born American singer-songwriter, Dave Matthews who had the 1998 US No.1 album 'Before These Crowded Streets' and the 2001 US No.1 album 'Everyday'. Dave Matthews Band are the first group to have six consecutive studio albums debut at the top of the US charts. via thisdayinmusic.com
Someone really believes in Santa Claus. Genius Award Winner. (H/T Isophorone Blog)
Authorities say a man is in the hospital after getting stuck in the chimney of a Silver Spring, Maryland, home that he was trying to rob. It all started around when police were called about an attempted robbery at a home owned by Holy Cross in the 9000 block of Dameron Drive at about 5:31 a.m.
Footballer suffers heart attack on pitchIf I were a betting man, I would put down a $100 bill on the Kung Flu prick.
The Mali international's wife has sent a message to fans after he collapsed in the goalmouth during a game in Qatar Footballer suffers heart attack on pitch
The Mali international's wife has sent a message to fans after he collapsed in the goalmouth during a game in Qatar Al-Wakrah Media Officer Mohamed Al-Sulaiti told local TV that Coulibaly's heart stopped before he was resuscitated by medics. A reporter remarked that Coulibaly's ordeal looked "similar" to the cardiac arrest suffered by Denmark ace Christian Eriksen at Euro 2020 in June 2021. Eriksen recently returned to training after being released from his contract with Italian side Inter Milan because of Serie A rules prohibiting the use of his implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. "I don't know if incidents of players collapsing on the pitch increased during recent weeks or it's just because the world is more connected than ever before," the Football Qatar founder added, claiming there had been similar scenes in Indonesia, Algeria, Oman and Croatia.
Let them eat
Truck Driver Delivers Bread By Foot To Stranded Motorists On Interstate
January 5, 2022 A baking company came to the rescue of dozens of people stranded on the interstate in Virginia. Casey Holihan Noe and her husband John, along with many other motorists, had been stranded on I-95 for over 20 hours and noticed that a Schmidt Baking truck was also stuck out on the road with them. "After almost 21 hours of being stuck on 95 South, sleeping here over night, not having access to food or water, and all of the nearest towns being out of power we were tired, frustrated, and hungry," Casey said. "Many of the people stuck out here had small children, were elderly, had pets in the car, and hadn’t eaten in almost a whole day." So, they decided to call Schmidt Baking Company in Baltimore in the hope that maybe it would be willing to offer whatever products were on the truck
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at January 09, 2022 10:03 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Zettai at January 09, 2022 10:03 PM (UiwC7)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at January 09, 2022 10:03 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at January 09, 2022 10:04 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Sandy at January 09, 2022 10:04 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Braenyard at January 09, 2022 10:04 PM (Kv8Dk)
Posted by: Some Rat at January 09, 2022 10:04 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at January 09, 2022 10:04 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 09, 2022 10:04 PM (a4EWo)
Posted by: wing at January 09, 2022 10:04 PM (PlW9M)
Mister Postman, Lou Kenzie,
Is there a new post on the blog for me?
I've been waiting such a long time
such a long, long, long, long lonely time
for an ONT...
Posted by: mindful webworker - splitting infinitives at January 09, 2022 10:05 PM (hS7lz)
Posted by: Conor at January 09, 2022 10:05 PM (hOUT3)
A wonderful job on the book thread
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 09, 2022 10:05 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at January 09, 2022 10:05 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: 496 at January 09, 2022 10:05 PM (U1eOr)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 09, 2022 10:06 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 10:06 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at January 09, 2022 10:06 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Muad'dib at January 09, 2022 10:07 PM (/bKbU)
I pray that OregonMuse recovers from his Pervitin addiction quickly and returns to the HQ clean and jitters-free.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at January 09, 2022 10:07 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Some Rat at January 09, 2022 10:08 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Infidel at January 09, 2022 10:08 PM (qpolg)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 09, 2022 10:09 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: Some Rat at January 09, 2022 10:09 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 10:09 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Some Rat at January 09, 2022 10:08 PM (r1z5A)
100,000 children died of starvation on that highway.
Posted by: Wise Latina at January 09, 2022 10:10 PM (/bKbU)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 09, 2022 10:11 PM (BFigT)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 10:11 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 09, 2022 10:11 PM (EZebt)
Can MD/NoVa folks confirm?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at January 09, 2022 10:11 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 10:11 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Some Rat
I'm happy that it didn't get that far ...
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 09, 2022 10:11 PM (okV1R)
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 09, 2022 10:11 PM (+lVUW)
The photographer swore to me that I was buying the negatives and ALL the prints!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at January 09, 2022 10:12 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: nerdygirl
Mentally ill people only. Not all mentally ill folks, mind you.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 09, 2022 10:12 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at January 09, 2022 10:12 PM (lCui1)
FIGHT ME
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 10:09 PM (VxC1e)
I saw Jonny Lang open for Jeff Beck when Lang was maybe 19 or 20.
True story.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 09, 2022 10:12 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at January 09, 2022 10:06 PM (hOUT3)
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It's the amphetamines! Keeps me five seconds into the future!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at January 09, 2022 10:13 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Some Rat at January 09, 2022 10:08 PM (r1z5A)
100,000 children died of starvation on that highway.
Posted by: Wise Latina at January 09, 2022 10:10 PM (/bKbU)
And they ALL caught version #75 of the Wuhan Flu!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at January 09, 2022 10:13 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 09, 2022 10:13 PM (EZebt)
Had a great weekend with grandson, family and Infidel!
Walgreens sucks!
Off to watch 1883........will check in with later
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at January 09, 2022 10:13 PM (/UQ/R)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at January 09, 2022 10:13 PM (Dc2NZ)
So that explains the Book Thread...
which was most excellent by the way!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at January 09, 2022 10:14 PM (hOUT3)
If only they'd been vaccinated against hunger! The vaccine prevents you from being hungry.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at January 09, 2022 10:15 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 09, 2022 10:15 PM (ufFY8)
Good, bad, or ugly?
*** whistles Hugo Montenegro's famous music ***
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 09, 2022 10:15 PM (okV1R)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Nah, I was trying to hook up with the drag queen, and well, mistakes were made.
Posted by: Covid. at January 09, 2022 10:15 PM (r1z5A)
If I didn't despise liberal women so much, this would bother me. The fact is, if the gals in college sports had any brains they would simply boycott events where men participated. They don't have the guts to go against wokeness. This is identity politics.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 09, 2022 10:16 PM (+lVUW)
If only they'd been vaccinated against hunger! The vaccine prevents you from being hungry.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
It keeps others from getting hungry too, amirite?
Posted by: Tonypete at January 09, 2022 10:16 PM (mD/uy)
Spectacular photo of a clear water lake up top. Interesting and contrasting tune behind the photo.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at January 09, 2022 10:16 PM (rwusL)
Can MD/NoVa folks confirm?
Posted by: All Hail Eris
Sort of. We've had some weather around here. It doesn't take much to jack everything up around here.
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 09, 2022 10:16 PM (sAmhv)
Got bored after a half hour.
Is it actually ok?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 09, 2022 10:15 PM (ufFY8
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Did you see the dance number with the llamas?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 10:16 PM (VxC1e)
They all have to take it to prevent you from getting hungry.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at January 09, 2022 10:17 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at January 09, 2022 10:11 PM (Dc2NZ)
Too many liberals and Fed Govt employees and staffers here so we dare not impact THAT supply chain. We are, however, content with letting the peasants in the Virginia hinterlands starve!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at January 09, 2022 10:17 PM (hOUT3)
Unions do not *give permanent employment* to the incompetent as much as it *creates the special circumstance* to produce incompetence.
Anyway, this is a sore point with me (an experienced personnel mgr.) since I think most people are competent at **something**, only you couldn't know that from looking at a lot of union shops.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 09, 2022 10:18 PM (hnK4B)
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 09, 2022 10:18 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 10:16 PM (VxC1e)
i would definitely watch if river otters were involved.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 09, 2022 10:18 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 09, 2022 10:16 PM (sAmhv)
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I forgot about the big snow. MILK BREAD TOILET PAPER!!!!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at January 09, 2022 10:18 PM (Dc2NZ)
Good, bad, or ugly?
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic
Holy cow! What gauge wire are you crimping?
Posted by: Tonypete at January 09, 2022 10:18 PM (mD/uy)
Hrothgar!
Congrats on your "Comment of the Week"!
*supposes a large part of the recognition was for the proper deployment of the appropriate HTML close tags...
Posted by: Zettai at January 09, 2022 10:18 PM (ldx5s)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at January 09, 2022 10:20 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Some Rat at January 09, 2022 10:09 PM (r1z5A)
Report to the nearest reeducation center and admit your wrongthink, comrade.
Posted by: Dr. T at January 09, 2022 10:20 PM (tp+tP)
Posted by: COVID at January 09, 2022 10:20 PM (ESjRY)
People were using #BareShelvesBiden to show bare shelves all over the country.
Even the mayor of Atlanta complained that a number of items were out of stock at her favorite store, although she claimed other stores were full.
Posted by: Virgil Starkwell! at January 09, 2022 10:20 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Jewells45
Wow. I don't think I've seen that before - acct number screwups, sure.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 09, 2022 10:20 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: Some Rat at January 09, 2022 10:08 PM (r1z5A)
Not me. I have a bag of starlight mints in my car, just in case. The green and white ones.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 09, 2022 10:20 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 10:20 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 09, 2022 10:18 PM (nxdel)
They had one job. Muffed it.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 09, 2022 10:21 PM (4I/2K)
The vast majority of prison inmates have multiple previous arrests and incarcerations. The vast majority have histories of violence.
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Calculating fools try to make you believe that black men are tossed into prison for life for stealing a loaf of bread to feed their starving families. Whereas the truth is you have to work hard to get there.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 09, 2022 10:22 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: Dr. T
gov inslee has you covered...sigh
Posted by: Covid. at January 09, 2022 10:22 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: callsign claymore at January 09, 2022 10:22 PM (osvju)
Who the hell would get their tongue split? Holy crap.
Posted by: nerdygirl
Did a doctor perform that split? If so, what kind of doctor would do that?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 09, 2022 10:22 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Some Rat at January 09, 2022 10:23 PM (r1z5A)
Aldi can't be considered indicative, because their inventory is always very tight, and they have their own labels & distribution & whatnot, so what's missing today will be there tomorrow. They're from another reality.
But at the Normal American grocery store, there were some obvious gaps on shelves. I picked up the last six-pack of our preferred "bathroom tissue." Notably, we now have more in house than they have on the shelves.
Posted by: mindful webworker - no food or water, but t.p.! at January 09, 2022 10:23 PM (hS7lz)
Yeah I mean who thinks to check the routing number on their checks? I never write checks.. maybe 5 or 6 a year. I'll be dead before I go through this next batch.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 09, 2022 10:23 PM (nxdel)
Can MD/NoVa folks confirm?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at January 09, 2022 10:11 PM (Dc2NZ)
Wally World here in AJ had a lot of empty space on the shelves, especially in the meat department. But, I did get fud, so there's that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 10:23 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: COVID
Poor COVID is so screwed.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at January 09, 2022 10:23 PM (SchxB)
Actually, people were posting pictures of bare shelves in Alexandria and DC.
Yeah, I was shocked - you'd think the Political Class would threaten suppliers to keep their shelves full.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 09, 2022 10:24 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: The FNM at January 09, 2022 10:24 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Dog in last picture at January 09, 2022 10:24 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: davidt at January 09, 2022 10:24 PM (g98Pl)
How many folks have starved to death after 24 hrs?
Posted by: Some Rat at January 09, 2022 10:08 PM (r1z5A)
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Teenage boys will tell you they're starving to death one hour after eating.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 09, 2022 10:24 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: Dogbert at January 09, 2022 10:24 PM (Z9HSN)
Who the hell would get their tongue split? Holy crap.
Posted by: nerdygirl
Did a doctor perform that split? If so, what kind of doctor would do that?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 09, 2022 10:22 PM (63Dwl)
The same ones that cut a dick off or suck the brains out of a baby. A barbaric creature who loves money.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 09, 2022 10:25 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: mindful webworker
At my two major groceries this weekend all Tyson frozen products not in stock. Nothing, zip, nada, zilch.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 09, 2022 10:25 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: Dogbert at January 09, 2022 10:24 PM (Z9HSN)
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Bob Saget was on tour?
Why did nobody notify me of this?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 10:25 PM (VxC1e)
I saw on twatter yesterday that a bunch of leftists were speculating, well, fantasizing, that DeathSantis had COVID.
Not sure why they thought so...
I'd expect AOC or DeSantis to recover from the Wu Flu pretty easily as both seem reasonably in shape.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 09, 2022 10:26 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at January 09, 2022 10:26 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Bob Saget at January 09, 2022 10:26 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Dog in last picture at January 09, 2022 10:24 PM (4I/2K)
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It's like he's a performance artist.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at January 09, 2022 10:27 PM (Dc2NZ)
Why did nobody notify me of this?
Well, see, he had a small health problem that prevented him from finishing the tour.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at January 09, 2022 10:27 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 10:27 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: 18-1
If it settles in her chest, she could be down for months.
Posted by: Some Rat at January 09, 2022 10:27 PM (r1z5A)
Reserve Best in Show (i.e. First Loser) for Miss Delilah today. Her Majesty says that if she can't go BIS she doesn't want anything else.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 09, 2022 10:27 PM (/U27+)
The old Soviet Union had a parallel supply chain with different stores for the elites.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 09, 2022 10:27 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 09, 2022 10:25 PM (mD/uy)
Comrade, ve are tryink to lessen COVID deaths from obesity comorbidity, da!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at January 09, 2022 10:28 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 09, 2022 10:26 PM (ESjRY)
Well, from the neck down, in her case.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 10:28 PM (P3gRi)
If I didn't despise liberal women so much, this would bother me. The fact is, if the gals in college sports had any brains they would simply boycott events where men participated. They don't have the guts to go against wokeness. This is identity politics.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 09, 2022 10:16 PM (+lVUW)"
I do find it hilarious that he was beaten by an actual woman, even if she's as much of a gender LARPer as he is. And at least her gender identity issues extend beyond "I suck at my sport, so if I pretend to be a woman then I'll be able to compete against women and then finally I'll win!"
Posted by: Saber Alter at January 09, 2022 10:28 PM (2PkFe)
Posted by: 18-1
If it settles in her chest, she could be down for months.
Posted by: Some Rat at January 09, 2022 10:27 PM (r1z5A)
***SNORT***
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 09, 2022 10:28 PM (aA3+G)
Bob Saget was on tour?
Why did nobody notify me of this?
Did he have people follow him around like the Grateful Dead?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 09, 2022 10:29 PM (63Dwl)
The gal does have her own personal flotation devices...
Posted by: Obligatory at January 09, 2022 10:29 PM (ESjRY)
Even if most people don't get very sick, enough people are going to be sick for a few days to really disrupt things.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 09, 2022 10:29 PM (I2/tG)
Just a heavy winter storm. Couldn't possibly have anything to do with gov inslee firing, among others,, 177 snow plow drivers and mechanics.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at January 09, 2022 10:29 PM (TfRuS)
Dave Matthews Band has some good songs for sure, but their fan base is chock full of a lot of pretentious douchebags.
Posted by: Doof at January 09, 2022 10:29 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 09, 2022 10:29 PM (63Dwl)
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Ferretheads?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 10:29 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: davidt at January 09, 2022 10:30 PM (g98Pl)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at January 09, 2022 10:30 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 09, 2022 10:18 PM (nxdel)
Hah. Whenever I get a new box of checks there is that paper telling me to check the documents for accuracy. I never do it.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 09, 2022 10:30 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 09, 2022 10:30 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at January 09, 2022 10:27 PM (Dc2NZ)
Looks like the pic was taken in Viet Nam. Maybe it's considered lucky to have a dog poop for a wedding photo.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 10:30 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Saber Alter
Wait, the female transmorphing into a boy was competing against women??? I has the confuseds.
Posted by: Some Rat at January 09, 2022 10:30 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at January 09, 2022 10:29 PM (TfRuS)
We have always been at war with Mother Nature!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at January 09, 2022 10:31 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 09, 2022 10:31 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 09, 2022 10:31 PM (IJES/)
Oregon's having real problems keeping the roads open, I suspect for similar reasons.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 09, 2022 10:32 PM (I2/tG)
Terrible film.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 09, 2022 10:32 PM (lTtXP)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 10:32 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at January 09, 2022 10:32 PM (rwusL)
I kinda appreciate how a good leash keeps little ones from running around in a restaurant.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at January 09, 2022 10:33 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Blanco Basura
The only problem is that it is only effective for 4 hours, and then you need another boost.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 09, 2022 10:33 PM (hnK4B)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I thought is was "He who wears pee of the Tiger will be visited by luck throughout the year." but I've been known to be wrong before.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 09, 2022 10:33 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 09, 2022 10:33 PM (hnK4B)
Posted by: Omicron at January 09, 2022 10:33 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 10:30 PM (P3gRi)
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What's really lucky is a photo in front of John McCain's crashed plane in Hanoi.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 10:33 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Full House Fanatic at January 09, 2022 10:33 PM (snngm)
Terrible film.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
The pron version of Jaws 2 was terrifying!!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 09, 2022 10:34 PM (mD/uy)
Heh.
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Posted by: mindful webworker - it seemed funny in my head... at January 09, 2022 10:34 PM (hS7lz)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 09, 2022 10:33 PM (mD/uy)
Well, if the Foo shits, wear it. This is known.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 10:34 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Azjaeger at January 09, 2022 10:34 PM (3/XaG)
Terrible film.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 09, 2022 10:32 PM (lTtXP)
You ain't seen nothing yet!
Posted by: Jaws 3D at January 09, 2022 10:34 PM (4I/2K)
Can MD/NoVa folks confirm?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at January 09, 2022 10:11 PM (Dc2NZ)
My neck of the woods (30 mins northeast of Baltimore) certainly has some bare shelves. Today I couldn't find cans of crescent rolls or biscuit dough at 3 different stores. Just one example.
Posted by: Doof at January 09, 2022 10:35 PM (mZUr4)
And he's wetting us all with the pee-eee-eee-eee of the tiger
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at January 09, 2022 10:35 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Coquettish Haberdasher at January 09, 2022 10:35 PM (buTO7)
Terrible film.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 09, 2022 10:32 PM (lTtXP)
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You say this because you haven't seen Jaws 3-D.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at January 09, 2022 10:35 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Full House Fanatic at January 09, 2022 10:33 PM (snngm)
Have mercy!
Posted by: Doof at January 09, 2022 10:35 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Some Rat at January 09, 2022 10:30 PM (r1z5A)
Don't feel bad; so does she.
Posted by: Dr. T at January 09, 2022 10:36 PM (tp+tP)
Almost as if they don't want to shine any light on anything or, ask too many of the wrong questions.
Cowards, poltroons and liars.
Arc, I saw where Portland employees are talking about striking. Who do they think they are, teachers?
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at January 09, 2022 10:36 PM (TfRuS)
So, Dave is an African-American, then. I honestly did not know that.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 09, 2022 10:36 PM (DTX3h)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 10:33 PM (VxC1e)
LOL
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 09, 2022 10:36 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Omicron at January 09, 2022 10:33 PM (4I/2K)
Lots of room. Room to move, even:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLp0AsKXMEs
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 10:37 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Black Orchid at January 09, 2022 10:38 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Sarah Karen Hadassah Beam at January 09, 2022 10:38 PM (Xrfse)
I remember as a kid reading obscure fairy tales that were written to point out the stupids of those in authority. Massachusetts educators certainly fit.
What a bunch of fools.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 09, 2022 10:39 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 09, 2022 10:40 PM (pNxlR)
weird thing to be out of, no?
Posted by: Black Orchid at January 09, 2022 10:40 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Full House Fanatic at January 09, 2022 10:40 PM (snngm)
I remember as a kid reading obscure fairy tales that were written to point out the stupids of those in authority. Massachusetts educators certainly fit.
What a bunch of fools.
Posted by: Diogenes
???? This is parody...please tell me this is a joke. Lie if you must.
Posted by: Some Rat at January 09, 2022 10:41 PM (r1z5A)
Yep. The problem is that along with a few bureaucrats, the people who actually do things (i.e. maintain the water system) are the ones threatening to go on strike. It's not like things would crash on day one, but a lengthy strike would be a problem.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 09, 2022 10:41 PM (I2/tG)
>>Even the mayor of Atlanta complained that a number of items were out of stock at her favorite store, although she claimed other stores were full.
Well get a load of this headline....
https://tinyurl.com/2p9be4tm
Seriously, these people are dangerous and mentally unwell.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 09, 2022 10:41 PM (lTtXP)
Posted by: Sarah Karen Hadassah Beam at January 09, 2022 10:41 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: nerdygirl
Did a doctor perform that split? If so, what kind of doctor would do that?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 09, 2022 10:22 PM (63Dwl)
Maybe the same one who carved up Michael Jackson's nose to the point where it was down to the bone.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 09, 2022 10:42 PM (+lVUW)
Welp, all of AOC's fans will now work hard to get COVID, so they can brag on Twitter about suffering like their Queen.
Posted by: Gref at January 09, 2022 10:43 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Sarah Karen Hadassah Beam at January 09, 2022 10:44 PM (Xrfse)
https://tinyurl.com/2p9be4tm
Seriously, these people are dangerous and mentally unwell.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 09, 2022 10:41 PM
Writing like that should be pretty much expected from someone named Homely Frump.
Posted by: Bert G (new podacst episode) at January 09, 2022 10:44 PM (FyH5u)
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tested positive for COVID-19 Sunday.
___________
It's her own damn fault for not isolating herself. She should be denied medical care.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 09, 2022 10:44 PM (/U27+)
>>You say this because you haven't seen Jaws 3-D.
Like The Matrix, there really is only one Jaws film.
The only reason I saw Jaws 2 was purely as a tag along with my friends.
I may have seen bits of Jaws 3D but not willingly.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 09, 2022 10:45 PM (lTtXP)
Posted by: FriscoYoda at January 09, 2022 10:45 PM (+56GQ)
Posted by: mindful webworker - no food or water, but t.p.! at January 09, 2022 10:23 PM (hS7lz)
I've noticed the same thing. Every time I do grocery shopping there are a couple of common items that are completely gone.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 09, 2022 10:45 PM (+lVUW)
I hope it doesn't come to that if only because of the innocent people getting hurt. Portland has become, fairly or not, the poster child for riots and stupid policy decisions.
I used to love the place. Now, I have a private pool on when Powell's gets burned down.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at January 09, 2022 10:45 PM (TfRuS)
Posted by: Some Rat at January 09, 2022 10:08 PM (r1z5A)
I would!
Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at January 09, 2022 10:45 PM (lCui1)
Posted by: Sarah Karen Hadassah Beam at January 09, 2022 10:44 PM (Xrfse)
Any relation to the distillery family? You teach in my school district, ya goofball. You're now the pride of CFISD.
Posted by: Jaws 3D at January 09, 2022 10:46 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 09, 2022 10:46 PM (+lVUW)
The Biden Economy Happens to Be Glorious | Opinion
Happy workers and peasants spontaneously gathered in public squares across America this morning, in order to praise Zhou Bi Den!
"We get more like those superior societies in Asia every day", Zhou exulted!
Posted by: American Central News Agency! at January 09, 2022 10:47 PM (I2/tG)
New Hotness: A gubmint check, rampant inflation, and confinement to your house.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 09, 2022 10:48 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Sarah Karen Hadassah Beam at January 09, 2022 10:48 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 09, 2022 10:49 PM (Hm+BW)
Posted by: CppThis at January 09, 2022 10:49 PM (UewuT)
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 09, 2022 10:46 PM (+lVUW)
I'm not too proud to get on hands and knees to search the back of the bottom shelf for my wanted item. And make ALL the requisite groaning old man noises getting down and getting back up.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 09, 2022 10:49 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: random artsnark at January 09, 2022 10:49 PM (TjMft)
All I'm getting is that you like to horse around.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at January 09, 2022 10:49 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 09, 2022 10:49 PM (Hm+BW)
Posted by: Zombie Abe Vigoda at January 09, 2022 10:50 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: 18-1
Used to think I'd be dead before it all went to shit. I really underestimated joey.
Posted by: Some Rat at January 09, 2022 10:51 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 09, 2022 10:51 PM (yQpMk)
Portland can always send the "city planners" and the "Equity" apparatchiks out to repair any broken water mains.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 09, 2022 10:51 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at January 09, 2022 10:51 PM (TfRuS)
Posted by: Jaws 3D at January 09, 2022 10:46 PM (4I/2K)
Here name is Bream, not Beam. Apparently her father was a notorious white supremacist, so yeah, Democrat.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 10:51 PM (P3gRi)
>>First Sidney Poitier, now Bob Saget. It comes in threes...who's next..?
Betty White died as well, but it seems like a lot of famous and not so famous people have been kicking the bucket lately.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 09, 2022 10:51 PM (lTtXP)
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
It was never about the illness.
Posted by: Some Rat at January 09, 2022 10:53 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: FriscoYoda at January 09, 2022 10:45 PM (+56GQ)
you must have a grudge against your dick. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 09, 2022 10:53 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Sarah Karen Hadassah Beam at January 09, 2022 10:53 PM (Xrfse)
That, and I have a lump of coal for a heart.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at January 09, 2022 10:53 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Hobbiehawk at January 09, 2022 10:53 PM (xvo2h)
weird thing to be out of, no?
Posted by: Black Orchid
Milady Jo notes, Aldi has it on sale this week. We just picked up a pint carton.
* pours a cup of egg whites through the USB port for Black Orchid *
Posted by: mindful webworker - what do they do with the yolks? at January 09, 2022 10:53 PM (hS7lz)
I described her profession as, Albert Speer without the power and slave labor.
Why no, we're not seeing each othyer, how did you guess?
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at January 09, 2022 10:53 PM (TfRuS)
How many folks have starved to death after 24 hrs?
Posted by: Some Rat
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I was. But a pie plate of chopped onion, pickle, a tomato, mustard and smoked ham did the trick.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 09, 2022 10:54 PM (Kv8Dk)
And such a good Gun Thread it was! But, this is the ONT, so.. *pours bourbon* Cheers!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 09, 2022 10:54 PM (QzJWU)
What did she think was going to happen after running around Florida unmasked?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 09, 2022 10:54 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 09, 2022 10:51 PM (lTtXP)
It's almost like we are getting into the time frame when the "side effects" of the last round of booster shots become most prevalent.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 10:54 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Zettai at January 09, 2022 10:18 PM
Close tags are vastly overrated.
Any commenter with hair on their chest would certainly never put them in their name string.
Posted by: The Barrel at January 09, 2022 10:54 PM (a3Q+t)
>>Why are they forcing people to get the vaccine for the Omicron variant when the vaccine doesn't protect against the Omicron variant, nor even claim to?
Well to be fair, the "vaccines" don't work for any variant seeing as, using their own numbers, literally nothing has changed since the introduction of the "vaccine."
Although the vaccines seem to really hate European Soccer Players.
Can't really blame it for that.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 09, 2022 10:55 PM (lTtXP)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 10:55 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 09, 2022 10:55 PM (ZMraq)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 09, 2022 10:51 PM (lTtXP)
It's almost like we are getting into the time frame when the "side effects" of the last round of booster shots become most prevalent.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 10:54 PM (P3gRi)
*tee hee*
Posted by: Great Resetters at January 09, 2022 10:55 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 09, 2022 10:55 PM (Hm+BW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 10:51 PM (P3gRi)
No results searching on Bream. Turns out it is Beam.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 09, 2022 10:55 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 09, 2022 10:51 PM (yQpMk)
That's not the point. Now get on the train, comrade
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at January 09, 2022 10:55 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Just Wondering at January 09, 2022 10:56 PM (jYQlA)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 09, 2022 10:51 PM (yQpMk)
That's not the point. Now get on the train, comrade
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at January 09, 2022 10:55 PM (hOUT3)
If you had been vaccinated that bear wouldn't have eaten my kayak!!!!
Posted by: Kayak Karen at January 09, 2022 10:56 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Megthered at January 09, 2022 10:57 PM (iV0WI)
Posted by: kbdabear at January 09, 2022 10:57 PM (qAR6u)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 09, 2022 10:51 PM (lTtXP)
That's right - forgot about ol' Betty. Maybe they were trying to make it past the holidays....?
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 09, 2022 10:57 PM (Hm+BW)
Oh great I will check Aldi! I went to Trader Joe's, BJs, Wegmans and Target and no love!
Posted by: Black Orchid at January 09, 2022 10:59 PM (j9HX3)
Officials with the school district said Beam is on administrative leave from her job as an English teacher at Cypress Falls High School, where she has worked since 2011, KPRC reported.
from the Dallas Morning News. I guess the Houston Chronicle did not find anything newsworthy in this story.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 09, 2022 10:59 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 09, 2022 10:55 PM (4I/2K)
You are right. My mistake. I blame autocucumber. Heh. Saw a yard sale sign today: "Yard Sard (damned autocorrect)".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 10:59 PM (P3gRi)
Our troop held an Eagle Court of Honor today, the first in nearly two years. The young man honored had earned the rank 22 months ago.
I had resisted anything short of an in-person recognition for the honor during this Coof bullshit -- every one of the young men who earned the honor deserved nothing less. There are still four in the queue and I hope we will be able to do right by every one of them in the months to come.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 09, 2022 11:00 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 09, 2022 10:27 PM (/U27+)
Give Delilah a little kiss on the top of her head. She's a goood girrrl.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 09, 2022 11:01 PM (+lVUW)
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Don't get too excited. Less than 1/2 of 1% fatality rate.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 09, 2022 11:02 PM (FVME7)
Meritorious accomplishments by young men deserve respect and in person community acknowledgement!
Good on you!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at January 09, 2022 11:02 PM (hOUT3)
You're supposed to regularly exercise the shutoff valves on water mains, to ensure that you can control the flow of water in an emergency. They don't dare do that on much of Portland's water system, because they're afraid that if they turn the valve to the "off" position, they won't be able to turn it back on again.
There's always money for more planners and diversity bureaucrats, of course.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 09, 2022 11:03 PM (I2/tG)
I batted 0.500 on Eagles with my two sons. But the one that didn't distinguished himself in other positive ways
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 09, 2022 11:04 PM (Hm+BW)
Posted by: Braenyard at January 09, 2022 11:04 PM (Kv8Dk)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter
But, if one is double vaxxed and boosted, that drops to 1/2 of 1%.
Posted by: Some Rat at January 09, 2022 11:04 PM (r1z5A)
(you know that's coming)
Posted by: davidt at January 09, 2022 10:24 PM (g98Pl)
of course AOC got Covid, she got the saline like the rest of Congress and stupidly went to that pesthole Florida
Posted by: Karen - Slow to the game at January 09, 2022 11:05 PM (ZMraq)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 09, 2022 11:03 PM (I2/tG)
Ah yes comrade, you understand fundamental priorities!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at January 09, 2022 11:05 PM (hOUT3)
Maintenance, what's that?
But, from reading the, "News", Portland has many lead pipes poisoning people of color.
It's catastrophic.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at January 09, 2022 11:05 PM (TfRuS)
Posted by: Tonypete
Auto battery. I think it's 4 gauge because that's what the replacement battery cable comes in.
TemCo make a little dieless crimper but is hydraulic.
https://temcoindustrial.com/
dieless-indent-lug-crimping-tool
-8-awg-to-0000-awg-4-0/
Just wondering if anyone had used it or something similar...
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 09, 2022 11:05 PM (okV1R)
Terrible film.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 09, 2022 10:32 PM (lTtXP)
>>> I watched Earthquake as a kid and was terrified. Watched it again a few weeks ago and wow was it awful. Just absolutely awful. Still fun to see 70's LA. And Genevieve Bujold was prettier than I remembered.
Posted by: 496 at January 09, 2022 11:06 PM (U1eOr)
Akshually, it drops to 0.4999999 of 1.0000001%
Posted by: random artsnark at January 09, 2022 11:06 PM (TjMft)
Good on you as well!
Positive is an increasingly rare attribute!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at January 09, 2022 11:06 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at January 09, 2022 11:07 PM (TfRuS)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 11:09 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 09, 2022 11:09 PM (2RBkF)
Paraphrasing from memory - but that was the gist of it.....
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 09, 2022 11:09 PM (Hm+BW)
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 09, 2022 10:16 PM (+lVUW)
That's about the same place I am on this tranny nonsense--it's suburban libs (and their kids) getting purged by their own cultural Marxism. First-gen feminists even warned them that this would happen, but they didn't listen so here we are. ZFG when it comes to collectivists' internecine wars.
Posted by: CppThis at January 09, 2022 11:09 PM (UewuT)
Posted by: Jay, why cue eye, eh? at January 09, 2022 11:09 PM (jYQlA)
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic
Ah, makes sense to my little pea brain now.
If you don't want to spend that much on a tool that won't be used that often, check with some car parts places. They may have a loaner or two.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 09, 2022 11:10 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: Theodore at January 09, 2022 11:12 PM (GJnvT)
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 09, 2022 11:05 PM (okV1R)
A crimper that will do a satisfactory job on such heavy wire will be an expensive tool to buy for a one-off job. You can buy terminal ends with a screw-clamp arrangement, or solder-on terminals. Easiest is just to buy cables with pre-crimped ends.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 11:12 PM (P3gRi)
It's her own damn fault for not isolating herself. She should be denied medical care.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 09, 2022 10:44 PM (/U27+)
Comment of the night. By the way, there are photos of her in Miami, maskless around large groups of people.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 09, 2022 11:12 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: 496 at January 09, 2022 11:14 PM (U1eOr)
Paraphrasing from memory - but that was the gist of it.....
Welcome to our almost free state.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at January 09, 2022 11:14 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: random artsnark at January 09, 2022 11:15 PM (TjMft)
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 09, 2022 11:15 PM (Hm+BW)
Alberta Oil Peon
Looks like the practical way to go.
But the dingdang wire is so thick, I didn't think I could get all of it between the plates.
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 09, 2022 11:15 PM (okV1R)
Posted by: Beartooth at January 09, 2022 11:16 PM (j7VPE)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 09, 2022 10:51 PM (lTtXP)
The fact that her publicist had to come out and say that Betty was NOT vaxxed is a big tell to where the majority's mind is at right now.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 09, 2022 11:16 PM (ZMraq)
TemCo make a little dieless crimper but is hydraulic.
https://temcoindustrial.com/
dieless-indent-lug-crimping-tool
-8-awg-to-0000-awg-4-0/
Just wondering if anyone had used it or something similar...
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 09, 2022 11:05 PM (okV1R)
I use an impact crimper thats sold by All Balls for making custom battery cables for the harleys, which are 4 gauge. Sits on the bench, put the wire in it and whack it with a hammer. Crimps great. I think it was $45, and it will never break. I think summit racing has one for around $30. Cheap and effective.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 09, 2022 11:17 PM (VwHCD)
Ha! In a couple of days, expect a series of histrionic AOC tweets explaining that she was a death's door, thanks to the Trump Virus, and that the only way to compensate her for all her suffering is to pass her entire legislative agenda.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 09, 2022 11:17 PM (I2/tG)
Maybe I'll try to get a pic of said billboard on my way home Wednesday and send it in to HQ.
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 09, 2022 11:17 PM (Hm+BW)
Posted by: Theodore at January 09, 2022 11:18 PM (GJnvT)
Posted by: klaftern at January 09, 2022 11:18 PM (taPSh)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at January 09, 2022 11:19 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: sven at January 09, 2022 11:19 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Theodore at January 09, 2022 11:18 PM (GJnvT)
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FEEEEEED MEEEEEEE!
Posted by: Audrey II at January 09, 2022 11:20 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Jay, why cue eye, eh? at January 09, 2022 11:21 PM (jYQlA)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 09, 2022 10:49 PM (4I/2K)
Both me AND my dog make those noises now.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 09, 2022 11:22 PM (+lVUW)
But the dingdang wire is so thick, I didn't think I could get all of it between the plates.
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 09, 2022 11:15 PM (okV1R)
4 Ga. is pretty scrawny as battery cables go. If you have a hammer, and punches or cold chisels, you can do a crimp, as long as you have a vee block, or a block with a U-groove to set the terminal in. Slip a piece of heat shrink sleeve over the cable, put the skinned cable end in the terminal, set the terminal in the vee block, and use a hammer to drive a dull punch or dull cold chisel down onto the terminal sleeve area. That will upset the sleeve and make a tight bond.
If you are anywhere near Apache Junction, bring it over here, and I will do it for you.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 11:22 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 11:25 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 09, 2022 11:26 PM (ZMraq)
Posted by: Jay, why cue eye, eh? at January 09, 2022 11:21 PM (jYQlA)
Quartzsite has a big gem and mineral show this time of year. I usually stop for gas there 'cause it's a buck cheaper per gal than on the Ca side. Not this time - never seen it so crowded. But yes -it is very nice weatherwise this time of year unless you're from coastal Orange County...
I have the same plan - retire soon and terrorize small towns all across the nation with my terrible trailer towing skills.....
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 09, 2022 11:26 PM (Hm+BW)
I did not know that. I'll pick up some screw plate connectors.
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 09, 2022 11:27 PM (okV1R)
Posted by: Jay, why cue eye, eh? at January 09, 2022 11:21 PM (jYQlA)
Quartzsite is where the Flxible coach club has their roundezvous:
http://www.flxible.net/a046.html
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 11:28 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 11:28 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Theodore at January 09, 2022 11:18 PM (GJnvT
I advise you go lay in a store of it. It was a pain going to all those stores to find mine.
Posted by: Beartooth at January 09, 2022 11:28 PM (j7VPE)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
Thanks, Berserker.
We saw that type on various webpages, but are hoping not to have to take the cable out. It disappears into the Land that Time Forgot as far back as it goes under the hood.
: -)
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 09, 2022 11:31 PM (okV1R)
Yeah, my wedding tackle isn't getting anywhere near those teeth, my friend.
Any word on whether her soyfriend also has it? It might hit that pudgy manlet hard. He doesn't look to be in great shape.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 09, 2022 11:31 PM (bW8dp)
Still a nice gesture by the company, even if they would have had to deeply discount day(s) old bread by the time the truck could get where it was going. But if I don't have enough to drink the last thing *I* want is bread.
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at January 09, 2022 11:31 PM (3cGpq)
While surveying near I-10 between Blythe, CA and Quartzite one of the punk helpers was very excited about there being Rock festival at Quartzite. He barrow one of SUVs and drove over to Quartzite only to discover the rock festival was just that, hundreds of rock hounds swapping and selling rocks.
Posted by: Beartooth at January 09, 2022 11:32 PM (j7VPE)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
The other two are Startish and Almostranish ...
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 09, 2022 11:32 PM (okV1R)
: -)
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 09, 2022 11:31 PM (okV1R)
The clamp-on type of battery terminal works fine. I have driven untold thousands of miles on vehicles with those in place.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 11:34 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Theodore at January 09, 2022 11:18 PM (GJnvT)
Feeed Meeee!
Posted by: Theodore's Plant at January 09, 2022 11:34 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 09, 2022 11:31 PM (bW8dp)
Bucktoothed girls give the best! No ouchies!!
Posted by: Scrape Free at January 09, 2022 11:34 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Amy Schumer at January 09, 2022 11:35 PM (VxC1e)
The others being Basque and Hungarian, I guess?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 09, 2022 11:36 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 09, 2022 11:36 PM (bW8dp)
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Ooof!
Collect your prize from the cashiers window.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 11:36 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 11:37 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: klaftern at January 09, 2022 11:18 PM (taPSh)
According to Paul Ehrlich, we were all supposed to starve to death by 1980 anyway.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 09, 2022 11:38 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 09, 2022 11:36 PM
Estonian and Hungarian...
Posted by: Zettai at January 09, 2022 11:39 PM (3piNy)
Posted by: Zettai at January 09, 2022 11:40 PM (3piNy)
Posted by: nerdygirl
Meh, we've lasted 21 years without oil, what's a year without food?
Posted by: Some Rat at January 09, 2022 11:40 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 09, 2022 11:38 PM (+lVUW)
Would you believe 2030? 2035?
Posted by: Paul Ehrlich, Agent 86 at January 09, 2022 11:40 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 11:40 PM (VxC1e)
Let's face it, feminazis: there is no such thing as "women's sports" any more.
There's men's sports and tranny sports. That is all.
Welcome to the world you made.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 09, 2022 11:40 PM (bW8dp)
I am trying to figure out what the lesson for that is. Maybe people are just funny about disease. Maybe that older people are risk-averse. Maybe academia or the internet ruins you.
I have a fear that maybe if you fight a monster too long (EG Denethor) you come out of it a little warped, even though you completely resisted bending in the direction you were being pushed.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 09, 2022 11:41 PM (ybIRR)
Posted by: Theodore at January 09, 2022 11:41 PM (GJnvT)
Bypassed the pump relay, and ran the pump about 30 seconds, to purge the lines of air. Tried the key, engine started and quit. Did this several times. Finally put my foot on the foot feed, tried the key, and it started and ran on all 8 cylinders. Would not idle, no way, no how. Apparently it needs to be drive for ten minutes or so for the ECM to "relearn" how to control the idle air motor.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 11:41 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 09, 2022 11:41 PM (bW8dp)
This is how I know you're 29 years old.
A kid today wouldn't have any idea what a "foot feed" was.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 09, 2022 11:42 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: Paco at January 09, 2022 11:43 PM (njExo)
...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 11:41 PM (P3gRi)
Congrats!
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 09, 2022 11:43 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Zettai at January 09, 2022 11:44 PM (3piNy)
Posted by: Zettai at January 09, 2022 11:39 PM (3piNy)
Estonian is very similar to Finnish. According to an ex-friend, who is of Estonian descent, an Esto and a Finn can have a mutually comprehensible conversation, each speaking on their own native tongue.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 11:44 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 09, 2022 11:44 PM (bW8dp)
Too bad Keith just wants Joe to line us up against a wall.
Remember Sportscenter in the early 90s? lol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 09, 2022 11:45 PM (dNqv+)
This is how I know you're 29 years old.
A kid today wouldn't have any idea what a "foot feed" was.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 09, 2022 11:42 PM (bW8dp)
Hell, I'm 29 and have never heard the term foot feed. I assumes it is Canadian for gas pedal.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 09, 2022 11:45 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Theodore at January 09, 2022 11:46 PM (GJnvT)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 09, 2022 11:44 PM (bW8dp)
I thought it was a falcon.
Posted by: Humphrey Bogart at January 09, 2022 11:46 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 09, 2022 11:46 PM (QU5/8)
Hmm. Wish I had of thought of that one 30 years ago.
Posted by: Paco at January 09, 2022 11:46 PM (njExo)
I'm 29 too, but when I was a kid all the old timers called it that.
I think it dates back to the days when the throttle was a separate lever that you operated by hand.
Kids also have no idea what that round button on the floorboard of older cars is for.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 09, 2022 11:46 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 09, 2022 11:42 PM (bW8dp)
Heh. I never heard the term "foot feed" until I moved to Alberta. But it was obvious from context.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 11:46 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 09, 2022 11:45 PM (4I/2K)
As opposed to a hand throttle, I guess?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 09, 2022 11:46 PM (dNqv+)
Posted by: Zettai at January 09, 2022 11:47 PM (3piNy)
Posted by: Humphrey Bogart at January 09, 2022 11:46 PM (4I/2K)
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It was a MacGuffin.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 11:47 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 09, 2022 11:47 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 09, 2022 11:48 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 09, 2022 11:48 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Jay, why cue eye, eh? at January 09, 2022 11:49 PM (jYQlA)
Basque is not a "major" language...
Posted by: Zettai at January 09, 2022 11:40 PM (3piNy)
unlike Estonian?
Posted by: Kindltot at January 09, 2022 11:49 PM (ZMraq)
We saw that type on various webpages, but are hoping not to have to take the cable out. It disappears into the Land that Time Forgot as far back as it goes under the hood.
: -)
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 09, 2022 11:31 PM (okV1R)
Oh, not making new ones? yeah, you would need a squeeze crimper in a tight area, or like AOP says, those clamp on terminals work great, if thats the ebd you're working on. I got one on my muscle car, because the pricks want $150 for a period correct anal vintage homo version of a battery cable, and the cheaper one look like they came from hut 43.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 09, 2022 11:50 PM (VwHCD)
Basque is not a "major" language...
Posted by: Zettai at January 09, 2022 11:40 PM (3piNy)
unlike Estonian?
Posted by: Kindltot at January 09, 2022 11:49 PM (ZMraq)
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I'm not Tallinn.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 11:51 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 09, 2022 11:46 PM (dNqv+)
Yeah. A lot of older cars, and notably, Model T Fords, had quadrants on the steering column, with levers. One was for spark advance, and the other was the throttle. You had to manipulate both of them to get the most from the engine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 11:51 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Has the sugar been flushed?
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 09, 2022 11:51 PM (okV1R)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 11:44 PM
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Similar to my doggehs and me
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 09, 2022 11:51 PM (Mrx/V)
Sales of Land Yachts to Mafia types, when the trucks were rated in terms of cubic corpses. Sad, how things have declined. The latest version of the Lincoln Continental is a barely two guido trunk, and you'd have to chop up a third to get 'im in there. Ah, the days of the old Town Car, could carry six live up front and six goin' to sleep wit' da' fishes in the trunk.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 09, 2022 11:52 PM (QzJWU)
Is that right?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 09, 2022 11:52 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Folks of Italian extraction can do that without saying a word by only using their hands.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 09, 2022 11:53 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 09, 2022 11:54 PM (Mrx/V)
There's almost a million Estonian speakers in Estonia, only a few thousand Basque speakers in Spain, France, and Andorra...
Posted by: Zettai at January 09, 2022 11:54 PM (ldx5s)
Though they don't claim it is a cajun, they use the term 'Koine' to reflect the Greek based trade language of the Eastern Mediterranean
Posted by: Kindltot at January 09, 2022 11:54 PM (ZMraq)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 09, 2022 11:50 PM (VwHCD)
For good battery terminal ends, that also look good, try an ag equipment dealer, or heavy truck supply dealer. They will have solder-on terminals, pre-tinned, and/or brass terminals with a collet-style clamp instead of the pair of 1/4-20 hex bolts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 11:54 PM (P3gRi)
My late brother had a beater Cadillac Coupe de Ville... one of the last model years before the fuel crunch hit. '73, maybe?
He took out the back seat and put a queen size mattress in there, going back into the trunk. Used it as a poor man's camper for fishing trips and such.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 09, 2022 11:54 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: davidt at January 09, 2022 11:55 PM (g98Pl)
Posted by: Jay, why cue eye, eh? at January 09, 2022 11:49 PM (jYQlA)
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The winner makes the playoffs, the loser doesn't. If it's a tie they both go and Pittsburgh doesn't make the playoffs.
Posted by: zmdavid at January 09, 2022 11:56 PM (xqRaG)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 09, 2022 11:56 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 09, 2022 11:41 PM (bW8dp)
Well, Franco, too.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 09, 2022 11:56 PM (ZMraq)
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 09, 2022 11:51 PM (okV1R)
I scrubbed the tank out with hot water and dish soap, two rinses of freash water, and dried it inside with a towel. Clean as a whistle.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 11:56 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Jay, why cue eye, eh? at January 09, 2022 11:57 PM (jYQlA)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 09, 2022 11:28 PM (VxC1e)
The other two are Estonian and Magyar. All three are Uralic languages (which used to be known as Finno-Ugric).
Basque is also a non Indo-European language (and an isolate, meaning it has no known connections to any other spoken language), but since only about 750K people speak it I wouldn't classify it as "major".
Posted by: HTL at January 09, 2022 11:58 PM (G6nPO)
Posted by: JuJuBee at January 09, 2022 11:59 PM (mNhhD)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2022 12:00 AM (ZMraq)
Basque is not a "major" language...
Posted by: Zettai at January 09, 2022 11:40 PM (3piNy)
Don't tell Mr Alzate that...
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 10, 2022 12:00 AM (UbN2d)
Posted by: davidt at January 10, 2022 12:00 AM (g98Pl)
There's an old saying that a language is a dialect with an army.
The Basques aren't numerous, but they punch way above their weight when it comes to organized violence.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 12:01 AM (bW8dp)
Is that right?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 09, 2022 11:52 PM (bW8dp)
According to my late friend Jerry, who knew Model T's well, that is how it is done. He told me once, "(Peon), every guy who considers himself a car guy, owes it to himself to own a Model T, at least once. They were hugely significant, because they put America (and Canada) on wheels, and they were also so different from all the other cars out there, that you have own and drive one to appreciate what they were all about."
Jerry Hoines, RIP. I miss you, man.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2022 12:02 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: JuJuBee at January 09, 2022 11:59 PM (mNhhD)
If she had been rear-ended, she'd not have had a kid.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2022 12:03 AM (P3gRi)
I see the Houston Texans have covered themselves in crap, finishing with 4 wins and 13 losses, tying the Giants and the Jets. But the Jaguars and the Lions undersnaked them with 3 wins and 14 losses, earning the coveted draft pick position.
What a shit show.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 10, 2022 12:04 AM (4I/2K)
The Basques aren't numerous, but they punch way above their weight when it comes to organized violence.
They could whip Lloyd Austin.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 10, 2022 12:04 AM (63Dwl)
There's Estonian. Let them duke it out with the Basques about who is more major than whom.
Posted by: Brett at January 10, 2022 12:04 AM (cpCFS)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 10, 2022 12:04 AM (dNqv+)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 09, 2022 11:46 PM (bW8dp)
High-beam? Before that Starter?
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 10, 2022 12:05 AM (UbN2d)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2022 12:03 AM (P3gRi)
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Don't assume, h8tr.
Posted by: Lactatin' Pete at January 10, 2022 12:05 AM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Flatville Bill at January 10, 2022 12:05 AM (tEsMf)
Posted by: Jay, why cue eye, eh? at January 10, 2022 12:05 AM (jYQlA)
It is photo documented.
Posted by: Phuk Ho Le at January 10, 2022 12:06 AM (4OCVV)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 10, 2022 12:06 AM (5We2S)
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 09, 2022 11:51 PM (okV1R) ~ I scrubbed the tank out with hot water and dish soap, two rinses of freash water, and dried it inside with a towel. Clean as a whistle. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 11:56 PM (P3gRi)
Not surprising that the Grand Cherokee has the High Sugars. Lotsa those ol' Injuns get that affliction, 'specially with that genetic allergy to the white man's firewater.
And now the white man sneaks the
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 10, 2022 12:06 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 10, 2022 12:04 AM (dNqv+)
Tractors pretty much all have hand throttles, as do medium and heavy trucks, in many cases. Especially those that have a power take-off to run a winch or hoist, like tow trucks, for example.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2022 12:06 AM (P3gRi)
I remember distributors used to have a
"vacuum advance", which I presume does the same job in an automated way.
Of course, we're getting to where even knowing what a distributor is is close to being a sign of 29-year-old-hood.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 12:07 AM (bW8dp)
Posted by: Steelers at January 10, 2022 12:07 AM (g98Pl)
Thinking "high beam" = 29 year old.
Thinking "starter" = "older than dirt".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 12:08 AM (bW8dp)
Posted by: zmdavid at January 10, 2022 12:09 AM (xqRaG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2022 12:03 AM (P3gRi)
And yet we're expected to defer to these 'people' in the education of our childrens.....
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 10, 2022 12:10 AM (UbN2d)
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 10, 2022 12:05 AM (UbN2d)
Yep. Dimmer switch, and starter button. Some makes put the starter button where it could be depressed by pushing the clutch pedal right to the floor; others put it under or adjacent to the gas pedal.
And some Cadillacs with the signal-seeking radio had a toeboard button that would cause the radio to scan to the next active channel. That used to really mystify my passengers, LOL.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2022 12:11 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 10, 2022 12:13 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 12:01 AM (bW8dp)
The wife is Basque, Irish and Norwegian. Not sure what that says about her.
Posted by: Javems at January 10, 2022 12:13 AM (AmoqO)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 12:08 AM (bW8dp)
Old enough to have owned a car with high beam button on floor. Not old enough for starter on floor.
What feature was always the first thing to die on a new car? (Should be an easy one for the 29 year olds....)
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 10, 2022 12:15 AM (UbN2d)
Posted by: Jay, why cue eye, eh? at January 10, 2022 12:16 AM (jYQlA)
Thinking "high beam" = 29 year old.
Thinking "starter" = "older than dirt".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 12:08 AM (bW8dp)
Drove a farm truck with a floor starter as a teenager. Doubt it had high beams.
Posted by: Javems at January 10, 2022 12:16 AM (AmoqO)
Posted by: Flatville Bill at January 10, 2022 12:16 AM (tEsMf)
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 10, 2022 12:15 AM (UbN2d)
Cruise control?
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 10, 2022 12:16 AM (4I/2K)
"vacuum advance", which I presume does the same job in an automated way.
Of course, we're getting to where even knowing what a distributor is is close to being a sign of 29-year-old-hood.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 12:07 AM (bW8dp)
Vacuum advance, and centrifugal advance. Centrifugal advance provided your main advance curve, as a gasoline engine tolerates (and needs) more spark advance the faster it runs, up to a point. Vacuum advance gave additional advance during part-throttle operation, for sake of fuel economy, because the engine can tolerate more advance under part throttle than it can at full throttle.
The engine management computer does that all now, and does it more accurately.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2022 12:16 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Zettai at January 10, 2022 12:17 AM (UiwC7)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 09, 2022 11:10 PM (mD/uy)
Heretic!
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at January 10, 2022 12:17 AM (8C7+r)
Posted by: Capt. Spalding at January 10, 2022 12:18 AM (VxC1e)
Drunken berserker working the long gane.
Posted by: Phuk Ho Le at January 10, 2022 12:19 AM (4OCVV)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 10, 2022 12:20 AM (5We2S)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 12:07 AM (bW8dp)
Ask them what a magneto is, then if they say a comic book character, smack them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 10, 2022 12:20 AM (dNqv+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2022 12:21 AM (P3gRi)
I remember that the dashboard clock was rarely working.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 12:21 AM (bW8dp)
Posted by: muttering vikings fan at January 10, 2022 12:21 AM (g98Pl)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 10, 2022 12:21 AM (Spr0s)
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 10, 2022 12:15 AM (UbN2d)
Cruise control?
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 10, 2022 12:16 AM (4I/2K)
Can't leave you in suspense....I was thinking the electric clock up until the quartz drives came out in the late 70's.
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 10, 2022 12:22 AM (UbN2d)
I hated my father for making me learn on that beast.
My bf in college had a VW bug with a double clutch. That was also a bitch, until you got used to it.
Now, I can pretty much figure anything out.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 10, 2022 12:22 AM (U2p+3)
I once owned a Rambler that had a pedal to pump-spray window wiper fluid...
Posted by: Zettai
VW Bug spare tire air did that without pumping.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 10, 2022 12:22 AM (63Dwl)
Depends on whether you believe they're the same as Tartessians or not.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 12:22 AM (bW8dp)
The engine management computer does that all now, and does it more accurately.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2022 12:16 AM (P3gRi)
Harleys had distributors up until 1969, and the earlier ones were manual advance. It had a throttle type control on the left side of the handlebar. The later ones had auto advance with the weights. Imagine that shit, having to control different things with both hands while riding the bike.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 10, 2022 12:23 AM (VwHCD)
I think lawnmowers and chainsaws still use magnetos.
Of course your typical soy has never used either of those.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 12:24 AM (bW8dp)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 10, 2022 12:25 AM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Zettai at January 10, 2022 12:25 AM (UiwC7)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 12:21 AM (bW8dp)
Exactly sir! Mr AOP can probably explain it better but had something to do with the contacts of the motor used to wind the clock (welding ? Shorting?) shut as battery voltage declined.
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 10, 2022 12:26 AM (UbN2d)
That's how my ears feel every time I hear one of their songs.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 10, 2022 12:26 AM (QU5/8)
Of course your typical soy has never used either of those.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 12:24 AM (bW8dp)
Huh. I did not think about it, but they would have to, wouldn't they?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 10, 2022 12:26 AM (dNqv+)
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 10, 2022 12:22 AM (UbN2d)
Oh yeah, the analog dashboard clocks. I remember those now.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 10, 2022 12:26 AM (4I/2K)
Yeah, no battery to run a conventional or electronic ignition.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 12:27 AM (bW8dp)
Depends on whether you believe they're the same as Tartessians or not.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 12:22 AM (bW8dp)
I thought there was a dispute if Tartessos was related to the Lusitanian cultures who used carved Stellae and seemed to be part of the whole Western Celt tradition
(I never finished reading that book about Tartessos by that mad German)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2022 12:27 AM (ZMraq)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 10, 2022 12:28 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Anonymous Guy
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Ah. The solenoid-wound clocks. Periodically, one would hear a 'click' as the clock was 'wound'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 10, 2022 12:29 AM (oBAbT)
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2022 12:29 AM (XHhHI)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 10, 2022 12:31 AM (QzJWU)
Speaking of DOTUS, I've read his SOTU address is tentatively scheduled for 01 MAR 22 -- which is historically very, very late in the year...
Posted by: Zettai at January 10, 2022 12:31 AM (XfTPF)
Of course your typical soy has never used either of those.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 12:24 AM (bW8dp)
That is right. Still do, but instead of having points and condensers, they have a solid-state trigger. Never need service, and if they fail, you replace them.
Years ago, large one-lung engines and many tractors had what was called an "impulse magneto". Cranking speed was so slow, that a regular flywheel magneto wouldn't make a spark, so they used impulse magnetos, which wound up a spring, and then released it at top dead center, to make a fat spark. Once the engine started, centrifugla flyweights disengaged the impulse mechanism, and it functioned as a regular magneto.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2022 12:32 AM (P3gRi)
I can vaguely remember some analogy car clocks from the '70s. '74 LTD of my father's. Those things had piss poor accuracy.
The clocks in the radios now are pretty accurate, although they will drift somewhat over a few months.
As I was rambling and ranting about here a while back, I've noticed the clocks on some electronics, particularly the digital thermostats are pretty piss poor, relying on some cheap oscillator driven off the battery. The thermostat in the new house here is 24VAC powered as well as battery, and that think could count AC cycles, which is pretty dead accurate over a long term.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 10, 2022 12:33 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 10, 2022 12:33 AM (Mzdiz)
Yeah, but how much of that is because we have updating phones to know the 'real time'? The only time I notice a clock being off these days is when it does not agree with my computer or my phone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 10, 2022 12:36 AM (dNqv+)
Speaking of DOTUS, I've read his SOTU address is tentatively scheduled for 01 MAR 22 -- which is historically very, very late in the year...
Posted by: Zettai
He doesn't want to upstage the Super Bowl.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 10, 2022 12:37 AM (63Dwl)
I drove the crap outta that rig.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 10, 2022 12:38 AM (U2p+3)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 10, 2022 12:38 AM (dNqv+)
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 10, 2022 12:26 AM (UbN2d)
Exactly that. When the battery became almost dead, the solenoid could not really overcome the spring it was supposed to wind, and instead of a click, you would get a chatter or buzz, as the contacts burned out.
What most people don't know, is that those solenoid car clocks had a nifty mechanism that tweaked the clock's balance wheel spring every instance that the user set the clock. If the clock was ten minutes late, and you set it ahead a ten minutes, you also tweaked the adjustment to make it run a teensy-tiny bit faster. Eventually, you'd approach almost perfect timekeeping. (predicated upon the car being used almost daily, and having a fully-charged battery kept in it)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2022 12:40 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2022 12:40 AM (XHhHI)
I have had:
Black
Aqua
British Racing Green
Blue
I was talking to my parents the other weekend about missing variety of colors in cars. I remember they had a red buick with white interior and also a white one with red interior.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 10, 2022 12:42 AM (dNqv+)
I drove the crap outta that rig.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 10, 2022 12:38 AM (U2p+3)
Automatic hubs like that are a curse if you are trying to traverse deep mud or deep snow, where you get stuck, and have to rock the vehicle to get free.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2022 12:43 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2022 12:40 AM (P3gRi)
That's really cool. They did not really have to do that, but the perception must have been that most people would keep a vehicle longer than people these days.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 10, 2022 12:44 AM (dNqv+)
Posted by: confederatefifth at January 10, 2022 12:44 AM (K3ZCc)
2. Move over Betty White, my barren field of fucks must now not feed Beb Saget.
3. Dave Matthews sucks unwashed monkey balls.
4. I need to work "goalmouth" into daily conversations.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 10, 2022 12:45 AM (CHWNi)
Posted by: confederatefifth at January 10, 2022 12:47 AM (K3ZCc)
Appliance clocks, and AC powered wall clocks have always been pretty accurate over the long term. Basically anything household with a clock that was AC line powered (no battery) used some cycle counting to drive the clock.
Those will show drift on the cheaper battery oscillators pretty well over a month.
Note that the instantaneous accuracy of the AC line frequency is not all that precise. But what they do is slew the frequency slightly over the long term to make sure that the number of cycles over a few month's time is dead close to UTC.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 10, 2022 12:47 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: confederatefifth at January 10, 2022 12:47 AM (K3ZCc)
Well, we always knew you were an east german at heart.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 10, 2022 12:47 AM (dNqv+)
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf
Yea, verily. The one who dies with the best tool collection wins!
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 10, 2022 12:48 AM (okV1R)
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 10, 2022 12:48 AM (okV1R)
I'll the wife that all the time. lol
She is such an enabler though.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 10, 2022 12:51 AM (VwHCD)
Interesting vid up at the DM right now wherein a badly injured pilot who had just crash landed his aircraft on a railroad crossing is pulled from the wreckage by the Los Angeles police seconds before a train ploughed through it at high speed...
Posted by: Zettai at January 10, 2022 12:52 AM (DUlZo)
Posted by: Javems at January 10, 2022 12:13
Sounds like that could be a volitil combo, but maybe the Norwegian part cools her off. So sorry to hear about your SIL, prayers up from here.
Posted by: Farmer at January 10, 2022 12:53 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 10, 2022 12:44 AM (dNqv+)
Well, unlike regular spring-wound clocks, that typically had a regulator lever on the back, the backs of car clocks are pretty much out of reach, so it became necessary to incorporate the regulation function with the time set function. I expect about a month of steady use, and routine resetting would get it dialed in.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2022 12:54 AM (P3gRi)
Take a very simple AC powered wall clock, old school, and you can still get them. They are powered by a little permanent magnet synchronous motor. Number of revolutions it turns is exactly proportional to the number of AC seconds.
Very simple mechanism. Now, as long as the national grid does that slight slewing they do, the number of revolutions is gonna agree precisely with UTC over the long term.
Leap seconds notwithstanding. The grid does indeed take leap seconds into consideration with that slewing. The standard is that the phase should be within +/- 30 seconds of UTC.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 10, 2022 12:55 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Robert at January 10, 2022 01:03 AM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2022 01:05 AM (P3gRi)
Or Henry Ford.
I'd like to have sat in on the meeting where they finally convinced him to make cars in colors other than black.
Good night, all.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 01:07 AM (bW8dp)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 10, 2022 01:07 AM (dNqv+)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 10, 2022 01:14 AM (a4EWo)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 10, 2022 01:15 AM (dNqv+)
Probably more a result of better engineers and a cheap selling point, cause in the old days once you made the "new car bracket" and cars changed style and increased size and power very quickly compared to today, people got new cars quickly. Period newspaper ads in the 60s would quote prices as "$xxxx with your (previous model year) tradein"
Posted by: Azjaeger at January 10, 2022 01:22 AM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Azjaeger
Cash for Clunkers eliminated that, I think ...
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 10, 2022 01:23 AM (okV1R)
You are lucky you didn't graze your private parts!
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 10, 2022 12:20
good one BC, not the standard.
there was a bar question either last ONT or the last thread, did you catch it? someone else, well and I wondered what your answer would be. alas I'm a bit drunk and don't remember the question. anyone else remember?
Posted by: Farmer at January 10, 2022 01:24 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 10, 2022 01:23 AM (okV1R)
Right now, dealers are clamoring to get good late-model used vehicles.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2022 01:25 AM (P3gRi)
It seems like only last week I was listening to his heartfelt goodbye to his close friend Norm MacDonald. Rest in peace Mr. Saget.
Posted by: Where are my ping pong balls? at January 10, 2022 01:32 AM (m3XFr)
Speaking of leap seconds, a funny thing has happened. The earth's rotation has sped up a bit over the past couple of years. It's been about 6 years since a leap second was needed.
Long term, the earth's rotation is slowing, but various glitches cause it to speed up. It will be a while before we need another leap second. If the current speed up were to hold, we'd need a negative leap second in a few years.
But that's not expected to happen. Either way, we'll go through about 10 years without needing a leap second.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 10, 2022 01:33 AM (Mzdiz)
More like seven year payment plans, and making the same car for 7 or 8 years straight, and longer warranties. Compare a 59 Chevy to a 66 Chevy. Now compare a 16 Corolla to a 22 Corolla. If you aren't a Corolla expert I bet you couldn't really tell them apart.
Posted by: Azjaeger at January 10, 2022 01:34 AM (3/XaG)
In California you can fuck off paying your fines! Even with back to back DUI with an unpaid prior DUI!
They even wipe your conviction record clean.
Just do what the fuck you want in the land of fruits and nuts and avocados.
Posted by: torabora at January 10, 2022 01:35 AM (eOIrM)
Posted by: klaftern at January 10, 2022 01:35 AM (taPSh)
New Corolla tranny comes with a geared first gear so lead foot doesn't burn out the CVT.
I like my 2018. 33 mpg
Posted by: torabora at January 10, 2022 01:37 AM (eOIrM)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2022 01:40 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 10, 2022 01:47 AM (okV1R)
Posted by: Where are my ping pong balls? at January 10, 2022 01:32 AM (m3XFr)
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Early Saget was *hilarious* as I remember him. I hated Full House and AFV because when I wanted to see more of Saget, I did not want to see that. I saw him when he returned to standup and really thought he had lost something, as opposed to a young Saget who composed a "tribute" to the Royal Wedding (that gagged me) called "Drink Up Chuck and Di".
RIP
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2022 01:52 AM (XHhHI)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 10, 2022 01:33
TY publius, that's interesting. Also TY for the emails about the CCP covid BS.
Posted by: Farmer at January 10, 2022 02:01 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 10, 2022 12:48 AM (okV1R)
I read that somewhere, long long ago in a foreign country, they would bury a woman with all of her unfinished projects.
They would be able to see my burial mound from Jupiter....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at January 10, 2022 02:05 AM (SRRAx)
We drove it for everything and had it until I went in the Army. Dad and my Uncle bought 6 of them for 100 bucks apiece, surplus, undriven and sold 5, it was my job to prep them before sale.
I went places with that little guy you would not believe. It had a waterproofed ignition and fording kit complete with 4 tire chains.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at January 10, 2022 02:10 AM (KATBx)
It is if you're into this sort of thing, and the devilish details can get very involved. Basically, it's all about the difference between astronomical time, and a precise unit of time, the best with the latter being atomic clocks (accuracy of about 1 part in 10^14, one in ten trillion)
There are more definitions of "coordinate time" systems than you can shake a stick at, but the Big Three are UTC, UT1, and IAT.
IAT is just counting atomic time, based on that 1 part in 10 trillion definition of a second. UT1 is astronomical time, based on the mean rotation of the earth.
UTC is a compromise between the two. Leap seconds are the current price of that compromise, which is to keep UTC ticking at IAT, but periodically step it to keep it in sync with UT1.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 10, 2022 02:10 AM (Mzdiz)
Finished my Hungarian-Albanian translation homework.
*wipes perspiration from forehead*
Now where is my Basque-Estonian phrasebook....
Posted by: Miklos "Leka" Zogu at January 10, 2022 02:13 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: SFGoth at January 10, 2022 02:25 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 11:41 PM (P3gRi)
Usually the ECM will allow the engine to (roughly) idle in limp mode (which AFAIK is equivalent to first start) so there might be something else.
While it might be something else the one thing I seemed to run into when the FI engines I worked on did that was a slightly off throttle position sensor (TPS).
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at January 10, 2022 02:26 AM (Hh3y4)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 10, 2022 02:27 AM (QU5/8)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I thought is was "He who wears pee of the Tiger will be visited by luck throughout the year." but I've been known to be wrong before.
Posted by: Tonypete
Tiger Woods pees on people ?
Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 02:28 AM (arJlL)
Well a better way to look at it I think, is the engine needs far more ignition advance under part throttle, low load conditions than centrifugal weights and springs can provide. That's why it was invented. Or put another, vacuum advance doesn't improve engine efficiency, but without it suffers about a 15 or 20 per cent reduction. Smog regulations for a time really buggered up the equation, as engine efficiency was sacrificed for a time to meet NOX regulations. Waste fuel right out the tail pipe, and then burn it in a catalyst. Yeesh.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 10, 2022 02:28 AM (H5tB4)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 10, 2022 02:29 AM (todmg)
The leap second is controversial, and from several angles. It all started with a precise definition of the second, a constant unit of time. Trouble is, the earth's rotation and even orbits are not constant to the level of accuracy we started being able to achieve at the turn of the 20th century and then with the development of atomic clocks.
The defined and redefined the SI second over the 20th century, gettting it more and more precise. Before 1972, they counted (what became) UTC with atomic clocks, but slewed the rate to stay in sync with UT1. They called this the "rubber second", as the UTC second was thus variable (to one part in some large number).
But then, as the needs for precision time keeping increased, some complained about the rubber second and demanded that UTC tick at atomic rate. The leap second system was introduced in 1972. At that time, the length of the mean solar day was 86,400.003s.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 10, 2022 02:32 AM (Mzdiz)
weird thing to be out of, no?
Posted by: Black Orchid
I guess the yoke's on YOU !
Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 02:37 AM (arJlL)
In 2020, the mean solar day had decreased to 86, 399.999 s. :-)
This stepping, or discontinuity in UTC with the leap seconds is also becoming problematic for the same people who demanded it, and they are trying to get that phased out. But there others opposed. The last meeting of all the various standards groups just punted on the question, and made no changes.
Me, I say, fuck this shit. Let Civil Time be UT1, and synced with Mr. Earth and Mr. Sun, as we want it to be. Let those who need dead constant temporal intervals and such go with IAT, which has been defined and running, and pay no attention to the Mr. Earth and Mr. Sun.
We'll go back to rubber seconds for Civil Time. You fuckers don't like that, you're welcome to set your precision clocks to IAT.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 10, 2022 02:38 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas
I've got a Solomon's Knot stepping stone mosaic under the bed ... about 10th done ... for starters!!!
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at January 10, 2022 02:42 AM (okV1R)
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic
Ah, makes sense to my little pea brain now.
If you don't want to spend that much on a tool that won't be used that often, check with some car parts places. They may have a loaner or two.
Posted by: Tonypete
That's right; and TELL THEM WHO you ARE !
Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 02:44 AM (arJlL)
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Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2022 11:41 PM (P3gRi)
Congrats!
Posted by: Count de Monet
Seconded !
Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 02:50 AM (arJlL)
No small importance to any of this, it's a HUGE issue in orbital dynamics, de-conflicting satellites and space debris, deep space missions (see Webb t'scope), and etc.
But I don't think that the Weasel External Ballistics App will calculate much finer than seconds within a Minute of Angle, and perhaps the Corialis Effect outside of 800 yds. But, I'm not going to volunteer to serve as Target Holder while he conducts the Scientific Process on these postulations, either.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 10, 2022 02:51 AM (QzJWU)
Oh yes indeed. See "ephemeris time", which are various coordinate time systems used for this sort of thing. JPL has its own, and there are many. Indeed, when you start throwing relativity, Mr. Einstein into, your notion of "constant time" gets fuzzy.
See "Barycentric coordinate time". That's the latest attempt to define a universal coordinate clock for solar system operations. It's a clock in free fall (around the center of the galaxy and with the larger motions of the universe) with the center of mass of the solar system, yet independent of the gravity well of the solar system.
Civil Time, or the most logical answer to "what time is it" for most purposes not concerned with such need not concern itself with such complications and vagaries.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 10, 2022 02:57 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Capt. Spalding
Musta been a skinny elephant......
Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 02:58 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson
"Its raining peanuts !"
Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 03:02 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Miklos sees this as a rare Covid positive at January 10, 2022 03:03 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: publius
We LIKE complications and vagaries
Posted by: Dept. of Compliance at January 10, 2022 03:05 AM (QzkSJ)
Djokovic's on the Aussies, BURN!
/5th grade humor .. and, hasta la nite nite Horde!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 10, 2022 03:07 AM (QzJWU)
Aren't you supposed to some dumbass farmer. That used to amuse me years ago when I started farming, 1980 on for 32 yrs. Not at home, but sometimes when traveling people would assume you were an idiot because you were a farmer.
Posted by: Farmer at January 10, 2022 03:14 AM (55Qr6)
If you want some "fun" if you're interest in astronomical vs constant time (local proper time in relativistic terms) and all that, here's an an exercise.
Come up with the ideal notion of UT1 and a calendar for Mars. There have been many attempts and sort of current standard now. We want to define a Martian day, and a Martian calendar and a Martian year.
Now, Mars' orbit is much more elliptical that Earth's, and her rotational axis is not as stable. Also, Mars' tiny little twin moons are useless for any notion of "month" that could be synced. So the "month" can be arbitrary, even you even want them.
So, the length of seasons on Mars vary considerably. All this will affect how you want to define the calendar. The Martian year is about 687 earth days. You'll want ot covert that to Martian days, or Sols, to use JPL language for the "day" on a given planet.
You've got some options there on just how you want to do things.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 10, 2022 03:15 AM (Mzdiz)
Yes, I am. Clempson Cow Collidge gradU8.
Geo. Washington and Jefferson were dumb farmers, BTW. :-)
The laptop class thinks farmers dumb. That tells you all need to know about our elites.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 10, 2022 03:18 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Mayor Bloomberg at January 10, 2022 03:19 AM (okV1R)
Someone sign up Cuomo for FarmersOnly dot com.
do it. Do It. DO IT. DOOO EEETT!
They will eviscerate him, there.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 10, 2022 03:25 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2022 03:34 AM (2JoB8)
Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 03:35 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 03:36 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2022 03:36 AM (2JoB8)
Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2022 03:37 AM (2JoB8)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 10, 2022 03:18
Bingo. Yeah I think a lot of those bastards are dumb, so the favor is returned to those slugs.
Posted by: Farmer at January 10, 2022 03:38 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2022 03:42 AM (2JoB8)
Posted by: jakee308 at January 10, 2022 03:45 AM (n08+I)
Posted by: jakee308 at January 10, 2022 03:45
*psst, jakee are you sure you're posting on the right site you have open?*
Posted by: Farmer at January 10, 2022 03:48 AM (55Qr6)
Once you let the unions determine work rules and pay, those who are in charge of production and efficiency never are allowed to get the enforcement of the rules to do either one.
Plus the unions are all money laundering schemes for the Democrats. Particularly those that are involved with the government.
The Democrats create rules and force changes that favor union workers and the unions contribute more money to the Democrats. They wind up giving themselves more money and it's taken from the taxpayer.
Posted by: jakee308 at January 10, 2022 03:50 AM (n08+I)
Posted by: raimondo at January 10, 2022 03:50 AM (kbk8y)
just riffing off her email calling republicans weirdos.
and no. i don't look at porn. especially on the internet.
And thanks but I don't get my screens mixed up too often and it wouldn't matter anyway. I just spent 45 minutes shopping for groceries on Walmart. and doing some other requests to health care providers and other such places.
But thanks for looking out for me!
Posted by: jakee308 at January 10, 2022 03:53 AM (n08+I)
I enter the routing number and account number. They suck the cost of the product out of the account first before they print the checks.
I get them in the mail.
Posted by: Been Lurking, but clearly been posting too at January 10, 2022 03:56 AM (rDgjh)
She's an actress. With her way being smoothed before her. (do you really think an experienced politician from NYC decided to not run a campaign? Really?)
I don't understand why but even having been discovered beyond a doubt of existing, the Deep State has decided to continue to try and keep everyone convinced that the game is being played straight. That elections matter and the voters count.
That hasn't been true since wwii.
Posted by: jakee308 at January 10, 2022 03:57 AM (n08+I)
Yeah. So the checks don't have the bank logo on them. Tough shit.
Posted by: Been Lurking, but clearly been posting too at January 10, 2022 03:57 AM (rDgjh)
Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2022 04:02 AM (2JoB8)
The measurement of time is completely arbitrary. Pick whatever event takes your fancy and use it as your clock. As long as everyone uses the same measurement then everything will be fine.
it's when other events are used and/or other gradations are adjusted according to someone else's choice that the trouble starts.
Posted by: jakee308 at January 10, 2022 04:06 AM (n08+I)
Posted by: jakee308 at January 10, 2022 03:53
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