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Baby Lizards Cafe

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A peacock soul is "called home."
Actually it's an albino peacock, of course.

Dog and cat watching TV LIKE A BOSS.

Heavy Medieval war arrows versus plate armor, which arrows could supposedly pierce. But can they? I've heard that when fully plate-armored knights were killed by arrows, it was usually due to the arrows hitting their horse, which then took a tumble and wound up crushing them.

There's a rule that all baby animals are cute. Is the rule always true? Well, here's a baby cobra just coming out of its shell. Is it cute? (Yes, kind of!)

Here's a baby turtle coming out of its egg. Is it cute? Yes of course it is, it's a baby turtle.

I'm helping!

Well dog my cat!

America still leads the world in cat-bothering technology.

Old, but: everyone loves beavers.

"I think I'm getting away with it, I'm blending in perfectly...!"

Don't poke the porcupine. Everyone knows that.

Penguin athleticism.

I just decided on a new career -- Myna Wrangler. Easy Street, here I come...!

The most important advice I can give you regarding the training of a monkey to use a wooden sword: Don't train a monkey to use a wooden sword. And giving a chimp an AK is right out!

The Infiltrator.

Smol.

Gymnastic robbery.

Sound on. Dogs just want to help, in their own way.

Delinquent Ducks:

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ducksinsquadcar.jpg

The last time I saw a desk like this, it had a clue to the location of El Dorado in it.

National Treasure 2: The Book of Secrets reference, anyone? No? Just saw the first one, I guess? Posers!


This orangutan agrees with Nurse Ratched:


egyptianfruitbat.jpg
Egyptian fruit bat says "Hi there!"

Posted by: Ace at 07:43 PM




Comments

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1 Hope everyone is having a great evening

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2023 07:43 PM (xhxe8)

2 That little turtle, hello world! Well, maybe not, well maybe?

Posted by: Piper at April 21, 2023 07:45 PM (ZdaMQ)

3 I could have been first but hesitated because I questioned the quality of my comment. I have pretty high standards.

Posted by: fd at April 21, 2023 07:45 PM (iayUP)

4 That avalanche was awesome

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2023 07:46 PM (xhxe8)

5 My friend Down Under has a wild peacock that wanders her neighborhood.

They look cool, but they squawk and crap everywhere.
Kinda like every goose in the world.

It'll come running like a pet when you call it for treats, which is kinda cool, I guess.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 21, 2023 07:47 PM (X+Ku8)

6
Al Kaline was the greatest sports figure I ever met. Nice guy, interested in people, kind, humble, solid.

Posted by: Auspex at April 21, 2023 07:47 PM (j4U/Z)

7 Penguin athleticism.

==

Perfect 10 ! perfect landing , great posture.

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2023 07:48 PM (V13WU)

8 Heavy Medieval war arrows versus plate armor, which arrows could supposedly pierce. But can they? I've heard that when fully plate-armored knights were killed by arrows, it was usually due to the arrows hitting their horse, which then took a tumble and wound up crushing them.
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If the bodkin points were made of inferior steel, they wouldn't penetrate either I saw in an archaeological show about Agincourt [or Crecy].

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 21, 2023 07:48 PM (Vwz3I)

9 Willowed, but given that Reeves is a pretty serious gun nut and competitor, I think it quite likely he is, in fact, meticulous about gun safety on the set.

(replying to a comment last thread)

Posted by: rhomboid at April 21, 2023 07:48 PM (gToVg)

10 Cafe! Wine and a clean ashtray, I'm good.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 21, 2023 07:49 PM (eondx)

11 i have never seen an albino peacock. poor thing.

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2023 07:49 PM (V13WU)

12 yo wtfo

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 21, 2023 07:49 PM (BRHaw)

13 That desk is so complicated I'd just end up misplacing/losing my own stuff.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 21, 2023 07:50 PM (ppBhU)

14 Was walking down by a salt marsh today and an osprey flew low and slow over me carrying a very large fish. Very cool.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2023 07:50 PM (ZLI7S)

15 Has REDACTED ever sold a desk like that??

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 21, 2023 07:51 PM (Vwz3I)

16 I've been Johnny-on-the-Spot posting the noods today, so the reason people aren't here yet is because their shit is fucked up and retarded.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 07:51 PM (MvF+J)

17 Delinquent ducks. LOL

Thanks very much, ace for the cafe threads. They are very helpful in winding down after the political threads.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 21, 2023 07:51 PM (Keyt1)

18 17 I second this comment. Thank you @Ace.

Posted by: Piper at April 21, 2023 07:52 PM (ZdaMQ)

19 Shucks, I missed the earlier Trump thread. Looked like a good one.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 21, 2023 07:52 PM (eOEVl)

20 Hm...my high energy dog might like a trebuchet.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 21, 2023 07:52 PM (OX9vb)

21 9 Yes, I've seen video of him shooting and training IRL. Much better than watching those movies, IMHO.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 07:52 PM (MvF+J)

22 guy meets friend at bar
he pulls out gi joe sized singer and piano
were did u get that my Genie
Genie appears and asked bud ok?
1 MILLION BUCKS
he goes outside to e surronded by duck ducks ducks ducks and more ducks
He goes back inside and ask buddy WTF
Hey u think I want a 12 inch pianist?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 21, 2023 07:53 PM (BRHaw)

23 Unbelievable torrent of bullshit:
https://tinyurl.com/3ramzn6h

Scratch that. Totally believable.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape

KJP out lies CNN?!!! That's like Woody Allen out punching Mike Tyson!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 21, 2023 07:53 PM (FVME7)

24 >>Heavy Medieval war arrows versus plate armor, which arrows could supposedly pierce. But can they?

Well not with a long bow.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2023 07:53 PM (ZLI7S)

25 Wow, talk about bad timing for a comment.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 21, 2023 07:53 PM (eOEVl)

26 It's not a desk, it's a secrétaire.

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2023 07:53 PM (V13WU)

27 Orangutan needs to figure out how to make a spear from that stick.

Posted by: fd at April 21, 2023 07:54 PM (iayUP)

28 And plate armour showing what it would take 20th Century tank designers ages to rediscover -- sloping armour to deflect shots.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 21, 2023 07:54 PM (Vwz3I)

29 Hamlet mentions a bare bodkin. This means a dagger, unlike what teen me conjured.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 21, 2023 07:54 PM (eOEVl)

30 Donald Duck walks around in public with no pants and the police don't do shit about it.

Paid off by Disney, I presume.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 21, 2023 07:55 PM (X+Ku8)

31 Orangutan needs to figure out how to make a spear from that stick.

Or an AR-15. Either / or.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 21, 2023 07:55 PM (eOEVl)

32 who da fuck puts otters and orangutans in the same fucking pen?

next it will be Star Trek Red Shirts and Baby Wildebeest.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 21, 2023 07:56 PM (BRHaw)

33 Heavy Medieval war arrows versus plate armor, which arrows could supposedly pierce. But can they? I've heard that when fully plate-armored knights were killed by arrows, it was usually due to the arrows hitting their horse, which then took a tumble and wound up crushing them.
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If the bodkin points were made of inferior steel, they wouldn't penetrate either I saw in an archaeological show about Agincourt [or Crecy].
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 21, 2023 07:48 PM (Vwz3I)
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I've seen a few videos where they've tested armor against longbow arrows and crossbow bolts. For the most part, armor is *REALLY* good at preventing penetration because it's designed to deflect impacts. Even a straight shot has a pretty good chance of deflection. If an arrow does penetrate skin, it's probably because it just happened to find one of the few chinks where the armor pieces connect to one another. And that's a fairly difficult event to predict.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 21, 2023 07:56 PM (BpYfr)

34 Have heard indirectly from guys who’ve shot 3-gun matches with him up north that Reeves is good - and a very nice guy besides.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 21, 2023 07:56 PM (gToVg)

35 Orangutan needs to figure out how to make a spear from that stick.
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Don't play Thus Spake Zarathustra near him!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 21, 2023 07:56 PM (Vwz3I)

36 UK is saying that Biden signed a "social credit system" EO. Is this true?

Posted by: CN at April 21, 2023 07:57 PM (Zzbjj)

37 27 Orangutan needs to figure out how to make a spear from that stick.
Posted by: fd at April 21, 2023 07:54 PM (iayUP)

next fire matches 2001

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 21, 2023 07:57 PM (BRHaw)

38 >>>Well dog my cat!

Thought I was going to see some cat dogging.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2023 07:57 PM (gv7Yb)

39 Orangutan needs to figure out how to make a spear from that stick.
---------------
Don't play Thus Spake Zarathustra near him!

It's okay. The orangutan pen is a tapir-free zone.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 21, 2023 07:58 PM (eOEVl)

40 Hey April, I just made up for the zoodle ramen disaster! Zoodles, whole wheat spaghetti, a little chicken andouille, garlic, onion, and light Parmesan cream sauce with some spinach I threw in last minute for good measure. Now cute little animals and funky desks, my night is complete!

Posted by: Piper at April 21, 2023 07:58 PM (ZdaMQ)

41 I think porcupines are native to Pennsylvania but never saw one

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2023 07:58 PM (xhxe8)

42 https://tinyurl.com/3vr33n9e

There is apparently an African American Mayors Association. I'm sure there's one or two somewhere that succeed - we had one a couple decades back who was fine and did good things - but the big directly elected territories cannot.

In other news, here in suburban SF Bay area we had the world's most colorful turkey wandering the streets, to the point the local plod posted (Twitter, nextdoor, Instagram) to please not report it anymore. Don't know its fate but it was a welcome distraction on dog walks.

Still have my duck couples. Watching them I could never hunt them.

Posted by: JEM at April 21, 2023 07:59 PM (8erNz)

43 35 Orangutan needs to figure out how to make a spear from that stick.
---------------
Don't play Thus Spake Zarathustra near him!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 21, 2023 07:56 PM (Vwz3I)

37 27 Orangutan needs to figure out how to make a spear from that stick.
Posted by: fd at April 21, 2023 07:54 PM (iayUP)
next fire matches 2001
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 21, 2023 07:57 PM (BRHaw)

apes needed meat to make brains

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 21, 2023 07:59 PM (BRHaw)

44 >>26 It's not a desk, it's a secrétaire.

oh la la

Posted by: ace at April 21, 2023 07:59 PM (iHBZj)

45 In the alternate universe where I'm a CoB, my avatar is that chimp holding a machine gun over his head.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 21, 2023 07:59 PM (nfrXX)

46 The left forges on even faster with every new revelation of wrongdoing. And the GOP are all Ellen Jamesians

Posted by: CN at April 21, 2023 07:59 PM (Zzbjj)

47 23 KJP always has to rely on spouting delaying filler phrases so she has time to fabricate the bullshit she thinks she ought to say. Never ever fails to do that.

There's nothing wrong with that! The Press Secretary's sole purpose is to get the reporters tied up talking to a moron who's completely out of the loop, rather than the people who might actually know something. Same with all PR.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 07:59 PM (MvF+J)

48 Well not with a long bow.
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I don't recall what the documentary had to say about how the Genoese crossbowmen did against armoured English men-at-arms or knights.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 21, 2023 07:59 PM (Vwz3I)

49 That sounds good, Piper!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 21, 2023 08:00 PM (OX9vb)

50 So, on Google, type in Porcupines and immediately it fills out in Pennsylvania.
Yes, in heavy wooded areas

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2023 08:00 PM (xhxe8)

51 Long ago spent some time at a rainforest research center in Borneo. A woman Thai biologist was there to study “her” orangutan. She staked out his favorite durian tree to observe him, and managed a *handful* of encounters in a MONTH.

Such patience was impressive, and unimaginable, for me.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 21, 2023 08:00 PM (gToVg)

52 someone mentioned State and Main earlier. "Well dog my cat!" is from The Spanish Prisoner, another Mamet movie. I think my favorite one.

Posted by: ace at April 21, 2023 08:00 PM (iHBZj)

53 Either way the desk/ secretary is out of this world craftsmanship

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2023 08:01 PM (xhxe8)

54 Ducks should not be arrested, but every Canada Goose should be. Only reason they're not is because no copper wants his car crapped up, nor the courthouse.

Posted by: Duck! Dodge! Hide! at April 21, 2023 08:01 PM (Nn3xT)

55 apes needed meat to make brains

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Oscar Kiss Maerth has entered the chat

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 21, 2023 08:02 PM (X+Ku8)

56 That longbowman can pull a +200lb bow.

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 21, 2023 08:02 PM (piiLl)

57 Thus Spake Zarathustra
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My error. Apparently the Richard Strauss music is 'Also Spake Zarathustra' while 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' is the title of Nietzsche's book.

BTW, Nietzsche is still dead.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 21, 2023 08:02 PM (Vwz3I)

58 But blast the geese, migratory waterfowl act be damned. They don't migrate, they squat and shit wherever it's temperate

Posted by: JEM at April 21, 2023 08:02 PM (8erNz)

59 OT: TimCast sez YT is taking down videos. In other news, the sun is setting in the eastern time zone.

He's got Liz Wheeler tonite. She's OK, but she's no Mary Morgan. Man, if you think we're rough on people's looks, check out the TimCast chat thread! If you're a woman, don't appear on TimCast if you can't take the heat.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 08:03 PM (MvF+J)

60 What an outstanding picture, of the peacock and his "soul"! I guess good photography is a function of skill, timing and sheer dumb luck.

Posted by: Paco at April 21, 2023 08:04 PM (njExo)

61 15 Has REDACTED ever sold a desk like that??

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 21, 2023 07:51 PM (Vwz3I)

nope

never had anything that hideous

it's from a shop in NOLA

they have alwways caried the ugliest shit on Earth

they have probably had it for 20 yers and will probably be buried with it

but it is a bargain for 266K, including the matching chair

ugh

Posted by: REDACTED at April 21, 2023 08:04 PM (us2H3)

62 The ducks video reminded me of this one:

https://tinyurl.com/27253jap

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 21, 2023 08:04 PM (sWM8x)

63 but it is a bargain for 266K, including the matching chair


==


my desk is better

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2023 08:05 PM (V13WU)

64 I don't know about establishing a Red Chinese "social credit system" but "President Joe Biden to sign executive order to make 'environmental justice' the mission of federal agencies."

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 21, 2023 08:05 PM (Vwz3I)

65 Another relaxing cafe.

Posted by: Tuna at April 21, 2023 08:05 PM (gLRfa)

66 andycanuck, in that context “Also” is German for “thus”.

Thus the confusion.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 21, 2023 08:05 PM (gToVg)

67 i want a desk like that. If I ever get one, I will have "made it."

Posted by: ace at April 21, 2023 08:05 PM (iHBZj)

68 44 >>26 It's not a desk, it's a secrétaire.

that usually implies some kinda top compartment

like a fall front

Posted by: REDACTED at April 21, 2023 08:06 PM (us2H3)

69 In the alternate universe where I'm a CoB, my avatar is that chimp holding a machine gun over his head.
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AVENGE ME!!!

Posted by: zombie Harambe at April 21, 2023 08:06 PM (Vwz3I)

70 Nite Ace....

69 Posted by: zombie Harambe at April 21, 2023 08:06 PM (Vwz3I)

"I DIED FOR YOUR SINS!"

//Harambe-OH.gov

Posted by: sven at April 21, 2023 08:07 PM (Lzpvj)

71 oh a fall front, yes. I'd like one of those too.

but i really want the Tricksy Desk. So I can hide all my action figures and DnD dice.

Posted by: ace at April 21, 2023 08:08 PM (iHBZj)

72 AndyCanuck....

I thought on you down in the Moshpit Trump v DeSantis thread....

I remember how crazy shit got at Insty's over Covid....

Posted by: sven at April 21, 2023 08:08 PM (Lzpvj)

73 I've seen the occasional calving of a glacier but not a full on avalanche like that. Amazing.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, mmm diesel chicken at April 21, 2023 08:08 PM (jTmQV)

74 ugh
Posted by: REDACTED
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Tell us how you really feel, R.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 21, 2023 08:09 PM (Vwz3I)

75 This Spake Zara?

Not just naw but HELL TO THE NAW!

Hall of the Mountain King baby....

https://youtu.be/2gS9oAX1bnE

Posted by: sven at April 21, 2023 08:10 PM (Lzpvj)

76 Moe Howard called Larry Fine "Porcupine" and he was from Philadelphia, so yes, porcupines are native to PA.

Posted by: Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard at April 21, 2023 08:11 PM (Nn3xT)

77 Think the ran out of ammo for the recoilless rifles they used for avalanche mitigation along the highway towards Alyeska from Anchorage. Wonder what they use now?

Posted by: rhomboid at April 21, 2023 08:11 PM (gToVg)

78 probably the most expensive desk I ever sold was a large oval partners desk

about 1780, satinwood with a red leather top, mint condition

sold it to some nice folks in River Oaks

60K

Posted by: REDACTED at April 21, 2023 08:11 PM (us2H3)

79 He said "poke the porcupine", he he he he.

Posted by: Butthead at April 21, 2023 08:12 PM (63Dwl)

80 I thought on you down in the Moshpit Trump v DeSantis thread....
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Nothing bad I hope.

Thanks for the German lesson, rhomboid.
[no sarc I hope it's obvious.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 21, 2023 08:12 PM (Vwz3I)

81 >>but i really want the Tricksy Desk. So I can hide all my action figures and DnD dice.

That's disturbing.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2023 08:12 PM (ZLI7S)

82 73 Posted by: gourmand du jour, mmm diesel chicken at April 21, 2023 08:08 PM (jTmQV)

anytime our problems feel big or insurmountable remind yourself....

Mankind almost had a Carrington event that would have obliterated just in time logistics for at least two weeks this year.....luckily it was on the other side of the sun.

We can breathe because of an accident of nature that changed the atmosphere poisoning 96% of then existing life on earth....

God laughs at man.

Posted by: sven at April 21, 2023 08:12 PM (Lzpvj)

83 80 Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 21, 2023 08:12 PM (Vwz3I)

No all good, I was reflecting on how many bridges and relationships I burned from 2016 to 2021.

Posted by: sven at April 21, 2023 08:13 PM (Lzpvj)

84 "Say, we don't get many ducks in this bar."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 21, 2023 08:13 PM (s12c9)

85 There is apparently an African American Mayors Association.

-
They hold their reunions in Cell Block C.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 21, 2023 08:14 PM (FVME7)

86 Bitter's Anecdotal Bar Report:

Semi Pro Soccer Game:

Bud Light total sales: $48
AB Product sales combined: $228
AB/InBev total sales combined: $417

Total sales of all beer: $6410

All four craft brands and Yuengling outsold AB brands combined. Only one craft brand failed to surpass AB/InBev brands combined (we sold out of their product with an hour of sales time left).

Mich Ultra is ordinarily our top selling product, Bud Light number 5. Tonight they ranked 12th and 13th out of 13 products offered.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 21, 2023 08:15 PM (0TrUA)

87 Home Depot shooter in Oakland going for the Baldwin defense!

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 21, 2023 08:15 PM (oWBc3)

88 They hold their reunions in Cell Block C.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 21, 2023 08:14 PM (FVME7

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Racist.

Posted by: Marion Berry at April 21, 2023 08:15 PM (s12c9)

89 64 I don't know about establishing a Red Chinese "social credit system" but "President Joe Biden to sign executive order to make 'environmental justice' the mission of federal agencies."
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 21, 2023 08:05 PM (Vwz3I)

So I suspect there will be non-compliance fines and punishment. Fuck the GOP for allowing all this. Ace and friends might hate TRump today, but they sure weren't "tired of winning" when he was in office. The people supporting DeSantis kneecapped Trump. I'm not sure he's the man we think he is. What will happen to his anti trans sentiment when faced with federal decisions and hostile democrats?

Posted by: CN at April 21, 2023 08:17 PM (Zzbjj)

90 >>>That's disturbing.
Posted by: JackStraw

all right, I'll use the desk to hide my Marijuana Cigarettes. Is that what you want to hear, Jack?

Posted by: ace at April 21, 2023 08:17 PM (iHBZj)

91 during the Regency period, leather covered desktop items were popular

I have the largest example I have ever seen sitting in my living room

it is a table top cabinet and it has secret drawers and such things

think I will send a pic of it to the hobby thread

Posted by: REDACTED at April 21, 2023 08:17 PM (us2H3)

92 I'll have a "Reefer Drawer." Am I cool now, Jack?

Posted by: ace at April 21, 2023 08:17 PM (iHBZj)

93 i want a leather door like M. had

Posted by: ace at April 21, 2023 08:18 PM (iHBZj)

94 my desk is better
Posted by: runner at April 21, 2023 08:05 PM (V13WU)

Mine, too!

It's a behemoth from early 1900s, I think, from Union Fork & Hoe, turned Union Tools, and I was able to buy it for $10 before Union Tools was bought by Ames True Temper. Cannot find who made it, but it's a great old thing.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 21, 2023 08:18 PM (OX9vb)

95 Just saw a commercial for a film by Guy Ritchie and Jake Gyllenhaall.

It' probably one of the worst put together trailer spots I've ever seen.

Everyone says a single word, perhaps two, and the jump cuts are jarring.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 21, 2023 08:19 PM (up/3i)

96 'environmental justice'

More Orwellian bullshit.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 21, 2023 08:19 PM (Xrfse)

97 "i want a leather door like M. had"

Your local cannabis dispensary has those! They have all kinds of wildly expensive tchotchkes and accessories that potheads fall for.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 08:20 PM (MvF+J)

98 >>>Don't poke the porcupine. Everyone knows that.

The Twitter caption was "Instant regret". But I don't think he regretted a thing. He teased the porcupine and then clumb (yes, that's a word) a tree. Unless the porcupine learns how to fling its quills, that monkey will continue to have its fun and there's not a damn thing the porcupine can do about it.

Unless the monkey is a step too slow one of these times. That's when the fun begins.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2023 08:20 PM (gv7Yb)

99 No all good, I was reflecting on how many bridges and relationships I burned from 2016 to 2021.
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Now you've got me thinking of Kelly's Heroes and humming to myself.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 21, 2023 08:20 PM (Vwz3I)

100 I have always wanted to play D&D. I need someone to teach me. Someone patient. With a great sense of humor. And patience.

Posted by: Piper at April 21, 2023 08:20 PM (ZdaMQ)

101 I dreamed Ace anointed me a COB...to write a weekend thread on how to clean bathrooms.

And then I woke up.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 21, 2023 08:20 PM (0vFtj)

102 Mine, too!

It's a behemoth from early 1900s, I think, from Union Fork & Hoe, turned Union Tools, and I was able to buy it for $10 before Union Tools was bought by Ames True Temper. Cannot find who made it, but it's a great old thing.


nice find !

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2023 08:20 PM (V13WU)

103 My error. Apparently the Richard Strauss music is 'Also Spake Zarathustra' while 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' is the title of Nietzsche's book.

BTW, Nietzsche is still dead.
Posted by: andycanuck

So is Zarathustra--in fact he is over one and half thousand years deader than Nietzsche.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 08:21 PM (oqoj8)

104 94. I don't know if mine is better, but it's a Henredon Burled olive wood. Matches the other stuff in the room

Posted by: CN at April 21, 2023 08:21 PM (Zzbjj)

105 Reefer humidor to sit on the desk,ace.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 21, 2023 08:21 PM (J4CA9)

106 You never know what to make of these tests of olden days like the plate armor deal. I remember Mythbusters did a recreation of wooden splinters from age of sail ship to ship combat. They concluded that wooden splinters from shells hitting the sides of ships was no big deal. But depictions of actual battles describe such casualties. So did Mythbusters do it wrong or were all those accounts lies?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 21, 2023 08:21 PM (FVME7)

107 Yup, that last Trump thread was a thread, all right.

And solar mass ejections like that are why the gov't needs to get off Elon's back big time about Starship and why colonizing Mars/whatever is kind of the biggest thing we could be doing right now.

Sooner or later Earth is going to get whacked.

Could be a coronal mass ejection frying the entire grid. Could be an asteroid. Could be our own damn fool selves with nukes or greenies trashing civilization. But, somewhere out there, the grim reaper has a date in his day planner and is counting the days off, and we don't know when it'll be.

Best to not have all the eggs in one basket when that day arrives, ya know?

(Also, a hundred million miles away from Washington sounds fantastic)

Posted by: Locarno at April 21, 2023 08:22 PM (Vjom5)

108 So is Zarathustra--in fact he is over one and half thousand years deader than Nietzsche.

True, but at least he didn't die in a syphilis-fueled psychotic fugue.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 21, 2023 08:22 PM (eOEVl)

109 100 I have always wanted to play D&D. I need someone to teach me. Someone patient. With a great sense of humor. And patience.
Posted by: Piper
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Find someone with the old TSR rule set. Occasionally you can find TSR era computer D&D games I think but would have to have an emulator on your computer to run it.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 08:23 PM (oqoj8)

110 >>I'll have a "Reefer Drawer." Am I cool now, Jack?

How would I know? I am a model citizen.

I would used the drawers for my paper clips, rubber bands and such.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2023 08:23 PM (ZLI7S)

111 I have always wanted to play D&D. I need someone to teach me. Someone patient. With a great sense of humor. And patience.
Posted by: Piper

First, you'll need to buy and use a pocket protector.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 21, 2023 08:23 PM (FVME7)

112 I have always wanted to play D&D. I need someone to teach me. Someone patient. With a great sense of humor. And patience.
Posted by: Piper at April 21, 2023 08:20 PM (ZdaMQ)
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A Moron Horde D&D session would be pretty epic...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 21, 2023 08:23 PM (BpYfr)

113 If Elon wants to go to Mars, so what? It's better than trying to injects us and feed us on mRNA bugs or pushing pedo like Gates.

Posted by: CN at April 21, 2023 08:24 PM (Zzbjj)

114 The desk is very impressive.
I still watch a lot of antiques road show, both UK and US versions.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, mmm diesel chicken at April 21, 2023 08:24 PM (jTmQV)

115 Find someone with the old TSR rule set. Occasionally you can find TSR era computer D&D games I think but would have to have an emulator on your computer to run it.
Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 08:23 PM (oqoj
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classicreload.com has got ya covered!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 21, 2023 08:24 PM (BpYfr)

116 106 You never know what to make of these tests of olden days like the plate armor deal. I remember Mythbusters did a recreation of wooden splinters from age of sail ship to ship combat. They concluded that wooden splinters from shells hitting the sides of ships was no big deal. But depictions of actual battles describe such casualties. So did Mythbusters do it wrong or were all those accounts lies?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 21, 2023 08:21 PM (FVME7)

Go ask Drachinifel on You Tube. He's the real expert...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 21, 2023 08:25 PM (CCSxw)

117 114 The desk is very impressive.
I still watch a lot of antiques road show, both UK and US versions.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, mmm diesel chicken at April 21, 2023 08:24 PM (jTmQV)

Is there a pic of the desk in question?

Posted by: CN at April 21, 2023 08:25 PM (Zzbjj)

118 Heritage has a plan for a conservative president to rein in the federal bureaucracy. Priority 1:

Vought encourages some changes to the Executive Office of the President of the United States—notably the elimination of the pro-abortion and pro-transgender Gender Policy Council

That is their big deal. Nothing more significant to solve.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 21, 2023 08:25 PM (O1z4v)

119 True, but at least he didn't die in a syphilis-fueled psychotic fugue.
Posted by: Archimedes

We don't really know how he died other than myth with some saying murder and other saying old age.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 08:25 PM (oqoj8)

120 A Moron Horde D&D session would be pretty epic...

Please. You'd never get past the introduction. Everyone would fall to squabbling.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 21, 2023 08:25 PM (eOEVl)

121
Four little ducks that I once knew
Tall ones, short ones, skinny ones, too.
But the one little duck with the feather on its back
He led the others with a "Quack! Quack! Quack!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 21, 2023 08:25 PM (pNxlR)

122 Had a shitload of those nasty, non-native peacocks at my barn in LA. I hate those fuckers and wanted to kill every one of them.

Shoot, Shovel, Shutup.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 21, 2023 08:26 PM (V4X9X)

123 nice find !
Posted by: runner at April 21, 2023 08:20 PM (V13WU)

Yes, I worked there, and we had a fax machine and copier on it, and we got bought by Ames. I begged to be able to buy it before they finalized everything.

I think it weighs about 600 lbs.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 21, 2023 08:26 PM (OX9vb)

124 Take ordinary rocks. Paint cannabis leaves on them. Add a hippie phrase. Call it a "Pot Holder." Put them on the shelf at the dispensary for ten bucks each. You won't be sorry. (Unless you discover you set the price too low at ten.)

Potheads are suckers for branded shit just like almost all Americans are.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 08:26 PM (MvF+J)

125 A Moron Horde D&D session would be pretty epic...

Hopefully it will take place at 0300 on a Tuesday.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 21, 2023 08:26 PM (Xrfse)

126 111 First, you'll need to buy and use a pocket protector
——
Well this is problematic as I am female and our clothes rarely have pockets. darn it!

Posted by: Piper at April 21, 2023 08:26 PM (ZdaMQ)

127 Home Depot shooter in Oakland going for the Baldwin defense!
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Or shooting at some seals, dropped it, and it just went off.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 21, 2023 08:26 PM (Vwz3I)

128 Sea Otter V. iPhone

https://youtu.be/wBljCjUAgxM

Posted by: Kindltot at April 21, 2023 08:26 PM (xhaym)

129 Great NYPost headline:

Ready to shoot again Alec Baldwin spotted heading to new 'Rust' set in Montana after manslaughter charges dropped

Posted by: DB - tagline removed at April 21, 2023 08:26 PM (geLO8)

130 That is their big deal. Nothing more significant to solve.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Rovian wedge issues again. I am surprised that Heritage did not advocate killing granny again.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 08:27 PM (oqoj8)

131 I shot the Sheriff
But I did not shoot the cinematographer
Alec Baldwin

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2023 08:27 PM (xhxe8)

132 I would used the drawers for my paper clips, rubber bands and such.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2023 08:23 PM (ZLI7S)

"...and such":

papers
roach clip
hash pipe

Ticket stubs to Rangers games at MSG

Think that covers it.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 21, 2023 08:27 PM (CCSxw)

133 Reefer users have so many issues. A fifth of bourbon fits most places - desk drawer, kitchen cabinet, garage tool box and if it's discovered, so what. Just saying.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 21, 2023 08:27 PM (oWBc3)

134 "Is there a pic of the desk in question?"
Twitter link above.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, mmm diesel chicken at April 21, 2023 08:27 PM (jTmQV)

135 Union Fork & Hoe did some nice bayonets in WWII.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 21, 2023 08:28 PM (OTzUX)

136 . . . And that's how you beat Candy Crush!

Posted by: Kindltot at April 21, 2023 08:28 PM (xhaym)

137 That baby cobra is cute like a xenomorph chestburtser

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 21, 2023 08:28 PM (ruW19)

138 We had a company in town named "Heartwood Creations" who would make very nice hardwood boxes for pot. They were in business for a long time. Oh wait, they still are!

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 08:28 PM (MvF+J)

139 The NYT is now reporting that Jack Teixeira, the guy who leaked the DOD documents, has been leaking sensitive information to another online group for almost a year. Started right after Russia invaded Ukraine.

Intelligence community. Uh huh.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2023 08:29 PM (ZLI7S)

140 classicreload.com has got ya covered!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I have an emulator program for Linux that I use for Arcade games etc. Finish my basement and I may make a full size video game cabinet with modern display, etc. You can pick up all that stuff including the cabinet and controllers at Microcenters.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 08:29 PM (oqoj8)

141 probably the best desk I ever saw was one at Christies

18th century French, chinoiserie decoration, ormolu mounted, leather top. Absolutely killer

wife and I decided we go to 30 or so

the big dealers ran over us like a turtle in the road

reality checked

Posted by: REDACTED at April 21, 2023 08:29 PM (us2H3)

142 "That baby cobra is cute like a xenomorph chestburtser"

Wonder how much venom they're born with.

Posted by: Tuna at April 21, 2023 08:29 PM (gLRfa)

143 Ducks in the back of a police cruiser is never not funny.

Posted by: Moki at April 21, 2023 08:29 PM (JrN/x)

144 89 Posted by: CN at April 21, 2023 08:17 PM (Zzbjj)

Trump's biggest fans said "fuck the GOP" pard....

unless Superman is running in 50 states for a minimum of 3 offices per state that is a lot of fucking.

81 million votes team, more than Urkle....

You just need to accept that "America" wants you larping as Fred Flintstone.

Posted by: sven at April 21, 2023 08:30 PM (Lzpvj)

145 Resume buying Bud Light, you fucking rubes!

Posted by: Donny Trump Junior at April 21, 2023 08:30 PM (ufFY8)

146 139 The NYT is now reporting that Jack Teixeira, the guy who leaked the DOD documents, has been leaking sensitive information to another online group for almost a year. Started right after Russia invaded Ukraine.

Intelligence community. Uh huh.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Obviously, he was hacking the 2016 and 2020 elections for Putin to cause Trump to win as well.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 08:30 PM (oqoj8)

147 139 Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2023 08:29 PM (ZLI7S)

Not an attack Jack I promise.....

a MA ron or ette could do research and find out who his stepdad is connected to up there.

AGR slots are politicial everywhere but I would imagine even more so in NE.

Guy has to be connected.

Posted by: sven at April 21, 2023 08:31 PM (Lzpvj)

148 We had a company in town named "Heartwood Creations" who would make very nice hardwood boxes for pot. They were in business for a long time. Oh wait, they still are!
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape

We had an HVAC company here that as a side gig distributed methamphetamine. Not sure where they are now.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 21, 2023 08:32 PM (0vFtj)

149 The only computer games I've ever done are chess.
I lose, dial down the expertise level, lose, dial down the expertise level, lose, dial down the expertise level...
This goes on for days. It's way worse than golf.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, mmm diesel chicken at April 21, 2023 08:33 PM (jTmQV)

150 124 Take ordinary rocks. Paint cannabis leaves on them. Add a hippie phrase. Call it a "Pot Holder." Put them on the shelf at the dispensary for ten bucks each. You won't be sorry. (Unless you discover you set the price too low at ten.)

Potheads are suckers for branded shit just like almost all Americans are.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape

You came to the right place for branding. There are several connoisseurs of the weed that show up time to time here for focus group research.

FWIW, I think weed stinks quite literally and cannot stand the smell of it.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 08:33 PM (oqoj8)

151 We could do something we have not done for a long while....

an ONT with collaborative storytelling.

It would be a NICE change of pace, and team building.

Posted by: sven at April 21, 2023 08:33 PM (Lzpvj)

152 Islanders go up 1-0 on the Hurricanes, in the 2nd...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 21, 2023 08:33 PM (CCSxw)

153 the big dealers ran over us like a turtle in the road

reality checked
Posted by: REDACTED at April 21, 2023 08:29 PM (us2H3)

Oof!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 21, 2023 08:33 PM (OX9vb)

154
You just need to accept that "America" wants you larping as Fred Flintstone.
Posted by: sven at April 21, 2023 08:30 PM (Lzpvj)

You just tell me what the Senate and House are doing that will work? They toss red meat legislation that will never be signed into law. Big words and failure theater. I'm not "his biggest fan", but an association with the Murdochs, Ryan and the Bushies is not comforting. Doing something in one state does not translate to success on a nationwide scale.

Posted by: CN at April 21, 2023 08:33 PM (Zzbjj)

155 >>>Resume buying Bud Light, you fucking rubes!

Posted by: Donny Trump Junior

>How much stock are you holding? I need a new broker.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 21, 2023 08:34 PM (V4X9X)

156 there are many houses on Fry St in Denton TX that were built with bricks

that's a joke for you oldtimers

Posted by: REDACTED at April 21, 2023 08:34 PM (us2H3)

157 I know you guys hate this. Sorry! Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (BUD) has collapsed to the price it last held ... 24 days ago. Devastating.

If it really DOES collapse, it's a value buy below 44. A lot of people will never stop drinking that canal water, no matter what brand image they concoct for it.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 08:34 PM (MvF+J)

158 chinoiserie ? who the hell needs that ??

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2023 08:35 PM (V13WU)

159 Refreshing: Russian hockey championship (game 3) had an eight minute stretch with no stoppages, today.

Even better: Russian hockey championship is over in April. Sorta like it used to be elsewhere.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 21, 2023 08:35 PM (OTzUX)

160 FWIW, I think weed stinks quite literally and cannot stand the smell of it.
Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 08:33 PM (oqoj

Don't fly Alaska Air out of Seattle...hooooeeee do those planes reek of pot...skunky smelling shit.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 21, 2023 08:35 PM (CCSxw)

161 Obviously, he was hacking the 2016 and 2020 elections for Putin to cause Trump to win as well.
Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 08:30 PM (oqoj

So now they're saying it was all hacked? I'm sure he could have found much more if he found the TS stuff. He was given the info, IMO.

Posted by: CN at April 21, 2023 08:35 PM (Zzbjj)

162 Humorous. They have an old Apple II game, Taipan where you run opium to ports in Asia but try to avoid capture by pirates.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 08:36 PM (oqoj8)

163 "We had an HVAC company here that as a side gig distributed methamphetamine. Not sure where they are now."

We had a pizza place that was run by the mob. They got RICO'd, no shit. But that was two towns south of here.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 08:36 PM (MvF+J)

164 I never watched much hockey, but then someone mentioned "Goon" which I liked a lot.
Maybe I'll start following it.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, mmm diesel chicken at April 21, 2023 08:37 PM (jTmQV)

165 154 Posted by: CN at April 21, 2023 08:33 PM (Zzbjj)

I'm confused did we take the Senate when I was not looking?

I mean I AM "going blind" and all, but I think I would have noticed.

Trump had the ability for four years to control and "burrow in" people at the executive branch like Obama did when he left. Personnel is policy.

Look I hate the incoming Al Gore jihad as much as anyone, I rely on the ability to whisk across America at 70MPH a lot.

We lost, and when we had our likely last best chance we wasted a lot of potential.....

"oops" but we can lie back and think of England or Lady Columbia or whatever.

Posted by: sven at April 21, 2023 08:37 PM (Lzpvj)

166 I found out my small engine repair guy, Captain Ron, was the biggest heroin dealer in the county. I had no idea...

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at April 21, 2023 08:37 PM (flINI)

167 massage parlors ! those are not what they say they are ....

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2023 08:37 PM (V13WU)

168 159 Refreshing: Russian hockey championship (game 3) had an eight minute stretch with no stoppages, today.

Even better: Russian hockey championship is over in April. Sorta like it used to be elsewhere.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 21, 2023 08:35 PM (OTzUX)

Back in the day, I watched a HNIC broadcast of the Leafs where the was no stoppage for almost the whole period. Damnedest thing I've ever seen.

Mid 80s, if I remember correctly.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 21, 2023 08:38 PM (CCSxw)

169 >>Guy has to be connected.

It would take some digging. There are a lot of Teixeiras in southeastern MA, northern RI. It's the heart of the Portuguese community around here.

From what I've read about him his parents divorced when he was young, he was kind of a odd kid in school, loaner type, but nothing real unique.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2023 08:38 PM (ZLI7S)

170 So now they're saying it was all hacked? I'm sure he could have found much more if he found the TS stuff. He was given the info, IMO.
Posted by: CN

I am also reasonably confident that our intelligence agency will find out that Airman is really Putin's illegitimate son via anonymous sperm donation as well.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 08:38 PM (oqoj8)

171 no, that was wong...they are not what they say they are

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2023 08:38 PM (V13WU)

172 "FWIW, I think weed stinks quite literally and cannot stand the smell of it."

Do not ever try it if you haven't. Other than that sincere and urgent advice, I'm neutral on cannabis. Better things to dispute.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 08:38 PM (MvF+J)

173 157 Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 08:34 PM (MvF+J)

Sure absolutely, their behavior says they are thrilled and things are going swimmingly...

part of the ESG con is I would wager a "Plunge Protection Team" like back in the Chimpy-Urkle era.....

we'll see.

Posted by: sven at April 21, 2023 08:39 PM (Lzpvj)

174 167 even the Chinese foot ones?!?

Posted by: Piper at April 21, 2023 08:39 PM (ZdaMQ)

175 Don't fly Alaska Air out of Seattle...hooooeeee do those planes reek of pot...skunky smelling shit.
Posted by: browndog
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I don't fly anymore as I find it as enjoyable as riding a Grayhound bus in the 70's leaving a town with a state prison.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 08:40 PM (oqoj8)

176 I told you guys how in my small town , Chinatown has these places that are very popular with young sailors, right ? and the women there don't look a day under 40.

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2023 08:40 PM (V13WU)

177 Alissa Heinerscheid, the marketing moron behind the tranny fiasco has taken a "leave of absence" and her position has been filled by someone else.

https://bit.ly/43XVib9

Posted by: bonhomme at April 21, 2023 08:41 PM (KRe1G)

178 I am out. Thanks ace, for all you do. I know it took some courage to do what you did today.
Always remember, it's April.
A lot can happen and probably will between now and the general.
Like Gov. Newsom calling out the National Guard in San Francisco, for instance.
Good night!

Posted by: gourmand du jour, mmm diesel chicken at April 21, 2023 08:41 PM (jTmQV)

179 Do not ever try it if you haven't. Other than that sincere and urgent advice, I'm neutral on cannabis. Better things to dispute.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape
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Heh, at just over 29, I have no intention of ingesting cannabis and my attending rock concerts is over nowadays. Bad thing, I cannot even drink booze due to medical conditions and medicines. Closest I come to a drink nowadays is using it for cooking. So y'all enjoy it for me.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 08:43 PM (oqoj8)

180 Weed is going to be legal here in MD this aummer... trying to decide whether I try it out again

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 21, 2023 08:43 PM (flINI)

181 177. They are giving her time to f d a new gig.

Posted by: Piper at April 21, 2023 08:43 PM (ZdaMQ)

182 169 Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2023 08:38 PM (ZLI7S)

A 20 year old e-3 *can* have a TS, but access to a SCIF environment would have had to have been fasttracked. The kids are also monitored harder ordinarily after Reality Winner. I can't speak to USAF standards as well as Army ones but the US Army has an agency that monitors its intel units.


https://tinyurl.com/Army-INSCOM

FWIW they have shut off the entire unit from intel work and made it "the detail dan" show.

The whole thing is "odd."


Posted by: sven at April 21, 2023 08:43 PM (Lzpvj)

183 >>>"We had an HVAC company here that as a side gig distributed methamphetamine. Not sure where they are now."

We had a pizza place that was run by the mob. They got RICO'd, no shit. But that was two towns south of here.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape

I knew a guy who owned one of those RV franchises. Rich as fuck! Never slept because of the meth he was selling ? doing.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 21, 2023 08:44 PM (V4X9X)

184 Canes score shorthanded...

1-1

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 21, 2023 08:44 PM (CCSxw)

185 173 "part of the ESG con is I would wager a "Plunge Protection Team" like back in the Chimpy-Urkle era....."

That could very well be! I agree. That's why you watch the chart, instead of the spin.

Like I say, if it does collapse, I'll buy some, I promise. I'll even post my buy transaction here if it happens. Stocks and corporations are for making money, not for playing poltics, nor for saving the culture.

I've seen stocks collapse, and BUD has not, YET.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 08:45 PM (MvF+J)

186 Resume buying Bud Light, you fucking rubes!
Posted by: Donny Trump Junior

Shopped at three different groceries today. The Butt Light sits there forlornly, unsold, down in the mouth.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2023 08:46 PM (qoGsy)

187 also Jack his dad is not "TexMexeria" he is wait one....

https://heavy.com/news/jack-teixeira/

Step-dad

stepfather Tom Dufault and stepbrother Alex Dufault also worked at Joint Base Cape Cod

so it usually works like this, the AGR slots are controlled by the Governor and slotting into the guard base life usually requires "knowing someone."

Food for thought.

Posted by: sven at April 21, 2023 08:47 PM (Lzpvj)

188 REDACTED, if you're still here, any advice for where to find information on turn of the century office furniture? Internet hasn't been very helpful for me.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 21, 2023 08:47 PM (OX9vb)

189 The last century, that is, not this one...

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 21, 2023 08:48 PM (OX9vb)

190 I don't fly anymore as I find it as enjoyable as riding a Grayhound bus in the 70's leaving a town with a state prison.
Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 08:40 PM (oqoj

Heh...

I took a Greyhound trip home from college...once!
Damn thing stopped every 10 miles, and didn't use the interstate system. A normal 7 hour commute ended up taking close to 12 hours.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 21, 2023 08:48 PM (CCSxw)

191 I don't fly anymore as I find it as enjoyable as riding a Grayhound bus in the 70's leaving a town with a state prison.
Posted by: whig

Nor I. We drive everywhere now. But I do have a kid living in London with two of the grands now. I'll have to suck it up and get thee to an airport one of these days.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2023 08:48 PM (qoGsy)

192 Trump had the ability for four years to control and "burrow in" people at the executive branch like Obama did when he left. Personnel is policy.

Uh, no. The GOP senate held up many appointments and were nothing but trouble. They did back Mueller though. And a significant number voted for AG Garland, SoS Blinken and even 6 for Mayorkas. They presented no problem to the dems. And Biden ousted plenty of Trump appointees, especially DoD people

Posted by: CN at April 21, 2023 08:49 PM (Zzbjj)

193 You could kinda see both teams were running out of gas in the third period. The earlier pace took its toll.

One of the teams is Central Army Sports Club (CSKA), heir to the legendary name of what was essentially the Soviet national team that competed internationally. Their coach is Fedorov, one of the most entertaining Russian players to lace up skates in the NHL to date, and I think a CSKA player himself back in the day.

But it's not the same. The team back then trained 12 months a year, a lot of it endurance training (and nothing but soccer for the month of August, to develop foot skills, and you could see the results there too). Their system called for most players away from the puck to skate in circles, nearly constantly, which made for a truly beautiful game and an attack that was very hard to stop - but imposed a brutal endurance burden on the players.

Still, nice to see almost half a period played without a stop. Hockey's main virtues - speed, and action - on display.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 21, 2023 08:49 PM (OTzUX)

194 183 >>>"We had an HVAC company here that as a side gig distributed methamphetamine. Not sure where they are now."

We had a pizza place that was run by the mob. They got RICO'd, no shit. But that was two towns south of here.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape
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Had a street level drug dealer in the neighborhood squatting in his brother's house for a couple of years. County Police did nothing to the guy despite repeated calls-until the house was foreclosed on and the sheriffs breached the door.
The shitty buyers of those drugs kept showing up for about two years or so in every fall expecting to score. The neighborhood property crime wave disappeared when the drug dealer did too.

They found all kinds of drugs in that place. Guy always had a mean ass pitbull chained up to the shed when he had supply to sell--then the dog would vanish until the next time. That is when I started carrying seriously.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 08:50 PM (oqoj8)

195 The Butt Light sits there forlornly, unsold, down in the mouth.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2023 08:46 PM (qoGsy)

Hi, Tonypete!

I noticed my neighbor across the street drinking Bud Light yesterday. I kept my mouth shut; I don't know them that well. Heh.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 21, 2023 08:50 PM (OX9vb)

196 "Damn thing stopped every 10 miles, and didn't use the interstate system."

Those were the Golden Years for Greyhound travel. See all the cute little burgs, back before they turned to shit.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 08:51 PM (MvF+J)

197 The president (Biden) also signed an executive order at the outset of his presidency restoring worker protections and eliminating Schedule F, a Trump-era policy that provided a pathway for certain appointees to burrow their way into long-term civil service jobs.

Posted by: CN at April 21, 2023 08:51 PM (Zzbjj)

198 Heh...

I took a Greyhound trip home from college...once!
Damn thing stopped every 10 miles, and didn't use the interstate system. A normal 7 hour commute ended up taking close to 12 hours.
Posted by: browndog

The bathrooms on those old Greyhounds were also quite fragrant if you are unlikely enough to use one or have to sit around one.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 08:52 PM (oqoj8)

199 So apparently DeSantis has signed another bill in Fl. This time lowering the threshold required to condemn a criminal to death. Not the same as the pedophile death penalty. I had missed this one.

Posted by: Floridachick at April 21, 2023 08:52 PM (MwrPl)

200 Us poor folk had to use greyhound all of time.

The things you might see are like precious memories. I saw a crackhole getting bent over a dumpster in an alley in Los Angeles working for her next dimebag. It's a beautiful thing !

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 21, 2023 08:53 PM (V4X9X)

201 "The shitty buyers of those drugs kept showing up for about two years or so in every fall expecting to score."

I got rando dudes and bubbas coming to my tenant's front door a lot. I think one of his roommates is a prostitute. Haven't asked.

At least the rent gets paid regularly. Always 3-4 days late, but I always get it.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 08:53 PM (MvF+J)

202 Nor I. We drive everywhere now. But I do have a kid living in London with two of the grands now. I'll have to suck it up and get thee to an airport one of these days.
Posted by: Tonypete

If you fly to England, try flying a Delta/KLM code sharing to UK. KLM will fly you into Amsterdam and then it is often easy to catch Channel hopping flights to cheaper airports than Heathrow.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 08:54 PM (oqoj8)

203 Hey Dash! Happy Friday evening to you and you'rn.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2023 08:54 PM (qoGsy)

204 Crackwhore > crackhole

Same > same

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 21, 2023 08:54 PM (V4X9X)

205 201 "The shitty buyers of those drugs kept showing up for about two years or so in every fall expecting to score."

I got rando dudes and bubbas coming to my tenant's front door a lot. I think one of his roommates is a prostitute. Haven't asked.

At least the rent gets paid regularly. Always 3-4 days late, but I always get it.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape

Sounds like your renter has a better class of people as customers than that drug dealer did. We would have random gunshots, kids being threatened when the pit bull got loose, someone's cat got shot, people passing out in their driveway, random scuzzballs knocking on our door wanting to come in, all sorts of crap.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 08:56 PM (oqoj8)

206 "KLM will fly you into Amsterdam"

Noted for my eventual ultimate Death Parlor trip. Prolly can't afford it.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 08:56 PM (MvF+J)

207 Go to know whig - thanks!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2023 08:56 PM (qoGsy)

208 196 "Damn thing stopped every 10 miles, and didn't use the interstate system."

Those were the Golden Years for Greyhound travel. See all the cute little burgs, back before they turned to shit.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 08:51 PM (MvF+J)

Not so affectionately known in the North Country as "The Milk Run"...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 21, 2023 08:58 PM (CCSxw)

209 The things you might see are like precious memories. I saw a crackhole getting bent over a dumpster in an alley in Los Angeles working for her next dimebag. It's a beautiful thing !
Posted by: Dr. Bone

I lived in DC during the Marion Berry years in a not so good area of town. Had enough of cities not to want to live in them. Bad enough if you have the wrong neighbors in the suburbs or rural areas but you have a lot more space to avoid them.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 08:58 PM (oqoj8)

210 In college my GF and I liked this little Italian place. We would joke that it must be a mob front because although the food was good, they never seemed to be busy enough to stay in business. A few years later after we had moved away, we heard from friends that it got busted with some kind of organized crime angle.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 21, 2023 08:59 PM (nfrXX)

211 I knew a guy who owned one of those RV franchises. Rich as fuck! Never slept because of the meth he was selling ? doing.
Posted by: Dr. Bone

A guy I partnered (with many others) with to build a restaurant, was caught running stolen construction equipment through his place of business. He is right now still in prison. My restaurant is doing OK though. If you like steak.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 21, 2023 09:01 PM (0vFtj)

212 KLM treats you right and even now, a lot of the redeye flights are not as crowded and noisy with squalling babes and such. Just allow a day to adjust.

When I went to London, flew KLM to Amsterdam and then puddle jumper to Cardiff where I had some business. From there is an easy train ride or coach bus to downtown London. Same is true for some other coastal ports a bit closer to London.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 09:01 PM (oqoj8)

213 Whig @ 206-
Not put up with that. Nope. But seems the whole country is headed in that direction.

Posted by: Eromero at April 21, 2023 09:01 PM (MF3yS)

214 Peacocks are beautiful! 🦚 The albino peacock is very cool.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 21, 2023 09:02 PM (NpAcC)

215 206 "KLM will fly you into Amsterdam"

Noted for my eventual ultimate Death Parlor trip. Prolly can't afford it.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape

The Amsterdam airport has a nice very small Rembrandt museum there too and it is highly efficient and clean just like the Dutch are.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 09:03 PM (oqoj8)

216 Today is the 2nd month of a Nation in Mourning, as we grieve the lost Soul of Jimmy Carter. He has been in Hospice for 8 weeks now. The longest time allowed to die while the Gub'Mint picks up the tab is about 6 months. Step it up, Jimmeh !

Posted by: TXMarko at April 21, 2023 09:03 PM (tRsUh)

217 "We would have random gunshots,"

My neighborhood has gunfire every day. My car's been ransacked 3 times, garage 3 times, and the downstairs apartment burglarized. Four little thugs climbed in a window, walked out the front door with a big-screen TV in broad daylight, which was witnessed. A few hours later, they came back to stand in the street to taunt the tenant.

Three of my friends have been attacked by gun-wielding thugs, one of them twice. One of my friends was murdered in a home-invasion. He was an engineer with a family, a patent-holder, and a smart and witty good friend.

I live in zipcode 61104. People who have requested my comments be taken down in the past are welcome to reveal the zipcodes they live in so I can compare the demographics.

Prop taxes here are low, so there's that.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 09:04 PM (MvF+J)

218 If only one could fly everywhere on ANA, with mostly Japanese passengers, people would have a different take on air travel. Hawt flight attendants, polite passengers, and the plane (including the bathrooms) cleaner than your own home - even at the end of a 10-hour flight.

Not all cultures are equal, or something, I think is the saying.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 21, 2023 09:04 PM (OTzUX)

219 Holy shitballs, gp.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 21, 2023 09:05 PM (OTzUX)

220 213 Whig @ 206-
Not put up with that. Nope. But seems the whole country is headed in that direction.
Posted by: Eromero

Eh, KLM was a lot better than the domestic flights that I have been on prior to my self imposed refusal to fly. Personally, like NYC, you do the tourist thing in London, then you go somewhere to enjoy the country like Wales or Scotland, etc. UK has some gorgeous pastoral lands and out of SE England, some really nice folks.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 09:05 PM (oqoj8)

221 I lived in DC during the Marion Berry years in a not so good area of town. Had enough of cities not to want to live in them. Bad enough if you have the wrong neighbors in the suburbs or rural areas but you have a lot more space to avoid them.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 08:58 PM (oqoj

I live in Orleans Parish, which is, in fact, New Orleans. I am as far away as you can be from the "City" and still be in it. Still, I like the city. Never bored unless you want to be.

Posted by: Javems at April 21, 2023 09:07 PM (AmoqO)

222 Bandimere Speedway, home of the NHRA Mile Hi Nationals, will close this year

Posted by: DB - tagline removed at April 21, 2023 09:08 PM (geLO8)

223 219 Can't afford to move. And the honest truth is that no matter where you move in America, eventually the thugs will follow. I've owned this 118-year-old flat since 1987. So this is my Fort Apache.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 09:09 PM (MvF+J)

224 Resume buying Bud Light, you fucking rubes!
Posted by: Donny Trump Junior

This is a couple lessons in one. Lesson A - putting faith in a political dynasty. That's UnAmerican, as the Founders would have described it.

Lesson B - note anyone here that talks down the effectiveness of a general strike. Put them on your personal scroll past list.

Posted by: Hairy Handed Gent at April 21, 2023 09:09 PM (5tJAN)

225 Not many musicians write songs about the... colorful side of taking the bus. From his "goes country" album and well worth the three or whatever minutes:

Jonathan Richman
You're Crazy for Taking the Bus

https://youtu.be/XL1KMTUBmbA

Posted by: We ended the Cold War by lying to Russia. They remember. at April 21, 2023 09:11 PM (NdB+W)

226 "The Amsterdam airport has a nice very small Rembrandt museum there too and it is highly efficient and clean just like the Dutch are."

Yes, if I have any money left after the one-way flight and the euthanasia doctor's fee, I will def see a couple of museums before I walk into the electrostatic vaporizer (see "In Like Flint.")

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 09:11 PM (MvF+J)

227 217 "We would have random gunshots,"

My neighborhood has gunfire every day. My car's been ransacked 3 times, garage 3 times, and the downstairs apartment burglarized. Four little thugs climbed in a window, walked out the front door with a big-screen TV in broad daylight, which was witnessed. A few hours later, they came back to stand in the street to taunt the tenant.

Three of my friends have been attacked by gun-wielding thugs, one of them twice. One of my friends was murdered in a home-invasion. He was an engineer with a family, a patent-holder, and a smart and witty good friend.

I live in zipcode 61104. People who have requested my comments be taken down in the past are welcome to reveal the zipcodes they live in so I can compare the demographics.

Prop taxes here are low, so there's that.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape
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Had a friend that used to teach at Western Illinois in Macomb, a colleague who inherited a house of her parents to sell there which took some doing and a long time to get a buyer, and flew into the local airport when going on through to Des Moine, IA for a conference.

But the highest crime place I lived in was DC in the early 80's.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 09:11 PM (oqoj8)

228 >>Eh, KLM was a lot better than the domestic flights that I have been on prior to my self imposed refusal to fly. Personally, like NYC, you do the tourist thing in London, then you go somewhere to enjoy the country like Wales or Scotland, etc. UK has some gorgeous pastoral lands and out of SE England, some really nice folks.

Kind of like the Netherlands. Lots of countries actually. Do some touristy things in the city but the countryside is so much pretty and friendlier.

I used to stay at a beautiful little inn in Nieuw-Beijerland which was on an inland island just south of Rotterdam. Beautiful place, fantastic food and really nice people. Amsterdam is fun but I really love the countryside.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2023 09:12 PM (ZLI7S)

229 Greyhound from Portland, down to LA, over to Tulsa OK. Then back up through KS and WY. That's the trip I saw the two bus drivers duking it out. Last time I had a long bus trip.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 21, 2023 09:12 PM (u7leW)

230 Bats!!! We have bats!!!!! O frabjous day!!!!!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 21, 2023 09:12 PM (a3Q+t)

231 Yes, if I have any money left after the one-way flight and the euthanasia doctor's fee, I will def see a couple of museums before I walk into the electrostatic vaporizer (see "In Like Flint.")
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape

Heh. At least get a ride on the Carousel as in Logan's Run. Jennie Agutter might make it all worthwhile.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 09:12 PM (oqoj8)

232 Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 09:04 PM (MvF+J)

Yikes!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 21, 2023 09:14 PM (vHIgi)

233 When I went to London, flew KLM to Amsterdam and then puddle jumper to Cardiff where I had some business. From there is an easy train ride or coach bus to downtown London. Same is true for some other coastal ports a bit closer to London.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 09:01 PM (oqoj

Lived in London in the early 1980's. Loved it. Course we were in high cotton in the west end. Just had to dodge the IRA bombings and Iranian terrorists.We lived a block from the Iranian Embassy and were home for the SAS business.

Posted by: Javems at April 21, 2023 09:14 PM (AmoqO)

234 I live in Orleans Parish, which is, in fact, New Orleans. I am as far away as you can be from the "City" and still be in it. Still, I like the city. Never bored unless you want to be.
Posted by: Javems
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I would weigh 600 lbs if I lived in New Orleans--the cooking and seafood is just that good. That being said, haven't been there in awhile since a couple of years after Katrina.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 09:14 PM (oqoj8)

235 So this is my Fort Apache.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 09:09 PM (MvF+J)

I will sincerely add you to my prayers tonight

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 21, 2023 09:15 PM (vHIgi)

236 "Had a friend that used to teach at Western Illinois in Macomb"

The small towns that house Illinois state colleges are being ruined by the colleges recruiting thugs for their f'n sportsball teams. DeKalb used to be a paradise.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 09:15 PM (MvF+J)

237 I used to stay at a beautiful little inn in Nieuw-Beijerland which was on an inland island just south of Rotterdam. Beautiful place, fantastic food and really nice people. Amsterdam is fun but I really love the countryside.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Thanks for the tip JackStraw, you and rhomboid are kind of like the Johnny Cash song--I've Been Everywhere Man.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 09:16 PM (oqoj8)

238 223 219 Can't afford to move. And the honest truth is that no matter where you move in America, eventually the thugs will follow.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 09:09 PM (MvF+J

Yep. I live in a small town in southeastern Ohio, and even here, I've seen the SWAT team up the street three times in five years, and lost count of the domestic violence incidents spilling into the street. Meth, weed, biker gangs, sex trafficked kids, it's everywhere.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 21, 2023 09:17 PM (OX9vb)

239 The small towns that house Illinois state colleges are being ruined by the colleges recruiting thugs for their f'n sportsball teams. DeKalb used to be a paradise.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape

WIU had that problem while she was there--they were basically admitting any warm body from Chicago and then trying to keep them in for the tuition dollars.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 09:17 PM (oqoj8)

240 Thank you vmom! Don't worry about me too much, because I deserve every bad thing that happens to me. I accept it, but forgive me, morons, for being so frankly outspoken about it. I believe what my lyin' eyes tell me.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 09:17 PM (MvF+J)

241 >>>In college my GF and I liked this little Italian place. We would joke that it must be a mob front because although the food was good, they never seemed to be busy enough to stay in business. A few years later after we had moved away, we heard from friends that it got busted with some kind of organized crime angle.

Posted by: Oddbob

>These things never happen. I was dining in Shitty Town with co-workers at a trendy brewery style place. Next door was a nice Italian style joint, with a small patio, and patrons wearing clothes worth more than my dwelling.

My drunk co-worker from Argentina, tried hitting on a magnificent lady, looking like what Mannix posts, and was immediately threatened with the prospect of death.

Next, two city cop cars pulled up followed by a limo,
blocked traffic, and two guys in suits jump out with a valise and make a delivery. Bada-bing, Bada-boom! In and out in 3 minutes! Cops too.

Drunk co-worker was told to shut the fuck up and was fed another beer.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 21, 2023 09:17 PM (V4X9X)

242 Peel gp A Grape, although it's if it is completely lawless, perhaps you could do some burglary and get enough money to get outta town?
The breaking bad option, as it were.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 21, 2023 09:18 PM (vHIgi)

243 The small towns that house Illinois state colleges are being ruined by the colleges recruiting thugs for their f'n sportsball teams.

They're the same as the dick-head ball players you stayed away from in high school. But bigger.

Posted by: Hairy Handed Gent at April 21, 2023 09:18 PM (5tJAN)

244 Lived in London in the early 1980's. Loved it. Course we were in high cotton in the west end. Just had to dodge the IRA bombings and Iranian terrorists.We lived a block from the Iranian Embassy and were home for the SAS business.
Posted by: Javems
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Wow. Big show indeed.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 09:18 PM (oqoj8)

245 That avalanche was awesome
Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2023 07:46 PM (xhxe
********
There's some Asian writing that's floating across the video. At first glance I thought it was a family escaping.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 21, 2023 09:19 PM (NpAcC)

246 Javems, that musta been exciting, when the SAS did their embassy thing.

And I'd love to go back to NOLA (mainly to eat, and also music of course), I just wonder what the actual street security situation is (if you aren't stupid). Have done tourism for years in many places with sketchy reps around the world, including places considered war zones by some, without a problem and with great results. Oddly I'm more cautious about such situations at home than in East Bumf***istan.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 21, 2023 09:19 PM (OTzUX)

247 238 The whole country is irreversible shit now.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 09:19 PM (MvF+J)

248 240 Thank you vmom! Don't worry about me too much, because I deserve every bad thing that happens to me. I accept it, but forgive me, morons, for being so frankly outspoken about it. I believe what my lyin' eyes tell me.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape

Nope, the book of Job more or less repudiates the old belief that following the law will bring about good fortune. Instead, Grace by divine intervention is ours by gift from the Lord. So, ditto to what votermom said, may you be blessed and find peace.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 09:21 PM (oqoj8)

249 I'll bet you my NFL contract I can get away with it.

Posted by: Jameson Williams at April 21, 2023 09:21 PM (SYTee)

250 Whig, I turned down a billet at Washington Navy Yard in 86.

Posted by: Eromero at April 21, 2023 09:21 PM (MF3yS)

251 "Yep. I live in a small town in southeastern Ohio...."

Hubby is originally from southeastern Ohio.

Posted by: Tuna at April 21, 2023 09:21 PM (gLRfa)

252 Wow. Big show indeed.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 09:18 PM (oqoj

It was. I felt the concussion from the flash bangs and heard the automatic weapons fire. I ran out to our entrance and saw a madcap scene. Bobbies running around like in a Buster Keaton movie.

Posted by: Javems at April 21, 2023 09:22 PM (AmoqO)

253 242 For the last two days, I've been pitching Everybody Start Shoplifting Right Now! There's little risk, don't be afraid, and stop being Chumps. That's what they're doing to us now. They are making us Chumps.

If you meet physical resistance, retreat peacefully, and hit the next store. I'm advocating nonviolent noncooperation with the economic tatters of a failed nation.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 09:23 PM (MvF+J)

254 Two separate sets of friends were gallivanting abroad recently (clearly they have more money than us).
One set in went to Greece, Egypt , and I forget ...anyway, had an airbnb in Egypt and were robbed (luggage, passports, everything).
The other couple went to a nice hotel in.Italy, also robbed.
I guess thugs are everywhere.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 21, 2023 09:24 PM (vHIgi)

Posted by: DB - tagline removed at April 21, 2023 09:25 PM (geLO8)

256

Yes - thugs are everywhere.

Posted by: Hairy Handed Gent at April 21, 2023 09:25 PM (5tJAN)

257 250 Whig, I turned down a billet at Washington Navy Yard in 86.
Posted by: Eromero

Umm, across the river from the Naval Yard at that time in Anacostia at that time was somewhere that was really not smart to be for outsiders. I had relatives in the area but in another deteriorating exurb a bit to the north and east of DC in Maryland.

I lived on Capitol Hill behind the Supreme Court building and worked in the Cannon bldg.

If you are a tourist, one of the better places to eat lunch is in the Library of Congress James Madison building. At the top of the building, there is a cafeteria with a great view of southern DC including the Naval Yard and Potomac.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 09:25 PM (oqoj8)

258 217 Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 09:04 PM (MvF+J)

I live in Zip Code 714**, and it is ruralish lowish property taxes and we have one neighbor who owns two houses on my part of the road.

It is mostly quiet, except for the occasional hotrodder, or vitamin M enthusiasts knocking on my door, or the occasional horse parade.....

could be happier but not on this side of the mason-dixon.

Posted by: sven at April 21, 2023 09:26 PM (Lzpvj)

259 For the last two days, I've been pitching Everybody Start Shoplifting Right Now! There's little risk, don't be afraid, and stop being Chumps.

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The law will be enforced and celebrated that they caught lawbreakers if certain people do it. This is no longer hypothetical. This is modern America. We have watched it with our own eyes and know it's true, and not only at politician-level crime but at street level stealing-gum crime.

You'd be taken to jail and lose your savings and your job over it, and you'd be made a lesson of.

See also: Jan 6th people who didn't know the "stay off the grass" signs were removed the day before.

Posted by: We ended the Cold War by lying to Russia. They remember. at April 21, 2023 09:26 PM (NdB+W)

260 "Yep. I live in a small town in southeastern Ohio...."

Hubby is originally from southeastern Ohio.
Posted by: Tuna

Zanesville - gateway to McConnelsville.

*Go to the middle of the bridge and turn left. Really*

Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2023 09:26 PM (qoGsy)

261 I just wonder what the actual street security situation is (if you aren't stupid). Have done tourism for years in many places with sketchy reps around the world, including places considered war zones by some, without a problem and with great results. Oddly I'm more cautious about such situations at home than in East Bumf***istan.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 21, 2023 09:19 PM (OTzUX)

The city is funny that way. You can be walking by million plus dollar homes and be in a iffy neighborhood two blocks away. Pays to plan your outings.

Posted by: Javems at April 21, 2023 09:26 PM (AmoqO)

262 Peel GP a grape, barrel duty

Posted by: sven at April 21, 2023 09:27 PM (Lzpvj)

263 On the plus side, the Barrel is probably a safer place than Peel a Grape's neighborhood

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 21, 2023 09:28 PM (vHIgi)

264 Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 09:04 PM (MvF+J)

WHo has demanded your posts be taken down?

Bold strategy posting your zip in full cotton, I'd trim the trees near your mailbox.

//Bob from the NSA

Posted by: sven at April 21, 2023 09:28 PM (Lzpvj)

265 It was. I felt the concussion from the flash bangs and heard the automatic weapons fire. I ran out to our entrance and saw a madcap scene. Bobbies running around like in a Buster Keaton movie.
Posted by: Javems

I have only seen snippets of the real raid but think I watched a movie or something that had a dramatized version of it like the Entebbe raid did.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 09:29 PM (oqoj8)

266 *Go to the middle of the bridge and turn left. Really*
Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2023 09:26 PM (qoGsy)

LOL, can confirm.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 21, 2023 09:29 PM (OX9vb)

267 249 I'll bet you my NFL contract I can get away with it.
Posted by: Jameson Williams at April 21, 2023 09:21 PM (SYTee)

Yup, we'll believe in you, take a huge risk in you as you've torn the shit out of your ACL, give you a purpose, a band of brothers community of achievers, a big fat multimillion contract, all you gotta do is...

Forget it. Typical young black thug NFL loser. I mean the Lions.

Posted by: Auspex at April 21, 2023 09:30 PM (j4U/Z)

268 Bold strategy posting your zip in full cotton, I'd trim the trees near your mailbox.

//Bob from the NSA
Posted by: sven
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Bob and his ilk would never show up in da hood where he lives. Like cops, they prefer to go after people in good neighborhoods.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 09:30 PM (oqoj8)

269 >>I guess thugs are everywhere.

Until recently there very few places I ever traveled that felt as safe as just about anywhere in the US and many were downright dangerous. That's what I find so maddening about where we are now. And we did it to ourselves by choice.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2023 09:31 PM (ZLI7S)

270 "Go to the middle of the bridge and turn left. Really"

You talkin about the Y Bridge?

Posted by: Tuna at April 21, 2023 09:31 PM (gLRfa)

271 Avalanche in the swimming hole.
I'm thinking skinny dippin' is out.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 21, 2023 09:32 PM (anj39)

272 You talkin about the Y Bridge?
Posted by: Tuna

Oh yeah!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2023 09:32 PM (qoGsy)

273 263 Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 21, 2023 09:28 PM (vHIgi)

Rockford Ill is not bad my town on paper is "the tenth most dangerous place in Louisiana" now if we remove some of that hot GI and the supporting crime structure it goes down....

Posted by: sven at April 21, 2023 09:32 PM (Lzpvj)

274 269. I don't think any of us voted for CRT and the Doros DAs

Posted by: CN at April 21, 2023 09:32 PM (Zzbjj)

275 "Grace by divine intervention is ours by gift from the Lord"

I'm convinced I could not possibly deserve it, one of the several reasons I cannot call myself a Christian. (Christ gave a LOT of instructions in the Gospels, and I find may of them impossible to live by.) So, I'm damned, and right now, in good health, I accept it. Maybe I'll feel different in pain on my deathbed, but that too would be insincere, and God would know it.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 09:33 PM (MvF+J)

276 whig I lived in DC in that same time (and beyond), all the personal acquaintances seeing firearms in their faces lived on the Hill, and all such episodes took place there or nearby. You may recall the "murder map" in the Metro section of the WaPo back then, a few times a year. All those dots forming little solid masses in parts of NE, and of course Anacostia. A lonely dot or two west of Rock Creek Park - and those you'd have heard of the specifics, as they were "news".

Navy Yard area in the 80s was sporty. We used to use the tennis courts occasionally (Hill staff had access), but day time, no big deal.

I lived mostly in leafy far NW, and worked in Russell, for that gig.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 21, 2023 09:33 PM (OTzUX)

277 268 Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 09:30 PM (oqoj

Now now we call it community outreach, our morality pets reach IN to your neighborhood....

it is ironic.

//Bob from the NSA

Posted by: sven at April 21, 2023 09:33 PM (Lzpvj)

278 Why would autocorrect change Soros to Doros?

Posted by: CN at April 21, 2023 09:33 PM (Zzbjj)

279 Hubby is from New Lex. The gateway to Junction City.

Posted by: Tuna at April 21, 2023 09:34 PM (gLRfa)

280 263 On the plus side, the Barrel is probably a safer place than Peel a Grape's neighborhood
Posted by: vmom

Probably. Bad neighborhoods are no fun especially for the old. Lived in Pine Bluff, Ar for awhile and some sick bastard raped his own 80 year old aunt as well as some other elderly victims and someone killed the clerk at a little coffee/gas station where I picked up coffee every morning. Did it about one hour earlier than when I usually came through.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 09:34 PM (oqoj8)

281 Islanders score late in the 3rd

2-1

Posted by: browndog on his cell at April 21, 2023 09:35 PM (CCSxw)

282 See also: Jan 6th people who didn't know the "stay off the grass" signs were removed the day before.

This is a generational thing.

My old man drug us all to DC, when I was in middle school, in the early eighties. I had two wisdom teeth coming in. The expectation was to tell the old man how great everything was - as always. And some things were great.

But every night, listening to constant sirens from that room at the Holiday Inn was not great. The sneers you could pick up - because we were rubes, and treated as such - were not great.

Best of all was the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Of course, my old man got a hard on pretty much when park rangers descended on a dumb ass that took a picture. But I've seen my old man do equally dumb shit, and walk past multiple signs to do it.

Short story long - J6 has very little to do with those signs, but everything to do with generations that seek pretext to fuck with people.

Posted by: Hairy Handed Gent at April 21, 2023 09:35 PM (5tJAN)

283 Now now we call it community outreach, our morality pets reach IN to your neighborhood....

it is ironic.

//Bob from the NSA

Thats okay. Da boys in da hood are okay if you respect them but they really hate pencil neck bureaucrats.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 09:35 PM (oqoj8)

284 Islanders score again

3-1

Posted by: browndog on his cell at April 21, 2023 09:36 PM (CCSxw)

285 >>>Why would autocorrect change Soros to Doros?

Posted by: CN

>Because it hates you and wants to make you look like a moron. Join the crowd.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 21, 2023 09:36 PM (V4X9X)

286 >> I don't think any of us voted for CRT and the Doros DAs

We as a country.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2023 09:37 PM (ZLI7S)

287 Javems DC (and probably many cities) was the same back then. For a while I worked at a small outfit housed in a rowhouse right on the "border" of (even then) fairly prosperous DC, and the "no-go" zone. Nothing amiss happened there, but nobody even imagined heading east two blocks from the front door, after dark.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 21, 2023 09:38 PM (OTzUX)

288 Peel gp, no one on this earth hits the ideal, that's why grace and mercy are so important. The simple fact that you realize you're not there puts you far ahead of many supposed Christian s who show up in church. ( see the story of the prayers of the pharisee and the tax collector)

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 21, 2023 09:39 PM (r46W7)

289 This borrow-word thing in Russian, for hockey, is outta hand.

Just heard "oldschool-niy" in the Russian broadcast of the Islanders game. There's already "pleyoff", "pass", "gol" (of course), and "sooper-spahceniya" (great save).

"Oldschool-niy"??

Posted by: rhomboid at April 21, 2023 09:40 PM (OTzUX)

290 279 Hubby is from New Lex. The gateway to Junction City.
Posted by: Tuna at April 21, 2023 09:34 PM (gLRfa)

You found me! Whole town is behavioral health clinics.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 21, 2023 09:41 PM (OX9vb)

291 Empty netter

4-1 Islanders

Posted by: browndog on his cell at April 21, 2023 09:41 PM (CCSxw)

292
The Ocean View district of Norfolk had a small shopping center with a nice old guy as the caretaker, would help people with groceries, connect with the business owners and be a general joy to the community.

A black gang banger shot him dead to make his bones. As a juvenile he has a short sentence. Might be out by now.

Posted by: Auspex at April 21, 2023 09:42 PM (j4U/Z)

293 Tip in goal

5-1

‘Canes getting blown away

Posted by: browndog on his cell at April 21, 2023 09:42 PM (CCSxw)

294 286. To a limited degree. People don't want thugs in their neighborhood , but they tolerate the idea of blue areas getting it " good and hard". People in my area largely vote dem. But fight like tigers against public housing. They're oblivious to crime in Trenton and Newark

Posted by: CN at April 21, 2023 09:43 PM (Zzbjj)

295 Until recently there very few places I ever traveled that felt as safe as just about anywhere in the US and many were downright dangerous. That's what I find so maddening about where we are now. And we did it to ourselves by choice.
Posted by: JackStraw

It's interesting to me what can be done, sometimes easily, to make a location more secure. My community (about 10K) can only be accessed by one four lane road. It's not a gated community. We're about five miles off the interstate. Crime is pretty much none existent. The largest item in keeping us secure is the road in/out is about 3 miles of a speed limit of 45mph and then drops to 30MPH. We have our own LEO and they enforce the speed limit mercilessly for residents and visitors alike. The police chief insists this is the biggest factor in keeping out the bad guys and crack/meth heads.

Vultures from the highway are intercepted and harassed by the speeding tickets to say nothing of the cops IDing them. I realize ours is special and probably unique case - rural settings have different options than urban locales.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2023 09:43 PM (qoGsy)

296 >>‘Canes getting blown away

It's a good thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2023 09:43 PM (ZLI7S)

297 Catturd thinks the GOP are worthless cowards. I think they're allied with donks and know the people wouldn't like their corruption either .
tinyurl.com/3uzd582e

Posted by: CN at April 21, 2023 09:44 PM (Zzbjj)

298 I'm on my fourth German bier.

So what have I missed?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 21, 2023 09:45 PM (anj39)

299 re: sidebar
I'm hoping this is too little too late by A-B.Anheuser-Busch InBev

Twenty One Days Later? After trying these responses?
1) ignore it and they'll go away;
2) it was those darn interns;
3) Quick! Break the "Break Glass in Emergency" glass and whip up a Clydesdale commercial for those stupid rubes. (BTW, thanks for ruining any good feelings from those older commercials by doing this)
4) Get YouTube to start punishing content that mentions Mulvaney

At this point ritual seppaku might be worth trying (but it won't work for me. I want to piss on the smoldering ashes of a AB brewery)

And BTW F. You, Junior

Posted by: Chuck C at April 21, 2023 09:45 PM (xttsV)

300 292. I lived in Hampton when my dad was stationed at Ft Monroe. Our old neighborhood was new at the time, we walked across a park to get to get school. This would never happen there now.

Posted by: Piper at April 21, 2023 09:45 PM (ZdaMQ)

301 264 NSA Bob already knows exactly who I am, has known it ever since I started commenting here 20 years ago.

But I won't name the commenters who want to cancel me. I like them, I know they're smart, I don't hate them, or anybody else here. And NSA Bob knows who they are already too.

I just have to call em as I see em. I didn't even really notice it until I was 50 years old!! I'm NOT a born racist. I'm a product of nurture, not nature. I am very grateful that Ace does not take my stuff down, and believe me, I self-censor more than you guys do. Hate to Live By Lies.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 09:46 PM (MvF+J)

302 Tonypete, interesting.

I still have near zero concerns anywhere I normally go in the US (talking local, have not travelled much for a while).

The outlandish stupidity in LA and SF has given me 2nd thoughts, but so far in both places, nothing really different than before.

I guess my tolerance for even the remote possibility of trouble has diminished to almost nothing, result of exhausted patience (generally) and accumulated contempt for so much/so many in the USA.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 21, 2023 09:46 PM (OTzUX)

303 Fastest 4goals in Stanley Cup history for the Islanders

Posted by: browndog on his cell at April 21, 2023 09:47 PM (CCSxw)

304 Not feeling any sympathy for the Canes

Injuries mounting up…too bad

You won your first Cup when the Sabres lost their whole defense to injuries

Otherwise we go and beat the weaker Oilers

Posted by: browndog on his cell at April 21, 2023 09:49 PM (CCSxw)

305 This borrow-word thing in Russian, for hockey, is outta hand.

Just heard "oldschool-niy" in the Russian broadcast of the Islanders game. There's already "pleyoff", "pass", "gol" (of course), and "sooper-spahceniya" (great save).

"Oldschool-niy"??
Posted by: rhomboid at April 21, 2023 09:40 PM (OTzUX)
***

Yob t'voyo golski!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 21, 2023 09:50 PM (anj39)

306 Liberating some films from the nets, completing some of my Steve Martin collection.

Getting Father of The Bride and a Remastered The Jerk.

The Jerk came out in 1979.

Where does the time go...

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 21, 2023 09:50 PM (up/3i)

307 298 I'm on my fourth German bier.

So what have I missed?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 21, 2023 09:45 PM (anj39)

Bud Light?

Posted by: Javems at April 21, 2023 09:51 PM (AmoqO)

308 I'm convinced I could not possibly deserve it, one of the several reasons I cannot call myself a Christian. (Christ gave a LOT of instructions in the Gospels, and I find may of them impossible to live by.) So, I'm damned, and right now, in good health, I accept it. Maybe I'll feel different in pain on my deathbed, but that too would be insincere, and God would know it.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 09:33 PM (MvF+J)

That's the whole point. None of us deserves it. We deserve death for our sin. Jesus took what we deserved on Himself. Now our sins have been paid for and He will take us by the hand and lead us in His Way, perfecting us according to His wise pace. As He was resurrected and lives forever, so shall we in His presence. Sin and death will be completely conquered.

Posted by: Emmie at April 21, 2023 09:52 PM (Emce2)

309 Next week I have to drive through Portland. Will time it to be mid morning. Hopefully the skanks will be off the highway.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 21, 2023 09:52 PM (anj39)

310 297 Catturd thinks the GOP are worthless cowards. I think they're allied with donks and know the people wouldn't like their corruption either .
tinyurl.com/3uzd582e
Posted by: CN

I think you are both correct--cowards and allied with the donks.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 09:52 PM (oqoj8)

311 @297

>>Catturd thinks the GOP are worthless cowards.

What is this 2008?

The GOP is moved way beyond worthless cowards, they are active saboteur's and COSPlayers.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 21, 2023 09:52 PM (up/3i)

312 I voted for the Doritos DA.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 21, 2023 09:53 PM (63Dwl)

313 >>Vultures from the highway are intercepted and harassed by the speeding tickets to say nothing of the cops IDing them. I realize ours is special and probably unique case - rural settings have different options than urban locales.

My town has some attributes that make it naturally pretty safe as well. We don't really have any crime either, speeding tickets and some DUIs in the summer with all the tourists but not much serious stuff.

But I lived in Boston for many years. Granted, a nice section but not all that far from some pretty sketchy places. And I never felt unsafe other than during blackouts.

I think you're right that most places can be made secure if the residents and the leadership want it to be and use commonsense. Baffles me why people in some of these cities choose to live in a war zone just to be fashionable.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2023 09:53 PM (ZLI7S)

314 Being a good person does not make you a Christian. Thinking yourself a good person does not make you a Christian. God is not going to be impressed with our puny righteousness. But He loves His children.

Posted by: Emmie at April 21, 2023 09:54 PM (Emce2)

315 I'm on my fourth German bier.

So what have I missed?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 21, 2023 09:45 PM (anj39)

Bud Light?
Posted by: Javems at April 21, 2023 09:51 PM (AmoqO)
***

Dude.
I said German bier. Manly bier for manly men!
Hofbrau!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 21, 2023 09:54 PM (anj39)

316 >>>At this point ritual seppaku might be worth trying (but it won't work for me. I want to piss on the smoldering ashes of a AB brewery)

And BTW F. You, Junior

Posted by: Chuck C

>I got no Dalmatian in this fight because I never liked the Clydesdale piss. $0.00 It's trending.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 21, 2023 09:55 PM (V4X9X)

317 308 I'm convinced I could not possibly deserve it, one of the several reasons I cannot call myself a Christian. (Christ gave a LOT of instructions in the Gospels, and I find may of them impossible to live by.) So, I'm damned, and right now, in good health, I accept it. Maybe I'll feel different in pain on my deathbed, but that too would be insincere, and God would know it.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 09:33 PM (MvF+J)

That's the whole point. None of us deserves it. We deserve death for our sin. Jesus took what we deserved on Himself. Now our sins have been paid for and He will take us by the hand and lead us in His Way, perfecting us according to His wise pace. As He was resurrected and lives forever, so shall we in His presence. Sin and death will be completely conquered.
Posted by: Emmie
---------
Emmie said it best. CS Lewis, paraphrasing the words of Jesus in Mere Christianity, noted that the worst of us need Jesus the most and he will be there for you.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 09:57 PM (oqoj8)

318 I'm convinced I could not possibly deserve it, one of the several reasons I cannot call myself a Christian.

***
Peel a Grape, look at it this way - who da heck do you think you are to reject Jesus' gift?
That's just stubborn pride, dude.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 21, 2023 09:57 PM (vHIgi)

319 @315

>>I said German bier. Manly bier for manly men!
Hofbrau!

Used to go to a Beer Garden in Astoria, they served huge musses of Spaten Optimator delivered by solidly built bar maids.

Good times.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 21, 2023 09:58 PM (up/3i)

320 Dude.
I said German bier. Manly bier for manly men!
Hofbrau!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 21, 2023 09:54 PM (anj39)

On Reforger we would stop in these little German towns and sample their beers. Seems like they all had a brewery. That is where they keep the good stuff.

Posted by: Javems at April 21, 2023 09:58 PM (AmoqO)

321 >>>I think you're right that most places can be made secure if the residents and the leadership want it to be and use commonsense.

>Import some peacocks. They' position the flock around the neighborhood and scream back and forth at everything that moves.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 21, 2023 09:58 PM (V4X9X)

322 Tuborg in a glass. That's class!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 21, 2023 10:00 PM (63Dwl)

323 Used to go to a Beer Garden in Astoria, they served huge musses of Spaten Optimator delivered by solidly built bar maids.

Good times.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 21, 2023 09:58 PM (up/3i)


No kidding???
I'll be in Canon Beach next week.
Might have to go explore...

Posted by: Diogenes at April 21, 2023 10:00 PM (anj39)

324 CS Lewis, paraphrasing the words of Jesus in Mere Christianity, noted that the worst of us need Jesus the most and he will be there for you.
Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 09:57 PM (oqoj

I'm honored, Whig. And it's interesting that you should mention Mere Christianity because I've been re-reading it recently.

Posted by: Emmie at April 21, 2023 10:00 PM (Emce2)

325 308 I appreciate your exegesis! I know it's popular. I look at Luke 6:46, and that tells me I must do what Jesus says. If I don't, I don't make the cut. Maybe He implied "optional" in there, or (quite likely) my exegesis is wrong.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 10:01 PM (MvF+J)

326 That's the whole point. None of us deserves it. We deserve death for our sin.

Thats a tough sell, if you're trying to pick teams on the playground.

Posted by: Hairy Handed Gent at April 21, 2023 10:01 PM (5tJAN)

327 Hate to Live By Lies.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape
-------
That statement alone is one that could only be produced by someone religious at heart. Just need to find peace with whatever you believe you have done and go on with life.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 10:01 PM (oqoj8)

328 310. They are bravely ignoring the evidence. Mike Lee spent more time talking about Prince Harry than " Russian collusion". It doesn't seem to register.

Posted by: CN at April 21, 2023 10:01 PM (Zzbjj)

329
On Reforger we would stop in these little German towns and sample their beers. Seems like they all had a brewery. That is where they keep the good stuff.
Posted by: Javems at April 21, 2023 09:58 PM (AmoqO)


They all did.
We used to go recon our go to war positions and drink in the local gasthaus.
Great times.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 21, 2023 10:02 PM (anj39)

330 We tried Yuengling for the first time yesterday. Their lager is quite smooth. This might turn out to be our summer beer.

Posted by: Emmie at April 21, 2023 10:02 PM (Emce2)

331 330 We tried Yuengling for the first time yesterday. Their lager is quite smooth. This might turn out to be our summer beer.
Posted by: Emmie

Yuengling is one of the better domestic beers for a reasonable price. Liked the dark as well.

Unfortunately, my meds for inflammatory arthritis and other such fun syndromes do not play well with alcohol so can't drink anymore.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 10:04 PM (oqoj8)

332 My Mom said believing is a matter of faith. One chooses to believe. She was pretty smart.

Posted by: Javems at April 21, 2023 10:05 PM (AmoqO)

333 318 That's a good point! The way I look at it, if my only reason to embrace Christ is to secure salvation, and I otherwise disregard Luke 6:46, and all His other commands, it just feels insincere, and futilely so, because the Lord knows when I am lying.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 10:05 PM (MvF+J)

334 321 >>>I think you're right that most places can be made secure if the residents and the leadership want it to be and use commonsense.

>Import some peacocks. They' position the flock around the neighborhood and scream back and forth at everything that moves.
Posted by: Dr. Bone

Guineas are a bit better--raise as much noise but not as much a PITA to be around. Eat lotsa bugs too and decent eating.

Peacocks and Geese can have an attitude and that is from personal experience as the neighbors had them when I was growing up.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 10:07 PM (oqoj8)

335 333 318 That's a good point! The way I look at it, if my only reason to embrace Christ is to secure salvation, and I otherwise disregard Luke 6:46, and all His other commands, it just feels insincere, and futilely so, because the Lord knows when I am lying.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape
-------
Listen to vmom and Emmie, they got a lot more biblical wisdom than I do.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 10:09 PM (oqoj8)

336 Gotta go. Night folks.

Posted by: whig at April 21, 2023 10:10 PM (oqoj8)

337 I think it would be really cool if we had a weekly Bible discussion thread. Most people think John 8:1-11 is easy to understand. Not for me it isn't. So that's my suggestion for a starter.

If I discuss Scripture with you guys, and I disagree with you, nothing I say is intended to shake your Faith. I'm not pushing atheism or agnosticism. Your Faith is so very precious, and I would not want to see anybody lose it. I just have questions.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 21, 2023 10:13 PM (MvF+J)

338 Peacocks yell at airplanes. They aren’t the brightest.

Posted by: Piper at April 21, 2023 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

339 Gp, I continued my comments in the ONT. Didn't know if you'd stay here or jump to the new thread.

Posted by: Emmie at April 21, 2023 10:18 PM (Emce2)

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