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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Fox2! at July 27, 2022 07:36 PM (ueLz3)
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Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 27, 2022 07:43 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2022 07:44 PM (gLRfa)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 07:44 PM (atmen)
Wonder what kinda rifle that Game Warden was toting?
FAL, G3 or an AK?
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 27, 2022 07:44 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: ace at July 27, 2022 07:44 PM (B3oWe)
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 07:45 PM (MGB5H)
Easy Tembo !
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 27, 2022 07:43 PM (M+Lyo)
Same. Except it was a bed.
Posted by: Amber Heard at July 27, 2022 07:45 PM (HVuiX)
No way on Sri Lanka: they have no gas to drive around.
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at July 27, 2022 07:45 PM (b+v9B)
No way on Sri Lanka: they have no gas to drive around.
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at July 27, 2022 07:45 PM (b+v9B)
Maybe it's from a year ago?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 27, 2022 07:46 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 27, 2022 07:46 PM (B3oWe)
Posted by: ace at July 27, 2022 07:44 PM (B3oWe)
Goldens are characters I tell ya.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 27, 2022 07:47 PM (M+Lyo)
Do people realize that Pedo Joe stood up in the Rose Garden today and talked about how he was morally superior to his opponent, who didn't have a choice of _working_ medicines for Covid, thanks to The Bureaucracy, and therefore morally superior to everyone else who didn't get his custom fucking designer drug version of ivermectin as well?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Cryptid Anarchist at July 27, 2022 07:47 PM (qL3aU)
I forgot, I'll try to find a bat for you, Duncanthrax.
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 27, 2022 07:47 PM (B3oWe)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 27, 2022 07:47 PM (sWM8x)
Posted by: Zeera at July 27, 2022 07:47 PM (Slj51)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 07:47 PM (atmen)
Columbus actually did some pretty shitty math, arguing that the world was a lot smaller than it actually is.
If there hadn't been another continent in the way, he'd never have been heard from again.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2022 07:47 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2022 07:48 PM (k8B25)
Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 27, 2022 07:48 PM (vcv8B)
Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 27, 2022 07:48 PM (vcv8B)
Hollow earth FTW. With a little sun inside.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 07:49 PM (eoQWY)
I think part of that was wishful thinking and "conning your investors," because he needed it to be smaller to have any hope of making it to asia.
Posted by: ace at July 27, 2022 07:49 PM (B3oWe)
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at July 27, 2022 07:49 PM (b+v9B)
Posted by: 29Victor at July 27, 2022 07:49 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Cryptid Anarchist at July 27, 2022 07:47 PM (qL3aU)
And yet there are more deaths under Joe than OrangeManBad.
#GrimMilestones
Posted by: Bete at July 27, 2022 07:49 PM (HVuiX)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 07:50 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2022 07:44 PM (gLRfa)
Agreed. I was thinking of the guy's answer to the inevitable "why?" questions, and settled on "because I fucking can, that's why!" as the best response.
That mask, tho...
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 27, 2022 07:50 PM (v23vE)
FAL, G3 or an AK?
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 27, 2022 07:44 PM (R/m4+)
Probably a big caliber like .375 HH or .416 Rigby minimum
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 27, 2022 07:50 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: Oldcat at
That's where Kong is from. I saw it in a movie so it must be true.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 07:50 PM (MGB5H)
Do people realize that Pedo Joe stood up in the Rose Garden today and talked about how he was morally superior to his opponent, who didn't have a choice of _working_ medicines for Covid, thanks to The Bureaucracy, and therefore morally superior to everyone else who didn't get his custom fucking designer drug version of ivermectin as well?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Cryptid Anarchist at July 27, 2022 07:47 PM (qL3aU)
Don't know why you are even surprised, much less angry.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 07:50 PM (eoQWY)
According to the book I read a couple of weeks ago, Civilization One, he suggested the Earth was around 130,650,335 Olympian feet in circumference. The "Greek foot" was a geodetic measurement, meaning it was directly related to the size of the Earth. Another calculation places the circumference at exactly 129,600,000 Greek feet, which is equivalent to the distance the Earth rotates in one day as measured against a known object in the sky. There's some wild stuff about ancient measurements...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 07:50 PM (K5n5d)
Posted by: Electric Vehicle Owner at July 27, 2022 07:51 PM (Jg92y)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2022 07:47 PM (bW8dp)
At the rate the left is going, with in 50 years no one will hear of him then either.
Posted by: Bete at July 27, 2022 07:51 PM (HVuiX)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 07:52 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2022 07:52 PM (k8B25)
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2022 07:52 PM (gCoft)
Posted by: Infidel at July 27, 2022 07:53 PM (mn1Pi)
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at July 27, 2022 07:53 PM (b+v9B)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2022 07:47 PM (bW8dp)
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People knew the Earth was round long before Eratosthenes, as certain precise measurements used by the ancients can only be made by assuming a rotating Earth compared with known objects in the night sky.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 07:53 PM (K5n5d)
Inflation Act - if passed and Inflation does not reduce significantly. Gives Rs opening once they take the house. As Dave in FL states: raising taxes during a recession is never a good idea.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 27, 2022 07:53 PM (NW9xb)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 07:54 PM (6HZ10)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2022 07:52 PM (k8B25)
By George, I think you're right.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 27, 2022 07:55 PM (AiZBA)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 07:52 PM (xhaym)
It did flash a shiny butt plate there for a second or two so you may be correct.
The Game Wardens carry to use on poachers, democrats and sodomites who are out for ivory if I remember right.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 27, 2022 07:55 PM (R/m4+)
I'll stick to chicken myself
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2022 07:55 PM (k8B25)
Posted by: Columbus at July 27, 2022 07:55 PM (sn5EN)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 07:53 PM (K5n5d)
I think Herodotus was not aware of that, he mentioned that the tale of the Carthaginians who went around Africa was unrealistic because it mentioned that the sun for the farthest parts stayed in the Northern sky
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 07:56 PM (xhaym)
For my individdle
In trouble or in pain
With the thoughts
That I'd be thinkin'
I could be another Lincoln
If I only had a brain
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at July 27, 2022 07:56 PM (XfwRh)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 07:50 PM (K5n5d)
If the Greeks had a foot measure, it would be based off the foot. If they had a "paces" measure, then it would be based off some sort of stride value. And a rule of thumb comes from a thumb.
The distance / time for a star to go from zenith to zenith is the siderial day and is somewhat shorter than a noon to noon day since the earth has moved on a bit in its orbit and has to spin a little longer to get the sun back to the same place. Difference is 4 minutes.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 07:56 PM (eoQWY)
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Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 07:57 PM (MGB5H)
Guy was pissed they cooked him a steak for dinner as it was a $1.63 a pound.
Inflation adjusted, that's $16 a pound.
No poor man was he. Was going to buy his stock back from Perry at $35k, or $350,000 today.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 27, 2022 07:57 PM (5ar9k)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 27, 2022 07:57 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: 29Victor at July 27, 2022 07:57 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Cryptid Anarchist at July 27, 2022 07:47 PM (qL3aU)
Do you get mad when the lot lizards are out at the truck stop making money? This is what whores do.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 07:58 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 27, 2022 07:58 PM (lz5hY)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2022 07:58 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 07:58 PM (6HZ10)
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at July 27, 2022 07:58 PM (b+v9B)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 07:56 PM (xhaym)
Eh, there are always outliers in knowledge. Hell a bunch of people don't belive we went to the moon, that socialism can work and that Joe Biden is a decent man.
Posted by: Bete at July 27, 2022 07:58 PM (HVuiX)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 07:53 PM (K5n5d)
Also, ships near the horizon would incrementally vanish, hull first. This was the same in every direction, so the curvature would be the same in all directions, so a sphere.
The fact that the stars moved relative to the sun in the sky meant that either the earth, or the sun was moving.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 07:59 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 07:54 PM (6HZ10)
Red-wing blackbirds, aka Mexican blackbirds, are extremely difficult to take on the wing. I have, however killed 27 at once when they landed in a field while I was dove hunting.
Posted by: Ex-ex at July 27, 2022 07:59 PM (RU4sa)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 07:59 PM (atmen)
Posted by: Jimco Industries at July 27, 2022 08:00 PM (TrNEq)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 07:56 PM (xhaym)
A lot of modern historians are dopes about science too.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:00 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 08:01 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2022 08:01 PM (f+EI1)
Posted by: Ex-ex at July 27, 2022 07:59 PM (RU4sa)
They were pointing out the doves for you when you shot them.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:01 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 27, 2022 07:50 PM (M+Lyo)
.600 H&H Nitro Express, side by side double barrel.
Posted by: Fox2! at July 27, 2022 08:01 PM (ueLz3)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 08:01 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 07:56 PM (eoQWY)
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That's exactly correct. The sidereal day is a little bit shorter than the solar day that we use for our normal experiences. There is some very compelling evidence that the sidereal day *was* used to establish a fundamental unit of measurement called the "Megalithic Yard" that establishes base units for length, volume, weight, and even time.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 08:02 PM (K5n5d)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 27, 2022 08:02 PM (lz5hY)
If there hadn't been another continent in the way, he'd never have been heard from again.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2022 07:47 PM (bW8dp)
One school of thought was that he had a chart that someone made of a land fall in the new world from being blown off course to or from the Cape Verde Islands, which indicated land and that the Indies were closer than calculated.
Otherwise he was clearly off his calculations and in fantasyland, geographically speaking.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 08:02 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: B
which is funny because when America was discovered the indians did not even know what a wheel was
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:02 PM (usdNd)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 07:54 PM (6HZ10)
dinosaurs are dinosaurs.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:02 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 08:03 PM (6HZ10)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 27, 2022 07:58 PM (lz5hY)
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Doesn't the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan employ "professional drivers" to help people cross the bridge who might have trouble with heights?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 08:03 PM (K5n5d)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 27, 2022 07:44 PM
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Sporterized Enfield
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 07:52 PM
It wasn't the rifle that concerned the Loxodont. If you observe closely, you can see when he spotted the 9mm pistol on the guides left hip, and as U.S. President Joe Biden advised at the time, he wisely backed off, not wanting to get a lung blown out.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher, Ensign, UFP Starfleet at July 27, 2022 08:04 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 27, 2022 08:04 PM (diceA)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 27, 2022 08:05 PM (89T5c)
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:05 PM (usdNd)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 08:03 PM (K5n5d)
A lot of big bridges have high sides so it is hard to see off of them. I never liked that, but for someone afraid of heights it might be a real boon.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:05 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 27, 2022 08:05 PM (diceA)
Imagine how much faster science would have progressed if the Moon were to visibly rotate instead of being tidally locked to us.
Posted by: t-bird at July 27, 2022 08:06 PM (Q14hI)
We took our oldest (then 3 or so) to Hooters before the food turned to absolute crap, and he knew.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 27, 2022 08:06 PM (U3uv2)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 27, 2022 08:06 PM (CdZ4i)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
I dont know about the drivers, don't remember any being around the times Ive crossed it. But there are a number of people in the pilings that fell in while the bridge was being built. There is a museum there that has their names.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 08:06 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain
Well shit, that's tragic. covid succumbed to the retard.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 27, 2022 08:07 PM (JHRMW)
Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2022 08:07 PM (0OP+5)
Posted by: Aet
I would think a cheap belt would not do that
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:07 PM (usdNd)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 08:07 PM (6HZ10)
Posted by: N.L. Urker
Because he is as self-absorbed and insecure as they come.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2022 08:07 PM (6WCwE)
Posted by: Infidel at July 27, 2022 08:08 PM (mn1Pi)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 27, 2022 08:08 PM (0ocXn)
the pushup contest is next
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:08 PM (oW0CQ)
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 27, 2022 08:06 PM (U3uv2)
I went to one (and only time) in 94 cause I lost the vote.
It was borderline mediocre then.
Posted by: Bete at July 27, 2022 08:08 PM (HVuiX)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 08:08 PM (atmen)
Posted by: Infidel at July 27, 2022 08:08 PM (mn1Pi)
Tacoma Narrows(?) Galloping Gurdy?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 27, 2022 08:09 PM (diceA)
Posted by: Infidel at July 27, 2022 08:08 PM (mn1Pi)
Yep, Tacoma Narrows.
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2022 08:09 PM (f+EI1)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 08:09 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Mookie at July 27, 2022 08:09 PM (u+Y3T)
Posted by: Ex-ex at July 27, 2022 08:09 PM (RU4sa)
Posted by: Kindltot
Lot lizards at least provide a useful service.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 27, 2022 08:10 PM (JHRMW)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 08:08 PM (atmen)
The Spanish might have had more trouble with the Chinese than the Amerindian natives, though it would have saved the trouble of digging up/stealing gold yourself rather than buying spices with your own gold.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:10 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Ex-ex at July 27, 2022 08:09 PM (RU4sa)
Each, or do you have the Warren Comission's magic bullets?
Posted by: Bete at July 27, 2022 08:11 PM (HVuiX)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 08:11 PM (6HZ10)
All of FJBs quirks- Delirium, constipation, hallucinations, dilated pupils, tremors, slurred speech- are all anticholinergic side effects of high doses of aricept for dementia. Probably being bolused stimulants before events and another cocktail to mitigate the side effects, including stool softeners.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:11 PM (eC4Tv)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2022 08:12 PM (k8B25)
And for a $1.10 you get their vote by changing address:
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Posted by: Capn Ned (Raging Queen) at July 27, 2022 08:12 PM (ex2Cx)
Posted by: Ex-ex at July 27, 2022 08:09 PM (RU4sa)
with an 81 mm mortar?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:12 PM (eoQWY)
Tacoma Narrows. Failed due to resonance frequency. A great example of how we engineers only make news when something catastrophically fails. Like the Challenger. Or the Mars Rover.
Posted by: Mookie at July 27, 2022 08:13 PM (u+Y3T)
And then there was much gnashing of teeth and rendering of garments. You see, even District Judge Nichols has an inkling that he's gonna get rebuked up the chain sense this wasn't a legal subpoena - and he'd just a soon save himself the embarrassment.
But I think the pressure is too great and he'll commit career suicide in a vain hope that some appeals court won't hand him his head...look to see him agree to convict Bannon to get the loving media laughs and then get scolded by his appeals court parents sometime in the future that his judicial career days are done.
Posted by: Boswell at July 27, 2022 08:13 PM (+Cgut)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:11 PM (eC4Tv)
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So when he shits his pants at public events, that's just the medications he's taking?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 08:13 PM (K5n5d)
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How was LEGOLand? Ive never been but I do love LEGO.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 08:13 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Ex-ex at July 27, 2022 08:09 PM (RU4sa)
Each, or do you have the Warren Comission's magic bullets?
Posted by: Bete at July 27, 2022 08:11 PM (HVuiX)
Got down on one knee and shot with a 20 ga. The spread's what got them.
Posted by: Ex-ex at July 27, 2022 08:14 PM (RU4sa)
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 08:13 PM (MGB5H)
For god sakes don't go barefoot
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:14 PM (eoQWY)
And on that note, off to bed. 0300 comes around quickly.
https://youtu.be/v4G_0A8Cdkw
mid 80s Lou Gramm. His solo album, Midnight Blue. It was pretty good. I have it on CD.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 27, 2022 08:14 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings
Unlike those filthy Visitors who just want to eat us and steal our water.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 27, 2022 08:14 PM (ftFVW)
I bet the kids loved it. Ours did. It's the old Cypress Gardens site so a lots of the plants and gardens are still there too.
Posted by: Columbus at July 27, 2022 08:14 PM (sn5EN)
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 08:13 PM (MGB5H)
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I was able to go to the one in Denmark a long, long time ago...It was pretty neat!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 08:15 PM (K5n5d)
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2022 08:15 PM (sn5EN)
Posted by: JT at July 27, 2022 08:16 PM (T4tVD)
Posted by: Ex-ex
Yes; but you didn't mention what you were shooting .
Posted by: JT at July 27, 2022 08:16 PM (T4tVD)
Posted by: Mookie at July 27, 2022 08:13 PM (u+Y3T)
The out of focus Hubble was a good one, if less spectacular. Had to make a corrective lens.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:16 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
I would imagine the one in the home of LEGO would be pretty awesome.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 08:16 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: ace at July 27, 2022 07:47 PM
Ace, thank you, and thank you for all that you provide here!
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Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2022 07:58 PM
Thank you, JackStraw!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2022 08:17 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 27, 2022 08:17 PM (m0zqP)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2022 08:17 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: redridinghood at July 27, 2022 08:17 PM (NpAcC)
59,143 in-person voters on November 3, 2020. You can watch the segment I did with Mr. Cross in the video above.
On November 3, 2020, the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections called a special meeting to discuss the election thus far. In this live-streamed meeting that is still available here, Fulton County’s interim Elections Chief Dwight Brower said that as of about 5pm, “about 14,152 people have cast a ballot” in Fulton Co. At the 16:42 mark, Dr. Kathleen Ruth asks Dwight Brower to confirm that number of 14,152.
Posted by: Capn Ned (Raging Queen) at July 27, 2022 08:17 PM (ex2Cx)
Posted by: redridinghood at July 27, 2022 08:17 PM (NpAcC)
It probably only rains there 2 or three times a day. Its an island smack on the equator.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:18 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Infidel at July 27, 2022 08:08 PM (mn1Pi)
Yep, Tacoma Narrows.
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2022 08:09 PM (f+EI1)
Galloping Gertie. It buckled like that whenever the wind kicked up. People still drove on it though. The wind (and water) through the Narrows always is pretty darn fast. The day it fell, the wind was just a little too fast.
Posted by: 29Victor at July 27, 2022 08:18 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:05 PM (usdNd)
Good heavens, I loved that movie. Smilodons, Mammoths, terror birds, neolithic slaves building a pyramid for possible alien masters . . .Hot chick is furs, a terrible mixture of fauna, all in glorious cheesy CGI
It also pisses off the archeologists.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 08:18 PM (xhaym)
The street cars were slow-motion, so you could sort of walk up to them and step on anywhere.
Little neighborhood restaurants, with their own house wine from the fazenda in the countryside.
Funny Portuguese accent, though.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2022 08:19 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: That guy who always sings... at July 27, 2022 08:19 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 08:19 PM (6HZ10)
Posted by: That guy who always sings... at July 27, 2022 08:20 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 08:20 PM (atmen)
Posted by: Infidel at July 27, 2022 08:08 PM (mn1Pi)
Tacoma Narrows.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 27, 2022 08:20 PM (U3uv2)
It also pisses off the archeologists.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 08:18 PM (xhaym)
You can always satisfy them by saying it has a religious significance. That's what they always say when they have no idea what something is.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:21 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Bete at July 27, 2022 08:08 PM (HVuiX)
It was always borderline mediocre, and it did not take much cost cutting to put it over the edge. Such is the cycle of chain restaurants.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 27, 2022 08:22 PM (U3uv2)
Posted by: B
that is not any better
it is sort of the same as having fire, but not knowing what to do with it
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:22 PM (oW0CQ)
Posted by: redridinghood at July 27, 2022 08:22 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 08:23 PM (atmen)
It also pisses off the archeologists.
in fairness, it is not just the archaeologists
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:23 PM (oW0CQ)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 08:20 PM (atmen)
The Americas don't have any native large draft animals, so that's mostly why. No horses, no cows, etc...
There were the bison but, as a wise man once said, bison are assho.
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2022 08:23 PM (Gd4La)
Posted by: Mookie at July 27, 2022 08:13 PM
It's also a testimony to how far bridge engineering has come. In 1883, the year that the Brooklyn Bridge opened (then known as the East River Bridge, and for some years the tallest structure in NYC), 25% of the bridges opened that year failed, as in fell down.
I would argue that Challenger and the Mars Rover were more systematic (or engineering system) failures, than engineering per se failures.
As one of my mentors, Jerry Weinberg, said "No matter whether it's a technical problem or a people problem, it's always a people problem."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2022 08:23 PM (a3Q+t)
it is sort of the same as having fire, but not knowing what to do with it
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:22 PM (oW0CQ)
It is unclear if fire was first used to warm people, cook food, or set big ass fires that might kill something to take home.
It may also have had a religious significance.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:23 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Javems at July 27, 2022 08:24 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 08:24 PM (6HZ10)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:24 PM (eC4Tv)
>> The sidereal day is a little bit shorter than the solar day that we use for our normal experiences.
The sidereal day is the actual rotational period of the earth inertially.
The length of the true solar day actual varies a little bit over the course of the year due to the elliptical orbit and the changes in orbital speed. Another effect is the tilt of the axis.
Thus the solar day is actually the mean, over average of that. It varies from about 24 hrs and 30 seconds, to 24 hrs minus 18 secs. There are four nodes and four extrema per tropical year.
While that difference is small each day, it does add up, and the cumulative effect is such that the true sun can be ahead or behind the mean sun by 15 minutes. See the Equation of Time for the precise curve.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 27, 2022 08:24 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 27, 2022 08:24 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: REDACTED at July 27, 2022 08:24 PM (us2H3)
Posted by: redridinghood
How about a giant python eating Joe Manchin?
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 27, 2022 08:24 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:25 PM (eC4Tv)
who wants second rate food with second rate girls?
dine at a good restaurant then go to the titty bar.
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:25 PM (oW0CQ)
There were the bison but, as a wise man once said, bison are assho.
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2022 08:23 PM (Gd4La)
That's cause the indians killed them, what with their perfect balance with nature and all.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:26 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Mookie at July 27, 2022 08:13 PM (u+Y3T)
Resonance and putting up a soild bridge where winds regularly whip through at >30mph. But mostly the winds.
The darn thing "galloped" as soon as the bridge deck was built. Not just an error in engineering, but in government. The bridve never should have been completed once its weakness was known.
I have a piece of rebar from old Gertie in my garage. I wiggled it out of a broken concrete column on a field trip. It's twisted like a pretzel.
Posted by: 29Victor at July 27, 2022 08:26 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 08:26 PM (eGTCV)
It may also have had a religious significance.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:23 PM (eoQWY)
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Prometheus could tell us, but he's a little tied up at the moment, having his liver pecked out by an eagle...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 08:26 PM (K5n5d)
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 08:26 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:26 PM (eC4Tv)
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 27, 2022 08:24 PM (ftFVW)
*******
Even better!
Posted by: redridinghood at July 27, 2022 08:26 PM (NpAcC)
dine at a good restaurant then go to the titty bar.
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:25 PM (oW0CQ)
You are supposed to be able to talk your wife into going to Hooters. Or letting you go.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:26 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2022 08:27 PM (ZLI7S)
It may also have had a religious significance.
in fairness, whatever it was nobody just gave it to the kids to play with.
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:27 PM (oW0CQ)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 27, 2022 08:27 PM (PiwSw)
I see Joe Manchin decided to buckle like a cheap belt while I was working.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop
He wants you to work harder.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2022 08:27 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: confederatefifth
What?! It contained the greatest love story ever told.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 27, 2022 08:27 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 27, 2022 08:28 PM (lz5hY)
Posted by: Splunge at July 27, 2022 08:28 PM (cm/80)
https://tinyurl.com/mpe5tv2w
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 27, 2022 08:28 PM (RU4sa)
Mars Rover was a simple calculation failure. One of the first things I learned was to make sure the units were correct. Someone forgot that. Maybe it was systematic in the fact that no one checked the work. Challenger was more systematic, really more a management failure, but engineers still took the blame. Which anyone entering the field is/should be taught in Eng 101, but they usually learn it after they get the 95% useless paper and get a real job.
Posted by: Mookie at July 27, 2022 08:28 PM (u+Y3T)
Posted by: Infidel at July 27, 2022 08:08 PM (mn1Pi)
Tacoma Narrows(?) Galloping Gurdy?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 27, 2022 08:09 PM (diceA)
Galloping Gertie. A Cocker Spaniel, named Tubby, was lost in the collapse, because his owner abandoned him when he lost control of the car in the final wind crisis. The replacement bridge, known as Sturdy Gertie, is still in place, along with an even stronger bridge built to handle traffic moving in the opposite direction.
Posted by: HTL at July 27, 2022 08:28 PM (meAg6)
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:25 PM
A strategy I'll be forever appreciative of.
Posted by: B. Hussein Obama, Esq. at July 27, 2022 08:28 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:27 PM (oW0CQ)
Nobody gives the kids the real fun stuff.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:28 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:23 PM (oW0CQ)
Who doesn't love watered down Madam Blavatsky confabulation.
I mean, Atlantis, and the diaspora of all knowledge to everywhere but Greece, Persia and Rome!
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 08:29 PM (xhaym)
yeesh, rather just stay home
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:29 PM (oW0CQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 08:29 PM (6HZ10)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 27, 2022 08:29 PM (diceA)
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at July 27, 2022 08:30 PM (8xlOh)
That is the meaning of "mean" in mean time terminology, like the old Greenwich Mean Time. That means a solar day defined by the mean sun there.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 27, 2022 08:30 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 27, 2022 08:28 PM (lz5hY)
"just how many flintlock muskets does this dude even HAVE"
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:30 PM (eoQWY)
When things mater, things get done.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2022 08:30 PM (BFigT)
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:30 PM (oW0CQ)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at July 27, 2022 08:30 PM (3Or4S)
Columbus actually did some pretty shitty math, arguing that the world was a lot smaller than it actually is.
If there hadn't been another continent in the way, he'd never have been heard from again.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2022 07:47 PM (bW8dp)
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And everyone would have said he fell off the edge of the Earth as predicted.
Posted by: Ciampino - smart animals prefer to scare you rather than fight at July 27, 2022 08:30 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Mookie at July 27, 2022 08:28 PM (u+Y3T)
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The Challenger situation is often used in technical writing classes as an example What Not To Do as a technical communicator. In addition to the engineering problems, there were major communication snafus that prevented The Powers That Be at the time from making the right calls.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 08:30 PM (K5n5d)
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:29 PM (oW0CQ)
You sound fun.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 27, 2022 08:30 PM (U3uv2)
this is myth
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:31 PM (oW0CQ)
Posted by: HTL at July 27, 2022 08:28 PM (meAg6)
A stronger bridge that looks totally different than the one beside it. Because WA is dum.
P. S. It looks so stupid
Posted by: 29Victor at July 27, 2022 08:31 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 27, 2022 08:31 PM (RU4sa)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at July 27, 2022 08:30 PM (3Or4S)
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Hey, now! We only drink the top-shelf Val-U-Rite!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 08:31 PM (K5n5d)
*runs, hides*
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 08:32 PM (atmen)
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:32 PM (oW0CQ)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 08:29 PM (xhaym)
The poet, the physician, The farmer, the scientist,
The magician and the other so-called Gods of our legends.
Though Gods they were
And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind
Let us rejoice
And let us sing
And dance and ring in the new Hail Atlantis!
Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be,
Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be...
Posted by: Donovan at July 27, 2022 08:32 PM (R/m4+)
And because of it, military recruitment is way down and retention's going to hell. Most of the new employees where I work now are ex-military and trend libertarian. They're bailing because woke ideology is becoming more important than warfighting.
China's already winning WWIII, and the first shot hasn't been fired yet.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at July 27, 2022 08:32 PM (Unq4t)
this is myth
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:31 PM (oW0CQ)
Indians would scare whole heards of buffalo off of cliffs to kill them.
Posted by: 29Victor at July 27, 2022 08:32 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 08:29 PM (6HZ10)
Indian hunting method was to chase the herd off a cliff. Lot more rot that way.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 08:32 PM (b2nrj)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:21 PM (eoQWY)
One of the archeologists reviewing the site of Cahokia recently reported that the "town commons" area that was thought to be a meeting and ceremonial ground now appears to have been mostly underwater as a year round wetland.
She actually came out and said that water was important to the culture, and that it might have had religious significance.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 08:32 PM (xhaym)
Yeah, talking eating birds.
Posted by: SMH
you need to give him a dayglo vest that says SMH's something or other
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:33 PM (oW0CQ)
Even better, I gathered you have tried it!
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 08:33 PM (6HZ10)
Posted by: 29Victor
THIS, is not a myth and they were savages
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:33 PM (oW0CQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 08:29 PM (6HZ10)
I am speaking of all the other large animals in the Americas, wiped out at the end of the last ice age by "climate change" as in a storm of spears and burn traps by hunters migrating in from the land bridge from Asia. Elephants, Camels, Sloths, all sorts of things wiped out.
Buffalo survived longer because without horses, the Amerinds couldn't make a go on the real Great Plains. When they got horses, they started on the Buffalo and likely would have gotten them if they'd had more than a few hundred years to work on it.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:33 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Oldcat
What? you never played with mercury balls when you were a kid?
Posted by: Infidel at July 27, 2022 08:34 PM (mn1Pi)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 08:34 PM (eGTCV)
Even better, I gathered you have tried it!
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 08:33 PM (6HZ10)
Based on your suggestion. Thank you!!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 27, 2022 08:34 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:34 PM (eC4Tv)
Posted by: Mookie at July 27, 2022 08:28 PM
Mars Rover was the result of one team using metric units, and the other using English. Both assumed the other was using their units. There are a number of (paid-for) lessons therein. The engineers should have checked. There should have been sufficient integration and system testing to discover it. The ultimate lesson is probably the first one I had drummed into me by my manager in my first real job outside of school while I was going.
**Every** time I said "assume" or "I assumed" he would interrupt with "Assume makes an ass our of you and me."
And he was right.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2022 08:34 PM (a3Q+t)
*runs, hides*
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 08:32 PM (atmen)
Might actually be a valid point.
I don't mean using women exactly, but slaves? It could have been doable.
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2022 08:35 PM (XZ6X/)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2022 08:35 PM (1Nxff)
I think much of that persists. Junior engineers are usually discouraged from speaking up. The culture in government (aka the Shuttle) is usually worse. It's like the pilots before CRM became a thing - the Captain was boss and the FO and FE were often too timid to speak up.
Posted by: Mookie at July 27, 2022 08:36 PM (u+Y3T)
Might actually be a valid point.
I don't mean using women exactly, but slaves? It could have been doable.
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2022 08:35 PM (XZ6X/)
They did have slavery.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 08:36 PM (b2nrj)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 27, 2022 08:36 PM (5HBd1)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 08:32 PM (xhaym)
My theories are as malleable as gold sheet, watch me pound them into a new shape and claim nothing has changed.
I'd known that joke for decades, and it was a regular rib on Time Team by Tony the announcer, but it is more or less true. Sure, lots of things are religious, but they do use it all the time to cover up lack of information.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:37 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 08:37 PM (atmen)
Posted by: Infidel at July 27, 2022 07:53 PM (mn1Pi)
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You'd love crossing the Apennines (Italy) going East-West and back then. I did it by bus and the driver went like there was no tomorrow.
Posted by: Ciampino - who cares, tomorrow we die - yep like that at July 27, 2022 08:37 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 27, 2022 08:38 PM (oWBc3)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 27, 2022 08:38 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 27, 2022 08:38 PM (oWBc3)
Lis boners? Lez boners?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 08:38 PM (b2nrj)
Posted by: Oldcat
If i remember right that was kind of a running gag on third rick form the sun. Dr Albright was an anthropologist and was always claiming something had religious significance.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 08:39 PM (MGB5H)
P. S. It looks so stupid
Posted by: 29Victor at July 27, 2022 08:31 PM (BJKQV)
It does look stupid. I drive it every week and it just annoys me. The new bridge is probably stronger, and is wider, but the old bridge works and I would have just built to match that. Or, for an extra billion or so, I guess they could have built bridge #2 and then just rebuilt bridge #1 to match.
Posted by: HTL at July 27, 2022 08:39 PM (meAg6)
Yep. I made a couple of assumptions in the course of my career that both made an ass out of me and bit me in mine, at the same time. Fortunately, they were early on and I learned a valuable lesson.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 27, 2022 08:39 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2022 08:39 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 27, 2022 08:38 PM (oWBc3)
BOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOINNNGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: A Lisboner at July 27, 2022 08:39 PM (q8QJ9)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 08:19 PM (6HZ10)
Rudy is indeed done. He crossed and embarrassed Justice Roberts on the FISA. But that's different than ruling in accordance with the jadrools' caterwauling over at WAPO to convict Bannon on a completely illegal procedural subpoena to get some laughs and pat on the backs at the bar. Appeals court jurist actually like to think they'll get nominated for the supreme court someday (Kenji Kunte Jackson Brown aside) and think that behaving like a legal moron isn't gonna help.
Posted by: Boswell at July 27, 2022 08:39 PM (+Cgut)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 08:40 PM (atmen)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 08:40 PM (6HZ10)
I don't mean using women exactly, but slaves? It could have been doable.
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2022 08:35 PM (XZ6X/)
The less organized tribes didn't have slavery, as they could'nt watch over them. So they either adopted you if you were young enough or a woman, or tortured you to death for fun. Singing defiant songs was big points to you while they did it.
More organized tribes did eventually have slaves - black slaves at least. I don't know if they had them before Columbus.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:40 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 08:40 PM (atmen)
Posted by: Ben Had
Allow me to introduce you to Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in Alberta.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2022 08:41 PM (IEa8U)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 08:41 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Infidel at July 27, 2022 08:34 PM (mn1Pi)
We had to break our own thermometers for that.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:41 PM (eoQWY)
What? you never played with mercury balls when you were a kid?
Posted by: Infidel
My dentist gave me a plastic bottle of waste mercury when I was a kid (60 years ago). Can't imagine anyone doing that today.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2022 08:41 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 08:39 PM (MGB5H)
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The relationship between Mary and Dick was part of why that show worked so well. Mary's a shitty anthropologist at a shitty university. Dick is an alien anthropologist pretending to be a physicist (but he's a shitty professor). Great fun all around.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 08:42 PM (K5n5d)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 08:30 PM
And foundational to that was a culture of fear where no one wanted to be the one to tell TPTB that launching was a bad idea.
I remember walking by a TV very early in the morning, and seeing a close-up of icicles on the launch vehicle, and thinking "well, that's going to scrub it". Later, I found it hard to believe they were launching, but I was cheering, in large part because I knew Ellison Onizuka.
We all know what happened next.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2022 08:43 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2022 08:41 PM (IEa8U)
Free Buffalo Guy!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 27, 2022 08:43 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 27, 2022 08:43 PM (5HBd1)
I think much of that persists. Junior engineers are usually discouraged from speaking up. The culture in government (aka the Shuttle) is usually worse. It's like the pilots before CRM became a thing - the Captain was boss and the FO and FE were often too timid to speak up.
Posted by: Mookie at July 27, 2022 08:36 PM (u+Y3T)
Nothing has changed. About 20 years ago the same Tacoma and the same WA State replaced the Hwy 16 overpass over Nalley Valley. They had two teams building it. One building from the east side of the valley and the other from the west. It was already halfway build before someone standing on the partially-constructed overpass noticed that one team was building three lanes and the other was only building two.
Posted by: 29Victor at July 27, 2022 08:43 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 08:40 PM (6HZ10)
Pretty much every river and creek bank has a bluff big enough to break a leg for a buffalo if driven off it, and kill it when more fell on top. If it doesn't its probably swampy, which will trap large animals just as well.
The creek behind my house growing up certainly did, where it was cutting through the soil.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:43 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: N.L. Urker
I've often thought that it would be nice to work in a liquor store in my area. The staff at the ones I go to always seem so chill. Prolly not in the big city, though.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 27, 2022 08:44 PM (ftFVW)
Gay Sex is Safe Sex!
Gay Sex is Protected Sex!
Posted by: The CDC at July 27, 2022 08:44 PM (6THwK)
Posted by: 29Victor at July 27, 2022 08:43 PM (BJKQV)
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Ladies and gentlemen! Your highway tax dollars at work!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 08:45 PM (K5n5d)
" Beans is safer, I like my scalp".
Two old cavalrymen in "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" viewing a buffalo herd.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 27, 2022 08:45 PM (lz5hY)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 27, 2022 08:43 PM
Thank you
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 08:45 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Did the local firemen give you asbestos to throw in the air like confetti?
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 27, 2022 08:45 PM (ftFVW)
Drive to the merge point, dammit!!!
Posted by: Mookie at July 27, 2022 08:46 PM (u+Y3T)
Mike Lindell is selling coffee now, I just saw. My Coffee, the richest, most flavorful coffee you'll ever taste! Certified organic and non-GMO. My Cofffee.
You can spill My Coffee on My Pillow and clean it up with My Towel.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 27, 2022 08:46 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2022 08:46 PM (63Dwl)
>Shit, man, there were cliffs on every rez. Get with the program, 'cause killin' bison is like riding high speed rails.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 27, 2022 08:46 PM (0ocXn)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 08:46 PM (atmen)
Posted by: Joe Manchin at July 27, 2022 08:47 PM (cm/80)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 08:47 PM (6HZ10)
Posted by: Infidel at July 27, 2022 08:34 PM (mn1Pi)
We had to break our own thermometers for that.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:41 PM (eoQWY)
As a ute, my older brother asked the Old Man why didn't they put a big ball of mercury in ships and roll them back and forth to propel the ship along as he played with some in the garage.
The Old Man told him that was the stupidest thing he ever heard and to try and not be a dumb ass.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 27, 2022 08:47 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 08:29 PM (6HZ10)
This is not historically or archeologically correct.
However, I think you are talking about the megafauna die-off during the lower Dryas glaciation. (archeologist have massive cognative dissonance in that the Paleo and Pre-Columbian Indians were good and decent
Personally I would love to have wild horses native to the Americas, because that would mean the survival of some of the Litopterns, Gomphotheres and the Giant Sloths
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 08:47 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: HTL at July 27, 2022 08:39 PM (meAg6)
I've heard that the new bridge is supposed to look like Gertie, as a tribute or something. I don't know if that's accurate but it sounds dumb enough to be true.
Posted by: 29Victor at July 27, 2022 08:47 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 27, 2022 08:48 PM (5HBd1)
Buffalo gals go round the outside, round the outside, round the outside...
Posted by: Mookie at July 27, 2022 08:49 PM (u+Y3T)
Management: below 32? So 32 is fine? Its probably fine. No need to ask.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:49 PM (eC4Tv)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 27, 2022 08:38 PM (oWBc3)
Lis boners? Lez boners?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 08:38 PM (b2nrj)
Liz boners. Is that so hard to understand? It's a bit of family history best forgotten.
Posted by: Liz Cheney at July 27, 2022 08:49 PM (cm/80)
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Dumbass honkey miscalculating motherf*cker.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:50 PM (e0y0z)
I think it was a die off due to a series of meteorite hits massively affecting the local climates and kicking off a second glaciation
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 08:50 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Ben Had
Also, from an ecologic standpoint that could be perfectly true and still the burden of the efficient hunting and quick breeding of men could put a continuous stress on large animals. If the population goes down, you learn better techniques. And instead of dying down when the prey drops like animals might, you start growing crops, harvesting berries and hunt as well, keeping the pressure on.
Even our modern ecologists make horrid miscalculations introducing new plants/animals. I don't expect someone trying to survive without knowledge to do better.
What saved some large animals was domestication, at least in Eurasia.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:50 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 27, 2022 08:28 PM (lz5hY)
Legend had it that crows could tell whether you had a shotgun or a rifle and would keep just out of range.
Posted by: Javems at July 27, 2022 08:50 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 27, 2022 08:50 PM (lz5hY)
Posted by: Ben Had
Shit we got turner falls and the arbuckle and the whichitas and the ouachita and the glass and kiamchi. Lots of things to runs animals off of.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 08:50 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 08:50 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Mookie
Trailer park girls won't you come out tonight.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 27, 2022 08:50 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 08:50 PM (atmen)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:51 PM (eC4Tv)
https://tinyurl.com/mryt9kfp
Looks like Oberlin is still doing everything they can to destroy them.
Posted by: A Lisboner at July 27, 2022 08:51 PM (q8QJ9)
Posted by: Infidel at July 27, 2022 08:34 PM (mn1Pi)
I played with Jupiter's. Close enough?
Posted by: Ganymede at July 27, 2022 08:51 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 08:51 PM (6HZ10)
Posted by: Roger Miller at July 27, 2022 08:52 PM (63Dwl)
Also Management: Damn engineers always add too many factors of safety. I'm sure it's good down to 20.
Posted by: Mookie at July 27, 2022 08:52 PM (u+Y3T)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:49 PM
I thought you were a Doctor, not an Engineer.
How do you know Engineering Management so well, Bones?
Posted by: James T. Kirk, Captain, UFP at July 27, 2022 08:53 PM (a3Q+t)
this is myth
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 27, 2022 08:31 PM (oW0CQ)
I mean, there was a drive in the 1880s to kill the buffalo herds to deprive the plains Indians of their food and force them onto the reservations. On the other hand, the reason for that were all the settlers being killed.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 08:53 PM (xhaym)
I think it was a die off due to a series of meteorite hits massively affecting the local climates and kicking off a second glaciation
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 08:50 PM (xhaym)
Didn't kill the naked Amerindians tho.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:53 PM (eoQWY)
Management: below 32? So 32 is fine? Its probably fine. No need to ask.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
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Allow me a demonstration that even Congressmen can understand...
Posted by: Richard Feynman at July 27, 2022 08:54 PM (4E7Sa)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:51 PM (eC4Tv)
Dude...stop giving them ideas.
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2022 08:55 PM (q8QJ9)
Gay Sex is Safe Sex!
Gay Sex is Protected Sex!
Posted by: The CDC at July 27, 2022 08:44 PM (6THwK)
What about a trans-woman with a trans-man?
Posted by: Javems at July 27, 2022 08:55 PM (AmoqO)
I think it was a die off due to a series of meteorite hits massively affecting the local climates and kicking off a second glaciation
Posted by: Kindltot
But what about the Adkins-indians?
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 08:55 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 08:34 PM (eGTCV)
Good luck!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 27, 2022 08:55 PM (gbzeC)
Posted by: Roger Miller at July 27, 2022 08:52 PM
You can if you have a brand new key.
Posted by: Melanie at July 27, 2022 08:55 PM (a3Q+t)
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Ritual!
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 08:55 PM (yikp0)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 27, 2022 08:55 PM (oWBc3)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 08:51 PM (6HZ10)
a 1500 pound buffalo would leave a damn crater off a 30 foot cliff. Not to mention 4 broken legs
And they have actually found ancient hunting drive kill sites and excavated them, so something killed a mess of buffalo.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:56 PM (eoQWY)
I think it was a die off due to a series of meteorite hits massively affecting the local climates and kicking off a second glaciation
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 08:50 PM (xhaym)
Didn't kill the naked Amerindians tho.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:53 PM (eoQWY)
Or the buffalo.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 08:56 PM (b2nrj)
Posted by: Richard Feynman at July 27, 2022 08:54 PM (4E7Sa)
Exactly. Only a tiny subset of geniuses know how to talk to idiots, and he was one of the few.
Posted by: Splunge at July 27, 2022 08:56 PM (cm/80)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:56 PM (eoQWY)
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Mega-lemmings chased them off the cliffs...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 08:57 PM (K5n5d)
Posted by: redridinghood at July 27, 2022 08:17 PM (NpAcC)
I wonder how often landslides and rockslides happen there
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 27, 2022 08:57 PM (gbzeC)
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2022 08:57 PM (q8QJ9)
Gay Sex is Protected Sex!
Posted by: The CDC
What about a trans-woman with a trans-man?
Posted by: Javems
Well, you know, it's Gay Sex. So not the front hole.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 27, 2022 08:57 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Richard Feynman at July 27, 2022 08:54 PM
If you've read that story, it's clear how the manipulated the situation so that Dr. Feynman would be the court jester who could speak truth to power.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2022 08:58 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 08:58 PM (6HZ10)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:56 PM (eoQWY)
Toxic farts from an ancestor of Eric Swallwell?
Posted by: Splunge at July 27, 2022 08:58 PM (cm/80)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 08:58 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Kindltot
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No one talks about the truces they broke and how they did it.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2022 08:58 PM (Ui1jv)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 27, 2022 08:58 PM (lz5hY)
Posted by: Candiru at July 27, 2022 08:58 PM (a3Q+t)
Why would anybody make it a habit to drive their food off of a cliff?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 27, 2022 08:59 PM (0ocXn)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 08:59 PM (b2nrj)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 08:59 PM (atmen)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 08:59 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: HTL at July 27, 2022 08:39 PM (meAg6)
I've heard that the new bridge is supposed to look like Gertie, as a tribute or something. I don't know if that's accurate but it sounds dumb enough to be true.
Posted by: 29Victor at July 27, 2022 08:47 PM (BJKQV)
The new bridge looks like an updated imitation of the replacement for the original. Let's call Galloping Gertie #1. The replacement #2. And the expanded bridge #3. So #3 was built to sort of look like #2 which was built to sort of look like #1.
All I can say is that #2 has been standing for about 72 years without incident, so I guess the new base structure is sound.
Posted by: HTL at July 27, 2022 08:59 PM (meAg6)
*
We will look back on these days with fondness.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 09:00 PM (e0y0z)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2022 09:00 PM (Ui1jv)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 27, 2022 08:59 PM (0ocXn)
Ask McDonald's. They stopped cooking their fries in beef tallow.
Posted by: Splunge at July 27, 2022 09:00 PM (cm/80)
Posted by: Ben Had
I don't know nothing bout know buffalo, just saying we do have some tall shit
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 09:00 PM (MGB5H)
Why would anybody make it a habit to drive their food off of a cliff?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 27, 2022 08:59 PM (0ocXn)
Weapon availability was primitive and you don't have much in the way of alternatives. Better than the limited small game available.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 09:00 PM (b2nrj)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 09:01 PM (b2nrj)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 27, 2022 09:01 PM (5HBd1)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 09:01 PM (eGTCV)
But they could have made immediately made peace with an obvious superior force that actually would have made peace if approached, worked out land usage and representation in government, joined forces as it were, and helped their tribes immensely. But pre-BC behavior always gets in the way of thinking beyond next week - and the tribes today still suffer. The casino idea is actually quite good for them. Its helped resurrect them.
Posted by: Boswell at July 27, 2022 09:01 PM (+Cgut)
Posted by: A Lisboner at July 27, 2022 08:51 PM
Oberlin and all its works can get fucked by the barbed cock of Satan.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2022 09:02 PM (RkC6l)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 27, 2022 08:59 PM
Simple. They were assisting in their transitioning; in this case from bison at the top of the cliff to food at the bottom.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2022 09:02 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Boswell at July 27, 2022 09:01 PM (+Cgut)
Even better for them if Biden succeeds in his quest to remove 90+% of the nicotine from cigarettes.
Posted by: Splunge at July 27, 2022 09:03 PM (cm/80)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy -
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If these Gaia lovers really had a brain or cared they wouldn't over tax our food supply.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2022 09:03 PM (Ui1jv)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 09:03 PM (atmen)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:40 PM (eoQWY)
Most of the Northwest tribes had slaves, and slaving was normal for the Creek and other Eastern tribes.
Daniel Boone was held that way for a while, and a number of sailors who wrecked on the Pacific coast wound up slaves too.
Slaves are a good thing to have when your economy is run on Dentalia shells, salmon and bear grease, because someone has to harvest salmon and bears and sea critters, and your labor force is your women who have other duties as well.
There are a lot of studies (from before our time) that considered the economic value of slavery in history.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 09:03 PM (xhaym)
Management: below 32? So 32 is fine? Its probably fine. No need to ask.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:49 PM (eC4Tv)
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Management wants things to hold together long enough so that they'll be promoted before the SHTF.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2022 09:03 PM (1Nxff)
Mr. Feynman's famous ice water demonstration:
https://tinyurl.com/236bdtp7
And he indeed later realized that some of the NASA engineers knew what the problem was, and made sure he would look at the seals and temperature. They were afraid to buck their superiors, but made sure he would discover it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 27, 2022 09:03 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 09:04 PM (6HZ10)
Posted by: Javems
Well, you know, it's Gay Sex. So not the front hole.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 27, 2022 08:57 PM (ftFVW)
I still get confused with who is what. Good thing I'm not in the dating scene anymore.
Posted by: Javems at July 27, 2022 09:04 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 27, 2022 08:59 PM (0ocXn)
Here, have a spear and go stab that buffalo to death.
I will wait over there on the bluff, besides that really tall tree.
(My neice's daughter got a buck on a salvage tag last year, it was pretty tasty)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 09:05 PM (xhaym)
Humans probably had half of their work done for them by fucking monster wolves alone.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 27, 2022 09:05 PM (0ocXn)
But they could have made immediately made peace with an obvious superior force that actually would have made peace if approached, worked out land usage and representation in government, joined forces as it were, and helped their tribes immensely. But pre-BC behavior always gets in the way of thinking beyond next week - and the tribes today still suffer. The casino idea is actually quite good for them. Its helped resurrect them.
Posted by: Boswell at July 27, 2022 09:01 PM (+Cgut)
While the Indians had more primitive tech and society than 500 BC, their diplomacy wasn't particularly dumb. Their relatively decentralized set up in North America and looser cultural standards regarding conflict meant they got into wars not always of the intention of leadership.
Comparatively, the more organized and sedantary natives in South America and Mexico essentially had more of a change in management when the Spanish arrived.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 09:05 PM (b2nrj)
Posted by: Clutch at July 27, 2022 09:06 PM (9UmRs)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 09:06 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 27, 2022 09:07 PM (5HBd1)
Europeans are accused of genocide of Indians, but most Indians were dead from disease long before they saw a European.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2022 09:07 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Javems at
First date-
Hi it's nice to meet you. Do you now or have you ever had a penis?
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 09:07 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2022 09:07 PM (BFigT)
Posted by: N.L. Urker
The hard part is keeping them in an enclosure of any type. Barbed wire is a mere suggestion to them.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2022 09:07 PM (6WCwE)
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 27, 2022 09:08 PM (YglAn)
Posted by: Miss Issippi at July 27, 2022 09:08 PM (zjVy3)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 09:08 PM (6HZ10)
I spent 5 days in Kauai years ago and they did not take that stuff lightly.
IIRC, the fine could be as high as 25k.
Personally witnessed the locals yelling and taking pics of some lady who got too close to some nesting birds just to take pics in violation of clearly posted signs.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at July 27, 2022 09:09 PM (8xlOh)
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 27, 2022 09:10 PM (YglAn)
The hard part is keeping them in an enclosure of any type. Barbed wire is a mere suggestion to them.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2022 09:07 PM (6WCwE)
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"Buffalo-Free Zone" signs. That ought to stop them
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2022 09:10 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Mookie at July 27, 2022 09:10 PM (u+Y3T)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 09:10 PM (atmen)
Posted by: Miss Issippi at July 27, 2022 09:10 PM (zjVy3)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 09:06 PM
Aside from certain factors, such as being more osterperous and cantankerous than cattle and needing much stronger and robust fencing (if a bison can get its nose over or under a fence, it will get everything over or under, assuming it can't just 'punch' through).
Basically the bison ranchers I know say "You can make a bison do anything it wants to do."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2022 09:11 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 07:45 PM (MGB5H)
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As a younger man I'd have been all over that ride. Now I'd be sick as a dog inn less that 10 seconds. Woof
Posted by: 496 at July 27, 2022 09:11 PM (U1eOr)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 09:11 PM (6HZ10)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 08:47 PM (6HZ10)
Look up "buffalo jump" and see where they are at in the US, generally that is where that sort of thing went on.
The open plains did need horses to build a buffalo hunting culture. There was no way to box them in or surround them quickly. I think the Sioux or another tribe (can't remember) appear to be an Eastern group that adopted horses and buffalo hunting when the moved to the plains and abandoned agriculture.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 09:13 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 09:13 PM (atmen)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 27, 2022 09:13 PM (lz5hY)
Posted by: Javems at July 27, 2022 09:13 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: Eratosthenes at July 27, 2022 09:13 PM (/NCI4)
Add in the massive guaranteed contracts and it's no wonder more and more are making the switch.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 09:14 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 09:14 PM (atmen)
Posted by: Miss Issippi at July 27, 2022 09:10 PM (zjVy3)
Hmm I guess I have been going to the wrong barbecue.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2022 09:15 PM (VwHCD)
Pigs with fur
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 27, 2022 09:10 PM (YglAn)
Idk. Pigs are smart. And mean.
Posted by: Ganymede at July 27, 2022 09:15 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 09:13 PM (xhaym)
I thin the Comanche were the quickest to adopt a horse culture.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 09:15 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 09:15 PM (6HZ10)
Posted by: California - still looking for water at July 27, 2022 09:15 PM (U1eOr)
Posted by: Eratosthenes
The significance of sticks is a construct of the patriarchy.
Posted by: Gender Studies Professor at July 27, 2022 09:15 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 27, 2022 09:15 PM (5HBd1)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2022 09:15 PM (BFigT)
Posted by: Javems at July 27, 2022 09:13 PM (AmoqO)
They were just painting with all the colors of the wind.
Posted by: Ganymede at July 27, 2022 09:16 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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Obligatory Dark Side cartoon, laterally relevant:
https://tinyurl.com/4w9tr9fm
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2022 09:16 PM (FJCnW)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 08:53 PM (eoQWY)
Ancestors came across Beringia and had fire and dogs.
Also, they could live on fish and prairie dogs.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 09:16 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 09:17 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2022 08:39 PM (OTzUX)
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Similarly but not quite: people from Glasgow are Glaswegians.
Posted by: Ciampino - what is a person from Cairo? at July 27, 2022 09:17 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 09:17 PM (atmen)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 27, 2022 09:17 PM (5HBd1)
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at July 27, 2022 09:18 PM (8xlOh)
Posted by: N.L. Urker
Dollars to donuts it was a drunk dude.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 09:18 PM (MGB5H)
Tyler Carditis @TyCardon; 1h
Bizarre that the State Department rented out a five-story upper East Side mansion to Jeffrey Epstein from 1992 to 1996. Does the State Department rent out property to private citizens often? Seems weird.
https://nitter.net/TyCardon/status/
1552445995396767744#m
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 09:18 PM (yikp0)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
Handcuffed together. Wearing only tee-shirts. Slathered in baked beans.
What? We can all have our own dream.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2022 09:19 PM (6WCwE)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 27, 2022 09:19 PM (/NCI4)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 09:17 PM (eGTCV)
Somebody who was late, or tired of walking.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2022 09:19 PM (VwHCD)
Dollars to donuts it was a drunk dude.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 09:18 PM (MGB5H)
__________
"Hold my mead and watch this!"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2022 09:20 PM (1Nxff)
It's kind of interesting that most people associate Indians, feather, with the west when some of the most vicious and deadly Indian/settler wars took place in the east.
King Philip's War almost ended the colonies before the country was founded. No buffalos were harmed.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2022 09:20 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Ben Had
Thanks Ben Had. Ill tell em you said hi, pops is actually coming up for a few weeks tomorrow.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 09:20 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: N.L. Urker
Dollars to donuts it was a drunk dude.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 09:18 PM (MGB5H)
I would say florida man, but horses weren't native to the US
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2022 09:20 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2022 09:21 PM (63Dwl)
Check out albino orphan elephant Khanyisa at HERD Elephant Orphanage South Africa on yootoob. (She was found in 2020 cut up badly by razor sharp snares that poachers set up to trap elephants.)
The hoomans go walking around with a herd of elephants every day, filming it so you get the whole "you are there" experience.
Posted by: JuJuBee at July 27, 2022 09:21 PM (WL1q5)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 09:17 PM (eGTCV)
I wonder who got the bright idea to start sucking on cow titty.
I've got a nagging suspicion it was a perverse bet between two cavemen.
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2022 09:21 PM (WP6j0)
Posted by: N.L. Urker
Lady Godiva?
Since she rode side-saddle, I'm pretty certain I know the origin of the cheer "Hurrah for our side!"
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2022 09:22 PM (6WCwE)
Posted by: 29Victor at July 27, 2022 09:22 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 09:23 PM (eGTCV)
Since she rode side-saddle, I'm pretty certain I know the origin of the cheer "Hurrah for our side!"
Posted by: Tonypete
Catherine the great rode it in a different kind of saddle.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 09:23 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Birddog at July 27, 2022 09:23 PM (uAI4S)
Posted by: 29Victor at July 27, 2022 09:24 PM (BJKQV)
Marvel Phase 5: The Sludge Must Flow
https://tinyurl.com/2p85zxch
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2022 09:24 PM (onj90)
Posted by: Iris at July 27, 2022 09:26 PM (foa6+)
Posted by: Iris
That's not a kitty...
Posted by: She Hobbit (look at the cute piglet) at July 27, 2022 09:27 PM (ftFVW)
"Bellerophon was the first who mounted the horse;bridles and saddles for the horse were invented by Pelethronius. The Thessalians, who are called Centauri, and who dwell along Mount Pelion, were the first to fight on horse-back. The people of Phrygia were the first who used chariots with two horses; Erichthonius first used four."
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2022 09:27 PM (sn5EN)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 09:27 PM (6HZ10)
Posted by: Javems at July 27, 2022 09:27 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 09:28 PM (eGTCV)
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Actually, it's a piglet!
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 09:28 PM (yikp0)
The critters aren't coming back and the claimed villains are dead and even their kids are gone and buried.
The Archeologists that focus on that period act like to discuss it is like the mainstream church's attitude about Traditional Mass, and if you ever heard someone start screaming about micro-diamonds and whether the Pilauco carbon layer has anything to do with anything but climate change, well, you may one day be in for a treat
I have seen arguments for and against, I like the meteorite proposal, but the over-hunting is interesting too, my problem is that population levels of the paleo-indians seem low for that much effect.
My two bits.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 09:28 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 27, 2022 09:28 PM (5HBd1)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 09:23 PM (eGTCV)
Originally, horses were much smaller than they are currently. They were good for pulling chariots though, but chariots were used for bringing fighters into battle more quickly or as a platform for archers. You couldn't ride a horse and fight without stirrups, which weren't invented until the first century BC. The Chinese later came out with a better model that Europeans adopted.
Posted by: 29Victor at July 27, 2022 09:29 PM (BJKQV)
Ace, can we get a ruling from the judges here?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 09:29 PM (atmen)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 09:29 PM (atmen)
Thou hast sinned greatly against the LORD! Thou shalt be cast into the burning eternal fires of HELL!
Posted by: Judges at July 27, 2022 09:32 PM (WP6j0)
Marvel Phase 5: The Sludge Must Flow
https://tinyurl.com/2p85zxch
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2022 09:24 PM (onj90)
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Yep. I watched that earlier. Disney (and other streaming platforms) have a bit of a problem when it comes to content. The law of diminishing returns is really starting to catch up to them. They just push out crap and hope enough people are suckered into watching the spectacle through monthly subscription fees. The shows are bland, meaningless pap.
Reminds me of the content pumped into houses in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, actually.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 09:33 PM (K5n5d)
Posted by: Ciampino - what is a person from Cairo? at July 27, 2022 09:17 PM
People from AoSHQ are Morons.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2022 09:33 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: 29Victor at July 27, 2022 09:29 PM (BJKQV)
You could fight from horseback without stirrups, though they're helpful.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 09:33 PM (b2nrj)
Posted by: 29Victor at July 27, 2022 09:29 PM
The Mongolian horses were small I believe.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 09:34 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 09:34 PM (atmen)
My two bits.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 09:28 PM (xhaym)
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Until someone finally invents a T.A.R.D.I.S. and we can go back in time to find out what actually happened, a lot of our suppositions and hypotheses are just a form of mental masturbation.
Interesting thought experiments, but largely unfulfilling in the long run until we have more definitive evidence...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 09:35 PM (K5n5d)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Did the local firemen give you asbestos to throw in the air like confetti?
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 27, 2022 08:45 PM (ftFVW)
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It's only blue asbestos that is bad, not all of it. Today that word is considered dirty.
Posted by: Ciampino - the hazard of mercury metal is exaggerated at July 27, 2022 09:35 PM (qfLjt)
Wasn't a big need here in the east. Narragansett Bay is named for the Narragansett tribe that lived all around the bay and had a relatively stable society that thrived on hunting, fishing and raising crops, mainly maze or what you white people call "corn". They made the tragic mistake of showing white people how to survive in the new world instead of building a wall.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2022 09:36 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 27, 2022 09:36 PM (jTmQV)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 09:36 PM (6HZ10)
The Mongolian horses were small I believe.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 09:34 PM (eGTCV)
Steppe horses, stocky and with stamina. The large and heavy chargers that were bred for knight charges tire easily by comparison.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 09:36 PM (b2nrj)
Posted by: California - still looking for water at July 27, 2022 09:15 PM (U1eOr)
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It's over by that dude in the black armor.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 27, 2022 09:37 PM (CAJOC)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
I saw Brad Pitt do that in Troy.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 09:37 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 09:34 PM (eGTCV)
Still are.
Posted by: Javems at July 27, 2022 09:38 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: JackStraw
I like their cheap beer.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 09:38 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 27, 2022 09:39 PM (jTmQV)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 09:34 PM (atmen)
The earliest chariots were basically four-wheeled carts, which turned like absolute shit. Useless as anything but transport or a semi-mobile archery platform.
It wasn't until the two-wheeled chariot came into play that they became the kings of the battlefield.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at July 27, 2022 09:40 PM (Unq4t)
Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 27, 2022 09:40 PM (vcv8B)
Posted by: JackStraw
ISWYD
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2022 09:40 PM (onj90)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2022 09:40 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Cato
They could have used them as battering rams, if they'd put the cart before the horse.
Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2022 09:41 PM (P1f+c)
Posted by: JackStraw
Hah not anymore, but for a time. But I still like their cheap beer.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 09:41 PM (MGB5H)
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Tell that to the Comanche.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2022 09:46 PM (Ui1jv)
Posted by: Javems at July 27, 2022 09:46 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 09:47 PM (6HZ10)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 09:17 PM (eGTCV)
Bored pre-Yamnaia kid, out tending the herds. The horses were herded as meat animals.
When I was a little kids, we would go over to the Dierdorfs and try to ride on the sheep, until Mrs Dierdorf told us to quit since the sheep would panic and run to hid under the house where the foundation was being repaired.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 09:47 PM (xhaym)
Do it. You know you want to and we would find it most interesting.
Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2022 09:47 PM (gLRfa)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, A Pox on Your Minkey at July 27, 2022 09:47 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2022 09:48 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
Find it hard to believe they dont have the votes in the house.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 09:51 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 09:51 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 09:51 PM (atmen)
That's actually Narragansett beer's tag line. Walk into any liquor store around here and you will see the Hi Neighbor! signs.
Rumor going around that everyone in RI knows is no more than 2 degrees of separation from anyone else so we are all kind of neighbors. Might be related. Guy who lives down the street only has one eye in the center of his head. Could be just a coincidence.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2022 09:51 PM (ZLI7S)
Looks like Adam Kinzinger is pulling his pud due to lack of testosterone.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 27, 2022 09:52 PM (/NCI4)
Posted by: BruceWayne
I'd sooner believe she was pulling it to add more restrictions and indignities.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 27, 2022 09:52 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: N.L. Urker
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My uncle tried that. Did it exactly like the movies; bounded and coming up, placed hands on horse's rump, horse takes one step forward, uncle's face in dirt.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2022 09:54 PM (Ui1jv)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 09:54 PM (6HZ10)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 27, 2022 09:54 PM (ybIRR)
Asked if she has a message for the lawmaker, Julianna said it would be, "Something along the lines of, 'Why are you concerned with what a teenager looks like, you creep?'"
I am not just some teenager, OMG I am just a teenager!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 09:54 PM (eC4Tv)
America, "The Rebublic" as was created, is about to be destroyed by Marxists who have ensconced themselves so deeply into the Democrate party, that there may be no other way to remove them without a 2nd Civil War.
Mid-Terms and 2024 aside. The Republic lives or dies in the next months...not years.
Sleep on that Horde...sleep on that.
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 27, 2022 09:54 PM (J00IM)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 09:55 PM (eC4Tv)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 09:54 PM (6HZ10)
I cannot wait to meet you in October.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, A Pox on Your Minkey at July 27, 2022 09:56 PM (x8Wzq)
Bizarre that the State Department rented out a five-story upper East Side mansion to Jeffrey Epstein from 1992 to 1996. Does the State Department rent out property to private citizens often? Seems weird.
https://nitter.net/TyCardon/status/
1552445995396767744#m
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 09:18 PM (yikp0)
Why does State own a mansion anywhere? They can stay at hotels and boost the economy instead. NO, instead they have to rent it to criminals to do crimes.
Toss anyone involved in that into jail.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 09:57 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 09:57 PM (eC4Tv)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, A Pox on Your Minkey at July 27, 2022 09:57 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: JackStraw
Thats funny. It took me, no lie, like 7 months of living up that way to finally be able to pronounce that name properly at the bar to get a beer.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 09:58 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Nightwatch
Ah, Sleep, perchance to dream of rumbling across the wasteland with Mad Max.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 27, 2022 09:58 PM (ftFVW)
And the first time I read this I was imagining a pug throwing a horse to the ground.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 09:59 PM (eC4Tv)
Posted by: She Hobbit
What about Chris Hemsworth's version of Imorton Joe?
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 09:59 PM (MGB5H)
I decided that when you get to hell, you are really hungry and they give you beautiful food.
But it's in tamper proof packaging and you get to try to open it for eternity.
And then you get raped by the devil.
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2022 10:00 PM (onj90)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2022 10:01 PM (StBu4)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 10:01 PM (atmen)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 09:59 PM (eC4Tv)
Pugs got drunkard strength, and a fuckitall attitude.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, A Pox on Your Minkey at July 27, 2022 10:01 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2022 10:01 PM (onj90)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 27, 2022 09:34 PM (eGTCV)
Still are.
Posted by: Javems at July 27, 2022 09:38 PM (AmoqO)
All the proto horses were smaller before domestication, hence the need for chariots in the early days before horses were bred up to be able to carry an armored man all day without breaking down.
Once that worked horse troops were a lot more flexible and useful in rough terrain. Still not as good as light infantry with ranged weapons there, but with chariots it was impossible.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 10:01 PM (eoQWY)
Roof top deck at the Coast Guard House in Narragansett. Drinking a Gansett or 6 and eating from the raw bar.
Summer is good.
https://thecoastguardhouse.com
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2022 10:02 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2022 10:02 PM (6HZ10)
Posted by: BruceWayne
Oh that gives me the sads.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 27, 2022 10:02 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, A Pox on Your Minkey at July 27, 2022 09:56 PM (x8Wzq)
If I may be so bold, you will be surprised.
Posted by: Javems at July 27, 2022 10:03 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: She Hobbit
It MIGHT not be true. But it almost most certainly is sure to be.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 10:03 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: JackStraw
Thats funny. It took me, no lie, like 7 months of living up that way to finally be able to pronounce that name properly at the bar to get a beer.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 09:58 PM (MGB5H)
Could be the Innsmouth look, flatfish version.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 10:04 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: BruceWayne
Could explain how he starts the harem.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 27, 2022 10:04 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 09:34 PM (atmen)
In the civil war, nearly all the time the cavalry was in serious action they sent one man in 4 off with 4 horses, and three men fell in line to hold the area. With repeaters or breechloading carbines, they could do serious damage to regular infantry, at least for a while.
You really can't do much damage on a horse with a gun - bad seat, horse moves oddly, and with a saber its even worse. It was a lot worse trying to take on an armored man with a sword.
And it is very hard to really charge a line of men with a horse. They are smart enough to stop if they see a large obstacle like formed troops. Only if they run before you get there do you have a chance
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 10:09 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 27, 2022 10:11 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 09:33 PM (b2nrj)
There's a story that in the first battle between the Romans and Hannibal in North Italy it started with a cavalry clash for some time, and every single man in the fight on both sides was unhorsed before it was over.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 10:12 PM (eoQWY)
In that configuration they are quite handy and turned well, where a cart of that period was not.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 10:13 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2022 08:50 PM (xhaym)
When I was in grad school there was a huge fad to try and explain every single aspect of mass extinctions and global changes by meteors. This was only a few years after they really demonstrated that *any* were by finally showing the KT boundary was meteoric in origin.
So I have a very jaundiced view - I mean there have been times when much of Washington/Oregon/Idaho area was getting a mile of lava on top of it and it was still "meteor or nothing"
Similarly, I have heard lots of documentaries talking about these extinctions, when men arrived and looking for all sorts of obscure climate/parasites/disease vectors to explain the death of large animals in that plains area and not moose in the north woods or deer in the midwest and somehow never mention that men could do the job. After all, we know they did it on all the other continents pretty much too.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2022 10:19 PM (eoQWY)
They checked for a dick?
Posted by: SamIam at July 27, 2022 10:43 PM (oasF3)
Posted by: Redwine at July 27, 2022 11:12 PM (ODhUG)
Posted by: Sarah at July 27, 2022 11:44 PM (62ADx)
even a blog from start to end.
Posted by: Coconut charcoal from Indonesia at August 04, 2022 10:16 PM (kwCCc)
you're talking about! Thanks
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