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Profound comment in the replies Silence fell on the land, on the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day or the eleventh month in the year of 1918. Birds chirps replaced the crack and thud of the cannons. Peace returned; but the seeds of war were already planted, even before the silence took over or could last.
“If we cannot as a nation decide not to continue a subsidy that was imposed, or was enacted, during a national health emergency and was designed to be temporary and that all the Democrats voted to have be temporary, if we can’t let that expire, what hope do we ever have of getting government spending under control?” THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down. Thirteen British colonies on the Atlantic Coast rose in rebellion, won their independence, and established a new form of government that radically reshaped the continent and inspired centuries of democratic movements around the globe. *** Filmmaker Quote: “The American Revolution is one of the most important events in human history,” said Ken Burns. “We went from being subjects to inventing a new concept, citizens, and set in motion democratic revolutions around the globe. As we prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding, I’m hopeful that people throughout the country will come together to discuss the importance of this history and to appreciate even more what our ancestors did to secure our liberty and freedoms.”Hit the link for video clips and episode guide. ----- Review from The Hollywood Reporter Ken Burns Tackles the War for Independence in Patriotic, Pragmatic and Familiar Form Surprisingly decent write-up - with the exception of this unnecessary bilge Though it’s hard to watch The American Revolution without awareness of the anti-monarchic sentiments shared at recent rounds of “No Kings!” protests — to hear the noble egalitarian sentiments that launched the American experiment without pondering the ways the fulfillment of our freedoms has fallen short of our loftiest aspirations — the doc does not overtly acknowledge Donald Trump.----- If you're able to get to Filth-adelphia... I visited the Museum of the American Revolution ahead of America's 250th birthday. Here are the coolest things I saw. America has a big birthday coming up. The year 2026 will mark 250 years since the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, a milestone also known as America's semiquincentennial. Located down the street from Independence Hall, where both the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution were signed, the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia is gearing up for the celebration with a special exhibition, "The Declaration's Journey." The collection features over 120 artifacts that chronicle the impact of the Declaration of Independence in the US and around the world. "The Declaration's Journey" opened on October 18 and will remain on display until January 3, 2027, in honor of the anniversary. The museum also features a permanent collection with artifacts focusing on the creation of America as an independent nation. The exhibits guide visitors through exploring four questions: How did people become revolutionaries? How did the Revolution survive its darkest hour? How revolutionary was the war? And what kind of nation did the revolutionaries create?Pretty good article. Photos of some of the artifacts at the link. Perhaps we could have a mini-MoMe at the museum one day in the spring when it warms up? Anyone interested? ----- Not related, yet somehow related Just a few months ago, we reported that MGP, one of the biggest American whiskey distilleries, saw a drop in sales of nearly 25 percent. While that was bad news for the company, it also was in line with much of the other reporting out there detailing the slowdown that is currently affecting the whiskey industry. Well, some more bad news arrived late last week for MGP in terms of reduced sales and income, but the company is trying to put as good a spin on the situation as it can. According to a press release issued by MGP on October 29, the third quarter of 2025 was bleak compared to that of the prior year. Consolidated sales decreased by 19 percent to $130.9 million, consolidated gross profit dropped by 25 percent to $49.4 million, net income fell by 35 percent to $15.4 million, and EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) dwindled by 29 percent to $32.3 million. According to the report, the decrease in sales was mostly due to “expected declines in brown goods sales”—in other words, whiskey—directly leading to the drop in profit.----- When a "handle" of whiskey just isn't enough! Jack Daniel’s Launches 3-Liter Whiskey Bottle — Because Why Not? Want to impress (or overwhelm) your loved ones this holiday? Don’t buy them a bottle of Jack Daniel’s. Instead, buy them a new three-liter bottle of Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 Tennessee Whiskey, now available in the U.S. for the first time since Prohibition. “Old No. 7 Tennessee Whiskey has been at the heart of everything we make at the Jack Daniel Distillery since the days of Mr. Jack himself,” said Chris Fletcher, Master Distiller, Jack Daniel’s. “We hope this bold new take will help create timeless holiday memories that last long after the bottle is gone.” Right, but … three liters? That’s four times the size of a typical booze bottle and almost twice as much as the previous largest Jack Daniel’s offering (the distillery currently sells their Old No. 7 release in 50 mL, 100 mL, 200 mL, 375mL, 750 mL, 1 L and 1.75 L sizes). Then again, at $80, that’s somewhat of a bargain, given that the 750 mL bottle retails for about $25-$30.That is a lot of whiskey! ----- Long article for you whiskey nerds and/or insomniacs out there... The U.S. Put Irish Whiskey Back on the Map. Now the Category Has to Evolve. I'll be honest - TL;DR (from thisdayinmusic.com) On this date in 2014: Big Bank Hank (Henry Lee Jackson), from The Sugarhill Gang died aged 58 from kidney complications due to cancer. The Sugarhill Gang were the first hip hop act to have a hit with the cross-over single 'Rapper's Delight' in the pop charts in 1979. On this date in 1972: 24-year-old bassist Berry Oakley, a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band, was killed in a motorcycle accident. In a horrific coincidence, the crash took place in the same intersection where bandmate Duane Allman was killed just one year earlier. Born on this date in 1953: English guitarist, singer-songwriter and record producer Andy Partridge best known for co-founding the band XTC ![]() Comments or questions? Suggestions for content? Do the email thing at doof2112 at proton dot me. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Yo!
Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at November 11, 2025 10:00 PM (9OLXw) 2
hello!
Posted by: Mrs. IS ROTH at November 11, 2025 10:00 PM (+zgjq) 3
Got a shot ready for all who served.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:00 PM (snZF9) Posted by: fourseasons at November 11, 2025 10:00 PM (3ek7K) 5
Hello, Horde! 😊♥️
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 11, 2025 10:01 PM (SRRAx) 6
Yo
Posted by: Muchas buchas at November 11, 2025 10:02 PM (n1e6D) 7
Hmmm, $80 for a 3 liter bottle of jack? Might have to get me one of those. Would take me months to drink at maybe 1 shot per night, but I won't run out any time soon.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:03 PM (snZF9) 8
Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2025 10:03 PM (cYBz/) 9
"If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied." -Rudyard Kipling [father of John, kia Sept 1915] Posted by: gKWVE at November 11, 2025 10:03 PM (gKWVE) 10
Yay, Veteran's Day ONT!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 11, 2025 10:04 PM (lUFok) 11
I thank every veteran and family member.
For those who faced the dark side of this world, may God help you find peace and serenity in dealing with your pain. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 11, 2025 10:04 PM (S/Y4j) Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 10:04 PM (0lgzA) 13
Perilous night may be long.
Posted by: mindful webworker - land of the home of the once and future upon a time at November 11, 2025 10:05 PM (3ynhY) 14
And once again, thanks to all veterans. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 10:05 PM (0lgzA) 15
But I'm too old to need a babysitter!
Posted by: Old Man Adams at November 11, 2025 10:05 PM (oftw2) 16
Hey everybody. Hey ONT.
Pleasantly surprised/shocked Ken Burns played it straight on his American Revolution series. Have a hunch someone must have put the fear of God into him. "No woke shit!" Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 10:05 PM (cQHrm) 17
Tetris blocks have names. Well there you go. Now my life is complete.
Posted by: RickZ at November 11, 2025 10:08 PM (gKDq2) 18
ok, might be a 2 shot night. The first one went down too easy.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:08 PM (snZF9) 19
Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 10:08 PM (zZu0s) 20
I have an original NES and the Tetris game. I don't remember getting a book with it. I had "other" names for the blocks. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:09 PM (snZF9) 21
Thank you to all Veterans for your service.
Thank you to all Veteran family members for your sacrifices. On this day we remember, never to forget... Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 11, 2025 10:09 PM (IQ6Gq) 22
That Tetris thing looks a lot like a puzzle my dad made for me when a kid.
Posted by: davidt at November 11, 2025 10:09 PM (Q+gd/) 23
We've had 3 liter booze bottles in Canada for years, known as, get this, "Texas Mickeys".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:09 PM (npFr7) 24
"The blocks have names."
Only one is close to what I called them. Line, block, T, S, Z, L, and..... backwards L, I guess. Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 10:09 PM (nhCoE) 25
I've queued up a shot of Devil's Brigade for later.
Maybe two. Bless all those who have, do and will serve. Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at November 11, 2025 10:10 PM (+iIfu) Posted by: mot at November 11, 2025 10:10 PM (fIPNY) 27
3 liters of whiskey? To reduce excess packaging, Mother Gaia demands that all whiskey should be packaged this way!
Seriously, I buy my preferred tipple in 1.75 liter bottles, and use it to refill the 750 ml bottle that I keep on the counter. There's a real economy of scale when buying the bigger bottle. Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 11, 2025 10:11 PM (dXRTU) Posted by: Dr. T at November 11, 2025 10:11 PM (lHPJf) 29
I think the puzzle came from a Popular Mechanics magazine.
Posted by: davidt at November 11, 2025 10:11 PM (Q+gd/) 30
That's a lot of whiskey.
There's an liquor store nearby that had huge bottles of rum and vodka. I just checked. I guess it was 3 liters. They were big bottles....for the bender to end all benders. Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 10:12 PM (Sco7b) 31
You can count me in on any Philly MoMe- I’m just a few blocks from Independence Hall.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 11, 2025 10:13 PM (hlNLQ) 32
23 We've had 3 liter booze bottles in Canada for years, known as, get this, "Texas Mickeys".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:09 PM (npFr7) I miss the 1.75 Liter of 7.1% Labatt Ice beer. Two or three of those and you were good. Well I was. Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 10:14 PM (Sco7b) 33
Did you ever wonder why 3/4 of the ghosts in Ms. Pac-Man had the same names as Pac-Man, but "Clyde" turned into "Sue?"
Were there trans ghosts in 1982? Posted by: zombie Andy Rooney at November 11, 2025 10:14 PM (nhCoE) Posted by: Kamala at November 11, 2025 10:14 PM (41CYW) 35
I am puzzled how audio from the WWI armistice exists, unless someone stuck a gramophone on the battlefield.
Posted by: Joemarine at November 11, 2025 10:15 PM (y171U) 36
Great and interesting ONT.
I was willowed below, but many thanks from me to all Veterans here, in the past and in the future. USA! I didn't know the actual tent of Washington's remains. Amazing. Or am I confused (which is normal). Amazing man who loved this country, much as our President Trump does. We are a blessed nation. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 10:15 PM (MAl//) 37
"Big Bank Hank (Henry Lee Jackson), from The Sugarhill Gang died aged 58"
Urban legend has it the term "Hip Hop" music resulted from people going to record stores asking for "that hip hop record" citing the song's lyrics. Also, three liters of Jack? There's seven fights in that bottle. Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 11, 2025 10:16 PM (pIfcn) 38
As Idaho Spudboy noted above, there can be some value in buying bigger bottles. It's like almost anything else. Volume discount.
And it's not just for everyday stuff. I've noticed some fairly pricey bourbons and cognacs available in the 1-liter bottles, with a price break per ml compared to 750s. Refilling 750s might have other benefits depending on the booze. The aeration it gets in the process can, in some cases, really change/open up a spirit. There are some aged sipping rums that people decant/rebottle just to start the aeration process, as it yields desirable results. I have one Guyanese rum I've considered for this, since I noticed the last 1/3 of my first bottle was better and much more interesting than the first 2/3 (which was fine). Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:17 PM (U/Byj) 39
"We went from being subjects to inventing a new concept, citizens, and set in motion democratic revolutions around the globe."
The Constitutional Republic was a good effort, but the basis of the real fundamental revolution was this incredible breakthrough: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights… Posted by: mindful webworker - life, liberty, property at November 11, 2025 10:17 PM (3ynhY) 40
Aurora is still going like gangbusters here at Peon Manor.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:18 PM (npFr7) 41
Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco (and Doggo)!
Posted by: TRex - global warming? dino at November 11, 2025 10:18 PM (IQ6Gq) 42
If it's Ken Burns, it's going to be all about racism. Thanks but no thanks.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 11, 2025 10:18 PM (CHHv1) 43
Evening, Dino.
Posted by: scampydog at November 11, 2025 10:19 PM (41CYW) 44
I'm up for a Philly MoMe.
Posted by: Otto Zilch at November 11, 2025 10:19 PM (Ws2ua) 45
40 Aurora is still going like gangbusters here at Peon Manor.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:18 PM (npFr7) Very cool. Enjoy. Everyone have a great night. Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 10:20 PM (Sco7b) 46
They were big bottles....for the bender to end all benders.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 10:12 PM (Sco7b) --- Nancy P., Hillary C., and/or Kamala H. could polish off one of those easy. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 11, 2025 10:20 PM (IBQGV) 47
The whiskey decline in sales are down from COVID heights. Just to keep things in perspective.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 11, 2025 10:21 PM (EOjZq) 48
Philly mome, huh? I hate that frigging place, but maybe its something I would do.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:21 PM (snZF9) 49
I didn't know the actual tent of Washington's remains. Amazing.
They put George Washington’s remains in a tent!? Why didn’t they bury him, like at Mt. Vernon? Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 10:21 PM (uGI3N) 50
If there's a Philly MoMe we could possibly join...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 11, 2025 10:21 PM (IQ6Gq) 51
I am puzzled how audio from the WWI armistice exists, unless someone stuck a gramophone on the battlefield.
Posted by: Joemarine at November 11, 2025 10:15 PM (y171U) I expect that is exactly what they did. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:21 PM (npFr7) 52
The whiskey decline in sales are down from COVID heights. Just to keep things in perspective.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 11, 2025 10:21 PM (EOjZq) That would explain things. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:22 PM (snZF9) 53
I sure hope the Museum of the American Revolution; and the Liberty Bell, for that matter, have adequate security in place. With the attention focused on this in the next year, I really could see some concerted ANTIFA effort to vandalize both in the name of "Anti-Colonialism".
We've seen unhinged Climate Freaks throw tomato soup on priceless art. We've seen the crazy antics deployed against normalcy...and the current DA down in Filth-a-delphia is the same guy who sued Trump and Musk a number of times for nonsense. So, there would few repercussions for that sort of misbehavior in that city. Sincerely, A Pragmatic Chicken Little. Posted by: Orson at November 11, 2025 10:22 PM (dIske) 54
Regulars of the gun thread may know I've got some work to do in disposing (taking, or selling off) parts of a substantial gun collection. And ammo. I've noted that the estate includes 9K rounds of high-quality German milsurp 7.62x51 NATO.
In searching around the web for info, I've seen this kind of ammo has occasionally been on sale by the bigger online purveyors. Also, sort of encouraging, GunBroker has a very recent sale of this stuff at $.80=1.00/round. So at this point I'm hopeful I can get a local gun store in the remote location to buy it for a decent price (I'm assuming the usual retail ratios apply, vendor - me - gets about half of the expected retail price at which they sell it). Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:22 PM (U/Byj) 55
Was today your follow-up doctor's appt, Teresa?
Posted by: TecumsehTea at November 11, 2025 10:22 PM (+4S8X) 56
AOP, we're seeing the Northern Lights all the way down here in Boulder. That doesn't happen very often!
Posted by: Fritz (not fritz) at November 11, 2025 10:23 PM (7+3Wz) 57
Thanks for the Tuesday ONT, Doof!
Fantastic photo up top. A heartfelt thank you to all our Veterans. Somehow I managed to skip Tetris and other early video games. We couldn't afford them but didn't really miss them either. Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 11, 2025 10:23 PM (kB9dk) 58
Aurora here in KY. Fading a bit. Unexpected, but totes cool.
Re-post (good for a few more minutes) https://ibb.co/Txf8LvqM Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 11, 2025 10:23 PM (NwnyJ) 59
If it's Ken Burns, it's going to be all about racism. Thanks but no thanks.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 11, 2025 10:18 PM (CHHv1) Yeah, Burns has become a parody at this point. Posted by: Shani at November 11, 2025 10:24 PM (GXAZS) 60
Interesting tidbit about the 1995 NYC Veterans Day Parade. Donald Trump has helped so many people in so many different ways, yet we rarely, if ever, hear about it.
Wonder why that is? Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 11, 2025 10:24 PM (kB9dk) 61
In searching around the web for info, I've seen this kind of ammo has occasionally been on sale by the bigger online purveyors. Also, sort of encouraging, GunBroker has a very recent sale of this stuff at $.80=1.00/round. So at this point I'm hopeful I can get a local gun store in the remote location to buy it for a decent price (I'm assuming the usual retail ratios apply, vendor - me - gets about half of the expected retail price at which they sell it).
Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:22 PM (U/Byj) You are being very cagey about the remote location. Anything you can share with us? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:24 PM (npFr7) 62
Veterans in my families:
Grandfather Father 5 Uncles 2 Cousins Me 2 of my sons. Seems to be a family thing. My personal salute to each of them and to all the Horde veterans, as well. Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 11, 2025 10:25 PM (47diA) 63
Yep, no visibility here for the nekkid eye. Some are getting some camera action, more sensitive than the eye. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 10:26 PM (w6EFb) 64
3 liter bottles...Why not go to a 1 gallon jug with a handle with a cork?
Posted by: clarence at November 11, 2025 10:26 PM (kUdqB) 65
I think alcohol sales in all segments is trending down, and substantially, last few years. Just saw another set of figures the other day but, of course, I didn't bookmark it and can't recall the exact numbers.
No idea what would be behind that. I think there's a bit of (typical, expected) guns & ammo slump going on as well - current administration is obviously fantastic for the country, but very bad for panic- or concern-driven sales. Y'all will recall the posters of the affirmative action intern "president" in gun stores - "gun salesman of the year". That sort of dynamic. Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:27 PM (U/Byj) 66
And once again, thanks to all veterans.
—— Once again, not all of them. Fuck that shit, you want to thank Brad Manning? Reality Winner? Didn’t think so. Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 10:27 PM (//5Rf) 67
Evenin'
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 10:27 PM (sAmhv) Posted by: Iris at November 11, 2025 10:28 PM (bOJ2I) 69
Where I am I'm up to my eyebrows in revolutionary war history. Washington literally marched his troops down the street my old house was on, right past where my house is, then he marched them down the road the one harley shop I work out of is on, which is right by the new house, and eventually to the battle of Monmouth, which is not that far from me. I was so tempted to wander around the woods by my old house with a metal detector. You never know. A lot of the farms are still here too.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:28 PM (snZF9) Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:28 PM (U/Byj) 71
AOP, we're seeing the Northern Lights all the way down here in Boulder. That doesn't happen very often!
Posted by: Fritz (not fritz) at November 11, 2025 10:23 PM (7+3Wz) Enjoy! I have seen brighter and more active auroras, but never have I seen so much red color, or solid red like this. I don't know if its the velocity of the particles, or the charge state, or what. When I went out just a few minutes ago, it was strongly red in the East and West, fading to faint pink overhead, with a greenish white halo over most of the sky, faint, but visible. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:28 PM (npFr7) 72
65 I think alcohol sales in all segments is trending down, and substantially, last few years. Just
----------- Doing my part to hold the sales up. Posted by: scampydog at November 11, 2025 10:29 PM (41CYW) 73
I can see the Northern Lights tonight! What the hell?
I understand in the proper local conditions, folks are seeing them as far south as Chattanooga. Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2025 10:29 PM (cYBz/) 74
Ken Burns can eat a bag of dicks for all the disservice he did to the men and women of the Viet Nam war in his documentary. Retard revisionary leftist.
Posted by: DBCooper at November 11, 2025 10:29 PM (MhE0B) 75
Whisky sales declined because the COVID Karens were no longer cooped up.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 10:30 PM (dxtDq) 76
>> I can see the Northern Lights tonight! What the hell?
Sol farted a big wet one in our specific direction a while back. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 10:30 PM (w6EFb) 77
Interesting tidbit about the 1995 NYC Veterans Day Parade. Donald Trump has helped so many people in so many different ways, yet we rarely, if ever, hear about it.
Wonder why that is? Posted by: Legally Sufficient Takers rarely acknowledge givers. Posted by: Some Rat at November 11, 2025 10:30 PM (TfUTr) 78
AOP not trying to be cagey. Always stay general with personal stuff here. Just a preference.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:28 PM (U/Byj) Just wondering if there was going to be an -in-person sale at the site, that might attract members of the Horde within travel range. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:31 PM (npFr7) 79
Yeah scampy my purchases are always episodic, but overall my consumption trend isn't down. Well maybe lately, for no particular reason, but it's always like that. Will increase again soon.
"Winter" time is more wine, and calvados and cognac along with rum rye and bourbon (without ice), and less beer. Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (U/Byj) 80
Took a drive to check out the Aurora Borealis. Pretty neat
. Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (sV8wY) 81
NY Post: IOC to ban trans women from all female Olympic events.
I'm not surprised. Likely greatly pressured by the Trump Regime to do so. it's gonna be a cluster anyway when ICE detains every brown athlete trying to enter the US Every day I read the news and discover a new right that I don't have anymore. The IOC itself is transphobic but there’s almost certainly international politics being played here too. Doing all this to stick it to the *checks notes* zero transgender women who competed in last year’s summer Olympics. I hate it here There is no valid reason at all to exclude all trans women from women's sports. At all period. Trump also wants to ban medical transition for minors (up to 25 for some fucking reason) Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (ycI94) 82
Thanks for the post, Doof. Especially the 11/11/1918 recording. Been a while since I heard that. Still astonishing.
In similar spirit, the words of Gen. McArthur, Sep 2, 1945. Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain death. The seas bear only commerce. Men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way. I speak for the unnamed brave millions homeward bound to take up the challenge of that future which they did so much to salvage from the brink of disaster. & (h/t bluebirdofbitterness.com): Reveille (11:30) https://youtu.be/te-cKxsBapM Posted by: mindful webworker - The entire world lies quietly at peace. at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (3ynhY) Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (dxtDq) 84
Oops, fucked it up. He camped in my old town on his way back from monmouth. He used it as a temporary field headquarters where he signed the order to court marshal some general after the battle of Monmouth.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (snZF9) 85
Can you see three or four Northern Lights Jean Luc?
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 10:34 PM (dxtDq) 86
Every day I read the news and discover a new right that I don't have anymore. The IOC itself is transphobic but there’s almost certainly international politics being played here too.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (ycI94) Exactly dickhead. Its a "new" right you leftist assholes made up. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:35 PM (snZF9) 87
79 Yeah scampy my purchases are always episodic, but overall my consumption trend isn't down. Well maybe lately, for no particular reason, but it's always like that. Will increase again soon.
--------- Yeah, jokes aside - similar here. Just depends on how much entertaining, goofing, etc. Social stuff drives most of my purchase pattern. Posted by: scampydog at November 11, 2025 10:35 PM (41CYW) 88
Yes, some celebrities get no credit for helping others, like Trump, but on the other hand everyone is well aware of Kim Kardashian's largesse.
Posted by: Life Ain't Fair at November 11, 2025 10:36 PM (oftw2) 89
I am imagining the actual sounds of the guns before a big push, say The Somme, was not something that can really be replicated. Sounds you'd feel in your bones. Relentless.
I suspectbit was not something that was ever replicated again at that concentration. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 10:36 PM (eEALH) 90
Skip Ken Burns.
Watch 1776 and April Morning instead. Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (dxtDq) Have to admit, "The Patriot" is pretty good, too. "Aim small, miss small." Posted by: RickZ at November 11, 2025 10:36 PM (gKDq2) 91
The Enola Gay, the B-29 piloted by then Colonel Paul Tibbetts and crew was eventually slated for display at the Smithsonian in the early 1990s, but the clowns at the Smithsonian couldn’t help themselves and had to imbue the whole display with their pseudo-intellectual war revisionism. They are like termites.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 10:36 PM (//5Rf) 92
AOP actually I'm somewhat jumping the gun on the whole thing. Until the lawyers advise, whole estate is just being secured and mapped, of course. So not sure exactly how any of this will unfold.
I will probably not be physically present for any sales other than to gun stores, due to logistics. I'm aware of a handful of morons in the general vicinity of the place. Figure I'll communicate with Weasel about possibility of any sales to the horde. As you can imagine the ridiculous gun laws and shipment issues make a remote selling operation a no-go. I'd love to take the entire trove of primers, but fuggetaboutit (regardless of legal/estate issues). Might be able to bring back small amounts of high-end self-defense ammo in airline luggage. Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:37 PM (U/Byj) 93
In case there are folks who have not heard of or read this classic war memoir, Eugene Sledge's "With the Old Breed" is a searingly powerful and eloquent account of his fighting in the Pacific campaign.
You can also see some interviews with Sledge and a handful of his fellow Marine veterans talking about how horrific it was to fight the Japs, who were far more vicious in battle than the Germans. God bless our fighting men. Posted by: Beverly at November 11, 2025 10:37 PM (Epeb0) 94
Watch 1776 and April Morning instead.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (dxtDq) +1 Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 10:37 PM (eEALH) 95
Watch 1776 and April Morning instead.
Allen Guelzo did a nice series called Americas Founding Fathers. I downloaded it from The Great Courses a while back. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 11, 2025 10:37 PM (EXyHK) 96
Burns did a documentary on the Dust Bowl that was very good. Lately, I haven't cared much for his shows.
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 11, 2025 10:40 PM (47diA) 97
To be truly technical, the last shots of the War to End all Wars did not happen until the Allied intervention units withdrew from Murmansk and Archangel in 1919.
Cf the US Polar Bear division. Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 10:40 PM (dxtDq) 98
Beverly, breaking the snarky code - just wanted to mention that your recommended reading have been some of the best over the years. Thanks.
Posted by: scampydog at November 11, 2025 10:40 PM (41CYW) 99
What ever happened to quarts, fifths, and gallons?? I hate all this Frog crap.
Posted by: Beverly at November 11, 2025 10:41 PM (Epeb0) Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 10:42 PM (F2Ar1) Posted by: fourseasons at November 11, 2025 10:43 PM (3ek7K) 102
Evening.
The audio on that "History Girl" Twatter clip sounds suspiciously modern. Also, it seems to use the exact same sound several times. Guys, I suspect that that clip is bullshit. Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 11, 2025 10:43 PM (cRnmE) 103
I'm aware of a handful of morons in the general vicinity of the place. Figure I'll communicate with Weasel about possibility of any sales to the horde. As you can imagine the ridiculous gun laws and shipment issues make a remote selling operation a no-go. I'd love to take the entire trove of primers, but fuggetaboutit (regardless of legal/estate issues). Might be able to bring back small amounts of high-end self-defense ammo in airline luggage.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:37 PM (U/Byj) Ah, OK. Sounds good. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:43 PM (npFr7) 104
What ever happened to quarts, fifths, and gallons?
A momentous event related to a quart of Jack in one evening led to the younger LRob significantly reducing alcohol intake. It was fun while I was conscious, but then . . . . . Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 11, 2025 10:43 PM (47diA) 105
Newly constructed bridge in China collapsed today.
Posted by: fourseasons at November 11, 2025 10:43 PM (3ek7K) Let me put on my surprised face. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:43 PM (snZF9) 106
91 The Enola Gay, the B-29 piloted by then Colonel Paul Tibbetts and crew was eventually slated for display at the Smithsonian in the early 1990s, but the clowns at the Smithsonian couldn’t help themselves and had to imbue the whole display with their pseudo-intellectual war revisionism. They are like termites.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 10:36 PM (//5Rf) As America's first openly gay airplane, it must have been hard for Enola. Posted by: Sprung Boingman at November 11, 2025 10:43 PM (Wcdbq) 107
Reveille (11:30) https://youtu.be/te-cKxsBapM Posted by: mindful webworker - The entire world lies quietly at peace. at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (3ynhY) I had two great-uncles (brothers) who served together in the Army in France. One bullet hit them both in the trenches...one brother was ok, the other lost his leg but lived. How I am unsure, as no antibiotics. Both were wonderful men from north MS, & one a wacky English professor at Ole Miss. My grandmother's half brothers. 10 siblings, 3 wives after one would die to raise the rest and hatch another. The uncle with his wooden leg remained a bachelor til his death. Living in an old white Victorian house outside of Oxford. Wrap around porch with giant oak trees & the entire family would meet, over 100+, in August there. I remember the porch swing, food, family and the huge, huge oak trees as the adults played croquet. Double seater outhouse. He would always get us kids together to eat watermelon off the east coast and see how far we could spit seeds. He left all of his money to his nieces and nephews.He was quiet and kind. His sisters said later that he had PTSD, but they did not call it that...sometimes nightmares at night. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 10:44 PM (MAl//) 108
>>OK, write up a BOM for all that and price it. Include the added A/D, D/A, PWM, I2C, SPI, UART peripherals.
Cheapest way to go would be to use an arduino nano as a bridge device with the 140 dollar sff pc, it will get you pretty much everything you need. So for 140 buck you get a real computer and for 25 bucks you get a precision timing microcontroller/gpio interface with all of those features. The PC/Arduino combo is better than the RPI in every dimension. Having said that, the RPi still has certain advantages if you are building a projects that needs an all-in-on SBC with hdmi output with a small form factor. For instance EVS CTP-2003-web panels use RPi's to drive the display and act as a logging device. Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2025 10:44 PM (XV/Pl) 109
So they were fighting until literally 11am? Thats so crazy. I thought a 11 was just some ceremonial time but the fighting ended when all the parties agreed to it.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 10:44 PM (F2Ar1) 110
A momentous event related to a quart of Jack in one evening led to the younger LRob significantly reducing alcohol intake. It was fun while I was conscious, but then . . . . .
Posted by: LRob .....the event that led to you being a pioneering patient in laser tattoo removal? Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 10:44 PM (nhCoE) 111
And this was a cannibal CME (coronal mass ejection) that is currently hitting Erf. A cannibal is when two CME's, one faster, merge right when they hit Erf. So Sol farted a slower one, then a faster one, and the two farts merged and hit us in the face at the same time. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 10:45 PM (w6EFb) 112
The audio on that "History Girl" Twatter clip sounds suspiciously modern. Also, it seems to use the exact same sound several times.
Guys, I suspect that that clip is bullshit. Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 11, 2025 10:43 PM (cRnmE) That's been around for a number of years; longer than AI has been, for sure. I think it is legit. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:45 PM (npFr7) 113
I lived in Philly for a few months about 30 years ago. The only way I'd return is if I were appointed Military Governor and given carte blanche to clean it up. I'm not meant to live in big cities, apparently.
Posted by: PabloD at November 11, 2025 10:45 PM (I8S3t) 114
Country Joe McDonald put the War Poetry of Robert W. Service to music in a 1971 album titled "War, War, War". It'svery well done and is on Youtube, both the album and some later live performances.
Service led an interesting life in several chapters, Yukon Gold Rush, WW1, later moving to France. He went to serve as a medic/ambulance driver and had to recuperate in a hospital in England for a long spell, which i when he wrote his War Poetry. Posted by: The Man From Athabaska at November 11, 2025 10:45 PM (oftw2) 115
OK, write up a BOM for all that and price it. Include the added A/D, D/A, PWM, I2C, SPI, UART peripherals.
Cheapest way to go would be to use an arduino nano as a bridge device with the 140 dollar sff pc, it will get you pretty much everything you need. So for 140 buck you get a real computer and for 25 bucks you get a precision timing microcontroller/gpio interface with all of those features. The PC/Arduino combo is better than the RPI in every dimension. Having said that, the RPi still has certain advantages if you are building a projects that needs an all-in-on SBC with hdmi output with a small form factor. For instance EVS CTP-2003-web panels use RPi's to drive the display and act as a logging device. Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2025 10:44 PM (XV/Pl) What frigging language was THAT? lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:46 PM (snZF9) 116
Enola Gay fiasco was '95, 50th anniversary of Hiroshima. Think there was quite a division within the Smithsonian staff responsible. Thankfully common sense won out, plus it kicked off a substantial movement of real historians to debunk the ridiculous "revisionist" crap being pushed about the war's end. Unfortunately for the "revisionists", they seemed unaware of much of the basic material related to these questions. The Japanese ambassador to Moscow in 1945 provided, all by himself, a repudiation of their ludicrous claims, in his intercepted communications with Tokyo.
Was at State at the time. So I decided to go see what their library had on the subject. Found "Behind Japan's Surrender" by Lester Brooks (1967). It had been checked out *one time* (!!!!). It was pre-1974 so definitely didn't have Purple/Ultra material in the mix, but still enough was known to sketch out what a crazy near-miss CF the whole process was (which of course invalidates "revisionist" assumptions and conclusions). Much later I read "Japan's Longest Day" (1964), a must-read for anyone who wants to know just how chaotic, uncertain, and dangerous the Japanese internal process was that led to surrender. Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:47 PM (U/Byj) 117
I think i read today that Elon Musk said China is better at some things than we are. Maybe not bridges, lol. Posted by: fourseasons at November 11, 2025 10:47 PM (3ek7K) 118
91 The Enola Gay, the B-29 piloted by then Colonel Paul Tibbetts and crew was eventually slated for display at the Smithsonian in the early 1990s, but the clowns at the Smithsonian couldn’t help themselves and had to imbue the whole display with their pseudo-intellectual war revisionism. They are like termites.
Posted by: Common Tater ................................................ I visited there about 15 years ago. Did not see any of that. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 10:47 PM (sAmhv) Posted by: Sum Ting Wong at November 11, 2025 10:47 PM (nhCoE) 120
Elon Musk said China is better at some things than we are. Maybe not bridges, lol.
Posted by: fourseasons at November 11, 2025 10:47 PM (3ek7K) stealing technology from your enemies. Nobody beats China there. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 10:48 PM (F2Ar1) 121
Fortunately not, mikeski! Primarily it was driving about 15 miles home, parking in the front yard AND I still have no recollection of doing so. I was told by my now former wife who was stupid enough to (a) let me do it and (b) rode along anyway!
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 11, 2025 10:48 PM (47diA) Posted by: mikeski, nerd at November 11, 2025 10:48 PM (nhCoE) Posted by: fourseasons at November 11, 2025 10:49 PM (3ek7K) 124
The US converted some battleship guns into railway guns. They were duly shipped off to France and saw extensive action.
One railway gun crew timed their last shot to fall just before the 11am cessation. Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 10:49 PM (dxtDq) 125
11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:49 PM (U/Byj) 126
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I think i read today that Elon Musk said China is better at some things than we are. Maybe not bridges, lol. Posted by: fourseasons ....................................... He's been toutiing the ChiComs solar energy for a while now. He is a bit naive to believe anything coming out of the PRC. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 10:50 PM (sAmhv) 127
40 Aurora is still going like gangbusters here at Peon Manor.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:18 PM (npFr7) Quite visible from my suburban backyard in central Iowa. Even somewhat visible in the front, with the street lights and neighbors garage lights. Posted by: a.moron at November 11, 2025 10:50 PM (X5Jzz) 128
Reveille (11:30) https://youtu.be/te-cKxsBapM Posted by: mindful webworker - The entire world lies quietly at peace. at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (3ynhY) My father, who downplayed his experience in WWII as a Marine on those islands, said they were first sent to Peleliu to guard an airstrip. One night while they were sleeping the Japanese walked right past them vs being shot. They also were clearing caves and burying many of their own after the first push. He was in the second landing. His job was to figure out where the big guns would be fired. Claims his missed targets, etc, as he was always joking. He did not joke, though, about losing his buddies. My mother said on the Marine's birthday he'd call his friends across the nation who survived with him. He got malaria but came home whole, married years later and had me, his little replica in female form. My hero in life in many ways. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 10:51 PM (MAl//) Posted by: Wiserbud at November 11, 2025 10:52 PM (1vvKU) 130
Didn't know the US had railroad guns in WWI. Cool.
Armored trains still take pride of place in cool if not very effective military systems of that era. Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:52 PM (U/Byj) 131
Part of me suspects they kept lobbing shells until the last second so they didn't have to haul them back to a depot.
Posted by: PabloD at November 11, 2025 10:53 PM (I8S3t) 132
Quite visible from my suburban backyard in central Iowa. Even somewhat visible in the front, with the street lights and neighbors garage lights.
Posted by: a.moron Same here (central Iowa). We drove outside the city a few hours ago, but could easily see it from our house a little later as it strengthened. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 11, 2025 10:53 PM (ycI94) Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 11, 2025 10:53 PM (XeU6L) 134
What’s weird, the IOC has to be re-outlawing chicks with dicks.
Those with long memories can recall the scandal in the 1970s that blew up, involving Soviet bloc countries trying to gain an advantage in winning the gold medals. Everyone knew back then that was dirty pool. Cheating. How, and when, were they pressured to change in the first place? Who was dumb enough to agree to that? “Yes, this sounds like a good idea”. Usually these sorts of atrocities are done by a committee. Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 10:54 PM (F3yTM) 135
If it's Ken Burns, it's going to be all about racism. Thanks but no thanks.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 11, 2025 10:18 PM (CHHv1) I watched his documentary on WWII and was shocked to hear that there was racial prejudice and discrimination in the south during the 1940s. Posted by: Sardonicus at November 11, 2025 10:54 PM (8I4hW) 136
88 Yes, some celebrities get no credit for helping others, like Trump, but on the other hand everyone is well aware of Kim Kardashian's largesse.
Posted by: Life Ain't Fair at November 11, 2025 10:36 PM (oftw2) That's because there were pictures of her largess plastered all over the internet. Posted by: a.moron at November 11, 2025 10:55 PM (X5Jzz) 137
108 >>OK, write up a BOM for all that and price it. Include the added A/D, D/A, PWM, I2C, SPI, UART peripherals.
Cheapest way to go would be to use an arduino nano as a bridge device with the 140 dollar sff pc, it will get you pretty much everything you need. So for 140 buck you get a real computer and for 25 bucks you get a precision timing microcontroller/gpio interface with all of those features. The PC/Arduino combo is better than the RPI in every dimension. Having said that, the RPi still has certain advantages if you are building a projects that needs an all-in-on SBC with hdmi output with a small form factor. For instance EVS CTP-2003-web panels use RPi's to drive the display and act as a logging device. Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2025 10:44 PM (XV/Pl) This is exactly what I was just saying to myself. Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2025 10:56 PM (e8mjv) 138
Britains first and last WW1 dead coincidence. Ended up buried in the same cemetery less than 25 feet from each other. Parr and Ellison. RIP
https://youtube.com/shorts/aKxuYlr_pUQ Posted by: Rex B at November 11, 2025 10:56 PM (CzhWp) 139
99 What ever happened to quarts, fifths, and gallons?? I hate all this Frog crap.
Posted by: Beverly at November 11, 2025 10:41 PM (Epeb0) Make gills great again ! Posted by: a.moron at November 11, 2025 10:56 PM (X5Jzz) 140
Rappers Delight was fun in its day. I recall the first time hearing it at a party.
Posted by: scampydog at November 11, 2025 10:56 PM (41CYW) 141
Tater, I thought the Commie stuff in gymnastics back then was loading the young ladies up with massive testosterone doses for years to retard/eliminate the onset of puberty and add muscles girls don't usually build. I didn't know they had men competing in events as women.
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 11, 2025 10:57 PM (47diA) 142
Enjoy the light show! Anyone trying to take photos?
Posted by: TRex - East German gymnast dino at November 11, 2025 10:57 PM (IQ6Gq) 143
Enola Gay was Tibbetts' mother's name of course.
For the 2nd mission, which ended up hitting Nagasaki - and was a general CF from the get-go, in contrast to the impossibly perfect Hiroshima mission - they switched planes. Sweeney's plane was the Great Artiste (named for their bombardier, considered a master at his craft). But it was outfitted as the instrumentation plane for Hiroshima, and instead of doing all the work to change things in the short time between the two operations, Sweeney just took Bock's Car (named for Capt. Frederick Bock) for the mission. Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:58 PM (U/Byj) 144
I visited there about 15 years ago. Did not see any of that.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 10:47 PM (sAmhv) Public pressure made them remove that display and redo it. Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 10:58 PM (EYmYM) Posted by: Firkins at November 11, 2025 10:59 PM (oftw2) 146
Anyone interested?
Yes. Also, might try to arrange a group trip if our office goes to Harrisburg for a conference, again. Will have to look up the logistics of that journey. Posted by: GWB at November 11, 2025 10:59 PM (tp7Jn) 147
Elon needs China to sell Teslas. He’ll say just about anything Xi wants him to say.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 11:00 PM (F2Ar1) 148
I'm not sure I'll see the Aurora Borelius. Lots of city lights around. Plus, the northern horizon is blocked by a hill.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 11:00 PM (sAmhv) 149
I visited there about 15 years ago. Did not see any of that.
—— Well, that’s because 15 years ago was …. 2010 The 1990s was a long time ago. The plane was not considered something to save, necessarily. I think it spent a lot of time in the 1950s stored outside. It was in sad shape. Then it was disassembled and sat disassembled for many years in a warehouse. The controversy at the time was huge. Veterans groups were royally pissed off. The crew was still alive at that time, and they were not happy either. My point was to illustrate the assholes have been assholing for a long, long time. “Bring the War home!” they said in the 60s. Well they did, that’s what we got goin’ on right now. Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 11:01 PM (F3yTM) 150
That's been around for a number of years; longer than AI has been, for sure. I think it is legit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:45 PM (npFr7) Skimmed the comments. It's a recreation. I thought maybe it was some idiots idea of a joke using sound effects from a video game or something. History Girl just wasn't clear on that point. The physical reel shown in the clip is real, at least. Anyway, audio recording back then were hard to make and they all sounded like shit. Everything is muddled together. Think of a big band recording in an old Hollywood movie from the '30s. You can't really make out individual instruments. It's just sonic mush. Mmmmmm.....I better quit now. I'm going to start kvetching about vinyl very quickly at this rate. Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 11, 2025 11:01 PM (XfDq7) 151
Though it’s hard to watch The American Revolution without awareness of the anti-monarchic sentiments shared at recent rounds of “No Kings!” protests — to hear the noble egalitarian sentiments that launched the American experiment without pondering the ways the fulfillment of our freedoms has fallen short of our loftiest aspirations
---------- STFU GTFO Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2025 11:01 PM (0RiMX) 152
We have the lights here in Southern Illinois. Can see them without a camera.
Posted by: Joyenz at November 11, 2025 11:01 PM (2F0/Y) 153
....the event that led to you being a pioneering patient in laser tattoo removal?
Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 10:44 PM (nhCoE) The generations that lead in in tattoos will also lead in tattoo removal. I guess it will be in someway both ironic and appibproe. Posted by: Shani at November 11, 2025 11:02 PM (GXAZS) 154
I watched his documentary on WWII and was shocked to hear that there was racial prejudice and discrimination in the south during the 1940s.
Posted by: Sardonicus That’s because you live in a news desert now that NPR is not funded. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 11:02 PM (F2Ar1) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 11:02 PM (dveO7) 156
The Enola Gay kerfluffle coincided with that wanker Ford's revisiting and revising the history of the AVG, CATF, 14th AF in China.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 11:02 PM (dxtDq) 157
Yeah, jokes aside - similar here. Just depends on how much entertaining, goofing, etc. Social stuff drives most of my purchase pattern.
Posted by: scampydog ******* ie, Golden Birthdays!!!! Posted by: The Grateful at November 11, 2025 11:03 PM (IQ6Gq) 158
No audio exists of the WW1 big guns, but what does exist is seismic data used to triangulate the location of enemy artillery (aka "sound ranging").
At least one bit of film was saved recording the last few minutes of World War I. The Imperial War Museum commissioned a company to recreate the type of weapons being used at the end of the war and used the film strip to recreate the sound of the blasts. Posted by: Joemarine at November 11, 2025 11:03 PM (y171U) 159
ItsGoTimeDonald, I hope Elon has a plan in place for when China seizes/nationalizes all their Tesla facilities.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 11:03 PM (cQHrm) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 11:03 PM (dveO7) 161
Ken Burns can eat a bag of dicks for all the disservice he did to the men and women of the Viet Nam war in his documentary. Retard revisionary leftist.
Posted by: DBCooper Netfux has a show, "Turning Point: Vietnam", that is like a bibliography of every derogatory trope about the war. A sort of study into propaganda. Quite entertaining if viewed from that perspective. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 11:03 PM (/lPRQ) 162
Also sometimes saying a competing country does something better lights a fire under America’s ass . At least it used to.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 11:03 PM (EYmYM) 163
148 I'm not sure I'll see the Aurora Borelius. Lots of city lights around. Plus, the northern horizon is blocked by a hill.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 11:00 PM (sAmhv) Here in central Iowa they are quite high in the sky, almost overhead. Don't worry about the hill. Posted by: a.moron at November 11, 2025 11:04 PM (X5Jzz) 164
A Gill (pronounced Jill) is technically 5 ounces if you believe in Imperial measurement (and you should).
Whiskey used to be part of a soldier’s pay and allowances. Some fag in the Navy rescinded the Rum ration too. Not sure about the lash, and sodomy. Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 11:04 PM (F3yTM) 165
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns,...
--- Ken Burns can KMA. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 11:04 PM (dveO7) 166
Though it’s hard to watch The American Revolution without awareness of the anti-monarchic sentiments shared at recent rounds of “No Kings!” protests — to hear the noble egalitarian sentiments that launched the American experiment without pondering the ways the fulfillment of our freedoms has fallen short of our loftiest aspirations
...................................................... Actually, it's very easy to watch as long as you're not a smug, condescending, douchebag. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 11:05 PM (sAmhv) 167
Publius, thank you so much for mentioning that you could see the Aurora! I figured if you could we could, and sure enough! And thank you, AOP, for mentioning they were red, or I might not have realized I was seeing them. They were faint, but distinctive. We're in a holler, and the tree line prevents us seeing a lot of astronomical things, but tonight we saw the glow!
I had no idea this was even happening, so, again, many thanks to both of you! Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 11, 2025 11:05 PM (Vvh2V) 168
My hero in life in many ways.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat ********* That is beautiful. Thank you for sharing Posted by: The Grateful at November 11, 2025 11:06 PM (IQ6Gq) 169
The Left is so ignorant of history and the Left’s history ‘experts’ want to keep it that way.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 11:07 PM (EYmYM) 170
I will not be disappointed if the price of Buffalo Trace goes down.
Posted by: no one at November 11, 2025 11:07 PM (W7XSX) 171
I still remember a number of the Vietnam documentary series on PBS (and other networks) in the 1980s.
In particular, I remember "The 10,000 Day War." Supposedly it went into crazy detail about everything that happened there, going all the way back to the French. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 11:07 PM (cQHrm) 172
>> Publius, thank you so much for mentioning that you could see the Aurora!
No, I can't see it here. Looking around locally, it's camera only. Some can get some colors with their cameras, being more sensitive than the eye. The last one I was able to see was the big G5 event on May 10, 2024. That was quite a show here. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 11:08 PM (w6EFb) 173
And thanks to whoever first mentioned in during the last thread. I hadn't been paying any attention to the Sun goings on. Should have, or I would've seen the predictions for tonight! Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 11:09 PM (w6EFb) 174
No audio exists of the WW1 big guns, but what does exist is seismic data used to triangulate the location of enemy artillery (aka "sound ranging").
At least one bit of film was saved recording the last few minutes of World War I. The Imperial War Museum commissioned a company to recreate the type of weapons being used at the end of the war and used the film strip to recreate the sound of the blasts. Posted by: Joemarine at November 11, 2025 11:03 PM (y171U) So what we hear now, from the recreation, is what the troops on the ground near the sound ranging apparatus would have heard. Close enough. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 11:09 PM (npFr7) 175
No audio exists of the WW1 big guns, but what does exist is seismic data used to triangulate the location of enemy artillery (aka "sound ranging").
At least one bit of film was saved recording the last few minutes of World War I. The Imperial War Museum commissioned a company to recreate the type of weapons being used at the end of the war and used the film strip to recreate the sound of the blasts. Posted by: Joemarine at November 11, 2025 11:03 PM (y171U) Ah! There ya go. Thank you! Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 11, 2025 11:10 PM (XfDq7) 176
For instance EVS CTP-2003-web panels use RPi's to drive the display and act as a logging device.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2025 10:44 PM (XV/Pl) How often have I said the same. 😉 Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 11, 2025 11:10 PM (Vvh2V) 177
On the date of the Pearl Harbor attack, the U.S. had three fleet carriers in the Pacific. The Japanese had six.
By late 1944 America had 18 fleet carriers in the Pacific, plus light carriers and escort carriers that brought the total to over 100 carriers. 100. The world had never seen such an incredible explosion of productivity. The Japanese were never able to deploy more than six fleet carriers at any time during the Pacific War because the U.S. sank their newly-commissioned carriers as fast as they could be commissioned. They had no idea what they had gotten themselves into. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2025 11:11 PM (0RiMX) 178
Good evening morons y gracias al Disco
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2025 11:11 PM (A0sqA) 179
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 11:08 PM (w6EFb)
Well, I'm glad I misread your comment! 😁 Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 11, 2025 11:13 PM (Vvh2V) 180
Went outside to see if I could see the Northern Lights. No. Its cloudy. The weather witch doctors lied!! Oh well.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 11:13 PM (sAmhv) 181
According to a member of my astronomy club, the aurora is/was visible in Mims, FL.
So some of you southerners might be surprised if you wander outdoors. Look to the north. Posted by: pawn at November 11, 2025 11:13 PM (sPsWv) 182
Think of a big band recording in an old Hollywood movie from the '30s. You can't really make out individual instruments. It's just sonic mush.
—— Bing Crosby and Ampex, the Germans had improved recording technology and was considered “intellectual reparations” or something like that, so there was a big jump in music fidelity right after the war. They had learned how to record on magnetic tape, with a bias in the carrier frequency. No royalty payments (like there had been during World War One) were envisioned, whole companies of troops advanced along the fronts and hoovered up everything. Tons and tons of documents, blueprints, processes were mimeographed. It all went to the US, Britain, Soviets, etc. Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 11:14 PM (F3yTM) 183
Robert, I would love if somehow an audio recording could be found of that, as well as what Abraham Lincoln's voice sounded like. Obviously it can't happen however.
I have heard Lincoln's voice was surprisingly high-pitched, whereas everyone assumes he sounded more like Santa Claus. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 11:14 PM (cQHrm) 184
Gutfeld does a great job busting on Brit Hume. I have nothing to add.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2025 11:14 PM (A0sqA) 185
So I'm teaching a night class (300 level) at the local university. Right now I have them on a group in class project. But I will end with the tape of the end of the artillery. I doubt these kids know what the 11th minute/hour/day/month even means.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2025 11:15 PM (CiZaq) 186
>>>Seriously, I buy my preferred tipple in 1.75 liter bottles, and use it to refill the 750 ml bottle that I keep on the counter. There's a real economy of scale when buying the bigger bottle.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy ------------ Oh, noes ! I don't do display but do buy 1.75 handles of potato juice then pour into an old pint bottle putting the rest in the freezer. _Great Minds Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 11:15 PM (dveO7) 187
The old lady from next door visited yesterday and needed some Amaretto. I gave her what I had.
This afternoon, there was a surprise couple of jars of Amaretto Apple jelly sitting on the porch. Dayummmm! Yummy. Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2025 11:15 PM (cYBz/) 188
I have heard Lincoln's voice was surprisingly high-pitched, whereas everyone assumes he sounded more like Santa Claus.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 11:14 PM (cQHrm) ------- I heard his voice at Disneyland. Surprisingly, he sounded just like Tony the Tiger. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2025 11:16 PM (0RiMX) 189
The Left is so ignorant of history and the Left’s history ‘experts’ want to keep it that way.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 11:07 PM (EYmYM) The American Left is a destruction machine. It wages war against everything that is good and for everything that is bad. Posted by: Shani at November 11, 2025 11:16 PM (GXAZS) 190
I'd like to put Ken Burns to the test and see if he is in fact flammable.
Posted by: firebug at November 11, 2025 11:16 PM (xYacU) 191
I've seen some stunning pictures taken in Mountain Home and Harrison I bet if I'd gone out earlier, I'd have seen a better show, but it was still thrilling!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 11, 2025 11:16 PM (Vvh2V) 192
Robert, true that audio recording pre-1940s was pretty bad. In particular, motion picture production relied on recording direct to discs, or to optical strips on the celluloid. No one really knew how to optimize the sound.
Whereas after tape was discovered, it's unreal how fast fidelity increased. IMHO some of the recordings of the 1950s have never been matched in terms of quality. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 11:17 PM (cQHrm) 193
The collection of Axis aircraft can be traced back to Gen Hap Arnold who set them aside after World War II for a future Smithsonian museum.
The collection was originally stored inside a disused aircraft factory near Chicago. Korea reactivated the factory and the planes were moved outside. Only later would the collection move to the Paul E. Gerber facility. Thanks to Arnold's forethought, the US has the only surviving complete examples of the He 219, Do 335, and Japan's Seiran seaplane. Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 11:18 PM (dxtDq) 194
Cicero, LOL.
"I just ordered the Emancipation Proclamation into law and that's grrrrr-eat!!" :-) Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 11:18 PM (cQHrm) 195
"109 So they were fighting until literally 11am? Thats so crazy. I thought a 11 was just some ceremonial time but the fighting ended when all the parties agreed to it."
********* My Dad was in Korea in 1953. He said that the Chinks shot off their artillery at our lines right up to the last minute before the truce. Posted by: Cosda at November 11, 2025 11:19 PM (FXRLM) 196
Aurora is visible tonight via camera on the Arizona/Mexico border. Just a slight pink via Mark 1 Mod 0 eyeball.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at November 11, 2025 11:19 PM (TQmWD) 197
I would bet George Washington sounded something like John Cleese. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 11:19 PM (cQHrm) 198
Publius, thank you so much for mentioning that you could see the Aurora! I figured if you could we could, and sure enough! And thank you, AOP, for mentioning they were red, or I might not have realized I was seeing them. They were faint, but distinctive. We're in a holler, and the tree line prevents us seeing a lot of astronomical things, but tonight we saw the glow!
I had no idea this was even happening, so, again, many thanks to both of you! Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 11, 2025 11:05 PM (Vvh2V) When I first saw it, it was at 6:05 PM, and the afterglow of the sunset was still bright on the western horizon. My first thought was, gee, looks like a band of high cirrus cloud, or maybe a jet contrail, lit up by the Sun below the horizon. But as I drove north, and kept watching it, I could see it resolve into the streaks and curtains typical of an Aurora. Still going on here. Most of the sky is faint blotchy pink. You can see the stars right through it. You know the cloud pattern they call a "mackerel sky"? Like that, but faint pink. Maybe we are all going get zapped by radiation, and grow wings, or a third eye. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 11:20 PM (npFr7) Posted by: Archer at November 11, 2025 11:20 PM (YGRGv) 200
I like the 'done shooting at 11, let em rip till then' How much would that suck getting fragged by the last shell of the war?
Posted by: a dude in MI at November 11, 2025 11:21 PM (+I6Y/) 201
>>>The Japanese were never able to deploy more than six fleet carriers at any time during the Pacific War because the U.S. sank their newly-commissioned carriers as fast as they could be commissioned. They had no idea what they had gotten themselves into.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) --- It's called Can Do. Killing of it started with LBJ and they've been trying to kill it ever since. The Trump revival along with that damned Christian revival thing is driving them berserk. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 11:21 PM (dveO7) 202
Found a little something something regarding that WWI clip.
Smithsonian Mag: Listen to the Moment the Guns Fell Silent, Ending World War I A new exhibit at the Imperial War Museum uses seismic data collected during the war to recreate the moment the Armistice went into effect https://tinyurl.com/yau7j7rw Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 11, 2025 11:22 PM (XfDq7) 203
And my deepest gratitude to all of our Veterans, past and present. Thete aren't enough words to say thank you properly.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 11, 2025 11:22 PM (Vvh2V) 204
199 PBS and Ken Burns?
No thanks. I'll pass. Posted by: Archer at November 11, 2025 11:20 PM (YGRGv) #Wisdom Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 11, 2025 11:22 PM (EOjZq) 205
That bridge in China had one end spectacularly destroyed by a landslide, the rest of the bridge looks to have survived.
How, you may say, could they have not recognized the danger of a landslide? Go look up dam disasters on EweTube, and see how often it happens to round-eyes too. Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 11, 2025 11:23 PM (dXRTU) 206
Refilling 750s might have other benefits depending on the booze. Posted by: rhomboid ------ One nit. It's highly unlikely that any private party will be arrested, but be aware that refilling booze bottles is illegal in almost every state. The law is aimed at bars that load cheap booze into top shelf bottles, but the laws don't make any fine distinctions. Refilling aliquor bottle is illegal regardless of who does it or what brand is put in it. You should be ok as long as you don't brag about it.😁 Posted by: buddhaha at November 11, 2025 11:23 PM (AQgeI) 207
>>>>>I have heard Lincoln's voice was surprisingly high-pitched, whereas everyone assumes he sounded more like Santa Claus.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 11:14 PM (cQHrm ********* The same with Gen. Patton. He had a similar high pitched voice but now we hear George C Scott. Posted by: Cosda at November 11, 2025 11:23 PM (FXRLM) 208
Philly MoMe? Do it in August 2026. I am planning for one final trip back East. I want to spend a day at the beach and Boardwalk. I want to eat real seafood, not the frozen crap that costs an arm and a leg. Peaches and other fruit will be ripe, and blue crabs will be in season. I already have four ducks lined up; the rest will have to wander aimlessly until Spring.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at November 11, 2025 11:23 PM (DK5Sh) 209
Maybe we are all going get zapped by radiation, and grow wings, or a third eye.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 11:20 PM (npFr7) It is the aliens aboard 3/I Atlas. Posted by: Archer at November 11, 2025 11:23 PM (YGRGv) 210
Here's a little movie graphic of the solar wind, showing Sol's double fart hitting us tonight: https://is.gd/8Zj27R That's looking down from ecliptic north, rotating with the earth's orbit. The green dot is the Erf, and the orange dot is the STEREO A spacecraft (STEREO B was lost in 2014) Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 11:27 PM (w6EFb) 211
The PRC had a spectacularly bad dam failure in 1975. Their thousand year rain event calculation was 11in in 24 hours. Due to a tropical storm they got over 40in. Then no one local was willing to open the flood gates on their own, phone lines washed out, so the dam failed.
Official death count was just over 20,000. Unofficial estimate is 10x that. Bing hao. Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 11:28 PM (dxtDq) Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 11, 2025 11:29 PM (Vvh2V) 213
There are differing accounts on Lincoln's voice. It's crazy that we'll never really know. Maybe AI will take us back to that time LOL.
Posted by: Shani at November 11, 2025 11:30 PM (GXAZS) 214
Robert, true that audio recording pre-1940s was pretty bad. In particular, motion picture production relied on recording direct to discs, or to optical strips on the celluloid. No one really knew how to optimize the sound.
Whereas after tape was discovered, it's unreal how fast fidelity increased. IMHO some of the recordings of the 1950s have never been matched in terms of quality. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 11:17 PM (cQHrm) All audio recording was done acoustically up until the late 1920's. Sometimes the fidelity was pretty good, often it wasn't. Many jazz bands used wood blocks instead of drums, because drums were loud enough to jump the recording needle right off the wax. Listen to a Louis Armstrong Hot Five recording to hear the wood blocks. By the early 1930's electronic recording was nearly universal. Sound on film became pretty good, too. In theory, it could beat vinyl records or tape for bandwidth. If you watch a 1930's movie now, you are probably watching a dubbed copy with inferior recording techniques for the sound. "High Fidelity" in the 1930's did not have the frequency range that it does now, but it was not in any way crap. It was as good as could be Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 11:32 PM (npFr7) 215
Their thousand year rain event calculation was 11in in 24 hours
****** That seems very low for a thousand year event. We get that here every couple of Springs! Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 11, 2025 11:33 PM (Vvh2V) 216
That's because there were pictures of her largess plastered all over the internet. Posted by: a.moron Extra large. Maybe even Jumbo. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2025 11:34 PM (pkeXY) 217
I hope tomorrow to see the Northern lights. We have too much light here by stupid neighbors. We don't have to even turn on ours.
Do you think they will notice if I shoot the lights out tomorrow? Nah...if I remember I'll have my guy drive me a mile up the mountain earlier than 9pm when I first looked. I am BUMMED OUT! Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 11:36 PM (MAl//) 218
No visible aurora in southern Oregon, or at least nothing visible from my neighborhood which has numerous street lights (and at least one person who went rogue and put up Christmas lights early). Time to head to bed. Good night, miscreants.
Posted by: PabloD at November 11, 2025 11:40 PM (I8S3t) 219
Here is an interesting little book, published in 1950 by Gernsbach: Hi Fidelity Techniques, James Langham.
It was written with the home audio enthusiast/set builder in mind, but it contains many interesting vignettes by a guy who was there for it. Some humorous stories, too. https://archive.org/details/High-fidelityTechniques Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 11:41 PM (npFr7) 220
I like the 'done shooting at 11, let em rip till then' How much would that suck getting fragged by the last shell of the war?
Posted by: a dude in MI Yeah, Peter? That was kinda weak. Let me go back and haunt that artilleryman for a couple years. I'll be back. Posted by: that guy at November 11, 2025 11:43 PM (nhCoE) 221
I imagine enforcement of the no-rebottling booze laws is performed by the same outfits that enforce the laws about removing tags from mattresses.
In one's home, for one's own use, cannot imagine it even theoretically being an actionable violation of law. Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 11:43 PM (U/Byj) 222
There is no valid reason at all to exclude all trans women from women's sports. At all period. Trump also wants to ban medical transition for minors (up to 25 for some fucking reason)
It's so that the freaks have to get their bits altered on their own insurance, not their parents'. You do remember that Obamacare made allowed people to stay on their parents' insurance until that age, right? Or is that too long ago for the liberal goldfish-brains to remember? Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 11:43 PM (i00+Z) 223
Crosby became very interested in the Kraut advances in tape recording mostly because he saw that he could be freed from not having to broadcast live on his very popular radio show. Invested in Ampex and it allowed him to make records and star in movies not being as tied down to the radio show. He was a very hot commodity in the mid 40s, Academy Award, top radio show, #1 records.
Posted by: Pride of Gonzaga at November 11, 2025 11:44 PM (oftw2) 224
There are recordings of the sound of large Katyusha barrages in WWII by the Red Army. You get a bit of an idea where the "Stalin organ" nickname came from.
As to barrages, I imagine the opening artillery prep of Operation Bagration in 1944 by the Red Army would be hard to match in scale. Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 11:45 PM (U/Byj) 225
As to barrages, I imagine the opening artillery prep of Operation Bagration in 1944 by the Red Army would be hard to match in scale.
--------- Pyotr would have been humbled. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2025 11:47 PM (0RiMX) 226
I have been watching some of the Sean Ryan show on you tube. Former navy seal that interviews a lot of Tier 1 guys (Seals, Delta, etc). Man, if you want to see the size of the big planet size brass balls these tier 1 guys haul around its definitely some cool shit. Great interviewer too, he just lets the dudes talk. This one is a favorite-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6pigjVPdAc Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 11:47 PM (snZF9) 227
"They had no idea what they had gotten themselves into."
Some did, such as Yamamoto and probably Kurabiyashi, who'd both spent time in the US and knew our industrial potential. But wishcasting and reckless assumptions were foundational parts of all Axis power calculations at some point. Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 11:55 PM (U/Byj) 228
According to a member of my astronomy club, the aurora is/was visible in Mims, FL.
So some of you southerners might be surprised if you wander outdoors. Look to the north. Posted by: pawn Further south, pink - red color. No dancing lights. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 11:55 PM (/lPRQ) 229
Those 4 quarters and 4 dimes I had in my pocket after football practice in 1964, and that I put into a piggy bank and never spent, are now worth $50.53 in silver value. Most young people have no idea that US money used to actually be worth something.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 11, 2025 11:56 PM (Da7Vv) 230
That would exclude saw off your tweeter treatment for family plans.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 11:56 PM (MXjT6) 231
Saw Off Your Tweeter opened for the Stones in '83.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 12:01 AM (cQHrm) 232
That would exclude saw off your tweeter treatment for family plans.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 11:56 PM (MXjT6) Sawing off your tweeter sort of precludes having any family, anyway. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 12:05 AM (npFr7) 233
Maybe we are all going get zapped by radiation, and grow wings, or a third eye.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon Ground Level Event. Hold your hand over your eyes and you should see your finger bones. Even with your eyes closed .. or so some crank on the internet says. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 12, 2025 12:05 AM (/lPRQ) 234
The PRC had a spectacularly bad dam failure in 1975.…
Posted by: Anna Puma The History Guy recently covered that: 1975 Banqiao Dam failure: The River Dragon has come. https://youtu.be/miV7udgu_FY "the single most deadly infrastructure collapse in human history." Three Gorges says, soon, hold my Tsing Tao. Posted by: mindful webworker - vely sroppy wolkmanshippy at November 12, 2025 12:08 AM (3ynhY) 235
>> Ground Level Event.
Recalling the thread before last, Younger-Dryas and all that, that's an actual alternative disaster theory as opposed to the comet shotgun blast one. That there was a massive solar flare event, protons on the deck, that wreaked the havoc. Robert Schoch is a big proponent of that. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 12:09 AM (w6EFb) 236
Well no Carrinton event, darn it.
Posted by: Archer at November 12, 2025 12:12 AM (YGRGv) 237
Carrington
Posted by: Archer at November 12, 2025 12:13 AM (YGRGv) 238
One nit.
It's highly unlikely that any private party will be arrested, but be aware that refilling booze bottles is illegal in almost every state. The law is aimed at bars that load cheap booze into top shelf bottles, but the laws don't make any fine distinctions. Refilling aliquor bottle is illegal regardless of who does it or what brand is put in it. ---- Because of shortages of bottles during the sniffle scare, the Montana legislature approved a revision in the liquor regulations. You can use a larger bottle to refill smaller bottles but the smaller bottle must be an original bottle to the larger. So, you could use a 1.75 liter bottle of Nikolai Vodka to refill a 1 liter bottle of Nikolai Vodka. I was still running a bar when this went into affect. Posted by: clarence at November 12, 2025 12:13 AM (kUdqB) 239
I saw nothing in central IN.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 12, 2025 12:14 AM (pkeXY) 240
What Schoch is proposing would make the Carrington event look like a fart in a hurricane. YUGE solar outburst, ionizing radiation at ground level sort of thing. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 12:15 AM (w6EFb) 241
What Schoch is proposing would make the Carrington event look like a fart in a hurricane. YUGE solar outburst, ionizing radiation at ground level sort of thing. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley Everyone gained super powers and flew off into space. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 12, 2025 12:18 AM (pkeXY) 242
All this talking about aurora, I said, "What the hell," and went outside.
9:50 PM.MST. 6000' elevation NE AZ (around 34.5° latitude), pretty dark sky, closest town w streetlights is >10 miles. A dull red-orange glow encompassing ~100° of the northern sky, extending 40° above the horizon. I brought the wife out, she says, "That's neat," went back inside and got ready for bed. Posted by: buddhaha at November 12, 2025 12:18 AM (AQgeI) 243
What Schoch is proposing would make the Carrington event look like a fart in a hurricane. YUGE solar outburst, ionizing radiation at ground level sort of thing.
Posted by: publius Jupiter's Great Red Spot is actually an X-ray image of Earth's core? Posted by: mikeski at November 12, 2025 12:19 AM (nhCoE) 244
I brought the wife out, she says, "That's neat," went back inside and got ready for bed.
Posted by: buddhaha Central Florida here. Took wife out. Always with cell phone camera. Really enhanced the color. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 12, 2025 12:23 AM (/lPRQ) 245
I have been watching some of the Sean Ryan show on you tube. Former navy seal that interviews a lot of Tier 1 guys (Seals, Delta, etc). Man, if you want to see the size of the big planet size brass balls these tier 1 guys haul around its definitely some cool shit. Great interviewer too, he just lets the dudes talk.
Yeah, I went way down a rabbit hole a while back watching just about everything he's posted. Awesome stuff. Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 12, 2025 12:23 AM (mH6SG) 246
Hey y'all - glad to see the place is still standing!
Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2025 12:25 AM (QMAsf) 247
.>>>It's so that the freaks have to get their bits altered on their own insurance, not their parents'.
You do remember that Obamacare made allowed people to stay on their parents' insurance until that age, right? Or is that too long ago for the liberal goldfish-brains to remember? Posted by: FeatherBlade ---- Wrong think. There are no natural freaks. It's the Dr.s, facilitators, thought leaders and politicians who create this problem. The way to solve it is to segregate these people, totally, from civil society. Your choice. Then, those frail persons who have been misguided by these physical and mental mutilators will also be segregated from civil society into a controlled environment designed to reorient them into common society. For them and other unfortunate souls that cannot adjust there will be places for them. They were formerly called asylums. New think being eliminated they will now be called, asylums. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 12:26 AM (dveO7) 248
Had another look outside. Entire sky is faint blotchy pink.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 12:27 AM (npFr7) 249
It's an ongoing question about whether Sol is capable of an extinction level "superflare", energies 4 or 5 orders of magnitude above the largest ones we know about. The answer is probably not, but they can't be sure. They've found a few sun-like stars out there that do produce these superflares, but they think they are different enough, something crazy, that means the Sun probably can't do that, at least at the current point in it's lifespan. I think all that can be said for certain is the Sun hasn't produced a superflare in the last 10,000 years. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 12:28 AM (w6EFb) Veterans Day Cafe![]() armygirl The Doctor ![]() Bill Draper Photography A very primal forest in Vancouver. Probably AI because AI ruins everything. ICYMI: The good life. More of the good life. Trump bailed out the NYC Veterans Day Parade in 1995. Murmurration at sunset. Border collie gently herding a baby sheep. (Who thinks the collie wants to play head-butt.) Cat thinks he's the T-1000. A WWII veteran, 98 years old, dons his uniform again. ![]() Night of the Living Karens. I've definitely posted a picture of this early Viking Christian church on the Cafe, but I don't think I've posted video before.
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I almost forgot to wish dad a good Veterans day.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:18 PM (zZu0s) 2
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Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:19 PM (MXjT6) 3
That possum video is fucking hilarious.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:19 PM (zZu0s) 4
At pre
cisely 11:11 a.m. each Veterans Day (Nov. 11), the sun's rays pass through the ellipses of the five Armed Services pillars to form a perfect solar spotlight over a mosaic of The Great Seal of the United States. --- OUR NEXT CLUE!! Posted by: Benjamin Franklin Gates at November 11, 2025 07:20 PM (krQz2) 5
My thing about the conspiracy theorists... I don't have to believe EVERYTHING they say is true.
All I have to do is believe ANYTHIG the so-called establishment is telling us might NOT be true. The truly gullible are those who get angry whenever anyone challenges the establishments. Left or right. Posted by: BurtTC at November 11, 2025 07:20 PM (WL1+W) 6
>> It built with wood only and without using a single nail.
What the hell did they need the nail for? Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 11, 2025 07:20 PM (l3YAf) 7
Happy Veteran’s Day, Horde Vets!
Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2025 07:20 PM (OoFl2) 8
Where is that top picture from? I know I will kick myself when I see the answer…
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 11, 2025 07:20 PM (sVOFR) 9
Thank you, Veterans.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 07:21 PM (zzXla) 10
I think most modern sculpture is pure crap.
The Great Seal sculpture in the top photo is absolutely brilliant (pun intended). Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 11, 2025 07:22 PM (HlyYF) 11
Sock off
Posted by: Josephistan at November 11, 2025 07:22 PM (vrsjf) 12
That huricana has to be very humiliating for the victim but also opens you up to a vicious crotch bite.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 07:22 PM (NW+2e) 13
A very primal forest in Vancouver.
I don't think it's AI, but it doesn't look like it has enough cedars to be Vancouver. Either one of them. Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 07:22 PM (a+4eV) 14
A very primal forest in Vancouver. Probably AI because AI ruins everything.
Never been to that exact spot, but there's plenty of rainforest around there, e.g. the Olympic Penisula, that's even deeper. So, my vote is it's real. Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 11, 2025 07:22 PM (/HDaX) 15
TIL Curtis LeMay passed away in 1990, meaning there was plenty of time for him to head up the strategic bombing of Berkley during Reagan’s terms.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 11, 2025 07:22 PM (l3YAf) Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 11, 2025 07:23 PM (GF5oC) 17
The dog is musing on the relation between mind and matter: does the world exist independent of conscious doggy-experience?
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 07:23 PM (1Nv0l) 18
You know that "hurricana"/"hurricane" martial arts move that Black Widow does? (And every female action hero...?) Where they jump up at your neck, wrap their legs around your neck and head, and then flip you on to the ground? Well, maybe this is just footage from a movie, or maybe this is the hurricana performed for real...
It was a pro wrestling move back in the day as well. Rey Mysterio Jr used it quite a bit. Posted by: That guy was an acrobatic fiend at November 11, 2025 07:24 PM (TbWk/) 19
Minuteman
Posted by: Minuteman at November 11, 2025 07:24 PM (/FuYZ) 20
>> At precisely 11:11 a.m. each Veterans Day (Nov. 11), the sun's rays pass through the ellipses of the five Armed Services pillars to form a perfect solar spotlight over a mosaic of The Great Seal of the United States.
>> perfect solar spotlight >> doesn’t line up Hmm. Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 11, 2025 07:24 PM (l3YAf) 21
Hooray for lamb 103!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2025 07:26 PM (pkeXY) 22
omg that Veterans Day Stonehenge thing is SO COOL!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 11, 2025 07:26 PM (kHop/) 23
That minutemen has a blue flashlight sticking out of his pocket! Could this be proof of alien technology used during the Revolutionary War? Was George Washington actually from some Krypton-like planet, sent here to save the children, but not the British children? Just how much did technology Ben Franklin aquire from the aliens who brought the sacred words to our planet? These are the kinds of questions no one asks, mainly because they are so ridiculous.
Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 07:26 PM (vFG9F) 24
Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2025 07:26 PM (+qU29) 25
Possums? Oh, that's their imitation of the French Army!
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 07:27 PM (mP0Kj) 26
How much trust does that stray cat have for that guy. Amazing.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 07:27 PM (EYmYM) 27
Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 07:26 PM (vFG9F)
We know George had a Dodge Charger! saw it on TV! Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 07:27 PM (mP0Kj) 28
Possum democrat supporters after the CR passed.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 07:28 PM (EYmYM) 29
Oh wow, it's Patch Tuesday today too. Happy patchy! Don't get bricked.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:28 PM (7imtn) Posted by: wth at November 11, 2025 07:28 PM (v0R5T) 31
How much trust does that stray cat have for that guy. Amazing.
And those kittens aren't more than a couple days old either... Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 07:28 PM (a+4eV) 32
Grilled balsamic chicken and charred baby romaine is almost ready! Wash your hands, please. JQ will get drinks as she can, please be patient.
Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2025 07:29 PM (Wmg4n) 33
Evenin' y'all. Thank you to all Horde veterans!
Posted by: screaming in digital at November 11, 2025 07:30 PM (T52c5) 34
Posted by: That guy was an acrobatic fiend at November 11, 2025 07:24 PM (TbWk/)
Stiff arm the guy, don't let him take control of your arm? Guy is going down. It's like a lot of Jui Jitsu... looks wonderful when the choreography works. Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 07:30 PM (mP0Kj) Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 07:31 PM (krQz2) 36
30 What’s the dog thinking?
..... Aah. Stoopid hoomans do all the work. Posted by: wth at November 11, 2025 07:28 PM (v0R5T) Much better than hunting for my own food! Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 07:31 PM (mP0Kj) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2025 07:32 PM (pkeXY) 38
Seems cruel-Baby Romaine-never got to grow to adulthood.
Posted by: Baby Bok Choy at November 11, 2025 07:32 PM (oftw2) 39
Chemtrails and Buzz Aldrin faked moon landing in the same sentence.
Posted by: Tucker at November 11, 2025 07:32 PM (R86kT) 40
Covey William Ingram went to Germany on the Q Mary in late 43 as a Troop transport.
Came home in in Oct 44 as a Hospital Ship. That was my grandfather. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:32 PM (gbOdA) 41
The expert autists at another website think the Opossum are AI.
One indicator is the woman seems to sit on an imaginary chair. (the version I saw is a little clearer and maybe her hands look funny too.) They also all look kind of ai-ee. I don't know, im just some idiot wasting time on the internet. [cripes, looking at hands to detect cyborgs. we are now in a virtual Westworld.] Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 11, 2025 07:33 PM (eHquX) 42
Queen Mary has both transport and hospital parts in the museum.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:33 PM (gbOdA) 43
I heard a good "saying" or "maxim" or perhaps a proverb, the other day about Teaching: "When you want someone to learn nothing, try to teach them everything." Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:33 PM (A/n7m) 44
Norwegians have developed 75 different kinds of fish paste in a tube. That's what holds the Stave Church together.
Posted by: Odd Fra Oslo at November 11, 2025 07:34 PM (oftw2) 45
Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 07:26 PM (vFG9F)
We know George had a Dodge Charger! saw it on TV! Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 07:27 PM (mP0Kj) --- Jon Voight's old car, right? Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 07:34 PM (krQz2) 46
A WWII veteran, 98 years old, dons his uniform again.
In 1988, a gentleman at our church wore his WWI doughboy uniform for Veterans' Day. I guess he would have been ninety-something then. Posted by: Oddbob at November 11, 2025 07:34 PM (cFlmc) 47
In other words, teaching is best done in small increments. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:34 PM (A/n7m) Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 07:35 PM (krQz2) 49
Queen Mary was a coal steam was ran wide fuckin open crossing the Atlantic.
I know the engines were rebuilt at least 2 in WWII. I think it ran around 30 knots. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:35 PM (gbOdA) 50
Thanks for the cafe, Ace. Very nice. We have an old cemetery in the town where our church is. Stones date from the Civil War . I like to wander through there and look at them. Now I can look at our patriarchs headstone. I will miss him.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2025 07:35 PM (1WNAb) 51
The starlings video reminded me of huge flocks of Canada geese flew over the house this past weekend.
Late afternoon sun, blue sky, lots of orange and yellow leaves and wave after wave after wave of geese flying in formations. Simply beautiful. All honking at each other as they migrated. Posted by: Beartooth at November 11, 2025 07:35 PM (0714D) 52
Covey William Ingram went to Germany on the Q Mary in late 43 as a Troop transport.
Came home in in Oct 44 as a Hospital Ship. That was my grandfather. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:32 PM (gbOdA) I'd buy someone being ONE kind of military ship, but not TWO. He was exaggerating a bit. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:35 PM (8avO+) 53
In 1988, a gentleman at our church wore his WWI doughboy uniform for Veterans' Day. I guess he would have been ninety-something then.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 11, 2025 07:34 PM (cFlmc) Reminded me of the scene in Hacksaw Ridge. Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 07:36 PM (EYmYM) Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:36 PM (A/n7m) 55
In Moorhead, MN, there is an exact replica (done entirely by one guy as a labor of love) of a Viking stave church built elsewhere in Norway during the same time period as the church linked above.
Posted by: Vendette at November 11, 2025 07:36 PM (MR1yy) 56
Just think how many ice ages and Global warming spells that church has gone through
Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2025 07:36 PM (+qU29) 57
"When you want someone to learn nothing, try to teach them everything."
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:33 PM (A/n7m) Starts with the Land Acknowledgment. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:37 PM (gbOdA) 58
Got Her Majesty and The Big Dummy off on the road to Chickasha, Oklahoma for shows starting Thursday. It was a hard weekend, a busy day yesterday and a busy morning today. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2025 07:37 PM (tgvbd) 59
It built with wood only and without using a single nail.
--- They nailed it--er....didn't.... Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 07:31 PM (krQz2) I bet they rabbeted the lintels between the lally columns. Posted by: Mr. Blandings at November 11, 2025 07:37 PM (wVcYX) 60
Who is old enough to have done/seen this? Jump starting a car with a dead battery with a Coat Hanger and Touching Bumpers? Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:37 PM (A/n7m) 61
The Democrats bend the knee.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:38 PM (MXjT6) 62
That huricana has to be very humiliating for the victim but also opens you up to a vicious crotch bite.
Posted by: banana Dream Vagina dentata? That's just a conspiracy theory. Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 07:38 PM (nhCoE) 63
here they jump up at your neck, wrap their legs around your neck and head, and then flip you on to the ground?
The hurricana? Should you have information that could lead to the arrest and conviction of Hillary! and she sees you, this is how you will shuffle off your mortal coil. Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 11, 2025 07:39 PM (0sNs1) 64
Jump starting a car with a dead battery with a Coat Hanger and Touching Bumpers?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:37 PM (A/n7m) is that a euphemism? Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:39 PM (gbOdA) 65
Don't stand looking up at a murmmuration of starlings or flocks of geese unless you wear goggles.
Posted by: Pith Helmet Sales and Service at November 11, 2025 07:40 PM (oftw2) Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 11, 2025 07:40 PM (GF5oC) 67
Andrew McCarthy, quickly becoming a legendary amateur astrophotographer, captured a full month's worth of Moon photos, and he did the "mineral moon" thing, showing the faint colors: https://is.gd/wy61ue You can see the full range of the libration over a month, very cool. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 07:40 PM (w6EFb) 68
Ok when you say reap as you sew/sow it is 'sew', right?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:40 PM (zZu0s) 69
Jump starting a car with a dead battery with a Coat Hanger and Touching Bumpers?
Posted by: Soothsayer ---------------- That's not just old, that's cheap and unprepared. First thing I did when I got a car was buy good cables. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 11, 2025 07:41 PM (eHquX) 70
IKEA church?
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:41 PM (MXjT6) 71
Queen Mary was a coal steam was ran wide fuckin open crossing the Atlantic.
I know the engines were rebuilt at least 2 in WWII. I think it ran around 30 knots. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:35 PM (gbOdA) I'd guess the QM was oil fired from the start in the 30s. It did go 30 knots. There was another QM in WWI that was sunk at Jutland. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:41 PM (8avO+) 72
My grandfather hated his service time but I think he needs that on his marker.
I shall wait till his children are dead and add that. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:41 PM (gbOdA) 73
omg that Veterans Day Stonehenge thing is SO COOL!
I need publius to explain how it works with leap years and axial precession and whatnot. Posted by: Oddbob at November 11, 2025 07:42 PM (DQ7R7) 74
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2025 07:37 PM (tgvbd)
I hear that it's sometimes very wearisome, Hadrian, but it couldn't be done without you and the dogs seem to love you and you them. Maybe at some point it will be time to retire. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2025 07:42 PM (WFtAr) 75
With Trump's $1 billion lawsuit against the BBC, I'm reminded of this episode from the life of F.E. Smith, barrister and later Lord Chancellor. "In 1907 he was asked to give an opinion on a proposed libel action by the Lever Brothers against newspapers owned by Lord Northcliffe concerning the latter's allegations of a conspiracy to raise the price of soap by means of a 'soap trust'. He checked into the Savoy and, after working all night reading a pile of papers nearly four feet thick and consuming a bottle of champagne and two dozen oysters, Smith wrote a one-sentence opinion: 'There is no answer to this action in libel, and the damages must be enormous.'" Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2025 07:42 PM (tgvbd) 76
Ok when you say reap as you sew/sow it is 'sew', right?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:40 PM (zZu0s) Sow. Now, please to start towing the line. Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 07:42 PM (wVcYX) 77
[cripes, looking at hands to detect cyborgs. we are now in a virtual Westworld.] Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) The Invaders with the pinkies that stick up. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2025 07:42 PM (pkeXY) 78
Time for bed time for me
Have a good night everyone Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2025 07:42 PM (+qU29) 79
Ok when you say reap as you sew/sow it is 'sew', right?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:40 PM (zZu0s) no. You sow grain to 'plant it' for crops. At harvest, you reap the benefits of your work. No reaping if you don't sow first. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:43 PM (8avO+) 80
Veterans Day, more accurately known as Armistice Day, is celebrated on November 11, because that is when the Great War to end all wars concluded.
------ The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 11, 2025 07:43 PM (XeU6L) 81
I'd guess the QM was oil fired from the start in the 30s. It did go 30 knots. There was another QM in WWI that was sunk at Jutland.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:41 PM (8avO+) correct sir it was bunker And the name was a mistake as QM was invited and QM thot it was her namesake so it was QM. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:43 PM (gbOdA) 82
Oh, dear. Is Tucker talking about faked moon landings now?!! Too bad Buzz Aldrin isn't around to give him a punch.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2025 07:44 PM (WFtAr) 83
Minuteman
Capt. John Parker Posted by: MAC V SOG at November 11, 2025 07:44 PM (P4Pk9) 84
Buzz Aldrin changed his gloves on the moon.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:45 PM (MXjT6) 85
That is such a cool church!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2025 07:45 PM (WFtAr) 86
Ok when you say reap as you sew/sow it is 'sew', right?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:40 PM (zZu0s) Sow. Now, please to start towing the line. Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 07:42 PM ISWYDT. Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 11, 2025 07:45 PM (0sNs1) 87
All I want for Veterans Day is video of a chimpanzee with an automatic weapon lighting up some commie guerrillas.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 07:45 PM (/lPRQ) 88
Thanks for the cafe, Ace. Very nice. We have an old cemetery in the town where our church is. Stones date from the Civil War . I like to wander through there and look at them. Now I can look at our patriarchs headstone. I will miss him.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2025 07:35 PM (1WNAb) I like walking through old sections of cemeteries and reading the headstones. I did a lot that when I lived in New Hampshire and did my travels around New England. Posted by: Beartooth at November 11, 2025 07:46 PM (0714D) 89
I missed the quick hits- but didn't there used to be a guy kinda like Tucker that just embraced every conspiracy theory? Michael Savage? Am I wrong? Is that who Tucker now aspires to be?
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 11, 2025 07:46 PM (hlNLQ) 90
In Moorhead, MN, there is an exact replica (done entirely by one guy as a labor of love) of a Viking stave church built elsewhere in Norway during the same time period as the church linked above.
Posted by: Vendette at November 11, 2025 07:36 PM (MR1yy) In Loveland OH there is an entire castle build by one guy over his life. I met him when I visited there when I was in high school. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:46 PM (8avO+) 91
omg that Veterans Day Stonehenge thing is SO COOL!
I need publius to explain how it works with leap years and axial precession and whatnot. Posted by: Oddbob Dude named Harvey, appliance dolly, dark of midnight. Some reassembly required. Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 07:47 PM (nhCoE) 92
2 Corinthians 9:6
Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:47 PM (gbOdA) 93
I think there's a similar church in Minot, ND too.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 11, 2025 07:47 PM (hlNLQ) 94
McCarthy has been teasing that he shot something even more spectacular than the H-alpha filter shot of the Falcon rocket transiting the Sun, but he hasn't release it yet, just teasing. In the meantime, he had some fun with this, his best shot of Uranus: https://is.gd/Tbnivq That's not too impressive, as he needs a bigger scope, and a better location to get up close and personal with Uranus. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 07:48 PM (w6EFb) 95
Evening all. Just got home and cooked a steak. DFW Metroplex is beginning to be unbearable traffic-wise.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 07:48 PM (meTWG) 96
How many fighting men survived the trench warfare and poison gas to die from Spanish flu by 1919?
Posted by: If It Ain't One Thing... at November 11, 2025 07:48 PM (oftw2) 97
Jump starting a car with a dead battery with a Coat Hanger and Touching Bumpers?
Posted by: Soothsayer ----- Desperate men do desperate things. I recently 'fixed' a lame battery terminal using a bit of ripped apart Skoal can that I found in a ditch nearby. Touching bumpers, these days, would be pointless. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 11, 2025 07:48 PM (XeU6L) 98
"At precisely 11:11 a.m. each Veterans Day (Nov. 11), the sun's rays pass through the ellipses of the five Armed Services pillars to form a perfect solar spotlight over a mosaic of The Great Seal of the United States."
I'm guessing that someday the solar system/sun/earth whatever will change enough that that will go out of sync. They probably have a calibration knob inside the monument's service panel that can reposition and resync it quickly. Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:49 PM (7imtn) 99
Oh, dear. Is Tucker talking about faked moon landings now?!! Too bad Buzz Aldrin isn't around to give him a punch.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2025 07:44 PM (WFtAr) Tucker also thinks Buzz himself is faked. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:49 PM (8avO+) 100
Trump's economy so GREAT !!
Today Wendys announces planned closing "100s" of stores nationwide. Americans can no longer afford to eat out at Wendys And by 100s Wendy's means at least 300 stores. And it's not because of inflation it is because of no jobs no income no money ICE raids are not going to distract people either from the economy or the Epstein/Trump files and all the rest of those "globalists" that are in them Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 11, 2025 07:49 PM (DLKTP) 101
Patrick McClintock allegedly yelled 'F--- the Jews' during Barstool founder's pizza review in Starkville
Who really cares? Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:50 PM (gbOdA) 102
How many fighting men survived the trench warfare and poison gas to die from Spanish flu by 1919?
Posted by: If It Ain't One Thing... at November 11, 2025 One of my grandfathers later died from complications of being gassed in the trenches during WW I. Posted by: Beartooth at November 11, 2025 07:50 PM (0714D) 103
How many fighting men survived the trench warfare and poison gas to die from Spanish flu by 1919?
Posted by: If It Ain't One Thing... at November 11, 2025 07:48 PM (oftw2) The first US war where battle casualties exceeded disease casualties was Korea. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:51 PM (8avO+) 104
I think there's a similar church in Minot, ND too.
Posted by: Farmer Bob Is that why they've only got the one tree left? Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 07:51 PM (nhCoE) 105
95 Evening all. Just got home and cooked a steak. DFW Metroplex is beginning to be unbearable traffic-wise.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 07:48 PM (meTWG) I left in 04 hahahaha Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:51 PM (gbOdA) 106
Tucker also thinks Buzz himself is faked.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:49 PM (8avO+) That level of sophistry deserves a knee to the nuts. Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 11, 2025 07:51 PM (/HDaX) 107
Today Wendys announces planned closing "100s" of stores nationwide.
Ending heart disease in 2 states. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:52 PM (gbOdA) 108
"Buzz Aldrin changed his gloves on the moon."
He took a dump on the moon, and then forced the moon to pitifully plead "Thank you sir may I have another?" Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:52 PM (7imtn) 109
I was out running errands, so I missed the Sydney Sweeny thread. All I can say is:
You want: A Nordic goddess who will use her flaming sword of justice to smite your enemies. You'd settle for: A beautiful movie star who will furiously fight for your beliefs. You'll get: A pretty actress who is smart enough to know that Republicans buy movie tickets too. Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 11, 2025 07:52 PM (9tc5u) 110
In Moorhead, MN, there is an exact replica (done entirely by one guy as a labor of love) of a Viking stave church built elsewhere in Norway during the same time period as the church linked above.
Posted by: Vendette at November 11, 2025 07:36 PM (MR1yy) In Loveland OH there is an entire castle build by one guy over his life. I met him when I visited there when I was in high school. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:46 PM (8avO+) Bishop's Castle near Pueblo, CO. One man's obsession. Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 07:52 PM (wVcYX) 111
I'm guessing that someday the solar system/sun/earth whatever will change enough that that will go out of sync. They probably have a calibration knob inside the monument's service panel that can reposition and resync it quickly.
Posted by: gp ---- That would be a very long time. The seasons would have to shift. But it's presumably already slightly off in each leap year. Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 07:53 PM (1Nv0l) 112
Avis gave me a new shiny silver Cadillac and I couldn’t even figure out how to get it out of park. It has a friggin joystick instead of a shifter and you press a button to park. Couldn’t work the radio, just turned down the volume.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 07:53 PM (NW+2e) 113
Wendy's has been Failing as a business for the last 20 years. Burger King is right behind them. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:53 PM (A/n7m) 114
All I want for Veterans Day is video of a chimpanzee with an automatic weapon lighting up some commie guerrillas.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher https://tinyurl.com/36v9cdn7 Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 07:53 PM (meTWG) 115
Wendy's execs thought they could reduce quality of their food drastically and still profit. They were wrong. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:54 PM (A/n7m) 116
I think there's a similar church in Minot, ND too.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 11, 2025 07:47 PM (hlNLQ) ==== It's a Scandi thing. Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2025 07:54 PM (A0sqA) Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:54 PM (A/n7m) 118
You want: A Nordic goddess who will use her flaming sword of justice to smite your enemies.
You'd settle for: A beautiful movie star who will furiously fight for your beliefs. You'll get: A pretty actress who is smart enough to know that Republicans buy movie tickets too. Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 11, 2025 07:52 PM (9tc5u) And yah know? Yer number 3 is what I actually want. Movie Stars make their money by acting... ie doing exactly what writers and directors tell them to do and say. I have no desire for them to talk about politics at all. Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 07:54 PM (mP0Kj) 119
>> how it works with leap years and axial precession
I'm looking that up now. The timing has to vary with the leap year cycle, unless there's some adjustment. And changes in tilt and (slight) Gregorian drift. I'm looking this up.... Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 07:55 PM (w6EFb) 120
Tucker also thinks Buzz himself is faked.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:49 PM (8avO+) --- I know that I've never met anybody called Buzz Aldrin. Just asking questions.... Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 07:55 PM (krQz2) 121
Former president boards plane full of veterans and leaves them speechless
Obama quotes from his book You aint my bitch niggas but your own damn fries. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:55 PM (gbOdA) 122
"Today Wendys announces planned closing "100s" of stores nationwide.
Ending heart disease in 2 states." That reminds me. I've got a BOGO coupon for Culver's Butter Burgers. I don't want to eat them both in one sitting. Is it safe to refrigerate one of those overnight? And then eat it? [Typed on my spiffy new Raspberry Pi 5] Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:55 PM (7imtn) 123
Yuck Brands.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:55 PM (MXjT6) 124
I have no desire for them to talk about politics at all.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 07:54 PM (mP0Kj) then dont buy their shit Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:56 PM (gbOdA) 125
116- Yep, it's actually in a park/area celebrating the town's Scandinavian/Norwegian heritage- lots of statutes of famous skiers too.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 11, 2025 07:57 PM (hlNLQ) 126
Who Remembers....
Metal Bumpers on cars?! Posted by: Soothsayer Please, they had those at least through 1995 Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 07:57 PM (a+4eV) 127
I'm looking that up now. The timing has to vary with the leap year cycle, unless there's some adjustment. And changes in tilt and (slight) Gregorian drift.
I'm looking this up.... Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley I'm guessing it has enough slop to handle all that. You know: "It's good from 11:09-11:13, with peak illumination at 11:11 or 11:12 in a leap year." Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 07:57 PM (1Nv0l) 128
>>> You know who killed Wendy's?
YUM, that's who. (If you know, you know.) Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:54 PM (A/n7m) Looks like they gobbled up a lot of the PepsiCo places. Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 07:57 PM (NW+2e) 129
Jump starting a car with a dead battery with a Coat Hanger and Touching Bumpers?
Posted by: Soothsayer ----- Desperate men do desperate things. I recently 'fixed' a lame battery terminal using a bit of ripped apart Skoal can that I found in a ditch nearby. Touching bumpers, these days, would be pointless. Posted by: Mike Hammer Now you just use an 18v Milwaukee battery & two spoons. Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 07:57 PM (meTWG) 130
McDonalds is not doing great, I hear. Especially since the ceo hates the business.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:58 PM (zZu0s) 131
112 Avis gave me a new shiny silver Cadillac and I couldn’t even figure out how to get it out of park. It has a friggin joystick instead of a shifter and you press a button to park. Couldn’t work the radio, just turned down the volume.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 07:53 PM (NW+2e) *picks up mouse* Computaar Posted by: Scotty at November 11, 2025 07:58 PM (gbOdA) 132
All I want for Veterans Day is video of a chimpanzee with an automatic weapon lighting up some commie guerrillas.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher ------- They were Commies, Tarzan They were red sons-of-bitches who should have died long ago. Posted by: Cheeta at November 11, 2025 07:58 PM (XeU6L) 133
That reminds me. I've got a BOGO coupon for Culver's Butter Burgers. I don't want to eat them both in one sitting. Is it safe to refrigerate one of those overnight? And then eat it?
[Typed on my spiffy new Raspberry Pi 5] Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:55 PM (7imtn) Sure, I've done it a few times when my reach exceeds my grasp, burger wise. You might want to consider removing any tomato or lettuce or onion to its own container if you want something closer to the original experience. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:58 PM (8avO+) 134
Just looked it up, it's actually called "Scandinavian Heritage Park" https://scandinavianheritage.org/
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 11, 2025 07:58 PM (hlNLQ) Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 07:59 PM (ZOv7s) 136
Avis gave me a new shiny silver Cadillac and I couldn’t even figure out how to get it out of park. It has a friggin joystick instead of a shifter and you press a button to park. Couldn’t work the radio, just turned down the volume.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 07:53 PM (NW+2e) *picks up mouse* Computaar Posted by: Scotty at November 11, 2025 07:58 PM (gbOdA) I remember my first experience where the car didn't let me remove the key from the ignition Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:59 PM (8avO+) 137
McDonalds is not doing great, I hear. Especially since the ceo hates the business. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone ___________ Fast food is no longer fast and no longer cheap. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2025 07:59 PM (tgvbd) 138
Today Wendys announces planned closing "100s" of stores nationwide. Ending heart disease in 2 states. Posted by: r hennigantx The Wendy's nearest me became a donut place. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2025 07:59 PM (pkeXY) 139
I used to kick start my Tercel in about 8 feet.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:59 PM (MXjT6) 140
'Member Wendy's never frozen burgers. They are almost alien now, they were so good.
Cheese and onion, it was so damn good. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:59 PM (zZu0s) 141
I saw two girls touching bumpers. It was kinda hot, actually.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 07:59 PM (wVcYX) Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 11, 2025 08:00 PM (kHop/) 143
Who Remembers....
Metal Bumpers on cars?! Posted by: Soothsayer Metal rear bumper on a pickup with the dealership name stamped in the metal. Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:00 PM (meTWG) 144
*picks up mouse*
Computaar Posted by: Scotty at November 11, 2025 07:58 PM (gbOdA) ==== *sighs* *rolls eyes* Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 11, 2025 08:00 PM (A0sqA) 145
McDonalds is not doing great, I hear. Especially since the ceo hates the business.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:58 PM (zZu0s) The grey cube is not the golden arches Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 08:00 PM (8avO+) 146
'Member Wendy's never frozen burgers. They are almost alien now, they were so good.
Cheese and onion, it was so damn good. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:59 PM (zZu0s) I remember the little card with the 256 different combinations you could have. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 08:01 PM (8avO+) 147
Pretty much every meal is over $10 now.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:01 PM (zZu0s) 148
McDonalds is not doing great, I hear. Especially since the ceo hates the business.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone ___________ Fast food is no longer fast and no longer cheap. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh And the food part is sketchy. Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:01 PM (meTWG) 149
Stave Church - anyone got a match?
Posted by: 496 at November 11, 2025 08:02 PM (xA5Rj) 150
None of that stuff is worth $10.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 08:02 PM (MXjT6) 151
Wendy's is independent of YUM.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 08:02 PM (1Nv0l) 152
Tucker is too smart to believe in all the conspiracy theory shit. He’s 1000% grifting.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:02 PM (F2Ar1) 153
139 I used to kick start my Tercel in about 8 feet.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:59 PM (MXjT6) yabba dadda do Posted by: Fred F at November 11, 2025 08:03 PM (gbOdA) 154
g'night everyone!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 11, 2025 08:03 PM (kHop/) 155
Fast food is no longer fast and no longer cheap.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2025 07:59 PM (tgvbd) --- Yep, and if you're going to pay extra, you may as well get something with flavor. Before Bidenflation, we'd just forage at fast food stops, but now when we travel, it's with a full load of snacks and a cooler. It's just too expensive for what you get. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:03 PM (ZOv7s) 156
McDonalds is not doing great, I hear. Especially since the ceo hates the business.
Posted by: Aetius ----- Spoke to a part-time McD's manager the other day. His comment, 'We have become the WalMart of fast food'. Posted by: Cheeta at November 11, 2025 08:03 PM (XeU6L) 157
"111 That would be a very long time."
I axed Grok: "The US Marines have a monument that focuses the sun on a particular spot at 11:11 on Nov 11 every year. How long will it be until it no longer synchronizes with the intended time, due to natural changes in earth-sun motion dynamics?" Grok replied (after 158 secs!) "Thus, the alignment will remain effective within design tolerances (≈±12 seconds, or 0.05° The calculation is unbelievably complex, involving not just dynamics, but calendrical stuff too. Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:03 PM (7imtn) 158
I had a 70s nova with a big metal front bumper. Some cheap fiberglass car pulled out right into me. The entire side of the car got caved in. My nova? Nothing. They said, I thought you’d stop! I did, a little.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 08:04 PM (NW+2e) 159
I red that McDonald’s is losing the “low income” customer since it’s so expensive now. Well uhm if you’re “low income” maybe fucking buy food cook it instead of eating fast food?
This is why poor people stay poor. Shifty financial decisions. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:04 PM (F2Ar1) 160
Tucker is too smart to believe in all the conspiracy theory shit. He’s 1000% grifting.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:02 PM (F2Ar1) --- At this late date, when China and India are snarking each other over moon missions, it's a bit rich to say no one got there. And "chemtrails" can cause me to risk stroking out. Okay, science geniuses, how do you have an engine that produces *no exhaust gasses*? Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:05 PM (ZOv7s) 161
All I want for Veterans Day is video of a chimpanzee with an automatic weapon lighting up some commie guerrillas.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher https://tinyurl.com/36v9cdn7 Posted by: rickb223 I knew someone would deliver. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 08:05 PM (/lPRQ) 162
Evenin’, All.
Posted by: Bulg at November 11, 2025 08:06 PM (77rzZ) 163
Natural Selection.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 08:06 PM (MXjT6) 164
Further SNAP stay issued by SCOTUS for another two days. This one was by a vote of the full court. Jackson would have denied.
If the govt ends the shutdown, guessing the court will dismiss as moot. The court would prefer not to get involved on the merits. Posted by: TRex - e pluribus unum at November 11, 2025 08:06 PM (IQ6Gq) 165
Five Guys has become absurdly expensive. Me, wife and 1 kid $45. We each had a burger, fries and drink.
But the place was pretty busy so I guess they know what they’re doing. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:06 PM (F2Ar1) 166
I red that McDonald’s is losing the “low income” customer since it’s so expensive now. Well uhm if you’re “low income” maybe fucking buy food cook it instead of eating fast food?
This is why poor people stay poor. Shifty financial decisions. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:04 PM (F2Ar1) --- Just to be sure I understand you, you are angry that poor people are actually doing the right thing and cutting back? Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:06 PM (ZOv7s) 167
Cheese and onion, it was so damn good. I have always thought in the back of my mind cheese and onions. https://youtu.be/ePaHG6g7uFw Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2025 08:07 PM (pkeXY) 168
Now I really want an old school Wendy's burger.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:07 PM (zZu0s) Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:07 PM (cQHrm) 170
"Okay, science geniuses, how do you have an engine that produces *no exhaust gasses*?"
I'd appreciate if they'd keep the exhaust gases out of the inside of the fuselage, but they seem to have a problem with that on the airliners I've flown. Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:07 PM (7imtn) 171
You can also buy a Wahl and save $15 a month or whatever it is now.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 08:07 PM (MXjT6) 172
Wasn’t 70s Nova the chick in Planet of the Apes? Hubba hubba.
Posted by: Bulg at November 11, 2025 08:07 PM (77rzZ) 173
We are in rural Wyoming. We live an hour drive to a McDonald's. We have a Subway which is awful. We had a Taco Time but it closed up as did the Pizza Hut. We cook, lol, but it is much better for us. Posted by: four seasons at November 11, 2025 08:08 PM (3ek7K) 174
McDonalds these days reminds me of the sign at Clown Burger, a fast-food place I saw in a Fat Albert comic strip spoof.
"Over 1 million poor people served" Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:09 PM (cQHrm) 175
$45 is nkt that bad for three people.
Everything at Taco bell meal wise is over $10. Its kind of retarded. Hell, White castle is over $10 for 6 cheese burgers, a side and a large drink. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:09 PM (zZu0s) 176
Okay, science geniuses, how do you have an engine that produces *no exhaust gasses*?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:05 PM You're focused on ICE, I presume. A total electric (Tesla) or ECE (Stirling, if electrically heated) will produce no exhaust gasses. Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 11, 2025 08:09 PM (0sNs1) 177
Just to be sure I understand you, you are angry that poor people are actually doing the right thing and cutting back?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:06 PM (ZOv7s) They should never have been going I the first place. But you’re right it is good in a way they now are forced to make better choices. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:09 PM (F2Ar1) 178
>>> If the govt ends the shutdown, guessing the court will dismiss as moot. The court would prefer not to get involved on the merits.
Posted by: TRex - e pluribus unum at November 11, 2025 08:06 PM (IQ6Gq) Which is BS because that’s their one job! Like if I just said at work, ya know, I’m just gonna delay this until it don’t matter no more, stamp it MOOT, and go golf. Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 08:10 PM (NW+2e) 179
I use my coupons for Subway, but after you add in the tip, you're back up to the regular untipped MSRP for the food.
There is no value proposition left in restaurant dining. You can cook anything you want at home cheaper, and have fun doing it, with an infinite menu of recipes to choose from. Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:10 PM (7imtn) 180
I haven't understood this Sydney Sweeney as culture warrior meme at all. I thought her interview was rather unremarkable in that context. She showed decent poise and a dignified resistance to some of the prying questions, but beyond that -- our standards for cultural warriors has significantly fallen.
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 11, 2025 08:10 PM (WHfpM) 181
Americans can no longer afford to eat out at Wendys
Now that they have jobs, they can't afford to miss work for dysentery. Posted by: t-bird at November 11, 2025 08:11 PM (+2PTH) 182
gp, I've read that if you bring coupons to Subway, it's a gamble as to whether or not they'll be honored.
I read some time ago that corporate offers Subway coupons that, if the franchisers honored them, they'd end up out of business. Supposedly the profit margin at those stores is razor-thin already, just like at Papa Johns. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:11 PM (cQHrm) 183
Burgers fries and sammiches are really easy anyway.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 08:11 PM (MXjT6) 184
You're focused on ICE, I presume. A total electric (Tesla) or ECE (Stirling, if electrically heated) will produce no exhaust gasses.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 11, 2025 08:09 PM (0sNs1) --- Electric aircraft engines would have laughably short ranges. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:12 PM (ZOv7s) 185
I haven't understood this Sydney Sweeney as culture warrior meme at all. I thought her interview was rather unremarkable in that context. She showed decent poise and a dignified resistance to some of the prying questions, but beyond that -- our standards for cultural warriors has significantly fallen.
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 11, 2025 08:10 PM You fight with the army you have. Posted by: zombie Charles Martel at November 11, 2025 08:12 PM (0sNs1) 186
Wendys is closing restaurants everywhere. A lof of people got fed up with their long-declining food quality.
I think they're still okay, but just only okay. If they went back to the quality they featured in the 1980s, oh man. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:12 PM (cQHrm) 187
our standards for cultural warriors has significantly fallen.
Posted by: Ordinary American Land of the blind, one-eyed man, etc. Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 08:13 PM (nhCoE) Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 11, 2025 08:13 PM (syz1S) 189
Hell, White castle is over $10 for 6 cheese burgers, a side and a large drink.
Posted by: Aetius451AD I'm so old, I remember when 6 white castle cheeseburgers would cost $1.50. Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:13 PM (meTWG) 190
> will no longer precisely synchronize after approximately 3,300 years
Posted by: gp Good enough for government work. Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 08:13 PM (1Nv0l) 191
Radio playing John Williams' "Hymn to the Fallen". Always makes me kind of sniffy whenever I hear it.
Posted by: Tuna at November 11, 2025 08:13 PM (lJ0H4) 192
the alignment will remain effective within design tolerances (≈±12 seconds, or 0.05° for millennia but will no longer precisely synchronize after approximately 3,300 years ============== If we appoint the government blue ribbon panel now, it might get adjusted on time. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 08:14 PM (0lgzA) 193
"If the govt ends the shutdown"
It is apparently not an "end;" it just kicks the can down the road 75 days. This country and this govt are so fucked. Flat-ass broke due to decades of foolish promises that never could have been kept. Plus the graft, etc. Empire Of Debt. Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:14 PM (7imtn) 194
Okay, science geniuses, how do you have an engine that produces *no exhaust gasses*?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:05 PM You're focused on ICE, I presume. A total electric (Tesla) or ECE (Stirling, if electrically heated) will produce no exhaust gasses. Posted by: Duncanthrax Run exhaust through a compressor/condense into a liquid. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 08:14 PM (/lPRQ) 195
Electric aircraft engines would have laughably short ranges.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:12 PM Not necessarily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_aircraft Posted by: zombie Charles Martel at November 11, 2025 08:14 PM (0sNs1) 196
I haven't understood this Sydney Sweeney as culture warrior meme at all. I thought her interview was rather unremarkable in that context. She showed decent poise and a dignified resistance to some of the prying questions, but beyond that -- our standards for cultural warriors has significantly fallen.
Posted by: Ordinary American Her simply existing drives the left insane. Good enough for me. Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:14 PM (meTWG) 197
Just to be sure I understand you, you are angry that poor people are actually doing the right thing and cutting back?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:06 PM (ZOv7s) Translation is: "How do you do, fellow kids" Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 08:14 PM (rbvCR) 198
A battery-powered motor is, well, a motor, not an engine.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 11, 2025 08:14 PM (nhCoE) 199
They should never have been going I the first place. But you’re right it is good in a way they now are forced to make better choices.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:09 PM (F2Ar1) --- Anyone can be poor. I was poor for a very long time. McDonald's was a treat - fancy dining. Actual restaurants were beyond our reach at the time. Lots of poor people do that, and it's quite rational. There are also times when moving kids from event to event means one can't go home and cook a meal, and Mickey D was a low-price alternative. That's gone now, because the Ruling Class despises the poor that it claims to treasure. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:15 PM (ZOv7s) 200
John Williams?
I wonder if anyone here remembers Roger Williams and "Born Free." :-) In the meantime, I've read that young people are actually collecting and listening to... Herb Alpert LPs from the 1960s/70s. They enjoy his groove, unironically! Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:15 PM (cQHrm) 201
I see someone above mentioned some of this, but they set the 11:11:11AM as the mean time to center the alignment on, but built in a 1 minute window for the full spotlight effect. This accounts for the variation over the leap year cycle. Over the leap year cycle, the sun's altitude will vary about 0.27 degrees, and azimuth by 0.02 degrees at the precise 11:11:11 design time. The 1 minute "slop" window covers this variation. The time of perfect alignment, when it centers exactly varies from 11:10:58Am to 11:11:22AM over the 4 year leap cycle. Also, there is another secondary alignment, when the sun's declination comes back up after the winter solstice where you'll get the same effect, around Feb 1. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 08:16 PM (w6EFb) 202
Not necessarily.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_aircraft Posted by: zombie Charles Martel at November 11, 2025 08:14 PM (0sNs1) --- LOL, Wikipedia. Even schoolkids are taught never to consult it. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:16 PM (ZOv7s) Posted by: Don Black. Message: when in doubt, get your groove on at November 11, 2025 08:16 PM (AOsQT) 204
The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 11, 2025 07:43 PM (XeU6L) They were shooting cannon and firing guns right up 'til that moment, too. Some died at 10:59 a.m. Really bad luck. Posted by: RickZ at November 11, 2025 08:17 PM (gKDq2) 205
Huh. The CCP troll got a good discussion going about fast food, labor economics, and competition.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2025 08:17 PM (9ipOP) 206
"I wonder if anyone here remembers Roger Williams and "Born Free." :-)"
Oh yeah. I remember. Mom and dad had some of his albums. Posted by: Tuna at November 11, 2025 08:18 PM (lJ0H4) 207
"I've read that if you bring coupons to Subway, it's a gamble as to whether or not they'll be honored."
This is true. It's at the franchisee's discretion. My local won't accept the two footlongs for $14 coupon, for example. I tried Walmart Plus for a year for $49, for the free shipping. It turns out that the free shippers expect a tip. So it's just as expensive as me driving there myself. Won't renew. Five dollar Five dollar Five dollar foot longggs! Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:18 PM (7imtn) 208
>I wonder if anyone here remembers Roger Williams and "Born Free." :-)
---- as free as the wind blows Posted by: Don Black. Message: when in doubt, get your groove on at November 11, 2025 08:18 PM (AOsQT) 209
I miss Quiznos, before they turned to shitda.
Posted by: Sidney at November 11, 2025 08:18 PM (rzwGB) 210
our standards for cultural warriors has significantly fallen.
Posted by: Ordinary American In the context of her industry, and in the context of the last decade of cancel culture, her resistance is more than enough. It only takes a few to wander off the reservation and the entire leftist thesis collapses. Hence why they are always totalitarian. Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 08:18 PM (1Nv0l) 211
Don Black, call me crazy but some of that 'easy listening' music from the 1960s was pretty good.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:19 PM (cQHrm) 212
That's gone now, because the Ruling Class despises the poor that it claims to treasure.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:15 PM (ZOv7s) To be fair they had the middle class too. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:19 PM (F2Ar1) 213
>>> our standards for cultural warriors has significantly fallen.
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 11, 2025 08:10 PM (WHfpM) All of the SS news stuff is just reacting to the left’s constant freakout. The left is putting her out there in non-movie news situations and the non-left is noticing her boobs and that she isn’t struggle session positive. It is not a symmetric thing. No one is choosing her as a champion. Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 08:19 PM (NW+2e) 214
Sad, but expected tidings today. I went to play "Taps" at 11 today at Veterans' Memorial Park and only one person showed up. He was very grateful, clearly affected, but I guess that's how things are now. There used to be a decent crowd, but it's been going down for years. Huge, empty memorial.
I may have to play somewhere else. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:19 PM (ZOv7s) 215
Have any of you ever delivered food to poor people in really awful areas? It’s eye opening. Storing food is difficult due to rodents, working appliances are a huge maybe. Heck, a few houses I went to in Appalachia didn’t have floors.
Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2025 08:19 PM (OoFl2) 216
That's gone now, because the Ruling Class despises the poor that it claims to treasure.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:15 PM (ZOv7s) ==== But the illegals who work there earn a living wage and get EITC too! -Ruling Class Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2025 08:19 PM (9ipOP) 217
Sidney, I loved Quiznos.
They never went downhill with quality in SoCal. But their prices went through the roof. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:20 PM (cQHrm) 218
>>> 95 Evening all. Just got home and cooked a steak. DFW Metroplex is beginning to be unbearable traffic-wise.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 07:48 PM (meTWG) Beginning??? Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 11, 2025 08:20 PM (ULPxl) 219
I see someone above mentioned some of this, but they set the 11:11:11AM as the mean time to center the alignment on, but built in a 1 minute window for the full spotlight effect. This accounts for the variation over the leap year cycle...
Would it stop working if we ever get rid of DST? Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 08:20 PM (/lPRQ) 220
Sidney is a hot blonde straight white woman. She is defacto hated by the left. Her “warriorness” is that she doesn’t apologize for who she is.
I’ll take it. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:21 PM (F2Ar1) 221
>Don Black, call me crazy but some of that 'easy listening' music from the 1960s was pretty good.
Posted by: qdpsteve ---- whatever you like, is good enough Posted by: Don Black. Message: when in doubt, get your groove on at November 11, 2025 08:21 PM (AOsQT) 222
>>> I miss Quiznos, before they turned to shitda.
Posted by: Sidney at November 11, 2025 08:18 PM (rzwGB) They were great. They had these miniature submarine sammies that you could get with a salad that made a good lunch. I even liked their weird commercials. But I was the only. Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 08:22 PM (NW+2e) 223
"Not sucking" would have required too much of an investment. Closing locations gives us a little short-term gain for our bonuses.
Posted by: Wendy's Execs at November 11, 2025 08:22 PM (+2PTH) 224
Now playing "The Lark Ascending". A gorgeous piece of music.
Posted by: Tuna at November 11, 2025 08:22 PM (lJ0H4) 225
I'm so old, I remember when 6 white castle cheeseburgers would cost $1.50.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:13 PM (meTWG) Not that old, but when I was in college 6 cheese and a drink would be about 5. Their sides Always sucked. Fries horrible. Onion rings nothing special. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:22 PM (zZu0s) 226
They were shooting cannon and firing guns right up 'til that moment, too. Some died at 10:59 a.m. Really bad luck.
Posted by: RickZ at November 11, 2025 08:17 PM (gKDq2) --- Great-grandpa was there, with the 5th ID, AEF. His company took 50% casualties in the Meuse-Argonne. People look at American losses in WW I and it seems small, but almost all of it happened in 90 days. It was quite the shock back home. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:22 PM (ZOv7s) 227
Tito Puente is the man!
Posted by: John Winger at November 11, 2025 08:22 PM (wVcYX) 228
Would it stop working if we ever get rid of DST?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher If we keep the "summer" hours, yes. The current "winter" hours, no. Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 08:22 PM (nhCoE) 229
>> Would it stop working if we ever get rid of DST?
Design is for standard time, and Arizona doesn't do DST anyway. They're on MST the whole year. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 08:23 PM (w6EFb) Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 08:23 PM (qRoBZ) 231
John, yup.
Musicians like Tito knew you could make hard rockin' music, even well before rock 'n roll. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:24 PM (cQHrm) 232
But the illegals who work there earn a living wage and get EITC too!
-Ruling Class Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2025 08:19 PM (9ipOP) --- Don't forget SNAP and also subsidized housing that by statute cannot be used for non-citizens. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:24 PM (ZOv7s) 233
I’m so old I remember when $5 would buy you damn well nearly the entire menu at Taco Bell.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:24 PM (F2Ar1) 234
Not that old, but when I was in college 6 cheese and a drink would be about 5. Their sides Always sucked. Fries horrible. Onion rings nothing special.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Burgers were .15 cents and cheeseburgers were a quarter. A twenty would fill a grocery bag. Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:25 PM (meTWG) 235
ItsGoTimeDonald, I've seen pics of the original 1960s Taco Bell menu. I think the most expensive thing on it was 65 cents.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:25 PM (cQHrm) 236
If they went back to the quality they featured in the 1980s, oh man."
Swimvear. Very Nice... Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 08:23 PM (qRoBZ) --- I showed those to my kids, so that they could see that there was a time when US businesses were patriotic and made fun of our enemies to sell...hamburgers. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:25 PM (ZOv7s) 237
Took the pup to the vet for his annual checkup today. Exam, blood work, vaccinations, nails clipped =$342. Pets are an expensive proposition. Hadrian I don't know how you do it with a house and kennel full of them.
Posted by: Tuna at November 11, 2025 08:25 PM (lJ0H4) 238
Speaking of graveyards... remember the episode of Star Wars: Voyager when Ensign Harry Wang ended up in some alien "afterlife" graveyard? Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 08:25 PM (A/n7m) Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 08:25 PM (qRoBZ) 240
"I'm so old, I remember when 6 white castle cheeseburgers would cost $1.50."
Four Dog'n'Suds coney dogs for 60 cents. Nickel candy bars. Two egg mcmuffins for around $3.50. Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:25 PM (7imtn) 241
Would it stop working if we ever get rid of DST?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher It would stop working if we made DST permanent (which is what we should do). They'd have to reposition it for 10am current-time. Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 08:26 PM (1Nv0l) 242
I’m so old I remember when $5 would buy you damn well nearly the entire menu at Taco Bell.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:24 PM (F2Ar1) This. .59, .79, .99! Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:26 PM (zZu0s) 243
214 Sad, but expected tidings today. I went to play "Taps" at 11 today at Veterans' Memorial Park and only one person showed up. He was very grateful, clearly affected, but I guess that's how things are now. There used to be a decent crowd, but it's been going down for years. Huge, empty memorial.
I may have to play somewhere else. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November Bless you for doing this. I am so afraid people are forgetting how precious our freedoms are, and how they are protected. Is it indifference due to history not being taught with reverence? Has the immigrant influx been so massive that the ties to our service members and our nation been diluted? Or are we really so callous that we love our Military in times of war and just don’t care when it’s largely a time of peace? Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2025 08:26 PM (OoFl2) 244
I was bigly into Quiznos for a while circa mid 2000s. Then they kinda disappeared
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:26 PM (F2Ar1) 245
man, yup.
As I mentioned: young people who enjoy vinyl are actually collecting copies of that album. Say they enjoy it. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:26 PM (cQHrm) 246
We need American companies to start doing commercials touting their stuff being made here, and not by Chinese slaves using crap materials.
Comedy gold, Jerry! Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:26 PM (ZOv7s) 247
>>> And "chemtrails" can cause me to risk stroking out. Okay, science geniuses, how do you have an engine that produces *no exhaust gasses*?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:05 PM (ZOv7s) I wish things were that easy. Posted by: General Chang at November 11, 2025 08:26 PM (NW+2e) 248
They were shooting cannon and firing guns right up 'til that moment, too. Some died at 10:59 a.m. Really bad luck.
Posted by: RickZ at November 11, 2025 08:17 PM (gKDq2) --- Great-grandpa was there, with the 5th ID, AEF. His company took 50% casualties in the Meuse-Argonne. People look at American losses in WW I and it seems small, but almost all of it happened in 90 days. It was quite the shock back home. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd +++++ Ever wonder who built all those trenches? I presume sappers between the a tipn but not good for movies Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 08:28 PM (/lPRQ) 249
Herb Alpert LPs"
Whipped Cream and Other Delights.. Posted by: man Had that album. Played it over and over. Posted by: Tuna at November 11, 2025 08:28 PM (lJ0H4) 250
"Pets are an expensive proposition/"
Roger that! Four cats, and I'm going broke from the inflated costs of all supplies and vet care. Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:28 PM (7imtn) 251
Tuna, yup, great album.
Herb Alpert has admitted that the LP cover helped sell a ton of copies of it. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:28 PM (cQHrm) 252
I've seen pics of the original 1960s Taco Bell menu. I think the most expensive thing on it was 65 cents."
We'd hit the Taco Bell on Hayward. $.50 would cover tacos and drink...plus it had the cool stone wall thingy out front - perfect to set bike .. Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 08:29 PM (qRoBZ) 253
According to Grok, the drift in the alignment does get significant every leap year. The sun gets a bit too low on Nov. 11 in a leap year, and the best alignment occurs on Nov 10 really. The best alignment is on Nov. 11, first year after a leap year. 2025 is thus a good year, and then 2029 will be the next "zeroing". 2028 will be piss poor. Also, not the design life was 100 years. Y2K was the first 400 year cycle where the century year didn't skip a leap. When we skip the leap in 2100, that will be a little hiccup in that alignment as well. :-) Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 08:29 PM (w6EFb) 254
Would it stop working if we ever get rid of DST?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher If we keep the "summer" hours, yes. The current "winter" hours, no. Posted by: mikeski Design is for standard time, and Arizona doesn't do DST anyway. They're on MST the whole year. Posted by: publius I didn't know it was in AZ. I sit corrected. Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 08:29 PM (nhCoE) 255
A read an article about Wendy's closing a bunch of locations. My takeaway was: "Let's fuck everybody over for some short-term stock price increases!"
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 11, 2025 08:29 PM (9tc5u) 256
I’ll have 3 soft tacos, 2 hard tacos, a bean burrito a chalupa and actually make that 2 chalupas.
That’ll be $5.29 sir at the second window. Ahhh the 90s!! Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:30 PM (F2Ar1) 257
Herb Alpert LPs"
Whipped Cream and Other Delights.. Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 08:25 PM She was a) clothed underneath that, and b) it was shaving cream, not whipped cream. Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 11, 2025 08:30 PM (0sNs1) Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 11, 2025 08:31 PM (fd80v) 259
Herb Alpert has admitted that the LP cover helped sell a ton.."
Wait, there was a record inside? Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 08:31 PM (qRoBZ) 260
I presume sappers between the ACTION but not good for movies
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 08:31 PM (/lPRQ) 261
She was a) clothed underneath that, and b) it was shaving cream, not whipped cream.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher Still very provocative for the late 60's. Posted by: Tuna at November 11, 2025 08:31 PM (lJ0H4) 262
A read an article about Wendy's closing a bunch of locations. My takeaway was: "Let's fuck everybody over for some short-term stock price increases!"
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 11, 2025 08:29 PM (9tc5u) Private equity demands returns to keep the rating to allow the pension plans to buy the stock. Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 08:32 PM (rbvCR) 263
A year of tuition University of Illinois chem eng major: $600.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:32 PM (7imtn) 264
Wesley, yup. Dolores Erickson. Also she was pregnant at the time of the shoot.
Is still alive and kicking... Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:32 PM (cQHrm) 265
Chalupas were after the 90s I think at taco bell. Most exotic thing I remember back then was the chili cheese burrito and the 7 layer burrito.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:32 PM (zZu0s) 266
Or are we really so callous that we love our Military in times of war and just don’t care when it’s largely a time of peace?
Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2025 08:26 PM (OoFl2) --- I didn't come up with the idea myself. I was in the marching band in college and dislocated my knee during a rather generously described "two-hand touch" football game. So I was sidelined on Game Day. A stogie-smoking guy came up to me while I sat on the cart (with my horn, in uniform) and asked if I could play "Taps." Of course! Would I play it for his class on Nov. 11? Sure. How much? I said I didn't need payment, but he said he only used professionals, so I accepted $1.11. He was a prof, not just a prof, a university president emeritus - Walter Adams. So at the appointed time, I came into his class, he asked everyone to stand, and I played "Taps." After that, I got into the habit of doing it around campus, and later moved to the Capitol, and finally Veterans Memorial Park. Haven't missed a year yet, but it is depressing watching it go away. Maybe next year I'll try gin up some media coverage. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:32 PM (ZOv7s) 267
She was... and allegedly with child. So?
Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 08:32 PM (qRoBZ) 268
258 215
'Heck, a few houses I went to in Appalachia didn’t have floors.' They had walls? Luxury. Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 11, 2025 I think even that might have been a little questionable! But for the Grace of God, right? Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2025 08:32 PM (OoFl2) 269
A few weeks ago, I linked a Youtube of some poor guy dealing with 3 young dogs abandoned near his property. He gets no help from his local Animal Control and then explains how much the pups are costing him. https://is.gd/NvcIu9 Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 08:33 PM (A/n7m) Posted by: Jack at November 11, 2025 08:33 PM (wVcYX) 271
She was a) clothed underneath that, and b) it was shaving cream, not whipped cream.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 11, 2025 08:30 PM (0sNs1) And hot as fuck, you nancing retard. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:33 PM (zZu0s) Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 08:33 PM (qRoBZ) 273
She was a) clothed underneath that, and b) it was shaving cream, not whipped cream.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher That only changes the method of de-creaming her. Licking is now right out. And shut up, Wesley. Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 08:33 PM (nhCoE) 274
251 Tuna, yup, great album.
Herb Alpert has admitted that the LP cover helped sell a ton of copies of it. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:28 PM (cQHrm) Helped some other things too. Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2025 08:33 PM (aOqEy) 275
>She was a) clothed underneath that, and b) it was shaving cream, not whipped cream.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher ---- dude you're ruining it for everyone Posted by: Don Black. Message: when in doubt, get your groove on at November 11, 2025 08:34 PM (AOsQT) 276
Man:
Alpert tells the story that he met people in the 1960s and 70s who told him, they loved Whipped Cream & Other Delights. Then they would go on and on... about the cover. Herb would ask them, "but what did you think of the music?" And they'd respond "well I haven't gotten around to listening to it yet..." ;-) Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:34 PM (cQHrm) 277
Now playing "The Lark Ascending". A gorgeous piece of music. Posted by: Tuna Why is Ralph pronounced "Rafe?" Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2025 08:34 PM (pkeXY) 278
LOL, Wikipedia. Even schoolkids are taught never to consult it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:16 PM It's actually not a bad article. Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 11, 2025 08:34 PM (0sNs1) Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2025 08:34 PM (aOqEy) 280
Posted by: Wesley Crusher
---- dude you're ruining it for everyone Posted by: Don Black. Message: when in doubt, get your groove on at November 11, 2025 08:34 PM (AOsQT) He likes to hang out with the Traveler. IYKWIM. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:35 PM (zZu0s) 281
A year of tuition University of Illinois chem eng major: $600.
Posted by: gp Yup, my parents had 3 of us at Ohio State late 60's through mid 70's. No student loans. Posted by: Tuna at November 11, 2025 08:35 PM (lJ0H4) 282
AlaBAMA, thanks for the... uh... gift downstairs... ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:35 PM (cQHrm) 283
"Wikipedia. Even schoolkids are taught never to consult it."
There are good articles and bad ones. When I see a mistake in one, I edit it, for all the good it does. Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:35 PM (7imtn) 284
That only changes the method of de-creaming her. Licking is now right out.
And shut up, Wesley. Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 08:33 PM (nhCoE) Or re... nvm. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:36 PM (zZu0s) 285
Ever wonder who built all those trenches?
I presume sappers between the a tipn but not good for movies Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 08:28 PM (/lPRQ) --- Guys with e-tools did the first work, digging foxholes that were later deepened and connected. By 1918, the continuous lines were a thing of the past. Machineguns had proliferated and having troops packed into firing lines just caused extra casualties. Defense in depth with interlocking fire points was what things looked like in 1918, and once the deadlock was broken, the defensive lines were less developed. If retreating, one could have rear-area troops use heavy equipment/actual shovels to prepare positions, but otherwise it was some grunt digging his own grave. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:37 PM (ZOv7s) 286
I can hang with you guys til 7.30 MT, then I have to watch hockey
Posted by: Don Black. Message: when in doubt, get your groove on at November 11, 2025 08:37 PM (AOsQT) 287
Did anyone see the Turkish C-130. It is pretty horrific. I’ve seen a lot of bad things but never anything like that.
Posted by: General Chang at November 11, 2025 08:38 PM (NW+2e) Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 08:38 PM (A/n7m) 289
ItsGoTimeDonald, I've seen pics of the original 1960s Taco Bell menu. I think the most expensive thing on it was 65 cents.
Posted by: qdpsteve Abhhh. 25 cent tacos at Jack in the Box when you actually spoke into the clown. Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:38 PM (meTWG) 290
It's actually not a bad article.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 11, 2025 08:34 PM (0sNs1) --- I have neither the time nor the inclination to sort the blatantly biased from the merely jacked-up. I used to enjoy browsing wikipedia, but it is getting absurdly bad - and that is compounded by the fact that the best stuff they have is blatantly plagiarized. And then they screw it up. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:39 PM (ZOv7s) 291
And off sock dummy
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 08:40 PM (NW+2e) 292
rickb, I've also read and heard that Jack-in-the-Box tried to offer actual dinner boxes in the 1970s. A steak dinner in a box.
Bet that led to more than just a few divorces... Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:40 PM (cQHrm) 293
Did anyone see the Turkish C-130. It is pretty horrific. I’ve seen a lot of bad things but never anything like that.
Posted by: General Chang at November 11, 2025 08:38 PM (NW+2e) Just looked it up. Sounds horrifying. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:40 PM (zZu0s) 294
And they'd respond "well I haven't gotten around to listening to it yet..." ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:34 PM (cQHrm) --- Alpert is the only artist with a #1 hit both as an instrumentalist and a vocalist. What were they? Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:40 PM (ZOv7s) 295
Wouldn't mind seeing Sydney Sweeney remake that album cover.
Posted by: AlaBAMA With less cream. Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 08:40 PM (1Nv0l) 296
There is a newish Robin Hood show.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 08:41 PM (MXjT6) 297
rickb, I've also read and heard that Jack-in-the-Box tried to offer actual dinner boxes in the 1970s. A steak dinner in a box.
Bet that led to more than just a few divorces... Posted by: qdpsteve I don't remember those. We didn't even get the burgers, just the greasy tacos. They were meat & cheese and sealed like an empanada. And then deep fried. Which is why they were greasy. Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:42 PM (meTWG) 298
AH Lloyd:
Instrumental, I'd assume Herb Alpert's biggest hit was A Taste Of Honey. With vocals? This Guy's In Love With You. :-) Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:42 PM (cQHrm) 299
>>A read an article about Wendy's closing a bunch of locations. My takeaway was: "Let's fuck everybody over for some short-term stock price increases!"
I don't think it's that simple and I don't think it's all about the food prices. Wendy's also closed hundreds of restaurants in 2024. I think it's more cultural. Fast food in general is not what it was when my generation was in our teens and twenties. Drive by any fast food place these days and they just aren't busy like they used to be. Fast food joints are going the way of the mall. Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2025 08:42 PM (viF8m) 300
I recall Carly Simon had a saucy album cover
Posted by: Don Black. Message: when in doubt, get your groove on at November 11, 2025 08:43 PM (AOsQT) 301
There is a newish Robin Hood show.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 08:41 PM (MXjT6) --- Is it more gritty? More real? Because the true gritty real Robin Hood story has only been told...um, endlessly. I liked the black one, where they're gang-bangers robbing people in public housing. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:43 PM (ZOv7s) 302
Alpert is the only artist with a #1 hit both as an instrumentalist and a vocalist.
What were they? Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd Pretty sure the vocal was "This Guy's in Love With You ". Posted by: Tuna at November 11, 2025 08:43 PM (lJ0H4) 303
Abhhh. 25 cent tacos at Jack in the Box when you actually spoke into the clown.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:38 PM (meTWG) Euphemism, rick? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:43 PM (zZu0s) 304
Luchadors been doing the hurricana since pro wrestling was born.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 11, 2025 08:43 PM (MZ+PY) Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:44 PM (meTWG) 306
Check for Northern Lights in your AO, due to CME.
Bright Red in my AO at sunset. Had a double take, thought it was sunset cloud illumination. Pretty far south, so it should be remarkable if you live up North Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 08:44 PM (//5Rf) 307
Started watching the Lizzy Caplan mini-series remake of "Fatal Attraction." (2023) The Kanopy stream locked up 3/4 of the way through Ep 1. I took this as an omen, and chose not to pursue it further.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:44 PM (7imtn) 308
oh dear... They are rebooting "Scrubs." I never thought it was that funny -- kinda like the unfunny Always Sunny. Also rebooting Malcom In The Middle, (probably an all-black or gay or gay-black version), and rebooting Buffy Vampire Slayer, (probably black-gay fake Buffy). Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 08:44 PM (A/n7m) 309
Instrumental, I'd assume Herb Alpert's biggest hit was A Taste Of Honey.
With vocals? This Guy's In Love With You. :-) Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:42 PM (cQHrm) --- Correct on the vocals, but "Rise" was his big instrumental hit, featured in a rape scene on "General Hospital." Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:44 PM (ZOv7s) 310
Euphemism, rick?
Posted by: Aetius451AD No. Lol. There was an actual clown head on the menu board that you spoke into in the drive thru. Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:45 PM (meTWG) 311
My Name Is Earl Now THAT is a funny show. Scrubs, not so much. But still better than The Office crap. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 08:45 PM (A/n7m) 312
Scrubs first season was pretty good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:45 PM (zZu0s) 313
Big Fat Pancake CME. Slow one gets mashed from behind by a fast one. Makes it more ornery. Should be fun.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:45 PM (7imtn) 314
Didn't that hot chick start her career on My Name is Earl?
The smoke show from Wolf of Wallstreet Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2025 08:46 PM (aOqEy) 315
Bright Red in my AO at sunset. Had a double take, thought it was sunset cloud illumination. Pretty far south, so it should be remarkable if you live up North
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 08:44 PM (//5Rf) --- Overcast. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:46 PM (ZOv7s) 316
“Thanks to all who served”
Well not all. Not the douchebags. Thanks to all who served honorably. Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 08:46 PM (//5Rf) Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:46 PM (cQHrm) Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:46 PM (meTWG) 319
Ace thinks everything is funny...(except us). Ace loved Big Bang Theory, which is the literal opposite of funny. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 08:47 PM (A/n7m) 320
AH Lloyd, that makes sense. Rise was also a huge hit.
I figured Alpert's biggest instrumental was either The Lonely Bull, A Taste Of Honey, or Rise. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:47 PM (cQHrm) Posted by: fourseasons at November 11, 2025 08:48 PM (3ek7K) 322
Wait. Didn't You People love 2 Broke Chicks?? You did, I remember! (I'll admit it had a few funny moments.) Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 08:48 PM (A/n7m) 323
There is a newish Robin Hood show.
Posted by: Boss Moss Sean Bean is in it. I assume he plays a bad guy. Posted by: Tuna at November 11, 2025 08:48 PM (lJ0H4) 324
Didn't You People love 2 Broke Chicks??
You did, I remember! (I'll admit it had a few funny moments.) Posted by: Soothsayer Tits! Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:49 PM (meTWG) 325
Ace loved Big Bang Theory, which is the literal opposite of funny.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 08:47 PM (A/n7m) --- Never watched it. All the clips/highlights I saw promoting it looked deeply cringe. It was the show that made nerds cool, and thereby destroyed nerd culture. The wokes swarmed into Star Wars and fantasy and sci-fi and completely trashed them. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:49 PM (ZOv7s) 326
Space Weather Enthusiasts Dashboard:
https://tinyurl.com/2fh3ejzj Scroll down to "WSA-Enlil Prediction" to play an animation of what's coming. Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:50 PM (7imtn) Posted by: Don Black. Message: when in doubt, get your groove on at November 11, 2025 08:51 PM (AOsQT) 328
Dammit, this has got me obsessed with the details of the alignment window. We've got the tropical year vs calendar year, and the Equation of Time variation over the same leap year cycle. Another lucky thing is the Equation of Time maximizes around Nov. 3, so it's not changing much on Nov 11. This helps with the timing alignment. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 08:51 PM (w6EFb) 329
Don, ah :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:51 PM (cQHrm) 330
I figured Alpert's biggest instrumental was either The Lonely Bull, A Taste Of Honey, or Rise.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:47 PM (cQHrm) --- A Taste of Honey was a hit when Michigan State went to the 1966 Rose Bowl and at Alumni Band a few years ago we played an arrangement of it. Cool tune. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:52 PM (ZOv7s) 331
And "chemtrails" can cause me to risk stroking out. Okay, science geniuses, how do you have an engine that produces *no exhaust gasses*?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:05 PM (ZOv7s) An electric one. The battery, though, remains problematic. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 08:52 PM (8avO+) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 11, 2025 08:52 PM (L/fGl) 333
Google AI says Chalupa was introduced in 1999. But yeah my $5 memories predate that. Haha.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:54 PM (F2Ar1) 334
I watched a couple of clips of "Big Bang Theory" that had the laugh track edited out. What was left was mentally ill people saying cruel things to each other.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 11, 2025 08:54 PM (JmM66) Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:55 PM (cQHrm) 336
Raspberry Pi 5 is working fine for routine desktop computing. Streams video well enough to suit moi. Runs Debian. $124, including beefy wallwart and rubber baby buggy bumper, including taxes and shipping, from Adafruit.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:55 PM (7imtn) 337
I watched a couple of clips of "Big Bang Theory" that had the laugh track edited out. What was left was mentally ill people saying cruel things to each other.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 11, 2025 08:54 PM (JmM66) Most sitcoms are like that. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:56 PM (F2Ar1) 338
6 >> It built with wood only and without using a single nail.
What the hell did they need the nail for? Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 11, 2025 07:20 PM (l3YAf) Some guy named Luthor, had some suggestions, never heard of e-mail. Posted by: JB1000 at November 11, 2025 08:56 PM (ttgbj) 339
Idaho, that's several other sitcoms as well.
The old "Mama's family" sketches on Carol Burnett, and the show itself, could be kind of nasty and sad sometimes. Eunice (played by Burnett) gave and took a lot of really barbed insults. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:56 PM (cQHrm) 340
Among old reviewed the Baja Blast Pie (which also sounds like a euphemism.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:57 PM (zZu0s) Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:58 PM (7imtn) 342
***maybe this is just footage from a movie, or maybe this is the hurricana performed
--- What are we going to wind up doing, using AI to divine whether a pic is AI? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 08:58 PM (dveO7) 343
Aetius, I'm hearing it's actually good.
Also it's supposed to be $20 for a pie that's 8 inches in diameter. Kind of overpriced, but I've heard some franchises actually sell them for a lot less. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:58 PM (cQHrm) 344
Yeah, removing the laugh track is gonna ruin a show or four
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2025 08:59 PM (aOqEy) 345
gp, the Cantina Chicken's not bad. Also a lot of tasty and good-for-you veggies in those entrees. I need roughage! :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:59 PM (cQHrm) 346
The value of what you get at Taco Bell depends a lot on how generous the chefs feel on any given night. Hit them during a lull, and they'll load you up.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:00 PM (7imtn) 347
To serve one’s country is part of the proce of admission.
Posted by: Eromero at November 11, 2025 09:00 PM (LHPAg) 348
I haven't eaten at Taco Bell in at least twenty years.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2025 09:01 PM (aOqEy) 349
gp, true.
Also it helps me personally that I enjoy their cheapo stuff. The bean burrito and bean/rice/cheese burritos are good. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:01 PM (cQHrm) 350
345 530cals I think. It's got salad. I think with tax it's $8 here, which is a bit much, but it tastes pretty good.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:01 PM (7imtn) 351
Jack in the Crack curly fries were the bomb back in the day. Get a double bacon cheese-burger and those as hangover prevention in Tillicum before heading back to B Quad Schofield
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 09:01 PM (//5Rf) 352
106 Tucker also thinks Buzz himself is faked.
Posted by: Oldcat ------ If only he were alive. He could help Tucker understand. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 09:01 PM (dveO7) 353
"In Flanders Fields" is bad.
In its defence, I guess, it came out in 1915. Posted by: gKWVE at November 11, 2025 09:02 PM (gKWVE) Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2025 09:02 PM (aOqEy) 355
AlaBAMA, I laughed when I read recently that at DQ it's *mandatory* for the workers to hand you your Blizzard upside down.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:04 PM (cQHrm) 356
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'What was left was mentally ill people saying cruel things to each other.' That's only funny in real life. Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 11, 2025 09:04 PM (fd80v) 357
She was a) clothed underneath that, and b) it was shaving cream, not whipped cream.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 11, 2025 08:30 PM (0sNs1) ----- And hot as fuck, you nancing retard. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:33 PM (zZu0s) ! Still chuckling. Posted by: RickZ at November 11, 2025 09:04 PM (gKDq2) 358
The old "Mama's family" sketches on Carol Burnett, and the show itself, could be kind of nasty and sad sometimes. Eunice (played by Burnett) gave and took a lot of really barbed insults. Posted by: qdpsteve -------- It was a modern burlesque venue. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 09:04 PM (dveO7) 359
Never been to Taco Bell.
Went to Jack in the Box once in college. It was 3am. Did not go well. Really don’t do fast food. Unless it’s an egg McMuffin on the way to the ski slopes. Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 09:05 PM (mT+6a) 360
I haven't eaten at Taco Bell in at least twenty years.
—— I tried it again last year after a lengthy hiatus I guess you’d call it. So-so, portions now micro-sized. Cost $25 to get sorta kinda filled up. Sad. I cook for myself now. Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 09:05 PM (//5Rf) 361
Braenyard, true. Carol Burnett is from the *really* old school of comedy. Tons of talent, and she's a great dramatic actress as well, but still.
I like her, but my mom? She loves Carol. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:05 PM (cQHrm) 362
I haven't eaten at Taco Bell in at least twenty years. Posted by: AlaBAMA Yeah, because YUM ruined it. Taco Bell was always crap, but edible crap at a good value. Same with the pizza joint chain that I can't remember. Same with KFC. YUM ruined all of them. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 09:05 PM (A/n7m) 363
355 AlaBAMA, I laughed when I read recently that at DQ it's *mandatory* for the workers to hand you your Blizzard upside down.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:04 PM (cQHrm) Gimmicky but I'll take it. Blizzard with M&Ms or Oreos. Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2025 09:05 PM (aOqEy) 364
No one is choosing her as a champion.
Posted by: banana Dream ------- WAIT !, I'll take her. She must not be left to stand alone. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 09:06 PM (dveO7) 365
Borgund Stave Church: search for its interior. Echoes of the Olden Times and rather spooky...
Thank you to all our veterans, and God bless you. Posted by: Beverly at November 11, 2025 09:07 PM (Epeb0) 366
wonder if anyone here remembers Roger Williams and "Born Free." :-)
---- Who can forget that is was the sound track for Rush Limbaugh 's animal rights updates. Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at November 11, 2025 09:07 PM (SdF2+) 367
AlaBAMA, for Halloween at DQ, they should tie a worker upside down from the ceiling, then have that person hand customers their Blizzard right-side-up. ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:07 PM (cQHrm) 368
367 AlaBAMA, for Halloween at DQ, they should tie a worker upside down from the ceiling, then have that person hand customers their Blizzard right-side-up. ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:07 PM (cQHrm Dressed as a bat! Yes! You should email their PR dept. seriously. Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2025 09:08 PM (aOqEy) 369
Embarassing Stain: I didn't listen to Rush very often and even I miss him.
That's funny about Born Free, but at the same time? Still a great recording IMHO. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:08 PM (cQHrm) 370
William Bendix did a TV movie. The govt was going to take the family homestead because of a new highway construction. The focus was him telling the official how the home was hand built and had no nails.
Bendix was a good actor. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 09:10 PM (dveO7) 371
Braenyard, there's been a surprising number of great TV movies over the years. Also I miss the days of soapy network TV miniseries, like The Thorn Birds.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:11 PM (cQHrm) 372
Bendix and Hayward: "The Hairy Ape" (1944)
youtube.com/watch?v=dEqa-pQa-WA Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:12 PM (7imtn) 373
>>>Yeah, because YUM ruined it. Taco Bell was always crap, but edible crap at a good value. Same with the pizza joint chain that I can't remember. Same with KFC. YUM ruined all of them.
Posted by: Soothsayer ------ I didn't know. More MBA's fixing things. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 09:13 PM (dveO7) Posted by: fourseasons at November 11, 2025 09:13 PM (3ek7K) 375
fourseasons, yes I'm working. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:14 PM (cQHrm) 376
Just a heads-up for astronomically-inclined Morons (and 'Ettes). There is a strong Aurora Borealis going on right now, and its unusual in that a lot of it colored Red, or Rose, if you prefer. Just came in the house from a road trip, and the red part has faded but is still visible as a faint band running from the NW horizon southeasterly to the zenith. Across the southern sky, there is a vague greenish-white band from horizon to horizon. No Moon up yet, but it is light enough outside to walk around and see what's underfoot.
Wouldn't hurt to go out and take a look. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 09:15 PM (npFr7) 377
As soon as I saw that pic of the 11/11 solar thingie that illuminates the Great Seal I thought “Uh-oh. Publius is gonna stroke out” on that.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 09:18 PM (//5Rf) Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:18 PM (7imtn) 379
Wouldn't hurt to go out and take a look.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 09:15 PM (npFr7) Just getting dark here. Looks like it will be clear enough to see it tonight. I intend to watch it from the vantage point of the hot tub. Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 11, 2025 09:18 PM (yKmBH) 380
AOP, I just went out and didn't see anything unusual.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:19 PM (cQHrm) 381
Thank everyone who served.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 09:21 PM (Sco7b) 382
Stateless, amen.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:21 PM (cQHrm) 383
The reason “Mama’s Familly” could be so spot on and so cutting, to where it always felt real even when it hurt, was that Carol B. said she based it on the family she grew up in, in Texas.
The “Sorry!!!” Game to me is the funniest one, because that was like watching every board game night at my house when I was a yute. Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2025 09:22 PM (aTimx) 384
Mandatory minimum wage laws ruined everything.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:18 PM (7imtn) Problem is minimum wage laws make some think fast-food jobs should have a 'living wage', whatever the fuck that is. The living wage concept is a main driver of minimum wage increases, which leads to inflation and reduced purchasing power for that higher 'living wage'. Economic stupidity knows no bounds. Posted by: RickZ at November 11, 2025 09:24 PM (gKDq2) 385
As soon as I saw that pic of the 11/11 solar thingie that illuminates the Great Seal I thought “Uh-oh. Publius is gonna stroke out” on that.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 09:18 PM (//5Rf) --- I was wondering if it's adjustable because it's going to be slightly out of alignment over time, which will only get worse. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 11, 2025 09:25 PM (IBQGV) 386
The reason “Mama’s Familly” could be so spot on and so cutting, to where it always felt real even when it hurt, was that Carol B. said she based it on the family she grew up in, in Texas.
The “Sorry!!!” Game to me is the funniest one, because that was like watching every board game night at my house when I was a yute. Posted by: Tom Servo Tim Conway talking about the elephant. Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 09:25 PM (meTWG) 387
We are at G5 geomagnetic level. Go here: https://is.gd/6oWITB And click on the Aurora prediction run. There's about 50 minute lead time. Doubt we'll see anything this far south. G5 level will get us there. It was visible here, when was it, in May 2024? Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 09:26 PM (w6EFb) 388
Born Free - you want the Matt Monro version. Trust Me
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 09:26 PM (//5Rf) 389
rickb, has Tim Conway Jr ever talked on the radio about his dad being funny at home?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:26 PM (cQHrm) 390
I was wondering if it's adjustable because it's going to be slightly out of alignment over time, which will only get worse.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel They built in a sloppy minute to account for leap years and such. Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 09:26 PM (meTWG) 391
The old "Mama's family" sketches on Carol Burnett, and the show itself, could be kind of nasty and sad sometimes. Eunice (played by Burnett) gave and took a lot of really barbed insults.
Posted by: qdpsteve My mother LOVED 'Mama's Family.' When I came back from teaching in South Korea, I was able to find and burn to DVR discs many of her favourite shows. I could never find 'Mama's Family.' I even tried to buy it. Couldn't find them. Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 09:27 PM (Sco7b) 392
Common Tater, that's what I'm listening to. :-)
https://youtu.be/IlE6ocdZFto?si=ZaaWOna80w7R5kBO Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:27 PM (cQHrm) 393
rickb, has Tim Conway Jr ever talked on the radio about his dad being funny at home?
Posted by: qdpsteve I don't know. But I don't know how you could grow up in that house without peeing yourself on a daily basis. I mean, watch how he destroys Carol and Harvey and they KNOW it's coming. Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 09:29 PM (meTWG) 394
Stateless, I don't know about the actual Mama's Family TV series, but if you want to see the Mama's Family sketches that appeared on Carol Burnett's variety show, I think you have to purchase those DVDs.
And I'd bet by now most if not all of them are out of print. I agree it's a shame that so much great TV is all but impossible to purchase on hard-disk media. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:29 PM (cQHrm) 395
I used to go to Taco Bell so often they had a "standing order" ready for me to go when I arrived.
One year they gave me a free meal near Christmas, just because. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 11, 2025 09:29 PM (IBQGV) 396
>> I was wondering if it's adjustable because it's going to be slightly out of alignment over time, which will only get worse.
The design life is only 100 years. The slight change in obliquity (earth's tilt) and the slight Gregorian long term drift is insignificant over 100 years. If they want it to keep it going for a few thousand years, however, it will need adjustment. Change in tilt has resulted in 3 secs less daylight on the summer solstice here since I was born, and 4 secs more daylight on the winter solstive. Tropics have moved equatorward and arctic circles poleward accordingly over those 58 years. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 09:30 PM (w6EFb) 397
Thank everyone who served.
—— Bullshit. Brad Manning? Reality Winner? Yeah …. no. Thank everyone who served honorably. Apples and aircraft carriers. Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 09:32 PM (//5Rf) 398
Turns out Mama's Family, the TV series, is available at Amazon on DVD, all six seasons, for about $35. There's also a version that's about twice that price for whatever reason.
Carol Burnett Show DVDs are also still available, but I have no idea how many Mama's Family sketches actually found their way to those volumes. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:32 PM (cQHrm) 399
AOP: I went ahead and installed the entire Android Studio on my laptop. I used adb to get a shell session on the Android phone, and it works! I’m like that kid Lex in Jurassic Park: “This is Unix! I know this!”
The Lakshman GPS compass app is now installed and working. Now I’m working on a way to mount the phone to the radio-direction-finding antenna mast, and when that’s done, I have an automatic azimuthal readout on the direction it’s pointing, instead of just an eyeball estimate. I have reached my Android goal, for now. Maybe later on, if I feel like banging my head against a wall for a few solid weeks, who knows, I might even try creating my own app. Using Android Studio without Grok as a guide is near impossible for mere mortals. It’s huge and intricate, with a not-so-intuitive UX. A maze of twisty little passages, all alike. Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:33 PM (7imtn) 400
Well, another case of being roundly disappointed by my free veteran's meal at Red Robin. Lukewarm burgers and not-bottomless fries.
I don't know why I find myself doing this every year. I'm worth a lot of money. Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 11, 2025 09:33 PM (qwx/I) 401
Doubt we'll see anything this far south.
——- Lit up the sky pretty good in the desert southwest Pub! That’s why I suggested those in the North to check it out. I’m a go out and look again. Will it be better tomorrow night maybe? Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 09:34 PM (//5Rf) 402
rickb, has Tim Conway Jr ever talked on the radio about his dad being funny at home?
Posted by: qdpsteve Bing: tim conway jr on dad being funny Arroyo Grande interview. I think it the first entry. It's on YouTube. Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 09:35 PM (meTWG) 403
387 Bz level -20 nT. Bad for ionospheric propagation I know, good for auroras I think.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:35 PM (7imtn) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 09:36 PM (dveO7) 405
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>> Raspberry Pi 5 is working fine for routine desktop computing. I used to be into the RPI but it’s pretty much lost its cost competitiveness. You can get a renewed HP deskpro mini i5 with 8gb of ram, 256gb had for less than $150. This unit is only slightly bigger than a kitted out rpi and will run rings around it. When the i7s were plentiful, I bought 10 of them for around the same price, the supply has dried up and now their cost has risen sharply, which makes the i5 more attractive. Even at the higher prices, a fully maxed out i7 makes for a great low end workstation. Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2025 09:36 PM (XV/Pl) 406
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:29 PM (cQHrm)
Thanks. I wasn't a huge fan. I think everyone will always remember the dentist sketch. One reason I like the kids shows is famous actors sometimes show up. Vicky Lawrence sp? and a ton of famous people were on ' Hannah Montana.' It was really cool. Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 09:36 PM (Sco7b) 407
The Carol Burnett Show: Lost Episodes Ultimate Collection [23-DVD] & Best of The Carol Burnett Show [21-DVD] Limited Collector's Edition [38-Disc Set] Includes Carol's Guest Book Autograph & Memories
$159.99 complete set on Amazon Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 09:37 PM (meTWG) 408
My living wage is 5k a week.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2025 09:38 PM (XV/Pl) 409
Just getting dark here. Looks like it will be clear enough to see it tonight. I intend to watch it from the vantage point of the hot tub.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK Wow. Pretty overcast here. Supposed to rain for the next few days. Hot tub under a frozen clear sky is sublime. Please hug DH. You’re both outstanding individuals. Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 09:38 PM (mT+6a) 410
>> Will it be better tomorrow night maybe?
Clicky clack on that NOAA page for the 3 day predictions. That short term aurora gives you 24 hours total, but only 30 mins roughly future predictions (which is based on the the SOHO spacecraft at L1 measurements). Currently, the lead time is 50 mins, so they can predict 50 minutes ahead. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 09:38 PM (w6EFb) 411
408 My living wage is 5k a week.
Posted by: Thomas Bender Holy shit. That’s a lot of money. Good for you if you are there. That’s awesome. Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 09:39 PM (mT+6a) 412
TV movie from 1979-"Twirl" starring Erin Moran and Lisa Whelchel. It's about-you guessed it-twirlers. But it's not as bad as it sounds. You can find some forgotten gems searching TV movies or failed pilots.
Posted by: Baton The Hatches! at November 11, 2025 09:40 PM (oftw2) 413
Yeah …. no. Thank everyone who served honorably. Apples and aircraft carriers.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 09:32 PM (//5Rf) I stand corrected. That's a really good point. And there's probably people who served who turned out pretty crappy afterwards...especially after some of them went into politics. Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 09:40 PM (Sco7b) 414
rickb, yeah, that's a kinda steep price. Would be nice if there was a DVD of just the Mama's Family sketches.
Per Wiki, there were 31 Mama's family sketches featured on the original Carol Burnett Show. Then there was a TV movie, and one more sketch on Carol's follow-up variety series, Carol & Company. And then there was the TV series. So it was kind of an entire series within a series. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:40 PM (cQHrm) 415
Just saw this on Facebook:
🌌 YES!!! Meteor and Northern Lights in Southern Missouri - Absolutely wild night with the aurora borealis. Visible with the naked eye!❤️ Photo from the back of my camera! LSC/Joshua Napper Wow. Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 09:41 PM (meTWG) 416
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'The “Sorry!!!” Game to me is the funniest one, because that was like watching every board game night at my house when I was a yute.' I liked the Monopoly one. 10 50! Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 11, 2025 09:41 PM (fd80v) 417
Good for you if you are there. That’s awesome.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 09:39 PM (mT+6a) Nurse, how are you today? Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 09:42 PM (Sco7b) 418
@411
>> Holy shit. That’s a lot of money. Adjusted for inflation, I used to make more money in 1990. Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2025 09:42 PM (XV/Pl) 419
88 We have an old cemetery in the town where our church is. Stones date from the Civil War . I like to wander through there and look at them....
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2025 07:35 PM (1WNAb) I like walking through old sections of cemeteries and reading the headstones. I did a lot that when I lived in New Hampshire and did my travels around New England. Posted by: Beartooth at November 11, 2025 07:46 PM (0714D) I visited Copps Burial Ground on the Freedom Trail in downtown Boston. Oldest headstone is from 1661. No earlier markers survive due to weathering, erosion, and historical damage like British soldiers using stones for target practice during the Revolutionary War. Posted by: Joemarine at November 11, 2025 09:42 PM (y171U) 420
Baton:
Probably my all-time favorite TV movie is Special Bulletin, which was presented *on videotape* in 1982. It was about nuclear terrorism, of all things, and featured the star of Sledge Hammer, David Rasche, as one of the terrorists. IMHO it was quite ahead of its time, and even featured early examples of digital graphics for television. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:42 PM (cQHrm) 421
Per Wiki, there were 31 Mama's family sketches featured on the original Carol Burnett Show. Then there was a TV movie, and one more sketch on Carol's follow-up variety series, Carol & Company. And then there was the TV series.
So it was kind of an entire series within a series. Posted by: qdpsteve Amazon Mama's Family the Complete Collection all 24 discs. $49.95 Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 09:43 PM (meTWG) 422
405 I also use the RPi's for the GPIO interfacing stuff, which a PC doesn't have. For $124, this is fine.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:43 PM (7imtn) 423
My father had Herb Alpert albums and I listened to them a lot. I bought the Rise album. A good stereo system and headphones. There is a glissando that moves from the right side to the left while listening with the headphones.
Posted by: clarence at November 11, 2025 09:44 PM (kUdqB) 424
Well, hell. Don't see anything here, but I'm gonna go out to higher ground where I can see closer to the horizon North. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 09:44 PM (w6EFb) 425
If so inclined.... the recent geo-magnetic storm that produces the Aurora is currently visible as far south as KY.
Look North. Red-ish haze. Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 11, 2025 09:45 PM (NwnyJ) 426
rickb, thanks! That's quite a find. The reviews say it even contains the Burnett show sketches, so that's great.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:45 PM (cQHrm) 427
Can't see the aurora here-- too foggy/misty. Darn.
Posted by: JQ at November 11, 2025 09:46 PM (rdVOm) 428
clarence, headphone listening is a great lost art.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:46 PM (cQHrm) Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 11, 2025 09:48 PM (uWSFJ) 430
I used to check out a lot of garage sales at one time.
EVERYBODY had Herb Alpert albums. Even my parents. My dad was of the opinion anything after the 1940s big band music wasn’t too good. He thought Riders On The Storm was good, however. Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 09:48 PM (//5Rf) 431
287 Did anyone see the Turkish C-130. It is pretty horrific. I’ve seen a lot of bad things but never anything like that. Posted by: General Chang at November 11, 2025 08:38 PM ------ I looked it up. I'm not exactly sure what I was looking at. It looked like half of the airplane was gone. Just wings and part of the fuselage descending. There was word of search and rescue. I don't think there's going to be any rescue. Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 11, 2025 09:48 PM (t1fZA) 432
Hey stateless
It’s a tough week. I reached out to my brother and he was kind and loving. When dad died, my Younger brother was the executor. Not much of an “estate.” But. He took care of everything and wrote the obit and sold everything. Then wrote me a check and gave an itemized receipt of everyrhing. He’s a lib. But he’s an honest, good man. And there was NO fighting. Blessings to you. I’m sorry your experience was so horrid. Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 09:50 PM (mT+6a) 433
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>> I also use the RPi's for the GPIO interfacing stuff, which a PC doesn't have. For $124, this is fine. That would be one use case where the pi might shine, but you can add gpio to a pc either through usb or network. Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2025 09:50 PM (XV/Pl) 434
nurse ratched, that's a blessing that your brother was decent about everything.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:51 PM (cQHrm) 435
> Did anyone see the Turkish C-130. It is pretty horrific. I’ve seen a lot of bad things but never anything like that.
Posted by: General Chang ------------- Similar to the C-130 breakup a few years ago over... parts SE US? Carolinas? Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 11, 2025 09:52 PM (NwnyJ) 436
429 The documents do say where WitsEnd is buried deep in the UX, but I can't find it without Grok. Docs seem a bit old and outofdate. There's something about Android that makes devs want to change menu trees and entity names a lot from month to month. Let's hide the ball compulsion.
Just give me the sturdy old CUA GUI interface, and I'll find WitsEnd in a trice. Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:52 PM (7imtn) Posted by: clarence at November 11, 2025 09:53 PM (kUdqB) 438
I looked it up. I'm not exactly sure what I was looking at. It looked like half of the airplane was gone. Just wings and part of the fuselage descending. There was word of search and rescue. I don't think there's going to be any rescue.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug How tf does that even happen? It's like the front and rear broke off and it was just the wings and a small part of the fuselage. Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 09:53 PM (meTWG) Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 09:54 PM (meTWG) 440
434 nurse ratched, that's a blessing that your brother was decent about everything.
Posted by: qdpsteve He really was. He is the one who called me after the cops found dad on the beach. I was at work. He went to identify the body. It was four days before his 40th birthday. He was planning a big party in Vegas. Thanks dad. Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 09:54 PM (mT+6a) 441
Back in a different century, I saw a forty year-old guy perform the "hurricane" in a Jui Jitsu class.
He commented that it might be the last time he could pull it off. Posted by: waepnedmann at November 11, 2025 09:55 PM (E2mjq) 442
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'How tf does that even happen? It's like the front and rear broke off and it was just the wings and a small part of the fuselage. ' A mid-air crash or a bomb were all I could think of. Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 11, 2025 09:55 PM (fd80v) Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 11, 2025 09:56 PM (NwnyJ) Posted by: fourseasons at November 11, 2025 09:57 PM (3ek7K) 445
Martini, OMG!
Looks like aliens invading. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:57 PM (cQHrm) 446
Blessings to you. I’m sorry your experience was so horrid.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 09:50 PM (mT+6a) I'm happy your family was decent through such a horrible time. I just put the angel on top of the Christmas tree! The house is clean. My friiends are coming tomorrow at 4pm. The kids will decorate the tree. I have gifts for the kids, pumpkin pie and strawberries. They are bringing roast beef and mashed potatos. So I'm feeling very blessed today. May you feel this soon also. Happy Thanksgiving! Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 09:57 PM (Sco7b) 447
"That would be one use case where the pi might shine, but you can add gpio to a pc either through usb or network."
OK, write up a BOM for all that and price it. Include the added A/D, D/A, PWM, I2C, SPI, UART peripherals. Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:57 PM (7imtn) 448
How tf does that even happen? It's like the front and rear broke off and it was just the wings and a small part of the fuselage.“
There’s been speculation on X, someone remembered another C-130 accident where a prop blade came apart in flight, and one struck the fuselage ahead of the wings with enough force that the crew cabin was severed. And then speculated that as the plane began to tumble, the stresses caused the back of the fuselage to break off. Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2025 09:57 PM (aTimx) 449
Not a smidge here that I can see. It may be slightly hazy to the north. Overhead, it's pretty clear, see a lot of stars, but not many low on the northern horizon. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 09:58 PM (w6EFb) 450
I'd say it was a bomb as well in Georgia. If there was a crash, where's the other plane?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:58 PM (cQHrm) 451
"How tf does that even happen? It's like the front and rear broke off and it was just the wings and a small part of the fuselage. "
Very severe turbulence. Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:58 PM (7imtn) 452
May God bless that WWII Veteran and all who served in the past and present today. Never forgotten, always thanked for your service to our country.
My father was a WWII Marine Sgt, South Pacific Theater island hopping for 30mo. Including Peleliu and Guam. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 10:00 PM (MAl//) 453
And we have a nood ONT.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 10:00 PM (Sco7b) 454
Turkish C-130 crask.
https://tinyurl.com/52eavr8u Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 09:54 PM (meTWG) Hit by a missile? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:00 PM (npFr7) 455
Borgund Stave Church in Norway was built sometime between 1180 and 1250 AD.
--------------------- I have visited an even older stave church at Urnes, not far from this one. One thing I can say about all these historical sights is their smell of ages. Posted by: Decaf at November 11, 2025 10:01 PM (unUNN) 456
no. You sow grain to 'plant it' for crops. At harvest, you reap the benefits of your work. No reaping if you don't sow first.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:43 PM You reap what you sow. Sow oats, reap oats. Sow evil, reap evil. Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 10:01 PM (jc0TO) 457
Video of the church in Norway, Ace. Wow!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 10:20 PM (MAl//) 458
@447
>>OK, write up a BOM for all that and price it. Include the added A/D, D/A, PWM, I2C, SPI, UART peripherals. Cheapest way to go would be to use an arduino nano as a bridge device with the pc, it will get you 99pct of what you need. So for 140 buck you get a real computer and for 25 bucks you get a microcontroller/gpio interface with all of those features. Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2025 10:23 PM (XV/Pl) Quick Hits![]()
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Posted by: Thanatopsis at November 11, 2025 05:45 PM (XKYub) 2
2nd
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3rd
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Now to nood
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5th?
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6th!
Posted by: Thanatopsis at November 11, 2025 05:46 PM (XKYub) 7
He's a nut.
Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 05:46 PM (vFG9F) 8
No, not you Thanatopsis.
Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 05:46 PM (vFG9F) 9
Aw, hell. I've killed the thread.
Posted by: Thanatopsis at November 11, 2025 05:47 PM (XKYub) Posted by: Don Black at November 11, 2025 05:47 PM (AOsQT) Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 05:47 PM (zZu0s) 12
The movie Conspiracy Theory was, I thought, a good movie
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 11, 2025 05:48 PM (HXT0k) 13
19 out of 20. Didn't use AOL
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 05:48 PM (dtajH) 14
18. And I've made mix CDs, does that count?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 05:48 PM (a+4eV) 15
I turned 70 last week. I'm so old, I remember writing letters and paying cash for stuff.
Posted by: huerfano at November 11, 2025 05:48 PM (98kQX) Posted by: davidt at November 11, 2025 05:48 PM (Q+gd/) 17
You like big, bold, often-gibberish theories that are more interesting than dull reality.
--- I prefer theories under gambrel roofs and gibbous moons. Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 05:48 PM (krQz2) 18
\Which one did you miss?
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:49 PM (1wjle) 19
I never had an AOL address. I had earthlink.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 05:49 PM (zZu0s) 20
I don't have any conspiracy theories. Everything I believe is true.
Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 05:49 PM (vFG9F) 21
20 for 20. What do I win?
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 05:49 PM (wVcYX) 22
I never had an AOL address. I had earthlink.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 05:49 PM (zZu0s) --- Geocities FTW! Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 11, 2025 05:49 PM (IBQGV) 23
Let's just say I got a score high enough that I could put three initials on to the scoreboard.
++++ Heh. Yup. Me too, and I ain't that old. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2025 05:49 PM (zxP/x) Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 11, 2025 05:49 PM (HXT0k) 25
I turned 70 last week. I'm so old, I remember writing letters and paying cash for stuff.
Posted by: huerfano at November 11, 2025 05:48 PM (98kQX) Credit card machines with the carbon paper. *toss glove* Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 05:49 PM (zZu0s) Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM (1wjle) 27
What Flavor-aide is Tucker drinking and what is the color of his sky?
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM (uvAV5) 28
Tucker looks like he’s hankering for some nazi beef jerky.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM (Dxn3F) 29
All 20 of them... Yeah... I'm old....
Posted by: It's me donna at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM (VE6XX) Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM (UJMvS) Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM (g47mK) 32
Geocities FTW!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 11, 2025 05:49 PM (IBQGV) ++++ :: pushes glasses up nose :: ACKSHUALLY, GeoCities was for hosting personal websites, not E-Mail Posted by: That Guy at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM (zxP/x) 33
I rate conspiracy theories by likelihood. My #1 for the JFK hit is that Allen Dulles gave the order in an off-the-books operation.
JFK had fired CIA director Dulles over the Bay of Pigs fiasco and other sins. Dulles had people handling Lee Harvey and Marina. They got him the job at the Texas Book Depository before he arrived in Dallas. Easy to have a real shooter take the shots from the Depository and frame Oswald for it. History doesn't repeat but it can rhyme. Dulles wanted a war over Cuba but was thwarted by JFK. LBJ gave him Vietnam. Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM (dtajH) 34
Saved by never having had an AOL account!
Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM (rO4EG) 35
20 points not breaking a sweat. Bonus points should be for manual transmission, no power steering (rack and pinion), large reel to reel recording tape, 8 track, and Big Wheel! Others?
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM (QkSg2) 36
What happened to tucker carlson? He was fine one day and then he literally snapped and went crazy.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (0N4FZ) 37
I haven't watched Winston Marshall videos in a while but he has good videos
Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (+qU29) 38
19 points. 18 if you have to have a brand name "walkman".
Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (krQz2) Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (wVcYX) 40
As for the age thing, aren't checkbooks still a thing?
And record players are big with hipsters, so are also still a thing. Posted by: gKWVE at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (gKWVE) 41
Not all conspiracy theories are equal. Some are just utterly moronic. The Jewish theories are bad, but, okay, there are a lot of intelligent Jews, so it can be strung together in a plausible plot (if not examined carefully). I find others just mind-numbingly stupid. Owens' insistence that Macron's old lady mom-wife is a man is one. Okay, ha-ha...wait, you're serious?
Honestly, I feel the same way about the Obama Birther conspiracy. It was so dumb it could only do more damage to those who espoused it. Yes, I know Trump trolled Obama into finally disproving it, but that has a feel of the exception that proves the rule. Posted by: John Lawrence at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (zbyzH) 42
I think the term conspiracy theory is too vague and generally gets used as "something the FNM says is wrong"
So the FNM will conflate all of the following as conspiracy theories: White devils stole black people magic energy so they couldn't make more pyramids (stupid) "The Jews" control American foreign policy (a broad swath of the public support Israel not just Jews, but not surprisingly including Jews) COVID was made in a lab in China under the direction of one of Tony Fauci's flunkies (100% proven) Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (sKqQm) 43
20, ugh
Posted by: mot at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (fIPNY) 44
Waterbed and maybe phone booth. (Assuming the mix CD counts)
I wasn't old enough for the former, and I can't remember if there was a phone booth active the last time I had to call my Dad for a ride, or if I borrowed the police station's phone. Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (a+4eV) 45
Kinda sorta willowed:
am I really the only one who saw Immaculate? I thought we had some horror-hounds here. Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:17 PM (1wjle) Hi Ace, I saw it. I miss labeled it as "Incarnate" downstairs... Anyway, YES, it's double, super, extra-crispy pro-abortion. I like Sydney Sweeney as eyecandy that seems to have her head on straight, but I doubt her personal views are very conservative. Posted by: naturalfake at November 11, 2025 05:52 PM (iJfKG) 46
H2O is one of the primary reaction agents from combusting hydrocarbons. You make water which you see as vapor. Engines shoot out water plus some other boring stuff. I hated propulsion class but I remembered that much.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 05:52 PM (NW+2e) 47
Anyone who mocks paranoid conspiracy-mongering is prima facie evil!
Posted by: C. Tarlson at November 11, 2025 05:52 PM (zW3tl) 48
I probably get 19 points because I never could into cursive (and every form they made me fill out said PLEASE PRINT anyway).
Posted by: gKWVE at November 11, 2025 05:52 PM (gKWVE) 49
That's only partly a joke -- yes, Tucker Carlson is now a believer in chemtrail conspiracy theories now, too.
--------------- Tucker Carlson himself is now a joke, he is done. He will now continue getting worse trying to remain relevant or "edgy" but all it will do is confirm his loopiness. I am being kind here in simply not tagging him as malevolent. Posted by: Decaf at November 11, 2025 05:52 PM (unUNN) Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 05:52 PM (rO4EG) 51
I never had an AOL address, but I did receive all those CD ROMs in the mail. Otherwise, I score 19.
Posted by: John Lawrence at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (zbyzH) 52
>>>12 The movie Conspiracy Theory was, I thought, a good movie
I was very disappointed. I was so psyched for that movie, and I did like the Catcher in the Rye bit, but overall... very meh. And a Richard Donner movie too! I love richard donner and I love the sheen and lens-flares he gives his movies. Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (1wjle) 53
And here is one of my benchmarks for an unconventional theory...is it logically self consistent?
So, for example, is Trump an anti-Semite also controlled by the Jews? Well, no that's not self consistent. Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (sKqQm) 54
Still use a checkbook, landline and dial up.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (zzXla) 55
20 out of 20.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (L/fGl) Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (1wjle) 57
In my Family My Parents had mid century furniture... New From the store
Posted by: It's me donna at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (VE6XX) 58
but I doubt her personal views are very conservative.
If she looks down that's a nice personal view. Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (3BDA1) Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 05:54 PM (uvAV5) 60
20
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 05:54 PM (mP0Kj) 61
Well, if that's not proof positive of the patriarchy, I don't know what is!
Kim Kardashian Fails California Bar Exam Even Though 4 Psychics Told Her She'd Pass Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 11, 2025 05:54 PM (L/fGl) 62
Dang... We're a bunch of Oldies here....
Posted by: It's me donna at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (VE6XX) 63
Tucker Carlson is now the Jimmy Kimmel of reporters.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (uvAV5) 64
Add a manual transmission to the list and you get a Blackjack!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (Dxn3F) 65
20, but I don't remember my AOL address unless it was something like bakelite at aol dot com. I think you had to have something even to sign up for the free 200 hrs or whatever.
Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (vFG9F) 66
I could be convinced that the WEF and billionaires interested in population control went to China, convinced them to let them have a ghost city - the Chinese make work projects - and then took several thousands of homeless, orphans, criminals and experimented on them with the Covid vaccines.
If they started in the 1990's or so, they'd have a nice idea how long it would take the jabs to kill a large portion of the population which would allow them to plan accordingly. But that's just crazy. Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (Sco7b) 67
18 out of 20 for me.
I did know a woman who is a true believer in chemtrails. Refused any arguments against them. She also got quite upset with me when I told her I'd believe in Bigfoot when someone brought a body to the sheriff. There is way too much strange shit out there that is real. Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (+iIfu) 68
I plead guilty to being intrigued by the "ancient civilization" stuff. Graham goes a little too far, but Randall Carlson (no relation to Tucker) is excellent. He makes a compelling case that humans have been around a lot longer than we traditionally have thought, based on geologic and other natural evidence. Plus, he's super-based and thinks the global warming freaks are freaks.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (bNf8H) 69
Next thing you'll be trying to convince people the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" was a Imperial Russian forgery. Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (Y8DZL) 70
I never had an AOL address. But I did have compuserve.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 05:56 PM (NW+2e) 71
Ace, you're right about Joe Rogan. I don't regularly watch him but what I do like about him is that he seems almost permanently stuck at age 13 or 14 when he has guests on and he just goes with it, like "No way, you're saying there are tunnels and tunnels and more tunnels in the Pyramids, and we *still* don't know where some of them GO?".
Enthusiasm is a very entertaining trait! Posted by: Crusader at November 11, 2025 05:56 PM (TN0g+) 72
Latest Tucker Guest Bigfoot Reveals How Mind-Controlling Chemtrails Are Sprayed Over The Flat Earth By The Jews
9/10. Needs "Moon Landing=Hoax" and "Building 7" to be 10/10. Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2025 05:56 PM (D0HYP) 73
I didn't stay on AOL long because along came Compuserve and it did not have that suckass AOL interface.
Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 05:56 PM (vFG9F) 74
I prefer maps over gps because I want to see more than a tiny square at a time. I want the big picture.
Posted by: NCKate at November 11, 2025 05:57 PM (uQzkA) 75
The den was paneled in dark wood veneer. Shag rug. The furniture was upholstered in orange. The kitchen appliances were harvest gold and avocado green.
It's okay though. Got to lick the beaters when mom finished making icing for the cake. Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 05:57 PM (wVcYX) 76
It's me donna, you would never know it at all MoMe. I have seen these people sing and dance.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 05:57 PM (zzXla) 77
>>>I plead guilty to being intrigued by the "ancient civilization" stuff.
Anything that says Conan and Middle-Earth might possibly be real, I'll give a fair hearing to. Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:57 PM (1wjle) 78
~2018, I believed in -0- conspiracy theories. It fact sounding like a conspiracy, was enough to shelve it.
And then I saw the government conspired against the elected President. And the more clearly I've seen that, I discovered that the only President forced out of office also seems to have been a deep state conspiracy. (Woodward is a spook.) I don't know about 9/11. But I have a lot more conspiracies that I'm open to. The fact that sounds like a conspiracy theory is that the term "conspiracy theory" was not in popular use until the IC propagated around JFK's assassination. Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 05:57 PM (krQz2) 79
I saw aluminium Christmas trees.
Posted by: thug dolphin at November 11, 2025 05:57 PM (EyfuW) 80
Shocked it wasn't "Not the Bee".
Posted by: Darth Randall at November 11, 2025 05:58 PM (f1kZG) 81
That Tucker fellow is a bit of a twat, isn't he?
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 11, 2025 05:58 PM (yKmBH) 82
I never missed Tucker's Fox show but only listened to one podcast after he left and that was it.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2025 05:58 PM (pkeXY) 83
That Show Your Age list, I tricked all of them. I also remember we had a TV with knobs for channels and volume.
Posted by: Decaf at November 11, 2025 05:58 PM (unUNN) 84
Does acing the quiz mean I'm 20 years old? I'll take that.
Posted by: t-bird at November 11, 2025 05:58 PM (+2PTH) 85
Off topic, I'm a bad person. I do not care porch pirates appear to be getting some serious hurt when they try to steal exploding boxes.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 05:58 PM (UJMvS) 86
>>>Ace, you're right about Joe Rogan. I don't regularly watch him but what I do like about him is that he seems almost permanently stuck at age 13 or 14 when he has guests on and he just goes with it, like "No way, you're saying there are tunnels and tunnels and more tunnels in the Pyramids, and we *still* don't know where some of them GO?".
Enthusiasm is a very entertaining trait! yes, well-put: It's the enthusiasm, the gee-wilickers reaction. I mean sure it's because he's bonged out of his goard on weapons-grade cannabis but still... Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:58 PM (1wjle) 87
I used to like Tucker... Something's off here with him...
Posted by: It's me donna at November 11, 2025 05:58 PM (VE6XX) 88
I never wrote a post card, but I received them. I guess that means 19/20.
Posted by: bonhomme at November 11, 2025 05:58 PM (Yp6az) 89
Tucker should make an attempt to pry the "Coast to Coast AM" host position away from George Noory.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (5yDGQ) 90
Dang... We're a bunch of Oldies here....
Posted by: It's me donna at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (VE6XX) --- TJM should stay off ALL our lawns! Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (krQz2) Posted by: scampydog at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (2bFN5) 92
I never had an AOL address or a waterbed.
Posted by: Crusader at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (TN0g+) 93
Next thing you'll be trying to convince people the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" was a Imperial Russian forgery.
Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (Y8DZL) Yeah! No, wait...no! I mean, yes! Wait...fuck. Posted by: So confused right now at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (TbWk/) 94
62 Kim Kardashian Fails California Bar Exam Even Though 4 Psychics Told Her She'd Pass
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Call me lazy, but if I had a net worth close to 2 billion bucks I'd be kicking back at the pool with a Mai Tai. Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (Y8DZL) 95
Chem trails... question mark. But is anyone denying that (Congressional agency) DARPA and some billionaire weather-experimenting start-ups have been firing 'cloud seeding' missiles in the air for years to manipulate the weather? That's pretty public (albeit not broadcast) information. I was in China in the 2000's when it was heftily rumored that China had been experimenting with cloud seeding missiles. I spent a lot of time in Beijing and never saw the sun (just a haze with a glow), much less the mountains where the Great Wall was (from the city). I don't believe for a second that Beijing having super clear sky for the 2008 Olympics and seeing the mountains from the USA vs. whoever baseball game like you'd see the Rockies from Denver was just a natural coincidence... Once you accept that people are firing rockets to create rain clouds etc., the notion of chem trails isn't too far-fetched. Maybe not for mind control (is that the theory?), but weather manipulation... Totally believable IMHO
That said, flooding the zone with conspiracy theories true and false to confuse and manipulate... That's a psy-op probably not beneath the evil a-holes funding Tucker... Posted by: bearski at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (Bhsk7) 96
Skateboards with steel wheels.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (wVcYX) 97
>>> I also remember we had a TV with knobs for channels and volume.
I remember a "Remote control" but jokes on you, it's connected to the tv by a curly-cue telephone wire and only extends ten feet. Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (1wjle) Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (zZu0s) 99
But, if like Tucker Carlson, you now believe in ALL OF THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES, I don't think you're a loon...
What if he believes in only one conspiracy theory? The Grand Unified Theory of Global Jewery? Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (ycI94) 100
>>Anything that says Conan and Middle-Earth might possibly be real, I'll give a fair hearing to.
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:57 PM (1wjle) __ Have you ever listened to Randall Carlson? His podcasts are looooong, but he does a really nice job of explaining things. Posted by: Frasier Crane at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (bNf8H) 101
I always liked how the Ron Paul people were chemtrail people and were called Paulsamics. Because they thought spraying vinegar into the air at sea level caused vapor trails at 25K+ to dissipate.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (NW+2e) 102
Tucker is a CIA OP.
Posted by: davidt at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (Q+gd/) 103
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (Zz0t1) 104
>>The movie Conspiracy Theory was, I thought, a good movie
And ironically enough based loosely on fact. Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (viF8m) 105
Had an aunt who lived with my grandmother, got a monthly magazine called "Fate", small 6x8", book bound style.
Entire magazine was all ancient civilizations, ghosts, poltergeist, ufo. This was late fifties. Used to love reading those when we visited. Weird shit. Probably not unrelated, in my huge extended family she was the only one who ever worked a government job, except a cop or two. Posted by: From about That Time at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (sl73Y) 106
The problem with conspiracy theories is that the definition has been diluted. Now it's like Racism, Rights, Sexism, or a Phobia... ie anything I want to try to dismiss, I can use that label to dismiss it.
Soooo... like Covid being created in a Lab was labeled a Conspiracy theory BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT, to try to hide the truth.... to try to dismiss those who were actually well informed and trying to spread the truth. I'm no longer really using that term at all... now there is Cray Cray like the Fake Moon Landing crap... or potentially valid like some of the Deep State stuff coming out. Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (mP0Kj) 107
an easy 19 because I don't know what "mixed tape" is.
I recall AOL sending everyone 3 or 4 CDs to sign up for their service. I had it briefly ... in like early 90's I think. Posted by: illiniwek at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (vbXSk) 108
>>87 I used to like Tucker... Something's off here with him...
i think one day we'll find out he had a brain event, like a stroke. From watching House, MD, I know these can cause permanent changes in personality. Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (1wjle) 109
After all these years of finding some truth to conspiracy theories, I'm open to chemtrails.
It's on the back burner. Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (krQz2) 110
One thing that goes back to the cold war is that what we'd now call conspiracy theories were rife behind the Iron Curtain.
And the reason was pretty straight forward. Leaders in communist countries lied constantly and endlessly. If you were an average Ivan then how did you know where the lies ended? We've seen some of that here in the west were again leaders lie constantly about all sorts of things. If the government can lie about COVID and the COVID shot why not chemtrails? Now...there is plenty of information you can get as Average Eddie in America that you couldn't get in the old USSR, so you should be able to establish on your own why chemtrails are silly. BUT as long as political leaders lie about big things with impunity some segment of the population will take the short cut of assuming they are lying about everything Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (sKqQm) 111
Anything that says Conan and Middle-Earth might possibly be real, I'll give a fair hearing to.
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:57 PM (1wjle) ---- The maps for both the Hyborian Age and Middle-Earth bear a passing resemblance to Europe...That's all the connection I need. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (IBQGV) 112
"No they don't. The government wouldn't do that."
Posted by: No One Likes the Truth at November 11, 2025 05:57 PM (vRBMQ) Most conspiracy theories about the government assume the government can find its ass with both hands. You will notice that the various illegal activities that took place during the Biden coup have come to light rather easily, because even if the government can figure out how to do something, they can't figure out how to hide it. They weren't conspiracy theories, just plain old conspiracies, and everyone saw them while they were happening. This is the same government that runs the post office. Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (yKmBH) 113
15 I turned 70 last week. I'm so old, I remember writing letters and paying cash for stuff.
Posted by: huerfano You never wrote to me! Or took me out to dinner. Posted by: Waiting By the Mailbox at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (oftw2) 114
19 out of 20. Didn't use AOL
It's "Used AOL Address". Have you ever emailed someone with an AL address? Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (D0HYP) 115
I absolutely believe in the whole chemtrails thing.
They're poisoning us all while trying to 'deflect the sun' to 'slow the warming of Earth.' Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (Zz0t1) 116
It doesn't say you had to own any of those objects, just that you have used them.
Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (vFG9F) 117
Rogan provides information and entertainment, and to borrow from Glenn Beck, enlightenment. As far as the world traveling ancient civilizations, you just have to read a little.
The physical evidence of such exists, as it does in many old books, now long forgotten. How far back in time you care to go, I will leave to others discretion. I like that Graham Hancock is bringing the topic into the public consciousness, although I don't know how many of those old books he has actually read. Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (MZ+PY) 118
Bumper jacks.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (wVcYX) 119
I was wrapping Christmas gifts for my friends kids. The family is coming over tomorrow because the kids like to decorate the Christmas tree and Canadian Thanksgivihg is over.
Anyway, among the wrapping paper, I found tinsel. Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:01 PM (Sco7b) 120
What happened to tucker carlson? He was fine one day and then he literally snapped and went crazy.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (0N4FZ) --------------- I think he went nuts about the time he went to Russia and interviewed Putin. Posted by: Decaf at November 11, 2025 06:01 PM (unUNN) Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 06:01 PM (rO4EG) 122
I did know a woman who is a true believer in ---. Refused any arguments against them. She also got quite upset with me when I told her I'd believe in --- when someone brought ---- to the sheriff
This is a lot of women, unfortunately, including "conservative" women. They bring up some obvious bullshit, you point out it ain't true and they'll go on a tirade about how "arrogant" it is to say you have the evidence. Because weighing the evidence doesn't go into the spirit world or whatever. Posted by: gKWVE at November 11, 2025 06:01 PM (gKWVE) 123
I also remember we had a TV with knobs for channels and volume.
Posted by: Decaf We had one that had a knob on a stick that you pulled out to turn it on, and pushed it in to turn it off. (... that sounds like the beginning of a dirty joke) I had nightmares about the knob not working and the TV refusing to turn off. Which in hindsight seems an odd thing to have nightmares about. Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 06:01 PM (a+4eV) 124
"Call me lazy, but if I had a net worth close to 2 billion bucks I'd be kicking back at the pool with a Mai Tai."
I wish my Mom had pimped out my sisters with a "leaked" video. Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:01 PM (dtajH) 125
Tucker should make an attempt to pry the "Coast to Coast AM" host position away from George Noory. Posted by: Curly Shuffle He could fill-in on the weekend. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (pkeXY) 126
>>>And ironically enough based loosely on fact.
what, the MK ULTRA plot? Here's my conspiracy theory: There never was an MK ULTRA program. The CIA made it up at the behest of deep-pocketed Hollywood producers to provide a never-ending series of plots for action and sci-fi movies and books. Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (1wjle) 127
108 >>87 I used to like Tucker... Something's off here with him...
i think one day we'll find out he had a brain event, like a stroke. From watching House, MD, I know these can cause permanent changes in personality. Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (1wjle) I expect that somebody has his nuts in a vise. Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (yKmBH) 128
Age and experience make you all some if the wittiest people on earth.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (zzXla) 129
My favorite conspiracy theory is that China conspired with the US deep state to get rid of trump by intentionally releasing covid
Posted by: Tom at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (kS6W9) 130
56 I've been meaning to tell you Olds:
You better Swatch yourselves. Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (1wjle) There's a Fossil joke here. Is Fossil still around? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (zZu0s) 131
Anything that says Conan and Middle-Earth might possibly be real, I'll give a fair hearing to.
I suspect in the next decade or so we are going to learn a lot more about the period immediately before written history and its going to change a lot of interpretations around things like how civilization started (and when) and how the Americas were settled and by which groups of people... Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (sKqQm) 132
Tucker's denial of Big Penguin's goal of worldwide conquest is obvious proof of it's existence.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (vFG9F) 133
97 >>> I also remember we had a TV with knobs for channels and volume.
I remember a "Remote control" but jokes on you, it's connected to the tv by a curly-cue telephone wire and only extends ten feet. Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (1wjle) Remember remote control? I WAS the Remote Control... Son! go change the channel! Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (mP0Kj) Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (EYmYM) 135
I like Rogan when he doesn't have fucked up comedians on or ufo shit. That's about 75% of his pod casts.
Posted by: NCKate at November 11, 2025 06:03 PM (uQzkA) 136
>>>Coast-to-Coast
in one podcast I did with Mollie Hemingay, I talked about one of the only Coast-to-Coast episodes I ever heard, about "The Shadow People." Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:03 PM (1wjle) Posted by: four seasons at November 11, 2025 06:03 PM (3ek7K) 138
I'm such an old luddite that I still write in cursive on my paper checks
Tucker was useful during the Biden and back to Obama admins because he would explore some of the many "cant go there" topics that most of the FNM pretended did not even exist. Now with Elon converting twitter to X and no Biden admin pressuring all media to parrot the commiecrat narrative I guess Tucker is reduced to pushing every conspiracy theory or something. I don't really care, I never followed him directly, only stuff of his that Ace links. Posted by: PaleRider at November 11, 2025 06:03 PM (292AH) 139
80 ~2018, I believed in -0- conspiracy theories. It fact sounding like a conspiracy, was enough to shelve it.
And then I saw the government conspired against the elected President. And the more clearly I've seen that, I discovered that the only President forced out of office also seems to have been a deep state conspiracy. (Woodward is a spook.) I don't know about 9/11. But I have a lot more conspiracies that I'm open to. The fact that sounds like a conspiracy theory is that the term "conspiracy theory" was not in popular use until the IC propagated around JFK's assassination. Posted by: Axeman ======= Healthy attitude. Skepticism is an underrated quality. Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:03 PM (WDjG6) 140
I remember a "Remote control" but jokes on you, it's connected to the tv by a curly-cue telephone wire and only extends ten feet.
Posted by: ace How about a remote that would hit chimes for channel up/down and volume up/down? And could also be triggered by jingling keys? Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2025 06:03 PM (D0HYP) 141
and Big Wheel! Others?
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Big wheels? Bud, I was finishing college when big wheels came about. Posted by: From about That Time at November 11, 2025 06:03 PM (sl73Y) Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:03 PM (1wjle) 143
>>Here's my conspiracy theory:
The entire 'Indian Music Influence' movement of the late 60s early 70s was because George Harrison's wife once went to a Pier One Imports and bought a Sarong and some Nag-Champa. Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 06:03 PM (rO4EG) Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 06:03 PM (uvAV5) 145
I wrote a check and sent a postcard in 2025.
I did all those other things, ever, except the AOL account. Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (jYRYu) 146
I got 19/20 but only because I had temu Prodigy email instead of high falutin AOL due to poverty at the time.
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (WDjG6) 147
The oddest MKULTRA fact is that the unibomber while in college was one of their experiments/victims
He's been asked about it and said he didn't think it actually had much of an impact on him but...it does make you wonder Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (sKqQm) 148
I also remember we had a TV with knobs for channels and volume.
Posted by: Decaf --- That's for the Lizard people. Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (krQz2) 149
I asked the same question that many are , what happened to Carlson? Did research, went back a bunch to see whether he was always like that ? Is it because in the dark days of DEI and Covid any sane utterance in the big media from any talking head was treated as manna and all else was overlooked ? Or did he always have editorial guardrails, even at CNN and PBS , that did not allow him to off the cliff? Looking at the stuff he was saying 8 years ago, I deduced that he was always a wealthy populist, who is the first to be shot by the sans-culottes. An archetype of a condescending prick from liberal college who tosses around lofty ideas he heard from someone else. His metamorphoses into a mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood might be tied to the fact that he is not a smart man, but an angry man, who cannot accept responsibility for a loss, a reactive and emotional loser.
Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (g47mK) 150
>>>How about a remote that would hit chimes for channel up/down and volume up/down? And could also be triggered by jingling keys?
I don't know anything bout that, Oldy McOlderson. Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (1wjle) 151
>>in one podcast I did with Mollie Hemingay, I talked about one of the only Coast-to-Coast episodes I ever heard, about "The Shadow People."
I used to do a lot of Cross Country Driving. Coast to Coast was a Godsend on those. Also, Loveline. Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (rO4EG) 152
Tucker should make an attempt to pry the "Coast to Coast AM" host position away from George Noory.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle He could fill-in on the weekend. -------- He's got enough money--he could buy it (and probably should). Posted by: Crusader at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (TN0g+) 153
The youngest kid was the remote control.
During the flood a coupke of years ago, we had to get rid of the console tv. That was kind of sad. Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (Sco7b) 154
George Harrison's wife once went to a Pier One Imports and bought a Sarong and some Nag-Champa.
Posted by: garrett ======= At the time, she looked good in whatever she was wearing. Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (WDjG6) 155
Coast to Coast had better horror movie material on a nightly basis then your average hollywood horror big budget movie...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2025 06:05 PM (sKqQm) 156
I remember the sweet smell of freshly printed copies of homework sheets.
Posted by: Accomack at November 11, 2025 06:05 PM (9H7EW) 157
>>I wrote a check and sent a postcard in 2025.
I saw a guy write a check for a VCR at Best Buy about 4-5 years ago. It was simply amazing to behold. Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 06:05 PM (rO4EG) 158
Tucker Carlson wore a bow tie. You got to know a red flag when you see one.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 06:05 PM (EYmYM) 159
" "The Shadow People."
Posted by: ace " That was a good one. Had you looking at the shadows, didn't it? One of my favorites is Mel's Hole. And of course the guy that flies a small plane over Area 51. Posted by: Penguin Facts at November 11, 2025 06:05 PM (vFG9F) 160
The Unabomber was dumped into college as a teen and then encountered a professor who set about using him as a psyche warfare guinea pig.
And Ted didn't become Lazlo. Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 06:06 PM (uvAV5) 161
56 I've been meaning to tell you Olds:
You better Swatch yourselves. Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (1wjle) There's a Fossil joke here. Is Fossil still around? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (zZu0s) Bob Fossil went to direct the big show stopper for the roast of St. Peter in September 1987. Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 06:06 PM (wVcYX) 162
You fake old people. Or going senile.
Remember when the knob on the TV broke and you had to pressure turn the knob or use 'what' implement? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 06:06 PM (zZu0s) 163
And then I saw the government conspired
A good portion of this blog's content is dedicated to showing that the media is conspiring against us all the time, every day. Lying, manipulating, presenting false realities as the truth. In a very coordinated way. People who don't believe in conspiracies at this point suffer from some sort of impenetrable normalcy bias. It's not the mark of sophistication they think it is. Some of the more extravagant conspiracy theories likely are an op in a different way: to discredit the idea of conspiracy theories. Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 11, 2025 06:06 PM (guCHD) 164
>>At the time, she looked good in whatever she was wearing.
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (WDjG6) And EVERYONE was fucking her. Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 06:06 PM (rO4EG) 165
I've been meaning to tell you Olds:
You better Swatch yourselves. Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (1wjle) --- That will probably just whiz past younger Popeil. Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:06 PM (krQz2) 166
Tucker Carlson is now the Jimmy Kimmel of reporters.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (uvAV5) ---------------- Good one, and makes fun of both of them. Posted by: Decaf at November 11, 2025 06:06 PM (unUNN) 167
yup, all 20 ... still use several of them to this day, lol
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 11, 2025 06:06 PM (kHop/) 168
The key to working the tv knob was to sit watching eight inches from the screen.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (NW+2e) 169
Oh, the insanity. I pay some bill in cash!
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (zzXla) Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (uvAV5) 171
There have in fact been experiments in "cloud-seeding," Mostly done by the russians but I think we did them too, to see if we could seed the clouds with chemicals that would make the skies form clouds and drop rain.
HOWEVER, what is trailing jets is just contrails, ice crystals forming out of their jetwash. Period. Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (1wjle) 172
sending everyone 3 or 4 CDs to sign up for their service. I had it briefly ... in like early 90's I think.
Posted by: illiniwek t was 3-4 a week for a long time. I thought about using those cds for plate mail! Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (uWSFJ) 173
>> but Randall Carlson (no relation to Tucker) is excellent. He makes a compelling case that humans have been around a lot longer than we traditionally have thought,
Ditto. Carlson is doing his "search for Atlantis" tour in the Azores right now, and I'm looking forward to the clips. If not familiar, look up the whole Younger-Dryas Impact Hypothesis -- very controversial, but the evidence keeps piling up. In fact, I'm pretty sure it happened. Homo sapiens sapiens (Man the wise, the really wise, hah!) has been around for what, 180K years conservatively, if not longer. And our known history is what, 5000 years old? Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (w6EFb) 174
Call me lazy, but if I had a net worth close to 2 billion bucks I'd be kicking back at the pool with a Mai Tai.
I'd be working on doubling my money by buying a Senator. The stock tips alone would do it. Posted by: t-bird at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (+2PTH) 175
Tucker's a complete cynic. He knows he's peddling bullshit. How's this for a conspiracy theory? Is he doing it at anyone's or anything behest? The possibility cannot be excluded.
Posted by: occam's brassiere at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (AkkXw) 176
I suspect in the next decade or so we are going to learn a lot more about the period immediately before written history and its going to change a lot of interpretations around things like how civilization started (and when) and how the Americas were settled and by which groups of people...
Posted by: 18-1 What, and have the tribes give up all the advantages that "being on the land from time immemorial" gives them? Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (a+4eV) 177
I remember the sweet smell of freshly printed copies of homework sheets.
Posted by: Accomack at November 11, 2025 06:05 PM (9H7EW) The wet sheets from a mimeograph machine. The smell of copier fluid (which seems to have gone away.) Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (zZu0s) 178
I never found Tucker to be that interesting in whatever he was doing from Crossfire Bow Tie boy to now.
Like Shapiro even less--both are self aggrandizing pricks because controversy sells and gets clicks. Fuentes and Owens are basically dogshit brained trained seals for whoever is funding them. Milo is only barely a cut above them as well. Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (WDjG6) 179
Overhead projectors.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 06:08 PM (zZu0s) 180
I had what I thought was the coolest Swatch -- black band, absolute black face, no numbers, black hands.
I could literally not tell the time but I was STEALTH. Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:08 PM (1wjle) 181
Fossil is still around, with over a billion in revenue for 2024 (per wikipedia).
Posted by: Crusader at November 11, 2025 06:08 PM (TN0g+) 182
19/20 - Same, no AOL. I've got two words for kids nowadays to see if they can flex their mind muscle:
Thomas Guide Literally the bible of anyone who delivered anything Pre-Internet, and at least my kids could figure it out. Way to go! Posted by: SkinnerVic at November 11, 2025 06:08 PM (JIGPW) 183
And I scored all the points.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 11, 2025 06:08 PM (Zz0t1) 184
Anything that says Conan and Middle-Earth might possibly be real, I'll give a fair hearing to.
I remember showing LIVs videos of Joe Biden groping kids straight from CSPAN. And the argument was, "well this can't be real or the media would be making a big deal about it" Some of the more extravagant conspiracy theories likely are an op in a different way: to discredit the idea of conspiracy theories. The government heavily fed friendly media sources a line about UFOs back in the 70s/80s to hide information about stealth tech. And the more recent government revelation that "aliens are sort of real" is I assume cover for drone tech experiments... Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (sKqQm) 185
What, and have the tribes give up all the advantages that "being on the land from time immemorial" gives them?
Posted by: FeatherBlade ------ I think the era of plenty giving way to the era of poverty is going to put an end to a lot of woke behavior. An era of Rectification is upon us. Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (WDjG6) 186
Remember when the knob on the TV broke and you had to pressure turn the knob or use 'what' implement?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone ooh! ooh! *waves hand in air* Needle-nose pliers! Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (a+4eV) Posted by: Soothsayer plays etymologist at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (A/n7m) 188
Do you get bonus points if you owned any or all of the devices listed?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (Zz0t1) 189
The key to working the tv knob was to sit watching eight inches from the screen.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (NW+2e) --------------- The amazing thing about early remote channel changer? There were only 4 channels available, yet we still channel surfed. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (UJMvS) 190
whig, so glad to see you feeling well enough to be here.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (zzXla) 191
fucking POLAROID Instant, baby!
Posted by: Soothsayer plays etymologist at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (A/n7m) I think I have 2 Land Cameras. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (Zz0t1) 192
Many have called for Trump and Vance to disavow their Nazi buddy Tucker Carlson. Is that so difficult, to disavow a Nazi pig and take a stand on this issue? Or are there “good people on both sides?”
Posted by: Tucker Carlson is an antisemitic racist at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (CowIf) Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 06:10 PM (vFG9F) 194
What, and have the tribes give up all the advantages that "being on the land from time immemorial" gives them?
We saw this fight with Kennewick man - 5K years old and not an American Indian... Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2025 06:10 PM (sKqQm) 195
Carlson with bow-tie - human
Carlson without bow-tie - tool of They Live!. Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (uvAV5) --- Now I can see Roddy Piper wrestling Tucker to force him into the bow tie. Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:10 PM (krQz2) 196
James, 67, bought the $137,000 home for her grandniece Nakia Thompson, 37, and her three kids to live in in August 2020.
According to records obtained by The New York Post, cops have been called to the residence 12 times since, sometimes even multiple times a day. Looks at calendar. No PoPo has been called to may house in 15,155. i think she be profiled. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:10 PM (gbOdA) 197
I think everyone gets one or two free conspiracy theories. If you don't have any unconventional beliefs, you're kind of boring. You do not have, as Michael Scott said, a "child-like sense of wonder."
The universe is a simulation. Posted by: Turtles at November 11, 2025 06:10 PM (jc0TO) 198
Fossil is still around, with over a billion in revenue for 2024 (per wikipedia).
Posted by: Crusader at November 11, 2025 06:08 PM (TN0g+) They just released a line with one of the Jonas Brothers in collaboration. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 11, 2025 06:10 PM (Zz0t1) 199
Allen Dulles also ran MK Ultra. It was real. Convicts would volunteer to get reduced sentences. Once was Whitey Bulger.
See #33 above. Dulles took out other elected leaders before he took out JFK. Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:10 PM (dtajH) 200
speaking of old things:
Years back, I bought old copies of the Time-Life series on The Old West, and then I went and bought the Time-Life Civil War. Never read them. Nice curios though. If you're an Old. Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (1wjle) 201
anything "The establishment" or "conventional medicine" or "leading authorities" tell him must be a lie.
While I think that's moronic This is the "They Can't Be Lying To Us About EVERY Thing!" theory. I used to believe in that. Now I'm not so sure. Posted by: t-bird at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (+2PTH) 202
Homo sapiens sapiens (Man the wise, the really wise, hah!) has been around for what, 180K years conservatively, if not longer. And our known history is what, 5000 years old?
Posted by: publius, ====== I trust yours and AOP's hot takes on scientific evidence far more than whatever Tucker has on as a guest. Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (WDjG6) 203
As for the age thing, aren't checkbooks still a thing?
And record players are big with hipsters, so are also still a thing. Posted by: gKWVE at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (gKWVE) == Actually, not that people buy much music anymore - they rent it via stream services as opposed to buying digital copies, which has its own ownership issues. But vinyl is the number one medium for specific music purchase. Posted by: Black JEM at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (UVyKP) Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (zZu0s) Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (Zz0t1) 206
May it be that because he was unceremoniously tossed by the establishment , he decided to "burn it down" , as revenge. Just asking. Of course even a decade ago he was peddling that US committed atrocities ...in WWII. That bombing of Hiroshima was the greatest evil, as was the bombing of Dresden. And similar shite. Very conservative...
Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (g47mK) 207
I don't do conspiraty stuff...all the time. Just some of the time.
Posted by: ChemDan at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (8uzBS) 208
Anyway, among the wrapping paper, I found tinsel.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:01 PM (Sco7b) But did you find any colored aluminum flowers to go around the C9 lights bulbs? How did all our houses not burn down from Christmas? 18- no AOL, and never had a Walkman. Next up- how many US Presidents have there been in your lifetime? Posted by: sal at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (f+FmA) 209
Is a "mixed tape" the same as a "mix tape"?
A "mix tape" was just a bunch of liked (by someone) songs put together on one (cassette) tape. People would make them to play for themselves or at parties. Posted by: illiniwek at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (vbXSk) 210
The amazing thing about early remote channel changer? There were only 4 channels available, yet we still channel surfed.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (UJMvS) My rich cousin had the clacker remote. I could do a cough and choke sound and it would change. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (gbOdA) 211
Why the Schumer Shitstorm Shutdown failed.
Dem Rep Summer Lee complains that legacy media isn't helping Democrats nearly enough: “We need the media, and we rarely have the media." Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (L/fGl) 212
Never read them. Nice curios though. If you're an Old.
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (1wjle Mom has always been big into that stuff. She got some of the paranormal series ones and the fantasy/mythology ones. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (zZu0s) 213
Western Union wasn't always for sending money to Mexico and points beyond.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (zzXla) 214
Many have called for Trump and Vance to disavow their Nazi buddy Tucker Carlson. Is that so difficult, to disavow a Nazi pig and take a stand on this issue? Or are there “good people on both sides?”
Posted by: Tucker Carlson is an antisemitic racist at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (CowIf) --- Carlson is *not* a racist. Even when he was talking with Megyn Kelley about the Fuentes interview, he was talking about the value of things that weren't about the color of skin. World can be too complex for some people. Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (krQz2) 215
Mimeographs. Teacher would head over, crank out a few and we’d get high.
Not as nice a high as Bondo Posted by: Accomack at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (9H7EW) 216
If not familiar, look up the whole Younger-Dryas Impact Hypothesis -- very controversial, but the evidence keeps piling up. In fact, I'm pretty sure it happened.
Homo sapiens sapiens (Man the wise, the really wise, hah!) has been around for what, 180K years conservatively, if not longer. And our known history is what, 5000 years old? Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (w6EFb) --- The Biblical flood took out an advanced society, with cities and metal. Just sayin'. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (ZOv7s) 217
To continue the little Tropic Thunder theme from last thread: You never go Full Retard.
Posted by: ballistic at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (3BwY8) 218
Homo sapiens sapiens (Man the wise, the really wise, hah!) has been around for what, 180K years conservatively, if not longer. And our known history is what, 5000 years old?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (w6EFb) I love reading history, and I've been on an ancient history kick over the past year. It is remarkable how much has changed in just the past 25 years concerning what we know and how we know it from, say, 2,000 years BC to the rise of the Roman Empire. So much has been uncovered and so much published that it nearly puts what I learned in college in the dust. We will always find new information. While it is true that there is nothing new under the sun, there's a whole lot we haven't found out yet. The most remarkable part about studying history is how little human behavior has changed. Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (yKmBH) 219
"Carlson nodded along with his guest genuinely interested in what it had to say about Ben Shapiro."
==== Yeah that about sums it up for Tucker. Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (A0sqA) 220
google says:
What year did the Polaroid instant camera come out? 1948 On November 26, 1948, the first “Land Camera”—better known today as the instant Polaroid camera—goes on sale at Jordan Marsh department store in Boston for $89.75. The invention of Edwin H. Land. Double Whammy! Jordan Marsh, too! Posted by: Soothsayer plays etymologist at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (A/n7m) 221
TOP THIS! Indeed they did. SF, 450ft statue.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-TwilightsLastGleaming what-might-have-been If IceKingJOE were president, they would model it after Hunter Biden, who stood there at the pinnacle of it all -- to piss it all away. what-wuz A 40ft statue of Hillary with Bill on a leash, pissing all over the American Flag, while she read Newsweek, listens to Sean Penn's Death to America broadcast live from Tehran, while she aptly cleans up Bill's business with the front page of the NY Times. Remembering who did this... Imagine how Prez.Gavin and VP/AOC could modify it's design before it's public reveal. Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (3Whrj) 222
I def believe Bill Ayers wrote "Dreams From My Father"
the frequent nautical metaphors are proof positive. Obama never went on the water, Ayers was a merchant marine before he was a terrorist. Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (1wjle) 223
Homo sapiens sapiens (Man the wise, the really wise, hah!) has been around for what, 180K years conservatively, if not longer. And our known history is what, 5000 years old?
Posted by: publius, Gobeki is about 13k old. Where did the 8000 years go? Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (gbOdA) 224
The amazing thing about early remote channel changer? There were only 4 channels available, yet we still channel surfed.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (UJMvS I'm near Detroit so we had a LOT of channels. ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CBC, and about 2 independent stations from each country. Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (Sco7b) 225
I saw some chem trails out the windows (probably from, uh, jets? or the AF?) this morning. That explains why I have felt weird today!
I "know" some people from another blog who believe in chem trails and are also freaked out about dog food...some sort of RNA additive that will shed proteins. And that flu vaccines (not mRNA) shed proteins. They are so freaked out most of the time that I come here to be with normal people! Vs arguing with them, I just abandon them to their fears. I am still waiting for the falafel pita sammich I had today to clear the chem trails and everything else from my system. I also ordered two new cashmere sweaters, which made me feel better...and, no, I do not "need" them but I "want" them. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (MAl//) 226
I did everything on that list AND a pager!
Posted by: ChemDan at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (8uzBS) 227
Surprising absolutely nobody.
>>@EricLDaugh · 1m >>🚨 BREAKING - SUPREME COURT SIDES WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP: SCOTUS has EXTENDED their pause of an activist judge order requiring Trump pay out full SNAP benefits despite the government being shut down. >>The Left lost AGAIN. Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (viF8m) 228
186 What, and have the tribes give up all the advantages that "being on the land from time immemorial" gives them?
Posted by: FeatherBlade ------ I think the era of plenty giving way to the era of poverty is going to put an end to a lot of woke behavior. An era of Rectification is upon us. Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (WDjG6) If I give my money away, it's charity. If the Government takes my money, with threat of force, and gives it away... it's theft. Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (mP0Kj) 229
Why was the - I'm just a mom that gives law enforcement the finger and doxes them and also speeds thru red lights - get to drive herself home?
Was she charged with anything? Posted by: old chick at November 11, 2025 06:14 PM (F3Dlr) 230
One thing Rogan got me to do was sign up for Spotify where I haven't listened to him since. But following a number of podcasts there
Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2025 06:14 PM (+qU29) 231
The Biblical flood took out an advanced society, with cities and metal. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (ZOv7s) --- Watchers. Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:14 PM (krQz2) 232
The maps for both the Hyborian Age and Middle-Earth bear a passing resemblance to Europe...That's all the connection I need.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (IBQGV) ******************************* Robert E. Howard wrote a history of his Hyborian Age establishing it as a mythic pre-history for Earth, and the map he created for it was overlaid on Europe / the Middle East, with the Hyborian Age countries having cultures based on actual ones from around the same geography. Posted by: Zombie REH at November 11, 2025 06:14 PM (zW3tl) 233
Just think for a second, Tucker Carlson years ago said that US committed atrocities in WWII by bombing the nazis and Imperial Japan. Is it a surprise that he invited some kook pseudo historian who is just axing whether Churchill is the real villain of WWII ? No.
Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:14 PM (g47mK) 234
Next up- how many US Presidents have there been in your lifetime?
Posted by: sal at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (f+FmA) Real ones or should we include the fakes? Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 11, 2025 06:14 PM (yKmBH) 235
“We need the media, and we rarely have the media."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (L/fGl) ----- If these dumbfucks had any ability to self-reflect, they'd say "Holy shit even Jake Fuckin' Tapper isn't helping us push this rock up the hill...have we gone too far?" But they can't, because they're retards. Posted by: ballistic at November 11, 2025 06:14 PM (3BwY8) 236
He makes a compelling case that humans have been around a lot longer than we traditionally have thought, based on geologic and other natural evidence.
Posted by: Frasier Crane There's a doc series on Netflix by Graham Hancock, I believe, who has long postulated an advanced culture destroyed by the Younger Dryas period when the oceans rose 400 meters. I found it fascinating and learned a lot. I'm embarrassed I didn't know about all the sites in the US. Also, I remember using AOL but never had an account. So19/20. Let's add one! Who had cable?! Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at November 11, 2025 06:14 PM (yjljJ) Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (uWSFJ) 238
>>The Left lost AGAIN. Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (viF8m) ALRIGHT! Blows kisses! Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (MAl//) 239
The serious problem is that watching Tucker to find out what Tucker thinks is a two episode task. It is like watching Joe Rogan Experience to find out what Joe Rogan thinks. The real reason to watch either of them is to find out what the guest thinks.
All this to pressure Vance in two years. And give Levin a greater media control like he was William F Buckley. Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (rbvCR) 240
My ex-wife fervently believes the one about the USA being converted to a corporation and we people are the pledged assets against its debts. Our SSNs are inventory control numbers. Hush hush stuff out of England.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (wVcYX) 241
>> far more than whatever Tucker has on as a guest.
There is a great gulf between Randall Carlson, Graham Hancock, and that ilk, and then Moon Hoax, Flat Earth and other absolute lunacy. The antisemitic garbage is something else entirely, absolute evil, but there is overlap. I stumbled on the Flat Earth stuff a few months ago, and couldn't take my eyes off of it, like rubber-necking a train wreck or something, but damn. There is overlap with that absolute lunacy and the Evil Joos conspiracy. So the loon end of the conspiracy wing, does seem to be an attractor for the evil. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (w6EFb) 242
I scored a perfect 20. Now get off my lawn.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (A0sqA) Posted by: Soothsayer plays etymologist at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (A/n7m) 244
That list seems kind of limited.
No 8 track? In fact, we had an 8 track recorder with dual (L/R) volume controls. Banana seat? I could go on. Posted by: Turn 2 at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (CyFyf) 245
TOP THIS! Indeed they did. SF, 450ft statue.
That'd be pretty cool. He should probably find a different island to put it on though. Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (a+4eV) 246
191 whig, so glad to see you feeling well enough to be here.
Posted by: Ben Had ====== Appreciate the sentiment. I am on steroid shots right now (saw hand surgeon yesterday and heading for carpal tunnel surgery on the left hand) which eases the arthritic pain in the hands. On the bad side of steroids, cardboard boxes taste like food--real easy to gain weight and bloat taking it. Eating a few cashew clusters from Costco as we speak and drinking decaf coffee to fill stomach. Neuro surgeon's appt tomorrow and Thyroid biopsy sometime after that in the next week. Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (WDjG6) 247
I believe there are corrupt powerful people who try to do corrupt things in secret. What I don't believe is that any plan that involves over 10 people to conduct can stay secret for any length of time.
These 50-100 year old 'conspiracy theories' just don't jive. Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (EYmYM) 248
My grandma only had one channel that showed Lawrence Welk, Hee Haw, and soaps. I absorbed a lot of culture at grandma's house.
Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (vFG9F) 249
A dog goes into a brothel and says 'Hey, where is everybody?'
Posted by: World's Oldest Joke at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (jc0TO) 250
Honestly, I feel the same way about the Obama Birther conspiracy. It was so dumb it could only do more damage to those who espoused it. Yes, I know Trump trolled Obama into finally disproving it, but that has a feel of the exception that proves the rule.
Posted by: John Lawrence at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM The obama birth certificate thing was a hillary op from 2008. Trump had nothing to do with it except troll obama like you said. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (0N4FZ) 251
My one conspiracy theory is the whole Mandela effect thing. I definitely have alt timeline memories. Counterpoint, I am old, so there’s that too. But like I remember Bob Dylan dying and Tom Petty being interviewed about it. But then the next week it was completely switched.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (NW+2e) 252
Glad to see you here Whig!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron ====== I'm like a bad penny, eventually I will turn up again. Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (WDjG6) 253
Neuro surgeon's appt tomorrow and Thyroid biopsy sometime after that in the next week.
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (WDjG6) We will keep on praying for you, sir. Godspeed. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (Zz0t1) 254
Tucker now recording from the trailer park in Pahrump, NV
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (O38oM) 255
>>Gobeki is about 13k old.
Where did the 8000 years go? __ One of the more fascinating of Randall Tucker's hypotheses is that civilizations have arisen, flourished, been destroyed, and then rebooted, many, many times. Sort of like "Groundhog Day" for mankind. Posted by: Frasier Crane at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (bNf8H) 256
Apparently Sydney Sweeney was valedictorian of her high school. Voluptuous IQ is correct.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:17 PM (1Nv0l) 257
Columbia records, 12 for a penny, etc.
Posted by: Kingsman at November 11, 2025 06:17 PM (ehY6c) 258
Surprising absolutely nobody.
>>@EricLDaugh · 1m >>🚨 BREAKING - SUPREME COURT SIDES WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP: SCOTUS has EXTENDED their pause of an activist judge order requiring Trump pay out full SNAP benefits despite the government being shut down. >>The Left lost AGAIN. Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (viF8m) --- I never understood what the judges were saying Trump should do. Act like Congress had passed the CR, thus nullifying Congress? Can a low federal judge do that?! (No, of course they can't.) Apparently, behind the scenes this is getting Roberts hot and bothered. He's accusing these judges of throwing the whole judicial function into doubt. Which he should. Because Jay explained that it was an "experiment". Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:17 PM (krQz2) 259
If I give my money away, it's charity.
If the Government takes my money, with threat of force, and gives it away... it's theft. Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (mP0Kj) I have thot for many years that every tax or fine or use bill should have the words Or we will kill you. Should be in Constitution. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:17 PM (gbOdA) 260
254 Neuro surgeon's appt tomorrow and Thyroid biopsy sometime after that in the next week.
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (WDjG6) We will keep on praying for you, sir. Godspeed. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (Zz0t1) Count me in too... Posted by: It's me donna at November 11, 2025 06:17 PM (VE6XX) 261
>> Gobeki is about 13k old.
Where did the 8000 years go? Again, read up on the Younger-Dryas Impact stuff. The meltwelter pulses and rising sea levels during that transition from the Pleistocene to the modern Holocene epoch. The North American megafauna extinctions and the Clovis culture that existed then. Something very interesting happened. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:17 PM (w6EFb) 262
21/20. I claim a bonus point for 8-inch floppies.
Posted by: t-bird at November 11, 2025 06:17 PM (+2PTH) 263
You're probably pretty old if you ever tried to watch squiggly line earliest cable porn as a teen.
ON tv was our earliest cable provider. Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:18 PM (Sco7b) 264
The universe is a simulation.
Posted by: Turtles at November 11, 2025 06:10 PM (jc0TO) Not according to physicists - youtu.be/k6AddqLIbJA Posted by: gKWVE at November 11, 2025 06:18 PM (gKWVE) 265
Also, I remember using AOL but never had an account. So19/20. Let's add one! Who had cable?!
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at November 11, 2025 06:14 PM (yjljJ) --- I'm at 19/20 but my father had (and still has!) an AOL account and I messed with it back in the day, so I'm going to give myself half a point. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 06:18 PM (ZOv7s) 266
The Biblical flood took out an advanced society, with cities and metal. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (ZOv7s) --------------- I took a cursory glance at population numbers, and, the math says our current population lines up with the flood at the time listed in the Bible. I got the idea from the old kernel of wheat and doubling based on a chessboard story. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:18 PM (UJMvS) 267
The only two I did not get on the list was AOL account and dial-up internet. Everything else is a solid yes. Hell, even now I prefer my atlases over gurgle maps. I will use it in some instances, but I prefer maps. And I have a record player, a really nice one, the kind I wanted when I was a kid.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 06:18 PM (0aYVJ) Posted by: Soothsayer plays etymologist at November 11, 2025 06:18 PM (A/n7m) Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (W2Pud) 270
Oh, ot.
Among old had a clip with Ben Shapiro where his sister is in the thumbnail modeling nursing maternity clothing. They just keep getting bigger. As someone said 'jewbs.' Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (zZu0s) 271
Vacuum tube testers at the drug store. And hardware store.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (wVcYX) 272
Back and to the left.
Posted by: Don Black at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (AOsQT) 273
Only one I did not get was the AOLNE mail addresses
Posted by: Steven at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (HS1/y) 274
and I had a minibike with a Briggs and Stratton edger engine on it...with no brakes and a fishing line string to the throttle!
kids today have no idea Posted by: ChemDan at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (8uzBS) 275
Count me in too...
Posted by: It's me donna at November 11, 2025 06:17 PM (VE6XX) Me third or fourth in a very long line. Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (Sco7b) 276
One or two conspiracy theories? It's gotta depend who is defining "conspiracy theory. Covid lab-origin is a conspiracy theory. Russia russia russia as a deep-state-op is a conspiracy theory.
By that standard I have about 100. Almost all of which are certainly true. Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (1Nv0l) 277
Sally Kirkland is mortadell. Posted by: Soothsayer plays etymologist at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (A/n7m) 278
248 I believe there are corrupt powerful people who try to do corrupt things in secret. What I don't believe is that any plan that involves over 10 people to conduct can stay secret for any length of time.
These 50-100 year old 'conspiracy theories' just don't jive. Posted by: the way I see it ======= Contra, the secret of cracking the Purple and Enigma codes was held until the 1970's which required substantial rewriting of all WWII histories afterwards. Thousands of people were involved including future Supreme Court Justice Stevens as a WWII courier. Penalties have to be severe enough if you defect to dissuade assholes. It helps if most of the people involved were still centered on patriotism. Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (WDjG6) 279
I stumbled on the Flat Earth stuff a few months ago, and couldn't take my eyes off of it, like rubber-necking a train wreck or something, but damn. There is overlap with that absolute lunacy and the Evil Joos conspiracy. So the loon end of the conspiracy wing, does seem to be an attractor for the evil.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (w6EFb) Most people can see Sun and Moon in North America this time of year. How does that work on flat errff. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (gbOdA) 280
The Biblical flood took out an advanced society, with cities and metal. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (ZOv7s) Did it have stone giant monsters too? Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (EYmYM) 281
The cloud seeding thing, I recall that flood in Texas, maybe two years ago?, some company said "yes, we do cloud seeding, but we had not done any in that area around those times."
There are also pics of some huge jet with cannisters for some sort of cloud seeding, I think it was a government thang. But yes, most contrails are just water vapor, frozen I guess. (mix tapes were replaced with "playlists" I suppose) Posted by: illiniwek at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (vbXSk) 282
Let me return the favor: "Mansard roof."
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM Ooh...Second Empire. Just not as the second story. Has to be the attic, or the house looks like a mushroom. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 11, 2025 06:20 PM (Wnv9h) 283
TWA 800 was a Navy training exercise gone wrong.
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:20 PM (dtajH) 284
151 >>>How about a remote that would hit chimes for channel up/down and volume up/down? And could also be triggered by jingling keys?
Ka-chunk Ka-chunk Ka-chunk... Son, get up on the roof and turn the antenna a little to the right... Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2025 06:20 PM (Y8DZL) 285
I meant to post something about that on the ONT the other day. Yep, a paper is out purporting a proof that our universe CANNOT be a simulation. Basically, stuff happens that is not computational. It depends on Godel's Theorem, I think and extension of that, along with other principles. We cannot be a finite computational simulation. This world and its lunacy is all real, baby. All real! Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:21 PM (w6EFb) 286
People conspire all the time. I'm sure Hillary conspired in some way to score that big commodity trade she made back in the day, meaning that she and the broker made a shady deal. No one has been able to prove it, so is that a conspiracy theory? It doesn't seem to quite arise to it. So although I favor tons of little conspiracy theories like that one, I think my big conspiracy theory is the obvious one: Some damn lefties sat down ages ago and figured out that they could corrupt this country by getting their ideas into the education system, entertainment, and news media. Exactly who they were, what their first steps were, what their method was, that kind of thing, are unknown to me. Oh, one more conspiracy theory coming up... Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 06:21 PM (0lgzA) 287
His metamorphoses into a mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood might be tied to the fact that he is not a smart man, but an angry man, who cannot accept responsibility for a loss, a reactive and emotional loser.
Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (g47mK) == He's getting paid. Posted by: Black JEM at November 11, 2025 06:21 PM (UVyKP) 288
When I was a teen working construction I was sometimes sent with the truck to get supplies. When that happened, the boss gave me a voice pager.
One time I stopped to get a hamburger on the way back and was standing in the line when the pager suddenly started shouting 'Toby! Get your fucking ass back here!'. Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:21 PM (jc0TO) 289
We cannot be a finite computational simulation. This world and its lunacy is all real, baby. All real! Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:21 PM (w6EFb) -------------- That's just crazy talk! Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:21 PM (UJMvS) 290
270 Sasquatch
Loch Ness Monster 9/11 was an inside job. Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (W2Pud) We had Fouke Monster in South Arkansas. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:21 PM (gbOdA) 291
Next up- how many US Presidents have there been in your lifetime?
Posted by: sal 8 unless you get to count Trump twice, then it's 9. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 11, 2025 06:22 PM (L/fGl) 292
Wait. You mean the Haunted Tank was not real ?
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at November 11, 2025 06:22 PM (FIXtj) 293
HOWEVER, what is trailing jets is just contrails, ice crystals forming out of their jetwash. Period.
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (1wjle) The amount of official de-bunking, pre-bunking and outright silencing of discussion on certain subjects is amazing. It could be that contrails is something dreamed up to suck up all the oxygen from another issue that someone with money and pressure to bear doesn't want discussed. I am following a number of issues about vaccines, Andrew Wakefield, and (unrelated to medicine) Project Gladio disclosures that showed what the NATO countries were doing with their spare time during the cold war. These made me want to start questioning everything. Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 06:22 PM (rbvCR) 294
284 TWA 800 was a Navy training exercise gone wrong.
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:20 PM (dtajH) Hate to say but yes Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:22 PM (gbOdA) 295
I'm like a bad penny, eventually I will turn up again.
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (WDjG6) Prayers that all will be well for you. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 06:22 PM (MAl//) 296
Still playing records and finally have a good turntable using a Denon Dl 103 cartridge; low price great value.
Posted by: Kingsman at November 11, 2025 06:23 PM (ehY6c) 297
We will keep on praying for you, sir.
Godspeed. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (Zz0t1) Count me in too... Posted by: It's me donna ======== Thanks. To quote Reagan, To surgeons, as he entered the operating room: “Please tell me you’re Republicans.” With current insanity among Dems, I think that is not entirely a joke nowadays. Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:23 PM (WDjG6) 298
Just think for a second, Tucker Carlson years ago said that US committed atrocities in WWII by bombing the nazis and Imperial Japan. Is it a surprise that he invited some kook pseudo historian who is just axing whether Churchill is the real villain of WWII ? No.
Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:14 PM (g47mK) --- But why would "racist Tucker" concern himself about Japs? As nearly a fan of Fox-Tucker, I really don't know where post-Fox Tucker's head is at. I told my wife that I find laughable, the guy who's nationwide tour had him confessing that he was one of the least religious guys you might know, but he was starting to see a more central role for religion, is now calling evangelicals "heretics" (to my understanding). Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:23 PM (krQz2) 299
TUCA can go piss up a rope.
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at November 11, 2025 06:23 PM (qZdIZ) 300
An explanation of the Mandela effect stuff is there’s a mental disorder, one that gets worse as you get older, related to aphasia, that causes glitches in long and short term memory. What you remember isn’t what you really experienced.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 06:23 PM (NW+2e) 301
Yeah, the Schism. Somehow, I don't know how, but the Jews managed to split the Roman Catholic Church in 1378 AD. In the years to follow, there were, get this, THREE Popes, each with their own rival following. Posted by: Soothsayer Carlson at November 11, 2025 06:23 PM (A/n7m) 302
BREAKING - SUPREME COURT SIDES WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP: SCOTUS has EXTENDED their pause of an activist judge order requiring Trump pay out full SNAP benefits despite the government being shut down.
>>The Left lost AGAIN. Posted by: JackStraw My bet: After the House passes the revised CR tomorrow, this case will be dismissed as moot. Any takers? Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2025 06:23 PM (D0HYP) 303
I'm 20/20 for The List
I never owned a waterbed, but I have enjoyed coitus on a waterbed, so I'm claiming that Posted by: Don Black at November 11, 2025 06:23 PM (AOsQT) 304
10 points for each one you STILL USE
3 ENCYCLOPEDIA 11 CURSIVE 12 CHECK BOOK 16 PAPER MAP 18 POSTCARD 21 FLIP PHONE Posted by: wth at November 11, 2025 06:23 PM (UjdFS) 305
293 Wait. You mean the Haunted Tank was not real ?
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at November 11, 2025 06:22 PM (FIXtj) Only the reboot with the BLACK Tank Commander in a modern tank. Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (mP0Kj) 306
The past is a long time ago.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (jc0TO) 307
anybody else drown your sister's Chatty Kathy? I renamed her 'Mumbles" after that
Posted by: ChemDan at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (8uzBS) 308
>> How does that work on flat errff.
It doesn't. They don't understand basic geometry nor physics at all. In fact they reject it and all part of the conspiracy. They even deny gravity exists (I'm not joking in the slightest) Here is one of their leading lights on X: https://is.gd/Zn76YK Scroll through that train wreck if interested in this nonsense. I was fascinated by it for a while, but it's getting tiresome now. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (w6EFb) 309
The dilemna when you got your first top 10 of the day on Stargate or whatever was: Do you assume you'd hit your peak for the day and do LED or have confidence you'll beat it and do the ZEP.
Posted by: Fritz (not fritz) at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (rc1jl) 310
I listened to an interview Allie Beth Stuckey recendly did with a former green beret - Nick Freitas. Those from VA will know who he is. The episode is called "Muscular Christianity: Debunking the Manosphere's Lies | Nick Freitas". He is doing some excellent work there 'splaining how he raises his childrens, what could be done with lost boys. Because majority of zoomers have shit for brains and are now heavily into the nazi crap. But that is how NSDAP started, with the disillusioned and aggrieved. I do not sympathize with Z. A bunch of cuddled cry babies. But their "concerns" need to be looked at. He is offering something constructive at least.
Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (g47mK) 311
The main issue with government conspiracy theories is you have to believe in a hyper competent federal government. I've worked with fedgov drones most of my adult life. I'm not seeing a whole lot of 'hyper competent '.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (sAmhv) 312
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (WDjG6)
30 years is a good run but it also wasn't a conspiracy theory trying to trick people. I also remember my father having the book Ultra Secret when I was a kid which would be early 70's. People knew before the book. Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (EYmYM) 313
Hey. I’ve been to a few MoMes.
Everyone here is 22 out of 20. Posted by: RI Red at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (vPwMB) 314
I never owned a waterbed, but I have enjoyed coitus on a waterbed, so I'm claiming that
Posted by: Don Blac ...... Was it with Amy Farrah Fowler? Posted by: wth at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (UjdFS) 315
True fact, there are more years between the building of the Great Pyramid and Cleopatra's reign then there are between us and Cleopatra.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (jc0TO) 316
If bounties were put on illegals the left would explode. Any bounty hunter would make a target that people wouldn't dare do with ICE.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (bfwj/) 317
is the list about what you owned? I thought it was just about what you recognized/knew about/had experieced.
I never owned a waterbed, but I think Larry on THree's Company was always talking about getting one. Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (1wjle) 318
Paul died years ago. John buried him.
It's why The Beatles broke up. The couldn't get along with the fake guy. Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (dtajH) 319
"Just sayin'" is what disingenuous liars say. It's a passive aggressive move to shift the conversation from the facts into a free speech conversation.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (gKWVE) 320
anybody else drown your sister's Chatty Kathy? I renamed her 'Mumbles" after that
Posted by: ChemDan at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (8uzBS) No, but LOL Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (wVcYX) 321
Next up- how many US Presidents have there been in your lifetime?
Posted by: sal Eisenhower JFK Johnson Nixon Ford Carter Reagan Bush the Elder Clinton *spits* Bush B Hussein *double spits* Trump Biden *pukes up a lung* Trump 13 Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (gbOdA) 322
You cannot prove the world is not a simulation.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (1Nv0l) Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (1wjle) 324
Prayers that all will be well for you.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat Thanks. But my problems are painful and debilitating, there are people here that have fought much greater problems like Grammie Winger, Teresa from FW and people watching their health like Sponge's wife. I'm more like the rusty F100 pickup that needs putting back together with bondo and perhaps a good paint job. Ugly, barely running and sputtering at times but I gotta stay running as best I can for my wife and mother in dementia care. After all, I'm the cook of the house. Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (WDjG6) 325
241 My ex-wife fervently believes the one about the USA being converted to a corporation and we people are the pledged assets against its debts. Our SSNs are inventory control numbers. Hush hush stuff out of England.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (wVcYX) I've never heard this one ... and I love it. Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (guCHD) 326
But why would "racist Tucker" concern himself about Japs?
== He does not care about the "Japs", silly. His point was that US IS COMMITTING ATROCITIES EVERYWHERE. Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (g47mK) 327
Tucker Carlson years ago said that US committed atrocities in WWII by bombing the nazis and Imperial Japan
Hell, Curtis LeMay said that. That's why it is extremely important to actually *win* the war. Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (D0HYP) 328
19/20
Never had AOL. Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (W2Pud) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (dveO7) 330
Still have a check book. No way I want to pay the $30 fee to process our property tax payment.
When traveling long distance, I try to print out maps and put them in a binder. I also take paper road maps. Just in case. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (UJMvS) 331
If it is a "mix tape" - taping multiple songs on a cassette then I have em all. If it is mixing tracks on a reel to reel then I have not done that one.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (8avO+) 332
303 BREAKING - SUPREME COURT SIDES WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP: SCOTUS has EXTENDED their pause of an activist judge order requiring Trump pay out full SNAP benefits despite the government being shut down.
>>The Left lost AGAIN. Posted by: JackStraw My bet: After the House passes the revised CR tomorrow, this case will be dismissed as moot. Any takers? Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2025 06:23 PM (D0HYP) Supremes may try, but Trump needs them to rule on this crap otherwise it will just come up again. Judges setting Policy. Judges making decisions that belong to the Executive branch CITING POLICY, not law. Like the Judges telling the Commander in Chief when he can deploy troops? Because THEY don't think its an emergency? Uh... Toots? we elected HIM to decide those things, not you. Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (mP0Kj) 333
I gave my friends a tape recorder I still had unopened in a box and I found a few tapes for them to use.
I wanted them to see how things were done old school. As it is, I have 3 CD players for CD's. Some music. Some meditation. Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (Sco7b) 334
205 Service Merchandise.
Putting shit on layaway, yo! Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (zZu0s) Montgomery. Fucking. Ward. Posted by: Damn I'm old at November 11, 2025 06:27 PM (TbWk/) 335
Never had AOL.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (W2Pud) --------------- There is no way you're old enough to go 19/20 on that list. Remember, I've met you. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:27 PM (UJMvS) 336
We cannot be a finite computational simulation. This world and its lunacy is all real, baby. All real!
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:21 PM (w6EFb) --- The "Simulation Theory" sounds like it's kinda-sorta hard. But it fails in terminology at first blush: simulation of what?!. The way it presupposes the reasonableness of levels of "simulation" like an infinite number of clerical monkeys. Although it's reasonable to speculate the non-specialness of human life--it's something almost completely un-evidenced. Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:27 PM (krQz2) 337
331 Still have a check book. No way I want to pay the $30 fee to process our property tax payment.
When traveling long distance, I try to print out maps and put them in a binder. I also take paper road maps. Just in case. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (UJMvS) I write two checks every month, one to my Yard guy, one to pay the Water and Trash Bill. Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (mP0Kj) 338
Wait. You mean the Haunted Tank was not real ?
------ It was the single best military comic of all time! Posted by: Crusader at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (TN0g+) 339
The Walrus was Paul.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (MXjT6) 340
Carlson at Fox had guardrails set forth by the network. He's now on his own and the real Tucker is showing
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (bfwj/) 341
292 Next up- how many US Presidents have there been in your lifetime?
Posted by: sal 8 unless you get to count Trump twice, then it's 9. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 11, 2025 06:22 PM (L/fGl) Oh, I didn't consider that. Should it be just persons? Regardless of terms? I have 14- but I caught the last months of Truman, the Kennedy assassination and the Nixon resignation. Posted by: sal at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (f+FmA) 342
Woman sitting on a bench at a train station in Shitcago stabbed in the chest. She is in good condition at a hospital. This shit won't end until we get the crazies off the streets, but that will never happen. Posted by: four seasons at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (3ek7K) 343
Next up- how many US Presidents have there been in your lifetime?
Posted by: sal Johnson Nixon Ford Carter Reagan Bush the Elder Clinton *spits* Bush B Hussein *double spits* Trump Biden *pukes up a lung* Trump 11 Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (1Nv0l) 344
Real Question: Who believes Voyager actually reached Saturn? Does anyone really believe in ANY of that Voyager bullshit? Posted by: Soothsayer Carlson is just axing Questions at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (A/n7m) 345
Ike was President when I was born.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (jc0TO) 346
Yup, all 20. fuuuuckkkk...
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (snZF9) 347
Still have a check book. No way I want to pay the $30 fee to process our property tax payment.
When traveling long distance, I try to print out maps and put them in a binder. I also take paper road maps. Just in case. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (UJMvS) That's the way, my boy! Posted by: Professor Henry Jones at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (wVcYX) 348
When traveling long distance, I try to print out maps and put them in a binder. I also take paper road maps.
Just in case. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (UJMvS) Nav system in my phone does NOT work in some of the Mountain places I go to ski... so... yeah. Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (mP0Kj) 349
I did 17 out of 20. I don't think I ever had a film camera -- oh, wait, do they mean the "still pictures" kind of camera? Okay, 18 out of 20. Never had a waterbed or an AOL account.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (wzUl9) 350
314 Hey. I’ve been to a few MoMes.
Everyone here is 22 out of 20. Posted by: RI Red at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (vPwMB) 21. Paying a nickel for a bottle of pop. Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (5rh/l) 351
Yeah that about sums it up for Tucker.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (A0sqA) My favorite interviews is when the interviewer spends fifteen minutes haranguing his guest and then either bitchslaps him or knocks him to the ground and kicks him a couple of times. I see you agree with me. Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (rbvCR) 352
You cannot prove by me that Antarctica exists. It could be a hoax by National Geographic.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (jc0TO) 353
But why would "racist Tucker" concern himself about Japs?
== He does not care about the "Japs", silly. His point was that US IS COMMITTING ATROCITIES EVERYWHERE. Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (g47mK) --- But if they're lesser people, then it's not as bad, is it? The argument itself evokes sympathy for Japanese, however he is "using" it. Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (krQz2) 354
Tucker Carlson years ago said that US committed atrocities in WWII by bombing the nazis and Imperial Japan
Hell, Curtis LeMay said that. That's why it is extremely important to actually *win* the war. Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (D0HYP) Nah. Rules of War allow shelling/bombing defended enemy positions. Or places the enemy is hiding behind civilians. Terrorism on the other hand is not allowed. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (8avO+) 355
TOP THIS! Indeed they did. SF, 450ft statue.
- I'd've thought Dionysus would go better in Frisco. Prometheus in Seattle or Portland maybe. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 11, 2025 06:30 PM (L/fGl) 356
We had Fouke Monster in South Arkansas.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:21 PM (gbOdA) The basis for one of my all-time favorite cheesy movies (via MST of course): Boggy Creek II, and the Legend Continues. Two of the reasons I love that one so much is the two chicks were HAWT! Also, the stellar screen presence of Old Man Crenshaw. Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 06:30 PM (0aYVJ) 357
Montgomery. Fucking. Ward.
Posted by: Damn I'm old at November 11, 2025 06:27 PM (TbWk/) Monkey Wars JayCEE Pennae Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:30 PM (gbOdA) 358
If Voyager is/was real, then why is every single image they've given us touched up to crystal-clear perfection? Where are the RAW images? Posted by: Soothsayer Carlson is just axing Questions at November 11, 2025 06:30 PM (A/n7m) 359
Skipped right over the Tucker hate. The man's career died for our sins.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 11, 2025 06:30 PM (wBaIH) 360
30 years is a good run but it also wasn't a conspiracy theory trying to trick people. I also remember my father having the book Ultra Secret when I was a kid which would be early 70's. People knew before the book.
Posted by: the way I see it People can keep secrets for a very long time, it just requires buyin from those keeping the secrets and harsh punishment for those that don't. The Chicago Tribune just about scuttled the cracking of Purple when covering the Midway victory attributing it to codebreaking. They got their fingers stomped in private and the Japanese apparently never found out. The hotel over the Greenbriar Hotel in WV was another rumored conspiracy theory that turned out to be true and so on. Then there was the Black Hand in Yugo land, and Mafia in Sicily, etc. etc. Conspiracy theories is generally what the existing regime calls things that they don't want people to know about rather than the humble factual thesis that may or may not have any evidential truth. Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:30 PM (WDjG6) 361
346 Ike was President when I was born.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (jc0TO) Yup.... born 1959. Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:30 PM (mP0Kj) 362
346 Ike was President when I was born.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (jc0TO) me 2 Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:30 PM (gbOdA) 363
>Was it with Amy Farrah Fowler?
Posted by: wth at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (UjdFS) ---- exact opposite, really nice lady from the entertainment business Posted by: Don Black at November 11, 2025 06:30 PM (AOsQT) 364
Johnson
Nixon Ford Carter Reagan Bush the Elder Clinton *spits* Bush B Hussein *double spits* Trump Biden *pukes up a lung* Trump 11 Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (1Nv0l) Yup, same list. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM (snZF9) 365
Rules of War allow shelling/bombing defended enemy positions. Or places the enemy is hiding behind civilians. Terrorism on the other hand is not allowed.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM The Rules are what the victors say they are. Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM (jc0TO) 366
304 I never owned a waterbed, but I have enjoyed coitus on a waterbed, so I'm claiming that
Posted by: Don Black I have a patent for a soft-sided waterbed (Preens, buffs fingernails, smirks.) Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM (Y8DZL) 367
>>The main issue with government conspiracy theories is you have to believe in a hyper competent federal government. I've worked with fedgov drones most of my adult life. I'm not seeing a whole lot of 'hyper competent '.
If there were no government conspiracies how come we know about them? The conspiracy to keep Trump out of power is real, we all know it, and it came about an inch from working. That's just 1. I don't think it requires hyper competence when you control the investigatory and prosecutorial agencies and the media and social media. Lots of people just give up because it's hard to beat them but it doesn't mean the conspiracies aren't true and they we don't know about them. Getting justice is a different story. Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM (viF8m) 368
I def believe Bill Ayers wrote "Dreams From My Father" the frequent nautical metaphors are proof positive. Obama never went on the water, Ayers was a merchant marine before he was a terrorist. Posted by: ace ============= This relates to my "one more conspiracy theory coming up...(Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 06:21 PM (0lgzA) I read years ago, can't remember where, about how Obama was groomed from a very early age to be our destroyer. I can't remember the details, but he was rejected by Harvard as a transfer student from Occidental. It was only when some lefty mucky-muck intervened by placing a personal call to some mucky-muck at Harvard and pressuring the shyte out of him to take this wunderkind. Maybe also said "Don't let him flunk out." It's DAMN hard to transfer into a school like Harvard, but Obama did it, apparently with a mediocre record. He was the Great Black Hope for lefties from that far back. I'm sure that if someone sat down to trace his career, they'd find hidden helping hands at all points, steering him to undeserved victories and picking his wingmen for him. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM (0lgzA) 369
Ike's Kids are a large cohort.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM (jc0TO) 370
I started listing presidents in my lifetime. Holy cow, am I old.
Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden*, Trump. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM (UJMvS) 371
Carlson at Fox had guardrails set forth by the network. He's now on his own and the real Tucker is showing
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (bfwj/) yes Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:32 PM (g47mK) 372
>>> Does anyone really believe in ANY of that Voyager bullshit?
Posted by: Soothsayer Carlson is just axing Questions at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (A/n7m) Lieutenant Ilia is patiently waiting for you to visit and “complete her circuit” Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 06:32 PM (NW+2e) Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 06:32 PM (/lPRQ) 374
Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (D0HYP)
Nah. Rules of War allow shelling/bombing defended enemy positions. Or places the enemy is hiding behind civilians. Terrorism on the other hand is not allowed. Posted by: Oldcat ======= Tucker would not be able to discuss Just War theory and its implications on WWII conduct if he had a brain transplant. He ain't got the mental horsepower. Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:32 PM (WDjG6) 375
LBJ.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 06:32 PM (MXjT6) Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 06:32 PM (W2Pud) 377
Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (krQz2)
Civilized War is an oxymoron. War should be horrific, so horrific that it is the last resort... Not this perpetual War crap we have going on now. Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:32 PM (mP0Kj) Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (0aYVJ) 379
blake, Ford was in there too.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (zzXla) 380
Also an Ike kid.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (wVcYX) 381
Here’s my conspiracy theory: the cosmological constant, Λ is zero. The 2011 Physics Nobel prize for the accelerating expansion of the universe was given in error. It’s sad that recent observations of 3000 type Ia supernovae give a 5.5 standard deviation result that the earlier work was wrong, and the universe is not, just now, beginning a runaway accelerated expansion. I always doubt that just now is a special time, just like Ptolemaic theories held that right here is a special place. I call it temporal Ptolemaicism, and my doubts rise accordingly.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (uGI3N) 382
Caldors.
Posted by: Accomack at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (9H7EW) 383
304 I never owned a waterbed, but I have enjoyed coitus on a waterbed, so I'm claiming that
Posted by: Don Black I have a patent for a soft-sided waterbed (Preens, buffs fingernails, smirks.) Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM (Y8DZL) With or without actual reduction to practice? Posted by: They ever make one? at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (TbWk/) 384
Art Bell was probably the GOAT when it comes to interviewing guests with....non-consensus versions of reality in a non-confrontational way.
He got me through a lot of night shifts, back in the day. He is missed. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (IG3/x) 385
Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden*, Trump.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM You said Trump twice. Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (jc0TO) 386
After my mother passed away several years ago, my daughter and I were down in Mom's basement, sorting through her stuff, salvaging whatever could be salvaged for Goodwill or whatever and throwing the rest away. Amidst all that, my daughter came across the Royal typewriter I used in college. Maggie looked like an archeologist discovering a strange, mysterious artifact--perhaps alien in origin.
"You actually used this, Dad?" "Damn straight. Those were the days, daughter, when cut and paste meant, well, cut and paste. Here, allow me regale you with other tales of the Before Times." Posted by: troyriser at November 11, 2025 06:34 PM (DPeYO) 387
Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden*, Trump.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker Blake, 1952 was a great year. For me, at least. Posted by: RI Red at November 11, 2025 06:34 PM (vPwMB) 388
370 Ike's Kids are a large cohort.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM (jc0TO) 371 I started listing presidents in my lifetime. Holy cow, am I old. Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden*, Trump. Posted by: blake ====== You got the cameo for Ike's kids in Porky's in the principal's office scene. Even the picture of ole Ike was grinning at Miss Ballbricker. Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:34 PM (WDjG6) 389
blake, Ford was in there too.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (zzXla) ------------- shoot, how did I miss Ford? Oh, wait, I'm old. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:34 PM (UJMvS) 390
Is Justin Castreau even a conspiracy now? More like a scientific axiom I’d guess.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 06:34 PM (NW+2e) 391
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM (0lgzA)
Obama was also an editor of the Harvard Review... yet never wrote anything... Funny that. Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:34 PM (mP0Kj) 392
vic held John Wilkes Booths' horse.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:35 PM (jc0TO) 393
Homo sapiens sapiens (Man the wise, the really wise, hah!) has been around for what, 180K years conservatively, if not longer. And our known history is what, 5000 years old?
Posted by: publius, Gobeki is about 13k old. Where did the 8000 years go? Posted by: r hennigantx Speaking of "tohu va bohu" I've heard the hypothesis that it's more accurately understood "The earth was rendered formless and empty", and implies that everything that existed was deliberately destroyed and the current world created from that. Like the ending of The Last Battle when everyone is watching through the stable door as Narnia is consumed by giant saurian monsters and then covered by water and all the lights go out. Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 06:35 PM (a+4eV) 394
8 unless you get to count Trump twice, then it's 9.
I think I'm at 12 counting Trump once Big E JFK LBJGTQ+ Dick Peanut REAGAN HMS Bush Bill STD 'lil bush obummer Trump the Truth (2) Bribem' I don't count carmela Posted by: ChemDan at November 11, 2025 06:35 PM (8uzBS) 395
> The 2011 Physics Nobel prize for the accelerating expansion of the universe was given in error.
Wouldn't be the first one. Barky-O got a Peace Prize for doing absolutely nothing, then proceeded to spend eight years bombing and cruise-missiling the fuck out of multiple countries on a weekly basis. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 11, 2025 06:35 PM (IG3/x) 396
Let me give you an example of Carlson't concern for little people, in one interview some years ago he literally said that he wants a guy with a 100 IQ and a 80K annual salary to have a good life. Thank you massa Tucker. May we have another.
Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:35 PM (g47mK) 397
I did 17 out of 20. I don't think I ever had a film camera -- oh, wait, do they mean the "still pictures" kind of camera? Okay, 18 out of 20. Never had a waterbed or an AOL account.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (wzUl9) I never had a waterbed, or an AOL account, but I did use them. I think the question was "used" not "owned". My brother had AOL and I popped on to see what the fuss was all about, but when I decided to go internet it was cable out of the gate. And as far as the waterbed goes..well... Hmm though, not sure about the mixed tape thing. If thats a tape with all different songs, yeah. Gotta learn the song sets somehow. If its some gay disco thing...no..hell no. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 06:35 PM (snZF9) 398
299:I told my wife that I find laughable, the guy who's nationwide tour had him confessing that he was one of the least religious guys you might know, but he was starting to see a more central role for religion, is now calling evangelicals "heretics" (to my understanding).
Posted by: Axeman That's because Evangelicals regard the Bible as the Word of God (2 Timothy 3:16-17). Israel and the Jews are somewhat prominent in the Book. I don't know what happened to Tucker. Follow the money? Find out who or whom are paying him, probably find the answer there. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 06:36 PM (sAmhv) 399
That's only partly a joke -- yes, Tucker Carlson is now a believer in chemtrail conspiracy theories now, too.
_____________________ I'm not a chemtrail guy, BUT I do think the Dept. of Ag. does a bunch of spraying without acknowledgment or notification of potential health hazards. I'm pretty in tune with various insect infestations due to a lot of fruit trees. I keep track of volume etc. And, the comparison last year to year was like night and day for Spotted Lantern Flies. They are a hardy breed that isn't going to tone things down just based on weather patterns. So, I think there was unadvertised spraying taking place. My neighbor runs a Vineyard, and he's come to the same conclusion. So, no on chemtrails....and yes on sneaky government programs "for the better of people" that should be a hell of a lot more transparent. Posted by: Orson at November 11, 2025 06:36 PM (dIske) 400
Theory: "The Manchurian Candidate" was plan to put a commie twink like Obama into the White House.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:36 PM (UJMvS) 401
20/20
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:36 PM (1Nv0l) 402
ok 13...forgot Ford
Posted by: ChemDan at November 11, 2025 06:36 PM (8uzBS) 403
My one conspiracy theory is the whole Mandela effect thing.
Posted by: banana Dream I have two: 1) the Ford Motors logo is not what I remember, and 2) The movie was always "All's Quiet on the Western Front", now it's "All". Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at November 11, 2025 06:36 PM (yjljJ) 404
You cannot prove the world is not a simulation.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (1Nv0l) --- You don't have to prove negatives. And then, define "simulation", to even have a start. If something is taken as belonging to the world of "Proof", it needs testable definitions. Not just extrapolations of ideas. We know how Grand Theft Auto simulates the physics of our world. But there are obvious limitations to that level of "simulation". And really, if you get "simulation", why can't we go back to Berkeley's idea that things are held in common because of the Mind of God? Because "computers" sound more real and Sciencey than a regulating mind. Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:36 PM (krQz2) 405
shoot, how did I miss Ford?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:34 PM (UJMvS) Also said by Squeaky Fromme Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 06:37 PM (wVcYX) 406
Robert A. Heinlein invented the water bed, but never patented the idea. Your welcome!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 06:37 PM (uGI3N) 407
>> It’s sad that recent observations of 3000 type Ia supernovae give a 5.5 standard deviation result that the earlier work was wrong,
I read that with great interest. The jury is still very much out on that, but that will be a YUGE thing if it pans out. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:37 PM (w6EFb) 408
East of the Rockies, you're on the air...
Posted by: Zombie Art Bell at November 11, 2025 06:37 PM (5yDGQ) 409
pay lawn guy: cash
pay bills: checks via mail auto deposit SS and paychecks NO autopay any bills NO Smartphone I call it the Simple Life. Worked fine so far. Posted by: wth at November 11, 2025 06:37 PM (v0R5T) 410
THEN WHO WAS BED
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:38 PM (jc0TO) 411
The "Simulation Theory" sounds like it's kinda-sorta hard. But it fails in terminology at first blush: simulation of what?!.
The way it presupposes the reasonableness of levels of "simulation" like an infinite number of clerical monkeys. Although it's reasonable to speculate the non-specialness of human life--it's something almost completely un-evidenced. Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:27 PM (krQz2) Simulation Theory or Disproving it is just malarkey. If its complex enough it could be made and started running we couldn't tell. And we can't rule it out either. Its just sophomoric crap to justify a publication on the CV. Asimov wrote a story "The Last Question" about computers being given the task to reverse entropy and after billions of years and improvements the answer is "Let There Be Light" out of the bible. Much science has degraded these last decades to dumb theory variants that can't be proven, talk of knowing everything to the first billionth of a second since the big bang that have been invalidated massively by new telescopes. I'm tired of it. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:38 PM (8avO+) 412
>>>everything, anything "The establishment" or "conventional medicine" or "leading authorities" tell him
Now it's true. Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 11, 2025 06:38 PM (syz1S) 413
383 Caldors.
Posted by: Accomack at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (9H7EW) Man, I hated that store when I was a kid. And yet I got one of the best flannel shirts there when I was in middle school, that I wore well into my thirties before it finally gave up the ghost. Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 11, 2025 06:38 PM (06Hmj) 414
407 Robert A. Heinlein invented the water bed, but never patented the idea. Your welcome!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit ===== And it took Keith Moon to try to put one in the elevator but it burst before he and his roadies could fit it in. Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:38 PM (WDjG6) Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 11, 2025 06:38 PM (Wnv9h) 416
19/20 too, and I'm somewhat younger than the average 29 year old around here (I infer).
I take most of those criteria to be Gen X at the latest. Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 11, 2025 06:38 PM (guCHD) Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at November 11, 2025 06:39 PM (jYRYu) 418
Conspiracy theories is generally what the existing regime calls things that they don't want people to know about rather than the humble factual thesis that may or may not have any evidential truth.
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:30 PM (WDjG6) You just have to hide and confuse things long enough for people to stop caring, or there is something big enough to take away any need to find out about it. In 1916 the Rockefeller Institute was trying to get some understanding of Polio in a lab in NYC by a procedure of "serial transmission" in monkeys. Surprisingly enough a polio epidemic broke out in Brookland causing a panic in the people in NYC and in the US. All this was concealed by dramatic public health actions, and lots and lots of panic. This makes me wonder if the Rockefeller Institute had been doing any work for the US Army near or about Fort Riley at the outset of the first world war. Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 06:39 PM (rbvCR) 419
What if gravity is the aether?
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:39 PM (jc0TO) 420
Hmm though, not sure about the mixed tape thing. If thats a tape with all different songs, yeah. Gotta learn the song sets somehow. If its some gay disco thing...no..hell no.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 06:35 PM (snZF9) ----------------- There was definitely an art to making a mixed tape. Regular people record songs and not worry if they had Nazareth next to Steely Dan. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:39 PM (UJMvS) 421
I would have never had a cell phone if my ISP had not fucked up my service.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 06:39 PM (zzXla) 422
I never had a waterbed but I slept in one on occasion. Not recommended.
I did have an aol account, way back when aol messaging was the only game in town. I used a 300 baud modem. Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:39 PM (1Nv0l) 423
Manufactured and sold a ton of "hybrid" waterbeds in the 80's that looked like regular mattresses. Couldn't make 'em fast enough for a while then couldn't give 'em away. Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2025 06:39 PM (Y8DZL) 424
You all know this
Every Chinaman in school in USA is a lie. Fake grades Fake SAT (paid someone to take) Fake education (paid for test and papers) They will be building your bridges next year. https://x.com/KCtoFL/status/ 1988272940782084129 Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:39 PM (gbOdA) Posted by: Don Black at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (AOsQT) 426
They even deny gravity exists (I'm not joking in the slightest)
Hey, you don't know that. It could be magnetism and static cling! Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (a+4eV) 427
Trump 2 is a different animal than Trump 1.
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (dtajH) 428
Many grifters on X and general internets space too. For some reason majority are generation Z. I suspect they figured out that working is too hard for them and full grown, healthy men instead of having real jobs are doing the manosphere version of OnlyFans - pontificating on the internet, peddling giberish nazi shite and thinking they are awesome.
Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (g47mK) 429
I scored 20. Must've been a millennial or younger writer. No mimeographs, slide rule, punch cards, manual transmission car, ...
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (38+mr) 430
Gen. Curtis LeMay gets unfairly characterized as a psychotic “bomb ‘em back to the stone age” kinda guy (he never actually said that, go figure) and was in part the character based in Dr. Strangelove aka General Jack D. Ripper iirc.
LeMay figured the Cuban Missile crisis was an opportunity to get rid of Castro, and he was probably correct. His “philosophy” was, that going to war is a very serious matter and should not be taken lightly. However if that decision is made, then there is no half stepping or “limited war” like the Whiz Kids and McNamara thought they could do. Hit ‘em with everything you got. “Stop swatting flies, and go after the manure pile” was his advice about Viet Nam. He saw the same problems in the Korean war. He was a very intelligent individual, and completely mischaracterized by the Press, and Academia. Ever notice, we’re supposed to be deferential to The Experts? They know stuff! Yet curiously, this never, ever applies to the Military. Ever. Civilian Control! Civilian Control! Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 06:41 PM (Gjeit) 431
#222 that's a very ghey Prometheus.
But San Francisco, so they do them. Posted by: From about That Time at November 11, 2025 06:41 PM (sl73Y) 432
Hey, you don't know that. It could be magnetism and static cling!
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (a+4eV) ----------------- Heh, reminds me of the Far Side comic about the janitor sneaking into the nursery at the hospital. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:41 PM (UJMvS) 433
407 Robert A. Heinlein invented the water bed, but never patented the idea. Your welcome!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 06:37 PM (uGI3N) Stanger in a Strange Land (Sex motion sickness) Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Anal be like hard n shit) Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:41 PM (gbOdA) 434
Yeah that about sums it up for Tucker.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (A0sqA) --- Reminiscent of Well, That About Wraps It Up For God. Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:41 PM (krQz2) Posted by: Czech Chick at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (vK/Ja) 436
I got 20 for 20 although I called it a “mix” tape, not mixed.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (uGI3N) Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (Wnv9h) 438
They even deny gravity exists (I'm not joking in the slightest)
Hey, you don't know that. It could be magnetism and static cling! Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (a+4eV) Static cling??!? Oh the horrors. What comes after that is ring-around-the-collar! Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (wVcYX) 439
There was definitely an art to making a mixed tape. Regular people record songs and not worry if they had Nazareth next to Steely Dan.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:39 PM (UJMvS) My current "mix tape" is all the music I have on my computer. Somewhere in the vicinity of 6000 songs. Maybe more. I always get a chuckle when a Slayer song is followed by a Chris Ledoux song. Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (0aYVJ) 440
I have a cousin who believes literally every conspiracy theory. I think he thinks it's cool to have some sort of secret knowledge. You'll talk to him about some normal topic, and then he gets to tell you what's really going on.
The only conspiracy theory I believe is that Fruit of the Loom absolutely used to have a cornucopia in their logo, and efforts to convince people otherwise and say "oh that's just the Mandela effect" are a psyop to see how much everyone's memories and knowledge of the past can be rewritten. Posted by: Cave Johnson at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (BGygK) 441
I'm old your modern world frightens and confuses me... but I DO know this: It is unwise to have a cat AND a waterbed Posted by: Don Black at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (AOsQT) 442
371 I started listing presidents in my lifetime. Holy cow, am I old. Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden*, Trump. Posted by: blake #MeToo I don't remember Ike. I do remember JFK. My 6yo brother took a poll around the neighborhood (widows...we lived in an apt with my grandmother). Everyone voted Nixon so he already suspected voter fraud. My husband is 5wks younger than I am. He thought the Nixon/JFK race was for a bus driver. He does not know why. I married an eejit when it comes to his childhood...and I am the redneck! Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (MAl//) 443
Four-thousand and 5 years ago today in 1620... the Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact. (they didn't come ashore until a month later, December 11th) (I suspect they got a glimpse of the barren, colorless November landscape and said WTF have we got ourselves into -- and then kept sailing the coast looking for something better.) Posted by: Soothsayer Historic Facts at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (A/n7m) 444
20 pts.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 11, 2025 06:43 PM (LjSYW) 445
Here’s my conspiracy theory: the cosmological constant, Λ is zero. The 2011 Physics Nobel prize for the accelerating expansion of the universe was given in error. It’s sad that recent observations of 3000 type Ia supernovae give a 5.5 standard deviation result that the earlier work was wrong, and the universe is not, just now, beginning a runaway accelerated expansion. I always doubt that just now is a special time, just like Ptolemaic theories held that right here is a special place. I call it temporal Ptolemaicism, and my doubts rise accordingly.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (uGI3N) From what I recall the CC was a factor Einstein tried to use to negate the expansion of the universe which he didn't like. What part it played after that I don't remember. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:43 PM (8avO+) 446
What a fun thread. Thanks Ace! Posted by: four seasons at November 11, 2025 06:43 PM (3ek7K) 447
I scored 20. Must've been a millennial or younger writer. No mimeographs, slide rule, punch cards, manual transmission car, ...
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM *inhales deeply* Mmmm...mimeograph. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM (Wnv9h) 448
>>>420 What if gravity is the aether?
in a way, yes? As I understand it, only a fraction of particles' mass is actually due to the mass of the particles. Most of the mass is provided to it by interaction, via the now famous Higgs boson, with the Higgs field. It is this field that provides most of the mass in the universe, not the particles of matter themselves. Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM (1wjle) 449
I bought old copies of the Time-Life series on The Old West Shot a man just for snoring too loud! Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM (pkeXY) 450
My current "mix tape" is all the music I have on my computer. Somewhere in the vicinity of 6000 songs. Maybe more. I always get a chuckle when a Slayer song is followed by a Chris Ledoux song.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (0aYVJ) --------------- Heh, same. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM (UJMvS) 451
Yeah, I used to compete in slide rule contests. Looking back number sense competitions would have helped me more later in life.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM (uGI3N) 452
He was a very intelligent individual, and completely mischaracterized by the Press, and Academia.
Ever notice, we’re supposed to be deferential to The Experts? They know stuff! Yet curiously, this never, ever applies to the Military. Ever. Civilian Control! Civilian Control! Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 06:41 PM (Gjeit) Note, the last War that actually made positive change for the US??? WW2... which was total War. Since then, every 'war' has just been either to get back to a status quo, OR, US Politicians did not allow us to actually FIX the issues. Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM (mP0Kj) 453
(I suspect they got a glimpse of the barren, colorless November landscape and said WTF have we got ourselves into -- and then kept sailing the coast looking for something better.)
Posted by: Soothsayer Historic Facts at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (A/n7m) 4 hundred not thousand. The Plymouth colonists couldn't be too loose about sailing south, the crown colonies were down that way and they wanted to be as far as they could within reason. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM (8avO+) 454
He is missed.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia ------------ I've been listening to some episodes of Art Bell's final radio show, Midnight In The Desert, on YouTube recently. He was a master of the late night talk radio format. Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (5yDGQ) 455
I perfected the skill sets of The Credulous Interviewer.
Posted by: Zombie Art Bell at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (47/pr) 456
Firebombed Tokyo caused more casualties than the nukes.
Still, justified. Only today's modern see anything wrong with it. Romans would call everyone for the past 500 years a bunch of pussies including the Nazis. Why, they never sold a single woman or child into slavery. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (zZu0s) 457
Tucker Carlson years ago said that US committed atrocities in WWII by bombing the nazis and Imperial Japan
Hell, Curtis LeMay said that. That's why it is extremely important to actually *win* the war. Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM I vaguely recall him giving an interview after the war saying that if we had lost the war he would be tried as a war criminal for ordering the firebombing of Japan. He was not wrong. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (0N4FZ) 458
If we live in a simulation then data centers are simulated and in those data centers could be simulated universes with simulated data centers and -oh man- maybe it's just data centers all the way down!
Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (vFG9F) 459
Yeah, I don't know about 'mixed tape' either. I assume that it means putting together a mix of recordings? Never did it at any rate.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (XeU6L) 460
Who is hotter, Ranae Holland or Sydney Sweeney?
Posted by: Sasquatch at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (R/m4+) 461
vic held John Wilkes Booths' horse
miss 'ol vic, that picture of him next to his Maverick GT was cool. We had a luxury version with a white vinyl top and a 6 cylinder engine...that's why me and my hair didn't get a picture next to it Posted by: DanMan at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (8uzBS) 462
>>>420 What if gravity is the aether?
in a way, yes? As I understand it, only a fraction of particles' mass is actually due to the mass of the particles. Most of the mass is provided to it by interaction, via the now famous Higgs boson, with the Higgs field. It is this field that provides most of the mass in the universe, not the particles of matter themselves. Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM So a Heechee drive is possible. Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (jc0TO) 463
Hey, you don't know that. It could be magnetism and static cling!
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (a+4eV) Static cling??!? Oh the horrors. What comes after that is ring-around-the-collar! Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (wVcYX) Sun creates lights wave that when moved thru Ether become sound. I can show you transverse waves for about 9 dollars. Show me longitude waves with a pair of cheap sunglasses. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (gbOdA) 464
451 My current "mix tape" is all the music I have on my computer. Somewhere in the vicinity of 6000 songs. Maybe more. I always get a chuckle when a Slayer song is followed by a Chris Ledoux song.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (0aYVJ) --------------- Heh, same. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM (UJMvS) Yeah, but it's the Christmas songs mixed in that get skipped a lot... Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (mP0Kj) 465
Conspiracy theories are not a conspiracy is they are true, of course. I probably should have added that to my above post. Alas, no editing function here. I blame the Joosss.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 06:46 PM (sAmhv) 466
There's some Truman babies on this site.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 11, 2025 06:46 PM (LjSYW) 467
Who is hotter, Ranae Holland or Sydney Sweeney?
Posted by: Sasquatch at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (R/m4+) ---------- Probably Sydney but only because she knows the difference between disc and drum brakes. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:46 PM (UJMvS) 468
428 Trump 2 is a different animal than Trump 1.
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (dtajH) Trump 1 was pretty good except he let that whole COVID shutdown happen. Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at November 11, 2025 06:46 PM (jYRYu) 469
miss 'ol vic, that picture of him next to his Maverick GT was cool. We had a luxury version with a white vinyl top and a 6 cylinder engine...that's why me and my hair didn't get a picture next to it
Posted by: DanMan at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM Yeah. Every guy of a certain age knew, or was, that guy in the photo. Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:46 PM (jc0TO) 470
Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden*, Trump.
Posted by: blake Started with Johnson. First political memory - Shut up you kids! Watergate is on! At first thought it was some soap opera Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 06:46 PM (/lPRQ) 471
CBS...107% tariffs on Italian Pasta may cause it to disappear from US stores.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:46 PM (Sco7b) 472
If Germany wasn't bombed, Japan too we still might be fighting WWII
Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2025 06:47 PM (+qU29) 473
'Nice' war can't happen
Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2025 06:47 PM (+qU29) 474
A recent cosmology issue has arisen because of the latest microwave mapping of the Universe.
It kind of points to the Earth actually being the center and of the Universe. Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 06:47 PM (EYmYM) 475
His “philosophy” was, that going to war is a very serious matter and should not be taken lightly"
This. I chuckle when I'm called isolationist or worse bc I oppose the half wars. Do it or don't. Half measures get men killed... Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 06:47 PM (9Ehkn) 476
I'm old
your modern world frightens and confuses me... but I DO know this: It is unwise to have a cat AND a waterbed Posted by: Don Black at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (AOsQT) I bought a leather chair and ottoman once with cats. They never touched it until the day I wore through an arm myself then they assumed it was fine and I let them do it. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:47 PM (8avO+) 477
Mandela effect: the monopoly dude has a monocle. I definitely have that one. My kids pointed it out.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:48 PM (1Nv0l) Posted by: Cow Demon at November 11, 2025 06:48 PM (sVOFR) 479
CBS...107% tariffs on Italian Pasta may cause it to disappear from US stores.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:46 PM (Sco7b) I think we can manage to grind wheat on our own, even with our poor technology. And we have water. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:49 PM (8avO+) 480
Obama was also an editor of the Harvard Review... yet never wrote anything... Funny that. Posted by: Romeo13 =============== President, not Editor, but still inglorious. None of his issues are cited. I only know what I read, but I read that the number of citations from a law journal is the criterion of its quality. His HLR presidency may have been the worst ever. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 06:49 PM (0lgzA) 481
I heard that one can make pasta at home. Maybe it's a conspiracy theory.
Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:49 PM (g47mK) Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:49 PM (jc0TO) Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 06:49 PM (A/n7m) 484
>>107% tariffs on Italian Pasta may cause it to disappear from US stores.
Oh, Noes... where will we ever find Semolina and the Technology to fabricate Pasta!? Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 06:50 PM (rO4EG) 485
The thing about the Simulation theory is that it is adopted often by hedging materialists.
Yeah, everything is 100% matter in motion--and matter in motion explains it's regularity--unless, it's all 1s and 0s and software and VR!!! Can we just accept the baby step away that maybe matter in motion doesn't "explain" the universe? If you believe that both things are "possible"--or more accurately is it undecided which is the case--your're just stating which models you have allegiance to. And that the materialness of computers is simply your seduction into accepting that cases exist that the everything is more than matter in motion. Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:50 PM (krQz2) Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 06:50 PM (A/n7m) 487
Trump 2 is a different animal than Trump 1.
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (dtajH) Just playing it closer to the chest, and depending on non-neocons for staff. Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 06:50 PM (rbvCR) 488
Started with Johnson.
First political memory - Shut up you kids! Watergate is on! At first thought it was some soap opera Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 06:46 PM (/lPRQ) Lol. My one very deaf grandmother discovered closed captioning during Clinton's impeachment. She'd call my aunt at work and ask about fellatio. My aunt would have to yell into the phone loudly, "Mother! I will talk to you when I get home!" Then the pubic hair on the Coke for SCOTUS Thomas threw her off again. The other grandmother we sort of lived with (an apt in her large house) was more normal and demure. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 06:50 PM (MAl//) 489
478 Mandela effect: the monopoly dude has a monocle. I definitely have that one. My kids pointed it out.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:48 PM (1Nv0l) I, with a straight face, asked my optometrist if I could get a monocle. The expression on his face said it all. Posted by: Cow Demon at November 11, 2025 06:50 PM (sVOFR) Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 06:50 PM (A/n7m) 491
Oh no, it's a pastastrophe.
Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 06:50 PM (vFG9F) 492
Hey, I'm older than 20. OK?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 06:50 PM (dveO7) 493
Romans would call everyone for the past 500 years a bunch of pussies including the Nazis.
I learned that in Latin class, too, but the rape of the Sabine women held more interest for me at the time. Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2025 06:51 PM (Y8DZL) 494
Biggest winner of the shutdown.....???
I'd think Fetterman. When you're surrounded by ape-shit crazy and you've proven you're not ape-shit crazy.... Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:51 PM (Sco7b) 495
Yes, but None of us were around when All Men wore Hats.
Rights? Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 06:49 PM You're not from Texas. Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:51 PM (jc0TO) 496
>> From what I recall the CC was a factor Einstein tried to use to negate the expansion of the universe which he didn't like
The CC (capital Lambda) was a fudge factor Einstein put in to cancel gravity at cosmological scales and allow for a *static* universe. Back in 1916, it's easy to forget, it was before Hubble. The true size and nature of the universe, with galaxies flying away was unknown at the time. What we now know as galaxies, like our close neighbor Andromeda, were dubbed "nebula". Einstein called Lambda his greatest blunder, as he could have *predicted the expansion of the universe* via General Relativity decades before Hubble. It sat on the shelf, never a part of any cosmological EFE spacetime solutions until the purported accelerating expansion was discovered. As mentioned above, there are now observations that call into question that accelerating expansion, which will be a total game changer -- again! -- if they pan out. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:51 PM (w6EFb) 497
Mandela effect: the monopoly dude has a monocle. I definitely have that one. My kids pointed it out.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:48 PM (1Nv0l) I believe that is because subconsciously people mix it with Mt Peanut and other Top Hat characters who frequently have a monocle. Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 06:51 PM (EYmYM) 498
Like, a hat with a decorative feather, and shit. Hat Check Girls were a thing! Hat Check Girls existed! Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 06:51 PM (A/n7m) 499
Yeah, I don't know about 'mixed tape' either. I assume that it means putting together a mix of recordings? Never did it at any rate.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (XeU6L) Well in the music biz they used to mix reels of different playings to produce a final sound. never did that. Recording stuff off the record player or radio to cassette is lower tech. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM (8avO+) 500
107% tariffs on Italian Pasta may cause it to disappear from US stores.
--- did they pinch their fingers together and wave when they said this? Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM (0aYVJ) 501
Ok, but what happens when you take an objective, intellectually honest approach to a conspiracy theory and realize the theorists were right? You then have to put your ego aside and admit that you are not one of the despised conspiracy theorists, but you have no choice because the truth is the truth.
And then that one theory unravels many conventional assumptions you've been told. It becomes an umbrella that contains a whole lot of other connected conspiracy theories. Then you're like "Everyone will think I'm a crackpot but I cannot unsee what I've seen." Then you try to show friends and family the complicated body of evidence but they're not having it because they have no interest in taking a walk on the wild side into truth-land that will leave them a hated conspiracy lepper. They are too scared to know the truth because of what it will turn them into. This is what happened to me. As ridiculous as the theory was, and the solid evidence that supported it, I had to humbly admit that I had previously been intellectually dishonest and the crackpots were right. Posted by: Brisco County Sr at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM (6wHqY) 502
"459 If we live in a simulation then data centers are simulated and in those data centers could be simulated universes with simulated data centers and -oh man- maybe it's just data centers all the way down!"
-- Can I buy some marijuana from you? Posted by: Larry Kroger, Pinto at Delta Tau Chi at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM (q3u5l) 503
Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump. I'm old.
Posted by: Tuna at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM (lJ0H4) 504
Next up- how many US Presidents have there been in your lifetime?
Posted by: sal at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (f+FmA) Started with Truman, who I don't remember. But had lunch in front of the telly watching Big Brother Bob Emery, who's show started with a pledge of allegience to the flag hanging on wall, with a small table with a picture of President General Eisenhower in his military hat. Posted by: From about That Time at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM (sl73Y) 505
Best I can make of "mixed tape" is that it could reference back when we used to make our own music tapes with our favorite songs. Heck, I even remember being so lame, I'd use my cassette recorder and record songs as they were playing on the radio.
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM (qBdHI) 506
483 For any noobs, this is the vic photo
https://tinyurl.com/4z32ya8n Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:49 PM (jc0TO) Thank you. Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM (Sco7b) 507
A recent cosmology issue has arisen because of the latest microwave mapping of the Universe.
..... The Big Bang was actually a frozen burrito left in for 6 minutes Posted by: wth at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (v0R5T) 508
Trump 2 is a different animal than Trump 1.
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (dtajH) Trump 1 was pretty good except he let that whole COVID shutdown happen. Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis But, SCIENCE !!!! Trump is probably very embarrassed that he got rolled so badly and wishes it would just go away Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (/lPRQ) 509
Must open a pasta mill.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (MXjT6) 510
Is vic not of this world anymore? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (0lgzA) 511
480 CBS...107% tariffs on Italian Pasta may cause it to disappear from US stores.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:46 PM (Sco7b) I think we can manage to grind wheat on our own, even with our poor technology. And we have water. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:49 PM (8avO+) We made apple pie mac and cheese We should be banded from pasta for at least 3 years. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (gbOdA) Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (A/n7m) 513
So, if the world is a simulation, how do I know whether or not I'm an NPC?
Posted by: Paco at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (mADJX) 514
Eisenhower baby as well, old enough to remember the WW1 guys. You behaved yourself around them or they'd slap you with your parents approval. Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (Y8DZL) 515
>>Like, a hat with a decorative feather, and shit.
>>Hat Check Girls were a thing! Hat Check Girls existed! There's always one dude with a stupid hat fetish. Like there is always some asshole with a waxed mustache. And, I would rather they brought back cigarette girls. Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (rO4EG) 516
CBS...107% tariffs on Italian Pasta may cause it to disappear from US stores."
I thought the chemtrail thing was stupid... Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (tubbA) 517
Since then, every 'war' has just been either to get back to a status quo, OR, US Politicians did not allow us to actually FIX the issues.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM (mP0Kj) --- Korea was never going to be a win. Even with nukes. The US was not going to mobilize to free Chiang Kai-shek. The key is knowing when to quit, which was what Ike did. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (ZOv7s) 518
This. I chuckle when I'm called isolationist or worse bc I oppose the half wars. Do it or don't. Half measures get men killed...
Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 06:47 PM (9Ehkn) In my case it was because you blamed the entirety of the national debt on having a military. I would be considered a hawk by some here but that’s not the case. Peace Through Strength, DIME, power projection, deterrence. You do those things, maybe we don’t have to fight at all. Si desiderat pacem, praeparat bellum. Posted by: Cow Demon at November 11, 2025 06:54 PM (sVOFR) 519
I got 20 for 20 although I called it a “mix” tape, not mixed.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit 19/20, I never had an AOL address. My first online address was my university-student email, way back when. I do have an AOL "1025 hours free" CD right here on my desk, though. Makes a good drink coaster. (c) 2001. Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 06:54 PM (nhCoE) 520
One of my most cherished gifts was a mix tape a boy made for me in college.
Every song was something special to us. And fun. Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 06:54 PM (W2Pud) 521
Best I can make of "mixed tape" is that it could reference back when we used to make our own music tapes with our favorite songs. Heck, I even remember being so lame, I'd use my cassette recorder and record songs as they were playing on the radio. Posted by: Lady in Black ============== Yes, and I believe that was a "mix tape." A tape with a mix of bands, sounds, etc. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 06:54 PM (0lgzA) 522
The CC (capital Lambda) was a fudge factor Einstein put in to cancel gravity at cosmological scales and allow for a *static* universe. Back in 1916, it's easy to forget, it was before Hubble. The true size and nature of the universe, with galaxies flying away was unknown at the time. What we now know as galaxies, like our close neighbor Andromeda, were dubbed "nebula".
Yes it was surprisingly late that we were able to prove that Andromeda actually was made up of stars and was a second galaxy Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:54 PM (8avO+) 523
That's why I couldn't stand Yellowstone, anymore. They all walked around cosplaying as cowboys. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 06:54 PM (A/n7m) 524
>>Must open a pasta mill.
We grow a lot of Semolina throughout the northern tier. I am guessing this about Italy having high tariffs on Export Wheat. Just Trump doing his thing. Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 06:54 PM (rO4EG) 525
Then you try to show friends and family the complicated body of evidence but they're not having it because they have no interest in taking a walk on the wild side into truth-land that will leave them a hated conspiracy lepper. They are too scared to know the truth because of what it will turn them into.
This is what happened to me. As ridiculous as the theory was, and the solid evidence that supported it, I had to humbly admit that I had previously been intellectually dishonest and the crackpots were right. Posted by: Brisco County Sr at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM The web of yarn always freaks people out. Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:54 PM (jc0TO) 526
I heard that one can make pasta at home. Maybe it's a conspiracy theory.
Posted by: runner ...... only when there's gravity. Posted by: wth at November 11, 2025 06:55 PM (v0R5T) 527
I believe progressives have been taken over by Triffids.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 11, 2025 06:55 PM (kTd/k) 528
>>That's why I couldn't stand Yellowstone, anymore. They all walked around cosplaying as cowboys.
Having lived out West for the majority of my life...that's about 95% of Cowboying. Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 06:55 PM (rO4EG) Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:55 PM (gbOdA) 530
As I understand it, only a fraction of particles' mass is actually due to the mass of the particles. Most of the mass is provided to it by interaction, via the now famous Higgs boson, with the Higgs field. It is this field that provides most of the mass in the universe, not the particles of matter themselves.
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM --- Not quite. Most of the mass of stable composites like nuclei (and to a lesser extent, atoms), comes from the binding energy of the strong force between the particles, rather than the mass of the particles themselves (which does comes from the Higgs mechanism). Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:55 PM (1Nv0l) 531
The family in generational order, Pres-wise:
Truman, Truman Carter, Carter, Reagan, Bush I Bush II, Bush II, Obama, Trump, Biden Posted by: sal at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (f+FmA) 532
Wokacolypse hitting video game industry.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (MXjT6) 533
Is vic not of this world anymore?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM The old one has faked his death and moved on to a new identity. Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (jc0TO) 534
I remember listening to the radio, and having a cassette ready to record if a good song came up.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (0aYVJ) 535
did they pinch their fingers together and wave when they said this?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM (0aYVJ) Network news. This MIGHT happen. But not until January. 20 minutes a night is a LOT of time to fill on quiet days. Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (Sco7b) 536
In my case it was because you blamed the entirety of the national debt on having a military."
I think you mistake me for someone else... Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (tubbA) 537
The key is knowing when to quit, which was what Ike did.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (ZOv7s) It was a win in that the border didn't change. Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (EYmYM) 538
"Joe Rogan -- I don't really watch him, I just see clips every once in a while."
It is never clear to me if Rogan agrees or is simply indulging the madness of others. I think it is mostly the later. He lets people go on and encourages them to talk. He's actually an amazingly good interviewer, and good at calibrating his tone to is guest. And he often has good fucking questions. Progressives hate him because they look like idiots on his show - he'll ask one question they can't answer and they get flummoxed. Conservatives, being used to be attacked, always have a good answer to every question. Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (gDhA9) 539
Having lived out West for the majority of my life...that's about 95% of Cowboying.
Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 06:55 PM (rO4EG) North Louisiana and East Texas is about 95% cowboying and 100% selling gas rights. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (gbOdA) 540
Obama was an editor who got elected president over a highly qualified woman. Obama mailed it in, so the woman had to do all that work with no credit. I bet she voted for him.
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:57 PM (dtajH) Posted by: John Kerry at November 11, 2025 06:57 PM (0lgzA) 542
371 I started listing presidents in my lifetime. Holy cow, am I old.
Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden*, Trump. Posted by: blake Have to add Truman (and Ford) for me. Posted by: javems at November 11, 2025 06:57 PM (8I4hW) 543
Anyone watch the series called Mobland with Remington Steele & Tom Hardy? It is Sons Of Anarchy...without motorcycles...in Ireland. Which is funny because Sons did several episodes in Ireland. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 06:57 PM (A/n7m) 544
>> Yes it was surprisingly late
Yes, it's sort of hard to believe it's only been about 100 years for the universe as we know it today was known. There's an argument that if Einstein had stepped out and predicted expansion via what's basically known now as the basic FLRW equations, that would've been way too radical at the time -- they might have laughed it off, and not gone on to try to verify some of the less radical predictions (gravitational lensing of late, which Eddington verified famously during the 1919 eclipse). Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:57 PM (w6EFb) 545
505 Next up- how many US Presidents have there been in your lifetime?
Posted by: sal at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM In my one year of teaching I decided to confound my students. They kept asking how old I was. So I said, “when I was born, Harold Wilson was PM of the UK.” Damnit, they all broke out their laptops. : ) Posted by: Cow Demon at November 11, 2025 06:58 PM (sVOFR) 546
I bet she voted for him. Posted by: Ignoramus ============== I bet she wanted to fvck him but he glanced down at her crotch and said "You're not my type." Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 06:58 PM (0lgzA) 547
533 Wokacolypse hitting video game industry.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (MXjT6) Thats old about 4 years ago they have fag demons and people said fuck that Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:58 PM (gbOdA) 548
The CC (capital Lambda) was a fudge factor Einstein put in to cancel gravity at cosmological scales and allow for a *static* universe.
--- He called it his "biggest mistake", but it turns out to be non-zero after all. That's what dark energy is. Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:58 PM (1Nv0l) 549
I had a couple of cassettes I recorded back in college that amounted to a collection of songs by Black Sabbath, Bad Company, The Scorpions, Rainbow, Billy Squier, etc. I needed cassettes like that because me and my friends liked to drive 15-20 miles outside of town and build bonfires at a lake and party. Radio reception was sometimes spotty, so the tapes came in handy.
Posted by: Crusader at November 11, 2025 06:58 PM (TN0g+) 550
Skinners makes pasta and are a fan of this site since forever.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 06:59 PM (zzXla) 551
There were home pasta machines at the clubs a decade ago.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 06:59 PM (MXjT6) 552
Instead killing the nazis the allies should have sent battalions of mental health professionals!
Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:59 PM (g47mK) 553
Nobody wears Hats, today.
I mean real hats. Adult hats. Not stupidfucking baseball caps. - soothsayer I retired 8 years ago, but I wore fedoras and double-breasted suits to work at my job in D.C. for 20 years. I decided a long time ago that male fashion reached a peak of elegance around 1947, and that's what I went with (fortunately, I didn't think that way of 18th century fashion; a powdered wig, bottle green, swallowtail coat and knee-breeches might have excited comment). Posted by: Paco at November 11, 2025 06:59 PM (mADJX) 554
Anyone watch the series called Mobland with Remington Steele & Tom Hardy?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 06:57 PM (A/n7m) --- Yeah, I saw it. Any Ritchie production is worth a watch, IMO. Helen Mirren plays an absolutely batty mob queen. Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:59 PM (krQz2) 555
I think Tucker has just lost focus and keeps platforming this stuff for ratings.
I also think that Candace Owens is an actual fucking lunatic. Posted by: DudeAbiding at November 11, 2025 07:00 PM (lCHt6) 556
It was a win in that the border didn't change.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (EYmYM) The cease fire line of 1953 was different from the 38th Parallel. Posted by: Cow Demon at November 11, 2025 07:00 PM (sVOFR) 557
This is what happened to me. As ridiculous as the theory was, and the solid evidence that supported it, I had to humbly admit that I had previously been intellectually dishonest and the crackpots were right.
Posted by: Brisco County Sr at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM (6wHqY) The only honest position, intellectually honest, is "what do I need proven for me to consider this thesis to be possible" If the answer is "there is no proof that will sway me" then you can be assured that it is an article of faith, and has nothing to do with science Wild-side thinking is "if this were true, what would it indicate in the rest of the field" but most people won't go there because that makes the earth shift beneath their feet, and most people need that security. Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 07:00 PM (rbvCR) 558
Anyone watch the series called Mobland with Remington Steele & Tom Hardy?
It is Sons Of Anarchy...without motorcycles...in Ireland. Which is funny because Sons did several episodes in Ireland. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 06:57 PM (A/n7m) I watched part of the first episode. I didn't hate it. But I left it, because I thought, fuck, just what I need, another binge-watch. And I am a huge Tom Hardy fan. It looked compelling, though. Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 07:00 PM (0aYVJ) 559
Today was a great day.
Amazing weather for a Mt Bike Ride. Still just a bit frozen at the beginning but by the time I got up to the top of the ridge it had climbed to 46 or so. One downed tree and a spaztic whitetail that nearly got clipped. Never saw a soul from the time I hit the singletrack until I got back to the access road. I might be able to squeeze in one more ride this year, tomorrow. Then the snow comes down into the valleys. Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 07:00 PM (rO4EG) 560
Can we just accept the baby step away that maybe matter in motion doesn't "explain" the universe?
If you believe that both things are "possible"--or more accurately is it undecided which is the case--your're just stating which models you have allegiance to. And that the materialness of computers is simply your seduction into accepting that cases exist that the everything is more than matter in motion. Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:50 PM (krQz2) The first mistake is thinking you can or should explain the universe. Instead you need to describe it, as the universe is a real thing. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:00 PM (8avO+) Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:00 PM (A/n7m) 562
This has been a fun thread.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:01 PM (zZu0s) Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 07:01 PM (tubbA) 564
Obama mailed it in, so the woman had to do all that work with no credit. I bet she voted for him.
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:57 PM (dtajH) If you looked at corrupt on a scale and found a Clinton. It is the -458 of corruption. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:01 PM (gbOdA) 565
I wear hats. In a valley. Rains can blow in anytime.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:01 PM (MXjT6) 566
In my one year of teaching I decided to confound my students. They kept asking how old I was. So I said, “when I was born, Harold Wilson was PM of the UK.”
I'm so old that Queen Elizabeth was the Queen! Posted by: t-bird at November 11, 2025 07:01 PM (+2PTH) 567
I also think that Candace Owens is an actual fucking lunatic.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at November 11, 2025 07:00 PM (lCHt6) She and Shapiro flounced out of Breitbart over the whole Cory Lewindowski / Michelle Fields foofooraw, and the accusation in the MFM about the crudeness and violence of the Trump Rallies. It is hard to make a decent career when you start out with a lie. Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 07:02 PM (rbvCR) 568
I came across a cassette of a "band" I was in. Gawd we were awful. Inspired at times, just terrible at others. No wonder the ghosts moved out of that house.
Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 07:02 PM (vFG9F) Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:03 PM (A/n7m) 570
I retired 8 years ago, but I wore fedoras and double-breasted suits to work at my job in D.C. for 20 years. I decided a long time ago that male fashion reached a peak of elegance around 1947, and that's what I went with (fortunately, I didn't think that way of 18th century fashion; a powdered wig, bottle green, swallowtail coat and knee-breeches might have excited comment).
Posted by: Paco at November 11, 2025 06:59 PM (mADJX) I wore a replica Civil War felt slouch hat in winter in Chicago for many years, still have it. Surprisingly warm with the brim keeping snow off your face. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:03 PM (8avO+) 571
People weren't wearing enough hats way back in the early 80s--it was discussed in a feature film.
Posted by: Crusader at November 11, 2025 07:03 PM (TN0g+) 572
Shapiro at least has a sister with mammoth tits. Owens does not even have that small fig leaf of interest.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:04 PM (zZu0s) 573
This is what happened to me. As ridiculous as the theory was, and the solid evidence that supported it, I had to humbly admit that I had previously been intellectually dishonest and the crackpots were right. Posted by: Brisco County Sr ============= Spit it out, man. What was it? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 07:04 PM (0lgzA) 574
Truman was president when I was born. So I have 14 presidents, and you'd have to go some to get beyond 15 because of FDR.
I never had AOL because I was on the federal net at work. We had to use dial-up for some things and it sucked SO BAD that I decided they were going to pay me to chat on a computer, and I wouldn't do it on my own time until the SOB actually worked. I got on this thing after I retired. I may have jumped too soon. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 11, 2025 07:04 PM (zdLoL) 575
obody wears Hats, today."
Can't. No hat racks, and I'm not setting it on the floor... - man No problem. In D.C., I had a hat rack in my office that dated to the FDR era. Posted by: Paco at November 11, 2025 07:04 PM (mADJX) 576
Conservatives, being used to be attacked, always have a good answer to every question.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law And conservatives generally have a coherent worldview that's not based on infantilism. That makes answering questions easier. Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 07:04 PM (1Nv0l) 577
Mobland is fantastic. It's one of Hardy's best.
It's set in London but the Family is Irish. UK critics ridiculed Brosnan's accent, not realizing he did a Kerry accetn, not the Dublin accent they were familar with. Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 07:04 PM (dtajH) 578
567 In my one year of teaching I decided to confound my students. They kept asking how old I was. So I said, “when I was born, Harold Wilson was PM of the UK.”
I'm so old that Queen Elizabeth was the Queen! Posted by: t-bird at November 11, 2025 07:01 PM (+2PTH) Right about the time of that incident, the Queen left the mortal coil. Posted by: Cow Demon at November 11, 2025 07:04 PM (sVOFR) 579
Sheesh!
Tucker obviously picked one of the West Coast Sasquatches since they're much more likely to be smoking some of that weed that is grown out there. Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at November 11, 2025 07:05 PM (uNMpE) 580
Would anyone under 50 know what a haberdashery was?
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 07:05 PM (zzXla) 581
20 out of 20 and used a fax machine, check book and cursive today.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 11, 2025 07:05 PM (R86kT) 582
Four and a half hours of Bruckner:
youtube.com/watch?v=30Inf9Ax9RI Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:05 PM (7imtn) 583
I wear a baseball cap almost everyday but casual hat wear doesn't count for hat snobs.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 07:05 PM (EYmYM) 584
As to hats - like the Brazilian Tarp hats... nearly indestructible...
Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 07:05 PM (tubbA) 585
If you haven"t watched Slow Horses you should.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:05 PM (MXjT6) 586
I wear ball caps, mostly to keep the sun off my bald head. But I remove my cover in restaurants. I'll leave on the booth seat next to me, or drape it over my knee.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 07:06 PM (0aYVJ) 587
Wait, isn't Brosnan Irish?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:06 PM (zZu0s) 588
Yeah, and Helen Mirren's character is pretty much "Jemma" from Sons of Anarchy, played by Peggy Bundy. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:06 PM (A/n7m) 589
490, like the look the surgeon who took a squamous-cell whatchamacallit off my cheek gave me when I asked him if he could give me a Heidelberg scar ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 11, 2025 07:06 PM (kHop/) 590
So we’re with Jon Stewart and Wikipedia today? Is it Eurasia or Eastasia that we are at war with? But Tucker Carlson is Goldstein, I get that. Just want to keep up.
Posted by: Jmg at November 11, 2025 07:06 PM (1WSVq) 591
481
Obama was also an editor of the Harvard Review... yet never wrote anything... Funny that. Posted by: Romeo13 =============== President, not Editor, but still inglorious. None of his issues are cited. I only know what I read, but I read that the number of citations from a law journal is the criterion of its quality. His HLR presidency may have been the worst ever. Posted by: Blonde Morticia ------------ Editor has to work, he'll have none of that. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 07:06 PM (dveO7) 592
Mad as a hatter.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:06 PM (MXjT6) 593
571 I wore a replica Civil War felt slouch hat in winter in Chicago for many years, still have it. Surprisingly warm with the brim keeping snow off your face. - Oldcat
There you go! Wear what pleases you, I say. Posted by: Paco at November 11, 2025 07:07 PM (mADJX) 594
Editor has to work, he'll have none of that. Posted by: Braenyard ============ Exactly. I've heard President is more of a figurehead, far more suited to him. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 07:07 PM (0lgzA) 595
Missed any earlier postings of Vic but you know ? Fits perfectly what I would imagine it would be.
Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2025 07:07 PM (+qU29) 596
Would anyone under 50 know what a haberdashery was?
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 07:05 PM (zzXla) do not take haberdashery if you are allergic to haberdashery or its ingredients. Kidding aside, being over 50, I do know what it is. Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 07:08 PM (0aYVJ) 597
Do we get bonus points for having a car with a starter button on the floor? Or the pushbutton auto transmission?
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 11, 2025 07:08 PM (znHU2) 598
The first mistake is thinking you can or should explain the universe. Instead you need to describe it, as the universe is a real thing.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:00 PM (8avO+) --- "Completely simulate environment X" is almost certainly a super-Turing computation. So you need the computation power that machines can't do and requires intervention of a human-like mind. Which wouldn't likely be super-Turing if it was a machine with regular parameters. So you need software generated by a intervening agent. The only reason that compels us to believe that extra-Turing computation is possible, is that it is undecidable whether human computation is reducible to a Turing model. However, the only fully-comprehensible models of computation we have are Turing compatible. That's one of the difficulties of saying our awareness emerges out of machine-like regularity. Which was a problem unaddressed by matter in motion. Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 07:08 PM (krQz2) 599
CONtrails, those things first popularized by fleets of Allied bombers in the cold, this air above Germany in the 40's. And now...they're CHEMtrails. Yikes.
Posted by: Erik In Texas at November 11, 2025 07:08 PM (33efi) Posted by: Gerry F. footballer before helmets at November 11, 2025 07:08 PM (R86kT) 601
Mad as a hatter.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:06 PM (MXjT6 Mercury is too cool to have it anywhere near kids. Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 07:09 PM (EYmYM) 602
There's an argument that if Einstein had stepped out and predicted expansion via what's basically known now as the basic FLRW equations, that would've been way too radical at the time -- they might have laughed it off, and not gone on to try to verify some of the less radical predictions (gravitational lensing of late, which Eddington verified famously during the 1919 eclipse). Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley --- Maybe, but we already had black holes within months of Einstein's general relativity publication (Schwarzschild: wrote the paper on black holes from the frontline in WW1.) So shit was already getting pretty crazy. That said, people didn't understand the full implications of black holes until much later. Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 07:09 PM (1Nv0l) 603
>>I wear a baseball cap almost everyday but casual hat wear doesn't count for hat snobs.
I've got a closet of them. A fedora doesn't work that well when I'm on the water. Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2025 07:09 PM (viF8m) 604
>>Do we get bonus points for having a car with a starter button on the floor? Or the pushbutton auto transmission?
I miss cigarette lighters and ashtrays in cars. Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 07:09 PM (rO4EG) 605
Would anyone under 50 know what a haberdashery was?
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 07:05 PM (zzXla) I did when I was below 50 Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:09 PM (8avO+) 606
Remember when you were a kid and got impatient with the rotary dial and forced the wheel to go as fast as your finger could make it go? I'm sure those nanoseconds of time saved were worth it.
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 11, 2025 07:09 PM (qBdHI) 607
>> but it turns out to be non-zero after all. That's what dark energy is.
If you take the EFE (Einstein Field Equations) of GR, you can move the Lambda term to the right, and note, hey this looks like a source term. That's dark energy. But the other view is, it's just geometry, a feature of spacetime. Empty spacetime is deSitter, not Minkowski. But playing around with the idea of dark energy, some strange form of matter, you can do far more with it, the equation of state, than a mere constant term multiplying the metric tensor. It can be real stuff that does more strange things that a mere cosmological constant. The current view of dark energy is the latter, it's some sort of real stuff that behaves like Lambda. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 07:09 PM (w6EFb) 608
>>>When traveling long distance, I try to print out maps and put them in a binder. I also take paper road maps.
Just in case. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing ---------------- Buy clear contact paper at Wally or where ever. Times past one could purchase crystal clear plastic 8x11 sheets. Put one on each side and it will come out of a plate of spaghetti clean. Also you can mark it up with a grease pencil then wipe it away when finished. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 07:10 PM (dveO7) 609
Heidelberg scar and a monocle woulda so rocked, amirite? Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 11, 2025 07:10 PM (kHop/) 610
But I did see at least three black panthers (of the feline variety) prowling about the woods behind the house. Probably huntin' 'squatches or other cryptids.
Posted by: Erik In Texas at November 11, 2025 07:10 PM (33efi) 611
I remember when the "brights" switch for a car headlight was on the floorboard.
Posted by: Crusader at November 11, 2025 07:11 PM (TN0g+) 612
Black holes are also the point man on why Theory of Relativity and quantum mechanics aren't compatible.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 07:11 PM (EYmYM) 613
20 for 20. And yeah, I sit on the Boomer/Gen X divide.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 11, 2025 07:11 PM (/HDaX) 614
Maybe, but we already had black holes within months of Einstein's general relativity publication (Schwarzschild: wrote the paper on black holes from the frontline in WW1.)
So shit was already getting pretty crazy. That said, people didn't understand the full implications of black holes until much later. Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 07:09 PM (1Nv0l) Once the speed of light becomes a limit and light is affected by gravity something that light can't escape is obviously possible. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:11 PM (8avO+) 615
Headlight dimmer on the floor.
Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 07:11 PM (vFG9F) 616
I still prefer the dimmer on the floor.
Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 07:12 PM (vFG9F) 617
You're not going to get the chemtrail conspiracy genie back in the bottle now that several governments have fessed up to cloud seeding, and Canada was busted spraying roundup and other broad spectrum plant killers from planes over their eastern forests coinciding with their "you can't go into the wooooods!" panic.
Remains to be seen whether America's hat was doing that to facilitate timber harvesting, or just plain wanted to (literally) watch the world burn, or some other stupid milk-in-a-bag reason. I don't buy any of the wacky chemtrail theories but unfortunately we have now progressed from "Governments secretly spraying things from planes is silly" to "... yes, but they don't secretly spray THOSE things" Posted by: heya at November 11, 2025 07:12 PM (3897l) 618
>> So shit was already getting pretty crazy
And then Godel famously came along and told Einstein "Hey, your equations allow for time travel". Einstein said that's nonsense, Kurt. Godel said "I'll prove it!". And he did, the Godel Metric. Einstein said, well, shit fire. When Godel said he could prove something, you'd better look out. He generally did. He was bat shit crazy, but an absolute master of logic and mathematics. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 07:12 PM (w6EFb) 619
When you burn hydrocarbons, the products are CO2 and water. Jet fuel is a mix of hydrocarbons.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 11, 2025 07:12 PM (b4o9z) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 07:12 PM (dveO7) 621
I can imagine trying to explain that we used to find phone numbers that you could call for a recording. And they would allow multiple people to be on the call at the same time. And you would just yell stuff to each other.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 11, 2025 07:12 PM (znHU2) 622
The only conspiracy theory I believe is that Fruit of the Loom absolutely used to have a cornucopia in their logo, and efforts to convince people otherwise and say "oh that's just the Mandela effect" are a psyop to see how much everyone's memories and knowledge of the past can be rewritten.
Posted by: Cave Johnson I was in line at the Unemployment Office in Spring Valley, NY around 1978 with the original grape from the Fruit Of The Loom commercials. Posted by: Brush With Greatness at November 11, 2025 07:12 PM (oftw2) Posted by: Don Black at November 11, 2025 07:13 PM (AOsQT) 624
Buy clear contact paper at Wally or where ever. Times past one could purchase crystal clear plastic 8x11 sheets. Put one on each side and it will come out of a plate of spaghetti clean.
Also you can mark it up with a grease pencil then wipe it away when finished. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 07:10 PM (dveO7) you can also just buy a plastic 'pocket' for your map sheet and slide it in. A little more risky to get wet, but reusable. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:13 PM (8avO+) 625
The Great Schism, more commonly called the East-West Scism, occurred in 1054 A.D.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East–West_Schism Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 07:13 PM (uGI3N) 626
CONtrails, those things first popularized by fleets of Allied bombers in the cold, this air above Germany in the 40's. And now...they're CHEMtrails. Yikes.
Posted by: Erik In Texas at November 11, 2025 07:08 PM (33efi) I wonder what chemicals could be run through a jet engine with the jet fuel that would not injure the engine? Any guesses? It would be something that would aerosol well, or bind with the combustion gasses. Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 07:13 PM (rbvCR) 627
"615 Headlight dimmer on the floor."
First time I had to take a company car on a business trip: "Hey, where's the dimmer switch?" Blinded hundreds of drivers until, at the next tollbooth, the toll guy set me straight. Brave New World. Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:13 PM (7imtn) 628
583 - Four and a half hours of Bruckner - gp
Try a few minutes of Sid Caesar and Nanette Fabray doing Beethoven's Fifth. Masterful. https://tinyurl.com/hp7cyufw Posted by: Paco at November 11, 2025 07:14 PM (mADJX) 629
Now, even if the accelerated expansion turns out to be not true, you've still got Inflation (the exponential expansion spurt of the early Big Band) to deal with. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 07:14 PM (w6EFb) 630
The current view of dark energy is the latter, it's some sort of real stuff that behaves like Lambda.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley Yes. But I'm a geometry guy myself. It's just spacetime doing spacetimey things. The fact that *time* ends at the center of a black hole convinced me that gravity is plenty wild enough on its own to justify that viewpoint. Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 07:14 PM (1Nv0l) 631
"If you haven"t watched Slow Horses you should."
I will, but is it OK if I watch it at 1.5X playback speed? Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:14 PM (7imtn) 632
If you haven"t watched Slow Horses you should. ---- should what Posted by: Don Black =============== Buy clear contact paper at Wally or where ever. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 07:15 PM (0lgzA) 633
The Great Schism, more commonly called the East-West Scism, occurred in 1054 A.D.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East–West_Schism Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 07:13 PM (uGI3N) Just 12 years before William the Conqueror and Battle of Hastings. Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 07:15 PM (EYmYM) 634
I have 2 vehicles with the dimmer on the floor.
Posted by: Ol' Codger at November 11, 2025 07:15 PM (oftw2) 635
>The only conspiracy theory I believe is that Fruit of the Loom absolutely used to have a cornucopia in their logo,
---- true https://shorturl.at/JXj9P Posted by: Don Black at November 11, 2025 07:15 PM (AOsQT) 636
My #1 central "conspiracy theory" is that the elites are trying to make fewer of non-elites.
The Lanai fire buggers belief. Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 07:15 PM (krQz2) 637
I watched 5 seasons of Slow Horses in three days.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:15 PM (MXjT6) 638
Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 07:13 PM (rbvCR)
Re nic Are you trying to say you're Angela merkel? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:15 PM (zZu0s) 639
"I have 2 vehicles with the dimmer on the floor."
I have a dimmer switch on the floor. It's still laying there after I replaced it with a new one. Never got around to throwing it away. Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:16 PM (7imtn) 640
Nood. Cafe.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (zZu0s) 641
So shit was already getting pretty crazy. That said, people didn't understand the full implications of black holes until much later
------- How much more black could it be? And the answer is none. None more black. Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (vrsjf) 642
That black lesbo who got kicked out of golds gym because she didnt like a tranny that looked like a guy showing his dick confronted Scott Weiner another dick. Its on Ian Chongs twotter. She was spitting fire at that degenerate. Posted by: E Buzz at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (et1vG) 643
You guys dim your headlights?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (b4o9z) 644
604 >>Do we get bonus points for having a car with a starter button on the floor? Or the pushbutton auto transmission?
--------- Ever press the plunger barefoot after the knob has fallen off? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (dveO7) 645
The Great Schism, more commonly called the East-West Scism, occurred in 1054 A.D.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East–West_Schism Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 07:13 PM (uGI3N) Also the year the Crab Nebula (S/N 1054AD) was born. Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (/HDaX) 646
noood
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (7imtn) 647
And then Godel famously came along and told Einstein "Hey, your equations allow for time travel". Einstein said that's nonsense, Kurt. Godel said "I'll prove it!"...
But only in one direction. Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (EYmYM) 648
Here's something that has stumped me for quite awhile: how is it that, when cowboys -or gangsters or anybody else wearing hats - in old movies, get into a fist fight, their hats don't come off?
Posted by: Paco at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (mADJX) 649
Born under Truman, not that I remember the guy at all.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (q3u5l) 650
643 Ha!
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:18 PM (7imtn) 651
And then Godel famously came along and told Einstein "Hey, your equations allow for time travel". Einstein said that's nonsense, Kurt. Godel said "I'll prove it!".
And he did, the Godel Metric. Einstein said, well, shit fire. When Godel said he could prove something, you'd better look out. He generally did. He was bat shit crazy, but an absolute master of logic and mathematics. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley ---- Deriving Godel's metric was one of the problems on my General Relativity final. We hadn't covered it during lectures. (Not as impressive as it sounds: 90% of the problem is realizing that such a solution exists. So if you're told: derive this solution with these properties, you've been given a big leg up). Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 07:18 PM (1Nv0l) 652
Are you trying to say you're Angela merkel?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:15 PM (zZu0s) ANNALENA BAERBACH, PEASANT! Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 07:18 PM (rbvCR) 653
I wonder what chemicals could be run through a jet engine with the jet fuel that would not injure the engine?
Any guesses? It would be something that would aerosol well, or bind with the combustion gasses. Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 07:13 PM (rbvCR) Do the idijit chemtrails people say it comes out of the engine? Thats crazy. If it happened you'd be using some spray device coming out of the body or wings. The jet engine would either burn up a chemical, or fail and crash the plane. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:19 PM (8avO+) 654
FTR: My conspiracy theory is that the CIA wound up Oswald and he got out of their control. I've seen too many government-sanctioned nutjobs to believe that most government conspiracies can be kept under wraps.
Posted by: pookysgirl, listening to purrr-cussion practice at November 11, 2025 07:20 PM (Wt5PA) 655
Here's something that has stumped me for quite awhile: how is it that, when cowboys -or gangsters or anybody else wearing hats - in old movies, get into a fist fight, their hats don't come off?
Posted by: Paco at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (mADJX) Because the actors aren't punching each other. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:20 PM (8avO+) 656
>>>I don't buy any of the wacky chemtrail theories but unfortunately we have now progressed from "Governments secretly spraying things from planes is silly" to "... yes, but they don't secretly spray THOSE things" Posted by: heya ------------ Chemtrail would be an easy way to hide climatemodeling/cloud seeing/whatever spraying. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 07:21 PM (dveO7) 657
I believe the person(s) who put that quiz together scored around zero. The comments so far have had much better options (like paying for groceries with a check, or owning a car with ash trays).
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at November 11, 2025 07:22 PM (iDFVA) 658
How much more black could it be? And the answer is none. None more black.
Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (vrsjf) The fun part is they aren't black. They emit radiation. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:22 PM (8avO+) 659
"Again, read up on the Younger-Dryas Impact stuff. The meltwelter pulses and rising sea levels during that transition from the Pleistocene to the modern Holocene epoch. The North American megafauna extinctions and the Clovis culture that existed then. Something very interesting happened.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:17 PM (w6EFb)" There is some really wild deposits of frozen mangled megafauna in the permafrost, up north. Entire herds all wiped out in a single go. I think the Carolina bays and their Nebraskan counterparts are mis-dated and probably from an ice sheet impact ~13k years ago, and that the Saginaw impact hypothesis is also questionable on dating (a lot of the Younger Dryas researchers think that was ~60k years ago, and they seem to be having a bit of a tiff with others who think it coincided with the YDB impacts) IIRC they are up to evidence of several impacts (3+?) the the YDB stuff, and think it was a comet that had broken up associated with the Taurids. There are also some cool instances of dead critters in the permafrost from another time period that have microscopic evidence of supernova cosmic ray impacts in them, also Posted by: heya at November 11, 2025 07:22 PM (3897l) 660
"Just in case.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing" Anyone who doesn't have a basic road atlas in their vehicle is, at best, suffering from a temporary case of being an idiot. Posted by: heya at November 11, 2025 07:24 PM (3897l) Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 11, 2025 07:24 PM (/bt5i) 662
I can imagine trying to explain that we used to find phone numbers that you could call for a recording. And they would allow multiple people to be on the call at the same time. And you would just yell stuff to each other.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 11, 2025 07:12 PM (znHU2) We had a party line with someone across the street when I was a kid. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:24 PM (8avO+) Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:25 PM (7imtn) 664
The amazing thing about early remote channel changer? There were only 4 channels available, yet we still channel surfed.
---- Even when you had a subscription to TV Guide. Posted by: clarence at November 11, 2025 07:27 PM (kUdqB) 665
Posted by: Soothsayer Historic Facts at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (A/n7m)
Thanks for the historic fact. My ancestor was on the Mayflower . He was not a Pilgrim. He was an indentured servant to a Pilgrim family , but his name is there . Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2025 07:27 PM (QW8Jv) 666
There are also some cool instances of dead critters in the permafrost from another time period that have microscopic evidence of supernova cosmic ray impacts in them, also
Posted by: heya at November 11, 2025 07:22 PM (3897l) I remember in the 80s being annoyed how meteors were answering every question under the sun about why things died out. From what little I have seen the most likely explanation for most of it is just peeps discovering fire and burning out the big predators and game animals. Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:27 PM (8avO+) 667
Never had a walkman or a waterbed . Still use cursive and still have a checkbook.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2025 07:29 PM (QW8Jv) 668
>> IIRC they are up to evidence of several impacts (3+?) the the YDB stuff, and think it was a comet that had broken up associated with the Taurids.
There were several recent papers showing shocked quartz at the YDB layer. I'm pretty convinced it happened. Now my synthesis of what I've read so far, with possible errors and misinterpretations is thus: There was a big comet that came through and broke up, and that's the progenitor of current comet Encke and the Taurid stream. It broke up, and Earth, lo so 12,000 years ago, plowed right into the debris stream. We got a shotgun blast of low density icy impacts. Now that could've been stretched out, multiple passes through that debris stream, or all at once. Massive airbursts all over NA and the ice sheets. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 07:30 PM (w6EFb) Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge?h hil at November 11, 2025 07:30 PM (xG4kz) 670
I remember when the "brights" switch for a car headlight was on the floorboard. Posted by: Crusader And when the ignition switch was a simple on/off, because there was a pedal to the right of the throttle that physically engaged the starter bendix to the flywheel... Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 11, 2025 07:35 PM (Gjh8j) 671
>>Do we get bonus points for having a car with a starter button on the floor? Or the pushbutton auto transmission?
I miss cigarette lighters and ashtrays in cars. Posted by: garrett Ashtrays in the back for the kids. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 07:43 PM (/lPRQ) 672
Do we get bonus points for having a car with a starter button on the floor? Or the pushbutton auto transmission?
---- A car you could start with a crank. Posted by: clarence at November 11, 2025 08:17 PM (kUdqB) 673
20 points.
They forgot a “3 on the tree” manual transmission Posted by: Coelacanth at November 11, 2025 08:44 PM (i5B/J) 674
So am I some sort of black swan or something, or is that quiz aimed at very young people?
I answered “yes” to every single item, and I’m still in my mid-30s. I’m a friggin Millenial. And no, I did not grow up penniless in a rural area. Middle class, suburban upbringing. Am I really that ‘old’?!?! Posted by: Blorp at November 11, 2025 08:46 PM (FZ/dm) 675
667 Never had a walkman or a waterbed . Still use cursive and still have a checkbook.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke ------------ Had a waterbed and want another one. They are easy on old bones. Tree man looked at the check and said, I can't read this. I said, look at the numbers. He said, OK. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 08:50 PM (dveO7) 676
What happened to Cafe?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 08:51 PM (dveO7) 677
Does the waterbed count if you only used it one time? And didn't sleep?
Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2025 08:57 PM (CiZaq) 678
Deal to end US shutdown would also allow some Republican senators to seek $500,000 for January 6 probe
Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2025 08:59 PM (GITLP) 679
I get the joke, Ace..Since Nov 22, 1963(or before) we haven't been given all the information to make up our minds.
The gummint makes more money when we don't know anything, brother. Posted by: Danimal28 at November 11, 2025 09:28 PM (mNOhh) 680
"...there were world-traveling ancient civilizations that fell and completely disappeared before the earliest known civilizations like Babylon."
It seems worth pointing out that the number of believers in this idea is likely measured in the 100s of millions, if not billions worldwide, between the Jews, Christians, and Muslims who take the biblical account of Noah's flood and the antediluvian world literally. Intelligent people with differing beliefs can discuss the significance of the geologic/archeologic record, but this is not a wacky, fringe theory. Posted by: Dr. Lurker at November 11, 2025 09:30 PM (+NKAW) 681
19 out of 20.
Never used AOL. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 11, 2025 09:48 PM (EOjZq) 682
I used to be skeptical about chemtrails. Then I heard about actual instances of substances being sprayed into the atmosphere from mountaintops to "combat climate change" in the news. There was some experiment like that in Colorado and they supposedly made them stop, but who knows how that resolved. (Not that this was the same as spraying from planes, but I didn't think anyone would be getting away with mass spraying of chemicals into the air and I found out I was wrong.)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at November 11, 2025 09:51 PM (FMtrg) 683
On the "prove your age" let me just say, it reads more like a wishlist of shit I miss.
Posted by: wickedpinto at November 11, 2025 11:43 PM (A5DqO) The GQ Clips of the Sydney Sweeney Struggle Session Were Misleading.
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