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A panda's attempt at a stealth pounce. In fairness, the most difficult prey that pandas have to hunt is a leaf.

This is hurting my brain, yo.

A beaver's primal instinct.

Sound on: He's a fan of Meowio Andretti.

Pigeon sandwich.

A cat takes a huge evolutionary step.

Drunken bear style Tai Chi.

Dog v. Cat: Round 1. Round 2. Round 3. Round 4.

Nice river scene.

Beautiful sunset.

Dinner with frenz.

Wait for it.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/YrtGSatvf0
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1 Faust!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 18, 2023 07:32 PM (krqg6)

2 And nooded.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 18, 2023 07:32 PM (krqg6)

3 Fun stuff from me next.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 18, 2023 07:33 PM (krqg6)

4 Cute dog video:

https://tinyurl.com/2p8zz7kj

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 18, 2023 07:34 PM (krqg6)

5 AI shows Jesus flipping over tables in the Temple:
https://tinyurl.com/34a3bc6t

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 18, 2023 07:35 PM (krqg6)

6 Thanks for the Monday Cafe DE ACE!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 18, 2023 07:35 PM (evrRm)

7 5 quatloos says that woman kept eating the ice cream, even after the bird raid.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 18, 2023 07:35 PM (NrEAT)

8 I think I need this today more days than most. Thank you Ace.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 18, 2023 07:35 PM (qPw5n)

9 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 18, 2023 07:35 PM (fwDg9)

10 Baby elephant !

Posted by: runner at September 18, 2023 07:36 PM (V13WU)

11 Pandas are adorable but how do they survive?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at September 18, 2023 07:37 PM (VdGjU)

12 Love the Ostrich photobomb

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 18, 2023 07:38 PM (NrEAT)

13 The Beaver video still cracks me up.
Guess you can't get a Beaver to change

Posted by: Skip at September 18, 2023 07:38 PM (fwDg9)

14 And nooded.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 18, 2023 07:32 PM (krqg6)

A scholar and true gentleman. I don't believe a word what they say against you.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 18, 2023 07:38 PM (4I/2K)

15 Schumer went Caligula on the Institution of the Senate.

"Let's just end the tedious charade that this is a serious Institution."

Posted by: Thesokorus at September 18, 2023 07:39 PM (dWIfC)

16 My cat Penny jumps on me when I lay in bed just like that cat jumps on that dog.

She's perfectly capable of jumping *over* me, but prefers to make sure all four paws connect with my body.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 18, 2023 07:39 PM (BpYfr)

17 The Border Patrol has encountered over 900 penguins crossing our southern border just this month. They are being bussed all over the country and THEY MIGHT BE COMING TO YOUR TOWN TOO!

Posted by: fd at September 18, 2023 07:39 PM (vFG9F)

18 Cute artistic tribute to conservative Xtwatter etc. Catturd on his birthday. Even if you know not of him, it's still a fun IMAGE.

https://tinyurl.com/3day8v7c

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 18, 2023 07:39 PM (krqg6)

19 The Beaver video still cracks me up.
Guess you can't get a Beaver to change
Posted by: Skip at September 18, 2023 07:38 PM (fwDg9)

Beavers don't change their spots.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 18, 2023 07:40 PM (4I/2K)

20 Pandas are adorable but how do they survive?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at September 18, 2023 07:37 PM (VdGjU)

I've come to see them as an affront to all I hold dear.

Posted by: Thesokorus at September 18, 2023 07:40 PM (dWIfC)

21 A scholar and true gentleman. I don't believe a word what they say against you.
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Lies, I tell you! All lies!!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 18, 2023 07:41 PM (krqg6)

22 Pandas are adorable but how do they survive?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at September 18, 2023 07:37 PM (VdGjU)

I've come to see them as an affront to all I hold dear.
Posted by: Thesokorus at September 18, 2023 07:40 PM (dWIfC)
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Pandas and koalas have both developed "cuteness" as their primary survival mechanism.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 18, 2023 07:41 PM (BpYfr)

23 Beavers don't change their spots.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 18, 2023 07:40 PM (4I/2K)

Boebert-smiling dot png

Posted by: Thesokorus at September 18, 2023 07:41 PM (dWIfC)

24 "Boebert" is a silly and yet very woody name.

Posted by: Thesokorus at September 18, 2023 07:43 PM (dWIfC)

25 "Pandas are adorable but how do they survive?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd"

They are so highly evolved they have tricked humans into maintaining the species.

Posted by: fd at September 18, 2023 07:43 PM (vFG9F)

26 A scholar and true gentleman.
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Lies, I tell you! All lies!!
Posted by: andycanuck

Hmmm... even the statement above your denial?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 18, 2023 07:43 PM (evrRm)

27 They are so highly evolved they have tricked humans into maintaining the species.
Posted by: fd at September 18, 2023 07:43 PM (vFG9F)

At this point, I experience them as a mocking slap in the face.

I want to challenge one to a duel.

Posted by: Thesokorus at September 18, 2023 07:45 PM (dWIfC)

28 Controversial :

I enjoy cat videos and non-dog animal videos. Dog videos make me uncomfortable.

"Why you dog-hater?!"

Because dogs can be trained, sometimes cruelly. I always wonder how many 'takes' every video took.

I've only had cats and there's no way on God's green earth that you will train them for video hits.

Thoughts?

Posted by: DaisyB at September 18, 2023 07:45 PM (AbL8c)

29 > Fun stuff from me next.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 18, 2023 07:33 PM (krqg6)

you should start your own blog instead of piggy-backing on this one so much

Posted by: unk at September 18, 2023 07:45 PM (sEU/5)

30 Lucy the Fink often had one of her mousie toys right next to her food dish when I get home. She's feeding her little friends.

She also practices full immersion baptisms.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan at September 18, 2023 07:45 PM (9GsUI)

31 That dog has accepted his fate. Maybe there is a lesson in that.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 18, 2023 07:45 PM (5xURv)

32 She also practices full immersion baptisms.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan at September 18, 2023 07:45 PM (9GsUI)
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My cat Allie used to do that when she first came to live at my house. She doesn't do that any more. Must have baptized them all...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 18, 2023 07:47 PM (BpYfr)

33 My cat Dexter ambushes me on a somewhat regular basis, rather, he stakes out a spot in the hall and swats me as I dare approach him.
And then there are the midnight piano concertos.
I'd kill him, but he too, is cute.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 18, 2023 07:47 PM (MeG8a)

34 >>>This is hurting my brain, yo.

Fred would like a word.
https://youtu.be/4yxGxTVw1dE

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 18, 2023 07:48 PM (klJTj)

35
She's perfectly capable of jumping *over* me, but prefers to make sure all four paws connect with my body.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 18, 2023 07:39 PM (BpYfr)

My cats l made it a pointed to step all over my nuts anytime they decided to walk over me. Could walk around, could jump over, but no, they had to step on deez.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 18, 2023 07:48 PM (5xURv)

36 I've only had cats and there's no way on God's green earth that you will train them for video hits.

Thoughts?

Posted by: DaisyB at September 18, 2023 07:45 PM (AbL8c)
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They've trained *US* to make them media whores...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 18, 2023 07:48 PM (BpYfr)

37 Dinner with Frenz is cracking me up

Posted by: Skip at September 18, 2023 07:48 PM (fwDg9)

38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vr88T6RW5s

Cat versus Corgis

Posted by: 13times at September 18, 2023 07:48 PM (cto+/)

39 And then there are the midnight piano concertos.
I'd kill him, but he too, is cute.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

Lucy the Fink is an opera singer in the early morning.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan at September 18, 2023 07:49 PM (9GsUI)

40 >>>Every. Single. Day..

The rarely seen goat-cat.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 18, 2023 07:49 PM (klJTj)

41 Oh please Border Patrol, send some cute penguins to my neighborhood!

Posted by: Diversity Now! at September 18, 2023 07:49 PM (83IzV)

42 Our cats don't walk on me. They don't sit in my chair either. They know better.

Posted by: fd at September 18, 2023 07:49 PM (vFG9F)

43 To a Leftist a male can be a female but a Beaver is a Beaver even out of the water

Posted by: Skip at September 18, 2023 07:49 PM (fwDg9)

44 Cool and cloudy here in Seattle. The boat ride is a little choppy. Crew has the doors all open so the salt air is breezing through. Should be a pretty sunset this evening. We are losing about four minutes a day now. I love it.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan at September 18, 2023 07:51 PM (9GsUI)

45 Im guessing my cats stomped on my nuts because I got them neutered. Payback and all.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 18, 2023 07:52 PM (5xURv)

46 From the side-bar:

A city-owned grocery store in the South or West side of Chicago would be a viable way to restore access to healthy food in areas that have suffered from historic and systemic disinvestment.

Shoplifters won't steal from the municipal grocery store?

What does that promotion path look like for a city-owned grocery store?

How exactly is food supposed to show up on the store shelves? Magic? For all of these decades Kroger, Safeway, Walmart et al never needed distribution centers, marketers, merchandisers, distribution chains, reliable suppliers, and the vast infrastructure, site selection, and sales and customer preference data for forecasting, processes, efficiencies of scale and thousands of years of accumulated industry knowledge?

These retards can't even run a lemonaid stand, they really are going to beat Big Grocery at one of the most cut-throat games?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 18, 2023 07:54 PM (p8A+W)

47 {{{nurse ratched}}}

That sounds wonderful. The Pacific Ocean currents keep you comfortable.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 18, 2023 07:54 PM (u82oZ)

48 A busy day...

Hot news @TheNewsTrending 7h
Earthquakes from today alone:

➡️ 6.3 magnitude earthquake hits Japan

➡️ 6.3 magnitude earthquake hits northeast of Taiwan

➡️ 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits Italy

➡️ 5.1 Magnitude earthquake hits the island of Georgia, Australia

➡️ 4.9 magnitude earthquake hits the Philippines

➡️ 4.8 magnitude earthquake hits Russia

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 18, 2023 07:54 PM (krqg6)

49 I've only had cats and there's no way on God's green earth that you will train them for video hits.

Thoughts?

Posted by: DaisyB at September 18, 2023 07:45 PM (AbL8c)

You can train cats, they have these cat circuses that are pretty cool. Mostly they train themselves to do tricks.

The major difference is that when a cat is tired of the tricks he's done. The need to please a human is not built into the cat like it is to the dog. They can be kind, or devoted but it isn't forced on them by their genetics.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 07:55 PM (eoQWY)

50 Whole lotta shakin goin on

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 18, 2023 07:55 PM (5xURv)

51 andycanuck maybe a little more but not long ago someone commented a earthquake and looked up earthquakes and saw half dozen around the globe

Posted by: Skip at September 18, 2023 07:57 PM (fwDg9)

52 Hiya Salty!

Hope to be seeing you sooooooon!

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan at September 18, 2023 07:57 PM (dCMcd)

53 Ace would be super pissed if people started removing content from his blog.

Posted by: Defenestration Expert Moron Robbie at September 18, 2023 07:58 PM (SfD1B)

54 A city-owned grocery store in the South or West side of Chicago would be a viable way to restore access to healthy food in areas that have suffered from historic and systemic disinvestment.

...

These retards can't even run a lemonaid stand, they really are going to beat Big Grocery at one of the most cut-throat games?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 18, 2023 07:54 PM (p8A+W)

They can easily beat groceries...by banning them.

Of course if they did the jobs they are legally forcing people to NOT do for themselves, like self defense, and enforced the laws they took oaths to follow, then there would be no issue with stores closing in those areas and it would all come with no effort on their part.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 07:58 PM (eoQWY)

55 These retards can't even run a lemonaid stand, they really are going to beat Big Grocery at one of the most cut-throat games?
Posted by: Reuben Hick

1) Open Gov Grocery.
2) Pass law closing all other grocery stores.
3) Customers *flock* to your store to steal shelves bare.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 18, 2023 07:58 PM (evrRm)

56 '"Shoplifters won't steal from the municipal grocery store?"

My sister ran a "Community Non Profit Grocery Store" in urban Atlanta over 25 years ago. It was "non profit" alright. It was also a non entity after a couple of years.

Posted by: fd at September 18, 2023 07:58 PM (vFG9F)

57 *waves arms*

Hi Nurse!

Posted by: PabloD at September 18, 2023 07:58 PM (GALGA)

58 Hot news @TheNewsTrending 7h
Earthquakes from today alone:

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 18, 2023 07:54 PM (krqg6)
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It's Trump's fault. Or climate change. Or Trump-induced climate change.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 18, 2023 07:59 PM (BpYfr)

59 The major difference is that when a cat is tired of the tricks he's done. The need to please a human is not built into the cat like it is to the dog. They can be kind, or devoted but it isn't forced on them by their genetics.

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Yes, exactly. I love them, they are fascinating animals. I am always amazed at a cat's ability to go from purring lap friend to stone-cold rodent killer in an instant.

But I worry about the poor dogs bullied into videos for clicks.

Posted by: DaisyB at September 18, 2023 07:59 PM (AbL8c)

60 andycanuck maybe a little more but not long ago someone commented a earthquake and looked up earthquakes and saw half dozen around the globe
Posted by: Skip at September 18, 2023 07:57 PM (fwDg9)

I doubt that's an uncommon number. Last I checked when I felt one near me there was a handful of others just in the state, much less worldwide.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 07:59 PM (eoQWY)

61 Whole lotta shakin goin on
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 18, 2023 07:55 PM (5xURv)

Shake, Rattle and Roll!

Posted by: Bill Haley and His Comets at September 18, 2023 08:00 PM (4I/2K)

62 I have a fenced in yard, Dexter gets to go out and enjoy himself out there most days. When it is time to go in, I point to the door and say "In!".
And he goes in, usually with some growling protest.
I'd let him stay out but then he would get in dust ups with the local raccoon.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 18, 2023 08:00 PM (MeG8a)

63 >>>59 The major difference is that when a cat is tired of the tricks he's done. The need to please a human is not built into the cat like it is to the dog. They can be kind, or devoted but it isn't forced on them by their genetics.

The love of a pimp is different than the love of a square.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at September 18, 2023 08:00 PM (KRtlO)

64 As we enjoy this friendly animal thread, never forget that someone, somewhere, is being infected by a rabid bat.

Posted by: Wings Across America at September 18, 2023 08:00 PM (83IzV)

65 I liked Round 2 of the Cat/ Dog fight

Posted by: Skip at September 18, 2023 08:01 PM (fwDg9)

66 The MSM is not gay, I repeat, NOT GAY, for Gavin Newsom the next President of the United States.

CNN’s Jake Tapper and David Axelrod had an awkward discussion Monday about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (R-CA) physical prowess compared to that of President Joe Biden.
https://tinyurl.com/ysass7ws

“I mean, [Newsom] is out there, he’s debating Sean Hannity, he’s talking to Dana Bash for an hour-long special...But, come on — he’s primed and ready to go,” Tapper said.
“Yeah, I mean, I’m sure the White House is very gratified for some of the things that he’s saying,” Axelrod said. “I don’t know that they’d be as enthusiastic about his ubiquitous presence on the air. It’s sort of like, just at the time when Democrats are concerned about their aging, you know, spouse, here comes this neighbor. Young, strapping potential partner.”
“Right!” Tapper exclaimed. “Did you see the split screen? I mean, I don’t know if we were doing that on purpose, but it looked like -”
“Yeah,” Axelrod agreed. “I mean, I know that he knows - he’s a sophisticated guy.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at September 18, 2023 08:01 PM (9aVck)

67
But I worry about the poor dogs bullied into videos for clicks.
Posted by: DaisyB

Bullied?
The dogs work for affection and/or treats.
Beat a dog and it cowers.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 18, 2023 08:01 PM (evrRm)

68 These retards can't even run a lemonaid stand, they really are going to beat Big Grocery at one of the most cut-throat games?
Posted by: Reuben Hick

1) Open Gov Grocery.
2) Pass law closing all other grocery stores.
3) Customers *flock* to your store to steal shelves bare.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 18, 2023 07:58 PM (evrRm)

They'd just start shooting shoplifters on sight then.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 08:01 PM (eoQWY)

69 6.3 magnitude earthquake hits Japan

➡️ 6.3 magnitude earthquake hits northeast of Taiwan

➡️ 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits Italy

➡️ 5.1 Magnitude earthquake hits the island of Georgia, Australia

➡️ 4.9 magnitude earthquake hits the Philippines

➡️ 4.8 magnitude earthquake hits Russia

Those aren't actually very large. The scale is logarithmic so those lower numbers aren't that special. The one from 02/23 I'm working on was actually two quakes that went 7.9-ish, both, and at certain intersectional geological points topped 9.5. Anatolia and area has 3 major faults and they all did their thing. A 4.9 is like a semi-truck driving by on your residential street. It'll vibrate the house and make the windows rattle but it's nothing really dangerous.
I'm learning a lot about earthquakes with this project!

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:01 PM (43xH1)

70 “Historic disinvestment has led to inequitable access to food retail across Chicago, and these existing inequities have been exacerbated.”

I love it, Public Grocery Store. Same high quality that you find in Public Schools, Public Restrooms, Public Transportations, etc.

And in Illinois. A union state. Staffed by undoubtably affirmative action hires and mobbed up connected sinecures.

A grocery store, deliberately sited at the most crime ridden, low-trust, uncivilized demographics in the whole state. A store where they state up front that they don't care how much product is stolen.

It will be emptied faster than a free Narcan vending machine.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 18, 2023 08:02 PM (p8A+W)

71 They'd just start shooting shoplifters on sight then.
Posted by: Oldcat

In that case I hope they open the store tommorow.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 18, 2023 08:03 PM (evrRm)

72 Those aren't actually very large. The scale is logarithmic so those lower numbers aren't that special. The one from 02/23 I'm working on was actually two quakes that went 7.9-ish, both, and at certain intersectional geological points topped 9.5. Anatolia and area has 3 major faults and they all did their thing. A 4.9 is like a semi-truck driving by on your residential street. It'll vibrate the house and make the windows rattle but it's nothing really dangerous.
I'm learning a lot about earthquakes with this project!
Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:01 PM (43xH1)
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That's a good point about the logarithmic scale. An ignorant person might say that a 4.0 is half as powerful as an 8.0, when in reality it's about 10,000 times weaker.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 18, 2023 08:04 PM (BpYfr)

73 As we enjoy this friendly animal thread, never forget that someone, somewhere, is being infected by a rabid bat.
Posted by: Wings Across America'

Wisconsin is the home of, as far as I know, the only person to get rabies, not get The Shots, and survive. A young girl got bitten by a bat while pulling a hymnal out of the holder in a rural church and thought she'd cut her finger on a splinter. She got rabies for real. They put her in sub- body temperature, induced a coma and she lived.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:05 PM (43xH1)

74 My cats l made it a pointed to step all over my nuts anytime they decided to walk over me. Could walk around, could jump over, but no, they had to step on deez.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 18, 2023 07:48 PM (5xURv)

I find it interesting that a cat can go from feeling 10000 pounds one second and then decide to go light and walk on you like it weighs an ounce.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 08:05 PM (eoQWY)

75 CNN’s Jake Tapper and David Axelrod had an awkward discussion Monday about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (R-CA) physical prowess compared to that of President Joe Biden.
https://tinyurl.com/ysass7ws

"R"?

Posted by: Vanya at September 18, 2023 08:05 PM (v27SO)

76 Star Trek is on. It's the one where Spock gets spored. I'm starting to think I would like to be spored too.

Posted by: fd at September 18, 2023 08:05 PM (vFG9F)

77 Liberals will just mandate that the state force grocers to stay open and allow shoplifters.

You know, a transfer of carbs.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 18, 2023 08:05 PM (5xURv)

78 Monday night football.
Male cheerleaders???
Sheesh.
Glad we don't do elbows anymore.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 18, 2023 08:06 PM (uSHSS)

79 That's a good point about the logarithmic scale. An ignorant person might say that a 4.0 is half as powerful as an 8.0, when in reality it's about 10,000 times weaker.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel'

I'm learning a LOT about earthquakes with this book as I have to write it up in a conversational way while also acting/pretending like I know what I'm talking about...

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:06 PM (43xH1)

80 Naming the State run Chicago grocery store TheftMart may not work out the way people hope.

Posted by: 13times at September 18, 2023 08:07 PM (/1HxO)

81 You can take a beaver out of the swamp, but you can't take the swamp out of a beaver!

Wait... wut?

Posted by: Shepherd Lover at September 18, 2023 08:07 PM (nVC+w)

82 Homie Foods

Posted by: fd at September 18, 2023 08:08 PM (vFG9F)

83 The major difference is that when a cat is tired of the tricks he's done. The need to please a human is not built into the cat like it is to the dog. They can be kind, or devoted but it isn't forced on them by their genetics.
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A NOVA programme about dogs said they get a dopamine [or similar] hit from being praised by humans. Suggested ancient wolf types with this genetic mutation were the ones we were able to domesticate.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 18, 2023 08:08 PM (krqg6)

84 I saw Swampy Beaver open for Lynard Skynard at the Florida State Fair in '82.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 18, 2023 08:09 PM (5xURv)

85 A 4.9 is like a semi-truck driving by on your residential street. It'll vibrate the house and make the windows rattle but it's nothing really dangerous.
I'm learning a lot about earthquakes with this project!
Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:01 PM (43xH1)
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That's a good point about the logarithmic scale. An ignorant person might say that a 4.0 is half as powerful as an 8.0, when in reality it's about 10,000 times weaker.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 18, 2023 08:04 PM (BpYfr)

At the time the tropical storm was passing through LA we had a 5.5 pop off about 20-30 miles off. Rattled the windows, nothing fell over or down. You know its close because you get sharp motion, farther off its more rolling moves.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 08:09 PM (eoQWY)

86 75 CNN’s Jake Tapper and David Axelrod had an awkward discussion Monday about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (R-CA) physical prowess compared to that of President Joe Biden.
https://tinyurl.com/ysass7ws

"R"?
Posted by: Vanya at September 18, 2023 08:05 PM (v27SO)
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It's from Mediaite. What do you expect from them? Accuracy?! LOL!

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at September 18, 2023 08:09 PM (9aVck)

87 Ask Reddit question:

What country won’t you visit due to violence?

About 1/2 the answers: red states because the guns and hatred of gays.

We are so past time for a National divorce.

Posted by: Montec at September 18, 2023 08:10 PM (8c/SG)

88 The stiffer you are, the worse an earthquake hurts.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 18, 2023 08:10 PM (5xURv)

89 Star Trek is on. It's the one where Spock gets spored. I'm starting to think I would like to be spored too.
Posted by: fd at September 18, 2023 08:05 PM (vFG9F)

As I recall the lady he was with was pretty attractive.

And the dirty trick of Kirk breaking the spell before he scored with her is pretty bad too.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 08:11 PM (eoQWY)

90 How much more food do those folks need?

Posted by: Defenestration Expert Moron Robbie at September 18, 2023 08:11 PM (SfD1B)

91 Posted by: Montec at September 18, 2023 08:10 PM (8c/SG)

Well...Reddit. What'd you expect?

Posted by: Vanya at September 18, 2023 08:11 PM (v27SO)

92 At the time the tropical storm was passing through LA we had a 5.5 pop off about 20-30 miles off. Rattled the windows, nothing fell over or down. You know its close because you get sharp motion, farther off its more rolling moves.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 08:09 PM (eoQWY)
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Wait. An earthquake and a tropic storm in LA at the same time? Please tell me someone was shooting a disaster movie at the same time...Lie if you must!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 18, 2023 08:11 PM (BpYfr)

93 Newsome's one of them Californy Republicans. Ah hate Californy Republicans.

Posted by: fd at September 18, 2023 08:11 PM (vFG9F)

94 At some point, you've eaten enough food, amirite??

Posted by: Blowbama at September 18, 2023 08:12 PM (5xURv)

95 Wait. An earthquake and a tropic storm in LA at the same time? Please tell me someone was shooting a disaster movie at the same time...Lie if you must!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 18, 2023 08:11 PM (BpYfr)

SCORCHER VI: GLOBAL MELTDOWN

Posted by: Vanya at September 18, 2023 08:12 PM (v27SO)

96 Fun fact: the only structures proven to withstand serious earthquakes are keyed, gigantic stone blocks (think Machu Picchu). However, those blocks were keyed in place by sifting an abrasive sand/compound into the joints. Hence, when a quake hit, the stones would vibrate and shift, having the result of not shaking them apart but rather making them grind against each other and tighten the joints!

So the more intense the quake, the tighter the joints would get as they would abrade further into place.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:12 PM (43xH1)

97 I have no problem saying that if I see a groomer flag in front of a business I won't shop there and I will point it out to my children as an example of people they should not be around and should be wary of, but I also sincerely appreciate the owners letting everyone know their tendencies.

Posted by: Defenestration Expert Moron Robbie at September 18, 2023 08:12 PM (SfD1B)

98 My favourite: The cat refusing to give up the ball and explaining to the dog, "No, it hasn't been properly disemboweled yet, see?" (and then proceeds to punt the ball repeatedly with both back feet.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 18, 2023 08:12 PM (qPw5n)

99 Newsome's one of them Californy Republicans. Ah hate Californy Republicans.
Posted by: fd at September 18, 2023 08:11 PM (vFG9F)

I read that in Yosemite Sam's voice.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 18, 2023 08:13 PM (4I/2K)

100 SCORCHER VI: GLOBAL MELTDOWN
Posted by: Vanya'

"I'm IN!!!"

Posted by: The Rock and Nicholas Cage at September 18, 2023 08:13 PM (43xH1)

101 At some point, you've eaten enough food, amirite??

--

The schools send bags and bags of food home with the kids in addition to the free breakfasts, lunches, and dinners in order to supplement the $800 in free food stamp meals the family eats at home.

I'm not trying to be ugly, but $1200-$1500 in food per month is probably sufficient.

Posted by: Defenestration Expert Moron Robbie at September 18, 2023 08:14 PM (SfD1B)

102 Fun stuff from me next.
andycanuck

you should start your own blog instead of piggy-backing on this one so much
Posted by: unk at September 18, 2023 07:45 PM (sEU/5)

Is there an AOSHQ comment code, like a dress code?
Andy! are you piggy-backing those half dressed babes again!

Posted by: old chick at September 18, 2023 08:15 PM (sOete)

103 Hannah Claire is quite fetching.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 18, 2023 08:15 PM (XV/Pl)

104 I was at the Giants-Athletics game when the 7.9 hit.
We were amused for a bit, then angered when they called the game off. Whaddya mean? Nothing fell down there. The players are OK...
PLAY BALL!

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 18, 2023 08:15 PM (MeG8a)

105 "And the dirty trick of Kirk breaking the spell before he scored with her is pretty bad too.
Posted by: Oldcat "

That was a good thing. Spock might have gone all Pon farr and broke her.

Posted by: fd at September 18, 2023 08:15 PM (vFG9F)

106 A 5.0 earthquake lasting mere seconds is one thing, going on for a minute is another. And the sine-wave-like rolling or sharp jerking motion.

Posted by: 13times at September 18, 2023 08:15 PM (/1HxO)

107 I have some joints that sometimes grind together and tighten up.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 18, 2023 08:17 PM (S6gqv)

108 A NOVA programme about dogs said they get a dopamine [or similar] hit from being praised by humans. Suggested ancient wolf types with this genetic mutation were the ones we were able to domesticate.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6)'

I question this assertion. My Cattledog (mostly dingo) didn't give a fuck about praise or even treats. The only thing that straightened him out was getting lost, after running away like a fool, in West Side Chiraq for over a week and miraculously being returned by a sweet old Polish lady who invited him into her car. After that he stuck close.

Posted by: The Rock and Nicholas Cage at September 18, 2023 08:17 PM (43xH1)

109 Newsome's one of them Californy Republicans. Ah hate Californy Republicans.
Posted by: fd at September 18, 2023 08:11 PM (vFG9F)

I read that in Yosemite Sam's voice.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 18, 2023 08:13 PM (4I/2K)
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Too bad for Axelrod and Tapper that Newsom prefers drunk jailbait for sexual partners and not leathery old men.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at September 18, 2023 08:18 PM (9aVck)

110 Wait. An earthquake and a tropic storm in LA at the same time? Please tell me someone was shooting a disaster movie at the same time...Lie if you must!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 18, 2023 08:11 PM (BpYfr)

SCORCHER VI: GLOBAL MELTDOWN
Posted by: Vanya at September 18, 2023 08:12 PM (v27SO)

I only heard about the hurricane with a days notice since I don't consume regular news. A quick news check on YT showed a decent weatherman in SD giving sensible projections on their area and saying that most of the business would be inland and divided from my area by several hill ranges. Turned out he was right on the money. Later I saw some LA channels trying to boost the situation in Long Beach up to even be a little worrisome. Nobody seemed to be buying it, as the sandbag people only had a few customers.

In my particular area it rained more as it approached than it did when it was passing to the east heading north.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 08:19 PM (eoQWY)

111 Tighten Up!

Posted by: Archie Bell and the Drells, from Houston, Texas where the sun shines most of the time at September 18, 2023 08:19 PM (4I/2K)

112 A 5.0 earthquake lasting mere seconds is one thing, going on for a minute is another. And the sine-wave-like rolling or sharp jerking motion.
Posted by: 13times'

I'm getting reports, confirmed, of 2 minutes of every kind of crazy that can happen. Lateral, vertical, the 'mix-master', and finally a kind of gyroscopic 3D gravity defy-er. There is a lot of bitching by anti-Erdogan people screaming about building codes and whatnot but from what I'm hearing, there was just no way. It was going to be a disaster no matter what and there was nothing for anyone to do.

Posted by: The Rock and Nicholas Cage at September 18, 2023 08:20 PM (43xH1)

113 I was at the Giants-Athletics game when the 7.9 hit.
We were amused for a bit, then angered when they called the game off. Whaddya mean? Nothing fell down there. The players are OK...
PLAY BALL!
Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 18, 2023 08:15 PM (MeG8a)

Not like you could go home with the highway double decker bridge sandwiching either.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 08:21 PM (eoQWY)

114 mini-diplodicuses are cute

. . . Diplodici?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 18, 2023 08:22 PM (xhaym)

115 Sorry, I made a mistake in a post above. It's not $800 in food stamps each month.

It's $939.

"The average SNAP benefit for a single person in 2023 is $195 per month, with a maximum of $281. The average benefit for a family of four is $684, with a maximum of $939, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP)."

https://tinyurl.com/mryeh84n

Posted by: Defenestration Expert Moron Robbie at September 18, 2023 08:23 PM (SfD1B)

116 At some point, you've eaten enough food, amirite??
Posted by: Blowbama at September 18, 2023 08:12 PM (5xURv)

Wrong!

Posted by: Zyanha Bryant, Dove model at September 18, 2023 08:23 PM (4I/2K)

117 57 *waves arms*

Hi Nurse!
Posted by: PabloD at

*jumps up and down*
*waves arms*
* falls down*

Hiya PabloD!

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan at September 18, 2023 08:25 PM (TQc0R)

118 Anyway, I'm not a seismologist I just have to fact-check (not like what you think) and try to sort out all these stories into something credible. Someone whose extended family just got pancaked in a high-rise collapse isn't really interested in erudite Science.
I also have an incoming archeological paper to work on involving the collection of fossils as votive/magical artifacts by pre-historic peoples in the Balkans, which is totally fascinating. I'm told I'll get a verified Neanderthal flint tool out of it!
Cool beans

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:25 PM (43xH1)

119 My Cattledog (mostly dingo) didn't give a fuck about praise or even treats.
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Wolfish!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 18, 2023 08:26 PM (krqg6)

120 I'm getting reports, confirmed, of 2 minutes of every kind of crazy that can happen. Lateral, vertical, the 'mix-master', and finally a kind of gyroscopic 3D gravity defy-er. There is a lot of bitching by anti-Erdogan people screaming about building codes and whatnot but from what I'm hearing, there was just no way. It was going to be a disaster no matter what and there was nothing for anyone to do.
Posted by: The Rock and Nicholas Cage at September 18, 2023 08:20 PM (43xH1)

if the soil has a certain composition it can liquefy into a instant quicksand and swallow you. I don't doubt that not enough improving of codes or following them was done, its a huge expense on a not wealthy land.

From what I understand the big fault there popps off regularly at different places from the Istanbul area off to the east of it into Iran. The quakes move progressively along the fault popping off large quakes. Its Arabia getting pushed by Africa north up into the bottom of Asia.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 08:27 PM (eoQWY)

121 These retards can't even run a lemonaid stand, they really are going to beat Big Grocery at one of the most cut-throat games?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 18, 2023 07:54 PM (p8A+W)

In the end it would be cheaper and more effective to station cops in the stores and in the retail districts

Posted by: Kindltot at September 18, 2023 08:27 PM (xhaym)

122 At the time I only lived about 3 miles from Candlestick. No freeways or bridges.
It took me 4 hours to get home.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 18, 2023 08:27 PM (MeG8a)

123 mini-diplodicuses are cute

. . . Diplodici?'

I've been informed by these kinds of people either is acceptable.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:28 PM (43xH1)

124 And the dirty trick of Kirk breaking the spell before he scored with her is pretty bad too.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 08:11 PM (eoQWY)

Kirk definitely was a Spock-blocker

Posted by: Kindltot at September 18, 2023 08:29 PM (xhaym)

125
Yo. 'Zup?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 18, 2023 08:29 PM (MoZTd)

126 if the soil has a certain composition it can liquefy into a instant quicksand and swallow you. I don't doubt that not enough improving of codes or following them was done, its a huge expense on a not wealthy land.
Posted by: Oldcat'

I'm getting unconfirmed reports of liquification, New Madrid type stuff. Whole buildings subsuming into the Earth and being ejected as debris. It takes upward of 8-ish apparently and a 9.5 of 30 seconds will liquify anything.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:31 PM (43xH1)

127 I wonder if mama elephants ever step on baby elephants

Posted by: DB - much ballyhooed at September 18, 2023 08:31 PM (geLO8)

128 Fun fact: the only structures proven to withstand serious earthquakes are keyed, gigantic stone blocks (think Machu Picchu). However, those blocks were keyed in place by sifting an abrasive sand/compound into the joints. Hence, when a quake hit, the stones would vibrate and shift, having the result of not shaking them apart but rather making them grind against each other and tighten the joints!

So the more intense the quake, the tighter the joints would get as they would abrade further into place.
Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:12 PM (43xH1)

The stuff actually starts a chemical reaction with the rock due to pressure that kinda melts the two stones together making them very tough. The non linear joins also help make them hold together better than a long parallel one.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 08:31 PM (eoQWY)

129 What is it with progs about having to be naked in public?

LIVE in SAN FRANCISCO! 44th Annual Haight-Ashbury Street Fair
youtube.com/watch?v=eI1LfBsAGdk&t=4021s

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at September 18, 2023 08:34 PM (9aVck)

130 122 At the time I only lived about 3 miles from Candlestick. No freeways or bridges.
It took me 4 hours to get home.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 18, 2023 08:27 PM (MeG8a)

Good grief. I missed the earthquake after moving from San Mateo.

Posted by: 13times at September 18, 2023 08:34 PM (Eh5U4)

131 I like dogs and we've had them on and off. But, we've always had cats, usually 2, but Maysie passed in 2019 at age 21. Dogs don't live as long. Maysie was 100% sweetness. A big love bucket. Unlike her, Dexter has the full spectrum of cat emotions. The biggest problem I had with owning both dogs and cats was that dogs invariably want to eat from the litter box. Which is bad enough. But then, here they come with the licks...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 18, 2023 08:35 PM (MeG8a)

132 In the end it would be cheaper and more effective to station cops in the stores and in the retail districts
Posted by: Kindltot at September 18, 2023 08:27 PM (xhaym)

Cheap and effective are not desirable adjectives in City Government circles. Will it give my cousin a nice job is more in the right line.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 08:35 PM (eoQWY)

133 Anyway there are a lot of people interested in taking out Erdogan by any means possible, so I've been instructed with this earthquake piece to not fall into that trap. I'm not into Color Revolutions, had a (formerly) valued colleague pull that on me and nearly got me killed.

Thing is, in some areas the Turkish quake was so intense literally nothing would have stood up to it, building codes or no. When the Earth liquifies like that... you're just fucked.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:35 PM (43xH1)

134 {121} In the end it would be cheaper and more effective to station cops in the stores and in the retail districts

Posted by: Kindltot at September 18, 2023 08:27 PM (xhaym)

Police desk Sergeant: "Before you go any further, pal, I gotta tell ya it's cash up front. A thousand bucks a day for a full investigation, another thou' if the assailant is caught. Do you understand?" (Heavy Metal, 1981)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 18, 2023 08:35 PM (qPw5n)

135 What is it with progs about having to be naked in public?

LIVE in SAN FRANCISCO! 44th Annual Haight-Ashbury Street Fair
youtube.com/watch?v=eI1LfBsAGdk&t=4021s
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at September 18, 2023 08:34 PM (9aVck)

Commies gotta commie. Always.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 18, 2023 08:36 PM (4I/2K)

136 "Kirk definitely was a Spock-blocker
Posted by: Kindltot"

Not much of a wingman.

Posted by: Ta Pow! at September 18, 2023 08:36 PM (vFG9F)

137 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 18, 2023 08:36 PM (qoGsy)

138 Reuben Hick: "These retards can't even run a lemonaid stand, they really are going to beat Big Grocery at one of the most cut-throat games?"

Taxpayer subsidies all the way down.

Government invents nothing. Government will outsource everything to Walmart/Costco/Kroger. There will be no discounting to compete with traditional retail chains. The Big Retailers will just ship material to "government" stores who will then, at a loss, sell items in food deserts. That loss will be absorbed by taxpayers who aren't subsidized in these food desert districts.

Big Retail gets its normal money, a guaranteed contract, and avoids the costs of shrinkage in retail-hostile zones.

Government doesn't beat anything; it coopts it to willing participants.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at September 18, 2023 08:36 PM (aXxgO)

139 Evenin' Horde. How is everybody? Is it October yet?

Posted by: screaming in digital at September 18, 2023 08:37 PM (aBJcM)

140
Busy day, but very gratifying. Her Majesty has complained long and loud about how inadequate the AC is in my car and the freon level must be low and how much I needed to get it repaired because otherwise she was going to die of heat stroke. So I had them check it out when I took it in for state inspection and an oil change. Nothing wrong with it at all. Ha, ha!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 18, 2023 08:37 PM (MoZTd)

141 >Evenin' Horde. How is everybody? Is it October yet?

Posted by: screaming in digital

the carton of milk I got at the grocer Friday has an October expiration date

don't know if this counts

Posted by: DB - much ballyhooed at September 18, 2023 08:38 PM (geLO8)

142 No one should be surprised by government run grocery stores.

We're heading towards more state run industry.

You'll be standing in a bread line mumbling that this will never happen here.

Posted by: I've got bad news for you at September 18, 2023 08:38 PM (TObdq)

143 Taxpayer subsidies all the way down.

Government invents nothing. Government will outsource everything to Walmart/Costco/Kroger. There will be no discounting to compete with traditional retail chains. The Big Retailers will just ship material to "government" stores who will then, at a loss, sell items in food deserts. That loss will be absorbed by taxpayers who aren't subsidized in these food desert districts.

Big Retail gets its normal money, a guaranteed contract, and avoids the costs of shrinkage in retail-hostile zones.

Government doesn't beat anything; it coopts it to willing participants.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at September 18, 2023 08:36 PM (aXxgO)

Yes. See also: Amtrak Loses Money On Canned Soda Sales.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 18, 2023 08:39 PM (4I/2K)

144 "Earthquakes from today alone..."

Wake me when a 9.0 hits D.C. That's the one that matters.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at September 18, 2023 08:39 PM (aXxgO)

145 The dinosaurs crossing the stream are evergreen.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 18, 2023 08:41 PM (aD39U)

146 When the Earth liquifies like that... you're just fucked.
Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:35 PM (43xH1)

My folks toured Turkey. Pop said he saw a four story, load bearing concrete column, with a huge gravel pocket midway up the column.

Posted by: 13times at September 18, 2023 08:41 PM (Eh5U4)

147 Yeah, it was a bad day, the day of the Loma Prieta 'quake. The game was called, I could have literally abandoned my car and walked and arrived home quicker. All the traffic lights were out. I'm smelling smoke and have no idea what is burning. KGO went off the air, its antenna collapsed. No one knew wtf was going on. Then I got home, wife was in week one of her stop smoking class. There was no booze in the house. Not much food either. Electric was out. Car radio was out.
I became a moderate "prepper" after that experience.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 18, 2023 08:42 PM (MeG8a)

148 Nothing wrong with it at all. Ha, ha!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

====

Might want to throw in a "now calm down and listen to me" . .

Posted by: Libertarian at September 18, 2023 08:42 PM (8AONa)

149 Anyway there are a lot of people interested in taking out Erdogan by any means possible, so I've been instructed with this earthquake piece to not fall into that trap. I'm not into Color Revolutions, had a (formerly) valued colleague pull that on me and nearly got me killed.

Thing is, in some areas the Turkish quake was so intense literally nothing would have stood up to it, building codes or no. When the Earth liquifies like that... you're just fucked.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:35 PM (43xH1)

I wish I didn't know that the oppo to Erdogan is driven not by his neglect of Turkish interests but by his following them. There's nothing for the nation in risking war, and blocking trade with a neighbor to suit the whims of Idiots in DC and London or the EU.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 08:42 PM (eoQWY)

150 Amtrak loses money on their $25 hamburgers.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 18, 2023 08:42 PM (aD39U)

151 RE: cats.

Since the New Cat has decided, inexplicably and after well over a year of being a spinning coil of razor wire if you touched her, to suddenly fall in love with me, I now have a love triangle in my bed. The Old Cat is furious but has always been a skinny little bitch and the New Cat is a burly brawler.
Anyway, The Kid was out with her Mom yesterday and didn't feed them when she came in so despite:
1) A box fan on when I sleep due to tinnitus
2) a humidifier
3) A blanket over my head because I sleep during the day mostly

They BOTH ganged up on me to stomp all over my head screaming up a storm and finally I just couldn't stand it and got up to feed them both, after which the were ungrateful.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:43 PM (43xH1)

152
Earthquakes are caused by fracking. I saw that on TV.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 18, 2023 08:43 PM (MoZTd)

153 The last decent earthquake here in Seattle was the Nisqually quake in 2001. I stood under an archway in my home with my oldest clinging to my leg and my youngest in my arms and watched the street in front of our home roll waves. It was disconcerting. My father was on the golf course a few miles away and said the fairway looked like the ocean.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan at September 18, 2023 08:43 PM (/z/cO)

154 "Earthquakes from today alone..."

Wake me when a 9.0 hits D.C. That's the one that matters.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at September 18, 2023 08:39 PM (aXxgO)

DC is on a spreading coast, its all clean and nice for the most part. CA and the West coast are bulldozing down the sea floor down into the mantle and it just don't want to go.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 08:44 PM (eoQWY)

155 My folks toured Turkey. Pop said he saw a four story, load bearing concrete column, with a huge gravel pocket midway up the column.
Posted by: 13times'

I didn't say the construction was up to 1st World standards I said I have parameters of description.
I have people to protect.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:45 PM (43xH1)

156 The large wooden Japanese Temples are made of large, interlocking timbers, fitted as dovetail joints or mortise & tenon joints with a single locking peg.

They've put scale models on earthquake tables, and revved 'em up to +10 on the scale. The structures, hold

They look like a dancing hula in the doing, but in the end, everything settles back down to as it was, before.

I forget which city and the name, but that one seven-story example is the largest wooden temple in the world, has survived hundreds of years and hundreds of quakes. Seems they know how to do it there, too.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at September 18, 2023 08:45 PM (e6UQI)

157 screaming in digital!

Hi love! I hope you're saving a hug for me too!

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan at September 18, 2023 08:45 PM (/z/cO)

158 They BOTH ganged up on me to stomp all over my head screaming up a storm and finally I just couldn't stand it and got up to feed them both, after which the were ungrateful.
Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:43 PM (43xH1)

Well they know who the reliable one is.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 08:46 PM (eoQWY)

159 Hi love! I hope you're saving a hug for me too!
Posted by: nurse ratched
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I will never run out of hugs for ettes and 'rons!

Posted by: screaming in digital at September 18, 2023 08:47 PM (aBJcM)

160 Kirk definitely was a Spock-blocker'

I missed that at first.

Nice.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:48 PM (43xH1)

161 I wanted to give Me-again Kelly another chance after her nervous breakdown" caused by" Trump, but I think she's lost it again over the ridiculous Russell Brand reporting (I can't even call them allegations or claims because I don't think there's any criminal or civil case filed).

Posted by: LASue at September 18, 2023 08:48 PM (Ed8Zd)

162 Well they know who the reliable one is.
Posted by: Oldcat'

The Kid closes her door and puts on headphones.
She's obviously the Smart One.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:49 PM (43xH1)

163 I forget which city and the name, but that one seven-story example is the largest wooden temple in the world, has survived hundreds of years and hundreds of quakes. Seems they know how to do it there, too.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 18, 2023 08:45 PM (e6UQI)

No, its ALIENS.

Nothing else could explain people building stuff outside the West.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 08:49 PM (eoQWY)

164 The 2001 Nisqually earthquake occurred at 10:54:32 local time on February 28, 2001, and lasted nearly a minute. [5] The intraslab earthquake had a moment magnitude of 6.8 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII ( Severe ).
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Same 6.8 as Morocco.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 18, 2023 08:50 PM (krqg6)

165 I forget which city and the name, but that one seven-story example is the largest wooden temple in the world, has survived hundreds of years and hundreds of quakes. Seems they know how to do it there, too.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim'

I saw that in Hokkaido, ancient wooden structures. Mostly beams and peg, they can, as you describe, Do the hula, and settle right back in.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:51 PM (43xH1)

166 I used to subject my Lincoln Log houses to earthquakes and bombardments. I bet kids don't even play with Lincoln Logs and army soldiers anymore.

Posted by: fd at September 18, 2023 08:52 PM (vFG9F)

167 Well they know who the reliable one is.
Posted by: Oldcat'

The Kid closes her door and puts on headphones.
She's obviously the Smart One.
Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:49 PM (43xH1)

We had a cat, the patriarch who could put a paw under a closed door and create a sympathetic vibration that was like a huge drum set that was crazy loud. I could not do it with my fingers.

Once, though, after putting up wallpaper around the house and on the doors my mom went out of town and the guy ran out of food and tore up a lot of the bottom paper off the door trying to wake her up.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 08:53 PM (eoQWY)

168 143 Taxpayer subsidies all the way down.

Government invents nothing. Government will outsource everything to Walmart/Costco/Kroger. There will be no discounting to compete with traditional retail chains. The Big Retailers will just ship material to "government" stores who will then, at a loss, sell items in food deserts. That loss will be absorbed by taxpayers who aren't subsidized in these food desert districts.
Big Retail gets its normal money, a guaranteed contract, and avoids the costs of shrinkage in retail-hostile zones.

Government doesn't beat anything; it coopts it to willing participants.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at September 18, 2023 08:36 PM (aXxgO)

Yes. See also: Amtrak Loses Money On Canned Soda Sales.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 18, 2023 08:39 PM (4I/2K)

Did you see this one today on DailyMail?

"Chicago's Dem Mayor Brandon Johnson now wants to create city-run grocery stores to promote equitable access to food after Walmart and Whole Foods close stores"

Hmmmm. Which will cause the larger shrink? Municipal workers in the storerooms, or the looters? I bet Muni workers. Won't be nothing on the store shelves to loot.

Posted by: GL at September 18, 2023 08:53 PM (5fDan)

169 What is it with progs about having to be naked in public?
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe

It's one of the few options a person that realizes they have no other redeeming quality that will garner them attention has.

Posted by: old chick at September 18, 2023 08:53 PM (sOete)

170 I am buying more wheat and a grain grinder. I don't intend to be in that line.

And what do we do with milo, aka sorghum? There's a field of it a mile away. I know it goes in bird feed. I'm thinking biomass for ethanol and maybe cattle feed.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 18, 2023 08:53 PM (Ds/Wi)

171 I used to subject my Lincoln Log houses to earthquakes and bombardments. I bet kids don't even play with Lincoln Logs and army soldiers anymore.
Posted by: fd

Many were lost when their grandfathers used them as bombing sites attacked by gasoline and fire.

But I wouldn't know anything about that.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 18, 2023 08:54 PM (qoGsy)

172 Happy National Cheeseburger Day to one and all...

And the US Air Force was born on this day in 1947. That mysterious year of 1947 which also saw the Roswell Crash and the formation of the CIA.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 18, 2023 08:54 PM (TGPs7)

173 The 2001 Nisqually earthquake occurred at 10:54:32 local time on February 28, 2001, and lasted nearly a minute. [5] The intraslab earthquake had a moment magnitude of 6.8 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII ( Severe ).
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Same 6.8 as Morocco.
Posted by: andycanuck'

Yeah, the measuring scales remind me of internal ballistics of firearms (my specialty, originally); there is initial shock, duration, etc. and they all try to measure energy dump: how much, where, how long did it last, how much energy was dumped and in what way? The various scales vary. But this one in Turkey was much more serious than initially reported and well, I'm trying to bridge a variety of wants about it.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:55 PM (43xH1)

174
I bet kids don't even play with Lincoln Logs and army soldiers anymore.
Posted by: fd

Not unless it's to perform gender affirming surgery.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 18, 2023 08:56 PM (63Dwl)

175 "And what do we do with milo, aka sorghum? "

Don't they make syrup with it?

Posted by: fd at September 18, 2023 08:56 PM (vFG9F)

176 I am buying more wheat and a grain grinder. I don't intend to be in that line.

And what do we do with milo, aka sorghum? There's a field of it a mile away. I know it goes in bird feed. I'm thinking biomass for ethanol and maybe cattle feed.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 18, 2023 08:53 PM (Ds/Wi)

Might want to search around, just because its cheap enough for cattle doesn't mean its bad for people.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 08:56 PM (eoQWY)

177 Len, I’m not trolling on you. You happened to shake loose a few memories.

Posted by: 13times at September 18, 2023 08:57 PM (CsWCU)

178 I used to subject my Lincoln Log houses to earthquakes and bombardments. I bet kids don't even play with Lincoln Logs and army soldiers anymore.
Posted by: fd
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Structurally, very sound. They didn't fall apart easily.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 18, 2023 08:57 PM (gKzkw)

179 We had a cat, the patriarch who could put a paw under a closed door and create a sympathetic vibration that was like a huge drum set that was crazy loud. I could not do it with my fingers.'

On one of those 'Cube' Youtube video compilations I'm addicted to I saw one with a cat's paw reach under a door and hook the spring-loaded doorstop, over and over.

BOIIIING! BOIIING!!! BOIIIING!

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:57 PM (43xH1)

180 to shake loose a few memories.
Posted by: 13times'

Haha! Shake loose

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:58 PM (43xH1)

181 165 I forget which city and the name, but that one seven-story example is the largest wooden temple in the world, has survived hundreds of years and hundreds of quakes. Seems they know how to do it there, too.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim'

I saw that in Hokkaido, ancient wooden structures. Mostly beams and peg, they can, as you describe, Do the hula, and settle right back in.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:51 PM (43xH1)

Wood can be a good vibration damper.

Posted by: GL at September 18, 2023 08:58 PM (5fDan)

182
We're breeding Delilah again. She's been going to the vet every other day to have blood drawn to check her progesterone level. She thoroughly hates this, hides behind chairs, won't get out of her crate, etc. Now that her level is going up, they want to see her every day. Poor girl.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 18, 2023 08:59 PM (MoZTd)

183 On one of those 'Cube' Youtube video compilations I'm addicted to I saw one with a cat's paw reach under a door and hook the spring-loaded doorstop, over and over.

BOIIIING! BOIIING!!! BOIIIING!
Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 08:57 PM (43xH1)

Had that in an apartment, ended up taking it off and leaving it by the attachment to stop that. Plus I have to leave all the doors open anyhow for the cats.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 08:59 PM (eoQWY)

184 Cheap and effective are not desirable adjectives in City Government circles. Will it give my cousin a nice job is more in the right line.

Exactly. The administration of this city-owned enterprise will be in the relatively low crime areas. The losers who have to man the actual stores will be at increasingly high risk of crime.

You know damned well that the stores, to be culturally sensitive and to avoid White Supremacy will be open well after midnight.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 18, 2023 08:59 PM (p8A+W)

185 "Wood can be a good vibration damper.
Posted by: GL"

I'll say!

Posted by: Sandy Fluke at September 18, 2023 09:00 PM (vFG9F)

186 A drunk is stumbling down the road and suddenly there is a major earthquake.
Every thing is shaking and people are falling all over themselves, except for the drunk.
He's the only one walking down the street as if nothing is going on.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 18, 2023 09:00 PM (evrRm)

187 I used to subject my Lincoln Log houses to earthquakes and bombardments. I bet kids don't even play with Lincoln Logs and army soldiers anymore.
Posted by: fd
Many were lost when their grandfathers used them as bombing sites attacked by gasoline and fire.
But I wouldn't know anything about that.
Posted by: Tonypete'

Were there ladyfingers involved? Because that was cool.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 09:01 PM (43xH1)

188 And what do we do with milo, aka sorghum?

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 18, 2023 08:53 PM (Ds/Wi)

Don't they make a sugar syrup from sorghum? If so, hard liquor is but a few steps away!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 18, 2023 09:01 PM (lQONO)

189 Exactly. The administration of this city-owned enterprise will be in the relatively low crime areas. The losers who have to man the actual stores will be at increasingly high risk of crime.

--

City employees working as baggers and buggy fetchers making $65K-$80K with full benefits.

Posted by: Defenestration Expert Moron Robbie at September 18, 2023 09:01 PM (SfD1B)

190 Hunt doves over milo.

Posted by: Defenestration Expert Moron Robbie at September 18, 2023 09:02 PM (SfD1B)

191 {167} ... We had a cat, the patriarch who could put a paw under a closed door and create a sympathetic vibration that was like a huge drum set that was crazy loud. I could not do it with my fingers. ...

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 08:53 PM (eoQWY)

Reminds me of this cat who's figured out how to knock rapidly on a door to be let in:
https://youtu.be/75y-fIrvkow

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 18, 2023 09:02 PM (qPw5n)

192 Poor girl.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 18, 2023 08:59 PM (MoZTd)

Tell her she's going to get laid...she'll be much happier.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 18, 2023 09:02 PM (lQONO)

193 The internet says Sorghum syrup is made from the green juice of the sorghum plant, which is extracted from the crushed stalks and then heated to steam off the excess water, leaving the syrup behind.

Posted by: fd at September 18, 2023 09:03 PM (vFG9F)

194 Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 18, 2023 08:53 PM (Ds/Wi)

Don't they make a sugar syrup from sorghum? If so, hard liquor is but a few steps away!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 18, 2023 09:01 PM (lQONO)

If your gums get sore, you're doing it wrong.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at September 18, 2023 09:03 PM (nvvwD)

195 I know they use milo in gluten free flour mixes. This is not the syrup kind as it has short stalks. (They get the juice for syrup out of the cane). It grows well here and seems okay in dry conditions. Just puzzled by the market for it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 18, 2023 09:03 PM (Ds/Wi)

196 From Web:

Sorghum is of a lower feed quality than corn (maize). It is high in carbohydrates, with 10 percent protein and 3.4 percent fat, and contains calcium and small amounts of iron, vitamin B1, and niacin. For human consumption, the gluten-free grain is usually ground into a meal that is made into porridge, flatbreads, and cakes. The characteristic strong flavour can be reduced by processing. The grain is also used in making edible oil, starch, dextrose (a sugar), paste, and alcoholic beverages. The stalks are used as fodder and building materials. Sweet sorghums, or sorgos, are grown mainly in the United States and southern Africa for forage and for syrup manufacture and are sometimes used in the production of ethyl alcohol for biofuel.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 09:04 PM (eoQWY)

197 And the US Air Force was born on this day in 1947. That mysterious year of 1947 which also saw the Roswell Crash and the formation of the CIA.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 18, 2023 08:54 PM
Oh yeah. U.S. Army Air Corps won't good enough for them, then U.S. Air Force won't good enough for them. so now it's the U.S. Space Force.

Posted by: Eromero at September 18, 2023 09:04 PM (NxC5+)

198 We're breeding Delilah again. She's been going to the vet every other day to have blood drawn to check her progesterone level. She thoroughly hates this, hides behind chairs, won't get out of her crate, etc. Now that her level is going up, they want to see her every day. Poor girl.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh'

When the New Cat got introduced the Old Cat stopped eating and lost weight, and she's always been skinny. Took her to the Vet and she loved it. Turned out she was perfectly healthy and simply having a tantrum, and just wanted to complain and be validated. Hugged the Vet, yowled and made a huge fuss, then went home and was fine.
I'm like, "I paid $150 for THAT!?"

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 09:04 PM (43xH1)

199 That type of tendon and mortise carpentry (maybe joinery is a better word) is a fascinating subject and maybe shares some aspects with shipwright work.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 18, 2023 09:05 PM (MeG8a)

200 I think they make beer from the grain in some African countries.

I can hunt doves in my backyard. They are all over the place here.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 18, 2023 09:05 PM (Ds/Wi)

201
Tell her she's going to get laid...she'll be much happier.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 18, 2023 09:02 PM (lQONO)

_______

Not hardly. Surgically implanted. She'll go to sleep and wake up pregnant. Then in two months she'll go to sleep and wake up with puppies.

(P.S. Unfortunate hash you got there)

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 18, 2023 09:06 PM (MoZTd)

202 Reminds me of this cat who's figured out how to knock rapidly on a door to be let in:
https://youtu.be/75y-fIrvkow
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 18, 2023 09:02 PM (qPw5n)

I had a Persian Lady Cat that would do that vibration when stretching after getting up to walk most of the time.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 09:06 PM (eoQWY)

203 Just puzzled by the market for it.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

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I wouldn't be surprised if it's used as an alternating crop for soil health.

Posted by: Defenestration Expert Moron Robbie at September 18, 2023 09:06 PM (SfD1B)

204 140
Busy day, but very gratifying. Her Majesty has complained long and loud about how inadequate the AC is in my car and the freon level must be low and how much I needed to get it repaired because otherwise she was going to die of heat stroke. So I had them check it out when I took it in for state inspection and an oil change. Nothing wrong with it at all. Ha, ha!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 18, 2023 08:37 PM (MoZTd)

If you have a cabin air filter you may want check how dirty it is. I replaced my three year-old cabin air filter a week ago and it immediately felt as if I had installed a more powerful A/C fan.

Posted by: GL at September 18, 2023 09:06 PM (5fDan)

205 If you have a cabin air filter you may want check how dirty it is. I replaced my three year-old cabin air filter a week ago and it immediately felt as if I had installed a more powerful A/C fan.
Posted by: GL '

Wolfus in NO continues to prevaricate about his air filter at USD$40 when in NO? It's bound to be just clogged to nothingness. I told him it's going to cost $40. It's just what a Buick air filter is going to cost, man.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 09:09 PM (43xH1)

206
If you have a cabin air filter you may want check how dirty it is. I replaced my three year-old cabin air filter a week ago and it immediately felt as if I had installed a more powerful A/C fan.
Posted by: GL at September 18, 2023 09:06 PM (5fDan)

_________

They did, in fact, replace the cabin air filter. This will not satisfy HM's complaints.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 18, 2023 09:09 PM (MoZTd)

207 So, Chicago is going to launch the Looters R Us chain of stores?

Or, they could open under the Pilferage Pantry logo?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at September 18, 2023 09:09 PM (e6UQI)

208 If you have a cabin air filter you may want check how dirty it is. I replaced my three year-old cabin air filter a week ago and it immediately felt as if I had installed a more powerful A/C fan.
Posted by: GL

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I've seen an AC completely stop blowing through a filter before during pollen season. Worked fine and then it wouldn't blow air into the cabin even though the controls and fan were working fine and you could hear the speed changes.

Posted by: Defenestration Expert Moron Robbie at September 18, 2023 09:09 PM (SfD1B)

209 When the New Cat got introduced the Old Cat stopped eating and lost weight, and she's always been skinny. Took her to the Vet and she loved it. Turned out she was perfectly healthy and simply having a tantrum, and just wanted to complain and be validated. Hugged the Vet, yowled and made a huge fuss, then went home and was fine.
I'm like, "I paid $150 for THAT!?"
Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 09:04 PM (43xH1)

It is important that you make the Old Cat aware that resources are sufficient to support both cats, this eliminates most of the resistant to another predator on the range. In nature, too many killers means all will starve later so excess are driven out, and Old Cat gets worried.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 09:09 PM (eoQWY)

210 PSA for LenNeal and all other cat owners -

The timed cat feeders are wonderful on a couple levels. First benefit is easy - the cat stops waking you up since the food is no longercomi g fromyou. The second benefit is more psychological. Your cat will know, and will know that you know, that they've been outsmarted. They hate that.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 18, 2023 09:10 PM (8AONa)

211 This field was in wheat first. I kept expecting them to harvest but they left it and planted milo. It's a bit behind some of the neighbors.

And I love the round bales of hay! You'll see oneon a pickup truck ready to feed. It's on a bar that lets it be unrolled for the cattle.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 18, 2023 09:10 PM (Ds/Wi)

212 Wolfus in NO continues to prevaricate about his air filter at USD$40 when in NO? It's bound to be just clogged to nothingness. I told him it's going to cost $40. It's just what a Buick air filter is going to cost, man.
Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 09:09 PM (43xH1)

I took the air filter element out of my '08 Suburban, blew a mess of dust and dead bugs out of it with compressed air. Held it up the Sun, and I could faintly see daylight, so it's still good. Put it back in there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2023 09:11 PM (nvvwD)

213 161 I wanted to give Me-again Kelly another chance after her nervous breakdown" caused by" Trump, but I think she's lost it again over the ridiculous Russell Brand reporting (I can't even call them allegations or claims because I don't think there's any criminal or civil case filed).
Posted by: LASue at September 18, 2023 08:48 PM (Ed8Zd)

———

Was she bleeding out of her eyes, out of her wherever?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 18, 2023 09:12 PM (NqtPa)

214 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 18, 2023 09:06 PM (MoZTd)

Seriously? Technology has fucked up everything!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 18, 2023 09:12 PM (lQONO)

215 The timed cat feeders are wonderful on a couple levels. First benefit is easy - the cat stops waking you up since the food is no longercomi g fromyou. The second benefit is more psychological. Your cat will know, and will know that you know, that they've been outsmarted. They hate that.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 18, 2023 09:10 PM
MadisonTheCat can rob that feeder like nobody's business.

Posted by: Eromero at September 18, 2023 09:13 PM (NxC5+)

216 @214/CBD: I see what you did there.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 18, 2023 09:14 PM (qPw5n)

217 And I love the round bales of hay!

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Some of the more playful old coots will allow them to be decorated at certain holidays.

We'll see a caterpillar around here. This dog is pretty clever:

https://tinyurl.com/29qgf4yj

Posted by: Defenestration Expert Moron Robbie at September 18, 2023 09:14 PM (SfD1B)

218 I took the air filter element out of my '08 Suburban, blew a mess of dust and dead bugs out of it with compressed air. Held it up the Sun, and I could faintly see daylight, so it's still good. Put it back in there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon'

I do the same thing! The air filter in my Saab is USD$100!!! I've never replaced it I just blow it out. I told him to do exactly this. If it's a pleated filter... he says he lives in an apartment, doesn't have a shopvac or an air compressor, well, you can do it at a car wash. The vacuums are plenty powerful. Open up the folds and just vacuum it out.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 09:14 PM (43xH1)

219 Woody had to tell Sam what sorghum was when he ordered "some more gum" from his suppliers to Cheers!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 18, 2023 09:14 PM (krqg6)

220 She will be missed...

Cassandra MacDonald

@CassandraRules
Ultra-woke singer Maren Morris has announced that she is leaving country music because people involved with the genre are “misogynistic and racist and homophobic and transphobic.”

“After the Trump years, people’s biases were on full display,” the singer, who recently got a taste of the pop music world by performing with superstar Taylor Swift, told the paper. “It just revealed who people really were and that they were proud to be misogynistic and racist and homophobic and transphobic. All these things were being celebrated, and it was weirdly dovetailing with this hyper-masculine branch of country music. I call it butt rock.”

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 18, 2023 09:14 PM (TGPs7)

221 Once I was in AZ and a dust storm came up. A haboob. I pulled into a parking lot and turned off the engine. No sense in trying to drive thru it. After it passed I opened up the hood and checked the air filter. Had to shake it out, full of sand. Put it back in, closed the hood and proceeded on my way.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 18, 2023 09:15 PM (MeG8a)

222 Apropos of nothing, I had my second arthroscopic surgery on my umbilical hernia this morning. I had the first one last year but it didn't hold so I had to get it done again. But what is funny is that between the two, I now have 7 round scars that look like bullet holes in my abdomen.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 18, 2023 09:15 PM (aD39U)

223 The timed cat feeders are wonderful on a couple levels. First benefit is easy - the cat stops waking you up since the food is no longercomi g fromyou. The second benefit is more psychological. Your cat will know, and will know that you know, that they've been outsmarted. They hate that.'

What if your cat is really smart, and has always hated you? Again, nobody here has met my cat. I've been reliably informed by veterinarians she is an extremely intelligent, horrible bitch.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 09:17 PM (43xH1)

224 So I see a CBS poll has Trump beating Biden 50/49 and in that same poll Trump wins independents 57/42!

WTF? If a third of the electorate is given Trump a 15 point advantage, how the hell can the poll be essentially tied?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 18, 2023 09:18 PM (NqtPa)

225 Has anyone else seen this:

https://tinyurl.com/2p98dmkk

Posted by: Eeyore at September 18, 2023 09:18 PM (brAQZ)

226 Apropos of nothing, I had my second arthroscopic surgery on my umbilical hernia this morning. I had the first one last year but it didn't hold so I had to get it done again. But what is funny is that between the two, I now have 7 round scars that look like bullet holes in my abdomen.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)'

I was born with a hernia. I hear it's common enough. I have a semi-circular scar under my navel.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 09:18 PM (43xH1)

227 Maren Morris ??

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 18, 2023 09:19 PM (aD39U)

228 {222} ... I now have 7 round scars that look like bullet holes in my abdomen.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 18, 2023 09:15 PM (aD39U)

"You think this is bad, you should see the other guy."

(And hey, may this surgery 'stick' this time. Sounds like you've been through enough.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 18, 2023 09:19 PM (qPw5n)

229
I've been reliably informed by veterinarians she is an extremely intelligent, horrible bitch.
Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 09:17 PM (43xH1)

_________

The Bette Davis of felines?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 18, 2023 09:19 PM (MoZTd)

230 @CassandraRules
Ultra-woke singer Maren Morris has announced that she is leaving country music because people involved with the genre are “misogynistic and racist and homophobic and transphobic.”
==

And 100% right about everything.

Posted by: Defenestration Expert Moron Robbie at September 18, 2023 09:20 PM (SfD1B)

231 The timed cat feeders are wonderful on a couple levels. First benefit is easy - the cat stops waking you up since the food is no longer coming from you.

The instant the Old Cat knows the food is not being supplied by me there will be Hell to pay.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 09:20 PM (43xH1)

232 may this surgery 'stick' this time.

To God's ears. I have turned to goo being unable to lift seriously for the last year.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 18, 2023 09:21 PM (aD39U)

233
A not-so-obvious fact is that the dirtier filters become, the more effective they become, as filters. Less efficient, of course. Eventually, they become 100% effective.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 18, 2023 09:21 PM (VG0cN)

234 The Bette Davis of felines?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh'

You ever see that movie, 'The Last Seduction'?

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 09:22 PM (43xH1)

235 @224

>>WTF? If a third of the electorate is given Trump a 15 point advantage, how the hell can the poll be essentially tied?

The answer lies in Reverse Derivative Swaps and Schwinn Caff Shams.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 18, 2023 09:22 PM (XV/Pl)

236 ..But what is funny is that between the two, I now have 7 round scars that look like bullet holes in my abdomen.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 18, 2023 09:15 PM (aD39U)

Tell folks it was a shotgun blast, and that the pellets are all still in there.

But now your upper colon works like a Gizzard, and grinds your food down extra fine.

The reactions should be.... amusing?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at September 18, 2023 09:22 PM (e6UQI)

237 Hernia repairs?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, sporting three holes at September 18, 2023 09:23 PM (VG0cN)

238 A not-so-obvious fact is that the dirtier filters become, the more effective they become, as filters. Less efficient, of course. Eventually, they become 100% effective.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.'

Yes, this factual, they filter out everything!

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 09:23 PM (43xH1)

239 Some of the more playful old coots will allow them to be decorated at certain holidays.

We'll see a caterpillar around here. This dog is pretty clever:

https://tinyurl.com/29qgf4yj
Posted by: Defenestration Expert Moron Robbie at September 18, 2023 09:14 PM (SfD1B)

Some folk art statues of hay bale lifters near Hay Lakes, Alberta. I have driven past this many times, and it's always good for a chuckle.

https://tinyurl.com/4hmjzdrk

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2023 09:23 PM (nvvwD)

240 For those that care, I see that Darth Saban has committed to Jalen Milroe as the Alabama starter after poor showings from our #2 and #3 QBs against USF last Saturday.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 18, 2023 09:23 PM (aD39U)

241 But what is funny is that between the two, I now have 7 round scars that look like bullet holes in my abdomen.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

"Our G'rump928, he takes alot of kill'n."

*Spits tabaccy juice*

Posted by: Tonypete at September 18, 2023 09:25 PM (qoGsy)

242 The hay bale art is great!

That said on the Book Thread, which seems to be turning into a Writer Thread, I stay away from using the adverb combination.

"Well, that's funny," the Albertan chuckled knowingly.

Oof. No.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 09:26 PM (43xH1)

243 Lucy the Fink will wake me up with her opera singing even when her kibble is full.

It is the Song of Her People.

You can set a clock to it.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan at September 18, 2023 09:26 PM (KDbie)

244 The instant the Old Cat knows the food is not being supplied by me there will be Hell to pay.

Posted by: LenNeal

=====

We 'broke' a stubborn old fella who knew every "oh! Did I wake you? Well, since you're awake get your happy ass out of bed and feed me, monkey boy" trick known to man.

It took a week, and there was grumbling.

When it was over, it was glorious. He was a humbled puss.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 18, 2023 09:28 PM (8AONa)

245 Lucy the Fink should meet Hissy Fit.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 09:28 PM (43xH1)

246 Tell folks it was a shotgun blast, and that the pellets are all still in there.
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In my case, it would have been .410, 3 pellet.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, sporting three holes at September 18, 2023 09:30 PM (KtPtl)

247 But what is funny is that between the two, I now have 7 round scars that look like bullet holes in my abdomen.
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Impress the babes with them!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 18, 2023 09:30 PM (krqg6)

248 225 Has anyone else seen this:

https://tinyurl.com/2p98dmkk

Posted by: Eeyore at September 18, 2023 09:18 PM (brAQZ)

Another example of our youngsters in publisher art departments (and everywhere else) not knowing anything about stuff that happened more than 48 hours ago.

Example: I saw an article today that mentioned a recent TripAdvisor comment about the Statue of Liberty. The poster complained that the artist chose a crappy green color instead of a beautiful pink.

Posted by: GL at September 18, 2023 09:31 PM (5fDan)

249 It took a week, and there was grumbling.
When it was over, it was glorious. He was a humbled puss.
Posted by: 2009Refugee'

I returned from a month overseas while Hissy Fit was 'fed' by my sister at great effort. A MONTH. She did not relent. Sis admitted she missed two days of food because she did, and never saw Hissy Fit the entire time. A month.
I walked in the door with Sissy and Hissy Fit came boiling out screaming her head off. I'm not sure what that kind of resolve would take but I think the cat you had was a much easier crack than this one.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 09:32 PM (43xH1)

250 Has anyone else seen this:

https://tinyurl.com/2p98dmkk

Posted by: Eeyore at September 18, 2023 09:18 PM (brAQZ)

Shh. He's rolling.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 18, 2023 09:32 PM (aD39U)

251 248 225 Has anyone else seen this:

https://tinyurl.com/2p98dmkk

Posted by: Eeyore at September 18, 2023 09:18 PM (brAQZ)

Another example of our youngsters in publisher art departments (and everywhere else) not knowing anything about stuff that happened more than 48 hours ago.

Example: I saw an article today that mentioned a recent TripAdvisor comment about the Statue of Liberty. The poster complained that the artist chose a crappy green color instead of a beautiful pink.
Posted by: GL at September 18, 2023 09:31 PM (5fDan)
________

Or maybe they are fans of Senator John Blutarski.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 18, 2023 09:33 PM (brAQZ)

252 I do the same thing! The air filter in my Saab is USD$100!!! I've never replaced it I just blow it out. I told him to do exactly this. If it's a pleated filter... he says he lives in an apartment, doesn't have a shopvac or an air compressor, well, you can do it at a car wash. The vacuums are plenty powerful. Open up the folds and just vacuum it out.
Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 09:14 PM (43xH1)

What Saab? If it is the Mitusbishi built one, try a Subaru filter.
If it is a GM built one, try the local car parts store to see if you can find one that fits.

If it is from the 60's then you are on your own

Posted by: Kindltot at September 18, 2023 09:33 PM (xhaym)

253 The timed cat feeders are wonderful on a couple levels. First benefit is easy - the cat stops waking you up since the food is no longercomi g fromyou. The second benefit is more psychological. Your cat will know, and will know that you know, that they've been outsmarted. They hate that.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 18, 2023 09:10 PM (8AONa)

Many food motivated cats crack those like master criminals, which I guess they are. This still keeps them busy if they manage to get in

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 09:34 PM (eoQWY)

254 In my case, it would have been .410, 3 pellet.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, sporting three holes'

7.62mm Tokarev, bounced off my skull. Soft for quite a while! Scared me to death, I was afraid it sent shards into my brain to kill me instantly with no warning at some point.

Turns out, I'm fine!

Posted by: Chicks did bullet holes No they don't really at September 18, 2023 09:34 PM (43xH1)

255 Spell check

Posted by: Chicks dig bullet holes No they don't really at September 18, 2023 09:35 PM (43xH1)

256 [ Grigori Rasputin has entered the chat ]

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 18, 2023 09:36 PM (aD39U)

257 240 For those that care, I see that Darth Saban has committed to Jalen Milroe as the Alabama starter after poor showings from our #2 and #3 QBs against USF last Saturday.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 18, 2023 09:23 PM (aD39U)

What was the point spread on the South Florida game? Must have been more than 14 points. Darth may be feeling heat from the wealthy alums who are addicted to sports betting.

Posted by: GL at September 18, 2023 09:37 PM (5fDan)

258 What Saab? If it is the Mitusbishi built one, try a Subaru filter.
If it is a GM built one, try the local car parts store to see if you can find one that fits.

If it is from the 60's then you are on your own
Posted by: Kindltot'

2004 9-5 Turbo, the 300HP+ supercar. It's a canister filter riding in front of the left front wheel. It's unique to the car. It's a dumb design. Disappointing as a lot of the car is really amazing.

Posted by: Chicks dig bullet holes No they don't really at September 18, 2023 09:37 PM (43xH1)

259 [ Grigori Rasputin has entered the chat ]
Posted by: G'rump928(c)'

Shot by 7.62mm Nagant.

Posted by: Chicks dig bullet holes No they don't really at September 18, 2023 09:38 PM (43xH1)

260 We 'broke' a stubborn old fella who knew every "oh! Did I wake you? Well, since you're awake get your happy ass out of bed and feed me, monkey boy" trick known to man.

It took a week, and there was grumbling.

When it was over, it was glorious. He was a humbled puss.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 18, 2023 09:28 PM (8AONa)

Back in the 1980s I discouraged my first cat from waking me up by holding her close and talking in a high pitched squeaky voice in her ear for a few minutes. It was so horrible that she trained the next cat to not bother me, and they trained subsequent generations for four or five complete turnovers. No effort on my part at all, its now a house rule and tradition for all the cats.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2023 09:38 PM (eoQWY)

261 By the way, looking at a picture of Melanie Joly I think I understand who Trudeau's current squeeze might be and why he stayed over an extra few days in India getting his "plane fixed".
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 18, 2023 07:08 PM (NrEAT)

A Hortons 4.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 18, 2023 09:39 PM (uSHSS)

262 245 Lucy the Fink should meet Hissy Fit.
Posted by: LenNeal

Lucy the Fink HATES all other living creatures. Except me. She hates my boys. She hates the birds and the squirrels and omfg, other cats make her the nastiest little bitch you'd ever want to cross.

But. She sat with me and was my constant companion during chemo. And now, she sleeps with me and purrs and lets me pet her belly.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan at September 18, 2023 09:39 PM (dt3AQ)

263 Example: I saw an article today that mentioned a recent TripAdvisor comment about the Statue of Liberty. The poster complained that the artist chose a crappy green color instead of a beautiful pink.
Posted by: GL at September 18, 2023 09:31 PM (5fDan)
________

Or maybe they are fans of Senator John Blutarski.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 18, 2023 09:33 PM (brAQZ)

Yup!

Posted by: GL at September 18, 2023 09:40 PM (5fDan)

264 I was afraid it sent shards into my brain

Turns out, I'm fine!
Posted by: Chicks did bullet holes
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Uh...how do you know?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, sporting three holes at September 18, 2023 09:41 PM (SbsCg)

265 By the way, looking at a picture of Melanie Joly I think I understand who Trudeau's current squeeze might be and why he stayed over an extra few days in India getting his "plane fixed".
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 18, 2023 07:08 PM (NrEAT)

A Hortons 4.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 18, 2023 09:39 PM (uSHSS)

I don't think he swings that way.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2023 09:41 PM (nvvwD)

266 Kindltot!

Did I see you are in the market for another kitten?

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan at September 18, 2023 09:41 PM (dt3AQ)

267 Many food motivated cats crack those like master criminals, which I guess they are. This still keeps them busy if they manage to get in

Posted by: Oldcat

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Pistol figured out a couple ways to get into the hopper, and we just as quickly made cat-proof field mods. Only path left was trying to reach into the rotating mechanism, and he almost wound up like a kid with an arm stuck in a vending machine.

He made his peace with the New Rules after that.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 18, 2023 09:42 PM (8AONa)

268 nurse ratched: Best bodyguard EVER.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 18, 2023 09:42 PM (qPw5n)

269 Some folk art statues of hay bale lifters near Hay Lakes, Alberta. I have driven past this many times, and it's always good for a chuckle.

https://tinyurl.com/4hmjzdrk

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Link not working for me and I'm genuinely interested because I really like that sort of thing.

Posted by: Defenestration Expert Moron Robbie at September 18, 2023 09:43 PM (SfD1B)

270 2004 9-5 Turbo, the 300HP+ supercar. It's a canister filter riding in front of the left front wheel.'

RIGHT front wheel. Sorry but it's a canister filter and it's big. It's held in with four captive Torx crews into the plastic housing. It's a stupid design. It's for real right in front of the Right front drive wheel.
I would rebuild this car, as I like it a LOT. But the A-arms are just rotted. All the lines are going. I live in WI with salt and winter. It's nearing 300K. It's still a unibody and man, it's just done.

Posted by: Chicks dig bullet holes No they don't really at September 18, 2023 09:45 PM (43xH1)

271 She sat with me and was my constant companion during chemo. And now, she sleeps with me and purrs and lets me pet her belly.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan at September 18, 2023 09:39 PM (dt3AQ)

'rons everywhere start practicing their purring.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 18, 2023 09:47 PM (uSHSS)

272 30 She also practices full immersion baptisms.

I almost choked on my bedtime snack. lol

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 18, 2023 09:47 PM (JrYM1)

273 And now, she sleeps with me and purrs and lets me pet her belly.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Go on. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at September 18, 2023 09:49 PM (qoGsy)

274 {269} Link not working for me and I'm genuinely interested because I really like that sort of thing.

Posted by: Defenestration Expert Moron Robbie at September 18, 2023 09:43 PM (SfD1B)

You're in luck. I still had the tab open, so here it is via is.gd since the TinyURL one is failing for me now too.

https://is.gd/aiApfT

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 18, 2023 09:50 PM (qPw5n)

275 I was afraid it sent shards into my brain
Turns out, I'm fine!
Posted by: Chicks did bullet holes
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Uh...how do you know?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, sporting three holes'

I was waiting for someone to catch that. I actually don't! Bone shards are nearly impossible to catch in X-rays so if it did happen, they're still floating around in there. On the Plus Side, I've also been informed if they do work into my brain, it's just Lights Out, I'll never know.
Click!
It's had an influence on my ideas of the Afterlife and God, with the idea I could just click out at any time. But it's been a while so...

Posted by: Chicks dig bullet holes No they don't really at September 18, 2023 09:52 PM (43xH1)

276 Yay. A cat thread.

Posted by: Felix at September 18, 2023 09:55 PM (V8he0)

277 Pistol figured out a couple ways to get into the hopper, and we just as quickly made cat-proof field mods. Only path left was trying to reach into the rotating mechanism, and he almost wound up like a kid with an arm stuck in a vending machine.

He made his peace with the New Rules after that.
Posted by: 2009Refugee'

Your cat is named 'Pistol'?

Posted by: Chicks dig bullet holes No they don't really at September 18, 2023 09:56 PM (43xH1)

278 Yup, and he was one.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 18, 2023 09:57 PM (8AONa)

279 AOP's link is to Hay Lake Alberta, you can Google it. Fun stuff!

Posted by: Chicks dig bullet holes No they don't really at September 18, 2023 09:58 PM (43xH1)

280 You're in luck. I still had the tab open, so here it is via is.gd since the TinyURL one is failing for me now too.

https://is.gd/aiApfT
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

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Thanks to everyone involved

Posted by: Defenestration Expert Moron Robbie at September 18, 2023 09:59 PM (SfD1B)

281 Wow, that's my kind of site. It's focused on enormous and odd roadside attractions. I'll drive out of my way to go see that sort of thing.

Posted by: Defenestration Expert Moron Robbie at September 18, 2023 10:01 PM (SfD1B)

282 NOOD ONT

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 18, 2023 10:01 PM (qPw5n)

283
Link not working for me and I'm genuinely interested because I really like that sort of thing.
Posted by: Defenestration Expert Moron Robbie at September 18, 2023 09:43 PM (SfD1B)

The link worked just fine for me right now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2023 10:02 PM (7x1j9)

284 Anyway I spent the entire day at the office cleaning off laptops and phones, it's been a chore. It's a Pixy worthy business. I had to get 5 years of pictures off Google Photos, which turned out to be a much bigger problem than I thought it would be.

I'll do a thing about it later. But it's been a very long day in an office and I HATE the office. I'm a Street Guy, I can't stand this.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 18, 2023 10:03 PM (43xH1)

285 Aha! See the black socked person supplying the adorable baby beaver building materials for the foot of steps.

The perfect crime, perhaps. 🤔

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemies at September 18, 2023 10:29 PM (GshMh)

286 Yay! Elephants 🐘!

Posted by: redridinghood at September 18, 2023 10:51 PM (NpAcC)

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