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Welcome to Friday night. Please open your bibles to the letter of Paul to the...

I notice this a lot

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) June 4, 2022

The left can't seem to take yes for an answer. A few weeks ago when when the Roe decision leaked, there was some lib going on about how if abortion was outlawed, then men should be required to support the child and be a father to it. I've never seen so many people agreeing with a post, and she just kept trying to fight them because if she'd have listened to them it would have ruined her chance to be a victim. Gun control too. How many times have you seen a Prog say something like “We should give black people guns, the Republicans would ban them within a week”, and refuse to budge from the statement even after hundreds of pro-2A folks say “What a marvelous idea”. WRT the meme, that song is from the video game FarCry 5. Never played it, but as I understand the plot, you play a fed who is taking on a Christian group in Montana that just wants to be left alone. I agree with ChadJack up there. It's a banging song.

If it's not Baroque, don't fix it

Word of the day

I looked it up in the dictionary, and apparently emordnilap is a perfectly cromulent word.

What did you do that for?

Puck!

We're down to the final 4, who are you pulling for?

Happy Platinum Jubilee Queen Elizabeth!

On a weekend of Queen anecdotes, this won't be matched. Just lovely. pic.twitter.com/6z0WjUO2wn
— Jake Kanter (@Jake_Kanter) June 3, 2022

Always cite facts when arguing online. From an argument about pit bulls

I don't think this is going to go away anytime soon. The Uvalde cops did more harm to law enforcement than a month's worth of BLM riots

Friday wholesome content

Bon Mot

Fido Friday: Wheeee!

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) June 4, 2022

That would be a good t-shirt

The monkey's paw for a more cynical age

Reddit

You're never too old to stir shit

Tone deaf. I've never heard of one Latino person who likes “Latinx”. Why do the libs keep using it?

Tweets from Sodor

False flags

Inflection point: A thread of memes linked in a meme ONT

We need a pro-gun, anti-state meme thread. I'll start. Who has some good ones? pic.twitter.com/mcYHMgdnXz
— Will Harter (@willisfx8 May 25, 2022

Like a Roman stone

People are people, and always have been. This stone was found near Hadrian's Wall, built in the 120s. The inscription reads "Secundinus Cacator", which would roughly translate to "Secundinus is a shithead". There's also a giant dick.

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Top Gun: Maverick:

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) June 4, 2022

Posted by: WeirdDave at 10:00 PM

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1 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at June 03, 2022 10:01 PM (Bd6X8)

2 Yas!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at June 03, 2022 10:01 PM (hOUT3)

3 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 03, 2022 10:01 PM (Msys3)

4 hiya

Posted by: JT at June 03, 2022 10:01 PM (arJlL)

5 Do you ever feel as if you are slowly losing your patience with the world and that there is a seething ball of rage welling up inside you?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 03, 2022 10:01 PM (jOKqt)

6 good evening

Posted by: wing at June 03, 2022 10:01 PM (PlW9M)

7 Timing!

Posted by: Joe B in the WH at June 03, 2022 10:01 PM (3NlR/)

8 ...is off.

Posted by: Joe B in the WH at June 03, 2022 10:02 PM (3NlR/)

9 Yuliya

Posted by: Braenyard at June 03, 2022 10:02 PM (OMAvJ)

10 ...and so is the JB sock!

Posted by: Half Dozen at June 03, 2022 10:02 PM (3NlR/)

11 Hi all

Posted by: Ciampino at June 03, 2022 10:02 PM (qfLjt)

12 Do you ever feel as if you are slowly losing your patience with the world and that there is a seething ball of rage welling up inside you?

Every damn day.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 03, 2022 10:04 PM (nxdel)

13 Hello wing!

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 03, 2022 10:05 PM (nxdel)

14 Do you ever feel as if you are slowly losing your patience with the world and that there is a seething ball of rage welling up inside you?

Every damn day.
Posted by: Jewells45

Right before I posted "EVERY G**DAMNED DAY!!!" I saw your post.

This place. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at June 03, 2022 10:06 PM (Msys3)

15 Do you ever feel as if you are slowly losing your patience with the world and that there is a seething ball of rage welling up inside you?

Wait, that's not the default?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at June 03, 2022 10:07 PM (Bd6X8)

16
Her Majesty and I went out for breakfast this morning. Driving there we passed an HEB and the gas price was $4.29. When we drove past after we were done the price was $4.49. Thanks, Joe!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2022 10:07 PM (/U27+)

17 "Never played it, but as I understand the plot, you play a fed who is taking on a Christian group in Montana that just wants to be left alone. I agree with ChadJack up there. It's a banging song."

Not... exactly. That group is infused with drugs, child grooming, torture and the leader murdering his own baby daughter. They are NOT sympathetic. One of the more recent versions of a games company getting me to swear off their products. Christians=weird=evil.

Fuck you too, Ubisoft.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 03, 2022 10:08 PM (08ncd)

18 Do you ever feel as if you are slowly losing your patience with the world and that there is a seething ball of rage welling up inside you?

Every fucking day.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 03, 2022 10:08 PM (JqFtf)

19 Her Majesty and I went out for breakfast this morning. Driving there we passed an HEB and the gas price was $4.29. When we drove past after we were done the price was $4.49. Thanks, Joe!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Yesterday here - $4.29. This morning - $4.79.

Thanks Joe!!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 03, 2022 10:09 PM (Msys3)

20 hi ya jewelles

Posted by: wing at June 03, 2022 10:09 PM (PlW9M)

21 Pauline had some great epistles. I'll give her that.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 03, 2022 10:10 PM (XG2Fi)

22 Breathing room...
3-1

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 03, 2022 10:10 PM (BgMrQ)

23 Whose your daddy, Tampa?

Posted by: JackStraw at June 03, 2022 10:11 PM (ZLI7S)

24 14 Do you ever feel as if you are slowly losing your patience with the world and that there is a seething ball of rage welling up inside you?
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I'm with you, sister. Every day I feel like half of the world has gone insane.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 03, 2022 10:12 PM (XG2Fi)

25 Yesterday here - $4.29. This morning - $4.79.
Thanks Joe!!
Posted by: Tonypete

In the good old Weimar days, you filled your car every time you passed a gas station, because you KNEW it was never going to be cheaper than RIGHT EFFING NOW!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at June 03, 2022 10:12 PM (hOUT3)

26 Fuck you too, Ubisoft.

Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 03, 2022 10:08 PM (08ncd)
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Indeed. They made it so difficult to reconnect to their games after I stopped playing for a while I just gave up altogether. Removed them all from my Steam account and will never play the Far Cry franchise ever again....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 03, 2022 10:13 PM (K5n5d)

27 Every day I feel like half of the world has gone insane.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Always good to have an optimist drop in and comment!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at June 03, 2022 10:13 PM (hOUT3)

28 Nice goal.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 03, 2022 10:14 PM (ufFY8)

29 "Do you ever feel as if you are slowly losing your patience with the world and that there is a seething ball of rage welling up inside you?"

Every day. I'm usually over it by the ONT.

Posted by: fd at June 03, 2022 10:14 PM (vrz2I)

30 Well done, WeirdDave.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 03, 2022 10:14 PM (4I/2K)

31 Indeed. They made it so difficult to reconnect to their games after I stopped playing for a while I just gave up altogether. Removed them all from my Steam account and will never play the Far Cry franchise ever again....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 03, 2022 10:13 PM (K5n5d)

Bungie decided to go in all 'Women's reproductive freedom!' so Destiny gets an X as well. Back to Path of Exile. Starting to remember why I both loved and hated this game.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 03, 2022 10:15 PM (08ncd)

32 Always good to have an optimist drop in and comment!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at June 03, 2022 10:13 PM (hOUT3)

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I think I'm about right. The sane people are numerous, but quiet and seething.

Things like this are called tinderboxes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 03, 2022 10:15 PM (XG2Fi)

33 We are definitely in a time of change right now...

Tomorrow I start applying for a job opening where I work.

All signs are currently pointing in that direction...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 03, 2022 10:15 PM (K5n5d)

34 That Top Gun jet at the parking meter. A Denver Boot on one of the mail gear wheels would've put that over the top.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 03, 2022 10:16 PM (QzJWU)

35 Bungie decided to go in all 'Women's reproductive freedom!' so Destiny gets an X as well. Back to Path of Exile. Starting to remember why I both loved and hated this game.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 03, 2022 10:15 PM (08ncd)
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I like to relieve my frustrations with a quiet evening on the murder simulator, aka, "Hitman III"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 03, 2022 10:16 PM (K5n5d)

36 I liked Secundinus Cacator, the Houston dogs and the bus depot stories particularly.

Posted by: Ciampino at June 03, 2022 10:16 PM (qfLjt)

37 Hi, I'm Larry and this is my dog Houston and this is my other dog Houston.

Posted by: Larry at June 03, 2022 10:17 PM (63Dwl)

38
We took Delilah to the vet for an ultrasound this afternoon. She's definitely pregnant, with 5+ puppies. We'll have a better idea late this month when we do an X-ray. The anticipated delivery date is July 1st, when a surgical C-section will be done.

This, even more than her storied show career, will be the most important thing she'll ever do. She'd need to have a litter of 50 to fulfill the number of people wanting one of her kids.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2022 10:18 PM (/U27+)

39 Love Far Cry 5.

Posted by: 496 at June 03, 2022 10:18 PM (U1eOr)

40 Happy-ish Friday Evening ...

Posted by: Adriane the Helpful Critic ... at June 03, 2022 10:19 PM (okV1R)

41 TB won 9 straight Game 2s.

What kind of fvcked up statistic is that?

Just shut up.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 03, 2022 10:19 PM (ufFY8)

42 *main* gear wheels.

I think my canoe's GPS is set to autocucumber.

*capsizes*

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 03, 2022 10:20 PM (QzJWU)

43 > seething ball of rage welling up inside you?
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I thought it was a tick. Prolly need to check again.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 03, 2022 10:21 PM (BFigT)

44 I liked Secundinus Cacator, the Houston dogs and the bus depot stories particularly.
Posted by: Ciampino

The bus depot story was so great!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at June 03, 2022 10:21 PM (hOUT3)

45 This, even more than her storied show career, will be the most important thing she'll ever do. She'd need to have a litter of 50 to fulfill the number of people wanting one of her kids.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2022 10:18 PM (/U27+)

Is this a one and done, or do you have plans to have her bred again?

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 03, 2022 10:22 PM (BgMrQ)

46 Main gear wheels are tough. Nosegear is *sensitive* to abuse.

Don't ask me how I know this.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 03, 2022 10:22 PM (XG2Fi)

47
Is this a one and done, or do you have plans to have her bred again?
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 03, 2022 10:22 PM (BgMrQ)

_________

She's nearly 7, so the answer is no.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2022 10:24 PM (/U27+)

48 Congratulations Hadrian!

Posted by: runner at June 03, 2022 10:24 PM (V13WU)

49 OK, I love that taxidermied lion. What a face!

Posted by: Iris at June 03, 2022 10:24 PM (foa6+)

50 Congrats Hadrian!

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 03, 2022 10:24 PM (nxdel)

51 >> seething ball of rage welling up inside you?

BALL OF CONFUSION : THE TEMPTATIONS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5P7x4vh_ts&t=1s

Posted by: garrett at June 03, 2022 10:25 PM (EpiXX)

52 H/T to Insty for another documented Bai-Den triumph for public safety:

shorturl.at/crAY6

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at June 03, 2022 10:25 PM (hOUT3)

53 That Secundinus Cacator in particular shows Man hasn'r changed in 2000 years. I wonder if Secundinus was the boss, the centurion or a landlord.

Posted by: Ciampino at June 03, 2022 10:25 PM (qfLjt)

54 That final GIF (pronounced GIF, not JIF) is from Hot Shots, and here's the thing....
The groceries thing is close to true. My uncle would fly in from Florida to the Dallas Naval Air Station in his A4 Skyhawk. We would drive down to meet him and take him to the package store for a couple of cases of Coors. He would then put the Coors in the nosecone (after securing the antenna in there) and fly back out to Florida.

Posted by: GWB at June 03, 2022 10:27 PM (7wfSc)

55 Secondus is Latin for Todd.

Posted by: garrett at June 03, 2022 10:27 PM (EpiXX)

56
Pat Verbeek: The Little Ball of Hate

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2022 10:27 PM (/U27+)

57 Howdy all, what's shakin? I was earlier when I had my prostate biopsy. As it was ending I felt like I was going to pass out. They said that happens sometimes, very unsettling.

Posted by: Farmer at June 03, 2022 10:29 PM (55Qr6)

58 let's put it away right now...

Light The Lamp!

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 03, 2022 10:29 PM (BgMrQ)

59 Good evening morons and gracias wd

The pic of the man feeding his wide ice cream was sweet, let's all hope it was chocolate.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 03, 2022 10:30 PM (EZebt)

60 I know you aren't looking forward to dealing with puppies but this is a good thing. We need more new life. I just hope it goes well for Lila.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at June 03, 2022 10:31 PM (YynYJ)

61 Hadrian, so when's the baby shower?? I wish I could have had all five of mine at once, they would hopefully all be productive adults now.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 03, 2022 10:31 PM (a4EWo)

62 Regarding "The Church Epistles" ...

We read that the Word of God grew mightily and prevailed, and that "all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus." And yet, at the close of his ministry, and of his life, he writes his last Epistle to Timothy, when he says "I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand” (II Timothy 1:15): "This thou knowest that all they that be in Asia have turned away from me."
We are told, on every hand, today, that we must go back to the first three centuries to find the purity of faith and worship of the primitive church!
But it is clear from this comparison of Acts 19:10 and II Timothy 1:15, that we cannot go back to the first century. No, not even to the apostle’s own lifetime!
part one

Posted by: illiniwek at June 03, 2022 10:32 PM (Cus5s)

63 Secondus is Latin for Todd.
Posted by: garrett at June 03, 2022 10:27 PM (EpiXX)

Fucking Seconds.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 03, 2022 10:33 PM (ufFY8)

64 The Queen anecdote was funny, too.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 03, 2022 10:33 PM (ufFY8)

65 Secondus, dammit

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 03, 2022 10:34 PM (ufFY8)

66 62 Regarding "The Church Epistles" ...

Man is so fickle. I'm sure I qualify. I just hope God will understand.

Posted by: Ciampino at June 03, 2022 10:36 PM (qfLjt)

67 >> Secondus, dammit

Fucking Seconds is a funny concept though.

'You want to throw down?'

'Cool Have your Second get in touch with mine and they can negotiate the terms as well as the location.'

Posted by: garrett at June 03, 2022 10:36 PM (EpiXX)

68 My best friend who was in the Air Force at the time flew C-141's into, and out of Europe during the 90's. At Christmas he'd pop in with one of those plastic carriers like they used for milk back in the day. Except his was filled with big 'ol bottles of beer, kept cold in the wheel wells of the plane until touchdown.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 03, 2022 10:36 PM (BFigT)

69 Nice.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 03, 2022 10:36 PM (4NlP1)

70
I know you aren't looking forward to dealing with puppies but this is a good thing.

_________

Until their eyes open (about 10 days), Mama and babies are watched 24 hours a day. With HM and I both more or less retired, we can have a less exhausting watch schedule.

And it is a good thing. The purpose of all the shows Lila went to is the evaluation of breeding stock. She passed that test with flying colors. Now she can add her virtues to the gene pool.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2022 10:36 PM (/U27+)

71 Icing?
Bad move by TN

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 03, 2022 10:36 PM (ufFY8)

72 Yesterday here - $4.29. This morning - $4.79.
Thanks Joe!!
Posted by: Tonypete at June 03, 2022 10:09

After filling the tank at 4.49 I didnt pay attention to the price, then I noticed it had risen to 5.09. We are usually below the national average but not now.

Posted by: Farmer at June 03, 2022 10:37 PM (55Qr6)

73 65 Secondus, dammit

So Secondinus is Little Todd?

Posted by: Ciampino at June 03, 2022 10:37 PM (qfLjt)

74 part two
This turning away could not have been merely personal; but must have included his teaching also. For in chapter 2, verse 18, he speaks of those "who concerning the truth have erred." In chapter 3, verse 8, he speaks of those who "resist the truth." In chapter 4, verse 4, he speaks of those who "turn away their ears from the truth” and are “turned unto fables."
I think that is all E.W. Bullinger

doctrine, reproof, correction ... Romans Ephesians Thessalonians doctrine ... Corinthians Philippians reproof ... Galatians Colossians Correction (from wrong doctrine, not just wrong practice) -- no reproof or correction for Thessalonians because the is the return.

or that is how I learned it. The individual is sovereign .. joining a church, being sprinkled or dunked, kissing the ring ... nope. Goe3s deeper than that .. but we know that, right?

Posted by: illiniwek at June 03, 2022 10:37 PM (Cus5s)

75 Buckle up!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 03, 2022 10:38 PM (ufFY8)

76 The distortion of "gun crime" and "police brutality" goes on every day. Combat it, and the truth be known.
https://tinyurl.com/3hvjba83

Posted by: exdem13 at June 03, 2022 10:38 PM (W+kMI)

77
doctrine, reproof, correction ... Romans Ephesians Thessalonians doctrine ... Corinthians Philippians reproof ... Galatians Colossians Correction (from wrong doctrine, not just wrong practice) -- no reproof or correction for Thessalonians because the is the return.

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The Perils of Pauline.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2022 10:39 PM (/U27+)

78 Come on boys...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 03, 2022 10:39 PM (BgMrQ)

79 That joke about Paul's letters is pretty good. It's basically true too.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 03, 2022 10:39 PM (W+kMI)

80 Anyone else with trippy ass hockey game audio?

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 03, 2022 10:39 PM (4NlP1)

81 TB looked crappy with that man advantage, but somehow pulled a goal from their ass.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 03, 2022 10:40 PM (ufFY8)

82 80 Anyone else with trippy ass hockey game audio?
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 03, 2022 10:39 PM (4NlP1)

It's an ESPN issue

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 03, 2022 10:40 PM (BgMrQ)

83 I figured as much, but wanted confirmation. Thanks.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 03, 2022 10:41 PM (4NlP1)

84 Kind of quiet here on a Friday night, Farmer, I hope that you'll be okay. While everyone is bitching about the Uvalde cops they forget that the precedent for this type of police response occurred at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas high school in Florida. Scott Peterson was a coward of the highest order.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 03, 2022 10:41 PM (a4EWo)

85 Wow.big flurry of action there.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 03, 2022 10:41 PM (ufFY8)

86 Like I made mention of earlier:

S

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 03, 2022 10:43 PM (BgMrQ)

87 The wife is busy tomorrow morning, so I'm going to see Top Gun: Maverick while I have a couple of spare hours. I rarely go to movies, but I trust Critical Drinker's reviews enough to risk my money. Also, I'm expecting nothing more than a mindless action movie, so if it turns out to be more I'll be pleasantly surprised.

Posted by: PabloD says start up the rotors at June 03, 2022 10:44 PM (ZfIh5)

88 Squeaky Bum Time

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 03, 2022 10:44 PM (BgMrQ)

89 >Do you ever feel as if you are slowly losing your patience with the world and that there is a seething ball of rage welling up inside you?

More like a black pit of despair.

I did laugh at the Pauline epistle joke though.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at June 03, 2022 10:44 PM (8548M)

90 Yes.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 03, 2022 10:44 PM (ZLI7S)

91 WD! Your ONTs get better by the week...
Hogg proves that Harvard Square always was and will be the barely adequate place to buy drugs, yet a very poor place to buy an education...
Also. Avs!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 03, 2022 10:44 PM (l1n62)

92 A little closer than I would have liked Jack...

#imtoooldforthisshit

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 03, 2022 10:45 PM (BgMrQ)

93 "Man is so fickle. I'm sure I qualify. I just hope God will understand." Posted by: Ciampino

humility is a good start ... I hope. heh

Posted by: illiniwek at June 03, 2022 10:45 PM (Cus5s)

94 Paul had an epistle on the road to Damascus.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 03, 2022 10:46 PM (4I/2K)

95 oh... saw first fawn a couple hours ago ... just one with mom though. Twins are normal.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 03, 2022 10:46 PM (Cus5s)

96 Good game.
Would have been nice if Shesterkinovanovich would have limited it to one goal against.
But, alas ..

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 03, 2022 10:47 PM (ufFY8)

97 Oh my... DOJ just announced NO charges for Meadows for not complying with Jan 6 Congressional Investigation...

Even though they ARRESTED and put in CHAINS Navaro today.

Can you say, selective Prosecution, and not equal protection under the law??? ... nice try... I knew you could...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 10:48 PM (oHd/0)

98 Hey COMM, I didn't know that you hung out in Harvard Square!!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 03, 2022 10:48 PM (a4EWo)

99 The story about the Queen was so sweet!

We actually got to see her, quite serendipitously, when we visited Edinburgh. Daughter #1 wanted to eat at the Hard Rock Cafe, so we drove over there from the train station. Walked over to the restaurant, and noticed a small crowd standing close to where the restaurant was located.

Earlier that morning, the news mentioned that Her Majesty was at her castle in Edinburgh to knight Sean Connery. We joked that our invitations must have gotten lost in the mail. When we saw the crowd outside of the restaurant, we thought that Mr. Connery must be dining at the HRC, and we wouldn't get a table to save our lives.

We got closer to the restaurant and realized that the crowd - and a bunch of Bobbies - was standing outside of the building right next to the HRC, and all of the wait staff were standing at the restaurant window, looking for something.

We got up to the crrowd, asked what was going on, and were told that the Queen was handing out a couple of medals in the building next door.

Cont.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoS Ladies' Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at June 03, 2022 10:48 PM (ssJR+)

100 $5.19 here in Bethesda for regular.
It is really starting to feel out of control. Instead of trying to make things better, they are doubling down.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2022 10:49 PM (Y+l9t)

101 Sra blaster and I are going to see Top Gun at the IMAX at Udvar Hazy tomorrow

Posted by: blaster at June 03, 2022 10:50 PM (9otr5)

102 87 The wife is busy tomorrow morning, so I'm going to see Top Gun: Maverick while I have a couple of spare hours. I rarely go to movies, but I trust Critical Drinker's reviews enough to risk my money. Also, I'm expecting nothing more than a mindless action movie, so if it turns out to be more I'll be pleasantly surprised.

Posted by: PabloD says start up the rotors at June 03, 2022 10:44 PM (ZfIh5)

Talked to a buddy yesterday. He is a retired Army Col. He and his son, an Air Force pilot, saw it and loved it. Better than the first one he said.

Posted by: Javems at June 03, 2022 10:50 PM (AmoqO)

103 94 Paul had an epistle on the road to Damascus.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 03, 2022 10:46 PM (4I/2K)

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Knocked him right off his ass too.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 03, 2022 10:52 PM (XG2Fi)

104 doctrine, reproof, correction ... Romans Ephesians Thessalonians doctrine ... Corinthians Philippians reproof ... Galatians Colossians Correction (from wrong doctrine, not just wrong practice) -- no reproof or correction for Thessalonians because the is the return.

or that is how I learned it. The individual is sovereign .. joining a church, being sprinkled or dunked, kissing the ring ... nope. Goe3s deeper than that .. but we know that, right?
Posted by: illiniwek at June 03, 2022 10:37 PM (Cus5s)

The problem with the concept of sola scriptura is that the Bible is not always clearly written and passages can be interpreted differently. Thus, you end up with thousands of Protestant churches and sects. The Catholic and Orthodox Churches, despite having flawed leadership over the centuries and differences in doctrine, are the only ones that can trace continuity from Jesus Christ.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 03, 2022 10:52 PM (pJWtt)

105 My thoughts on the Gospels and Paul's epistles:

The truth is stranger than fiction.

Just tonight I knelt and sat not 10 feet from the creator of the world. Who could dream up such a thing as God would become man and live among us? And love us so much?

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 03, 2022 10:52 PM (lKAqb)

106 I don't know why, but little things have just started bothering me.

Like at work, I have to ask everyone to show their ID for beer. So 70 and 80 year olds come see me, often multiple times and I know them by name and what beer they drink, but I still have to ask them again and again.

They actually don't complain. But I have a problem with it. I f*cking hate stupid compliance for compliance sake.

And then they now make me use an ID scanner to make sure the ID isn't fake. I mean it's just agitating. Why the f*ck am I carding an elderly person and checking to see if their ID is fake.

There is no law that says I have to in my area, it's just company policy. But it's a stupid f*cking policy. I now actually want some Vietnam vet to yell at me "I served this country and killed men and I ain't showing no damned ID" and then punch me in the face. I think I'd actually feel better. I can't scream "this is stupid" so it would be nice if someone else would just raise immortal hell and then assault me.

It would be cathartic.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 03, 2022 10:53 PM (jOKqt)

107 Ecce Leo

Posted by: spindrift at June 03, 2022 10:53 PM (lNVqr)

108 Paul? Dude was firing off epistles in every damn direction.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 03, 2022 10:53 PM (XG2Fi)

109 Blaster, is that the one on the Mall?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2022 10:53 PM (Y+l9t)

110 Daughter wanted to eat. We hold get that if we made the waiters and cooks miss their chance to see the Queen, there was no telling what would find its way into our food, and besides.....THE QUEEN!!!!!

I mean, what are the chances that you will ever see the Queen up close?

So we waited, and a few minutes later, she came out. Everyone was very polite. I could only see the top of her hat, 'cuz she is apparently just as short as I am, but I handed the camera to Paul and he held it over his head and blindly took some photos.

When we got back home, we were thrilled to see that all of the photos were good, and you could actually tell that it was the Queen in the pictures!

And that is my "Queen" story....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoS Ladies' Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at June 03, 2022 10:53 PM (ssJR+)

111 You will never find the words "sola scriptura" in the Bible. Paul wrote about the scripture and the traditions.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 03, 2022 10:54 PM (lKAqb)

112 The "joke" about Paul is good, I wasn't trying to be Bible Nazi. But I think most don't realize Paul said most had left him before he died. ... Another verse he speaks of only the few he names, that are still with him. ...

The scribes did the hard work ... institutional religions failed us .. but as with the Constitution, we have written documents, (beyond the constitution ... all the writings that give us details of the founder's intentions)

imo "the church" had been twisted in Orwellian ways not long after Paul. Kinda a golden calf typical man forming his own thang tradition of earthy man.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 03, 2022 10:54 PM (Cus5s)

113 We got an epistle.

Posted by: Romans at June 03, 2022 10:55 PM (XG2Fi)

114 Notes from the fall of civilization...um...I mean California:

California court says bees are fish https://tinyurl.com/5e9r6w2b

Gas hits nearly $10 a gallon in California's Mendocino
https://t.co/9Y2ssGygsi
said her last load of 8,880 gallons of gas, which has to be paid off in 10 days, cost about $50,000. Three months ago, she said she paid about $20,000 less for the same size load. Schlafer said that if she didn't charge $9.60, she'd be out of business.

"I'm going to be lucky if I make the year with all the fees, the regulation, the payroll fees," she said. "If it continues the way it is, Mendocino won't have a gas station next year."

California approves state's 1st robotic taxi fleet
https://tinyurl.com/49y9xrze
California regulators on Thursday gave a robotic taxi service the green light to begin charging passengers for driverless rides in San Francisco...will consist of just 30 electric vehicles confined to transporting passengers in less congested parts of San Francisco from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Those restrictions are designed to minimize chances of the robotic taxis causing property damage, injuries or death...

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at June 03, 2022 10:55 PM (MFZ8i)

115 TB looked crappy with that man advantage, but somehow pulled a goal from their ass.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 03, 2022 10:40 PM (ufFY

Given the size of a hockey puck that must have hurt.

Posted by: GWB at June 03, 2022 10:55 PM (7wfSc)

116 We got TWO epistles.

Posted by: Corinthians at June 03, 2022 10:55 PM (XG2Fi)

117 @swa that's the one at Dulles

Posted by: blaster at June 03, 2022 10:55 PM (9otr5)

118 Well here we are. Another Friday ONT. Counting the days until the return of Miklos to the ONT. Maybe a phantom appearance here and there the last few days....

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 03, 2022 10:55 PM (Jzz++)

119 DDS, oh yeah. Picked up some of the worst reefer there. Much like Hogg picking up zero brain power...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 03, 2022 10:55 PM (l1n62)

120 108 Paul? Dude was firing off epistles in every damn direction.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 03, 2022 10:53 PM (XG2Fi)

Firing Epistles? The Paulo has a different... term... for it..

Posted by: The Paulo at June 03, 2022 10:56 PM (oHd/0)

121 54 That final GIF (pronounced GIF, not JIF) is from Hot Shots, and here's the thing....
The groceries thing is close to true. My uncle would fly in from Florida to the Dallas Naval Air Station in his A4 Skyhawk. We would drive down to meet him and take him to the package store for a couple of cases of Coors. He would then put the Coors in the nosecone (after securing the antenna in there) and fly back out to Florida.
Posted by: GWB at June 03, 2022 10:27 PM (7wfSc)

The original Smokey and the Bandit! Cool.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at June 03, 2022 10:57 PM (Hh3y4)

122 Blaster,I knew it sounded familiar. The MGC will expect a review.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2022 10:57 PM (Y+l9t)

123 I heard from a long haul trucker "Never buy fuel in California."

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 03, 2022 10:58 PM (lKAqb)

124 >>> 84 Kind of quiet here on a Friday night, Farmer, I hope that you'll be okay. While everyone is bitching about the Uvalde cops they forget that the precedent for this type of police response occurred at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas high school in Florida. Scott Peterson was a coward of the highest order.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 03, 2022 10:41 PM (a4EWo)

*ahem*

Posted by: Littleton HS (Denver CO suburb) at June 03, 2022 10:59 PM (llON8)

125 116 We got TWO epistles.
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And you self-conscious trend-chasing twits deserved both of them.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 03, 2022 11:00 PM (W+kMI)

126 (Can a COB please go to #110 and change the words "hold get" to "told her"? Stupid autocorrect....)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoS Ladies' Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at June 03, 2022 11:00 PM (ssJR+)

127 Doc, I have a couple of epistles...

Posted by: Paul at June 03, 2022 11:01 PM (Vg5Sd)

128 I like that song a lot! How do I make "keep your rifle by your side" a ring tone?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 03, 2022 11:01 PM (kf6Ak)

129 I've been watching Stranger Things. Has anyone seen it. It is kind of sad in a way. The first couple were about nerdy kids and had great music and a kind of innocence that was charming. This season is dark and nasty and I don't recall any music except creepy opera. They just killed everything that made it good.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2022 11:02 PM (Y+l9t)

130 127 Doc, I have a couple of epistles...
Posted by: Paul at June 03, 2022 11:01 PM (Vg5Sd)

EPistles... why does that sound like a weapon from a video game?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 11:02 PM (oHd/0)

131 Great post! I loved the Queen story, the husband feeding his wife ice cream, the little girl and the puppy on the slide, and the feisty 80-year-old neighbor stories.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoS Ladies' Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at June 03, 2022 11:03 PM (ssJR+)

132 118 Pete Bog

ONTs can get pretty lively with Miklos...I miss that guy

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 03, 2022 11:03 PM (l1n62)

133 My review of Top Gun I and II - spoiler alert

Kelly McGillis - extremely 80's hot but not believable. Nice Porsche. Every hot girl in California drove a teacup speedster. It was required by law.

Jennifer Connelly - 90's hot but even more so in the aught 20's with a little age and story line. Moderately believable in the suspension of belief Hollywood divorced beautiful bar owner with an expensive sail boat and an even better Porsche sort of way.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 03, 2022 11:04 PM (Jzz++)

134 111 You will never find the words "sola scriptura" in the Bible. Paul wrote about the scripture and the traditions.
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I remember Paul saying that Christians had nothing to offer other people nothing but hope. The Jews wanted oracles and miracles, and the Greeks wanted wisdom and a guide for life. But the Christians only had faith, hope, and love (through the Resurrection) to offer to everyone.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 03, 2022 11:04 PM (W+kMI)

135 When I arrived in Cambridge (1974) I stayed at the Brattle Inn in Harvard Square, one or two nights until I found some permanent digs on Freshpond Parkway.

Posted by: Ciampino at June 03, 2022 11:04 PM (qfLjt)

136 Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2022 11:02 PM (Y+l9t)

I think I saw Robert Englund (of Nightmare on Elm Street fame) got involved with it.

So of course it can't just be semi-scary without gore. It has to be full on slap you in the face horrifying and Satanic.

Hollywood just can't get enough violence in their offings, whilst simultaneously pretending they give a sh*t about violence.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 03, 2022 11:06 PM (jOKqt)

137 Jennifer Connelly - 90's hot but even more so in the aught 20's with a little age and story line. Moderately believable in the suspension of belief Hollywood divorced beautiful bar owner with an expensive sail boat and an even better Porsche sort of way.
Posted by: Pete Bog at June 03, 2022 11:04 PM (Jzz++)

If you like that sort of thing.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 03, 2022 11:06 PM (Jzz++)

138 101 Sra blaster and I are going to see Top Gun at the IMAX at Udvar Hazy tomorrow
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I want to see it too, will try for some time in the next week or two.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 03, 2022 11:07 PM (W+kMI)

139 The Rangers seem to have the Lightning's number, and that is a good thing.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 03, 2022 11:08 PM (8GBH4)

140 There's a different way of pronouncing Houston? Is it like "House-ton" or something?

Posted by: banana Dream at June 03, 2022 11:09 PM (XlZ2m)

141 Teresa, That is a nice story , I'm glad that you have those pictures. I loved the story about the Queen in the ONT. COMM, I spent many hours in Harvard Square, but not the cool places, I was happier amongst my own kind, we'd go watch a Cambridge Rindge Latin basketball game featuring Patrick Ewing before he became a star and then we'd head to Charley's Kitchen for a burger and a beer or the upstairs bar at Hong Kong and have Chinese food. Those were some fun times.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 03, 2022 11:09 PM (a4EWo)

142 " The Catholic and Orthodox Churches, despite having flawed leadership over the centuries and differences in doctrine, are the only ones that can trace continuity from Jesus Christ." Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop

as I said, the scribes did the best work .. preserving the scriptures. ... Christ Jesus is the head of the church ... other "continuity" means little, especially if they are murderous, torturers ... that deny/subvert scripture. Hence a Martin Luther that says "hey, selling indulgences is wrong".

Wrong Practice, which the Catholic church made established Wrong Doctrine. I think he had 94 other arguments ... based in scripture, in defiance of the Ex Cathedra pope. (as if Pope speaks directly for God, even if he clearly defies scripture)

No fish on Friday was never right doctrine, it was pagan. So they came around to change it ... but it was always wrong doctrine. ... as with hundreds of others things. Now commie pope wants to rewrite the Lord's prayer, accept LGBTQ+ ... but "continuity" (your traditions defy God, I think Jesus said) ... means Catholics keep funding the commie Pope.

But I have no church to bring anyone to ... so .. hmmm.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 03, 2022 11:09 PM (Cus5s)

143 116 We got TWO epistles.
Posted by: Corinthians at June 03, 2022 10:55 PM (XG2Fi)

Because you obviously didn't read the first one!!!

Posted by: Moki at June 03, 2022 11:09 PM (JrN/x)

144 Read the content, giggling the whole time
Thanks WD!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 03, 2022 11:10 PM (kf6Ak)

145 We got TWO epistles.
Posted by: Corinthians at June 03, 2022 10:55 PM (XG2Fi)

One for each of you. Nice rich leather cloaks though.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 03, 2022 11:10 PM (4I/2K)

146 ONTs can get pretty lively with Miklos...I miss that guy

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 03, 2022 11:03 PM (l1n62)

What happened to Miklos?

Posted by: Javems at June 03, 2022 11:10 PM (AmoqO)

147 Do you ever feel as if you are slowly losing your patience with the world and that there is a seething ball of rage welling up inside you?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 03, 2022 10:01 PM (jOKqt)
Every fricking time I deal with AT&T customer service.

Posted by: waepnedmann at June 03, 2022 11:10 PM (i3+kE)

148 Jennifer Connelly - 90's hot but even more so in the aught 20's with a little age and story line

Keep in mind she's running around now complaining that she got roles in her 20s preciously because she was good looking.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2022 11:10 PM (ESjRY)

149
I've read that story about the Queen and the American tourists, but it was nice to hear it straight from the horse's mouth. "Oh, I live in London, but I have a summer flat here".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 03, 2022 11:10 PM (Mzdiz)

150 B.C., that's exactly it. Hard to watch at times. There is a scene where the main character gets positively humiliated,in front of a crowd of kids her own age. It was terrifying. It made me angry watching it. This is not what you want in entertainment. Why do I keep watching? Keep hoping the good guys win.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2022 11:11 PM (Y+l9t)

151 Every fricking time I deal with AT&T customer service.

Hello my name is Kumar...uh...Kevin and I will be helping you from Mumbai...uh...Memphis today.

Do not worry I will do the needful.

Posted by: Kumar from Mumbai at June 03, 2022 11:12 PM (ESjRY)

152 Thank heaven the Queen met two Americans who weren't a-holes. I mean, like somebody who offered her a CD full of his speeches.

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 03, 2022 11:12 PM (xTwVZ)

153 135

When I was a goofy kid, Harvard Square was THE place to hitchhike to (or take the trolly) to get pot.
1974...one year before I said screw it, and moved west, never to look back

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 03, 2022 11:13 PM (l1n62)

154
No fish on Friday was never right doctrine, it was pagan. So they came around to change it ...

________

*polite cough*

No meat on Friday. Which is in penance for our sins. That we are to perform penance on Friday has not changed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2022 11:13 PM (/U27+)

155 California is currently Israel in the time of Ahab. After Jezebel had Naboth framed so hubby Ahab could have that vineyard, Elijah stood forth and proclaimed the Lord's punishment. There was three years of drought and misery in Israel. Then one day Ahab was truckin' in his chariot and met Elijah upon the road. And he greeted Elijah with the accusation that the drought and its consequences was the result of Elijah's unhappiness. The prophet set him straight on sin and the rewards thereof. Which led to a contest being arranged....

Posted by: exdem13 at June 03, 2022 11:13 PM (W+kMI)

156 Corinthians I is all about bickering.

Posted by: Axeman at June 03, 2022 11:13 PM (OaZlZ)

157
"I'm going to be lucky if I make the year with all the fees, the regulation, the payroll fees," she said. "If it continues the way it is, Mendocino won't have a gas station next year."

And that's why we have to have more taxes on gas!

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 03, 2022 11:13 PM (ESjRY)

158 hola chamucos y chamucas

Posted by: escuincle at June 03, 2022 11:13 PM (MVJFB)

159 >>> What happened to Miklos?
Posted by: Javems at June 03, 2022 11:10 PM (AmoqO)

He's still around but you have to stay up pretty late.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 03, 2022 11:13 PM (XlZ2m)

160 Posted by: Pete Bog at June 03, 2022 11:04 PM (Jzz++)

Never thought Kelly McGillis was that Hawt.... I mean, I would not kick her out of bed... but I've dated better looking ladies.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 11:14 PM (oHd/0)

161 I watched The Batman. And it was ok. Sparkly Vampire guy actually can act. And the guy that played the main villain did well too.

But...Zoe Kravitz as Cat Woman? Sorry she doesn't have "it".

Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2022 11:15 PM (ESjRY)

162 157 Corinthians I is all about bickering.
Posted by: Axeman at June 03, 2022 11:13 PM (OaZlZ)

Well there was that guy who was sleeping with his father's wife and the church was totes okay with that...

Posted by: Moki at June 03, 2022 11:15 PM (JrN/x)

163 Is raimondo a troll?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2022 11:16 PM (Y+l9t)

164 >>When I arrived in Cambridge (1974) I stayed at the Brattle Inn in Harvard Square, one or two nights until I found some permanent digs on Freshpond Parkway.

I spent a number of years commuting on Fresh Pond Parkway.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 03, 2022 11:16 PM (ZLI7S)

165 Well there was that guy who was sleeping with his father's wife and the church was totes okay with that...

Hunter?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2022 11:16 PM (ESjRY)

166
I plumb wire myself out today. I hoed out my corn, got it dosed with nitrogen, and then tilled a bunch. Then drove some more fence posts to finish off my double layer electric fence setup to keep the damned deer out.

I've had the old inner perimeter energized for some time, and had most of the outer perimeter energized, but I need to finish up some holes at the head end around.

And didn't get that finished, because I'd inadvertently picked up the wrong gate insulator thingies -- made for wood posts, not T-posts. I cussed out loud when I discovered it.

Anyway, came in around 3PM and just crashed and didn't wake up until 8PM or so. It was supposed to rain, and we managed to get a lot of wind and boogerish clouds, but less than 1/4". It wet the nitrogen in good, though.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 03, 2022 11:17 PM (Mzdiz)

167 Is raimondo a troll?

Yes.

Posted by: Bilbo Baggins (and I know trolls!) at June 03, 2022 11:17 PM (ESjRY)

168 DDS, oh yeah. Picked up some of the worst reefer there.
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Uh, that was me. I thought I was selling to the dumbass Haaaaavard simps that didn't know any better. I didn't know it was you.

A refund may be claimed at any time. My bad.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 03, 2022 11:17 PM (Msys3)

169 164 Is raimondo a troll?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2022 11:16 PM (Y+l9t)

Ugly Green, smells? Loathsome and Rubbery?

Yes.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 11:17 PM (oHd/0)

170 Is raimondo a troll?
___

Yes.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 03, 2022 11:17 PM (pTucJ)

171 Corinthians I is all about bickering.
Posted by: Axeman at June 03, 2022 11:13 PM (OaZlZ)

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It started out as an all-chick pillow fight but some monks in the Middle Ages decided it needed to be cleaned up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 03, 2022 11:18 PM (XG2Fi)

172 164 Is raimondo a troll?
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He's either a troll or a FBI agent fishing for white supremes.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 03, 2022 11:18 PM (W+kMI)

173 I think Kelly McGillis was looking her best in Witness, I really liked that movie, despite the fact that it was so unrealistic as far as the Amish were concerned.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 03, 2022 11:18 PM (a4EWo)

174 >>> What happened to Miklos?
Posted by: Javems at June 03, 2022 11:10 PM (AmoqO)

He's still around but you have to stay up pretty late.
Posted by: banana Dream at June 03, 2022 11:13 PM (XlZ2m)

Big changes at The Waffle House, or have Darlene, Charlene, Lurlene, and Marlene synched up their cycles and are mad ovulating?

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 03, 2022 11:18 PM (4I/2K)

175
It started out as an all-chick pillow fight but some monks in the Middle Ages decided it needed to be cleaned up.

Question what is the best all-chick pillow fight in cinema?

Posted by: Bilbo Baggins (and I know trolls!) at June 03, 2022 11:18 PM (ESjRY)

176 Also, raimondo is an illiterate retard, or does a damn good job playing one in the comments here.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 03, 2022 11:18 PM (Mzdiz)

177 Hoping this covid crud goes away tomorrow. I've been able to work, and have excuse to eat comfort food, but still.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 03, 2022 11:18 PM (KAi1n)

178 The Batman was Meh. Too broody. (Is that a word?) (I don't care. It's Friday night ONT)

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2022 11:19 PM (Y+l9t)

179 Main gear wheels are tough. Nosegear is *sensitive* to abuse.

Don't ask me how I know this.

-Cicero

*shifty eyes*
Whut?

Posted by: waepnedmann at June 03, 2022 11:19 PM (i3+kE)

180 "I remember Paul saying that Christians had nothing to offer other people nothing but hope." Posted by: exdem13

Do you have a verse or two for that? Not doubting, but nothing jumps to my mind. He did write "in all these things we are more than conquerors" ... and I don't think he meant to just lay down and die, then you get your reward in the afterlife.

My current view is God speaks to people in the light of the time ... so something like Romans 13 (all government s are of God, so obey the governments?) only makes pragmatic sense, maybe. It doesn't fit (imo) to say those powers really refer to men of God. I only make sense of it by thinking in those times, Christians could not rise up against governments, it would be suicide. So God is a "pragmatist" as he speaks to mortal flawed man?

Posted by: illiniwek at June 03, 2022 11:19 PM (Cus5s)

181 Hoping this covid crud goes away tomorrow. I've been able to work, and have excuse to eat comfort food, but still.

How many days in are you?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2022 11:19 PM (ESjRY)

182 At this point I have come to accept that the USA is over. If we haven't rebelled at this point we never will #RIPAmerica1776-2022

Up to 15,000 may join largest ever migrant caravan to walk through Mexico to US
https://t.co/djKK4ruYea

Earlier this month, the Mexican National Migration Institute (INM), wrote to Villagran, expressing sympathy for the caravan's members and pledging to help the most vulnerable among them. The letter also acknowledges that the caravan is a result of the stunning tsunami of migration from nearly every country in the Americas to the United States in the past few years
But the letter also marks the first time the Mexican government has responded to a caravan before its departure, and may signal a shift in how the authorities respond to large groups of migrants

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at June 03, 2022 11:20 PM (MFZ8i)

183 Oh, so there's a street in NYC named Houston and it's pronounced How-ston. Nobody outside of NYC would know this. I had to look it up.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 03, 2022 11:20 PM (XlZ2m)

184 Steven Pressfield's last novel , A Man at Arms ,
follows the quest of a Roman legionary turned mercenary, Telamon, in his assignment to hunt down the messenger carrying the Apostle Paul’s first letter to the new Christian church in the city of Corinth.

It was semi woke girl power . Sadly his last few books have been woke.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 03, 2022 11:20 PM (4+wAL)

185 A very good friend of mine's daughter starts at Cambridge this fall. smart as a tack. Fantastic musician.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 03, 2022 11:20 PM (anj39)

186 169 Tonypete

No no no. No refund required. Lessons learned. Went on to become a connoisseur. Ahhhh, the good old days....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 03, 2022 11:20 PM (l1n62)

187 The Batman was Meh. Too broody. (Is that a word?) (I don't care. It's Friday night ONT)

I did like that he uses detective skills and doesn't just beat people up...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2022 11:20 PM (ESjRY)

188 Question what is the best all-chick pillow fight in cinema?
Posted by: Bilbo Baggins (and I know trolls!) at June 03, 2022 11:18 PM (ESjRY)

Animal House.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 03, 2022 11:21 PM (4I/2K)

189
Bambi is a bitch.

Miley was laughing about how she saw a doe take a dump at the tree line the other day. She named it after some bitch for somewhere she couldn't stand.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 03, 2022 11:21 PM (Mzdiz)

190
Me, I'm calling the shitting doe Amber.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 03, 2022 11:21 PM (Mzdiz)

191 Me, I'm calling the shitting doe Amber.

Well, that's not nice. I mean, you are right but still

/Stumbles Off

Posted by: Johnny Depp at June 03, 2022 11:22 PM (ESjRY)

192 Awesome ONT, WeirdDave. The top one was hilarious.

Hi everyone!

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 03, 2022 11:22 PM (rF64X)

193 Haha Tonypete!! I am off to reheat some Swedish Meatballs. bbl.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 03, 2022 11:22 PM (a4EWo)

194 Hey chique.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 03, 2022 11:22 PM (pTucJ)

195 Who-ston.

Posted by: Ursa at June 03, 2022 11:22 PM (Vg5Sd)

196 Is raimondo a troll?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

Ugly Green, smells? Loathsome and Rubbery?
Yes.
Posted by: Romeo13

You forgot the annoying part: keeps coming back after you've killed it.

Posted by: mikeski is out of fireballs at June 03, 2022 11:23 PM (P1f+c)

197 He's either a troll or a FBI agent fishing for white supremes.

White Supremes? I've never heard of them.Do they have a hit song?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2022 11:23 PM (Y+l9t)

198 153 135
When I was a goofy kid, Harvard Square was THE place to hitchhike to (or take the trolly) to get pot.
1974...one year before I said screw it, and moved west, never to look back
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I was coming in from South Africa where things were a tad (a lot) more conservative. Harvard Square really was full of long-haired guys, some strumming guitars. Mind you when I tried going for my first haircut and they wanted $5 I just let it grow, so soon I was like all the rest. I was actually doing research at a lab near Kendall Square.

Posted by: Ciampino at June 03, 2022 11:23 PM (qfLjt)

199 You forgot the annoying part: keeps coming back after you've killed it.

You need to use acid or fire.

Posted by: Some D&D Nerd at June 03, 2022 11:23 PM (ESjRY)

200 The story about the Queen and the tourists is hilarious.

And Michelle Obama was (retroactively?) offended that someone asked her tall self to help get something from a high shelf in a store.

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 03, 2022 11:23 PM (rF64X)

201 I have only watched one episode of the newest season of Stranger Things. My son binged them and like them. I just felt really bad for Ell

Posted by: lin-duh at June 03, 2022 11:24 PM (UUBmN)

202 Hi SMH!

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 03, 2022 11:24 PM (rF64X)

203 Her Majesty and I went out for breakfast this morning. Driving there we passed an HEB and the gas price was $4.29. When we drove past after we were done the price was $4.49. Thanks, Joe!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Got gas today- 4.85 at the discount place; 4.95 at Wawa (which is one of the more reasonable gas stations)

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 03, 2022 11:25 PM (kf6Ak)

204 Ah but Houston,
Houston means I'm one day closer to you

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 03, 2022 11:25 PM (jOKqt)

205 Is raimondo a troll?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
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Just alternate nights.

Posted by: Axeman at June 03, 2022 11:25 PM (OaZlZ)

206 Hadrian, congrats!!!!

I look forward to the puppy pics!!!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 03, 2022 11:25 PM (kf6Ak)

207 The White Supremes are the greatest domestic terrorist threat facing America today. And their harmonies are to die for,

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 03, 2022 11:25 PM (XG2Fi)

208 I have only watched one episode of the newest season of Stranger Things. My son binged them and like them. I just felt really bad for Ell

I've seen the first two so far. The story looks interesting though yeah...rough for Ele.

One thing someone pointed out to me...they didn't just cast beautiful people for every role, which is actually much more like TV in the 80s...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2022 11:26 PM (ESjRY)

209
Got gas today- 4.85 at the discount place; 4.95 at Wawa (which is one of the more reasonable gas stations)

My LIV friends keep saying things like, "This inflation stuff has to end right?" and my stock answer..."as long as the reason for the inflation is running DC why would it?"

Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2022 11:27 PM (ESjRY)

210 Well then. Perhaps I'll power nap, and see if I can catch up with Miklos in the wee hours.
Commencing to lurk/nap...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 03, 2022 11:27 PM (l1n62)

211 So.. Nerd Cred here. In 1980 I was at GenCon, where I got to play in a run DM'd by Garry Gygax himself... yes, the Father of D&D. High level run... and one player was playing a Troll, and yes, he was very annoying...

So... we're walking down a Trail through the mountains... Along a cliff side... hundreds of feet down. I was talking to another player as we walked... and it suddenly hit me... so I asked... OK, if by definition trolls are Loathsome and Rubbery... do they bounce? Gygax looked at us... and got a half smile on his face... so... Grapple attack... and my monk throws the Troll over the cliff. One of the Things Gygax did in his games, was allowed the passing of notes to the DM, about things the other players would not see.... little did I know, but a guy dressed as a cleric in the back of the party, was actually a Mage, who had enough Telekinesis, to grab the troll, and bring him back to the trail...

So... yes... Trolls do apparently bounce.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 11:27 PM (oHd/0)

212 "Do you ever feel as if you are slowly losing your patience with the world and that there is a seething ball of rage welling up inside you?"

Every day. I'm usually over it by the ONT.
Posted by: fd at June 03, 2022

Same, which is why I avoid da nooz. Just have that rageball tucked inside, waiting for the balloon to go up.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 03, 2022 11:28 PM (kf6Ak)

213 "I remember Paul saying that Christians had nothing to offer other people nothing but hope." Posted by: exdem13

Are you referring to this? (Context: Paul defending the resurrection of the dead)

If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. (1 Cor 15:19)

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 03, 2022 11:28 PM (rF64X)

214 Never thought Kelly McGillis was that Hawt.... I mean, I would not kick her out of bed... but I've dated better looking ladies.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 11:14 PM (oHd/0)

I think Kelly McGillis was looking her best in Witness, I really liked that movie, despite the fact that it was so unrealistic as far as the Amish were concerned.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 03, 2022 11:18 PM (a4EWo)

exactly, when interviewed about why she was not in the sequel she said "I'm 64, I'm fat and I am age appropriate"

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 03, 2022 11:28 PM (Jzz++)

215 Casual Friday ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/media

*scroll down

Posted by: kbdabear at June 03, 2022 11:28 PM (qAR6u)

216 Lin-duh, it gets worse. I have one episode to go and really hoping good triumphs over evil.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2022 11:28 PM (Y+l9t)

217 Brits used to pronounce it whos tin.

Posted by: Javems at June 03, 2022 11:28 PM (AmoqO)

218 Got gas today- 4.85 at the discount place; 4.95 at Wawa (which is one of the more reasonable gas stations)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 03, 2022 11:25 PM (kf6Ak)

Shit, we've been over $6.00 for weeks here in Clownifornia.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 11:29 PM (oHd/0)

219 165 Well there was that guy who was sleeping with his father's wife and the church was totes okay with that...

Hunter?
Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2022 11:16 PM (ESjRY)

As soon as I wrote that, I thought of him. Nothing new under the sun, I guess!

Posted by: Moki at June 03, 2022 11:29 PM (JrN/x)

220 I'm sure the Queen story is true but I can't imagine that the tourist knew about Windsor Castle and minor things enough to ask questions and show interest but didn't know what the Queen looked like.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 03, 2022 11:29 PM (4+wAL)

221 173 I think Kelly McGillis was looking her best in Witness, I really liked that movie, despite the fact that it was so unrealistic as far as the Amish were concerned.
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Is it because she showed her boobs?

Posted by: Ciampino at June 03, 2022 11:29 PM (qfLjt)

222 Do you ever feel as if you are slowly losing your patience with the world and that there is a seething ball of rage welling up inside you?

The thing that bothers me most about this current modern moment, is nothing being done is original, and the way it ends is well known.

Well...for people that have even a passing understanding of history.

In 1792 no one quite knew how "hope and change" would work out. But...everyone that wants to does now.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2022 11:30 PM (ESjRY)

223 Is raimondo a troll?

Not really. He tries his hardest. But he's just too fucking stupid to be a troll. He's just a sad, dickless circus freak who has no friends, virtual or otherwise, so here he is spending his Friday evening with strangers who pity him.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 03, 2022 11:30 PM (KFhLj)

224 Shit, we've been over $6.00 for weeks here in Clownifornia.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 11:29 PM (oHd/0

Well, SE PA is turning into California but with shitty weather

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 03, 2022 11:30 PM (kf6Ak)

225 exactly, when interviewed about why she was not in the sequel she said "I'm 64, I'm fat and I am age appropriate"
Posted by: Pete Bog at June 03, 2022 11:28 PM (Jzz++)

That is actually very cool... you can fight aging to an extent... but then? Age Gracefully.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 11:30 PM (oHd/0)

226 >>Question what is the best all-chick pillow fight in cinema?

Posted by: Bilbo Baggins

Animal House

Posted by: DB at June 03, 2022 11:31 PM (geLO8)

227 How many days in are you?
Posted by: 18-1

Two

Posted by: SFGoth at June 03, 2022 11:32 PM (KAi1n)

228 Kelly McGillis came out as lesbian quite some time ago.

Posted by: Ciampino at June 03, 2022 11:32 PM (qfLjt)

229 That is actually very cool... you can fight aging to an extent... but then? Age Gracefully.
___

Pretty much where I'm at.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 03, 2022 11:32 PM (pTucJ)

230
The Queen used to go out and walk around town like that all the time out in the country. She's just have one security guy with her.

She would put a shawl, look sort of dumpy, well not so royal looking, and look like just any little old lady walking around.

If Philip had been with her during that incident, there's no telling what kind of crazy stunt he would've pulled.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 03, 2022 11:32 PM (Mzdiz)

231 Romeo13, that is an awesome story! Very cool you had Gygax as a DM!!!

Posted by: Moki at June 03, 2022 11:32 PM (JrN/x)

232 I attended a candlelight vigil this evening for the victims of the shooting at the Tulsa clinic. The medical complex was just across the street.

To my relief, the speakers, three preachers, stayed focused on the victims and didn't veer into "we must ban all guns."

Posted by: Weak Geek at June 03, 2022 11:33 PM (Om/di)

233 That is actually very cool... you can fight aging to an extent... but then? Age Gracefully.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022

Nah. Gonna keep fighting.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2022 11:33 PM (Y+l9t)

234 exactly, when interviewed about why she was not in the sequel she said "I'm 64, I'm fat and I am age appropriate"
Posted by: Pete Bog at June 03, 2022 11:28 PM (Jzz++)

And everyone knows she likes vagina now.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 03, 2022 11:33 PM (4+wAL)

235 I have one episode to go and really hoping good triumphs over evil.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

There are actually 2 more episodes in season 4 that drop in July, so this batch ends in a mid-season finale.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 03, 2022 11:33 PM (kf6Ak)

236 Big changes at The Waffle House, or have Darlene, Charlene, Lurlene, and Marlene synched up their cycles and are mad ovulating?
Posted by: Count de Monet

I denied them My Essence for a few days and boy was that a mistake.

Posted by: Miklos, they damn near tipped the trailer off the cinder blocks at June 03, 2022 11:34 PM (7DK/q)

237 229 That is actually very cool... you can fight aging to an extent... but then? Age Gracefully.
___

Pretty much where I'm at.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 03, 2022 11:32 PM (pTucJ)

Yeah... I somehow caught the Dad Bod during Covid (gyms were closed and had to be really careful about going out because of taking care of 90 year old Mom).

Now? I'm running again... but I don't think the Dad Bod is going away.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 11:34 PM (oHd/0)

238
The funniest one I've heard was Ronald Regan and the Queen. They were riding horses, and the Queen's horse starting fart up a storm. Trotting farts. Her Majesty was mortified and told Reagan, "Mr. President, I apologize!".

Reagan, with a smile, said, "Well, that's all right, Your Majesty, I just thought it was the horse."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 03, 2022 11:34 PM (Mzdiz)

239 Miklos! Hi! I rarely run into you these days. Hope you are well.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 03, 2022 11:35 PM (kf6Ak)

240 California is currently Israel in the time of Ahab. After Jezebel had Naboth framed so hubby Ahab could have that vineyard, Elijah stood forth and proclaimed the Lord's punishment. There was three years of drought and misery in Israel. Then one day Ahab was truckin' in his chariot and met Elijah upon the road. And he greeted Elijah with the accusation that the drought and its consequences was the result of Elijah's unhappiness. The prophet set him straight on sin and the rewards thereof. Which led to a contest being arranged....
Posted by: exdem13
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My pastor was just preaching on this very passage from 1 Kings last Sunday.

Posted by: lin-duh at June 03, 2022 11:35 PM (UUBmN)

241
There's a different way of pronouncing Houston? Is it like "House-ton" or something?
Posted by: banana Dream

That's the way Houston, Indiana is pronounced.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 03, 2022 11:35 PM (63Dwl)

242 195 Who-ston.

Posted by: Ursa at June 03, 2022 11:22 PM (Vg5Sd)

217 Brits used to pronounce it whos tin.

Posted by: Javems at June 03, 2022 11:28 PM (AmoqO)

Heh

Posted by: Javems at June 03, 2022 11:35 PM (AmoqO)

243 this is cool, shows the earth spinning, as it stabilizes the "spinning" sky.

https://tinyurl.com/54yxsrhm

Posted by: illiniwek at June 03, 2022 11:35 PM (Cus5s)

244 Kelly McGillis came out as lesbian quite some time ago.
Posted by: Ciampino at June 03, 2022 11:32 PM (qfLjt)

Hey it's Friday, I might be as well. What are my options?

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 03, 2022 11:35 PM (Jzz++)

245 I denied them My Essence for a few days and boy was that a mistake.
Posted by: Miklos, they damn near tipped the trailer off the cinder blocks at June 03, 2022 11:34 PM (7DK/q)

Hail the conquering hero! Proper hydration is essential, son.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 03, 2022 11:36 PM (4I/2K)

246 For no reason at all today, I ordered a mess of 30 round magazines.

No reason at all.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 03, 2022 11:36 PM (Msys3)

247 Kelly McGillis came out as lesbian quite some time ago.

Posted by: Ciampino at June 03, 2022 11:32 PM (qfLjt)

Hmm, so thats what happened to her. I was thinking she did not age well at all. Some of our ette's are older and look great for their age, and are miles ahead of McGillis.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 03, 2022 11:36 PM (VwHCD)

248 Saw this today: priDEMONth

Posted by: Axeman at June 03, 2022 11:37 PM (OaZlZ)

249 And everyone knows she likes vagina now.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 03, 2022 11:37 PM (Msys3)

250 And everyone knows she likes vagina now.

That's disgusting.

Posted by: Barack Obama at June 03, 2022 11:37 PM (ESjRY)

251 57 Howdy all, what's shakin? I was earlier when I had my prostate biopsy. As it was ending I felt like I was going to pass out. They said that happens sometimes, very unsettling.
Posted by: Farmer at June 03, 2022 10:29 PM (55Qr6)

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Man, I don't know which way they went in for the biopsy, but that had to be the pits. My condolences

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 03, 2022 11:37 PM (rpqPN)

252 231 Romeo13, that is an awesome story! Very cool you had Gygax as a DM!!!
Posted by: Moki at June 03, 2022 11:32 PM (JrN/x)

Was very cool... one thing he did, because he WROTE the damn rules, was ignore them when they didn't make sense.

It was more about the story, than the rules. Something I always tried when I DM'd.... used of LOT of house rules.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 11:38 PM (oHd/0)

253 >>> Main gear wheels are tough. Nosegear is *sensitive* to abuse.

Don't ask me how I know this.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 03, 2022 10:22 PM (XG2Fi)

In a tricycle config main gears are designed to take ~100% of ramp/takeoff/landing weight. You'd like the nose to take almost nothing. But you need the nose to at least take enough to prevent tip/back and to provide nose wheel steering. And nose wheels generally have a centering mechanism that requires some weight on it before steering is even active because you're still steering with rudder at higher speeds. Main gear's highest load and what they're designed by is CFR part 23/25 2G taxi or the turning reg. The nose gear is going to be designed by the quasistatic "dynamic" braking reg because of the pitch acceleration. The towing regs will be some intermediate design conditions. The actual dynamic landing regs will design some parts of the gear components like seals and braces and stuff. But the tires/wheels are all designed to the max effort braking and load/speed/time tests.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 03, 2022 11:38 PM (XlZ2m)

254 Miklos! Hi! I rarely run into you these days. Hope you are well.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby

As long as I can afford the gas to get to the likker store

Posted by: Miklos, hunkering down at June 03, 2022 11:38 PM (7DK/q)

255 Farmer, prayers for a good biopsy result.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 03, 2022 11:38 PM (kf6Ak)

256 Prayers up, Farmer.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 03, 2022 11:39 PM (pTucJ)

257 Milspecs have similar reqs as FARs with some being more stringent

Posted by: banana Dream at June 03, 2022 11:40 PM (XlZ2m)

258 We got TWO epistles.
Posted by: Corinthians at June 03, 2022 10:55 PM (XG2Fi)

Ahem....

Posted by: Thessalonica at June 03, 2022 11:40 PM (K58O6)

259
They have several "country houses", and I remember reading some security guards laughing about the Queen and Philip were just like some old married couple. They'd just patrol the grounds, and let the couple be.

One of them mentioned how Philip was mad because he misplaced his car keys. "Where'd I put my bloody keys?".

The Queen shot back, "How should I know? They're where you last put 'em down!"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 03, 2022 11:41 PM (Mzdiz)

260 I started playing D&D in 1978.... When i was in the JAG, i worked with a cousin of his. The whole family is weird.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 03, 2022 11:41 PM (KAi1n)

261 We got TWO epistles.
Posted by: Corinthians at June 03, 2022 10:55 PM (XG2Fi)

Ahem....
Posted by: Thessalonica at June 03, 2022 11:40 PM (K58O6)

Ain't you fellers got some kind of musical monk?

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 03, 2022 11:42 PM (4I/2K)

262 I'm sure the Queen story is true but I can't imagine that the tourist knew about Windsor Castle and minor things enough to ask questions and show interest but didn't know what the Queen looked like.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 03, 2022 11:29 PM (4+wAL)

You haven't watched any man on the street interviews, have you?

Or maybe they just didn't imagine she would be out and about like a regular person.

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 03, 2022 11:42 PM (rF64X)

263 Speaking of, hubby says his recent blood test showed higher PSA levels than before, so please say a prayer that it's not something bad.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 03, 2022 11:43 PM (kf6Ak)

264 When I was packing up to move, I came across a box full of D&D stuff. Brought back such great memories, I couldn't part with any of it. Still have my little painted cleric, Clea.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2022 11:43 PM (Y+l9t)

265 Can't say I paid much attention to the goings on across the pond with the royal family.

Since I never went through the princess phase, maybe I'm missing something.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 03, 2022 11:43 PM (pTucJ)

266 The Queen kinda now reminds me of "Momma".

Posted by: SFGoth at June 03, 2022 11:44 PM (KAi1n)

267 I'm glad I found out before I went to theater to see the Bob's Burgers Movie that it is a Disney production. I'll watch it in a year or so when it comes on Fox .

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 03, 2022 11:44 PM (4+wAL)

268
Philip loved Range Rovers (he specified one for his hearse), and used to get out and drive around in the country all the time.

There at last, he pulled out straight in front of some woman, caused a wreck, flipped over his Range Rover as well as totalling the other car. The woman, who had a baby in the car with her, were uninjured.

At that point, they realized it was time to have the talk with grandpa and take the car keys away. The explained how bad it could've been if the woman and child were injured or killed. Scandal big time, and he relented.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 03, 2022 11:44 PM (Mzdiz)

269 I was earlier when I had my prostate biopsy. As it was ending I felt like I was going to pass out. They said that happens sometimes, very unsettling.
Posted by: Farmer at June 03, 2022 10:29 PM (55Qr6)

Praying for a good outcome, Farmer. Hang in there.

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 03, 2022 11:44 PM (rF64X)

270 banana dream I've been in/out of lurking here and not sure what the exact topic was, but aircraft built for carrier operations have much beefier landing gear/related structures, correct? As well as the "trap limit" for peace time operations.

Hoping the F-35 driver will be at the handgun match tomorrow. He was the source of very interesting info a few years back before his squadron transitioned from F-18s, and I'm curious about his perspective on what he used to say.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 03, 2022 11:44 PM (OTzUX)

271 Saw this today: priDEMONth
Posted by: Axeman

Welp, I'm going to get banned from Steam forums again.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 03, 2022 11:45 PM (M9XmQ)

272 Since I never went through the princess phase, maybe I'm missing something.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 03, 2022 11:43 PM (pTucJ)

Princesses have always been lame, generally.

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 03, 2022 11:45 PM (rF64X)

273
Yeah, who would expect to just run into the Queen of England just strolling around like that. And she's just put on an old shawl and look like some ordinary little old lady.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 03, 2022 11:45 PM (Mzdiz)

274 260 I started playing D&D in 1978.... When i was in the JAG, i worked with a cousin of his. The whole family is weird.
Posted by: SFGoth at June 03, 2022 11:41 PM (KAi1n)

I started when it was still called Chain Mail. Bought the box set in 74 (Freshman in High School).

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 11:46 PM (oHd/0)

275 Howdy all, what's shakin? I was earlier when I had my prostate biopsy. As it was ending I felt like I was going to pass out. They said that happens sometimes, very unsettling.
Posted by: Farmer at June 03, 2022 10:29 PM (55Qr6)

I would hope they would pass me out ahead of time. Had my bladder scoped while conscientious once but that's a story for another time.

Posted by: Javems at June 03, 2022 11:46 PM (AmoqO)

276 Hoping this covid crud goes away tomorrow. I've been able to work, and have excuse to eat comfort food, but still.
Posted by: SFGoth
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You've been having difficult times lately. Sorry to hear about the Whu Flu. Hoping things improve. Hang tough.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 03, 2022 11:47 PM (Ih7tv)

277 Don't get all the fawning over royalty over there, when we have our own home-grown royalty!

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 03, 2022 11:47 PM (pTucJ)

278 Well sadly it's probably safe to say Elizabeth will be the last monarch who can do heavy mechanical work on a deuce-and-a-half.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 03, 2022 11:47 PM (OTzUX)

279 I flew into Omaha on a number of occasions, and about half the time, the way the pilots hit the brakes and careened from the runway onto the taxiway in those CRJs made me wonder if the nose gear was going to collapse. I rarely take the twisties in my car at that kind of G. I don't recall anything like it at any other airport.

Posted by: spindrift at June 03, 2022 11:48 PM (lNVqr)

280 vmom, prayers for your husband and for you too, farmer.

Posted by: Moki at June 03, 2022 11:48 PM (JrN/x)

281 Thanks Moki

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 03, 2022 11:48 PM (kf6Ak)

282 Yeah, who would expect to just run into the Queen of England just strolling around like that. And she's just put on an old shawl and look like some ordinary little old lady.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion

I mean, the Queen of Greenland, yeah I could see. But England?!

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 03, 2022 11:49 PM (M9XmQ)

283 278 Well sadly it's probably safe to say Elizabeth will be the last monarch who can do heavy mechanical work on a deuce-and-a-half.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 03, 2022 11:47 PM (OTzUX)

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That dynasty won't make it to the millenium mark, which is only 44 years away.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 03, 2022 11:49 PM (XG2Fi)

284 >> when we have our own home-grown royalty!

Mark Steyn has oft made the point that we spend far far more on our own "royalty", both political and celebrity that any other country that has actually has royalty.

One overseas junket by POTUS spends more than the Brits do on the entire royal family in a year.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 03, 2022 11:49 PM (Mzdiz)

285 I would hope they would pass me out ahead of time. Had my bladder scoped while conscientious once but that's a story for another time.
Posted by: Javems
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I've become big fan of sedation lately. Serious sedation. Followed by anesthesia.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 03, 2022 11:49 PM (Ih7tv)

286 Well, SE PA is turning into California but with shitty weather
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 03, 2022 11:30 PM (kf6Ak)

I'd like to be out of here by next year, but only because I've grown restless. I'm pretty much a hermit so I don't really even know what goes on around here, to my shame (sort of).

Maybe when I move, I'll turn a new leaf and start interacting with other humans and leaving the house.

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 03, 2022 11:49 PM (rF64X)

287 278 Well sadly it's probably safe to say Elizabeth will be the last monarch who can do heavy mechanical work on a deuce-and-a-half.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 03, 2022 11:47 PM (OTzUX)

It's going to be interesting to see what happens to England when she passes. They have no Constitution. Just a bunch of 'well, we did THIS before'.

She basically destroyed the power of the Crown, which, she still legally had. What is Charles going to do? Who knows... he's a whack job.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 11:51 PM (oHd/0)

288 Well sadly it's probably safe to say Elizabeth will be the last monarch who can do heavy mechanical work on a deuce-and-a-half.
Posted by: rhomboid

If the repair calls for any replacement of crown bolts, that is right up her alley.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 03, 2022 11:51 PM (Msys3)

289 mean, the Queen of Greenland, yeah I could see. But England?!
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 03, 2022 11:49 PM (M9XmQ)

Hmmmm.... *narrows eyes*

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 03, 2022 11:51 PM (rF64X)

290 Where you moving to, chique?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 03, 2022 11:51 PM (kf6Ak)

291 273
Yeah, who would expect to just run into the Queen of England just strolling around like that. And she's just put on an old shawl and look like some ordinary little old lady.
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I have seen photos of her incognito, with a shawl and handbag walking in town like any middleaged (at the time) lady shopping.

Posted by: Ciampino at June 03, 2022 11:51 PM (qfLjt)

292 Had my bladder scoped while conscientious once but that's a story for another time.
Posted by: Javems

I know I am goofing on your autocorrect but there is no better bladder than a conscientious one. I have had an unconscious one a time or too and it was not optimal.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 03, 2022 11:51 PM (Jzz++)

293 Who is the patron saint of prostate health? May Farmer and vmom's hubby have good outcomes.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 03, 2022 11:52 PM (4I/2K)

294 >>There's a different way of pronouncing Houston? Is it like "House-ton" or something?

Yes. Houston Street in NYC was named for a guy named Houston that was pronounced house ton. It run across Manhattan and the neighborhood just south of Houston is SoHo, South of Houston.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 03, 2022 11:52 PM (ZLI7S)

295 Don't get all the fawning over royalty over there, when we have our own home-grown royalty!

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 03, 2022 11:47 PM (pTucJ)

I don't give a shit about royalty. The founders fought 200+ years ago just so we would never have to give a shit about royalty. As a favor to them I don't give a shit about royalty.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 03, 2022 11:52 PM (VwHCD)

296 Apparently my drug problems have returned. I'm eating pistachios like mad and i'm not getting stoned. Fuck Fauci, bastard.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 03, 2022 11:52 PM (KAi1n)

297 279 I flew into Omaha on a number of occasions, and about half the time, the way the pilots hit the brakes and careened from the runway onto the taxiway in those CRJs made me wonder if the nose gear was going to collapse. I rarely take the twisties in my car at that kind of G. I don't recall anything like it at any other airport.
Posted by: spindrift at June 03, 2022 11:48 PM (lNVqr)

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The old Hong Kong airport in Kowloon was a thrill ride.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 03, 2022 11:52 PM (XG2Fi)

298 Had my bladder scoped while conscientious once but that's a story for another time.
Posted by: Javems
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Your bladder wanted to do the right thing. Admirable.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 03, 2022 11:52 PM (4+wAL)

299 Maybe when I move, I'll turn a new leaf and start interacting with other humans and leaving the house.
Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 03, 2022 11:49 PM (rF64X)

Hear ya. I talk to a few neighbors... but there is no social life here now. Bars all suck. No live music. Hell, they even closed down team trivia night.

Time to go... but don't know WHERE I want to go.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 11:53 PM (oHd/0)

300 vmom, sending a prayer up for your hubby. In Jesus' name.

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 03, 2022 11:53 PM (rF64X)

301 Who is the patron saint of prostate health? May Farmer and vmom's hubby have good outcomes.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 03, 2022 11:52 PM (4I/2K)

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St. Stinkfinger of Latex?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 03, 2022 11:53 PM (XG2Fi)

302 I've become big fan of sedation lately. Serious sedation. Followed by anesthesia.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 03, 2022 11:49 PM (Ih7tv)

Amen

Posted by: Javems at June 03, 2022 11:54 PM (AmoqO)

303
Time to go... but don't know WHERE I want to go.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 11:53 PM (oHd/0)

I think we need a Horde retirement village...

Posted by: Moki at June 03, 2022 11:54 PM (JrN/x)

304 "Tone deaf. I've never heard of one Latino person who likes “Latinx”. Why do the libs keep using it?"

Can't answer the why, as I'm not a certified psychologist.

However, ever hear Mexicans pronounce the name of their home country? Meh-he-ko. The "X" is pronounced more like an "H".

Our Central and Southern American amigos are generally just pissed because dumbass Democrats keep calling them Latin-Ho's.

Posted by: Another Anon at June 03, 2022 11:54 PM (x8Ov3)

305 At that point, they realized it was time to have the talk with grandpa and take the car keys away.
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In many ways, the is the story of Joe Biden..., and Paul Pelosi.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 03, 2022 11:54 PM (Ih7tv)

306 Time to go... but don't know WHERE I want to go.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 11:53 PM (oHd/0)

I think we need a Horde retirement village...
Posted by: Moki at June 03, 2022 11:54 PM (JrN/x)

Viking themed?

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 03, 2022 11:55 PM (4I/2K)

307 Tonypete, lol. But it was cool - or currently, more poignant and sort of depressing - that she's one of the few remaining high-profile links to that generation.

The past is a different country, and world.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 03, 2022 11:55 PM (OTzUX)

308 I don't give a shit about royalty. The founders fought 200+ years ago just so we would never have to give a shit about royalty. As a favor to them I don't give a shit about royalty.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 03, 2022 11:52 PM (VwHCD)

Beserker, She seems like a nice little old lady with two generations (so far) of useless spawn so I will join you in saying it is a shame that the French revolution didn't have a franchise in Trafalgar Square to lop of a few heads there.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 03, 2022 11:56 PM (Jzz++)

309 Hear ya. I talk to a few neighbors... but there is no social life here now. Bars all suck. No live music. Hell, they even closed down team trivia night.

Time to go... but don't know WHERE I want to go.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 11:53 PM (oHd/0)

My problem is that I voluntarily live the hermit life and would move to a well-equipped deserted island if I could. Interacting with other people just wears me out, especially now with work being so ridiculously busy. I'm a hardcore introvert.

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 03, 2022 11:56 PM (rF64X)

310 Your bladder wanted to do the right thing. Admirable.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 03, 2022 11:52 PM (4+wAL)

Sometimes you look up a word and still get it wrong. Should have just said "while awake"

Posted by: Javems at June 03, 2022 11:56 PM (AmoqO)

311 Robby Starbuck won his court case and is back on the ballot in TN.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2022 11:56 PM (Y+l9t)

312
Viking themed?
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 03, 2022 11:55 PM (4I/2K)

Or Ewok

Posted by: Moki at June 03, 2022 11:57 PM (JrN/x)

313 Where you moving to, chique?
Posted by: vmom
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Imperial obligations would dictate Reykjavík?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 03, 2022 11:57 PM (Ih7tv)

314 I think we need a Horde retirement village...
Posted by: Moki at June 03, 2022 11:54 PM (JrN/x)

Weird? My Sword fighting group, that I've been a member of for 30 or so years? Bought land and is building a Castle and will build houses for those who want to participate in creating a medieval atmosphere...

I was ALL FUCKIN IN... until they decided to build it in.... California.

Nope... out.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 11:57 PM (oHd/0)

315 Time to put my old eyes to bed.

Posted by: Javems at June 03, 2022 11:58 PM (AmoqO)

316 Imperial obligations would dictate Reykjavík?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 03, 2022 11:57 PM (Ih7tv)

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New Amarna?

Posted by: Akhenaten at June 03, 2022 11:58 PM (XG2Fi)

317 Beserker, She seems like a nice little old lady with two generations (so far) of useless spawn so I will join you in saying it is a shame that the French revolution didn't have a franchise in Trafalgar Square to lop of a few heads there.
Posted by: Pete Bog at June 03, 2022 11:56 PM (Jzz++)

I never cared about them but one guy I listen to regularly on YouTube specializes in narcissism and uses Meghan Markle as a prime example very regularly. That led me to other stuff, and so now I know more about the royals. The Queen seems like a good woman, and William and Kate seem charming.

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 03, 2022 11:58 PM (rF64X)

318 I think we need a Horde retirement village...
Posted by: Moki at June 03, 2022 11:54 PM (JrN/x)

Viking themed?

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 03, 2022 11:55 PM (4I/2K)

Oh hell yeah. I'll build the long house. Shit, I can even supply the music. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 03, 2022 11:58 PM (VwHCD)

319 Interacting with other people just wears me out, especially now with work being so ridiculously busy. I'm a hardcore introvert.
Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king

I am exactly the same.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 03, 2022 11:58 PM (/crfU)

320 Where you moving to, chique?
Posted by: vmom
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Imperial obligations would dictate Reykjavík?

Or Edoras!

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 03, 2022 11:59 PM (Jzz++)

321 *waves loudly*
Miklos!
Gosh I've missed you!
This totally wrecks my power nap, but you're way more fun

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 03, 2022 11:59 PM (l1n62)

322 My problem is that I voluntarily live the hermit life and would move to a well-equipped deserted island if I could. Interacting with other people just wears me out, especially now with work being so ridiculously busy. I'm a hardcore introvert.
Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 03, 2022 11:56 PM (rF64X)

I'm not an introvert... but... not an extrovert either. I interact when I want. My problem is that most people are just F'n Stupid... and I'm not willing to put up with that anymore.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 11:59 PM (oHd/0)

323 Weird? My Sword fighting group, that I've been a member of for 30 or so years? Bought land and is building a Castle and will build houses for those who want to participate in creating a medieval atmosphere...

I was ALL FUCKIN IN... until they decided to build it in.... California.

Nope... out.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 11:57 PM (oHd/0)

Stupid bastards. Great idea, piss poor execution.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 04, 2022 12:00 AM (VwHCD)

324 Cicero that airport was fun, for landing. Reference markers on buildings for the pilots. In CONUS, Lindbergh here in SD usually gets rated most exciting by airline pilots, but it's really not that bad, just a descent over urban area on sloping terrain. There are great approach/landing videos on UToob, forget name of the channel, at airports all over the world.

All of the airports in the former USSR were in flat conventional terrain. It was the performance take-offs that were exciting. Or climbing down onto a truck flatbed in the dark in lieu of an air-stair (Tbilisi), in winter. No "buh-byes" from the flight attendants.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 04, 2022 12:01 AM (OTzUX)

325 The old Hong Kong airport in Kowloon was a thrill ride.
Posted by: Cicero

You could see the laundry on the balconies of the disturbingly close apartment buildings

Posted by: Miklos, vaguely recalling at June 04, 2022 12:01 AM (7DK/q)

326 Where you moving to, chique?
Posted by: vmom
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Dunno yet. Florida is beckoning, although the heat and bugs frighten me. But I spent a lot of time there recently and liked it there.

I also want a larger house than I'm in now (I'm still in my starter townhouse) but without having to sell someone's kidney to buy it.

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:01 AM (rF64X)

327 I was ALL FUCKIN IN... until they decided to build it in.... California.

Nope... out.

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European swallows can't carry a coconut nearly that distance.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 04, 2022 12:02 AM (XG2Fi)

328 Stupid bastards. Great idea, piss poor execution.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 04, 2022 12:00 AM (VwHCD)

Yup, bought land about an Hour from Tahoe, but on the Calif side, right where fires rage yearly.

And not near VA, or Hospitals, or Doctors... yet this was envisioned as a Retirement village.

/facepalm

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:03 AM (oHd/0)

329 The topic of farting around the queen just reminded me of the story of Biden breaking wind in front of Camilla. Instead of a horse farting around an actual president, Biden farted in front of a horse.

Posted by: Landofskybluewater at June 04, 2022 12:03 AM (Geoni)

330 Weird? My Sword fighting group, that I've been a member of for 30 or so years? Bought land and is building a Castle and will build houses for those who want to participate in creating a medieval atmosphere...

I was ALL FUCKIN IN... until they decided to build it in.... California.

Nope... out.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 11:57 PM (oHd/0)

Gavin Newsome will probably personally visit them to tell them no can do, everything is illegal here.

I'm with you. CA is a beautiful state, but no way in hell I'd ever live there. I have a bunch of family there, but just, no. Their government is trash.

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:04 AM (rF64X)

331 I never cared about them but one guy I listen to regularly on YouTube specializes in narcissism and uses Meghan Markle as a prime example very regularly. That led me to other stuff, and so now I know more about the royals. The Queen seems like a good woman, and William and Kate seem charming.
Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 03, 2022 11:58 PM (rF64X)

That Dude who called himself the Pick Up Artist? He ought to know narcissism.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 04, 2022 12:04 AM (Jzz++)

332 This totally wrecks my power nap, but you're way more fun
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Summertime, and the living is easy

If not cheap

Posted by: Miklos, Porgy, and Bess at June 04, 2022 12:04 AM (7DK/q)

333 Dunno yet. Florida is beckoning, although the heat and bugs frighten me. But I spent a lot of time there recently and liked it there.

I also want a larger house than I'm in now (I'm still in my starter townhouse) but without having to sell someone's kidney to buy it.
Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:01 AM (rF64X)

I'm still looking at Branson MI. Got a good friend who lives there, and property is CHEAP. Lots of lakes and rivers, so water sports...

Hear the humidity is a bit of a problem, but would not be as bad as Florida. Just a bit far from Snow Skiing for moi.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:06 AM (oHd/0)

334 vmom, are you coming to the NoVaMoMe? And we should get together for lunch or something. We probably don't live that far from each other. If you are ever interested (no pressure, seriously), feel free to hit me up. Email in nic.

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:06 AM (rF64X)

335 "European swallows can't carry a coconut nearly that distance."

Would that be a laden swallow? Or unladen?

Posted by: rhomboid at June 04, 2022 12:06 AM (OTzUX)

336 Chique if you are a remote worker, last night (?) horde mentioned that rich intuit guy bribing people to move to West Virginia
I think its at ascendwv.com

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 04, 2022 12:06 AM (/crfU)

337 I'm not an introvert... but... not an extrovert either. I interact when I want. My problem is that most people are just F'n Stupid... and I'm not willing to put up with that anymore.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 03, 2022 11:59 PM (oHd/0)

Thats exactly where I am. I spent most of my adult life as a night walker, the music thing, and the parties, and around people, and I can do it good. I'm one mingling mofo. I can also do hermit good, and like you said, people are so stupid these days I just can't deal with it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 04, 2022 12:06 AM (VwHCD)

338 "Yup, bought land about an Hour from Tahoe, but on the Cali side, right where fires rage yearly."

That seems like it would be a plus for a Viking Village. The annual sack race! I think you should reconsider.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 04, 2022 12:07 AM (Jzz++)

339 309 319

I've become quite the professional hermit myself.
Although I do love spending time in the garden, as well as with my dog.
Aside from the Horde, people can be terribly tiresome....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 04, 2022 12:07 AM (l1n62)

340 >>> I flew into Omaha on a number of occasions, and about half the time, the way the pilots hit the brakes and careened from the runway onto the taxiway in those CRJs made me wonder if the nose gear was going to collapse. I rarely take the twisties in my car at that kind of G. I don't recall anything like it at any other airport. Posted by: spindrift at June 03, 2022 11:48 PM (lNVqr)
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The old Hong Kong airport in Kowloon was a thrill ride. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 03, 2022 11:52 PM (XG2Fi)

Once a plane is on the ground rolling the nose gear isn't going to fail that way unless there's been a downlock failure. They'll fail their oleo-pneumatics and ride metal on metal with blown tires but still work before ever getting to failure. Side loads from turning won't fail them either because steering will fail first and the nose gear will just castor away. Now hitting something and drag shearing the nose gear off can happen. Mains can fail from turning or other large downward forces but that's because they're often installed under wetted fuel bays and you have to design their attachments with fuse pins so they'll shear off before they could rupture a tank.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 04, 2022 12:07 AM (XlZ2m)

341 I'm still looking at Branson MI. Got a good friend who lives there, and property is CHEAP. Lots of lakes and rivers, so water sports...

Hear the humidity is a bit of a problem, but would not be as bad as Florida. Just a bit far from Snow Skiing for moi.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:06 AM (oHd/0)

I won't move somewhere colder than where I am now (SE PA). If not, I might consider NH. Upstate NY is also gorgeous, but it's in NY state (and colder), so that's a NO.

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:07 AM (rF64X)

342 302 I've become big fan of sedation lately. Serious sedation. Followed by anesthesia.
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Propophol followed by demerol do a good job in that regard. You don't even remember anything.

Posted by: Ciampino at June 04, 2022 12:07 AM (qfLjt)

343 Hi chique - I don't mome
But I'll email you

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 04, 2022 12:07 AM (/crfU)

344 European swallows can't carry a coconut nearly that distance.
Posted by: Cicero

Caribbean calypso swallows carry both de lime an' de coconut

Posted by: Mighty Miklos Sparrow at June 04, 2022 12:07 AM (7DK/q)

345 I've become quite the professional hermit myself.
Although I do love spending time in the garden, as well as with my dog.
Aside from the Horde, people can be terribly tiresome....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 04, 2022 12:07 AM (l1n62)

I actually like most people when I interact with them, but the thought of getting off my butt to go meet people is tiring. But when it does happen, I generally enjoy it. And get worn out.

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:08 AM (rF64X)

346 I won't move somewhere colder than where I am now (SE PA). If not, I might consider NH. Upstate NY is also gorgeous, but it's in NY state (and colder), so that's a NO.
Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic

South Carolina

The Poor man's Florida

Posted by: Miklos, rejoicing on the banks of the Saluda at June 04, 2022 12:10 AM (7DK/q)

347 So, how is everyone? I picked up Robert the Cat TM and gave him hugs, and it was pretty cool. I put him in his cat tree and he was immediately like "Let's fight!" but I noticed that he seemed to blunt his swords. Maybe...maybe this is progress.

PS: Some have wondered if Robert might be misgendered. (This happened in the past to another cat, so it's not unknown.) Well, he's a black cat, and he has what appears to be the male accessories, but who knows. I could send pictures of his genital area to AoS and I think I'd be banned really fast.

Hell, it's June, weirdo month. Despite the fact that it's also birthday month for a lot of the important commentors here (and one very unimportant commentor who has slashes all over his arms).

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 04, 2022 12:11 AM (m0zqP)

348 banana dream I think one of the two big problems that kept the Corsair from acceptance by the Navy for carrier operations for so long in WWII was the oleos - bouncy landings (not good on a carrier). Other problem was attack angle on approach - couldn't see straight ahead, couldn't see the carrier (mmm, not good). Brits worked around the second problem with a non-standard approach.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 04, 2022 12:11 AM (OTzUX)

349
Yeah, Brandon farting during small talk with Camilla, I remember that story. Camilla said it was "long, loud, and impossible to ignore". Brandon was apparently oblivious.

I remember some telling my about my father one time. He used to go to a Hardee's in town, which had become something of a morning hang-up for the old coots. They'd get some biscuits and coffee and hang out.

They said one time my father walked in, and just had the walking farts all the way up to the counter and then back to the table.

They said he was completely oblivious.

Now, you wouldn't believe what he can be oblivious to.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 12:11 AM (Mzdiz)

350 Hear the humidity is a bit of a problem, but would not be as bad as Florida. Just a bit far from Snow Skiing for moi.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:06 AM (oHd/0)

Out of character for me, a serious question. Doesn't North Carolina have a foothill area with access to skiing? Not big mountains but go slide around kind of skiing?

Otherwise I would recommend Wyoming. Because I do all the time.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 04, 2022 12:12 AM (Jzz++)

351 Midnight and it is my first, and maybe only, comment for the night.

Posted by: Theodore at June 04, 2022 12:13 AM (GJnvT)

352 Thats exactly where I am. I spent most of my adult life as a night walker, the music thing, and the parties, and around people, and I can do it good. I'm one mingling mofo. I can also do hermit good, and like you said, people are so stupid these days I just can't deal with it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 04, 2022 12:06 AM (VwHCD)

Sigma Male. go look it up... I be one...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:14 AM (oHd/0)

353 Chique if you are a remote worker, last night (?) horde mentioned that rich intuit guy bribing people to move to West Virginia
I think its at ascendwv.com

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 04, 2022 12:06 AM (/crfU)

Thanks! Very intriguing. I wonder if there's a catch....

I actually thought of WV. I've been working from home forever, so I can basically move where I want in the US, but I don't want colder weather, and I will not move to a blue state, either. Plus, I need to stay in this time zone because I am so not a morning person.

Looking forward to your email, btw.

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:14 AM (rF64X)

354 I've read some interesting stories about Chuck Yeager. At one time he pretty much WAS the Air Force, or could do just about whatever he wanted anyway.

There's a cool story about beer runs and aircraft. Another one, Chuck liked to go backpacking. Improbable I thought, but it's true. Mostly I think he liked to go fishing in remote areas in the Sierra. After about 10 days everybody was tired of fish, so he arranged for somebody to get a plane from Muroc and airdrop some steaks in, which were always well received.

One time as a joke, they put frozen fish sticks in a second cooler and parachuted that in. The wind blew it in a ravine, and Chuck and the guys spent a long time getting to that cooler of frozen fish sticks. Boy were they were pissed off about that! Thankfully another cooler of steaks landed front and center.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 04, 2022 12:14 AM (SLcTc)

355 Midnight and it is my first, and maybe only, comment for the night.
Posted by: Theodore at June 04, 2022 12:13 AM (GJnvT)

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At least you didn't waste it on something dumb.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 04, 2022 12:14 AM (XG2Fi)

356
There's the old joke of this old guy who goes to the doctor for his regular checkup. The doc asked him if there's any problem he has or anything like that.

Old man says, "Well doc, I don't think it's really everything, but lately, I've been passing a lot of gas. It's silent, and you can't smell it, so it's not a real problem, I don't guess."

The Doc says, "Well, we'll worry about that later, but first thing we need to do is get your hearing checked, and get your sinuses cleared up."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 12:15 AM (Mzdiz)

357 Night watchman duty, and I wish I had a frozen paintball gun.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 04, 2022 12:16 AM (4NlP1)

358 Hell, it's June, weirdo month. Despite the fact that it's also birthday month for a lot of the important commentors here (and one very unimportant commentor who has slashes all over his arms).
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 04, 2022 12:11 AM (m0zqP)

Happy birthday in advance! (In case I miss the actual day.)

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:16 AM (rF64X)

359 Out of character for me, a serious question. Doesn't North Carolina have a foothill area with access to skiing? Not big mountains but go slide around kind of skiing?

Otherwise I would recommend Wyoming. Because I do all the time.
Posted by: Pete Bog at June 04, 2022 12:12 AM (Jzz++)

Well... lets just say I'm a bit past just beginner hills. Had a season pass for ... 35 years? Lived in Colorado for 15 years. Until the last couple years, averaged 30 days skiing a year?

And yes, I do have a couple old friends I've lost touch with, who live in Wyoming....

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:16 AM (oHd/0)

360 I'm with you. CA is a beautiful state, but no way in hell I'd ever live there. I have a bunch of family there, but just, no. Their government is trash.

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:04 AM (rF64X)

Third generation Californian, and agree with you completely. Left in 1983 and never looked back.

Posted by: HTL at June 04, 2022 12:16 AM (vkeXz)

361 302 I've become big fan of sedation lately. Serious sedation. Followed by anesthesia.
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Propophol followed by demerol do a good job in that regard. You don't even remember anything.
Posted by: Ciampino at June 04, 2022 12:07 AM (qfLjt)

Rohypnol. It's funny, 'cause just the other day, me and my boy, we was wonderin' why they even call 'em roofies. Y'know what I'm talkin' 'bout?

Why not floories, right? 'Cause when you take 'em, you're more likely to end up on the floor than the roof. What about groundies? That's a good new name fo' 'em.

Posted by: Black Doug, Alan's Las Vegas drug connection at June 04, 2022 12:17 AM (4I/2K)

362 South Carolina

The Poor man's Florida
Posted by: Miklos, rejoicing on the banks of the Saluda at June 04, 2022 12:10 AM (7DK/q)

I am trying to stay away from states where I have good friends otherwise if I did my normal thing and don't call them or go and visit, I would be an even worse person than I currently am. So most SE states are out. (Yes, ridiculous reason, but there it is.)

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:17 AM (rF64X)

363 Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 04, 2022 12:11 AM (m0zqP)

You haven't had him fixed?

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 04, 2022 12:18 AM (4+wAL)

364 Sigma Male. go look it up... I be one...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:14 AM (oHd/0)

I looked it up. Hmm, interesting. I can see myself that way. Pretty good description actually. I brake for no one. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 04, 2022 12:19 AM (VwHCD)

365 >>> banana dream I've been in/out of lurking here and not sure what the exact topic was, but aircraft built for carrier operations have much beefier landing gear/related structures, correct? As well as the "trap limit" for peace time operations.

Hoping the F-35 driver will be at the handgun match tomorrow. He was the source of very interesting info a few years back before his squadron transitioned from F-18s, and I'm curious about his perspective on what he used to say.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 03, 2022 11:44 PM (OTzUX)

Whereas civil has to design for a R/S of 10 fps. Meaning, the aircraft has a downward velocity of 10 feet per second at landing impact, which is already very conservative, no sane pilot would do that, the navy has an additional requirement to account for sea-state heave of the "ground" coming up to hit the aircraft. The vectors add up and you get a huge impact velocity and thus beefier structure.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 04, 2022 12:19 AM (XlZ2m)

366 "I remember Paul saying that Christians had nothing to offer other people nothing but hope." Posted by: exdem13

Do you have a verse or two for that?
Posted by: illiniwek at June 03, 2022 11:19 PM (Cus5s)

So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain (Heb 6:17-19)

Posted by: Thessalonica at June 04, 2022 12:19 AM (K58O6)

367 Posted by: Common Tater at June 04, 2022 12:14 AM (SLcTc)

Beirut Lebanon, 1983, CH-53E FULL of beer... that ran low on gas, and instead of landing on the Beach, landed on an LPH. Beer ended up confiscated by the command.

Lets just say that the military was a wee bit different back in the day....

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:20 AM (oHd/0)

368 364 Sigma Male. go look it up... I be one...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:14 AM (oHd/0)

I looked it up. Hmm, interesting. I can see myself that way. Pretty good description actually. I brake for no one. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 04, 2022 12:19 AM (VwHCD)

Yeah, I see a NUMBER of the horde, in that category.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:21 AM (oHd/0)

369 Sigma Male. go look it up... I be one...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:14 AM (oHd/0)

I looked it up. Hmm, interesting. I can see myself that way. Pretty good description actually. I brake for no one. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 04, 2022 12:19 AM (VwHCD)

Is sigma female a thing? Because the first urban dictionary sigma male description fits me to a tee, except for the whole male thing. And I'm also not considered unlikeable.

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:21 AM (rF64X)

370 @363 - the shelter said he was fixed. And they said "he."

But with a previous cat, I adopted a boy kitten who needed to be fixed, so I could only pick him up next Thursday.

I picked him up on Thursday, asked how he was, and they said "Oh it all went fine! She should be just fine."

And I said, "She? He was a he when I adopted him. How deep did you cut?"

Turned out she was a she all along. She was Leela, who was with me for 16 years.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 04, 2022 12:21 AM (m0zqP)

371 banana Dream. All true, but a good look at the F/A-18 (any marque) nosegear, clearly shows that it's massively robust to withstand the stresses of the catapult launch evolution.

IIRC, the F-14 was of a similar nosegear layout? I'm not sure when the Navy started using a nosegear shuttle and holdback launch system (F-4 Phantom?), but it quickly proved superior in every way to the earlier captive-bridle system. Now, I've never seen a video of a bridle that failed to release it's airplane, but surely there's some on record?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 04, 2022 12:23 AM (QzJWU)

372 I've become big fan of sedation lately. Serious sedation. Followed by anesthesia.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

I read that as sedition. For whatever reason it made perfect sense to me.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at June 04, 2022 12:23 AM (WYgPj)

373 Funny, i grew up in Colorado. Never even tried to ski. Closest i ever got was making service calls to hospitals in the ski areas. Most large resort towns have at least a small hospital... Vail hospital has a world class orthopaedic practice. Generally people in ski towns were demanding pricks. Aspen was the worst.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at June 04, 2022 12:24 AM (0OmEj)

374 Is sigma female a thing? Because the first urban dictionary sigma male description fits me to a tee, except for the whole male thing. And I'm also not considered unlikeable.
Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:21 AM (rF64X)

ewww... had never looked... but yes, there are Sigma Females...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:24 AM (oHd/0)

375 Scott Peterson was a coward of the highest order.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 03, 2022 10:41 PM (a4EWo)

*ahem*
Posted by: Littleton HS (Denver CO suburb) at June 03, 2022 10:5
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What happened in Littleton and how were cowards involved?

Posted by: Farmer at June 04, 2022 12:25 AM (55Qr6)

376 Plus, I need to stay in this time zone because I am so not a morning person.

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:14 AM (rF64X)

I'm curious, were you a morning person before you came here? You were obviously born in a vastly different time zone. I'm wondering because since I spent almost my entire adult life as a night walker. I mean never really going to bed before 3am, and a lot at 5am, with a good amount of holy shit the sun is coming up. I can not reset my body clock. Its like it's part of my DNA now. I have experimented with it. I usually sleep 5-6 hours, and it actually matters when I do it. I sleep the best when I hit the sack in the wee hours. It seems like there is no way to change it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 04, 2022 12:27 AM (VwHCD)

377
ewww... had never looked... but yes, there are Sigma Females...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:24 AM (oHd/0)

Why ewww? I'm scared of looking it up now.

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:27 AM (rF64X)

378 And I am sooooo not a morning person.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 04, 2022 12:28 AM (VwHCD)

379 373 Funny, i grew up in Colorado. Never even tried to ski. Closest i ever got was making service calls to hospitals in the ski areas. Most large resort towns have at least a small hospital... Vail hospital has a world class orthopaedic practice. Generally people in ski towns were demanding pricks. Aspen was the worst.
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at June 04, 2022 12:24 AM (0OmEj)

Yup. Most MAJOR ski towns? I avoid. Vail Sucked. Breckenridge was cool, but became trendy... now sucks.

Keystone still good. A Basin ROCKS... Key is to live close enough to major ski areas where you don't have to STAY there to ski..... except... maybe.. Mamoth out in Calif. GREAT Mountain, and a fun place to Pahtay!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:28 AM (oHd/0)

380 Why ewww? I'm scared of looking it up now.
Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:27 AM (rF64X)

LOL... not bad...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:29 AM (oHd/0)

381 Beserker, never been a morning person, even as a kid.

When I was a kid, some friends would come to our place at like 10 AM on Saturday and would be shocked that my siblings and I were still asleep.

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:29 AM (rF64X)

382 banana Dream. All true, but a good look at the F/A-18 (any marque) nosegear, clearly shows that it's massively robust to withstand the stresses of the catapult launch evolution.

IIRC, the F-14 was of a similar nosegear layout? I'm not sure when the Navy started using a nosegear shuttle and holdback launch system (F-4 Phantom?), but it quickly proved superior in every way to the earlier captive-bridle system. Now, I've never seen a video of a bridle that failed to release it's airplane, but surely there's some on record?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June 04, 2022 12:23 AM (QzJWU)

Yes, navy nose gear is completely different. The only fwd shear force you are going to design a civil aircraft for is towing and jacking. There's no other way to operationally get a fwd shear on civil. And you also have to design navy aircraft for tail hook landing loads by that I mean the large pitch acceleration and downward force on the nose on arresting. Although proper placement of the tow-hook in your design can help mitigate a good bit of that.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 04, 2022 12:31 AM (XlZ2m)

383 359Out of character for me, a serious question. Doesn't North Carolina have a foothill area with access to skiing? Not big mountains but go slide around kind of skiing?
Boone, NC has hills/mountains for the easy kind of skiing.

Posted by: Theodore at June 04, 2022 12:32 AM (GJnvT)

384 I read that as sedition. For whatever reason it made perfect sense to me.
Posted by: Sock Monkey
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Oh, so did, I. Maybe I should go edit my notes. Nah...

Posted by: Bob, at NSA at June 04, 2022 12:32 AM (dx9uU)

385 banana dream indeed. For years when I was traveling a lot there were times when a hard landing was met by the snark "Navy landing!" - and not just by me.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 04, 2022 12:33 AM (OTzUX)

386 Caught up on Obi-Wan. It's not as bad as folks are saying.

Young Leia is played well. Precocious, willful, and defiant, yes, but not over the top for a ten-year-old. If she's a little haughty and demanding toward her rescuer, well, that's how Carrie Fisher played her in the original Star Wars. Here those traits are noticeable but not overplayed. She's still sweet and vulnerable at times. I found myself liking her more as the show went on.

Obi-Wan hasn't "forgotten" how to use the Force, he's just avoided it for ten years to keep from being discovered. If you don't use a muscle or talent for ten years, it atrophies. Even then, he's still a capable fighter and even shows off some hand-to-hand combat skills. I'm not seeing him being stomped by some new character.

Moses Ingram isn't a great actress, but she's not terrible either. Same for the other inquisitors, actually. Not offensively bad like Rose Tico or Jar-Jar, just dull and not imposing. I don't buy the rumor she's been getting racist hate-mail. That seems like fake social media outrage marketing. But I also don't get the vibe that she's being set up to be a hero.

I like it so far. Your mileage may vary.

Posted by: Caiwyn at June 04, 2022 12:34 AM (+dHQK)

387 >> I'm wondering because since I spent almost my entire adult life as a night walker.

Ditto, although with me, the rheumatoid arthritis thing just made it worse.

There's even a name for night walkers -- Delayed sleep phase disorder, although it may not be a disorder, just a variation, probably genetic.

This describes the difference between morning people and night people pretty well. It's likely a normal phase that teenagers go through, as we all know, and it seems most mammals do this after puberty as well.

With some of us, that just doesn't go away once it kicks in at puberty. :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 12:34 AM (Mzdiz)

388 385 banana dream indeed. For years when I was traveling a lot there were times when a hard landing was met by the snark "Navy landing!" - and not just by me.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 04, 2022 12:33 AM (OTzUX)

There is no easy landing on a Carrier.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:35 AM (oHd/0)

389
LOL... not bad...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:29 AM (oHd/0)

OK, so I looked at the first search result, and the closest thing to me is the gamma female.

I saw this and was like, yeah, probably not:

The sigma female is a woman who demands attention when she walks into a room or is speaking, and she can be very intimidating to others.

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:36 AM (rF64X)

390
There is an opposite condition, Advanced sleep phase disorder, that affects a lot of old geezers. This is going to be very early and getting up very early.

There's a reason for this, too, although it's fodder for a lot of grandpa jokes. Granpa has to get up to make it for the 5AM early bird special at the Country Kitchen, and it's bedtime by 8PM.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 12:36 AM (Mzdiz)

391 banana dream,

regarding tail hook arresting forces I assume the farther back the hook from the main gear the less impact on the nose?

Posted by: Flight Simulator Naval Aeronautical Engineer at June 04, 2022 12:36 AM (Jzz++)

392 Posted by: Caiwyn at June 04, 2022 12:34 AM (+dHQK)

Hmmm.... interesting...

Nic I've never seen before... saying a show that some call Woke... is AOK.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:37 AM (oHd/0)

393 Everyone gets fifteen minutes of hate these days. Statistical significance is the question, and sadly, demand for racist bad behavior always seems to be outstripping supply.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 04, 2022 12:38 AM (4NlP1)

394 The sigma female is a woman who demands attention when she walks into a room or is speaking, and she can be very intimidating to others.
Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:36 AM (rF64X)

Yeah, Sigma is a NEW designation... just in the last couple of years. It's almost like Pshych are still trying to figure us out... and have no F'n CLUE!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:39 AM (oHd/0)

395 I've seen Caiwyn around.

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:39 AM (rF64X)

396 When I was a kid, some friends would come to our place at like 10 AM on Saturday and would be shocked that my siblings and I were still asleep.
Posted by: chique-ita l'African

I like when the children wake me up

I sleep like I swim

Posted by: Preznit Joey B. at June 04, 2022 12:39 AM (7DK/q)

397 I sleep the best when I hit the sack in the wee hours. It seems like there is no way to change it.
Posted by: Berserker
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Same here, and it's a burden. Too many daylight hours spent sleeping...but it's the way I sleep best. My friends know to not even bother to call before noon. There's at least a chance by then that I'm up, have had a half pot of coffee...and *maybe* breakfast.

And they damn sure better not ring the doorbell any earlier than that...or even without calling first.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 04, 2022 12:40 AM (Go9h8)

398 Chique, you may not remember meeting at the Texas MoMe but I will tell you that on first impression you are none of those descriptions. You struck me as friendly, polite and pleasant if a bit guarded. As such you are welcome to join the kitchen staff.

Where I spend my time.

Posted by: Flight Simulator Naval Aeronautical Engineer at June 04, 2022 12:41 AM (Jzz++)

399 395 I've seen Caiwyn around.
Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:39 AM (rF64X)

OK... thanks.. my apologies then.,

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:41 AM (oHd/0)

400 Yeah, Sigma is a NEW designation... just in the last couple of years. It's almost like Pshych are still trying to figure us out... and have no F'n CLUE!
Posted by: Romeo13

Sick Sigma?

Posted by: Black Belt Synergy Cross-Functional Business Re-Engineering Consultant Miklos at June 04, 2022 12:42 AM (7DK/q)

401 Thank heaven the Queen met two Americans who weren't a-holes. I mean, like somebody who offered her a CD full of his speeches.
Posted by: JM in Florida at June 03, 2022 11:12

That visit is a perfect example of the Obama's mindset and classlessness. Big old Michele bearhugs the Queen and her dickhead husband gives her his own speeches. Talk about lack of self-awareness.

Posted by: Farmer at June 04, 2022 12:42 AM (55Qr6)

402 The closest i ever got to naval aviation was tad on the USS Corral Sea. 30 days for workups before her last deployment. F 18s. My longest assignment was USS Wasp. Marine Aviation. AV 8s. misc. Helicopters.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at June 04, 2022 12:43 AM (0OmEj)

403 Good night all.

Posted by: Theodore at June 04, 2022 12:43 AM (GJnvT)

404 As such you are welcome to join the kitchen staff.

Where I spend my time.
Posted by: Flight Simulator Naval Aeronautical

At parties, the cool people are always in the kitchen.

Posted by: Miklos also hides beer at June 04, 2022 12:43 AM (7DK/q)

405 As a kid when i got sick, which was for a week several times a year, what i hated most was boredom. It's how i got into daytime game shows and soap operas. Since my mother did the AMC/1LTL/GH circuit, i eventually did too. I kep watching GH because i got home from school before it started. (3pm on ABC) That show had some attractive gals. Janine Turner was on for a bit. Jacklyn Zeman, niiiice Jewish girl.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 04, 2022 12:43 AM (KAi1n)

406 Friday night helicopters.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 04, 2022 12:44 AM (4NlP1)

407 398 but with not a stupid nic.

Well maybe a different stupid nic.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 04, 2022 12:44 AM (Jzz++)

408 400 Yeah, Sigma is a NEW designation... just in the last couple of years. It's almost like Pshych are still trying to figure us out... and have no F'n CLUE!
Posted by: Romeo13

Sick Sigma?
Posted by: Black Belt Synergy Cross-Functional Business Re-Engineering Consultant Miklos at June 04, 2022 12:42 AM (7DK/q)

Well, if you read the way they define Sigma Males, they share characterizes with how they define Psychotics.

So.... maybe?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:44 AM (oHd/0)

409 And the first at sea landing of the Osprey v 22.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at June 04, 2022 12:45 AM (0OmEj)

410 banana dream. Figure in also. The Civil Aviation Standard Glideslope is 2 degrees, with a flared landing.

Naval Carrier glideslope is 4 degrees, with absolutely no flareout before touchdown. The pilot SLAMS the plane onto the deck, trusting the arresting gear to catch, and going to full afterburner at touchdown in case the arresting gear, doesn't.

I've watched a Phantom practice carrier touchdowns at the NAB at Yuma, AZ. The lack of a flare upon landing was.. disturbing, until I gained wisdom.

I thought they were going to break the airplane, and then they went around the pattern and did it again. And again.

Kinda felt sorry for the pilot and I.P. They was getting knocked about, something fierce.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 04, 2022 12:45 AM (QzJWU)

411 Chique, you may not remember meeting at the Texas MoMe but I will tell you that on first impression you are none of those descriptions. You struck me as friendly, polite and pleasant if a bit guarded. As such you are welcome to join the kitchen staff.

Where I spend my time.
Posted by: Flight Simulator Naval Aeronautical Engineer at June 04, 2022 12:41 AM (Jzz++)

Interesting to see how others view oneself.

Will you be at the TxMoMe this year?

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:46 AM (rF64X)

412 @404 That's why you'll always find me in the kitchen at parties. You will always find me in the kitchen at parties.

(synth solo)

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 04, 2022 12:47 AM (m0zqP)

413 409 And the first at sea landing of the Osprey v 22.
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at June 04, 2022 12:45 AM (0OmEj)

My very first taste of Naval Aviation? CH46s, Viet Nam Vintage... taking me to fix electronic equipment the Marines could not fix. Was 21.... Eye opener.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:48 AM (oHd/0)

414 395 I've seen Caiwyn around.
Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 12:39 AM (rF64X)

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Was a terror with a bow in LOTR.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 04, 2022 12:48 AM (XG2Fi)

415 >>> banana dream,

regarding tail hook arresting forces I assume the farther back the hook from the main gear the less impact on the nose?
Posted by: Flight Simulator Naval Aeronautical Engineer at June 04, 2022 12:36 AM (Jzz++)

It can but I'm sure there are a bunch of other design constraints. I knew someone that ran simulations for tailhook arrested landings for a navy program and there are a bunch of complications like potential bounces and other things that are failure states before you even get to making sure the structure is strong enough.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 04, 2022 12:48 AM (XlZ2m)

416 At parties, the cool people are always in the kitchen.
Posted by: Miklos also hides beer at June 04, 2022 12:43 AM (7DK/q)

Miklos, if you can make the Texas MoMe I am sure Ben Had will give you a kitchen pass. Especially if you bring beer. Or E&J Jug wine. Or old Bordeaux. Or bourbon, Scotch or Vodka.

Oh Hell, just come on in.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 04, 2022 12:49 AM (Jzz++)

417 >>>Hmmm.... interesting...

Nic I've never seen before... saying a show that some call Woke... is AOK.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:37 AM (oHd/0)

I don't comment a whole hell of a lot but I've been around for over a decade.

I won't say there aren't hints of wokeness here and there in the show. There was a stormtrooper with a female voice, felt jarring and out of place, like you just knew they were patting themselves on the back about it. Little things like that. I like the rest of the show well enough so far that I'm not letting those things bother me. I'm not seeing big woke Mary Sues sucking up all the air in the room and trashing the original source material, like the sequel trilogy.

Posted by: Caiwyn at June 04, 2022 12:50 AM (+dHQK)

418 Posted by: banana Dream at June 04, 2022 12:48 AM (XlZ2m)

Damn... May just have to go rewatch Midway... the new one

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:50 AM (oHd/0)

419
In the Delayed Sleep Phase thing, they find that all the circadian rhythm cycles are phase shifted relative to local sun time.

It can be "treated" with a lot of work in some cases, but not all. If your natural circadian rhythm is phase-shifted, then it's phase shifted.

My own body knows when it thinks it time to sleep, and when it's time to wake. All out of phase, but it's regular and clock work, just greatly phase shifted.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 12:51 AM (Mzdiz)

420 "I remember Paul saying that Christians had nothing to offer other people nothing but hope." Posted by: exdem13 -- Do you have a verse or two for that?
Posted by: illiniwek

"we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain (Heb 6:17-19)"Posted by: Thessalonica

I'm not saying we do not have that hope, I looking for where "That is our only thing we have to offer". (noting you are not the one that I was asking, which is fine).

A lot of the current "end times" thinking looks at current day signs that we are going through tribulation, earthquakes, scary stuff. But Christians (allegedly, per the Bible) don't face that. We have promises that apply now ... the victory was won "on Calvary", recognized on Pentacost. We don't just suffer and die until then, despite our imperfections. America (the real America) showed us that. I just think most of that is defeatist thinking.

The Hope is real, but that does not say Christianity has nothing to offer but

Posted by: illiniwek at June 04, 2022 12:52 AM (Cus5s)

421 Posted by: Caiwyn at June 04, 2022 12:50 AM (+dHQK)

Well... post MORE damnit! So us regulars know who you are!!!!!

Hell, if I can post... anyone can!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:52 AM (oHd/0)

422 I put him in his cat tree and he was immediately like "Let's fight!" but I noticed that he seemed to blunt his swords.

That happened with Prettygirl. She'd be in her tree, i'd come over, and she'd get feisty. Over time she's become a sweetie though she has a tomboycat streak. She loves being chased.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 04, 2022 12:52 AM (KAi1n)

423 And the first at sea landing of the Osprey v 22.
Posted by: USNtakim
--------

As a ground-pounder, I am incredibly naive about such things. Did the Osprey make a standard arrested landing, or a sort of moving vertical landing?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 04, 2022 12:53 AM (Faksa)

424 52 shorturl.at/crAY6

this link just takes me to the main page to make a shorturl

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at June 04, 2022 12:54 AM (y7zkd)

425 Chique, I have been told that I will be. Actually I would not miss it for the Deer Opener. Which thankfully is a week earlier. Great fun. And a great way to restore your faith in America.

And Guns. And Bacon. And lots of other stuff.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 04, 2022 12:54 AM (Jzz++)

426 Was a terror with a bow in LOTR.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 04, 2022 12:48 AM (XG2Fi)

LOL. Believe it or not, Caiwyn is my old Star Wars RPG character name, so...

Posted by: Caiwyn at June 04, 2022 12:55 AM (+dHQK)

427 My normal "to bed" time, is about 1 am. Sometimes, later.

I'm usually fine with four or five hours of sleep. Every couple of weeks, I'll do a sleep-coma, and wake up waayyyy later. A "reset", if you will.

What I can't successfully do, is go to bed at say, 10pm and find *any* kind of rest or sleep. Ain't gonna happen. Neither is the Early Bird at the Sizzler, or etc.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 04, 2022 12:56 AM (QzJWU)

428 I do like practicing my "being polite but move along and don't fucking talk to me" persona with various hobos, drunks, and party goers.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 04, 2022 12:57 AM (4NlP1)

429 >>> And the first at sea landing of the Osprey v 22.
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at June 04, 2022 12:45 AM (0OmEj)

My very first taste of Naval Aviation? CH46s, Viet Nam Vintage... taking me to fix electronic equipment the Marines could not fix. Was 21.... Eye opener.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:48 AM (oHd/0)

I knew the stress engineer guy who monitored telemetry and loads for those first landing tests. Inside a completely closed container, fixed to a carrier deck, during satisfactorily bad sea states needed to show landing performance. So he was head down looking at computer terminals in a box while being thrown around. He was my boss and happened to tell me this story one day when I was driving us back from lunch and I guess my driving was making him sick. Good guy though. Probably the best boss I ever had. Gets a little queasy from riding in a car though. But he said he filled up a good many sick bags on the carrier.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 04, 2022 12:57 AM (XlZ2m)

430 Damn... May just have to go rewatch Midway... the new one
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:50 AM (oHd/0)

or read "The Shattered Sword" really fascinating. And a lesson on the need for search aircraft.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 04, 2022 12:57 AM (Jzz++)

431 Nice evening y'all.
Good night.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 04, 2022 12:58 AM (l1n62)

432 Posted by: Jim at June 04, 2022 12:56 AM (QzJWU)

Yeah, there is a reason the Kindle sits next to my bed.... its the only way I've found, besides large amounts of alcohol, to shut my mind down.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:58 AM (oHd/0)

433 Heh, made a flight via Ch43 onto an lst. For electronic fixes (data links) stranded 4 days. Sea states had shut down flight ops. I'm one of just a few data systems techs ever to ride an LST. As there very rarely any data systems ever installed. Anyhow that rate is long gone now.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at June 04, 2022 12:59 AM (0OmEj)

434 BC, Maybe you should stop moistening your arms with tuna oil. Were I a talented seamstress I would fashion you a chain mail shirt. When is your birthday?? Mine was yesterday and it was a pretty high number, but I don't mind being old. I've had lots of experiences in my life and I wouldn't trade them for anything. My personality is probably the same as when I was five years old.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 04, 2022 12:59 AM (a4EWo)

435 I can easily sleep during the day, on the couch, with a modicum of light streaming in. At night, no light, solitude, can't sleep.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 04, 2022 01:00 AM (KAi1n)

436 As a San Antonio native, the Spurs have always been a team I follow. Even with Pop wearing his Beto hats and his stupid comments whoever he feels like not talking basketball. Then…the Spurs started advocating for gun control on their FB page. I’m out.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 04, 2022 01:01 AM (DJu5c)

437 My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

Posted by: Hedley Lamar at June 04, 2022 01:02 AM (XG2Fi)

438 Chique, I have been told that I will be. Actually I would not miss it for the Deer Opener. Which thankfully is a week earlier. Great fun. And a great way to restore your faith in America.

And Guns. And Bacon. And lots of other stuff.
Posted by: Pete Bog at June 04, 2022 12:54 AM (Jzz++)

Great!

Posted by: chique-ita l'African Viking Ruler of Greenlandic kingdoms, open to talks with the Great MAGA king at June 04, 2022 01:02 AM (rF64X)

439 V 22 lands vertically.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at June 04, 2022 01:02 AM (0OmEj)

440 Posted by: banana Dream at June 04, 2022 12:57 AM (XlZ2m)

Craziest was being dropped, in a harness, to the deck of a submarine. Pilot was an artist. Sub was rolling, in semi heavy seas.... and the guy was able to follow the sea state to where I dropped down easily. At the time I was just... OK.. made it... it was not until later, that I realized how good that pilot was.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 01:02 AM (oHd/0)

441
Speaking of cats, I accidentally stepped on the toes on of one of our kittens, well, they're over a year old now. He's "Purry Mason", and the other is Della. Hah, hah, Perry Mason joke Gutfeld made about a cat lawyer.

He was all offended and ran all over the house, acting scared of me. He's all right now, but I felt so bad. But, fool, don't run under my feet like that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 01:03 AM (Mzdiz)

442 Greg Popovich is a certified asshole.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 04, 2022 01:04 AM (JqFtf)

443 > Well... post MORE damnit! So us regulars know who you are!!!!!

Hell, if I can post... anyone can!
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 12:52 AM (oHd/0)

LOL, I’ll try, but no promises!

Posted by: Caiwyn at June 04, 2022 01:04 AM (+dHQK)

444 433 Heh, made a flight via Ch43 onto an lst. For electronic fixes (data links) stranded 4 days. Sea states had shut down flight ops. I'm one of just a few data systems techs ever to ride an LST. As there very rarely any data systems ever installed. Anyhow that rate is long gone now.
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at June 04, 2022 12:59 AM (0OmEj)

Had DS's work for me in multiple commands. Kudos.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 01:04 AM (oHd/0)

445 Never even touched subs. No experience at all.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at June 04, 2022 01:05 AM (0OmEj)

446 The best soporific I have found is a *good* light-reading novel. Lately, it's been P.D. James. I do this every night...well, early a.m.

It flushes out all of crud accumulated during the day.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 04, 2022 01:05 AM (wwcKe)

447
Purry and Della are becoming little killing machines. There's an abundance of field mice (and birds, which I don't like) plus other critters, like little chipmunks.

Damn, but they are getting good. I'll see killing field on the back porch. Bloody spots and remains of various critters.

Their "Uncle Jake", the big uncouth tomcat that hangs around between here and my parents, has taught them well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 01:06 AM (Mzdiz)

448 445 Never even touched subs. No experience at all.
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at June 04, 2022 01:05 AM (0OmEj)

Worked for ComSubPac for 3 years. Normally I'm a surface Puke... but... I was taking care of his Trons down in the Basement. I think I spend more time on his airplane going to fix this, than he ever did.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 01:07 AM (oHd/0)

449
Speaking of Big Jake, I thought he must weigh 17 lbs by now. But took him to the vet to get his shots and dewormed, and he had lost weight, 14.7 lbs or something like that.

He's a big cat, very muscular, and the vet said, hell, 14 lbs is lean and mean for him. He should weigh 14 to 15 lbs, or even a little more.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 01:08 AM (Mzdiz)

450 My personality is probably the same as when I was five years old.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

*test*

*sticks out tongue*

Posted by: Five year old Miklos at June 04, 2022 01:08 AM (7DK/q)

451 Wasn't Caiwyn Jenner a guy once?

Posted by: Five+ year old Miklos at June 04, 2022 01:10 AM (7DK/q)

452 450 My personality is probably the same as when I was five years old.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

*test*

*sticks out tongue*
Posted by: Five year old Miklos at June 04, 2022 01:08 AM (7DK/q)

Is this the part where you hit here, to show you like her?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 01:10 AM (oHd/0)

453 My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
Posted by: Hedley Lamar at June 04, 2022 01:02 AM (XG2Fi)

You talk purtier than a Kansas City Whore!

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 04, 2022 01:10 AM (Jzz++)

454 V 22 lands vertically.
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable

Like the V-2

Posted by: Miklos von Braun at June 04, 2022 01:10 AM (7DK/q)

455 Romeo13. And I just learned a wee bit more about your professional data-points than I'd previously known.

Precious few USN personnel are assigned such a boarding evolution to a sub at sea.

Much respect.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 04, 2022 01:11 AM (QzJWU)

456 Is this the part where you hit here, to show you like her?
Posted by: Romeo13

She gots pigtails, I'll find an inkwell.

Posted by: Miklos, doin' it Old School at June 04, 2022 01:12 AM (7DK/q)

457 Like the V-2
Posted by: Miklos von Braun

That's not your department, Warner ...

Posted by: Adriane the Helpful Critic ... at June 04, 2022 01:14 AM (okV1R)

458 She gots pigtails, I'll find an inkwell.
Posted by: Miklos, doin' it Old School at June 04, 2022 01:12 AM (7DK/q)

Miklos, it isn't sufficient to find an inkwell, you must also find a fence. What needs painting.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 04, 2022 01:15 AM (Jzz++)

459
About a year ago, Jake actually drug up a full grown rabbit he had caught. He couldn't pick him up, so he just drug him. Damndest thing.

He's a killing machine. He'll catch YUGE field mice (voles) and eat 'em basically whole. Little ones are just a snack he swallows in one bite.

A while back, Miley got a laser pointer out to play with the kittens and Jake came in and got into it. I actually saw him in killing machine mode. That pointer activated the predator circuits.

His pupils nearly filled his whole eye sockets. His paws spread wide, and he was lightning. His paws were right on top of the red dot no matter what.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 01:15 AM (Mzdiz)

460 That's not your department, Warner ...
Posted by: Adriane the Helpful Critic

Peenemunde Envy

Posted by: Miklos von Braun at June 04, 2022 01:17 AM (7DK/q)

461
Cats are natures optimized predators. House cats are just like their bigger cousins, just smaller, with some selected traits to ingratiate themselves with us humans. Be all cute and cuddly. They are damned good at making us like them.

But they are killing machines, just like a lion or tiger. That is their purpose and their happiness, the hunt and the kill.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 01:18 AM (Mzdiz)

462 Posted by: Jim at June 04, 2022 01:11 AM (QzJWU)

Yeah... was a weird situation... but I ended up being COMSUBPACs private MOTU. Eventually bit me in the butt... as my Administrative Command of Nav Cams East Pac... Consolidated Maintenance... never knew where the hell I was.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 01:18 AM (oHd/0)

463 His pupils nearly filled his whole eye sockets. His paws spread wide, and he was lightning. His paws were right on top of the red dot no matter what.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion

*reconsiders plan to raid okra patch in mid-July*

Posted by: Miklos, forewarned at June 04, 2022 01:19 AM (7DK/q)

464 Peenemunde Envy

Posted by: Miklos von Braun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro

: -))

Posted by: Adriane the Helpful Critic ... at June 04, 2022 01:21 AM (okV1R)

465 it isn't sufficient to find an inkwell, you must also find a fence. What needs painting.
Posted by: Pete Bog

Heh

I read Tom Sawyer, before it got rayciss

Posted by: Miklos Finn at June 04, 2022 01:21 AM (7DK/q)

466 Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 01:18 AM (oHd/0)

And that post should have confusellated the hell out of most folks.... LOL

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 01:21 AM (oHd/0)

467 Romeo13. Didn't matter if you were the only available Ship's Cook to man the Mess that the Captain demanded your presence.

If they wanted you on the boat badly enough for Air Mail, well, you're special.

Publius. Bonne, the Six Pound Kitty, is the Destroyer of Lasers. For about two minutes, and then she remembers the game, and is bored.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 04, 2022 01:23 AM (QzJWU)

468 I read Tom Sawyer, before it got rayciss
Posted by: Miklos Finn at June 04, 2022 01:21 AM (7DK/q)

But did you read 1984 before it became a How Too manual?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2022 01:23 AM (oHd/0)

469
I may have to make some upgrades to the electric fence. Maybe 7200V to ground, non-current limited, full energy available.

I wonder if I could successfully wire a high energy, high voltage fence like that. I'm only a low-voltage 'lectrician, but I have aspirations for the real wiring, like Mrs. Duke's lineman do.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 01:23 AM (Mzdiz)

470 >>> A while back, Miley got a laser pointer out to play with the kittens and Jake came in and got into it. I actually saw him in killing machine mode. That pointer activated the predator circuits.

His pupils nearly filled his whole eye sockets. His paws spread wide, and he was lightning. His paws were right on top of the red dot no matter what.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 01:15 AM (Mzdiz)

There's a funny legos movie where the heroes are trying to get some "Ultimate Weapon" to defeat the bad guy. When they get it finally it looks like a wicked giant bazooka or something. But when they fired it at the bad guy all that happened is a red dot appeared on the bad guy and the heroes are like "huh?" Then you hear a loud earth-shaking roar and a giant city-sized kitten comes out and attacks the red dot. It's pretty funny how they set it up.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 04, 2022 01:24 AM (XlZ2m)

471 But did you read 1984 before it became a How Too manual?
Posted by: Romeo13

I read 1984 before 1984, so I got that going for me.

That and Total Consciousness

Posted by: Miklos Spackler, Assistant groundskeeper at June 04, 2022 01:26 AM (7DK/q)

472 >> Then you hear a loud earth-shaking roar and a giant city-sized kitten comes out and attacks the red dot

ROFL. I've seen some memes based on that theme.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 01:27 AM (Mzdiz)

473 The gun control crowd is literally trying to get people killed by continuing to tweet bullshit...

Juan Hernandez
@presidio56
Replying to
@JasonCrowCO
The best weapon for home defense is a 12 gauge shotgun. There will be no over penetration meaning that you will not be hitting neighbors Sitting in the living room watching TV or their children laying in bed.
2:01 PM · Jun 3, 2022

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at June 04, 2022 01:27 AM (MFZ8i)

474 >>> I read 1984 before 1984, so I got that going for me.

That and Total Consciousness
Posted by: Miklos Spackler, Assistant groundskeeper at June 04, 2022 01:26 AM (7DK/q)

Gunga, gunga galunga

Posted by: banana Dream at June 04, 2022 01:27 AM (XlZ2m)

475 Romeo. I understood it.

My reply paid you the courtesy of the diffraction of that fact.

Otherwise, how ARE those CA kosher bagels, eh? (I'll be flying into Oakland next Monday, for a drive down the 101 to Carmel, and a return up the 5 to Walnut Creek, before a Saturday return.)

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 04, 2022 01:30 AM (QzJWU)

476 Goodnight everyone. Stay hydrated, reconstituted, and delighted.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 04, 2022 01:30 AM (XlZ2m)

477
With high voltage (which, for electrician certified purposes is "over 600V", although that's just sort of margin of safety factor) you don't just splice wires together with wire nuts and cram them in a junction box.

No. With 7200V, or higher, that would be disastrous. Really, the limit is probably about 2000V to ground. Below that, the wire nuts and the cramming together wouldn't be dangerous, but that would be the limit.

A good rule of thumb is that if anything is an insulator, that is doesn't readily conduct current, it's good to about 2 kV. Usually, and generally. Above that, and it's another story.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 01:30 AM (Mzdiz)

478 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro

: -))
Posted by: Adriane the Helpful Critic

FUN FACT

One on my kollidge perfessers was Tom Lehrer's freshman roommate at their fancy Kollidge, and was in Lehrer's first organized performances.

For an anthropologist, Dr. Munro Edmonson had a wicked sense of humor, which I guess is why we got along and enjoyed talking for many years.

Posted by: Miklos, Amateuroplogist at June 04, 2022 01:31 AM (7DK/q)

479 Ignores Miklos completely, and then when he is not looking she sticks out her tongue back at him. So there!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 04, 2022 01:33 AM (a4EWo)

480
Seriously, I could wire up a real kill you dead, high voltage, high energy electric fence. I mean, touch it, and you fry.

I would just need to series up some transformers, and would have to do some "higher voltage tricks" to keep that from arcing over, but it could be done easily with readily available materials.

The only problem would be killing things you didn't want to kill, like myself. Not to mention the cats.

But I could roast a deer. Or human predators. Like trailer thieves. And go to jail for it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 01:38 AM (Mzdiz)

481 Ignores Miklos completely, and then when he is not looking she sticks out her tongue back at him. So there!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

Who stuck this "kick me" sign on my back?

Girly handwriting

Posted by: Miklos, reconsidering the dues patyable to the He Man Women Haters Club at June 04, 2022 01:39 AM (7DK/q)

482
In the forthcoming Burning Times, such an arrangement may be forthcoming. But then, the grid will probably be down.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 01:40 AM (Mzdiz)

483 But then, the grid will probably be down.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz)

car batteries, FTW !

Posted by: Adriane the Helpful Critic ... at June 04, 2022 01:42 AM (okV1R)

484 Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion

Ever get your trailer back?

Still can't believe it was stolen.

Posted by: Miklos, more honest than most at June 04, 2022 01:45 AM (7DK/q)

485 Man, I don't know which way they went in for the biopsy, but that had to be the pits. My condolences
Posted by: JM in Florida at June 03, 2022 11:37

TY JM. They use a probe up the ass w/ a camera and then somehow use some laser thing to take 12 random snips off the prostate. There is some nerve they can aggravate that causes my reaction sometimes.

Almost passed out, saw stars and broke out in a sweat. They never warned me about that, but maybe that was good, less anxiety beforehand.

Posted by: Farmer at June 04, 2022 01:45 AM (55Qr6)

486 high voltage from my solar panels to kill the zombies in end times ... is there a YouTube video to lay out those plans? And are zombies edible ... for when the tuna fish and rice runs out?

Posted by: illiniwek at June 04, 2022 01:46 AM (Cus5s)

487 >> Ever get your trailer back?

Nope, pretty sure it's a gone gobbler, unless I get lucky.

I filed a report with the Greenville County Sheriff, and a deputy got back with me, via email for some details. It's on file, and there it will stay.

I strongly suspect it was some of the contractors who got close enough to see it in that shed driving around.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 01:48 AM (Mzdiz)

488 Miklos, Amateuroplogist at June 04, 2022 01:31 AM (7DK/q)

Kewl Beanz !!!

Posted by: Adriane the Helpful Critic ... at June 04, 2022 01:49 AM (okV1R)

489 Almost passed out, saw stars and broke out in a sweat. They never warned me about that, but maybe that was good, less anxiety beforehand.
Posted by: Farmer

What color ribbon should I wear for Female Prostate Awareness Month?

Posted by: Miklos, but call me "Lia" at June 04, 2022 01:49 AM (7DK/q)

490 I believe it's customary to bury zombies under next year's tomatoes.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 04, 2022 01:49 AM (4NlP1)

491 >> car batteries, FTW !

You could do that, but it would take some much more sophisticated electronic engineering. Basically an inverter to drive a high voltage output. A simple LC ringer tank circuit with a clicker could do it. The idea is to have enough energy to kill something. It can be done. Much simpler with AC and transformers.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 01:52 AM (Mzdiz)

492 I believe it's customary to bury zombies under next year's tomatoes.
Posted by: Walter Freeman

a spicy salsa can raise the dead ...

Posted by: Adriane the Superstitious Ethnic Cuisine Critic ... at June 04, 2022 01:53 AM (okV1R)

493 What color ribbon should I wear for Female Prostate Awareness Month?
Posted by: Miklos, but call me "Lia"

a pair of taupe pants ...

Posted by: Adriane the Pirate Fighter in the Red Coat ... at June 04, 2022 01:55 AM (okV1R)

494 No. You bury zombies with a dozen blank REPUBLICAN ballots.

Use their own tactics against 'em, for a change.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 04, 2022 01:56 AM (QzJWU)

495 But I could roast a deer. Or human predators. Like trailer thieves. And go to jail for it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 01:38 AM (Mzdiz)

do not establish a guilty mind. It appears to me that the deer in the field are a problem you have to have addressed.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 04, 2022 01:58 AM (Jzz++)

496 a pair of taupe pants ...
Posted by: Adriane the Pirate Fighter

I was thinking mauve...or...or...salmon

Posted by: Miklosian Anti-Marketing SA de CV at June 04, 2022 01:59 AM (7DK/q)

497 Posted by: Caiwyn at June 04, 2022 12:55 AM (+dHQK)

I pronounce the nick as 'kie win' (ie = eye), and a character with that same sounding name was the shitty Bajoran 'pope' on ST: DS9.

Posted by: RickZ at June 04, 2022 02:00 AM (ldL4g)

498 high voltage from my solar panels to kill the zombies in end times ... is there a YouTube video to lay out those plans? And are zombies edible ... for when the tuna fish and rice runs out?

Posted by: illiniwek at June 04, 2022 01:46 AM (Cus5s

Will you arrange the zombie attack to coincide with peak sunlight? do not want it to get dicey.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 04, 2022 02:01 AM (Jzz++)

499 Farmer, prayers for a good biopsy result.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 03, 2022 11:38 PM (kf6Ak)

256 Prayers up, Farmer.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 03, 2022 11:39
---
TY so much, this whole thing is worrisome. Your PSA should be under 4, mine was 5.6. They redid it and I was 2.8. So actually it is a fairly inaccurate test, I think accuracy in ca. 60%.

Someone here (new to me but maybe duck was in their nic) posted a link to what the Europeans do. I'll have to look in my history, they sound much more advanced than the US protocol.

Posted by: Farmer at June 04, 2022 02:02 AM (55Qr6)

500 My own body knows when it thinks it time to sleep, and when it's time to wake. All out of phase, but it's regular and clock work, just greatly phase shifted.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 12:51 AM (Mzdiz)

yeah, thats me, but it was an acquired thing over time. I remember right out of high school I couldn't stay up past 1am without starting to get real tired. Then the music thing happened. You started practicing until 10, and then after was party/chick/whatever time, so you pushed it until 2am, then you had weekends gigs and then you pushed it to way later. Then you get into bigger bands, don't need a day job, because thats your job, and its definitely graveyard shift, and you go later and later, and next thing you know weeee I'm good til 5am nooo problem. Then you do that for years, and now your body clock is carved in stone, and you are fucked.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 04, 2022 02:02 AM (VwHCD)

501 do not establish a guilty mind. It appears to me that the deer in the field are a problem you have to have addressed.
Posted by: Pete Bog

It's "The Thing in the Woods"

Kill it

oops

Posted by: The Legend of Boggy Creek Miklos at June 04, 2022 02:03 AM (7DK/q)

502 I'm good til 5am nooo problem. Then you do that for years, and now your body clock is carved in stone, and you are fucked.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Move to Hungary and all cool. Six hour time difference.

Posted by: Mere Magyar Miklos at June 04, 2022 02:05 AM (7DK/q)

503
The deer haven't got in there yet. Last time, a single fence layer kept them out pretty well until late, when it got close to rutting season. They got a little frisky and jumped it.

So, this time, I'm going with a double layer. That is, two fences, 6' apart, surrounding the whole thing. Deer will jump, but they do not like to be trapped in a tight space.

The idea of an electric fence is to scare them. They come up, checking it out, get popped, and that scares them off.

Deer can jump very high. You'd need at least a 10' high regular fence to have any chance of keeping them from jumping it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 02:07 AM (Mzdiz)

504 I can still move my body clock hours around, as needed. Just a bit more'n two weeks, to adjust.

And tell me who I have to kill.

Otherwise, it ain't worth the bother.

/s

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 04, 2022 02:09 AM (QzJWU)

505
Deer love bean plants, and pea plants. It's like crack to them. Soybeans included. The population around here has exploded, and these stupid subdivisions that have been growing are pushing them out of a lot of territory.

I've got a beautiful stand of green peas and peas out there, which is to a deer is like crack MILF whores to Hunter Biden, and it's still standing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 02:09 AM (Mzdiz)

506
My cousin, the retarded meteorologist can shift his body clock easily. He got trained. During any serious storm or emergency situation, he'd have to work long hours on end, and he said he got adapted where he could pretty much shift it at will.

Oh, "re-tard" = retired, a play on the redneck pronunciation, for those not in on the joke.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 02:11 AM (Mzdiz)

507 I'm kind of crepuscular.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 04, 2022 02:12 AM (KAi1n)

508 publius.

How many dumb-ass deer you gonna shoot, butcher and freeze this year?

Lotsa older does, I hope. Young, scrub-bucks, too. Spikes, especially. Do this enough years, and the mature bucks begin to resemble "trophys". Which you do not shoot, but charge some city bastard $10k to take and tag and tip you a thou, as his "guide".

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 04, 2022 02:14 AM (QzJWU)

509 I would hope they would pass me out ahead of time. Had my bladder scoped while conscientious once but that's a story for another time.
Posted by: Javems at June 03, 2022 11:46

My thought xactly, next time knock me out. Tho I guess part of my problem was my BP went very low. Bur if I was out I don't that would happen, my conciousness wouldn't be bothered by the nerve issue maybe.

Posted by: Farmer at June 04, 2022 02:15 AM (55Qr6)

510 Oh, "re-tard" = retired, a play on the redneck pronunciation, for those not in on the joke.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion

Don't he live a fur piece down the road?

Posted by: Mere Magyar Miklos. Honorary Red Neckerson at June 04, 2022 02:15 AM (7DK/q)

511 I'm kind of crepuscular.
Posted by: SFGoth
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That would be even more interesting if your name was Ray.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 04, 2022 02:15 AM (YsLD1)

512 high voltage from my solar panels to kill the zombies in end times ...
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Maybe concentrators would be more efficient. Just a couple of steerable parabolic mirrors. Bonus: dinner.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 04, 2022 02:17 AM (dx9uU)

513
You know, it's out of deer season, so illegal to kill deer. However, there is a nuisance law. If it's in so many feet of a residence, you can kill at will. Beyond that limit, you're supposed to apply for a permit to kill a nuisance deer or other wild animal problem.

Our garden would be in the safe limit of my parents, house, I think. But no Miley and my house. So a game warden could give some flack, if he wanted to.

I've killed them before, out of season. One time, I let a local take it to butcher it. He asked no question, tells no lies. Another time, my father and I just buried it with the front end loader.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 02:19 AM (Mzdiz)

514 zzzzz, etc

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 04, 2022 02:19 AM (QzJWU)

515 Oh, "re-tard" = retired, a play on the redneck pronunciation, for those not in on the joke.
Posted by: publius
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Now do 'All' vs. 'Oil'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 04, 2022 02:19 AM (dx9uU)

516 Crepuscular is conspicuously cromulent.

Posted by: It pays to Increase Your Word Power at June 04, 2022 02:20 AM (7DK/q)

517 Pigs

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 04, 2022 02:22 AM (Jzz++)

518 >> Don't he live a fur piece down the road?

No too fur, jest 'bout a mile or a little better. He moved back home for his final stint, got a job as the head of GSP NWS facility. They were thinking of closing of it, but ol' Fritz Hollings got it expanded.

They made it such a BFD, that regulations required like a Ph.D to be the head. They hired one. My cousin still ran it, but was technically under the Ph.D. He sat in his office and supervised. Cousin's workload increased, and they hired another guy to share it.

Totally worthless Ph.D at the top, who did nothing but "supervise", being paid a big federal salary.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 02:22 AM (Mzdiz)

519
Totally worthless Ph.D at the top, who did nothing but "supervise", being paid a big federal salary.
Posted by: publius
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It's a great gig. Can't be beat. Fat city.

Posted by: Toni Fauci at June 04, 2022 02:24 AM (kT5Bb)

520 Totally worthless Ph.D at the top, who did nothing but "supervise", being paid a big federal salary.
Posted by: publius

Ace's New favorite Song from Wet Leg should be remixed as " I got the Big Ph.D."

Posted by: Miklos has one, fat lot of good that is worth at June 04, 2022 02:25 AM (7DK/q)

521 Now do 'All' vs. 'Oil'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 04, 2022 02:19 AM (dx9uU)

I thought 'oil' was one of the titles of nobility below a duke.

(That would be 'earl' for you non-rednecks.)

True story. Now my ex was fluent in English, Spanish, and French, could speak Italian and understand Portuguese.

My ex and I were flying to my usual southern WV Thanksgiving with that part of the family. We were picked up at the Roanoke airport by my Mom, Dad and an Uncle (by marriage). Being a polite hillbilly, Uncle Milton started talking to her, asking her questions. She turned to me and had a look of horror in her eyes. She said she didn't understand a word he said. When I told Milton she didn't understand him, I'll never forget his 'Ah, hay-ell, wha-eye din't she jus' sah-ay that?' (Which I had to translate to her.)

So a girl who was multilingual could not understand WV hillbilly. I always found that funny. She couldn't understand old school North Carolina Ocracokian, either. When I'm down south too long, parts of my Suh'thun accent quickly and easily start to creep back into my speech patterns. The first thing to always come back is y'all.

Posted by: RickZ at June 04, 2022 02:38 AM (ldL4g)

522 WeirdDave, you brought some good funny!

Posted by: m at June 04, 2022 02:38 AM (3gyvT)

523
Interesting story about my cousin. My uncle wanted him to go to college, but he didn't want to and ran off and joined the Air Force after high school. That's where he got into weather, and became a meteorologist. He had some degrees and credentials from that, but I don't know what. But wasn't any Ph.D level.

He was an observational/empirical type, not theoretical. He does have a minor claim to fame. He discovered some tornado predictive pattern, which is called some "S-pattern", something like that. On some graph of various parameters, think of a "heat map" type display, there is something that looked like an S shape.

Now, this was predictive of tornado spawn in certain specific circumstances, not some big general thing. Under certain conditions, this S shape is predictive of tornado activity of a certain type.

He wrote that up and published it. The theoretical guys took note and investigated. They found that it made sense according to theory, and developed a theoretical frame-work for it.

Now, as my cousin sort of lamented, this S-pattern thing bears the name of the theoretical guys, the Ph.Ds who developed the model.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 02:41 AM (Mzdiz)

524 We're supposed to get light rain in 9 minutes. That's kinda wow.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 04, 2022 02:41 AM (KAi1n)

525
Cousin said the early papers all credited him as the actual discover of the S-pattern thing. But as it developed and became accepted, his name just dropped out of it, and it's now named after the theoretical guys who first published the theory of it, based on his observational publishing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 02:43 AM (Mzdiz)

526 They backed it off to 1 am. Gives PG time to roam the backyard.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 04, 2022 02:46 AM (KAi1n)

527 Cousin said the early papers all credited him as the actual discover of the S-pattern thing. But as it developed and became accepted, his name just dropped out of it, and it's now named after the theoretical guys who first published the theory of it, based on his observational publishing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 02:43 AM (Mzdiz)

Academia is brutally cutthroat in the 'publish or perish' department. I just have a feeling your cousin didn't get left out by accident is all I'm sayin'.

Posted by: RickZ at June 04, 2022 02:48 AM (ldL4g)

528 and it's now named after the theoretical guys who first published the theory of it, based on his observational publishing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz)

yep.

Posted by: Adriane the That's the Way ... Of the World Critic ... at June 04, 2022 02:48 AM (okV1R)

529 Excellent Ont!!

Posted by: Hallmark perversion dept at June 04, 2022 02:48 AM (5y7pR)

530 Posted by: Hallmark perversion dept

LOL

Posted by: m at June 04, 2022 02:57 AM (3gyvT)

531
We pronounce "oil" as sort of "aw-ul". Not exactly "all" still two syllables. But no "oy" in it at all.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 04, 2022 03:04 AM (Mzdiz)

532 The awl bidniss

Posted by: SFGoth at June 04, 2022 03:12 AM (KAi1n)

533 Mornin'
(sips coffee)

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 04, 2022 03:20 AM (sAmhv)

534 Morning, Puddleglum ...

** hands off responsibility for world peace and harmony of the spheres **

Posted by: Adriane the That's the Way ... Of the World Critic ... at June 04, 2022 03:25 AM (okV1R)

535 Heard it pronounced "earl," too.

Posted by: m at June 04, 2022 03:27 AM (3gyvT)

536 Damn, you always piss me off with your coffee sipping at 3 fucking A.M.

Posted by: nobody you've heard of at June 04, 2022 03:28 AM (QRsW4)

537 536 Damn, you always piss me off with your coffee sipping at 3 fucking A.M.
Posted by: nobody you've heard of at June 04, 2022 03:28 AM (QRsW4)

Good morning, Sunshine!

Posted by: m at June 04, 2022 03:29 AM (3gyvT)

538 What color ribbon should I wear for Female Prostate Awareness Month?
Posted by: Miklos, but call me "Lia" at June 04, 2022 01:49

Thanks the best laugh of the day. At first I didn't get it, then someone quoted you and I read the whole nic. LMAO

Well done sir or ma'am or xher whatever. Did you see the other day some idiot Biden appointee was asked if men can give birth? Of course she said yes. This is craziness.

Posted by: Farmer at June 04, 2022 03:35 AM (55Qr6)

539 Did you see the other day some idiot Biden appointee was asked if men can give birth? Of course she said yes. This is craziness.

Posted by: Farmer at June 04, 2022 03:35 AM (55Qr6)

A question no reporter will ever ask: Do you think we should encourage your delusion by buying into your bullshit?

Posted by: RickZ at June 04, 2022 03:40 AM (ldL4g)

540 One of the best Ace of Spades HQ threads I've seen & I've been haunting this place for decades now.

Posted by: ssmouse at June 04, 2022 03:44 AM (8EAmw)

541 (sips coffee)
Have to be at work at 0600. Need coffee. Lots of coffee.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 04, 2022 03:45 AM (sAmhv)

542 Another good word to diagnose regional origins is "orange." Huge number of possibilities.

Posted by: m at June 04, 2022 03:55 AM (3gyvT)

543 Really, I have orange and that is about it.

Tomato is another thing. Pecan is a real tell.

Posted by: Quint at June 04, 2022 04:15 AM (tU3dj)

544 Puddleglum how long is your commute?

Posted by: Skip at June 04, 2022 04:21 AM (2JoB8)

545 Pecan is a real tell.

Posted by: Quint at June 04, 2022 04:15 AM (tU3dj)

Tell of origins. 'PEE-can' or 'puh-KAHN'. The northerners around me say the former while I, raised in the south, say the latter.

Posted by: RickZ at June 04, 2022 04:22 AM (ldL4g)

546 544: It's not bad. 20 minutes, more or less. Depends on if I'm driving or taking the subway.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 04, 2022 04:24 AM (sAmhv)

547 Been 25 minutes mostly, as go to different job sites for me.
But still 17 miles, just almost all highway.

Posted by: Skip at June 04, 2022 04:27 AM (2JoB8)

548 Same of group of people, the word 'aunt'. They say 'ant' while I say 'awnt'. I told them awnts are relatives, ants are pests at picnics.

Posted by: RickZ at June 04, 2022 04:29 AM (ldL4g)

549 Lawyers are circling Texas...going to go after the gun maker. Totes the guns fault

Posted by: a dude in MI at June 04, 2022 04:29 AM (+I6Y/)

550 Yesterday, Pixy said he'd be moving into his new house in the "morning," Pixytime.

Posted by: m at June 04, 2022 04:30 AM (3gyvT)

551 Well, gotta do last minute prep before leaving. Assuming the scheduled outage at Deep State Fed Building goes reasonably well today, I'll post from time to time from work. If not, I won't.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 04, 2022 04:35 AM (sAmhv)

552 Here's what Pixy said yesterday:

>>>I'm not in New House yet, but I'm in a motel in New House City. Picking up the keys in the morning.

Posted by: m at June 04, 2022 04:37 AM (3gyvT)

553 I'll post from time to time from work. If not, I won't.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 04, 2022 04:35 AM (sAmhv)

Wherever you go, there you are.

Posted by: Buckaroo Banzai at June 04, 2022 04:37 AM (ldL4g)

554 https://tinyurl.com/3x28styx
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Posted by: Skip at June 04, 2022 04:44 AM (2JoB8)

555 Just posting to get this link in my name field.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 04, 2022 04:58 AM (9Wrck)

556 BTW the Wizard of Oz is the Republican nomination for Pa Senate.

Posted by: Skip at June 04, 2022 05:05 AM (2JoB8)

557 Been up almost a hour, might as well go put coffee on

Posted by: Skip at June 04, 2022 05:12 AM (2JoB8)

558 Thanks Skip !

Posted by: JT at June 04, 2022 05:14 AM (arJlL)

559 Good morning from NW Ontario

Posted by: Muad'dib at June 04, 2022 05:15 AM (CaOnN)

560 Did you see the other day some idiot Biden appointee was asked if men can give birth? Of course she said yes. This is craziness.

Posted by: Farmer

I watched that in disbelief. I know Mayor Pete gave birth (/sarc) but how can it be a real man can give birth. What bothered me the most was the congress critter didn't bat a eye, like be believed its possible.

Posted by: Colin at June 04, 2022 05:17 AM (YVx1O)

561 554 https://tinyurl.com/3x28styx
20 Tweets from Bad Blue
Posted by: Skip at June 04, 2022 04:44 AM

Thanks, Skip.
Look at the last four letters of that URL!

Posted by: m at June 04, 2022 05:24 AM (3gyvT)

562 I am sure not once on this planet a man has given birth

Posted by: Skip at June 04, 2022 05:25 AM (2JoB8)

563 **Men** cannot get pregnant or give birth

**Women** do not have penises
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What? Wanna get me fired? Wanna deplatform me?

HAHAHAHAHAHA: I don't have a job and don't use social media!!!
/

Posted by: JQ at June 04, 2022 05:27 AM (dpnJh)

564 One of the badblue tweets:

Tim Young
@TimRunsHisMouth
Please forgive me for not wanting to negotiate my gun ownership with people who just a few months ago wanted me eliminated from society because I didn't want a forced medical treatment.

Posted by: m at June 04, 2022 05:27 AM (3gyvT)

565 Local TV news reporting "Brazen Crimes Plague Oakland Community" an old lady was killed crossing the street on Tuesday, in a hit-and-run right in front of an OPD patrol car. "Life is worthless here," a local merchant says.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 04, 2022 05:27 AM (EZebt)

566 It's 34 F right now. I hope it stuns the skeeters

Posted by: Muad'dib at June 04, 2022 05:31 AM (CaOnN)

567 565 Local TV news reporting "Brazen Crimes Plague Oakland Community" an old lady was killed crossing the street on Tuesday, in a hit-and-run right in front of an OPD patrol car. "Life is worthless here," a local merchant says.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 04, 2022 05:27 AM (EZebt)

Did they get the guy? Which would be small consolation, but something.

Posted by: m at June 04, 2022 05:33 AM (3gyvT)

568 565 "Life is worthless here," a local merchant says.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 04, 2022 05:27 AM (EZebt)

That is so sad.

Posted by: m at June 04, 2022 05:34 AM (3gyvT)

569 Fog horns going off...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 04, 2022 05:37 AM (EZebt)

570 Did they get the guy? Which would be small consolation, but something.
Posted by: m at June 04, 2022 05:33 AM (3gyvT)
===

The cop barely got out of his car. So, no.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 04, 2022 05:47 AM (EZebt)

571 562 I am sure not once on this planet a man has given birth
Posted by: Skip at June 04, 2022 05:25 AM (2JoB

If we're on a planet where words have meaning.

Posted by: m at June 04, 2022 05:47 AM (3gyvT)

572 Coffee is up but think now could go back to bed

Posted by: Skip at June 04, 2022 05:48 AM (2JoB8)

573 The cop barely got out of his car. So, no.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

There was that whole taking my seat belt off and buckling up my pants and brushing the donut crumbs off my shirt and....

Posted by: Bruce at June 04, 2022 05:51 AM (vd8XM)

574 Endless sadness.
"who was on her way to church"

https://tinyurl.com/5t7fjypt
https://archive.ph/kAtZQ

Surveillance video captured a deadly hit-and-run crash that killed an elderly woman who was on her way to church in Oakland.

Posted by: m at June 04, 2022 05:52 AM (3gyvT)

575 Steamed mug, heated cream, first pour. Heaven.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 04, 2022 05:53 AM (EZebt)

576 It's 34 F right now. I hope it stuns the skeeters
Posted by: Muad'dib

Just makes 'em hangry

Posted by: Bruce at June 04, 2022 05:54 AM (vd8XM)

577 People say we are for the weather.

It is foggy, windy, and 55 today. But no mosquitoes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 04, 2022 05:57 AM (EZebt)

578 Who's going to protect me when the food shortages start?

Posted by: Uber Eats Driver at June 04, 2022 05:58 AM (KRQbF)

579 84 and nice, doesn't get better than this

Posted by: Skip at June 04, 2022 05:58 AM (2JoB8)

580 Skip. how is the compost pile going? I need to dump and sift last yrs tumbler load. Do you ever add old potting soil? I worry about adding some fungus or something.

Posted by: Farmer at June 04, 2022 05:58 AM (55Qr6)

581 There will be an additional fuel upcharge for any ambulance service request. Read the fine print.

Posted by: Insurance Companies at June 04, 2022 05:59 AM (KRQbF)

582 I should go back to bed and let everyone catch up

Posted by: Skip at June 04, 2022 06:02 AM (2JoB8)

583 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at June 04, 2022 06:02 AM (3gyvT)

584 PIXY NOOD
will Krak be up as webll?

Posted by: Skip at June 04, 2022 06:03 AM (2JoB8)

585 There will be an additional fuel upcharge for any ambulance service request. Read the fine print.
Posted by: Insurance Companies

I remember those from the trucking companies I dealt with. Most of the product was at a delivered price. But, when fuel got crazy, the surcharges would kick in. The buyers at corporate would then have to update all of the contracts in the computer system or give people like me the permissions to okay them.

Fun times.

Posted by: Bruce at June 04, 2022 06:04 AM (vd8XM)

586 The wife is busy tomorrow morning, so I'm going to see Top Gun: Maverick while I have a couple of spare hours. I rarely go to movies, but I trust Critical Drinker's reviews enough to risk my money. Also, I'm expecting nothing more than a mindless action movie, so if it turns out to be more I'll be pleasantly surprised.
Posted by: PabloD says start up the rotors at June 03, 2022 10:44 PM (ZfIh5)

My son took me to see it last night for my birthday. Great flick! Saw it in a larger theater on a 60 foot screen, equipped with Dolby Atmos sound system. Outstanding! The audience actually applauded at the end, something I haven't seen in may years. This theater is also equipped with full recliners with trays for your goodies, so the movie could be viewed in real comfort.

The action was nonstop, and the fact that the actors were actually in the fighter planes made it all the more realistic. Don't miss the chance to see this on the big screen. I may go see it again. And no 'woke' BS either.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 04, 2022 07:53 AM (Zvtjl)

587 >>> I pronounce the nick as 'kie win' (ie = eye), and a character with that same sounding name was the shitty Bajoran 'pope' on ST: DS9.
Posted by: RickZ at June 04, 2022 02:00 AM (ldL4g)

That is indeed the correct pronunciation, but I never got into Star Trek so I’m not familiar with that character.

Posted by: Caiwyn at June 04, 2022 07:55 AM (+dHQK)

588 Boston fan, but they blew it. Had Carolina going all the way in my bracket, but they blew it. Pulling for the Rangers now. Original six...you can't go wrong pulling for them, right?

Posted by: windbag at June 04, 2022 09:48 AM (De4Fy)

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