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BLACKOUT! ONT
Just kidding, although we are without power. We had a much needed storm blow through this morning, but it knocked out the power and it's still out. It came on for 10 seconds around 5, but then it went down again. Good news: The storm knocked the heat down so it only got up to 90 today, unlike the 100 degree plus days we've been having for the past few weeks. Bad news: No AC. If it goes on (or rather stays off) much longer I'm gonna fire up the genny to keep the freezers going. If I was any type of redneck engineer I'd have the panel wired so I could plug the genny in when something like this happens, but I'm not. I had a jackleg electrician do it for the Baltimore house (He was real good, but he'd lost his license after trouble with addiction), but he's not down here and a licensed electrician is required to install all kinds of safety locks which adds expense and I haven't done it yet. (Look, I'm smart enough not to flip this breaker on to accept generator power until after I've flipped that one off, disconnecting from the grid. It's not that hard. I'm smart enough not to stick my hand into the chute of a running lawn mower too, but I can't buy one without the dead-man's switch).
In any event, we are without power, and that includes my computer where I have all of the ONT content stored. So this is a bring-your-own content ONT. If you have any interesting links or stories, post them! Mentioning redneck engineering reminds me of something that happened to me a few days ago, so I'll start with that. Tuesday, I bought a trailer. Not a big one, 4X8, all I need is something to take the mower up to the shop if it needs it or to haul the motorcycle around. I saw an ad on FB marketplace and scheduled to meet the guy. He's up by Lake O' the Pines, about 60 miles away, which is Texas for “close”. I get there later than intended, after 8:30, because I'd stopped off at another “close” location (40 miles away) to buy a bagger for my mower, but it was still installed on her mower so I had to take it off. It wasn't hard, but it involved me lying on my back in the dirt of the driveway blindly using wrenches up under the back of the mower while chickens pecked around my feet. In any event, it was 8:40 before I got to the trailer guy's house. Sunset. So the trailer looks good. It's homemade, but made well. Solid. The bed is thick plastic which won't rust like metal or rot like wood. I like it. Couple of concerns. #1 There are no loops for safety chains on the trailer. I can weld some on, no problem, but there's still the problem of getting it home. Fortunately, the frame behind the hitch is a triangle with the main bar bisecting the triangle from the apex to the base. I mention my concern to the seller, and he starts rummaging through his stuff. And such wonderful stuff! He could probably build a whole car from the stuff he has lying around. Side note: I call him a redneck, because he is. 25-30 years old, tattoos everywhere, wearing a wife beater. It's not a pejorative. He's got everything but a Fabergé egg in his yard to work with. He's got a very pretty wife and a house and STUFF! Good stuff! Frankly, if the shit hits the fan, run to him, not me. I'm an insurance agent. He's a man that can get things done. I can translate an EOB. Make your choice. Chose wisely. Anyway he comes up with a cable with hooks on the end. That will do for one chain. He rummages more and comes up with a chain that has a hook on one end and a loop on the other, plus another length of chain. Loop the chain through the gap in the triangle, secure it with a bolt and hook the hook onto my truck and Bob's your uncle. Issue #2. One of the tires is shot. Oh, it's holding air, but there's a deep, deep groove in it (past the steel belts). He goes off to find another tire. The one he brings back doesn't match the lugs. He thinks his friend Leo might have a matching tire, so he calls him. Meanwhile, it's now become full dark. Seller can't find a tire and rim that will fit, but suddenly remembers something. He goes off and comes back with a tire (no rim) that will fit the wheel. It's dirty from sitting on the ground, but it's damn near a brand new tire. He insists that I take it, throws it into the trailer. Won't take “Hey, I can get another tire” for an answer. So we have it all sorted, the trailer is hitched up, I've got 60 miles to go, hoping that the bad tire will hold, and it's full dark. At this point Leo arrives. He's gotten the call from Seller and had come to see for himself how he can help. That's when problem #3 manifests, and this one is all on me. The plug on the back of my truck for the trailer lights has become damaged. One of the prongs (the ground) has broken off. The truck is plugged into the trailer, but the circuit isn't complete. The trailer's lights don't work. This is a problem when it's Texas dark outside. I have 60 miles to home, much of it on very dark back roads, and without lights on the trailer, someone could easily drive up on me and hit the trailer they didn't see. Remember, it's full dark at this point. We're examining the wiring by cell phone flashlight. Then Leo notices something: “Hey, the missing connection is the ground, right? If we strip this wire we can ground it to the hitch and everything will work” I look at the wire, but it's not long enough to reach the hitch. I turn to Seller and ask “Got a length of wire?” If you think he didn't, than you haven't been paying attention. Seller comes back with the wire and I ask him “Do you have a wire stripper?” Surprisingly, he doesn't, but he asks Leo for his lighter. Seller then proceeds to use the lighter to melt the plastic coating on the wires and strip them with his fingernails. He then wires everything up and asks me to turn on the lights of my truck. It doesn't work. No lights on the trailer. Bummer, and we don't know why. In any event, it's time for me to leave. I've got an hour + to get home, pulling a trailer with no lights, and I need to get on the road. I go to pay Seller, and he just arbitrarily knocks $50 off the price, “For the inconvenience”. That's not right, it's not on him, but he insists. So I set out into the darkness, across 60 miles of Texas darkness, towing a trailer that nobody can see. Yippie. It was a tense trip. Every time I saw lights in my rear view mirror, I put on my hazards. The trailer was actually low enough that following cars could clearly see my truck lights above it, my hope was that the hazards would make them look closer and see the trailer behind me. I worked my way down to Longview on the 281 loop and then had a problem. I wanted to be on 31, but the loop dead ended at US 20, an 80 MPH speedway that goes east/west. US 20 was the last road I wanted to be on with an unlit trailer riding on a bum tire, but where I was was 10 miles away from where I wanted to be. Reluctantly, I got on US 20. My hazards were on, and I was relatively crawling at 60-65 while legions of long haul truckers blew past me at 80+ MPH. Thankfully, I made it to the exit for 31. I got onto 31 and headed home. It was now 10:30. I was almost home, but my route went past my local, which closed at 11. I'd been wound up like a yo-yo for the whole trip home so I decided to stop and have a beer. I parked the truck and trailer across some parking spaces and got out. The lights on the truck went out when I took the key out of the ignition, but the headlight switch was still in the on position. As I got out of the cab, I looked back at the trailer. WTF? One of the running lights on the rear of the trailer was on. I reached in and turned off the headlight switch. The trailer light went off. Headlight switch on; trailer light on. Headlight switch off; trailer light off. WHAT IN THE EVERLOVING MOTHERFUCK? I SPENT THE LAST 90 MINUTES SWEATING MY ASS OFF WORRYING ABOUT AN UNLIT TRAILER AND NOW THIS?? ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? I dunno if I hit a bump that joggled something or what, but damn, that was a kick in the ass. All that stress, for nothing. Damnit! Coda: Seller and Leo were fantastic. They both called me “sir” (as I did them), and had firm handshakes and direct gazes. They both did everything they could to make not just the sale of the trailer, but the practical application of my buying the trailer and getting it home, go well. This is the America that I grew up in, and the America I revere. To the “elites”: Dismiss people as “rednecks” if you will. They are in every way better than you.And they will picnic on your grave. Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Hank Williams Jr.:
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: BruceWayne at July 14, 2022 09:55 PM (MGB5H)
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Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 14, 2022 09:58 PM (Bd6X8)
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Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 14, 2022 09:59 PM (5HBd1)
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Posted by: Ciampino - boobs and legs! at July 14, 2022 10:00 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 14, 2022 10:01 PM (RN7Qy)
::::takes off shoes and pants, runs around like a maniac:::
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 14, 2022 10:01 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Moki at July 14, 2022 10:01 PM (JrN/x)
Posted by: wing at July 14, 2022 10:01 PM (PlW9M)
You can install a manual transfer switch yourself. It is easy. You just need to understand what you are doing and know how to turn off the power to the panel.
I did it, and it works really well.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 14, 2022 10:02 PM (XIJ/X)
But that's one of the great things about this place...even when things go to shit, the COBs come through with content!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 14, 2022 10:02 PM (K5n5d)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 14, 2022 10:02 PM (+mjVk)
Posted by: Dr. T at July 14, 2022 10:02 PM (Vgw1E)
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Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at July 14, 2022 10:04 PM (YglAn)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2022 10:04 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 14, 2022 10:04 PM (Bd6X8)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 14, 2022 10:05 PM (rzOL9)
Posted by: Miklos, will cheer self up with La Marsellaise and James Brown at July 14, 2022 10:05 PM (02fRf)
Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 14, 2022 10:05 PM (diceA)
Posted by: Roland F Hirsch at July 14, 2022 10:05 PM (oMkPq)
Posted by: huerfano at July 14, 2022 10:06 PM (dTFZY)
But that's one of the great things about this place...even when things go to shit, the COBs come through with content!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 14, 2022 10:02 PM (K5n5d)
You're telling me those hamsters can knock out not just Internet access, but power for an entire neighborhood? Remind me not to get on their bad side...
Posted by: Dr. T at July 14, 2022 10:06 PM (Vgw1E)
Posted by: Ripley at July 14, 2022 10:06 PM (PTDkx)
She played Eve McHuron.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 14, 2022 10:06 PM (Bd6X8)
Posted by: huerfano at July 14, 2022 10:06 PM (dTFZY)
Pappaw was the same way. Never saw him buy a new spark plug, ever.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 14, 2022 10:07 PM (diceA)
Hear tell of grid and power issues looming/occurring in that state.
Which is a handy index of decline in the USA - TEXAS having entirely avoidable and ridiculous power/energy limitations.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 14, 2022 10:07 PM (OTzUX)
I've got rednecks in my family. The kid took his prom photos with his date and his truck.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2022 10:08 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Ripley
Not sure if I should believe this or not.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 14, 2022 10:08 PM (Bd6X8)
Posted by: rhomboid
All thanks be unto dubya and Rick Perry
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 14, 2022 10:08 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Voter theater. at July 14, 2022 10:08 PM (CUP/i)
Oh.
Sorry
Posted by: Miklos
Pretty sure you will be having "Power Out!" as a problem unless you are off world!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 14, 2022 10:08 PM (+mjVk)
Clapton was in Cream and Yardbirds plus a few more -- Wikipedia is your friend.
Posted by: Ciampino - Layla was about Boyd
Much better than Wikipedia is having lived through all this great music. On the downside I am now half deaf and wake early so I can get to early bird dinners on time.
Posted by: Lost In Space at July 14, 2022 10:08 PM (HDUIL)
So, good news for me: 38 years ago today the lovely Mrs. t_bodie married me.
Better news for me: We are still married!
Posted by: t_bodie - Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at July 14, 2022 10:08 PM (6jpby)
Posted by: Fred4D at July 14, 2022 10:09 PM (wgxgK)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 14, 2022 10:09 PM (5pTK/)
That was a decade ago.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 14, 2022 10:09 PM (BFigT)
So, good news for me: 38 years ago today the lovely Mrs. t_bodie married me.
Better news for me: We are still married!
Posted by: t_bodie - Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at July 14, 2022 10:08 PM (6jpby)
Congratulations, man.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 14, 2022 10:09 PM (diceA)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2022 10:09 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 14, 2022 10:09 PM (ybIRR)
Posted by: lowandslow at July 14, 2022 10:10 PM (qH6FZ)
Posted by: Moki at July 14, 2022 10:10 PM (JrN/x)
Better news for me: We are still married!
Congratulations to you, and condolences to her.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 14, 2022 10:10 PM (Bd6X8)
Talking about "Military Force".
I really think he is embarrassing the the US.
I'm sure no one there believes him. This is all for the press.
Tough talking mush brain.
Posted by: pawn at July 14, 2022 10:10 PM (wsHtO)
Posted by: illiniwek at July 14, 2022 10:10 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2022 10:10 PM (anj39)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2022 10:11 PM (l6ok8)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 14, 2022 10:11 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2022 10:09 PM (63Dwl)
Good thing it got "fixed"!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 14, 2022 10:11 PM (+mjVk)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2022 10:10 PM (anj39)
And then the murders began...
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 14, 2022 10:11 PM (diceA)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2022 10:11 PM (l6ok
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Yeah, it's sort of expected in our neck of the woods, too.
Hi Ben!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 14, 2022 10:12 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2022 10:12 PM (anj39)
I've spotted the flaw in your plan. Electric work is not my forte.
Posted by: Weirddave at July 14, 2022 10:12 PM (6tYhO)
Posted by: Dr. T at July 14, 2022 10:06 PM (Vgw1E)
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Should you ever have the good fortune to become a COB, you will be granted a peek behind the curtain that makes this place run...
And oh, the wonders--and terrors--you shall behold!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 14, 2022 10:12 PM (K5n5d)
You ain't lying. She could easily take out some submarines!
Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at July 14, 2022 10:12 PM (YglAn)
And in the saga of the squatters at the river place, they were served with eviction papers today. Stepson will be handling cleanup.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 14, 2022 10:12 PM (MAEw6)
Posted by: Diogenes
Hank Jr is def the lesser of the 3
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 14, 2022 10:13 PM (MGB5H)
Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
I would let the kid decorate the claymores with some cute chalk drawings.
"front toward enemy" is also a good vocabulary builder.
Posted by: Miklos, in an undisclosed location at July 14, 2022 10:13 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 14, 2022 10:10 PM (Bd6X
Wife would like you Blanco!
Posted by: t_bodie - Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at July 14, 2022 10:13 PM (6jpby)
Nice!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 14, 2022 10:14 PM (Bd6X8)
I went to bed early last night, as I wasn't feeling well - I had been coughing all night. Had a fever of 99.9°, which went up to 101.3 later on in the evening.
Been in bed ever since. Fever is controlled with Tylenol, but as soon as it starts wearing off, the temperature goes up again. I've got body aches, coughing, burning eyes, and the aforementioned temperature.
No, I am NOT going to test for COVID unless things get worse. No point borrowing trouble in California.....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoS Ladies' Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at July 14, 2022 10:14 PM (D0qgz)
Posted by: Quirky bookworm at July 14, 2022 10:14 PM (EbJ6H)
Nst, congrats, this has been a thorn in your side for quite a while. I hope this goessmoothly from here on1
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 14, 2022 10:14 PM (+mjVk)
Posted by: pawn at July 14, 2022 10:14 PM (wsHtO)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 14, 2022 10:14 PM (Bd6X8)
Posted by: t_bodie - Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at July 14, 2022 10:14 PM (6jpby)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2022 10:15 PM (Msys3)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 14, 2022 10:15 PM (KFhLj)
The company: "Trailer, Wheel & Frame" up in Houston sells all the axles, shackles, leaf-springs, hitch fixtures, etc. The rest is a buncha steel, 7018 rod and careful layout, measuring, cutting, welding and painting.
Yeah, I can buy one cheaper. But I can build one that suits my specs, and frankly? I need to say in practice.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 14, 2022 10:15 PM (tkOps)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 14, 2022 10:16 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2022 10:16 PM (l6ok8)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 14, 2022 10:16 PM (MAEw6)
Posted by: Neck of Red at July 14, 2022 10:17 PM (oTZbj)
Posted by: Ripley at July 14, 2022 10:06 PM (PTDkx)
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If you say Whiteout then you are a white supremacist.
Posted by: Ciampino - Hispanix will complain about Brownouts. at July 14, 2022 10:17 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2022 10:17 PM (63Dwl)
The company: "Trailer, Wheel & Frame" up in Houston sells all the axles, shackles, leaf-springs, hitch fixtures, etc. The rest is a buncha steel, 7018 rod and careful layout, measuring, cutting, welding and painting.
Yeah, I can buy one cheaper. But I can build one that suits my specs, and frankly? I need to say in practice.
Jim
He's building a drydock
Posted by: Miklos, unfooled at July 14, 2022 10:17 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2022 10:17 PM (l6ok8)
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 14, 2022 10:18 PM (MGB5H)
Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
I would let the kid decorate the claymores with some cute chalk drawings.
"front toward enemy" is also a good vocabulary builder.
Posted by: Miklos, in an undisclosed location at July 14, 2022 10:13 PM (02fRf)
***
And teaching them to fire and adjust the mortars is an excellent way to acquire practical math and geometry skills.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2022 10:18 PM (anj39)
Posted by: Emmie at July 14, 2022 10:19 PM (6RgRK)
Posted by: Ben Had
I'm seeing double and ain't that drunk
Posted by: Miklos, adjusting monocles at July 14, 2022 10:19 PM (02fRf)
That's just when everyone wears white t-shirts
I thought it was what happened to Detroit.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 14, 2022 10:19 PM (Bd6X8)
I can hear it now. Look, Fatima. Here's the deal, Muhammad. Charles Martel was a bad dude.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 14, 2022 10:19 PM (/NCI4)
Posted by: Diogenes
Don't forget the physics involved.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 14, 2022 10:20 PM (+mjVk)
Posted by: Ben Had
That is one of the 'must haves' for any new AO for me and the lovely Mrs. Also, the 'town' must be such that if a funeral procession passes, folks pull over or, if walking, stop and stand respectfully to pay their respects to the dearly departed.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2022 10:20 PM (Msys3)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 14, 2022 10:20 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2022 10:20 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2022 10:21 PM (l6ok8)
Posted by: Miklos, but wait, there's more at July 14, 2022 10:22 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: She Hobbit (channeling madame VP) at July 14, 2022 10:22 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Ripley at July 14, 2022 10:06 PM (PTDkx)
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If you say Whiteout then you are a white supremacist.
Posted by: Ciampino - Hispanix will complain about Brownouts. at July 14, 2022 10:17 PM (qfLjt)
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If you say Brownout you're a breakfast taco.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 14, 2022 10:22 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: Miklos, adjusting monocles at July 14, 2022 10:19 PM (02fRf)
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Probably drunker thank you think.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2022 10:22 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Diogenes
Don't forget the physics involved.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 14, 2022 10:20 PM (+mjVk)
Indirect Fires.
Is there anything it can't do???
Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2022 10:22 PM (anj39)
Posted by: Miklos, hip with the hep cat kids at July 14, 2022 10:23 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: She Hobbit (channeling madame VP)
I can almost see the awkward gesturing
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 14, 2022 10:23 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 14, 2022 10:23 PM (YynYJ)
I went to bed early last night, as I wasn't feeling well - I had been coughing all night. Had a fever of 99.9°, which went up to 101.3 later on in the evening.
Been in bed ever since. Fever is controlled with Tylenol, but as soon as it starts wearing off, the temperature goes up again. I've got body aches, coughing, burning eyes, and the aforementioned temperature.
No, I am NOT going to test for COVID unless things get worse. No point borrowing trouble in California.....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoS Ladies' Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at July 14, 2022 10:14 PM (D0qgz)
Can you sneak in some horse paste? Hope you get well soon.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 14, 2022 10:24 PM (llON8)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 14, 2022 10:24 PM (/+bwe)
Posted by: Tonypete
So thankful my AO is like that.
Posted by: Infidel at July 14, 2022 10:24 PM (mn1Pi)
Posted by: jewells45 at July 14, 2022 10:24 PM (nxdel)
First night I have gotten to feed before 10:00pm.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2022 10:25 PM (l6ok8)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 14, 2022 10:09 PM (ybIRR)
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Pizza taco -- taco with pizza wedge inside?
Pizza sandwich -- two slices of bread with a slice of pizza inside?
Posted by: Ciampino -we enjoyed makimg up fictitious sandwiches at July 14, 2022 10:25 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Mating call of the drunk Southern Miklos Belle at July 14, 2022 10:25 PM (02fRf)
That is one of the 'must haves' for any new AO for me and the lovely Mrs. Also, the 'town' must be such that if a funeral procession passes, folks pull over or, if walking, stop and stand respectfully to pay their respects to the dearly departed.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2022 10:20 PM (Msys3)
I remember that from when I was a kid. Traffic stopped, some people even got out of their cars and stood til the last car passed. Got back in and went on their way. I miss that respect for one's fellow man.
Posted by: Moki at July 14, 2022 10:25 PM (JrN/x)
https://tinyurl.com/3p53xmpc
Posted by: Emmie at July 14, 2022 09:49 PM (6RgRK)
Thank You for the link
Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 14, 2022 10:25 PM (MFphb)
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 14, 2022 10:26 PM (J00IM)
First night I have gotten to feed before 10:00pm.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2022 10:25 PM (l6ok
I think we *might* have gotten 1/2 inch here.... and yeah, the temperature drop was very nice.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 14, 2022 10:26 PM (llON8)
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 14, 2022 10:26 PM (MGB5H)
Accompanied by a spastic outburst of hysterical laughter.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 14, 2022 10:26 PM (/NCI4)
Posted by: stuff Miklos learned in Kollidge at July 14, 2022 10:26 PM (02fRf)
Kaylee, the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all) and Jasmine, the Pampered Princess, both say, "Hello!"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 14, 2022 10:26 PM (K5n5d)
Posted by: Bonnie Blue - the ungrateful colonial at July 14, 2022 10:27 PM (gao0c)
Posted by: t_bodie - Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at July 14, 2022 10:27 PM (6jpby)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 14, 2022 10:27 PM (YynYJ)
Weird Dave is a good, kind, fine person.
I think most of us would do something other than "picnic" on elites' graves....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 14, 2022 10:27 PM (7bRMQ)
Folks, we have found Kamala's speech writer.
Posted by: t_bodie - Lurker
Still a little too coherent.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 14, 2022 10:27 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: kbdabear at July 14, 2022 10:28 PM (qAR6u)
He wants to make war gay
https://youtu.be/kdfym6LKpQ0
Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2022 10:28 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Super Bass-o-Matic
"Mmm, that's good bass"
Posted by: Miklos, but wait, there's more at July 14, 2022 10:22 PM (02fRf)
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All your bass are belong to us.
Posted by: Ciampino - Somebody set up us the bomb at July 14, 2022 10:28 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 14, 2022 10:24 PM (/+bwe)
Thanks! In a moment of weakness she extended my contract for another 38 years.
Posted by: t_bodie - Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at July 14, 2022 10:29 PM (6jpby)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 14, 2022 10:27 PM (7bRMQ)
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If it's a Horde picnic, we are all drinking from the hollowed out skulls of our enemies....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 14, 2022 10:29 PM (K5n5d)
Folks, we have found Kamala's speech writer.
Posted by: t_bodie - Lurker
Still a little too coherent.
Dang, beat me to it.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 14, 2022 10:29 PM (Bd6X8)
Posted by: Bete at July 14, 2022 10:29 PM (04UJL)
Posted by: t_bodie - Lurker
Still a little too coherent.
Posted by: BruceWayne
Still working on it. It's kinda hard to write something that stupid and make it sound natural.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 14, 2022 10:30 PM (ftFVW)
He wants to make war gay
https://youtu.be/kdfym6LKpQ0
Posted by: Kindltot
I LOLd
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 14, 2022 10:30 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: cfo mom at July 14, 2022 10:30 PM (Q8bDL)
Posted by: Emmie at July 14, 2022 09:49 PM (6RgRK)
Thank You for the link
Posted by: OneEyedJack
Breaks my heart. I will never forget the moment I walked into the church and saw infant grandchild coffin.
Posted by: Infidel at July 14, 2022 10:30 PM (mn1Pi)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Non-sequitur professional at July 14, 2022 10:30 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
H.L. Mencken had himself cremated precisely because he had "visited" Edgar Allen Poe's grave after beerification many times.
Posted by: stuff Miklos learned in Bawlamer at July 14, 2022 10:31 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 14, 2022 10:24 PM (/+bwe)
Thanks! In a moment of weakness she extended my contract for another 38 years.
Posted by: t_bodie - Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at July 14, 2022 10:29 PM (6jpby)
You'd have gotten less time for murder. But that sentence is still less than parading at the Capitol on Jan 6.
Posted by: Bete at July 14, 2022 10:31 PM (04UJL)
He wants to make war gay
https://youtu.be/kdfym6LKpQ0
Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2022 10:28 PM (xhaym)
Did he forget the US military and PRIDE MONTH?!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 14, 2022 10:31 PM (llON8)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 14, 2022 10:31 PM (/+bwe)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2022 10:31 PM (l6ok8)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2022 10:31 PM (anj39)
Posted by: She Hobbit
Embrace a little more of the Bart report on Libya spirit and you'll have it
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 14, 2022 10:32 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Ciampino - Somebody set up us the bomb
It's all about that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 14, 2022 10:32 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2022 10:32 PM (nr1nK)
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 14, 2022 10:33 PM (J00IM)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 14, 2022 10:27 PM
Back in the day before parks were a thing, they'd have a picnic in the graveyard. Doesn't bug me, they're all dead.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 14, 2022 10:33 PM (GwxCX)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 14, 2022 10:34 PM (a4EWo)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 14, 2022 10:02 PM (+mjVk)
I think I qualify as a redneck. Honorary, at least.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2022 10:34 PM (nr1nK)
Posted by: Infidel
Sorry you had to experience that Infidel.
I think I was in shock during the service for my little boy - what cut through it all though was when the funeral director picked up his casket by himself to move it. Ugh.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2022 10:35 PM (Msys3)
Nate Silver and 528 lose $6M every year.
Literally being paid by the left as a loss leader to support the narrative and goose the ActBlue fundraising stream.
Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at July 14, 2022 10:35 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 14, 2022 10:35 PM (GwxCX)
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 14, 2022 10:33 PM (GwxCX)
Filipinos will do that around Halloween.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 14, 2022 10:36 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 14, 2022 10:36 PM (Bd6X8)
Posted by: Infidel
Sorry you had to experience that Infidel.
I think I was in shock during the service for my little boy - what cut through it all though was when the funeral director picked up his casket by himself to move it. Ugh.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2022 10:35 PM
I can't imagine. God be with you.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 14, 2022 10:36 PM (GwxCX)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 14, 2022 10:31 PM (llON
Did he? Of course! He even got that clip of Moochelle dancing in slacks
Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2022 10:37 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 14, 2022 10:24 PM (llON
If I have to, I will call my doctor in Texas and tell her that my "scabies" is back - she didn't blink an eye last time.....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoS Ladies' Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at July 14, 2022 10:37 PM (D0qgz)
Posted by: Miklos, adjusting monocles at July 14, 2022 10:19 PM (02fRf)
I'm sorry, I didn't hear that comment Mr. Pelosi. Would you like to sit in the captain's office while your lawyer takes 5 or 6 hours to get here. You can order some takeout on our dime.
Posted by: CA Leo at July 14, 2022 10:37 PM (04UJL)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 14, 2022 10:34 PM (a4EWo)
Thanks!
For reasons, the celebration occurs later this month. So I have time to go shopping and now have gift ideas.
Posted by: t_bodie - Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at July 14, 2022 10:37 PM (6jpby)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2022 10:09 PM (63Dwl)
Independent grid + unreliable generation = bad juju.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2022 10:38 PM (nr1nK)
https://youtu.be/RV5WqRnFejI
Posted by: Blanco Basura
Hah! Never seen that one before.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 14, 2022 10:38 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: pookysgirl, Flogging Molly fan at July 14, 2022 10:38 PM (XKZwp)
Filipinos will do that around Halloween.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 14, 2022 10:36 PM
I think other South American cultures do too? Cuomos Merte I think. No habla so I am sure I mangled it.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 14, 2022 10:38 PM (GwxCX)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2022 10:38 PM (l6ok8)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 14, 2022 10:02
I think I qualify as a redneck. Honorary, at least.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Kick yer boots off an' set a spell.
"aims , hits spittoon precisely"
Now what kin I gitchya'll?
Posted by: Miklos "Red" Neckerson at July 14, 2022 10:38 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: Tonypete
I'm so sorry Tonypete.
Dad and I sat in the back. I don't do funerals.
Posted by: Infidel at July 14, 2022 10:38 PM (mn1Pi)
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 14, 2022 10:30 PM (ftFVW)
===
More bong hits.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2022 10:39 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2022 10:11 PM (l6ok
A set of magnetic towing lights is a worthwhile investment. And they don't cost a lot.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2022 10:39 PM (nr1nK)
I am so fucking sick of this bullshit. Neither of us is sick, but if I go to the office I have to wear the fucking face diaper. fuckity fuck!!!
But hey, I must remember, I worked remotely last year in Montana for months with very few problems. Not to mention 2020, when the panic in full force I can make this work again.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Non-sequitur professional at July 14, 2022 10:39 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 14, 2022 10:02 PM (+mjVk)
I think I qualify as a redneck. Honorary, at least.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2022 10:34 PM
Also they do not need to be in the south to be rednecks. Get away from the tall buildings and you'll find them everywhere. There's a snowmobiling club called the Slednecks.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 14, 2022 10:40 PM (GwxCX)
Posted by: She Hobbit (channeling madame VP)
I can almost see the awkward gesturing
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 14, 2022 10:23 PM (MGB5H)
Best part is She Hobbit made that post look effortless!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 14, 2022 10:40 PM (+mjVk)
https://youtu.be/Z0Znir9pxqU
Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2022 10:41 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Daddy Warbucks at July 14, 2022 10:41 PM (ZSK0i)
Posted by: jojo at July 14, 2022 10:41 PM (sGSJQ)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 14, 2022 10:15 PM (tkOps)
Rubber torsion axles are nice.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2022 10:42 PM (nr1nK)
Posted by: B. Soetoro at July 14, 2022 10:42 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: Weirddave at July 14, 2022 10:42 PM (KWB1J)
If you push the button and it sings!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2022 10:43 PM (anj39)
Posted by: Weirddave at July 14, 2022 10:12 PM (6tYhO)
I was a carpenter. The electricians used to yell at us and say that we are retards, and just keep one hand in our pockets so we wouldn't get killed when we cut live wires.
Installing the switch was not complicated.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 14, 2022 10:43 PM (XIJ/X)
On CBD's excellent monkey thread Nurse R had her own very well stated rant. I highly recommend it to everyone.
tbodie and spouse, many congratulations. Even added together I wouldn't make 38 years.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at July 14, 2022 10:43 PM (P+D9B)
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornistan at July 14, 2022 10:44 PM (15UjB)
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 14, 2022 10:44 PM (GwxCX)
Posted by: Infidel at July 14, 2022 10:44 PM (mn1Pi)
No
Beto wouldn't let Cruz use his jet
Posted by: MiklosWatch at July 14, 2022 10:44 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornistan at July 14, 2022 10:44 PM
No, You will. They won't.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 14, 2022 10:45 PM (GwxCX)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2022 10:31 PM (anj39)
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You know who else liked Kraut music?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 14, 2022 10:45 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: Adam Stein at July 14, 2022 10:45 PM (04UJL)
Posted by: redchief at July 14, 2022 10:45 PM (iDq3l)
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 14, 2022 10:46 PM (GwxCX)
Thanks. And concur about Nurse R's rant.
Posted by: t_bodie - Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at July 14, 2022 10:46 PM (6jpby)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2022 10:31 PM
This is similar to why I take my car to the dealership north of me instead of where I bought it.
One of the guys was on a cellphone, using foul language that carried into the waiting room. The receptionist told him and he came in, apologized to me, and explained that he was chewing out a parts guy who hadn't delivered a promised part for a food truck. Every day that the truck was off the road, his customer was losing money. He told me something to the effect of, "If you need something and anyone drops the ball, I'll be swearing just as much on your behalf."
I laughed so hard, but he was right. The guys have gotten me a loaner to keep me from missing work, found me a back-ordered part during lockdown, and refused to be paid for replacing a malfunctioning sensor.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 14, 2022 10:46 PM (/+bwe)
CBD, if you're still here, how to send picture suggestion to you?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 14, 2022 10:46 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Pete Seria at July 14, 2022 10:47 PM (7ZQe3)
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 14, 2022 10:48 PM (GwxCX)
Posted by: Minnfidel
When you're sliding into first and you feel a juicy burst...
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 14, 2022 10:49 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 14, 2022 10:49 PM (XIJ/X)
Posted by: redchief at July 14, 2022 10:50 PM (iDq3l)
Posted by: Javems at July 14, 2022 10:50 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: Pete Seria at July 14, 2022 10:47 PM (7ZQe
Then they aren't real Mexicans.
Jill Bidun, probably.
Posted by: t_bodie - Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at July 14, 2022 10:50 PM (6jpby)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
You mean....
https://tinyurl.com/wfv8axj4
Posted by: Miklos from the Old Country at July 14, 2022 10:51 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: Weirddave at July 14, 2022 10:12 PM (6tYhO)
ALWAYS cut the red wire!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2022 10:51 PM (anj39)
Just got dusty in here. BBL
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 14, 2022 10:51 PM (Y+l9t)
https://youtu.be/qGPT1kfaSEs
Would have been funny to make the top pic link to it.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 14, 2022 10:52 PM (Bd6X8)
Thanks, sending something your way.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 14, 2022 10:53 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2022 10:53 PM (nr1nK)
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That's great news. Dude must be a tough customer.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 14, 2022 10:55 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 14, 2022 10:55 PM (ESjRY)
By the way, although apparently done in seriousness, it is weird enough to qualify for a Weirddave ONT
Posted by: Miklos is a connoisseur of such at July 14, 2022 10:56 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 14, 2022 10:55 PM (ESjRY)
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He'll have to fight me for it!
Posted by: Summer of Newsom at July 14, 2022 10:56 PM (XG2Fi)
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Just wait when winter rolls around.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 14, 2022 10:56 PM (c/IRE)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 14, 2022 10:56 PM (rzOL9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2022 10:53 PM (nr1nK)
Yes, hope he makes a full and prompt recovery!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 14, 2022 10:57 PM (+mjVk)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 14, 2022 10:51 PM (Y+l9t)
*awkward side-hug*
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Non-sequitur professional at July 14, 2022 10:57 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: 18-1
Biden's Recovery of Power Summer XIII
Posted by: Miklos regretfully recall the long Obarky Years at July 14, 2022 10:59 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: Millennial Miklos, in uptalk voice at July 14, 2022 11:00 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2022 10:53 PM (nr1nK)
Yes, hope he makes a full and prompt recovery!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 14, 2022 10:57 PM (+mjVk)
Indeed!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2022 11:00 PM (anj39)
Posted by: t_bodie - Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at July 14, 2022 11:00 PM (6jpby)
Posted by: Minnfidel
When you're sliding into first and you feel a juicy burst...
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 14, 2022 10:49 PM
The burrito identified as a taco.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 14, 2022 11:00 PM (GwxCX)
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 14, 2022 10:40 PM (GwxCX)
This is true. I'm in frigging jersey, but a kinda rural spread out area. Its the land of pole barns, seems like everybody has home shops. We always know "the guy". Need welding? We know a guy. Need car glass done? We know a guy. Need car seat upholstered? We know a guy. I'm the harley guy, so I'm that guy. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 14, 2022 11:00 PM (VwHCD)
"Before the invention of the train, they had to run a wagon on your mom."
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 14, 2022 11:00 PM (tkvCl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2022 11:00 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Minnfidel
Correct! 'Redneck' is a state of mind - NOT where one is from.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2022 11:01 PM (Msys3)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 14, 2022 10:56 PM (rzOL9)
I was expecting TCM's schedule theme today would be Bastille Day, not sharks.
Posted by: spindrift at July 14, 2022 11:01 PM (e6Asz)
Posted by: Millennial Miklos, in uptalk voice at July 14, 2022 11:00 PM (02fRf)
I hear it's coming quickly.
Posted by: Comicus at July 14, 2022 11:02 PM (7bRMQ)
I did it, and it works really well.
That is what I did early this morning when the storms blew out the power just up the road from WD. Just as I got the last circuit hooked up so that the home offices, kitchen, aerobic septic system and den were good to go, the power was restored.
Nice thing though is that instead of 100F+ temps, the rains brought it down to under 70F.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 14, 2022 11:02 PM (AHeqJ)
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On my street, there is an electrician, a carpenter, two auto mechanics, and a plumber.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 14, 2022 11:02 PM (tkvCl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
That sucks. I saw $3.99 on the way home, and that sucks, too.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 14, 2022 11:02 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 14, 2022 10:08 PM (MGB5H)
It was Obummer's EPA that killed the coal-fired electrical generation plants, here in Texas.
Not sure of Dubya's involvement, but Perry pushed wind hard, not so much as a proponent of wind, but to try to backfill the subtraction of so damn much baseline kilowattage from coal. Pity was/is. It was never going to work. It doesn't work. It can't work.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 14, 2022 11:03 PM (tkOps)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 14, 2022 11:02 PM (tkvCl)
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I loved The Village People!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 14, 2022 11:04 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: Tijuana donkey and burrito show at July 14, 2022 11:04 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 14, 2022 11:02 PM (tkvCl)
Same here, all under one roof...me. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 14, 2022 11:05 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Millennial Miklos, in uptalk voice at July 14, 2022 11:00 PM (02fRf)
I hear it's coming quickly.
Posted by: Comicus at July 14, 2022 11:02 PM (7bRMQ)
It's not even breathing hard...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 14, 2022 11:05 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 14, 2022 11:05 PM (tkvCl)
2) Nobody ever offered me wild pork loin when buying a Mosin. Envy.
3) Anonymous in CA, unless you have special issues, you'll last much more than a week without power (if that's what we're talking about?). I'm not doing anything to have back-up power, every prep is to do without for a while.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 14, 2022 11:07 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: SMH
In Budapest, if I needed some help, I went to the local pub and said what.
"I'm a plumber/electrician/etc.-I didn't tell you?"
"Drink this beer and let's talk"
Posted by: The Way of the Miklos People at July 14, 2022 11:07 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: Javems at July 14, 2022 11:08 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: Cicero
But do they have State and Municipal YMCA Certification?
Posted by: Miklos thinks liability at July 14, 2022 11:09 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 14, 2022 11:09 PM (r46W7)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 14, 2022 11:09 PM (rzOL9)
Posted by: JM in Florida at July 14, 2022 11:11 PM (tm/VJ)
Pathetic.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 14, 2022 11:11 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
Being of an Imperial House, you would say that.
Posted by: Miklos, apparent King Of Albania (Modalities Pending) at July 14, 2022 11:12 PM (02fRf)
Texas didn't have a need for a capacity market, just a supply market back when the industry was more vertical. There was a penalty for failing to produce power. That is long gone now due to the ironically named "Deregulating" of the energy market, which ended up piling on all kinds of new regulations with no one being responsible for much of anything.
Then the politicians fell in love with Unreliables and Texas went from the most reliable grid to 2nd to California as far as unreliable - and hopelessly unreliable too.
ERCOT will be the end of Texas. Fortunately, I'm in SPP which is not part ERCOT or of MISO which "serves" SE Texas.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 14, 2022 11:12 PM (AHeqJ)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 14, 2022 11:12 PM (OTzUX)
A cousin of mine is a fireman. When our local Mexican dive caught fire, he said roaches were scurrying out of there by the thousands. Food was good and cheap, though.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 14, 2022 11:13 PM (7B5FA)
Posted by: Lost In Space at July 14, 2022 11:13 PM (HDUIL)
Posted by: Miklos, actually Darleen said that at July 14, 2022 11:14 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 14, 2022 11:05 PM (tkvCl)
I personally witnessed the complete physical removal of three coal-fired electric plants, all within Galveston County. All three were very rapidly shut-down and removed, at the diktat of the Obummer EPA. Because, "evil coal."
Oh, and it was verboten to replace them with new-build Gas fired plants, forbidden by the same EPA. Texas did not CHOOSE to weaken it's grid, the choice was foisted on us by the Obummer mis-administration. Last winter's grid-failure is the ONLY thing that's held the Biden admin at bay, from making it even worse.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 14, 2022 11:14 PM (tkOps)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 14, 2022 11:14 PM (VwHCD)
I remember a time in the late 70's, brother rode motocross. We hauled it out there with a flat trailer in the '46 chevy truck. Mom came out later in another car.
Brother crashed going over a hill and the foot peg with the teeth in it fkd up the inside of his knee. Nasty bloody gash. M and D took him to the hospital, some nice people, (we had been doing this for years) loaded up brother's bike on the trailer and I got to drive it home.
I learned to drive in that truck, but had never hauled a trailer.
Posted by: Infidel at July 14, 2022 11:14 PM (mn1Pi)
Posted by: Lost In Space
___
No can do.
Can't afford the diesel.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 14, 2022 11:15 PM (tkvCl)
Posted by: rhomboid
The Soviet/Russian ain't bad.
Cool that the same guy had to change the lyrics repeatedly over decades.
Posted by: Miklosov of the North Balkans at July 14, 2022 11:15 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 14, 2022 11:16 PM (a4EWo)
I would have just duck taped some glow sticks to the back of the trailer.
Posted by: Miklos, actually Darleen said that at July 14, 2022 11:14 PM (02fRf)
That's some badass, trailer park riggin' right there
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 14, 2022 11:16 PM (BgMrQ)
Texas Governor is a weak governor. Sort of good only for ribbon cutting and rubber chicken circuit. Their real power is in making appointments, and Perry was exceptional in placing people in position that never produced a scandal.
Nonetheless, the Public Utilities Commission is raw incompetence and corruption. They made it profitable for power generators to add wind with CCGT backups and pass the costs on to the consumer. So ERCOT consumers get third world power at luxury prices.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 14, 2022 11:17 PM (AHeqJ)
Posted by: JM in Florida at July 14, 2022 11:17 PM (eRBFZ)
If you love blackouts you're going to love the Summer of Biden!
Posted by: 18-1
It will be proof that we have to wean ourselves off of electricity.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2022 11:18 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 14, 2022 11:18 PM (7B5FA)
Yup. And even the progtards here are rallying against tearing down our hydroelectric power grid.
It's also insane that some "Texans" are pussies when the power goes out. Ffs. A little self sufficiency wouldn't kill you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 14, 2022 11:18 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 14, 2022 11:07 PM (OTzUX)
Thank you (and minnfidel) for the encouragement. Power loss is a minor issue in our benign coastal climate. Losing water would do us all in very quickly. And our water district gets its water pumped from wells. Pumps that need electricity to run...
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornistan at July 14, 2022 11:18 PM (15UjB)
My kiddo showed me this a couple years ago and I still find it silly and humorous.
https://tinyurl.com/mwkcbz4m
Posted by: 496 at July 14, 2022 11:19 PM (U1eOr)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2022 11:19 PM (anj39)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 14, 2022 11:20 PM (1APKY)
Posted by: nurse ratched
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I think the same could be said for unprepared people anywhere.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 14, 2022 11:20 PM (tkvCl)
Of course, musically, hard to beat Haydn, so Deutschland uber Alles takes that title (or at least ties any other contenders).
Of course the sneaky krauts just switched to the second verse after that little misunderstanding they were caught up in during the '40s. Irony being of course that "Germany over everything" has nothing to do with the Nazis or even imperialism or anything else icky, but was entirely about Germany forming as a nation from smaller principalities/entities, = German national identity "over" all the older smaller affiliations.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 14, 2022 11:21 PM (OTzUX)
The EPA under the Light Bearer that demanded the end of first world power got slapped down by SCOTUS. We will see how SCOTUS is ignored.
As for February 2021, FERC said that it was better for Texas to suffer billions of dollars and dozens of deaths rather than emit any pollution that the computer models claim will cause Global Warming.
Edge case hypothetical conditions trump real lives and human flourishing.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 14, 2022 11:21 PM (AHeqJ)
Brother crashed going over a hill and the foot peg with the teeth in it fkd up the inside of his knee. Nasty bloody gash. M and D took him to the hospital, some nice people, (we had been doing this for years) loaded up brother's bike on the trailer and I got to drive it home.
I learned to drive in that truck, but had never hauled a trailer.
Posted by: Infidel at July 14, 2022 11:14 PM (mn1Pi)
I've hauled two people to the hospital from a track. One female with a broken pelvis and a guy with a foot peg in the ribs that punctured his lung.
Worst I've ever done was knock a couple of teeth out and break a bone in my hand. Worth it though, to be a cool motocross dude.
Posted by: Javems at July 14, 2022 11:21 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: Reuben Hick
Now do the SC Public Service Commission and the V.C. Summer Nuclear plant expansion. Bottom line-SC has the highest electricity rates in the US of A.
Posted by: Miklos wants his damn money back at July 14, 2022 11:22 PM (02fRf)
It's insane that folks can't take care of themselves. We lose power here several times a year. Sometimes for hours. Sometimes for days.
When the "big one" hits, we are well and truly effed. Better be prepared.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 14, 2022 11:23 PM (U2p+3)
I've done a rant on this before. Utilities make money by getting a return on capital investment. Utilities make no money on passed-through operating costs. A gas plant has pretty low capital investment and relatively high operating cost, but still (if there's no subsidy) has the lowest cost delivered power. But utilities don't like them because they don't make much money. Wind and solar, and especially batteries, on the other hand, have very high capital cost and very low operating cost, and they get a subsidy to boot, so utilities love them. Make no mistake, if I were a member of a utility board I would demand that they build more of them. They are money printing machines. Where the PUC comes in is that it's the only institution in the system that is looking out for the consumer. The PUC's job is to say no when the utility wants to spend bunch of money on something. Our PUC failed us.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 14, 2022 11:23 PM (7B5FA)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 14, 2022 11:24 PM (tkvCl)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Oh, I'm self sufficient, CO. But over 100 degrees in summer and below freezing in winter presents some obstacles. I'd prefer my fridge and freezer didn't thaw. Still looking for a generator. Not a fan of a propane tank in the back yard.
Posted by: Infidel at July 14, 2022 11:24 PM (mn1Pi)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 14, 2022 11:25 PM (89T5c)
Lol. The same people openly calling for assassinations of scotus justices.
National divorce. Now.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 14, 2022 11:25 PM (ZbKVX)
I love going to Palomas, MX, a border town just south of Columbus, NM for a great day out plus food. I can't speak Spanish and my restaurant friends can't speak English. They hand me a bill and I give them something approximating the proper amount. I have never not received change back in Pasos. I can't tell you where the boundary between trust and distrust lays, but so far I have never once been mistreated by my southern friends. Plus the food is fantastic and you get to meet their families. It all works out in the end. Sometimes you just have to relax in spite of yourself.
Posted by: Lost In Space at July 14, 2022 11:25 PM (HDUIL)
Posted by: nurse ratched
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The RR workers are likely to go on strike Monday.
Won't have to wait for 'the big one'.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 14, 2022 11:25 PM (tkvCl)
And rather than use up fuel, I built small campfire "ricks" of cut 2"x2" wood, and could boil a kettle of hot water in under 5 minutes thereon. Coleman stove inside for cooking kinda comes in handy, as do the Coleman lanterns for light.
Folks elsewhere on the island didn't fare as well, and a friend 20 miles up the road in League City lost 100% of his plumbing, including one commode, which shattered from the water in the "S" curve, expanding in the freeze.
Proved the worth of the spray-foam insulation here, for sure.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 14, 2022 11:26 PM (tkOps)
And Caesar the logistical advantages of coal as a fuel are just one of the virtues. The main consideration, cost, makes coal the winner, and its replacement a huge impoverishing bit of vandalism.
But I'm confident the coming red wave will see the ludicrous non-science being used to impoverish and control western society finally challenged and sidelined. Or something.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 14, 2022 11:26 PM (OTzUX)
"front toward enemy" is also a good vocabulary builder.
Posted by: Miklos, in an undisclosed location at July 14, 2022 10:13 PM (02fRf)
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The kid is 6'1" and works in watercolor and ink.
Posted by: Gingy at July 14, 2022 11:27 PM (GpUUo)
Posted by: rhomboid
"Papa" Haydn didn't write any lyrics, the tune got hijacked.
The EU "Hymn" is Beethoven's "Ode to Joy". For which there are Official EU Lyrics for Mandatory Communal Singings.
But again, the Austrians want everyone to think that Hitler was German and Beethoven was Austrian (old kinda joke).
Posted by: Miklos sings his own song at July 14, 2022 11:28 PM (02fRf)
I have met with the SC PSC (which, by the way, also regulates taxicabs). They are acultely aware that the nuclear plant costs cam in much higher than predicted. I think their attitude is, you can't be half pregnant. Once they got the plant construction started, they didn't have any choice but to follow through.
Reminds me of when I was a kid and I saw Pete Seeger doing "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" on the Smothers Brothers. https://youtu.be/qHETC5qAnqo
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 14, 2022 11:29 PM (7B5FA)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 14, 2022 11:29 PM (89T5c)
Posted by: Happy at July 14, 2022 11:29 PM (bH0uL)
Same here, all under one roof...me. lol
Posted by: Berserker
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I have a hammer, and duct tape...some stove-pipe wire.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 14, 2022 11:29 PM (1APKY)
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 14, 2022 11:17 PM (AHeqJ)
I believe the part about being able to sell CCGT backups at subsidized prices is the key to the whole thing. Especially when you find out that the "Backups" are actually running 60% of the time. (no joke)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 14, 2022 11:29 PM (r46W7)
Of course, musically, hard to beat Haydn, so Deutschland uber Alles takes that title (or at least ties any other contenders).
Of course the sneaky krauts just switched to the second verse after that little misunderstanding they were caught up in during the '40s. Irony being of course that "Germany over everything" has nothing to do with the Nazis or even imperialism or anything else icky, but was entirely about Germany forming as a nation from smaller principalities/entities, = German national identity "over" all the older smaller affiliations.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 14, 2022 11:21 PM (OTzUX)
I liked Canada's anthem...until they done fucked up in word and deed.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 14, 2022 11:30 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Gingy
Claymores are kinda expensive.
Some papier mache copies spread around might help too.
Posted by: Miklos, for the Youth with demolition skills are The Future at July 14, 2022 11:30 PM (02fRf)
Of course the complete evaporation of responsibility and character that is a national epidemic played a part, as when the nuke plant near Camp Pendleton was shut down for no good reason, early, burning billions of $ in ratepayer money (and that's not even counting the disastrous cost increases of Unicorn Energy to "replace" it). Story is it was one phone call from the incredibly stupid and arrogant airhead Sen. Boxer to Sempra CEO.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 14, 2022 11:31 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 14, 2022 11:31 PM (t3/qz)
Posted by: Miklos, revising and extending at July 14, 2022 11:32 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 14, 2022 11:32 PM (0ocXn)
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I see that you now have "a's". I'm suspicious that you may have stolen Ace's.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 14, 2022 11:33 PM (1APKY)
Posted by: Miklos the Jerk at July 14, 2022 11:33 PM (02fRf)
And yes O Canada is a beautiful anthem, had great lyrics. Oh well.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 14, 2022 11:33 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 14, 2022 11:34 PM (vuisn)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 14, 2022 11:35 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
I got a 20 foot container of surplus vowels from a buddy in Wales.
Ace needs, you need..I got
Posted by: Miklos, prepping by the Alphabet at July 14, 2022 11:35 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 14, 2022 11:36 PM (7B5FA)
Just was watching a video of a farrier trimming a draft horse's hooves. I'd guess the tools and techniques would be immediately familiar to a farrier 200 years ago.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 14, 2022 11:36 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: Durak Kazyol at July 14, 2022 11:36 PM (Ou0EQ)
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I would have bet on Poland.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 14, 2022 11:37 PM (1APKY)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 14, 2022 11:38 PM (OTzUX)
If it ain't broke . . . .
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 14, 2022 11:38 PM (7B5FA)
-Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 14, 2022 11:02 PM (tkvCl)
I've got a Black, a Woman, two Jews and a Cripple.
...Full House.
-*lays out cards*
-*takes chips*
Posted by: James Watt at July 14, 2022 11:38 PM (Ckg4U)
Posted by: Ambiguously Gay Richard Simmons at July 14, 2022 11:40 PM (VbzTE)
Posted by: Durak Kazyol
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Nice humblebrag.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 14, 2022 11:40 PM (tkvCl)
One question. Is the aborted product of an obvious rape DNA evidence, and required by law to be kept by the abortionist?
Posted by: Javems at July 14, 2022 11:40 PM (AmoqO)
Pretty sure they're really mad the illegal alien rapist got doxxed.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 14, 2022 11:40 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: DOCTOR Dr. Jill, Ed.D. at July 14, 2022 11:41 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
And this chair
Posted by: Miklos the Jerk at July 14, 2022 11:33 PM (02fRf)
...and my axe!
Posted by: Gimli, Gloin's Son at July 14, 2022 11:41 PM (BgMrQ)
In soviet America he'll be quietly moved to some other state and put on welfare.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 14, 2022 11:41 PM (ESjRY)
Have no idea what the airheads in charge are thinking they're going to do. The dumbest most expensive (and most grift-generating) option will surely prevail.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 14, 2022 11:43 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 14, 2022 11:25 PM (89T5c)
Its very hard to believe its jersey. It doesn't look like it at all. Right around the corner there is a beautiful nursery that at christmas time you would swear it came out of a hallmark movie. They got the christmas trees, they got all kinds of lights, there is a totally restored late 40's ford pickup, white with the red rims with a wreath on the grill, activities for the kids, etc. This is pretty much the area that gave jersey the name the garden state, a lot of farms, and horse farms. Very spread out, yet I'm close to everything. very weird.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 14, 2022 11:43 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 14, 2022 11:40 PM (tkvCl)
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LOL
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 14, 2022 11:44 PM (XG2Fi)
Talking about "Military Force".
I really think he is embarrassing the the US.
I'm sure no one there believes him. This is all for the press.
Tough talking mush brain.
Posted by: pawn at July 14, 2022 10:10 PM
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He’s serious. He seems to recall he has a bunch of military equipment pre-positioned in Kabul.
Posted by: Durak Kazyol at July 14, 2022 11:44 PM (Ou0EQ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Nope
Finland (quality vowels, but not cheap)
I do source accent and barred "Ls" there.
Posted by: Mikloszczyszczów at July 14, 2022 11:44 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 14, 2022 11:44 PM (7B5FA)
Nuclear is the way to go. Coal is 2nd.
The reason why is this: To maximize human flourishing, you need reliable cheap energy. Nuclear should be king (but is creamed by bad PR and even worse regulator state) because it is resilient to supply chain disruptions.
Coal is better than gas because coal, to some extent can be stored, but starting and stopping a supply chain is very expensive. The 3.5GW Robert Scherer plant in Georgia requires each day as many as five 135 railroad coal cars (600/day) shipments to move "compliant" coal from Wyoming's Powder River Basin to Georgia.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 14, 2022 11:44 PM (AHeqJ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
>You have got to love that smell when fitting a shoe, like a root canal. Savor it!
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 14, 2022 11:46 PM (0ocXn)
Posted by: Durak Kazyol
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Nice humblebrag.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 14, 2022 11:40 PM
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Only the best!
Posted by: Durak Kazyol at July 14, 2022 11:46 PM (Ou0EQ)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 14, 2022 11:46 PM (tkvCl)
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But the Jane Fonda movie said nuclear will destroy the entire planet.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 14, 2022 11:46 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: Gingy at July 14, 2022 11:47 PM (GpUUo)
Posted by: Happy at July 14, 2022 11:29 PM (bH0uL)
Can you provide an approximate location ? GPS coords work too.
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornistan at July 14, 2022 11:47 PM (15UjB)
Posted by: Gingy
Oh
Camouflage
I think yer set
Posted by: Miklos, revising and extending at July 14, 2022 11:32 PM (02fRf)
Yeah. Was thinking the camo must be epic.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2022 11:47 PM (anj39)
Yes and yes. The problem is that any overland route to move the rods somewhere would be litigated out the wazoo by the greenies, and it would be a political third rail to even talk about the most obvious solution, to just take them out over the beach by ship to somewhere else yet to be designated.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 14, 2022 11:48 PM (7B5FA)
Some of both, and some gas, and of course hydro where available and a smattering of niche sources. Perfectly reasonable and obvious, and a basis for prosperity.
You know, LIKE WE F***ING HAD MOST OF MY LIFE, with zero problems that weren't fairly easily worked out.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 14, 2022 11:48 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 14, 2022 11:48 PM (tkvCl)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 14, 2022 11:48 PM (Bd6X8)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Antique harley repair kit. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 14, 2022 11:48 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon
I think SHE may be the means of "support"
Posted by: Miklos, sportin' a leopard hatband on on his chapeau at July 14, 2022 11:49 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 14, 2022 11:40 PM (tkvCl)
You're a hard one SMH.
Posted by: Javems at July 14, 2022 11:49 PM (AmoqO)
That's why you need a good big pile that will last for a few months. Problem solved.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 14, 2022 11:49 PM (7B5FA)
"Swift Intruders" LCAC unit is based 5 miles away on Pendleton. They can swoop in some night and take the rods away, nobody needs to know nuthin'.
And I know a guy who knows a guy south of Ensenada, he's got this very private beach .....
Posted by: rhomboid at July 14, 2022 11:50 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 14, 2022 11:50 PM (89T5c)
That's even worse.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 14, 2022 11:50 PM (7B5FA)
Posted by: Javems
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So I've been told.
Getting over the crud isn't helping my mood any, but I'll try to be less...prickly.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 14, 2022 11:51 PM (tkvCl)
Talking about "Military Force".
—-
Holy fuck I have never had a better orgasm than just now.
- Lockheed CEO
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 14, 2022 11:51 PM (ZbKVX)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 14, 2022 11:48 PM (7B5FA)
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India will take them. They can make them into kid's toys.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 14, 2022 11:51 PM (XG2Fi)
You need consonants? See the Czechs.
Strch prst skrz krk!
Posted by: rhomboid at July 14, 2022 11:51 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Blanco Basura
What about the Aunt Jemima Treatment?
Posted by: Miklos with AAAARMY TRAINING, SIR! at July 14, 2022 11:52 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 14, 2022 11:44 PM (7B5FA)
Diversity is our greatest strength though.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 14, 2022 11:53 PM (ZbKVX)
-Posted by: SMH at what's coming
I've got a Black, a Woman, two Jews and a Cripple.
...Full House.
-*lays out cards*
-*takes chips*
Posted by: James Watt
Okay, that made me laugh.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 14, 2022 11:53 PM (Y+l9t)
Posted by: Blanco Basura What about the Aunt Jemima Treatment? Posted by: Miklos with AAAARMY TRAINING, SIR! at July 14, 2022 11:52 PM (02fRf)
I believe this calls for the comfy chair.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 14, 2022 11:53 PM (7B5FA)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 14, 2022 11:53 PM (Bd6X8)
Twenty years ago 2-3 months worth of coal in piles at the plant was common. After Kung Flu, though, I don't know.
Posted by: Lumpy at July 14, 2022 11:54 PM (sz0vU)
...Full House.
-*lays out cards*
-*takes chips*
Posted by: James Watt
Okay, that made me laugh.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 14, 2022 11:53 PM (Y+l9t)
***
Ditto.
That was funny.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2022 11:55 PM (anj39)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 14, 2022 11:56 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: rhomboid
Prst strch skrz!
(also Mad Magazine had made up words that I later realized are basically Slovak)
Posted by: Krk is a whole Island, and that is its whole name at July 14, 2022 11:57 PM (02fRf)
Posted by: Lumpy
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It's not.
Not with the barge traffic on Mississippi supplying the coal plants is any indication.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 14, 2022 11:57 PM (tkvCl)
Now that's the question, isn't it?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 14, 2022 11:50 PM (89T5c)
Don't piss me off, oh have no idea of the power I wield!!!
Posted by: Kindly Uncle Warren Buffett at July 14, 2022 11:57 PM (BgMrQ)
I do source accent and barred "Ls" there.
Posted by: Mikloszczyszczów
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Don't tempt me, I'll start using medial S characters.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 14, 2022 11:58 PM (JlkmQ)
Posted by: The Feminists at July 14, 2022 11:58 PM (02fRf)
Getting over the crud isn't helping my mood any, but I'll try to be less...prickly.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 14, 2022 11:51 PM (tkvCl)
I'm beginning to think I'm the only person I know who hasn't had the stuff. Hope you're feeling better.
Posted by: Javems at July 14, 2022 11:59 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: Gingy at July 14, 2022 11:47 PM (GpUUo)
My house? As stupid as it sounds, it only has 2, and Mrs b took one for her office.. My friend was 23 when he built it, so he was thinking huge man cave. Its a huge ranch, 3 baths, but only 2 bedrooms. On the far end of the house
where there should have been 2 more bedrooms he built a huge ass room as a game room, probably 8-900sq ft. He had a pool table, bar, darts, pinball,etc. I think his 2nd wife put the kybosh on that because it became a family room.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 12:00 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Zombie FDR at July 15, 2022 12:00 AM (JlkmQ)
Because obviously raping their girlfriend's 10 year old is a job American just won't do.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 15, 2022 12:01 AM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 15, 2022 12:01 AM (a4EWo)
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 15, 2022 12:02 AM (GwxCX)
Posted by: Mikloße at July 15, 2022 12:02 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 14, 2022 11:48 PM (OTzUX)
Coal releases more radiation into the atmosphere than nuclear. Nukes are absurdly over regulated.
Posted by: Sjg at July 15, 2022 12:02 AM (gDSJf)
Posted by: Javems
You probably have. You just didn't have symptoms.
I've never taken a test. And I won't. But I've taken care of multiple people who have been quite ill. And I've been sick a couple times in the last two years.
Stop testing. Stop reporting.
Treat your symptoms.
Go on with your life.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 15, 2022 12:02 AM (U2p+3)
...Full House.
-*lays out cards*
-*takes chips*
Posted by: James Watt
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I have all of those, and a les couple.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2022 12:03 AM (JlkmQ)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
WD-40
Posted by: Unhandy Miklos at July 15, 2022 12:03 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: Javems
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I said crud, not coof. Could be run of the mill flu.
Not that I'll test to find out.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 15, 2022 12:03 AM (tkvCl)
Posted by: Les Nessman at July 15, 2022 12:04 AM (02fRf)
Treat your symptoms.
Go on with your life.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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AMEN!
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 15, 2022 12:04 AM (tkvCl)
I mean I guess you couldn't read the tweets without electricity anyway, but here in Capitol we still have electricity and I don't have to read those tweets anymore.
Posted by: Some Never Trumper at July 15, 2022 12:05 AM (ESjRY)
Treat your symptoms.
Go on with your life.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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AMEN!
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 15, 2022 12:04 AM (tkvCl)
Roger that. It's the only one you have.
Posted by: Javems at July 15, 2022 12:06 AM (AmoqO)
Better hope every tower carrying that power to you is guarded.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 15, 2022 12:07 AM (Bd6X8)
Posted by: Some Never Trumper
And my nails look FABULOUS
Covered under the Congressional Wellness Plan!
Posted by: Alexandria Ocasio-Mugabe-Pizarro-Nike-Cortez at July 15, 2022 12:07 AM (02fRf)
...Full House.
-*lays out cards*
-*takes chips*
Posted by: James Watt at July 14, 2022 11:38 PM (Ckg4U)
Hah ... I only know about this because of Bloom County.
Posted by: spindrift at July 15, 2022 12:07 AM (e6Asz)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 12:08 AM (VwHCD)
heat it up with a welding torch
Posted by: REDACTED at July 15, 2022 12:08 AM (us2H3)
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It's people like her and her ilk that make me glad that DC is a first-strike target.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 15, 2022 12:08 AM (tkvCl)
Unless I really really missed something, "radiation" is not among my concerns (which number Zero) about coal.
For large parts of the US, on a rational playing field (meaning actual costs, not absurdly distorted ones), don't see how coal doesn't win for power generation.
All academic, so long as ignorance, fake science, the totalitarian impulse, and a passive North Korean populace are the framing factors.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 15, 2022 12:09 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 15, 2022 12:12 AM (a4EWo)
On CBD's excellent monkey thread Nurse R had her own very well stated rant. I highly recommend it to everyone.
I went back to read Nurse's rant from 11am yesterday, and even though it is a day later, yes, it I worth looking for.
Posted by: Theodore at July 15, 2022 12:13 AM (GJnvT)
The late Admiral Rickover had the right nuclear advice, which was of course, ignored.
Built a nation-full of standardized nuclear reactor designs, differing only in how to best fit them to the available land contours and nature of cooling water and possible impoundments. And then, have them operated only by U.S.N. nuclear power school graduates and fleet veterans.
People who know how to follow orders, checklists, and have practiced SHTF drills till it runs out their ears.
Sixty or seventy years later, we *might* be only on our third (Mk.III) Standardized Design, and only now beginning to retire the initial 1950s installations. If only..
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 15, 2022 12:14 AM (tkOps)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 15, 2022 12:08 AM (tkvCl)
Right? Its like 1 level above Mos Eisley right now.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 12:14 AM (VwHCD)
https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1985/02/10
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2022 12:15 AM (JlkmQ)
And not many Americans in Kramatorsk or Slovyansk (who aren't being paid to be there), I'd guess.
For weeks now, Russian media/radio has been on fire with people frustrated that the bald (and clumsy) public threat from Moscow a few months back to "strike at the center of decision making" in response to Uke attacks on Russian territory hasn't led to any actual strikes. But even in the unlikely event of attacks on Kiev, it will be attempts to hit leadership, not Berlin '45.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 15, 2022 12:15 AM (OTzUX)
Retired professor and his wife (suuuuper leftists but cool peeps)
Plumber who owns the company
Commercial Pilot
Couple both in IT not sure what exactly they do
Dude who works for the city, some admin work
Car salesman
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 15, 2022 12:16 AM (ZbKVX)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 15, 2022 12:16 AM (2xpha)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 15, 2022 12:17 AM (tkvCl)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 14, 2022 11:33 PM (OTzUX)
The Maple leaf Forever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx_T1R026Wc
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 15, 2022 12:18 AM (IHWBb)
Putin is the world's biggest terrorist now.
Posted by: Roy at July 15, 2022 12:19 AM (Ti+Tv)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 15, 2022 12:20 AM (ZbKVX)
It wouldn't matter if you did mean it as a pejorative. Rednecks aren't tender-footed pussies that whine on Twitter like every other group.
Rednecks know only two categories of offense:
Worth beating your ass for
Not worth beating your ass for
Saying 'redneck' ain't worth an ass whipping.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 15, 2022 12:21 AM (EAUyT)
Putin is the world's biggest terrorist now.
Posted by: Roy at July 15, 2022 12:19 AM (Ti+Tv)
Please allow me to introduce myself.
Posted by: Klaus Schwab at July 15, 2022 12:21 AM (llON8)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 15, 2022 12:23 AM (ZbKVX)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 15, 2022 12:24 AM (ZbKVX)
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 15, 2022 12:24 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 15, 2022 12:25 AM (x61Im)
On the 9:00 to 2:00 watch. Bored silly. There's nothing to do except make sure Mama is situated properly when the girls want to nurse, which happens every couple of hours.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 15, 2022 12:26 AM (/U27+)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 12:14 AM (VwHCD)
You'll never find a more decrepit, doddering hive of scum and villainy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Non-sequitur professional at July 15, 2022 12:26 AM (x8Wzq)
Makes him fit within the Global Authorization for Use of Force, along with his comrades the Ultra MAGAs and all those other white supremacists. See how that works?
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 15, 2022 12:26 AM (7B5FA)
Posted by: Theodore at July 15, 2022 12:27 AM (GJnvT)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 15, 2022 12:27 AM (tkvCl)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 15, 2022 12:01 AM (a4EWo)
I think I would be calling the wonderful neighbor. It just may be a strength thing, some of the bolts are real bastards when they rust. A lot of times they are brass and can be snapped with the right amount of force, and to your credit, last time I saw you you didn't exactly look like you had Popeye forearms. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 12:27 AM (VwHCD)
Do you have a can of spinach handy?
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 15, 2022 12:28 AM (7B5FA)
Have no idea what the airheads in charge are thinking they're going to do. The dumbest most expensive (and most grift-generating) option will surely prevail.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 14, 2022 11:43 PM (OTzUX)
You store the spent fuel rods onsite, usually in a pool of water, until the hottest fraction decays, and the remainder is safer to transport.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 15, 2022 12:29 AM (RBYOt)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Non-sequitur professional at July 15, 2022 12:29 AM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: Weirddave at July 15, 2022 12:30 AM (KWB1J)
Not with the barge traffic on Mississippi supplying the coal plants is any indication."
Posted by: SMH at what's coming
I'm not surprised, that was so long ago that one of the plants I knew anything about (Monticello in Texas) is mostly demolished and the other (Welsh) has had an exact retirement date postponed (I think) twice because a replacement can't be built.
Though they used coal railed in from Wyoming, or lignite from a local strip mining operation that halted years ago. So the traffic on the Mississippi would not have effected them.
Posted by: Lumpy at July 15, 2022 12:33 AM (sz0vU)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2022 12:33 AM (JlkmQ)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 15, 2022 12:33 AM (tkvCl)
Small wonder I hate parties. *jumps up and down* I'm funny, you guys!!!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Non-sequitur professional at July 15, 2022 12:34 AM (x8Wzq)
-----
I expected you to call for the blue wrench.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2022 12:35 AM (JlkmQ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
___
I startled my cats by laughing a little too loud.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 15, 2022 12:35 AM (tkvCl)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 15, 2022 12:33 AM (tkvCl)
Evidently I have to have scripts enabled to see a damned comic strip.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 15, 2022 12:35 AM (RBYOt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
___
Yeah, that does suck.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 15, 2022 12:38 AM (tkvCl)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2022 12:35 AM (JlkmQ)
The flame wrench? Not sure I would do that on a toilet seat. Tight quarters, long hair, yeah I can see that not going well. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 12:39 AM (VwHCD)
When you have states beheading full-term infants, a sick, twisted, reprobate medical community plying children with chemical castration drugs and performing double mastectomies on adolescent girls, when you have sodomites marching in the streets with the media and government applauding as the strap on Crucifix dildos, when forcibly inject your people with experimental drugs, when you lock up political opponents without charges and hold show trials for political dissidents, when you stand down the authorities as your citizenry watched their businesses burn but arrest the citizens when they defend themselves, when you allow migrant hordes across the border to poison your citizenry with drugs and rape children, when you rig elections and arrest anyone for saying anything about it, when your leader's family walks free after consorting with foreign powers while beating hookers, fucking his niece and smoking crack.
When all those things are true, you no longer have any moral ground to declare anybody anywhere as "terrorist" or "evil" or anything else.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 15, 2022 12:39 AM (sZI16)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 15, 2022 12:42 AM (a4EWo)
Posted by: Berserker
--------
The 911 call would be epic.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2022 12:43 AM (JlkmQ)
Posted by: Methos at July 15, 2022 12:43 AM (kOpft)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 15, 2022 12:39 AM (sZI16)
They have become everything the declaration of independence warned us about. Its safe to say they lost the social contract.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 12:43 AM (VwHCD)
Oldest got a double and two walks and MVP after getting back in it after a hard hit in the hand. Game was tied in the top of the 6th at 4, and then the bats came alive scoring 4 to take the game.
Youngest got an out as catcher, first base, and left field. Got a double, some singles, and he got a single on a crumby last pitch after getting hit in the ankle. His league does not keep official score, but we dominated with even our weaker batters getting hits and getting batted around.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 15, 2022 12:44 AM (U3uv2)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
WD-40
Posted by: Unhandy Miklos
Seconded, though Liquid Wrench tested better in a semi-scientific test.
I would not follow REDACTED's advice to use a torch, not because it wouldn't work, but because the toilet might crack from the heat.
Posted by: Lumpy at July 15, 2022 12:44 AM (sz0vU)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 15, 2022 12:39 AM (sZI16)
You have a point. Sort of condemns mankind in general.
Posted by: Javems at July 15, 2022 12:45 AM (AmoqO)
All of this.
Posted by: Methos at July 15, 2022 12:43 AM (kOpft)
x1000. That's solid front-page morning rant material.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 15, 2022 12:45 AM (U3uv2)
Then I guess det cord is right out.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 15, 2022 12:45 AM (Bd6X8)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 15, 2022 12:01 AM (a4EWo)
Use a Dremel with a mini cutoff wheel, if you can find someone to lend one to you.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 15, 2022 12:47 AM (U3uv2)
Then I guess det cord is right out.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 15, 2022 12:45 AM (Bd6X
M80s worked in HS.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 15, 2022 12:47 AM (U3uv2)
Win or lose, he's going to be a long time recovering, IF he ever does.
Posted by: irongrampa at July 15, 2022 12:48 AM (KATBx)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 15, 2022 12:42 AM (a4EWo)
WD40 might work. It will wick into the threads.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 12:49 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Theodore at July 15, 2022 12:49 AM (GJnvT)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 15, 2022 12:50 AM (t3/qz)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 15, 2022 12:51 AM (t3/qz)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 15, 2022 12:51 AM (a4EWo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve0MPWQrG2g
I wonder if I still have that flexy record at my parents' place somewhere.
Posted by: spindrift at July 15, 2022 12:52 AM (e6Asz)
Posted by: Theodore at July 15, 2022 12:52 AM (GJnvT)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries.
Oh, no, det cord is great for starting a renovation project. I highly recommend it.
Posted by: Lumpy at July 15, 2022 12:52 AM (sz0vU)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 12:53 AM (K0jo2)
Saw my GP today. I'm doing OK for an old fart. Some things are doing well, somethings are borderline and others are just, well, we won't mention those.
Posted by: Javems at July 15, 2022 12:54 AM (AmoqO)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 15, 2022 12:55 AM (LOVUx)
*points at pug and laughs*
I hope this isn't an office party! I hate office parties!
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 12:56 AM (K0jo2)
Posted by: Javems at July 15, 2022 12:54 AM (AmoqO)
My grandma used to tell us, when we moaned about something that hurt, "Cut it off and sew on a button." I always imagined that by my age, my arms and legs would just be buttons. Kinda creepy....
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 15, 2022 12:57 AM (LOVUx)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 12:57 AM (VwHCD)
I thought we were just trying to get the bolt out
torch usually works, if not, her big brother
toilet's probs shit anyway
fuck it
Posted by: REDACTED at July 15, 2022 12:58 AM (us2H3)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 15, 2022 12:57 AM (LOVUx)
Especially the eyes.
Posted by: Javems at July 15, 2022 12:59 AM (AmoqO)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 15, 2022 12:59 AM (LOVUx)
Worth beating your ass for
Not worth beating your ass for
Saying 'redneck' ain't worth an ass whipping.
Can we convince everyone to be a redneck and eliminate the incessant whining of late?
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 01:00 AM (K0jo2)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 15, 2022 12:57 AM (LOVUx)
Especially the eyes.
Posted by: Javems at July 15, 2022 12:59 AM (AmoqO)
Ok, that is definitely creepy.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 01:01 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 01:03 AM (K0jo2)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 01:01 AM (VwHCD)
Well, grandma was pretty badass. During WWII in Seattle, she started the local spy towers to chart aircraft, and she took a job as a draftsman (for exactly half the pay of the men), while raising 5 kids (two of whom married sailors, hmm...) and then later she started Group Health. Before all that she taught school in WI in a one room schoolhouse with nothing more than a high school diploma, and I suspect those kids knew more than we ever will. Plus she made a mean shortbread cookie, never drank liquor, and always smiled. Even when she was chewing your ass.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 15, 2022 01:04 AM (LOVUx)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 01:03 AM (K0jo2)
We may have already indulged.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 15, 2022 01:05 AM (LOVUx)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 12:53 AM (K0jo2)
This might seem weird, but I really need to visit my Dad's resting place. Last time I was there, his marker had not been placed. Now it has. So, when we got to Montana during labor day weekend, I can just sit and remember him. Not sure why that matters. But it does.
Dad, CPL, USMC, April 20 1941 - August 30 2021
Mom and Dad were married for 56 years. me and my siblings were blessed.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Non-sequitur professional at July 15, 2022 01:05 AM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: Theodore at July 15, 2022 01:06 AM (GJnvT)
My grandma used to tell us, when we moaned about something that hurt, "Cut it off and sew on a button."
I find these old sayings amusing. One wonders, where did that one originate?
My grandpa said that his mom would say to him when he was angry, "scratch your mad spot and get over it"
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 01:06 AM (K0jo2)
Dad, CPL, USMC, April 20 1941 - August 30 2021
Mom and Dad were married for 56 years. me and my siblings were blessed.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Non-sequitur professional at July 15, 2022 01:05 AM (x8Wzq)
Not weird.
My dad didn't want a funeral or a burial. He went shake and bake and I believe his ashes are on my sister's mantle above her wood stove. Not sure, actually. Makes it hard to visit. So enjoy your time with Dad. It is a blessing.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 15, 2022 01:07 AM (LOVUx)
Posted by: irongrampa at July 15, 2022 01:08 AM (KATBx)
Posted by: Graduate of Cornell Agricultral College (why is IVY LEAGUE) at July 15, 2022 01:08 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: Javems at July 15, 2022 01:09 AM (AmoqO)
This might seem weird, but I really need to visit my Dad's resting place. Last time I was there, his marker had not been placed. Now it has. So, when we got to Montana during labor day weekend, I can just sit and remember him. Not sure why that matters. But it does.
Do you mind saying where? I have relatives in three cemeteries in the Missoula area.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 01:09 AM (K0jo2)
Posted by: bigG at July 15, 2022 01:09 AM (9tuKL)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 01:10 AM (K0jo2)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 01:11 AM (K0jo2)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
Don't drink the punch.
(Natty Daddys are in the break room)
Posted by: Asst. Regional Manager Miklos at July 15, 2022 01:11 AM (02fRf)
my little village was founded about 40 years before our independence and it has 5 or 6 very old, small graveyards
in the fall, the leaf peepers and rubbers come out in droves
Posted by: REDACTED at July 15, 2022 01:11 AM (us2H3)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 15, 2022 01:11 AM (BhhNZ)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 15, 2022 01:07 AM (LOVUx)
My mom is in an urn on the mantle of the fireplace at my Dad's. Its what she wanted. I think she knew she was sick and didn't tell us, because about 6 months before she died she just out of the blue said when I go I want to be in a big beautiful urn and put me on the mantle, and when your father goes just toss me in the casket with him. She said that twice in that 6 month period.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 01:12 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: zombie Art Bell's producer at July 15, 2022 01:13 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 01:09 AM (K0jo2)
Billings. So, kind of not very close to Missoula, at all.
But it's a nice newer place on the west part of town on Grand Avenue. they have an area for veterans and their spouses. But Mom ain't allowed to die! So there.Posted by: Pug Mahon, Non-sequitur professional at July 15, 2022 01:15 AM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: bigG
Any idiot can do that
Posted by: Six-fingered Miklos at July 15, 2022 01:16 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 01:16 AM (K0jo2)
Posted by: The Monastery of St. Miklos at July 15, 2022 01:18 AM (02fRf)
Sounds lovely.
in the fall, the leaf peepers and rubbers come out in droves
I'm not sure what this means.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 01:19 AM (K0jo2)
my little village was founded about 40 years before our independence and it has 5 or 6 very old, small graveyards
in the fall, the leaf peepers and rubbers come out in droves
Posted by: REDACTED at July 15, 2022 01:11 AM (us2H3)
There is actually an old small cemetery, kinda diagonal across the street from me. The biggest tombstone has the same name as my street, so I'm guessing at one time he owned all the land around here. There was an ancient one right around the corner from where I used to live. That had some real ancient tombstones from the 1700's. I just can't seem to escape cemeteries.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 01:20 AM (VwHCD)
Feel kinda bad for the car insurance adjusters.
Posted by: Miklos, pure of thought and deed at July 15, 2022 01:20 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 01:20 AM (K0jo2)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 01:20 AM (VwHCD)
Well, once you're in, you usually don't get out.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 15, 2022 01:22 AM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Dominion Systemic Voting at July 15, 2022 01:24 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 01:24 AM (K0jo2)
Posted by: Miklosian Tax Solutions LLC at July 15, 2022 01:26 AM (02fRf)
The safety crap on lawnmowers is getting well beyond the sensible range. The last one I bought, about two years ago, after an old Murray I had just plumb wore out. That thing lasted 25 years. My daddy taught me how to keep shit running and you keep it running until it just falls apart.
Anyway, the thing wouldn't run without weight in the seat. That is, it would kill the engine. You can't get off and leave it running. Which pissed me off greatly.
I don't mind the kill switch with the mower engaged. They even put a reverse kill switch. If you try to back up with the mower engaged, that will kill the engine. But realizing that is shit, they put a bypass on the ignition to let you put it a mode where you could back up with the mower running.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 01:26 AM (Mzdiz)
Replacing a Guatemalan is cheaper than a quality lawnmower.
Posted by: Miklosian Landscaping Solutions LLC at July 15, 2022 01:29 AM (02fRf)
Hell, a portion of Schloss Johannesburg in Aschaffenburg is 14th century.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Non-sequitur professional at July 15, 2022 01:29 AM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 15, 2022 01:30 AM (2xpha)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 15, 2022 12:01 AM (a4EWo)
Spray on some WD-40.
/I put that shit on every stuck thing!
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 01:30 AM (ldL4g)
Does it ever rain on this property? We can label it "wetlands" and declare you must leave it alone. ~ the EPA (which needs to be done away with)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 01:30 AM (K0jo2)
Why do they put this ridiculous stuff on? Some damn govt. agency looks at the stats for injuries, and they find that "backing up with the mower engaged" is responsible for the greatest number of injuries. So they mandate some safety thing for that.
The trouble is this stuff is marginal. You can add some safety features to something "bare" that can be dangerous, and find that greatly reduces the number of injuries with little expense and inconvenience.
But, you soon get on an asymptote. To reduce the number of injuries and shit even a little bit more, you have to spend huge amounts of money and inconvenience.
They don't know when to quit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 01:30 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion
"Under certain very limited conditions, you may use this machine for what you bought it for"
Posted by: Miklosian User Manuals LLP at July 15, 2022 01:31 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: Miklosian Tax Solutions LLC at July 15, 2022 01:26 AM (02fRf)
Plant some corn and get the farm exemption,
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 15, 2022 01:32 AM (2xpha)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 01:16 AM (K0jo2)
yeah thats way of things with those. Usually they settle, need to be retightened, then they settle again. It takes a few tightening before they settle in. About 6 months ago the wife comes home with a few small book shelf units she wanted to put in her office closet. She says i need help putting them together. I unpack it and there's are a million Allen head screws in this thing. She hands me this little Allen wrench that came with it and says "you'll need this". I just stared at her, and just went into the garage, came back with a milwaukee 3/8 electric ratchet, an extension, and an allen socket and zipped it together. She says, well college kids wouldn't have that tool. I said look around, does this look like fucking Princeton? lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 01:32 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 01:32 AM (K0jo2)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 15, 2022 01:32 AM (7B5FA)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
Then you can't use it, but still have to pay taxes.
Sub-optimal
Posted by: Miklosian Tax Strategies SA de CV at July 15, 2022 01:33 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: Miklosian Tax Solutions LLC at July 15, 2022 01:26 AM (02fRf)
call it Wounded Knee and collect disability
Posted by: REDACTED at July 15, 2022 01:35 AM (us2H3)
This is good to know. Now, where did I leave those little wrenches?
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 01:35 AM (K0jo2)
It's campaign season
Be sure to ask Val Demings about the guns stolen out of her unlocked police car
Posted by: (i had nothing to do with it) at July 15, 2022 01:37 AM (Rie5Z)
I live an exciting life. (Hi all)
Posted by: Funsize (EiPf6) at July 15, 2022 01:37 AM (EiPf6)
Farm machinery example. Farm machinery can be very dangerous. I grew up around it, and my father taught me how to be careful. I must say a lot of that is just innate, situational awareness. But a lot of it has to be taught. And the mindset has to be taught as well. You must be always thinking, "what can go wrong here?"
Some people just aren't cut out for that. Again, some people are just born that way, but other people could be better, but they just didn't learn the mindset at an early enough age, I think.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 01:38 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter
An Old Guy (even by my standards) near here ran a fresh produce stand on his 36 acres for years. He had a few baskets of this and that, which he had bought at the State Framers' Market.
Few customers, no profit, but he got the ag exemption by golly.
Posted by: Miklos wttches, listens, and learns on occasion at July 15, 2022 01:39 AM (02fRf)
wut, no torch ??
ya gotta use a torch
Posted by: REDACTED at July 15, 2022 01:39 AM (us2H3)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 15, 2022 01:30 AM (2xpha)
In jersey I have to have mom's ashes transferred to a "burial urn" to put her in the casket with my father. They won't allow the fancy urn she's in. Fucking stoooopid.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 01:40 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2022 01:41 AM (2JoB8)
Posted by: Miklos expected kindness and Celebration of Brave Transgressive Amero-Hunarianality at July 15, 2022 01:41 AM (02fRf)
I learned some lessons about non-farm boys. My trouble was I assumed everyone knows basic stuff. 'Cause when I was a little boy, everyone I knew did know that stuff.
Then, when my jaw is hanging open at something very dangerous someone just did, I realize. I'm thinking, "are they crazy?" No, they're not. They just weren't taught. They didn't no. Me, I'm the crazy one for not realizing that. I should have thought of that, and warned them.
Then it hits, my God, I can't think of all the stuff I need to warn people about doing this. Whelp, better just do this myself....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 01:42 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Miklos with 70s High Five, no Jive at July 15, 2022 01:43 AM (02fRf)
My friend suggested I get a hollow spike , put her ashes in it and do my own interning in front of his gravestone.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 15, 2022 01:43 AM (2xpha)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 15, 2022 01:32 AM (7B5FA)
Yeah, if we only knew what was going on things might have turned out different.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 01:44 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 12:53 AM (K0jo2)
I saw on the internets a cemetery with a sign posted stating no dog walking and no picnics.
/What asshole picnics in a cemetery? Because you know some asshole did if they had to put up a sign stating not to do it.
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 01:44 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 01:45 AM (K0jo2)
Posted by: Miklos the linguistic Stickler at July 15, 2022 01:45 AM (02fRf)
Oy vey!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 15, 2022 01:46 AM (tkOps)
Posted by: RickZ
Wouldn't bother me
Might be kinda nice
Posted by: Miklos came from ashes at July 15, 2022 01:46 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 01:44 AM (ldL4g)
I know of someone who spent the day at the gravesite 'sharing' a meal and glass of wine with their loved one.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 15, 2022 01:47 AM (2xpha)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
You Guys are the Best
Posted by: Miklos, correcting his resume for that hay rolling dream job at July 15, 2022 01:48 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2022 01:50 AM (2JoB8)
Lol, I guess that *hole would be me. I walk my dog there and have eaten there on more than one occasion. I'm always respectful of the space and other people, if there are any around. I don't see any disrespect in dogs or picnics.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 01:50 AM (K0jo2)
I got to thinking about it all. When I was a little boy, a little kid, my father would take me out and let me watch him doing things. Wouldn't let me touch anything, but I was to watch.
As a little boy, from kindergarten he'd have my ride in the combine with him. He got a little chair and had my sit in the cab.
It hit me what that did. Just like a toddler learning to talk, I picked up on all sorts of shit just by watching. When it came time for me to actually take the controls, I was already well prepared. Oh, I messed up, believe me, but I was already well onto the learning curve before I even knew it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 01:51 AM (Mzdiz)
I usually just slip a zip tie on the handle when I'm mowing. Simple, easy, but zip ties cost money (not much, but I have Scottish ancestors). Is this a more permanent solution?
Posted by: Weirddave at July 15, 2022 01:54 AM (6tYhO)
We got...maybe 10 or a dozen Indulgences left.
Posted by: The Monastery of St. Miklos
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Is there a volume discount? I could use a six pack.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2022 01:54 AM (JlkmQ)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 01:55 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 14, 2022 10:38 PM (GwxCX)
La Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, seems to be a fusion of All Saints Day (November 1) and All Souls Day (November 2) from the Roman Calendar with indigenous practices in Latin America, and wherever else the flag of Castile y Leon flew.
Posted by: Fox 2! at July 15, 2022 01:55 AM (qyH+l)
I'm trying to remember. There was an article I read about this in the context of trying to program robots to do something. There is a lot basic stuff there, basic "common sense, self-evident" stuff we humans know that we don't even think about.
An example was "water is wet" I believe. That is, we all know that water is wet. If you step in water, you're gonna get wet. A robot wouldn't know that. You'd have to program it to know that water is wet.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 01:56 AM (Mzdiz)
Is it weird I want to go even more now? : Rocket
Thor: yeah, a little
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 01:57 AM (K0jo2)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 01:20 AM (VwHCD)
One of things I've noticed about Europeans' views of Americans, a funny view, not a condescending one. We have different definitions of 'ancient'. Oxford University is older than the Mayan Empire, e.g. Another one: England has pubs centuries older than the US.
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 01:59 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: Miklos
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Let me tell you about my bee hives...
Posted by: Bruce Springsteen at July 15, 2022 02:00 AM (JlkmQ)
Be back then.
Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2022 02:00 AM (2JoB8)
The question "Is water wet" is one of those philosophical circle jerk things of the nature of "if a tree falls in the woods and no is around, does it make a sound".
You wouldn't believe how much intellectual masturbation has been done over the question if water is wet.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 02:00 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 02:02 AM (K0jo2)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 15, 2022 02:02 AM (2xpha)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 15, 2022 02:05 AM (2xpha)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 01:50 AM (K0jo2)
I guess it's the assholes leaving behind dog poop and picnic trash that are disrespectful. And you can bet those oblivions are out there.
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 02:06 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: Anti
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Ah...now we must discuss what 'wet' means.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2022 02:07 AM (JlkmQ)
Knowledge of history puts our own significance in perspective. A good point to bring up to those look down on the study of history.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 02:07 AM (K0jo2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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We can talk about this...
Posted by: Wet Leg at July 15, 2022 02:07 AM (JlkmQ)
Heh. My wife is from Western Canada. When she first moved to Maryland, she would go nuts for old cemeteries. She'd be marveling over graves from the early 1700s because there just isn't anything that old out where she was from. Hell, her home town wasn't even founded until something like 1875. Architecture and other historical stuff too. There's stuff in Baltimore that is twice as old as her hometown. (Europeans, please feel free to laugh)
Posted by: Weirddave at July 15, 2022 02:07 AM (6tYhO)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 15, 2022 02:05 AM (2xpha)
There we have it, folks, an applicant for a job in the FJB Administration.
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 02:12 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 02:13 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 15, 2022 02:13 AM (K0jo2)
Posted by: Anti
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Ah...now we must discuss what 'wet' means.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2022 02:07 AM (JlkmQ)
You're ruining my snark
Wet is the adhesive ability of a substance IIRC
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 15, 2022 02:14 AM (2xpha)
Posted by: Jimco Industries at July 15, 2022 02:17 AM (buTO7)
Posted by: Kate from the B-52s at July 15, 2022 02:18 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 02:13 AM (VwHCD)
Cleopatra lived closer in time to now (2022) than to when the ancient pyramids were built.
/MBAs and their damned business product obsolescence strategies.
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 02:19 AM (ldL4g)
Specifically, that Madison Cawthorn kid?
In brief, WTF???
Posted by: Miklos, Political Scientologist at July 15, 2022 02:20 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 02:13 AM (VwHCD)
I can understand because you really can't see the 500 year differences in a lot of ancient civilizations. The armies of Alexander the Great don't seem much different than the armies of Caesar unless you're a student of history.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 15, 2022 02:21 AM (2xpha)
I think I'm gonna go stick my hand in some LOX and see if it feels wet....
Then I'll try some liquid H2.
I think a superfluid, like liquid helium in certain conditions, would be the ultimate in wettability, but I may be wrong about that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 02:22 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Weirddave
Is no laugh
Posted by: European cities totally levelled in various wars at July 15, 2022 02:23 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: Miklos so notes at July 15, 2022 02:25 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at July 15, 2022 02:27 AM (zyKAs)
Then I'll try some liquid H2.
I think a superfluid, like liquid helium in certain conditions, would be the ultimate in wettability, but I may be wrong about that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion
Got a rocket in yer pocket?
Posted by: Miklos so notes, asking for a friend named Carleen (Darleen's second cousin, once removed) at July 15, 2022 02:28 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: Miklos so notes at July 15, 2022 02:25 AM (02fRf)
We have politicians older than buildings in many old European cities.
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 02:29 AM (ldL4g)
/MBAs and their damned business product obsolescence strategies.
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 02:19 AM (ldL4g)
Very true. She died around 2050 years ago. The pyramids were 2500 years before her. Well, thats if you believe the 4500 year old date.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 02:29 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 02:29 AM (ldL4g)
pelosi is older than some fucking red giant stars.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 02:30 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: RickZ
The Leaning Tower of Pelozzi
Posted by: Miklos wisely agrees at July 15, 2022 02:30 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Wet means ya ain't smart enough to come in out of the rain.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at July 15, 2022 02:30 AM (zyKAs)
Posted by: RickZ
Whippersnappers
Posted by: J. Strom Thurmond at July 15, 2022 02:31 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 02:33 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
The Pyramids were built more than 40,000 years ago and were used to refuel the Spaceships of the Visitors.
Posted by: J. Strom von Daniken at July 15, 2022 02:33 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 15, 2022 02:05 AM (2xpha)
Well, that idea is all wet, I can tell you that.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 15, 2022 02:36 AM (LOVUx)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
Pelosi Units are the standard for calculating taxpayer funded alcohol consumption on USAF flights used by the Speaker.
Posted by: Miklos recalls that it is in hundreds of thousand per year in simple dollar terms at July 15, 2022 02:37 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: SFGoth at July 15, 2022 02:38 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: J. Strom von Daniken at July 15, 2022 02:33 AM (02fRf)
Well one of the weird things is the Sumerians wrote about the pyramids long before they were supposedly built. Actually, they have a story involving the great pyramid that took place around 8500 bc. It was a fascinating read, they knew shit they shouldn't have known.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 02:39 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: SFGoth at July 15, 2022 02:38 AM (KAi1n)
Well, the shit that was left standing anyway.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 02:40 AM (VwHCD)
Specifically, that Madison Cawthorn kid?
In brief, WTF???
Posted by: Miklos
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Well, 'kid'. That's his problem, I think. I've not invested a lot of time in looking into him, what I get, I get from the popular media, so I don't pay a lot of attention.
Every time I hear a 'Reeeeee' from some Lefty, I'm inclined to like the guy, just because he upsets the whackos.
He deserves credit for sayin/doing the right things to get elected, but he is not a studied, mature person, and not predictable. He's kind of the counter AOC.
I've had no real discussion with locals about how they feel about him. The most I can say is that he's preferable (it seems) to any of the nutcase Left who would like his seat.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2022 02:40 AM (JlkmQ)
Posted by: SFGoth
Not Budapest.
Still bullet and shrapnel marks around many corners.
Tourist part fixed up nice though
Posted by: Miklos remembers, but has improved a lot at July 15, 2022 02:42 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
He is out, right?
Lost R primary?
Needs a year or two at The Academy of Ace
Posted by: Miklos remembers, but only a little at July 15, 2022 02:45 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 15, 2022 02:45 AM (pNxlR)
Needs a year or two at The Academy of Ace
Posted by: Miklos
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Yeah. He freaked out a lot of R's, but when you have GOPe's like Burr and Tillis around, that's not surprising.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2022 02:50 AM (JlkmQ)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 02:29 AM (VwHCD)
I've read archaeologists are coming to the conclusion the sphinx is older than the pyramids by multiple centuries. (We seem to lump their constructions to the same time period.) One theory now is the sphinx is a calendar marking the equinox (for planting) akin to other ancient sites like the Henges we see around the world. "The Sphinx had a 'distinctive astronomical' moment with the sun during the spring equinox when, in a shining flourish, the sun set on the shoulder of the half-man, half-lion statue. . . ." Ancient civilizations had a much better understanding of astronomical events that we previously thought possible. We are so full of hubris thinking we are smarter now than the ancients could ever possibly be. I mean, like, fer sure, they didn't have an iPhone 6 or anything close to it.
/The modern scientist with the ability to use a slide rule just laughs knowing in The Burning Times, when the electricity grid fails, he will still be in demand.
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 02:54 AM (ldL4g)
I was just watching some videos of superfluid liquid helium on YouBoobTube.
As Johnny Carson used to say, that is some wild, wild stuff.
Superfluidity is an analog of superconductivity. In the latter, a material loses electric resistance. In the former, a fluid loses friction.
Superfluid helium will happily climb up the walls of a container and run out. You can see a video of dipping cup lifted up out of a volume, and see it empty itself.
Put a partition of two different levels of liquid helium in a container. Once it goes superfluid, it just runs up the walls and "finds its own level".
There is a wild fountain effect. You can set up a fountain where there is no friction loss and the the thing keeps going indefinitely, spewing liquid out the top.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 02:56 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
I asked because you are the Hill People.
It is interesting that Lumbee Country in SE NC has gone pretty strongly R, and quite Trumpily too.
Posted by: Miklos, apparently more Southern Iroquois than certain Senators are Cherokee at July 15, 2022 02:56 AM (02fRf)
I am pretty sure that in the long history of the English language, these words have never been used in this sequence before.
Posted by: the Oxford Miklos English Dictionary at July 15, 2022 02:58 AM (02fRf)
(Sips coffee)
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 15, 2022 03:09 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 02:54 AM (ldL4g)
I think its a little more crazy than that. That Sphinx head is wrong. No way thats the original head, its too small for the body, and the ancient egyptians did not have a problem with scale. It also has water erosion, and there hasn't been water there to do damage like that since 10,500 BC, and it happens to be right at that time, with the alignments of the sky of that time being what they were, that the sphinx was looking directly at the constellation Leo when it popped over the horizon. The pyramids are another thing. Something don't make sense with them.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 03:10 AM (VwHCD)
Imagine being a leader of another country and having to sit through a one on one meeting with former Vice President Mush for Brains.
How do they not burst out at some point, "That's the stupidest thing that I have ever heard!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 15, 2022 03:11 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: (sips Mornin') at July 15, 2022 03:11 AM (02fRf)
Here is an old film demonstating superfluid helium. '50s style, although I don't know when it was actually made. Old equipment though, and a nice Square D manual motor starter for the vacuum pump. They knew good shit back then.
https://tinyurl.com/yansnwgz
Note how the helium, being cooled by evaporative cooling stops boiling when it hits the "lambda point", the phase transition to superfluid helium. It's thermal conductivity jumps by orders of magnitude at that point. Boiling no longer occurs.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 03:12 AM (Mzdiz)
Gott leave at 0400 to shoot up and back to Virginia Beach and grab our son's motorcycle to bring back down to Charleston today.
BUT...Salty Dog, who will be out of pocket on a great family adventure for several more weeks has asked me to continue to post his morning greeting for him. So it's very early, but without further adu, from Salty...
Good morning!
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 15, 2022 03:14 AM (1n+EO)
Indeed. I used to read a lot of that stuff, and ol' Art Bell used to have a lot of the people involved with that on.
The Sphinx is indeed very, very old. Me, I'm convinced it was the work of a very ancient culture that was globe-spanning (the "Atlantis" of myth) that was wiped out by some cataclysm. SMOD, or something else).
Maybe they went Davos/Klauss Schwabb and decided to go green and eat bugs or something.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 03:15 AM (Mzdiz)
It is interesting that Lumbee Country in SE NC has gone pretty strongly R, and quite Trumpily too.
Posted by: Miklos
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Thars injuns in them thar flatlands.
With that, I'm out.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2022 03:17 AM (K65pS)
Makes many, many sammiches. Very economical. Freezes well, too.
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 03:21 AM (ldL4g)
The narrator in that supefluid video reminds me of Peter Lore. He's got that vibe and voice a little bit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 03:27 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 03:15 AM (Mzdiz)
A meteor/asteroid causing the Great Flood of the Bible and other cultures' oral history, Japan, e.g.
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 03:28 AM (ldL4g)
I'll take Things Which Cannot Be Unheard for $600, Alex.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 15, 2022 03:29 AM (XQFx4)
I'm trying to remember. Roughly 10,000BC, or 12,000 years ago roughly, was the magic date (give or take a 1000 years or so) when all this cataclysm happened. The ancient civilization was wiped out somewhere around then.
Now, the Sphinx. Imagine it had an original lion head. It was a giant line. It would've been aligned perfectly with the vernal equinox occurring in Leo (the Lion) constellation back around 10,000BC.
The vernal equinox occurs in Pisces now, transitioning to Aquarius (This is the "Age of Aquarius" shit you hear the astrologers talking about).
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 03:30 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 03:15 AM (Mzdiz)
Well even the pyramids. The great pyramid is what, the 4th, 5th pyramid to be built, so they say. Nobody knew what the great pyramid looked like inside until around 700AD, but what they did know about was the descending passage. A lot of pyramids have that descending passage, as if its the only thing they could copy from the great pyramid because thats the only thing they could access. All the pyramids built after the great pyramid are rubble mounds, none are standing. If they had access to the great pyramid, and you think they would if they built them, they would have built others like it, but they didn't. None were built like that, like they couldn't do it. The other thing is no writings. Pharaohs didn't take a shit without putting their frigging name on it, and here you got this massive work, and there's nothing. Way many questions.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 03:31 AM (VwHCD)
I'm trying to remember the astronomical alignments of the Giza complex. They are many and complex. Hell, I can't even remember the names of some of the guys who did this -- Egyptologists despise them, 'cause they ain't of the body.
Robert Bauval, I think. Constellation Orion = Osiris. The three pyraminds are aligned nicely like Orion (Osiris') belt stars. I forget, but other parts of the complex form an image of the whole constellation.
The ancient Egyptians were big on Osiris. That's where the dead went. To the stars, specifically Orion.
Hell, I've forgotten the details, but ol' Art Bell used to have these guys on detailing all of this.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 03:36 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 03:30 AM (Mzdiz)
If I remember right, I think the Sumerian writings put that around 13,000 BC. Their shit is off the charts. They wrote about things that they should not have known about. Their story of the flood is insane.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 03:41 AM (VwHCD)
Zep Tepi = The First Time. When the ancient Egyptians believed the gods and man lived on earth in a previous golden age. Osiris was king. Then all that business about getting cut up in pieces by his brother Set. Then his son Horus, who challenges Set.
I'm trying to remember some wild stuff Art Bell had one, correlated this Horus rising, defeating the evil Set with the founding of America. Something about the West to the ancient Egyptians was the promised land. Horus and the hawk corresponding the eagle of America.
The Founders were some culmination of an ancient mystery cult set upon refounding ZepTepi (Atlantis) in the West, like Horus rising against the evil.
Some wild shit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 03:45 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Klezmer Miklos at July 15, 2022 03:46 AM (02fRf)
They Geolocated it at 2 degrees northwest of Ft. Inn
Posted by: Miklos, from the Sekrit Rosicrians (not so sekrit , I guess) at July 15, 2022 03:50 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 03:45 AM (Mzdiz)
The king lists from that time are nuts too. It shows each one ruling for insane amounts of years, and all of a sudden it has more human time frames, like there is a definite line where the gods passed it off to man.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 03:50 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 15, 2022 03:51 AM (t3/qz)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 15, 2022 03:51 AM (t3/qz)
Gee, a free tank of gas.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 03:52 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 03:30 AM (Mzdiz)
Gobekli Tepe, in Turkey, has huge carved stone monoliths dating to around 12,000 to 10,000 B.C. The fascinating thing about the site is the place was deliberately buried by the ancients, as if they were telling us 'we had something going on here but had to move and couldn't take our constructions with us'. That site has tossed out a lot of our current 'historical knowledge', making civilization much older than previously thought. The sphinx being as old as Gebekli Tepe fits right in line with civilizations worldwide being wiped out in a cataclysmic event resulting in a 'dark ages' of thousands of years. The antikythera device found in the Mediterranean also points to civilization being more advanced than previously thought.
No aliens were needed. Humans are adaptive and creative, even ancient ones.
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 03:53 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 15, 2022 03:54 AM (t3/qz)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
Okra
Collards
Agriculture
Good Lord, now come around and eat this food, chirrens
Posted by: Ole Mammy Miklos, with Agricultural Exemption at July 15, 2022 03:55 AM (02fRf)
Oh yes! Fascinating stuff, that just shoots the traditional history to hell.
Oh, and the "Hall of Records" lore. Art used to have stuff on that. Supposedly the ancient civilization, or factions of wisemen therefrom, knew they were about to be destroyed and so put an archive of their knowledge an history in these Halls of Records in various spots around the globe.
One of them is supposedly buried under the Sphinx, and you can read about the supposed deep chambers found underneath with ground penetrating radar and such. Maybe total BS, but it's damn fascinating stuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 03:58 AM (Mzdiz)
NG is out of the question, its just causes global something, and its no option, according the the Greenies.
Posted by: Colin at July 15, 2022 03:58 AM (YVx1O)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 15, 2022 04:01 AM (t3/qz)
Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2022 04:01 AM (2JoB8)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 04:01 AM (VwHCD)
You know, considering the state of affairs, what with Davos and eating bugs, and Joe Biden, I think some of us wise men ought to set about making our own Hall of Records to hold the history of this age.
Mankind rises up, but gets all cocky and arrogant and thinks he is god. So, he must be destroyed and start over anew. That's some of the legends of Atlantis. A cycle of creation and destruction.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 04:03 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 15, 2022 04:04 AM (t3/qz)
Posted by: publius, Rascally
If I am still invited, we should talk.
Compare the book "1491", which was universally praised by all the right People, And Graham Hancock's "America Before", which the Right People call crazy.
Same Experts cited, by name.
Posted by: El Mikloso de Yucatan at July 15, 2022 04:05 AM (02fRf)
That is what I do... Www.SalaryCash1.Com
Posted by: Sarah at July 15, 2022 04:06 AM (SpA2/)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 03:58 AM (Mzdiz)
They won't give permission to explore those chambers. I always thought the sphinx was a time capsule of some kind. Its alignment with Leo in 10,500 BC is almost like a marker to show when things restarted. Those chambers would almost make sense
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 04:07 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 03:58 AM (Mzdiz)
One can only wonder now at the treasure trove of information/knowledge learned by ancient civilizations that was destroyed by the Great Fire of the Library at Alexandria. Oral histories written down all gone up in a blaze of 'glory'.
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 04:08 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: Colin at July 15, 2022 04:08 AM (YVx1O)
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 04:08 AM (ldL4g)
Cleopatra lost a million scrolls in that fire. I think she may have replaced 1/4 of them, but a shit ton of history was lost. Original works by plato, shit like that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 04:10 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 04:01 AM (VwHCD)
And from videos/interviews I've watched, they have no intention of thoroughly excavating the site.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 04:10 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: Colin at July 15, 2022 04:08 AM (YVx1O)
His favorite bath time gurgles.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 15, 2022 04:11 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 15, 2022 04:04 AM (t3/qz)
You seem overly optimistic. We can't even construct bridges to last more than a few months yet the Pont du Gard aqueduct still survives, even with all those wars in Europe which came after it's construction.
But if I had to guess, it would be older parts of some European cities constructed of stone.
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 04:15 AM (ldL4g)
Personally, I am happy that raimondo has embraced his inner Sarah and got, or gives a real job.
Posted by: Miklos from the BLM at July 15, 2022 04:15 AM (02fRf)
Not San Francisco. They'll hit the needles and shit layer and conclude God destroyed that city like Sodom and that it's best left buried.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - doomsayer at July 15, 2022 04:19 AM (KFhLj)
Posted by: Miklos from the BLM at July 15, 2022 04:15 AM (02fRf)
Obligatory: Gives blowjobs, twenty bucks, same as in town.
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 04:19 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - doomsayer at July 15, 2022 04:19 AM (KFhLj)
The'll find fossilized poop and wonder just what the hell went on in that city. A shit religious cult or something similar?
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 04:21 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 15, 2022 04:22 AM (c6xtn)
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022
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The recipe for "Greek fire," perhaps. Or do historians know how they made that now?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 15, 2022 04:24 AM (c6xtn)
Posted by: Aspiring Miklosavious, Life Around Turner at July 15, 2022 04:24 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Nope
Nor Venetian glass, or Mayan Blue pigment
Or the stonework in Peru
Posted by: Historian Miklos at July 15, 2022 04:27 AM (02fRf)
Posted by: Miklos been fighting this Gravity sumbitch Every Damn Day at July 15, 2022 04:29 AM (02fRf)
Or the stonework in Peru
Posted by: Historian Miklos at July 15, 2022
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"I sent my sinuses to Arizona,
I sent my liver to Peru;
I sent my lungs and my kidneys
For the summer to Sydney,
But I'm sending my heart to you!"
( -- vintage George Carlin)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 15, 2022 04:30 AM (c6xtn)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 15, 2022 04:24 AM (c6xtn)
I'm not sure it's an exact recipe, but jellied napalm gave us a real clue. They think it was some kind of jellied tar-like substance, maybe mixed with animal collagen, with chemicals added for good ignition/sustained burning capabilities. The historical record of it being 'sticky' is a big clue as I don't think oil/petroleum had been found/discovered yet.
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022 04:34 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2022
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I think the Romans had encountered oil or petroleum. They called it "slime" and avoided it. Seems to me some bright boy might have realized it was good for lubing wheel hubs, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 15, 2022 04:36 AM (c6xtn)
Yes, Graham Hancock. I first learned of him through Art Bell.
I've forgotten much of it over the years, but damn, I'm going to get back up to speed on it.
I remember this "America = Horus" thing, and something listening to late one night way back on Art that was just utterly fascinating. You know the old "Masonic secrets" of the symbolism and layout of Washington. Argument there is it really ancient Egyptian symbology.
I can remember discussion of the symbols associated with the office of the president of the US, and how they are basically Horus symbology. The eagle, the wings, etc, etc.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 04:40 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 15, 2022 04:40 AM (t3/qz)
It's getting time for beddy bye for me, too. But let me say, Joe Biden is no Horus.
No, he would be an installation of Set, to mock and piss upon the Golden Age/Zep Tepi/Atlantis.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 04:41 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2022 04:49 AM (2JoB8)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 15, 2022 04:52 AM (c6xtn)
Take out a dollar bill and look on the back. On the left you will see a seal with a pyramid with an eye over it. That is the Eye of Horus (you can look that up).
On the top, you'll see "Annuit Coeptis", translating to mean "He has favored our undertakings". Below, "Novus ordo seclorum", meaning a new order of the ages.
On the right, the Eagle, E Pluribus Unum.
Yep, that is screaming Horus. The United States is the new Atlantis, the new Zep Tepi. The kingship is Horus.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 15, 2022 04:54 AM (Mzdiz)
Did anyone else see this "conservative" group that came to the conclusion there was no influential fraud in 2020 on Fox?
Where did they come from, who appt them? It includes Danforth from MO, Gordon Smith, from NH?, some judges and Ted Olson.
Looks to me like this "conservative" group is a bunch of RINOs who don't want Trump to run again. I'll have to dig up their report, I just want to know why 6 swing states stopped counting when Trump was ahead and resumed hours later showing Biden in the lead? When have you ever seen a candidate's totals reduced, we saw Trumps yotes reduced on live TV?
This group's mantra is that the election was legit and we don't want Republicans not to vote because there is fraud. They really think us unwashed flyover deplorables are idiots. F*@# them.
Posted by: Farmer at July 15, 2022 05:29 AM (55Qr6)
So when you need wind power, it is not there. Hence, the blackouts.
Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at July 15, 2022 08:00 AM (EMi53)
Posted by: Lost My Cookies at July 15, 2022 04:23 PM (F7/hZ)
Posted by: Pelosi's Fat Patuti at July 15, 2022 07:33 PM (cFnie)
(from what I've read) Is that what you are using on your blog?
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