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Saturday Overnight Open Thread (9/30/23) Short & Sweet Edition

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The Saturday Night Joke

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Can't be any worse than what we have in Washington D.C and most state capitals.

RESEARCHERS have claimed that alien life could evolve from elements different from what we're used to.

The findings were presented in a new study published in the Journal of American Chemical Society.


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Genius Award Winner leading the unemployed life.

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“I’ve been a very naughty boy” – Pilot Snorted Coke off Topless Woman’s Chest before Trying to Fly


British Airways pilot Mike Beaton had a night off for “downtime” in Johannesburg before he was scheduled to co-pilot a return flight to London four weeks ago. In his text messages to a flight attendant pal, Beaton said he had met two local men, a Welsh woman on vacation and a “young Spanish bird” at a Johannesburg nightclub.

“I’ve been a very naughty boy,” he told her.


After hours of drinking, the group staggered to a hotel bar for a nightcap before they ended up at one of the local men’s apartments.

“Welsh has decided that I should actually be her boyfriend — Spanish has hooked up with one of the two local lads and is having her t–s sucked on their sofa,” he said. The “girls” were dancing topless when the cocaine arrived, Beaton bragged. “I’ve lost my shirt somewhere and one of the local lads produces a plate with a few lines of coke,” he wrote. “So then there’s a debate about whose chest is the best to do a bump off.”

“That’s the story of how I ended up snorting coke off a girl’s t–s in Joburg,” he gleefully gloated.

“Stayed the night with Welsh, sh– her for ages (I guess the coke played a part),” he continued, “and then was so f–ked I couldn’t even lift my head until gone 2.”

When he tried to fly the following day, the crew member reported the pilot’s alarming night to superiors, who canceled the 12-hour flight to Heathrow Airport, costing British Airways roughly $120,000, according to the outlet. Beaton was suspended and flown home as a passenger the following day. He was drug-tested at the airport — which he failed — and was subsequently fired.

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Bring on the cleaning supplies.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A recent Make-A-Wish visit by members of the Insane Clown Posse, to survivors of what the media is calling “The Great Tallahassee Airshow Disaster,” left the city’s General Hospital’s intensive care unit an absolute biome of infectious diseases, which had to be re-sterilized, sources who are normally used to this kind of thing confirmed.

“After that terrible accident, we really thought the survivors could use some cheering up — and who would be better to cheer up some newly limbless Flordians than ICP!” explained attending physician Gloria Kerwald. “But between the Faygo spray, grease paint smears and near-solid smog of fecal mist those guys swarmed through here with, it may just be easier to tear the whole building down and rebuild from scratch. If anything it’d be cheaper than the alternative.”

Insane Clown Posse member Violent J commented on the recent visit, which has reportedly left the local hospital’s ICU “in a state so foul it would make God himself want to sterilize heaven out of pure fear.”


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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at September 30, 2023 10:02 PM (aA3+G)

2 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2023 10:02 PM (x7plP)

3 Oh, that drink up top! Now I'm thirsty and diet coke just won't do it.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 30, 2023 10:03 PM (0Htd1)

4 RESEARCHERS have claimed that alien life could evolve from elements different from what we're used to."

Yeah, yeah, yeah "NO KILL I". We all know about the Horta.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2023 10:03 PM (S6gqv)

5 RESEARCHERS have claimed that alien life could evolve from elements different from what we're used to.
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No shit.

How much did this cost me?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2023 10:04 PM (Q4IgG)

6 Nice ONT, just what I needed!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 30, 2023 10:05 PM (hOUT3)

7 5 RESEARCHERS have claimed that alien life could evolve from elements different from what we're used to.
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No shit.

How much did this cost me?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2023 10:04 PM (Q4IgG)


You can't afford it. If you have to ask.......

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at September 30, 2023 10:05 PM (aA3+G)

8 6 Nice ONT, just what I needed!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 30, 2023 10:05 PM (hOUT3)

That's a couple steps up from I wanted!!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at September 30, 2023 10:06 PM (aA3+G)

9 Who does that British pilot think he is? Hunter Biden?

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 30, 2023 10:06 PM (0Htd1)

10 Pumpkin spice oil change? That's about the only use for any pumpkin spice liquid. Whatever happened to the four basic coffees? Dark, sweet, light, and milk and sugar?

Posted by: RickZ at September 30, 2023 10:07 PM (emlEe)

11 Whatever happened to the four basic coffees? Dark, sweet, light, and milk and sugar?
Posted by: RickZ at September 30, 2023 10:07 PM (emlEe)

The untapped market of selling frou-frou shit to women.

Posted by: Vanya at September 30, 2023 10:08 PM (v27SO)

12 Oh, that drink up top! Now I'm thirsty and diet coke just won't do it.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 30, 2023 10:03 PM (0Htd1)

Nothing's as good as water. Plain, good old fashioned water. Soda makes you thirsty. I had one Coke today. And a second one's in the ref.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 30, 2023 10:09 PM (Angsy)

13 1 .........
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra


Something seems amiss here...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 30, 2023 10:09 PM (hOUT3)

14 Nice ONT, just what I needed!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ This year in Corsicana - again!

That's a couple steps up from I wanted!!
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra

Okay ONT, just barely good enough.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 30, 2023 10:10 PM (ftFVW)

15 Thanks for the dandy ONT, Mis Hum!

That Saturday Night Joke is great!

Hard to believe an airline pilot would party so hearty before he was scheduled for a long international flight. Idiot.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 30, 2023 10:10 PM (Zb5iS)

16 The untapped market of selling frou-frou shit to women.

Posted by: Vanya at September 30, 2023 10:08 PM (v27SO)


Not just women. I get the feeling soy-boys are a part of the problem, too. After all, they are the same customer demographic.

Posted by: RickZ at September 30, 2023 10:11 PM (emlEe)

17 Misanthropic Humanitarian


Thank you.
Fantastic joke. New to me.

And President Ronald Reagan. *Sigh* I stood in line for 6 hours to see him lying in state at the Capital. Paid my respects, I did.

A great man and president.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2023 10:11 PM (u82oZ)

18 13 1 .........
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra

Something seems amiss here...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 30, 2023 10:09 PM (hOUT3)

9 came around, no one here
9:01 came around, no one here.
So I had to see if it was working........

I guess it is.......

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at September 30, 2023 10:11 PM (aA3+G)

19 Well that pilot certainly went out of his career with a bang (or several.) At least he's got a memorable story to tell.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 30, 2023 10:11 PM (qPw5n)

20 The untapped market of selling frou-frou shit to women.
Posted by: Vanya

One day, whist driving my granddaughter to school (a whole 'nuther story), she demanded I stop at the Fivebucks near her school so she could grab her favorite. Papa said 'Hell no."

I found out later she Doordashed one to her homeroom. What does that come to? $10-$12?

Spoiled little shit.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2023 10:12 PM (x7plP)

21 Today was a great day for unity!

Posted by: Hakeem McCarthy at September 30, 2023 10:12 PM (LccS3)

22 another Saturday Night Joke: A Texas Aggie and his pal are driving along the highway near College Station, moving along pretty fast. Suddenly they see the dreaded flashing lights behind them, and it's a state trooper. The Aggie says "oh hell", but his friend says "oh it'll be alright. So the trooper gets out of his car, but instead of pulling out his book, he undoes his belt, unbuttons his pants and lowers his zipper. As he starts to walk toward the car, the Aggie says "I knew it! I knew it! Here comes that damn Breathalyzer test again!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2023 10:13 PM (S6gqv)

23 Legally Sufficient

There are some pilots who live the image, but not the lifestyle for safe performance in charge of a complicated bit of machinery.

30-50 thousand parts flying in close proximity is what one help pilot told me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2023 10:14 PM (u82oZ)

24 RESEARCHERS have claimed that alien life could evolve from elements different from what we're used to.

Nice research, Clyde. Terrestrial life has evolved from elements different from what we're used to. Like the sulfur-based life cycle of deep-ocean tube worms, who get their energy from volcanic vents rather than the sun.

Posted by: mikeski at September 30, 2023 10:14 PM (DgGvY)

25 If the pumpkin spice oil change can cover the smell of pre-teen/teen boy in my car I'll take it.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 30, 2023 10:14 PM (ftFVW)

26 Today was a great day for unity!
Posted by: Hakeem McCarthy at September 30, 2023 10:12 PM (LccS3)
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Sod off, swampy.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 30, 2023 10:14 PM (Zb5iS)

27 Today was a great day for unity!
Posted by: Hakeem McCarthy


Uh oh. What did they do?

Posted by: Oddbob at September 30, 2023 10:15 PM (nfrXX)

28 The untapped market of selling frou-frou shit to women.
Posted by: Vanya at September 30, 2023 10:08 PM (v27SO)

Not this one. Hot and black, you know the rest. 😁

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 30, 2023 10:16 PM (OX9vb)

29 Yay, National Hot Mulled Cider Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 30, 2023 10:16 PM (Bd6X8)

30 Evening Horde!
MisHum - love the joke! And I have to go back and read about the board games. Catan is a new thing in my family.

Posted by: Iris at September 30, 2023 10:16 PM (n3DL0)

31 Not just women. I get the feeling soy-boys are a part of the problem, too. After all, they are the same customer demographic.
Posted by: RickZ


You forgot the current rules.

Those are also women.

Posted by: mikeski at September 30, 2023 10:16 PM (DgGvY)

32 A great man and president.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2023 10:11 PM (u82oZ)

Once again you and I are in complete and total agreement.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at September 30, 2023 10:16 PM (aA3+G)

33 Hard to believe an airline pilot would party so hearty before he was scheduled for a long international flight. Idiot.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient


This isn't the first time that pilots have been caught trying to fly drunk or hung over.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 30, 2023 10:17 PM (0Htd1)

34 There are some pilots who live the image, but not the lifestyle for safe performance in charge of a complicated bit of machinery.

30-50 thousand parts flying in close proximity is what one help pilot told me.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2023 10:14 PM (u82oZ)
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True!

I've heard a helicopter described as the only aircraft that tries to kill you before you leave the ground. An apt description.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 30, 2023 10:17 PM (Zb5iS)

35 mikeski

Yet, IIRC, there is great commonality in critical enzymes and in the genetic code.

We are all related to the ur-cell on this planet. Extraterrestrial visitors would leave biochemical traces of their visit. Not seen, AFAIK.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2023 10:17 PM (u82oZ)

36 Got my car insurance statement today. It went up of course. Inflation, cars being worth more, supply chain problems with parts, natural disasters, the usual excuses. No mention of the quarter million a month new arrivals who don't need no steenkin insurance or steenkin driver's licenses. It only went up $35 for six months.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 30, 2023 10:18 PM (0EOe9)

37 Legally Sufficient

Another of the helo pilots saying, "We beat the air into submission."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2023 10:18 PM (u82oZ)

38 25 If the pumpkin spice oil change can cover the smell of pre-teen/teen boy in my car I'll take it.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 30, 2023 10:14 PM (ftFVW)

Haha, those were the worst years.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 30, 2023 10:19 PM (OX9vb)

39 RESEARCHERS have claimed that alien life could evolve from elements different from what we're used to.
_____________

No shit.

How much did this cost me?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2023 10:04 PM (Q4IgG)

That article was really short on specifics, and long on speculation. Of course the reporter is probably a retard.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2023 10:20 PM (9VLrL)

40 Today was a great day for unity!
Posted by: Hakeem McCarthy

Uh oh. What did they do?

Posted by: Oddbob at September 30, 2023 10:15 PM (nfrXX)

Hee hee. The usual. We sold you out.

Posted by: GOPe at September 30, 2023 10:20 PM (Angsy)

41 If the pumpkin spice oil change can cover the smell of pre-teen/teen boy in my car I'll take it.
Posted by: She Hobbit

Teen girl soccer clothes balled up and left in the trunk aren't any picnic either.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2023 10:20 PM (x7plP)

42 No shit.

How much did this cost me?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2023 10:04 PM (Q4IgG)

That article was really short on specifics, and long on speculation. Of course the reporter is probably a retard.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

So $20 same as in town?

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 30, 2023 10:20 PM (ftFVW)

43 Another of the helo pilots saying, "We beat the air into submission."
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2023 10:18 PM (u82oZ)
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Love it!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 30, 2023 10:20 PM (Zb5iS)

44 Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 30, 2023 10:18 PM (0EOe9)

That's not a bad increase.

If you were in California your policy would be non-renewed and you would be scrambling for coverage. It's horrid out there per all the trade magazine stories.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at September 30, 2023 10:20 PM (aA3+G)

45 That drink has got to be a Gimlet.

Barkeep, I'll have one of those.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2023 10:21 PM (XV/Pl)

46 37 Legally Sufficient

Another of the helo pilots saying, "We beat the air into submission."
Posted by: NaCly Dog


Heard that fixed wing aircraft really want to fly, but that helicopters really want to crash!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 30, 2023 10:21 PM (hOUT3)

47 The Apollo missions famously quarantined for several days, at least the first few. It does seem unlikely any bugs could live on the lunar day that lasts for 2 weeks. Maybe the snowballs and asteroids, like just what NASA sampled with the oh cyrus mission. I did notice they are treating it pretty carefully

Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2023 10:21 PM (PGKaA)

48 1 .........
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra

Something seems amiss here...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

You see he waited 2 whole minutes, right?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2023 10:22 PM (iy0Lg)

49 44 Michigan and Louisiana rates are supposed to be horrible.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 30, 2023 10:22 PM (0EOe9)

50 I don't need a pickup truck, but I've been building various trucks from the Big Three.


I still can't believe that a base model pickup is around 55k out the door and high end trims are north of 100k.

Lunacy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2023 10:22 PM (XV/Pl)

51 That article was really short on specifics, and long on speculation. Of course the reporter is probably a retard.

Could be a global climate change scientist.

Oh, wait, that does nothing to disprove your theory.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 30, 2023 10:23 PM (Bd6X8)

52 Nice research, Clyde. Terrestrial life has evolved from elements different from what we're used to. Like the sulfur-based life cycle of deep-ocean tube worms, who get their energy from volcanic vents rather than the sun.
Posted by: mikeski at September 30, 2023 10:14 PM (DgGvY)

I may be wrong, but I think the deep-sea tube worms are carbon based life that has adapted to get energy by oxidizing sulfur from the vents.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2023 10:23 PM (9VLrL)

53 44 Michigan and Louisiana rates are supposed to be horrible.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 30, 2023 10:22 PM (0EOe9)

Louisiana is bad. Lived there 14 years. Doesn't help that the bars have drive through windows.

Posted by: Vanya at September 30, 2023 10:24 PM (v27SO)

54 Good evening, all. I'm going to see an utterly silly pumpkin spice Halloween movie later.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2023 10:24 PM (n7rxJ)

55 Willowed from Movie Thread about the Seattle M's driving me crazy...

lost in space. Life as a disinterested fan is better.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

If I didn't have the M's I would have long ago sunk in to numb suburban existence devoid of all sensation. I admit it: I am dependent on them anymore; I would die without them crushing my hopes and dreams each year. Plus the staff at the local psych ward looks forward to my annual October visit; I am a river to my people.

Posted by: lost in space at September 30, 2023 10:25 PM (kmEPs)

56 Hee hee. The usual. We sold you out.
Posted by: GOPe


I foresaw this as soon as McCarthy reneged on his "promise" to release ALL the J6 video!
At heart, he is just another believer in "Our Precious Democracy", and I'd really like it to be a requirement for (at least) the SOH to have to publish his own financial records annually as well as those for his entire family down to third cousins twice removed!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 30, 2023 10:26 PM (hOUT3)

57 Good looking drink!
Pity I enjoyed myself a tad too much last night.

Sigh...

Posted by: Diogenes at September 30, 2023 10:26 PM (uSHSS)

58 Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again!

Respectful tip of the hat, good sir.

Flight and room booked. Now to get to the airport. My wife wants me to park at the airport, so she does not have to take me and pick me up.

True dat. My first deployment the helo carrying the Battlegroup Commander crashed just astern of an escort ship. Everyone made it out of the sinking helo, and all were recovered. Good training and fast responses sure helped. Nearest land was 2.3 miles away, straight down.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2023 10:26 PM (u82oZ)

59 I still can't believe that a base model pickup is around 55k out the door and high end trims are north of 100k.

Lunacy.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2023 10:22 PM (XV/Pl)

They're blue collar Porsche. The amount of Tundras and RAM 2500s and blinged-out F150s I knew of that were driven by overweight guys who worked in offices was insane.

Posted by: Vanya at September 30, 2023 10:26 PM (v27SO)

60 You see he waited 2 whole minutes, right?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2023 10:22 PM (iy0Lg)

No one. And I mean no one has ever accused me of having patience as a virtue.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at September 30, 2023 10:27 PM (aA3+G)

61 50 Remember Ford announcing the Maverick pickup truck starting at $20K?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 30, 2023 10:27 PM (0EOe9)

62 lost in space

*Hand salute*

Your path is your own, and a memorable one at that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2023 10:28 PM (u82oZ)

63 Heard that fixed wing aircraft really want to fly, but that helicopters really want to crash!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 30, 2023 10:21 PM (hOUT3)
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We have a flight school near here for both fixed wing and helicopters. So far, all aircraft are flying and remaining airborne. They are fun to watch.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 30, 2023 10:28 PM (Zb5iS)

64 You see he waited 2 whole minutes, right?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2023 10:22 PM (iy0Lg)


So he gave us a sporting chance?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 30, 2023 10:28 PM (hOUT3)

65 That pilot in South Africa should have simply called in sick, and missed the flight. Not exactly honest, but certainly safer for the passengers than attempting fly while under the influence.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2023 10:29 PM (9VLrL)

66 Have a great night, everyone.

May you and yours thrive!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2023 10:29 PM (u82oZ)

67
No one. And I mean no one has ever accused me of having patience as a virtue.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

Types, thinks about it, deletes it quickly.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2023 10:30 PM (iy0Lg)

68 The Apollo missions famously quarantined for several days, at least the first few. It does seem unlikely any bugs could live on the lunar day that lasts for 2 weeks. Maybe the snowballs and asteroids, like just what NASA sampled with the oh cyrus mission. I did notice they are treating it pretty carefully

Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2023 10:21 PM (PGKaA)


'1984' is a political warning. 'The Andromeda Strain' is just as catastrophic a warning but from a different source.

In this 'handling materials gathered from rocky things floating around in space' situation, I'd much prefer caution over hubris. I've seen too many 'hubris' sci-fi movies, so I know how that story ends.

Posted by: RickZ at September 30, 2023 10:30 PM (emlEe)

69 Oh, that drink up top! Now I'm thirsty and diet coke just won't do it.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 30, 2023 10:03 PM (0Htd1)


I pressed grapes for grape juice today. I had a quart extra that I didn't want to go through the hassle of hot water bath canning all by itself, so I am drinking it now.
It is very good.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2023 10:30 PM (xhaym)

70
So he gave us a sporting chance?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

Absolutely!
I've noted you're usually johnny on the spot when the ONT posts.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2023 10:31 PM (iy0Lg)

71 RESEARCHERS have claimed that alien life could evolve from elements different from what we're used to.
_____________

No shit.
How much did this cost me?
Posted by: Martini Farmer

That article was really short on specifics, and long on speculation. Of course the reporter is probably a retard.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. Second is Helium, which is chemically inert (by product of hydrogen fusion).
Carbon and Oxygen are also among the most abundant in the universe. It is not random chance that we are carbon-based life forms; it is a strong statistical likelihood. We also incorporate a lot of nitrogen, phosphorous and a few other elements. And water.
Silicon based life forms (which have been speculated about) could not exist in an oxidizing atmosphere, they would exhale silicon dioxide (sand). They would have to live in a reducing atmosphere, such as a methane atmosphere, and might exhale a gas, such as silane (which burns in oxygen). Silicon based life forms are fun for speculation, but not very likely in the real universe...possible, but unlikely. Never say never, but it would be really an odd situation.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at September 30, 2023 10:32 PM (tjZg/)

72 49 44 Michigan and Louisiana rates are supposed to be horrible.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting


Doesn't matter to the large number of people who drive around uninsured. I'm looking at you, Detroit.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 30, 2023 10:32 PM (0Htd1)

73 Remember Ford announcing the Maverick pickup truck starting at $20K?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 30, 2023 10:27 PM (0EOe9)

That evaporated, didn't it? We really need some new mini-trucks on the market. They sold a metric fuckton of mini-pickups in the '70's and '80's, and they all were pretty good rides. Cheap to fuel, easy to repair, and peppy enough to be fun to drive.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2023 10:32 PM (9VLrL)

74 Remember Ford announcing the Maverick pickup truck starting at $20K?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 30, 2023 10:27 PM (0EOe9)

Built one on the Ford site recently. Basiest of the base Maverick was just over 24k.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 30, 2023 10:33 PM (Angsy)

75 67
No one. And I mean no one has ever accused me of having patience as a virtue.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

Types, thinks about it, deletes it quickly.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2023 10:30 PM (iy0Lg)

Oh you have one Yoko themed night because of a comment and now you're fearful?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at September 30, 2023 10:33 PM (aA3+G)

76 I may be wrong, but I think the deep-sea tube worms are carbon based life that has adapted to get energy by oxidizing sulfur from the vents.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2023 10:23 PM (9VLrL)


IIRC they use sulfur eating bacteria in their gills, or tissues, and live off them.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2023 10:33 PM (xhaym)

77
Silicon based life forms are fun for speculation, but not very likely in the real universe...possible, but unlikely. Never say never, but it would be really an odd situation.
Posted by: A face in the crowd

Siliconian scientist: No, carbon based life would just be too odd.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2023 10:34 PM (iy0Lg)

78 I may be wrong, but I think the deep-sea tube worms are carbon based life that has adapted to get energy by oxidizing from the vents.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2023 10:23 PM (9VLrL)

IIRC they use sulfur eating bacteria in their gills, or tissues, and live off them.
Posted by: Kindltot

Sort of like me and the Seattle Mariners.

Posted by: lost in space at September 30, 2023 10:34 PM (kmEPs)

79 IIRC they use sulfur eating bacteria in their gills, or tissues, and live off them.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2023 10:33 PM (xhaym)

Joe Biden could stand to have some sulfer eating bacteria in his gut. It would make life easier for those SS agents around him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2023 10:35 PM (S6gqv)

80
Oh you have one Yoko themed night because of a comment and now you're fearful?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

See, I was smart, really, really, smart.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2023 10:35 PM (iy0Lg)

81 I may be wrong, but I think the deep-sea tube worms are carbon based life that has adapted to get energy by oxidizing sulfur from the vents.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2023 10:23 PM (9VLrL)

IIRC they use sulfur eating bacteria in their gills, or tissues, and live off them.
Posted by: Kindltot

A sulfur based life form might be more possible than a silicon based life form. But sulfur is not nearly as abundant in the universe as carbon. Carbon, being so readily abundant, is likely the basis for a lot of life form types, should we ever get out and be able to search.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at September 30, 2023 10:36 PM (tjZg/)

82 There are no aliens. He made this world and thats all there is.

Posted by: JmT at September 30, 2023 10:36 PM (0P0FY)

83 There are no aliens. He made this world and thats all there is.
Posted by: JmT

He is without limits.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2023 10:37 PM (iy0Lg)

84 Yes, the Pumpkin Melange is most powerful spice in the Fall.

Yes, King Harv's Imperial Pumpkin Melange should be drank by all
of the House of Atreides...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 30, 2023 10:37 PM (TGPs7)

85 See, I was smart, really, really, smart.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2023 10:35 PM (iy0Lg)


And the rest of us here really appreciate that!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 30, 2023 10:37 PM (hOUT3)

86 82 There are no aliens. "
Posted by: JmT at September 30, 2023 10:36 PM (0P0FY)

Who are you, the Border Patrol?

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2023 10:38 PM (S6gqv)

87 @71

>>Carbon and Oxygen are also among the most abundant in the universe. It is not random chance that we are carbon-based life forms; it is a strong statistical likelihood.

Scientist are prone to believe in a lot of woo woo sh*t, in fact more woo shit than religious people, Quantum Physics anyone...

Any sort of organic extra-earth life form will more than likely be carbon based and more than likely have to have a very nearly earth like atmosphere of Nitrogen/Oxygen to exist at all.
Carbon is sticky and perfect for making organic structures

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2023 10:38 PM (XV/Pl)

88 86 82 There are no aliens. "
Posted by: JmT at September 30, 2023 10:36 PM (0P0FY)

Who are you, the Border Patrol?
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2023 10:38 PM (S6gqv)


***SNORT***

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at September 30, 2023 10:39 PM (aA3+G)

89 >>> 50 I don't need a pickup truck, but I've been building various trucks from the Big Three.


I still can't believe that a base model pickup is around 55k out the door and high end trims are north of 100k.

Lunacy.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2023 10:22 PM (XV/Pl)

Seriously. This is why I bought a used truck.

I've been thinking about getting some little bitty thing for grocery runs and such, as much for limiting miles on the truck as mpg gainz.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2023 10:39 PM (llON8)

90 Short & Sweet Edition?, she asked. Or something akin.

Monopoly games amongst my offspring have resulted in many, many hurt feelings along with vows to never play again! And that is when I don't even join the festivities, but only coach and cajole.

Posted by: LRob in Ok at September 30, 2023 10:40 PM (TSQkU)

91 There are no aliens. He made this world and thats all there is.
Posted by: JmT at September 30, 2023 10:36 PM (0P0FY)


That is an opinion that is based on revealed truth, and so both unfalsifiable and not fun to argue.

However, have you heard the proposition that there wre massive nuclear explosions on Mars, which changed the planetary climate there?

https://www.scirp.org/pdf/ijaa_2023062115280080.pdf

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2023 10:40 PM (xhaym)

92 Fecal mist?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 30, 2023 10:40 PM (sz2SP)

93 And that is when I don't even join the festivities, but only coach and cajole.
Posted by: LRob in Ok at September 30, 2023 10:40 PM (TSQkU)

He wrote with an impish grin

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at September 30, 2023 10:40 PM (aA3+G)

94 "Alien life could evolve from elements different from what we're used to" -- you finally get it, then?

Posted by: Mother Horta at September 30, 2023 10:42 PM (omVj0)

95 >>> 88 86 82 There are no aliens. "
Posted by: JmT at September 30, 2023 10:36 PM (0P0FY)

Who are you, the Border Patrol?
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2023 10:38 PM (S6gqv)


***SNORT***
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at September 30, 2023 10:39 PM (aA3+G)

LMAO

and stolen

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2023 10:43 PM (llON8)

96 However, have you heard the proposition that there wre massive nuclear explosions on Mars, which changed the planetary climate there?

https://www.scirp.org/pdf/ijaa_2023062115280080.pdf
Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2023 10:40 PM (xhaym)

Mars was in a war with the planet that orbited between Mars and Jupiter.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2023 10:43 PM (S6gqv)

97 Actually saw at WalMart the other day some of those pumpkins they've sucked the spice out of. They looked wan and terrible.

Posted by: GWB at September 30, 2023 10:44 PM (69JzL)

98 @91

>>That is an opinion that is based on revealed truth, and so both unfalsifiable and not fun to argue.

Once you understand... truly understand how impossible this all is, then you will come to the determination that we are it.

Just a unique blue orb with a bunch of ill tempered humanoids revolving around a yellow sun in a galactic backwater at the ass end of the universe.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2023 10:44 PM (XV/Pl)

99 He wrote with an impish grin

The kid most likely to go nuclear was/is my only daughter, who routinely claims "all the brothers" are out to get her. At which time I volunteer to take her spot - she refuses. By the by, she is a redhead.

Posted by: LRob in Ok at September 30, 2023 10:44 PM (TSQkU)

100 Hee hee. The usual. We sold you out.
Posted by: GOPe


Ladies and gentlemen, the Republican Party:

"Providing assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians is the number one priority for the United States right now according to most Republicans," McConnell said. "That's how we see the challenges confronting the country at the moment."

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2023 10:44 PM (2tUFv)

101 A sulfur based life form might be more possible than a silicon based life form. But sulfur is not nearly as abundant in the universe as carbon. Carbon, being so readily abundant, is likely the basis for a lot of life form types, should we ever get out and be able to search.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at September 30, 2023 10:36 PM (tjZg/)

I could imagine carbon-based life that does not use DNA as its genetic code base, but some other long-chain polymer.

Maybe one of the chemists here can answer this: are there silicon analogs to common carbon compounds like sugars, or alcohols?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2023 10:44 PM (9VLrL)

102 re: movie thread I missed

Elon Musk bought Gene Wilder's house because of his affection for Wilder. When sold it he stipulated that the next owner could not tear it down or remove its 'soul.'



Posted by: Braenyard at September 30, 2023 10:45 PM (YdNEG)

103 RESEARCHERS have claimed that alien life could evolve from elements different from what we're used to."

American Chemical Society: the same people who jumped on the AGW bandwagon. I think they need renaming as the Amerikan Alchemical Coven.

Posted by: Ciampino - Man cannot survive such speeds! at September 30, 2023 10:45 PM (qfLjt)

104 52 Nice research, Clyde. Terrestrial life has evolved from elements different from what we're used to. Like the sulfur-based life cycle of deep-ocean tube worms, who get their energy from volcanic vents rather than the sun.
Posted by: mikeski at September 30, 2023 10:14 PM (DgGvY)

I may be wrong, but I think the deep-sea tube worms are carbon based life that has adapted to get energy by oxidizing sulfur from the vents.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2023 10:23 PM (9VLrL)


Once upon a time, oxygen was deadly to life on this planet.

Posted by: GL at September 30, 2023 10:46 PM (5fDan)

105 I was on Slate by accident.

One of their articles was: How to tell COVID, from RSV, from the flu.

Remember when comparing COVID with the flu was anti-Science hate speech?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2023 10:46 PM (XqcwY)

106 Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. Second is Helium, which is chemically inert (by product of hydrogen fusion).
Carbon and Oxygen are also among the most abundant in the universe. It is not random chance that we are carbon-based life forms; it is a strong statistical likelihood. We also incorporate a lot of nitrogen, phosphorous and a few other elements. And water.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at September 30, 2023 10:32 PM (tjZg/)


I just wanna know where out monetary-based life forms come from. We've had them for millennia, if not longer. From the 1st Century B.C. comes 'Rich as Crassus', an old chestnut we all know, or rather we used to know before we forsook teaching 'boring, dead white man's' History because of systemic racism or some other made up bullshit.

Posted by: RickZ at September 30, 2023 10:47 PM (emlEe)

107 RE: life evolving from elements different from what we're used to: There is an Isaac Asimov short story, one of the Wendell Urth mysteries, in which spacemen, miners I think, in our asteroids discover a dying silicon-based creature. This story might have inspired Gene Coon to write about the Horta on Trek. Yes, I've heard the story about Janos Prohaska the veteran monster player showing up in GC's office with the costume that was later used for the Horta, and that inspired Coon, but I wonder if the short story was in his mind too.

The story is "The Talking Stone" from 1955.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2023 10:47 PM (omVj0)

108 @101

>>Maybe one of the chemists here can answer this: are there silicon analogs to common carbon compounds like sugars, or alcohols?

The reason why carbon is king is because it's perfect for making hardy durable structures.

Sulpher based lifeforms would dissipate, crystalline lifeforms would shatter.

This is known.

Anything else is woo woo.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2023 10:47 PM (XV/Pl)

109 Isn't there a sulfur based life form living in a volcanic area at the bottom of the ocean

Posted by: Braenyard at September 30, 2023 10:48 PM (YdNEG)

110
Mars was in a war with the planet that orbited between Mars and Jupiter.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Looks like the current *leaders* are trying to be the 1 on 1 and both lose and do a self destruction.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2023 10:48 PM (iy0Lg)

111 RESEARCHERS have claimed that alien life could evolve from elements different from what we're used to."

In Soviet America you get headlines like this.

In Heritage America you'd get something like, Researchers say we have no way of knowing what alien life was like or how it evolved if it even exists. "Get back to us when there is data"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2023 10:48 PM (XqcwY)

112 Ladies and gentlemen, the Republican Party:

"Providing assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians is the number one priority for the United States right now according to most Republicans," McConnell said. "That's how we see the challenges confronting the country at the moment."
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2023 10:44 PM (2tUFv)

Guys... I'm trying.

Posted by: The Clot at September 30, 2023 10:48 PM (v27SO)

113 If there are aliens out among the stars, it’s probably more important to find out if they think we’re edible, or if we can eat them. The Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man does not lead to peaceful coexistence!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 30, 2023 10:49 PM (mNmNo)

114 I just wanna know where out monetary-based life forms come from. We've had them for millennia, if not longer. From the 1st Century B.C. comes 'Rich as Crassus', an old chestnut we all know, or rather we used to know before we forsook teaching 'boring, dead white man's' History because of systemic racism or some other made up bullshit.

Posted by: RickZ at September 30, 2023 10:47 PM (emlEe)

Sheesh, man. Get it right. It's "rich as creases."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 30, 2023 10:50 PM (Angsy)

115 I just wanna know where out monetary-based life forms come from. We've had them for millennia, if not longer. From the 1st Century B.C. comes 'Rich as Crassus', an old chestnut we all know, or rather we used to know before we forsook teaching 'boring, dead white man's' History because of systemic racism or some other made up bullshit.
Posted by: RickZ at September 30, 2023


***
The usual phrase, though, is "rich as Croesus," after the super-wealthy Lydian king. True, Rome's Crassus was the wealthiest man of *his* time.

A member of my real-life writing group used the unintentionally funny construction "rich as Creases," and in his published book no less.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2023 10:50 PM (omVj0)

116 I stood in line for 6 hours to see him lying in state at the Capital. Paid my respects, I did.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2023 10:11 PM (u82oZ)

I was at sea when he passed. On board the inaugural voyage of the USS Reagan. It was an incredible moment for the crew and us semi-passengers (operational test of a C2 system). They shut down operations and everyone watched it on tv.

Posted by: GWB at September 30, 2023 10:50 PM (69JzL)

117 If there are aliens out among the stars, it’s probably more important to find out if they think we’re edible, or if we can eat them. The Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man does not lead to peaceful coexistence!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 30, 2023 10:49 PM (mNmNo)

The Quiche People from the Andromeda Galaxy are in trouble if they land by my place

Posted by: Vanya at September 30, 2023 10:50 PM (v27SO)

118 @109

>>Isn't there a sulfur based life form living in a volcanic area at the bottom of the ocean

No, all life on earth is carbon based, there are organisms that have adapted to live in extreme environments like the vent tubes at the bottom of the ocean, or aerobic environments.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2023 10:51 PM (XV/Pl)

119 RESEARCHERS have claimed that alien life could evolve from elements different from what we're used to."

In Soviet America you get headlines like this.

In Heritage America you'd get something like, Researchers say we have no way of knowing what alien life was like or how it evolved if it even exists. "Get back to us when there is data"
Posted by: 18-1

USA Today used to call crap like this Factoids. My all time favorite one: "Number 2 pencils are number 1 with Americans."

Posted by: lost in space at September 30, 2023 10:51 PM (kmEPs)

120
Astitine-based life forms would be neat.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2023 10:51 PM (MoZTd)

121 anaerobic environments.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2023 10:52 PM (XV/Pl)

122 I gotta say, I don't care about or believe anything said about aliens. Maybe it's true that Our Khazarian Mafia Overlords* are preparing for their alien gods to return. Makes no difference in how I spend my time.

If they are, be sure to eat lots of pork - it will ruin your belly fat because they hate the taste of it.*

*source: Clif High - I get a kick out of his stuff.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 30, 2023 10:52 PM (Mzdiz)

123 101
Maybe one of the chemists here can answer this: are there silicon analogs to common carbon compounds like sugars, or alcohols?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2023 10:44 PM (9VLrL)
----
Some, and many could be made. However in an Oxygen world they are unstable since the Si-O bond is so much stronger than the Si-Si or Si-C bonds. The compounds that have Si-H bonds are often spontaneously flammable in contact with air.

Posted by: Ciampino - An abrasive world? at September 30, 2023 10:52 PM (qfLjt)

124 114: I see OrangeEnt is on the case!

I'll need to miss part of the Book Thread tomorrow, to run out to the grocery; for various reasons I won't be able to go earlier. But I'll hustle back as soon as I can.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2023 10:53 PM (omVj0)

125 The usual phrase, though, is "rich as Croesus," after the super-wealthy Lydian king. True, Rome's Crassus was the wealthiest man of *his* time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2023 10:50 PM (omVj0)

OK, hear me out: We convince Klaus Schwab to lead an army to attack the Persians.

Posted by: Vanya at September 30, 2023 10:53 PM (v27SO)

126 Astitine-based life forms would be neat.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

They'd be really, really, short lived. Half life of most stable is only 8.1 hours.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2023 10:53 PM (iy0Lg)

127 If there are aliens out among the stars, it’s probably more important to find out if they think we’re edible, or if we can eat them. The Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man does not lead to peaceful coexistence!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 30, 2023 10:49 PM (mNmNo)


Just get in the pod, Human. It'll get you back to our planet light years away lickety-split (well-marinated and barbequed).

Posted by: Your Friendly Alien Foodie at September 30, 2023 10:53 PM (emlEe)

128 >>> 122 I gotta say, I don't care about or believe anything said about aliens. Maybe it's true that Our Khazarian Mafia Overlords* are preparing for their alien gods to return. Makes no difference in how I spend my time.

If they are, be sure to eat lots of pork - it will ruin your belly fat because they hate the taste of it.*

*source: Clif High - I get a kick out of his stuff.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 30, 2023 10:52 PM (Mzdiz)

How convenient, that bacon is served at the TX MoMee.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2023 10:53 PM (llON8)

129 @89

>>I've been thinking about getting some little bitty thing for grocery runs and such, as much for limiting miles on the truck as mpg gainz.

The perfect car for that was the Honda Fit but Honda discontinued it in the US in 2020.

Bastards.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2023 10:54 PM (XV/Pl)

130 Most of the alien crap is probably written by AI anyway. Which is kind of like an ignorant child that couldn't relay accurate information if its life depended upon it.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 30, 2023 10:54 PM (Mzdiz)

131 123 101
Maybe one of the chemists here can answer this: are there silicon analogs to common carbon compounds..."

are we talking about boobs??

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2023 10:54 PM (S6gqv)

132 Astitine-based life forms would be neat.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Astatine is a chemical element with the symbol At and atomic number 85. It is the rarest naturally occurring element in the Earth's crust, occurring only as the decay product of various heavier elements. All of astatine's isotopes are short-lived; the most stable is astatine-210, with a half-life of 8.1 hours.

That is slightly shorter than it takes the Seattle Mariners to destroy my hopes and dreams each year.

Posted by: lost in space at September 30, 2023 10:55 PM (kmEPs)

133 Imagine having a crippling fear of spiders . . . And be responsible for making the spider donuts at the donut shop?

https://tinyurl.com/3zkks9ta

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2023 10:56 PM (xhaym)

134 That is slightly shorter than it takes the Seattle Mariners to destroy my hopes and dreams each year.
Posted by: lost in space at September 30, 2023 10:55 PM (kmEPs)

Is that a new unit of measure now? The Seattle Mariner?

Posted by: Vanya at September 30, 2023 10:56 PM (v27SO)

135 The usual phrase, though, is "rich as Croesus," after the super-wealthy Lydian king. True, Rome's Crassus was the wealthiest man of *his* time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2023 10:50 PM (omVj0)


I took Latin in high school from Sr. Cor Maria so, you know, Roman propaganda and all that.

Posted by: RickZ at September 30, 2023 10:56 PM (emlEe)

136 Doesn't help that the bars have drive through windows.
Posted by: Vanya at September 30, 2023 10:24 PM (v27SO)

All bar windows are drive-through if you're drunk enough.
Or throw-through if you're obnoxious enough.

Posted by: GWB at September 30, 2023 10:57 PM (69JzL)

137
How convenient, that bacon is served at the TX MoMee.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2023 10:53 PM (llON


And brownies. The best damn brownies in Texas which I will not be able to indulge on this year. Dayum.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at September 30, 2023 10:57 PM (aA3+G)

138
And brownies. The best damn brownies in Texas which I will not be able to indulge on this year. Dayum.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

We'll be sure to let you know how both the bacon and brownies were after a suitable wait to let them settle.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2023 10:58 PM (iy0Lg)

139 That is slightly shorter than it takes the Seattle Mariners to destroy my hopes and dreams each year.
Posted by: lost in space at September 30, 2023 10:55 PM (kmEPs)

Is that a new unit of measure now? The Seattle Mariner?
Posted by: Vanya

Yes it is. This was first observed in 1977 and has been confirmed 46 times since then. Sometimes in May, Sometimes during the Summer and like this year, the day before the season ends.

Posted by: lost in space at September 30, 2023 10:58 PM (kmEPs)

140 113 If there are aliens out among the stars, it’s probably more important to find out if they think we’re edible, or if we can eat them. The Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man does not lead to peaceful coexistence!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 30, 2023 10:49 PM (mNmNo)


They could eat us and/or we could eat them is possible but the probability is unknown. There are living things on Earth that are deadly poisonous when eaten by other living things.

Posted by: GL at September 30, 2023 10:59 PM (5fDan)

141 >>> 129 @89

>>I've been thinking about getting some little bitty thing for grocery runs and such, as much for limiting miles on the truck as mpg gainz.

The perfect car for that was the Honda Fit but Honda discontinued it in the US in 2020.

Bastards.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2023 10:54 PM (XV/Pl)

I like those, and would be fine with an older one. Unfortunately, I like a lot of similar models too, so haven't been able to make up my mind, plus I've prioritized some house and farm-ish things...

*tiny violin plays*

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2023 10:59 PM (llON8)

142 Yes it is. This was first observed in 1977 and has been confirmed 46 times since then. Sometimes in May, Sometimes during the Summer and like this year, the day before the season ends.
Posted by: lost in space at September 30, 2023 10:58 PM (kmEPs)

Well, I suppose it's no worse than the French trying to make a metric calendar.

Posted by: Vanya at September 30, 2023 11:00 PM (v27SO)

143 The Wrath of WEF

Capn Moron: You wanted a rematch, so here I am. Klaus Schwab, I’m laughing at the superior intellect.

KS: Full speed ahead. Attack them,

Capn Moron: I’ll say this, he’s consistent.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 30, 2023 11:00 PM (mNmNo)

144 Isn't there a sulfur based life form living in a volcanic area at the bottom of the ocean
Posted by: Braenyard at September 30, 2023 10:48 PM (YdNEG)


I think it is a bacteria that is able to break Sulfur compounds down to for food. IIRC they are carbon Eukariots, not some exotic life form

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2023 11:01 PM (xhaym)

145 @141

>>I like those, and would be fine with an older one.

Good ones are hard to find as people don't part with them.

Although I sold my 2015 Fit in 2020, for reasons inexplicable to even myself.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2023 11:01 PM (XV/Pl)

146 >>> 137
==
And brownies. The best damn brownies in Texas which I will not be able to indulge on this year. Dayum.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at September 30, 2023 10:57 PM (aA3+G)

That sucks, I thought you were going to make it this year... I am considering making the usual milk chocolate and possibly the dark chocolate variation too. So I might have to continue this.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2023 11:02 PM (llON8)

147 I've seen too many 'hubris' sci-fi movies, so I know how that story ends.
Posted by: RickZ at September 30, 2023 10:30 PM (emlEe)

Heck, we watched one in real life just a few years ago.

Posted by: GWB at September 30, 2023 11:02 PM (69JzL)

148 Sulpher based lifeforms would dissipate, crystalline lifeforms would shatter.

This is known.

Anything else is woo woo.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2023 10:47 PM (XV/Pl)

Silicon-based is not necessarily crystalline. carbon compounds can be crystalline, you know. We have silicon-based gases and oils, and polymers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2023 11:03 PM (GH1QD)

149 They could eat us and/or we could eat them is possible but the probability is unknown. There are living things on Earth that are deadly poisonous when eaten by other living things.
Posted by: GL at September 30, 2023


***
Or they could eat us but get no nutrition at all from it -- eat an entire busload of humans and yet starve to death, because the proteins are wrong. Of course they may not know that until it's too late for said humans.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2023 11:03 PM (omVj0)

150 >>>near-solid smog of fecal mist

So not just a fart then?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 30, 2023 11:03 PM (klJTj)

151 It is official - Houston won tonight, Seattle is over, and with that I put on my fall fashion hat: a brown paper bag.

Posted by: lost in space at September 30, 2023 11:04 PM (kmEPs)

152 >>> 143 The Wrath of WEF

Capn Moron: You wanted a rematch, so here I am. Klaus Schwab, I'm laughing at the superior intellect.

KS: Full speed ahead. Attack them,

Capn Moron: I'll say this, he's consistent.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 30, 2023 11:00 PM (mNmNo)

Now I want a Captain Moron movie.

... did you notice your hash kinda sorta looks like the November novel month (or whatever it's called) abbreviation?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2023 11:04 PM (llON8)

153 I see OrangeEnt is on the case!

I'll need to miss part of the Book Thread tomorrow, to run out to the grocery; for various reasons I won't be able to go earlier. But I'll hustle back as soon as I can.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2023 10:53 PM (omVj0)

That guy needs to have that thrown in his face every time he criticizes you and the other members of your group.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 30, 2023 11:05 PM (Angsy)

154 Well, I suppose it's no worse than the French trying to make a metric calendar.
Posted by: Vanya at September 30, 2023


***
I kind of like the idea of July or August being called Thermidor.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2023 11:05 PM (omVj0)

155 Ruk, don't eat just Humans, they lack essential amino acids and you will get pellagra

Posted by: Gort at September 30, 2023 11:05 PM (xhaym)

156 Dropping off to take care of a critter...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2023 11:06 PM (llON8)

157 I am considering making the usual milk chocolate and possibly the dark chocolate variation too. So I might have to continue this.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Do we need to put this to a vote?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2023 11:06 PM (iy0Lg)

158 I kind of like the idea of July or August being called Thermidor.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2023 11:05 PM (omVj0)


as long as it is a positive reaction

Posted by: Gort at September 30, 2023 11:06 PM (xhaym)

159
Texas, Houston and Toronto all get into the post-season. If Seattle beats Texas and Houston beats Arizona, then the Astros win the AL West.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2023 11:06 PM (MoZTd)

160 That guy needs to have that thrown in his face every time he criticizes you and the other members of your group.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 30, 2023


***
I don't plan to go to the meetings any more for a while. After seventeen years, I've gotten a lot out of it, but I think I've reached the limit of what the current membership has to teach me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2023 11:07 PM (omVj0)

161 My daily driver is a 36 year old SUV that when new was the top of the line for Dodge in terms of options--PS, PB,PDL,AC, cruise, big V8, tilt wheel, 3speed wipers, 4WD,., great seats--super supportive and comfortable, they're made for long trips.

Back then a fully equipped Ram stickered at 28k, I paid 8k at an estate sale. The truck does everything I ask of it plus the body is totally rust free. As long as the rustfree part lasts, I'll drive the thing.

Posted by: irongrampa at September 30, 2023 11:07 PM (KATBx)

162 Oh, the "Creases" fellow insisted last week that "repair," as in "I repaired to the kitchen and cobbled together a snack," means "to return." I looked in my unabridged dictionary. It means to go, to go habitually, or to go to a specific place for a specific purpose -- as in my sample sentence above. "To return" is an obsolete meaning of "to repair."

Pffft.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2023 11:09 PM (omVj0)

163 50 Yeah but we're regularly fixing cars and trucks with over (and often WAY over) 200K on the clock and the original engines and trans so it's kinda a wash

Posted by: MAxIE at September 30, 2023 11:09 PM (twxj3)

164 Fucking Mariners

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan, she's still free! at September 30, 2023 11:09 PM (SVX08)

165 @148

>>carbon compounds can be crystalline, you know.

I'm telling you right now, if I see an alien made of diamonds, I'm drop kicking it into next week.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2023 11:10 PM (XV/Pl)

166 Ruk, don't eat just Humans, they lack essential amino acids and you will get pellagra
Posted by: Gort at September 30, 2023


***
Yeah, got to toss in some honey badgers while you're at it

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2023 11:10 PM (omVj0)

167 I don't plan to go to the meetings any more for a while. After seventeen years, I've gotten a lot out of it, but I think I've reached the limit of what the current membership has to teach me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2023 11:07 PM (omVj0)

BTW, over 60k words now and on the next to the last scene I think. Might be finished in a day or two.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 30, 2023 11:11 PM (Angsy)

168 Fucking Mariners
Posted by: nurse ratched

I have been dying here for hours. They ruined my life again.

Posted by: lost in space at September 30, 2023 11:11 PM (kmEPs)

169 Fucking Mariners
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan, she's still free! at September 30, 2023 11:09 PM (SVX0

Have a Grand Marnier; it's better for you.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2023 11:11 PM (GH1QD)

170 167 I thought the same thing about AA meetings

Posted by: MAxIE at September 30, 2023 11:11 PM (twxj3)

171 BTW, over 60k words now and on the next to the last scene I think. Might be finished in a day or two.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 30, 2023


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And you just started this project a few months ago? Amazing!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2023 11:12 PM (omVj0)

172 168 Fucking Mariners
Posted by: nurse ratched

I have been dying here for hours. They ruined my life again.
Posted by: lost in space at September 30, 2023 11:11 PM (kmEPs)

I was at the game.

No fire at all. Mariners didn't even show up.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan, she's still free! at September 30, 2023 11:12 PM (SVX08)

173 I got nothing...

night Horde.

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 30, 2023 11:12 PM (UsQA1)

174 I was at the game.

No fire at all. Mariners didn't even show up.
Posted by: nurse ratched

That 6th inning encapsulates my life as a Marnier faithful since 1977. I am headed to the local psych ward for my annual visit.

Posted by: lost in space at September 30, 2023 11:13 PM (kmEPs)

175 167 I thought the same thing about AA meetings
Posted by: MAxIE at September 30, 2023


***
Good point. However, unless you live in the Outback or something, there are usually other AA meetings you can go to if you don't like the one you've been attending. I don't know about any other real-life writer groups around here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2023 11:13 PM (omVj0)

176 You guys playin' cards?

Posted by: DB - this page left blank at September 30, 2023 11:14 PM (geLO8)

177 My wiper motor conversion is a success! I got it installed in the Ford today, and it just plain works. The blades sweep about as far as is practical; any more, and they would hit the windshield rubber or divider bar.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2023 11:15 PM (GH1QD)

178 And you just started this project a few months ago? Amazing!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2023 11:12 PM (omVj0)

Feb, but NaNoWriMo starts in a month. Supposed to write one in 30 days... yeah, no.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 30, 2023 11:15 PM (Angsy)

179 Yeah, off to bed for me. Got to arise early, exercise, and then do some fun stuff like have breakfast.

"I remember Sunday mornings;
I would meet you at the park. . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2023 11:16 PM (omVj0)

180 I don't know about any other real-life writer groups around here.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2023 11:13 PM (omVj0)


Of course you could go to AA meetings, I suppose.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2023 11:17 PM (xhaym)

181 Me and the family is repairing to go on vacation.

You're "repairing"?

Yep. We're fixin' to go.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 30, 2023 11:17 PM (0zqNr)

182 I'm telling you right now, if I see an alien made of diamonds, I'm drop kicking it into next week.

That's one way to break your foot. Unless it's a really tiny alien.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 30, 2023 11:18 PM (Bd6X8)

183 Evening Horde, thx MisHum. What are the odds that Bowman gets booted from Congress for his fire alarm stunt ? 1000 to 1, 50000 to 1. Probably just get a harshly worded letter

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2023 11:18 PM (rOOBk)

184 1000 to 1, 50000 to 1. Probably just get a harshly worded letter
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2023 11:18 PM (rOOBk)

Democrat, I take it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2023 11:19 PM (GH1QD)

185 @36 Inflation, cars being worth more,

Oh, listen, it can get worse. My insurer for the collector cars also does market reports, based on their auction feelers, applications for coverage, and their own expense accounts. They send out bulletins. Their last communication was a warning to get ready to lower my coverage because the market has peaked and is headed down. How do you suppose that makes their customers feel?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 30, 2023 11:20 PM (4PZHB)

186 @182

>>That's one way to break your foot. Unless it's a really tiny alien.

I've always felt particularly indestructible while wearing Red Wings.

This may all be in my head, but that's the story and I'm sticking to it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2023 11:21 PM (XV/Pl)

187 They sold a metric fuckton of mini-pickups in the '70's and '80's,

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2023 10:32 PM (9VLrL)

No can do. You'll kill the earth or something.
CAFE standards redefined "truck" (since they are exempt from the CAFE goals) with a wheelbase that you can't really do with a small pickup. They have to be big to not fall into the "car" category.

Posted by: GWB at September 30, 2023 11:21 PM (69JzL)

188 @184 yup , actually calls himself a socialist. Loud mouthed idiot who screamed at Tom Massie a few months ago and spouts white supremacy nonsense as often as he breathes

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2023 11:23 PM (rOOBk)

189 174 I was at the game.

No fire at all. Mariners didn't even show up.
Posted by: nurse ratched

That 6th inning encapsulates my life as a Marnier faithful since 1977. I am headed to the local psych ward for my annual visit.

Indeed! Julio's bottom of the 8th strikeout, on a pitch at least a foot off the plate, was the season in a nutshell...

Posted by: Giles Overreach at September 30, 2023 11:23 PM (16OI3)

190 Evening Horde, thx MisHum. What are the odds that Bowman gets booted from Congress for his fire alarm stunt ? 1000 to 1, 50000 to 1. Probably just get a harshly worded letter
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2023 11:18 PM (rOOBk)

Interfering with Congress equals attempted insurrection. 22 years in prison sounds about right.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 30, 2023 11:24 PM (0zqNr)

191 Evening Horde, thx MisHum. What are the odds that Bowman gets booted from Congress for his fire alarm stunt ? 1000 to 1, 50000 to 1. Probably just get a harshly worded letter
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Let's go hardcore. What are the odds he gets indicted for disrupting an official Congressional proceeding and putting the very existence our democracy at risk. That has got to be worth a trip to the DC jail for a few years and a 20 year sentence for sedition. Yeah, exactly. It also points out how abuse of power used against US citizens.

Posted by: lost in space at September 30, 2023 11:24 PM (kmEPs)

192 No can do. You'll kill the earth or something.
CAFE standards redefined "truck" (since they are exempt from the CAFE goals) with a wheelbase that you can't really do with a small pickup. They have to be big to not fall into the "car" category.
Posted by: GWB at September 30, 2023 11:21 PM (69JzL)

Hmmm...maybe come out with a "user installed" customizing kit to turn a used Toyota Prius into a min-pickup.

Step one: cut with Sawzall here to here.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2023 11:25 PM (GH1QD)

193 The Ds have are moving to outlaw all conventional gas furnaces with regulations the require the meet an impossible standard of 95% efficiency.

Posted by: lost in space at September 30, 2023 11:27 PM (kmEPs)

194 Hmmm...maybe come out with a "user installed" customizing kit to turn a used Toyota Prius into a min-pickup.

Step one: cut with Sawzall here to here.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2023 11:25 PM (GH1QD)

Wasn't there a Corvette with a truck canopy glued to it on the site a few days ago?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 30, 2023 11:29 PM (0zqNr)

195 are there silicon analogs to common carbon compounds like sugars, or alcohols?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2023 10:44 PM (9VLrL)

Computer chips?

Posted by: GWB at September 30, 2023 11:29 PM (69JzL)

196
Well, I'm here after all. Sister brought me a glass of wine and now I'm all settled in.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2023 11:29 PM (n7rxJ)

197 I gotta say, I don't care about or believe anything said about aliens. Maybe it's true that Our Khazarian Mafia Overlords* are preparing for their alien gods to return. Makes no difference in how I spend my time.

If they are, be sure to eat lots of pork - it will ruin your belly fat because they hate the taste of it.*

*source: Clif High - I get a kick out of his stuff.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist


Hello, human.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at September 30, 2023 11:30 PM (tjZg/)

198 Funny bowman meme
https://x.com/grandoldmemes/status/
1708191565095608729

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 30, 2023 11:32 PM (sz2SP)

199 196
Well, I'm here after all. Sister brought me a glass of wine and now I'm all settled in.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Cheers!

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan, she's still free! at September 30, 2023 11:33 PM (asZ+E)

200 I, for one, welcome our alien Ant overlords

Posted by: Kent Brockman at September 30, 2023 11:34 PM (0zqNr)

201 Step one: cut with Sawzall here to here.

Nah, next thing you'd have to convert the vacuum wipers...

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 30, 2023 11:35 PM (4PZHB)

202 If they are, be sure to eat lots of pork - it will ruin your belly fat because they hate the taste of it.*

**
So that's why they keep pushing us to eat soy & crickets - to flavor our meat!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 30, 2023 11:36 PM (sz2SP)

203 Computer chips?
Posted by: GWB at September 30, 2023 11:29 PM (69JzL)

No, those are basically elemental silicon, doped with tiny amounts of other elements.

Look at ethanol, beverage alcohol, for example: C2H5OH.

It's basically the hydrocarbon ethane, with one of the six hydrogens replaced by a hydroxyl group. A silicon analog, if it exists, would be Si2H5OH.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2023 11:36 PM (GH1QD)

204 I, for one, welcome our alien Ant overlords
Posted by: Kent Brockman

Them trailer - 1954
https://youtu.be/v4URRp39XOo

Posted by: lost in space at September 30, 2023 11:37 PM (kmEPs)

205 Makes sense that Lizard aliens like cricket flavored meat.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 30, 2023 11:37 PM (sz2SP)

206 I, for one, welcome our alien Ant overlords

Posted by: Kent Brockman at September 30, 2023 11:34 PM (0zqNr)


Kent, you'll welcome any overlord, you submissive fuck.

Posted by: RickZ at September 30, 2023 11:37 PM (emlEe)

207 Rep. Rosa DeLauro D (Conn). Between her and Lurch its like Halloween all year long.

https://tinyurl.com/rs24cbxr

Posted by: lost in space at September 30, 2023 11:45 PM (kmEPs)

208 @194 Wasn't there a Corvette with a truck canopy glued to it on the site a few days ago?

There are some bubble-backed sport 2+2's, like Camaro and Firebird shapes (the Avanti among them) that, with the rear glass, trunk and back seat removed and decked, make a tempting "ute."

And that leads to this:
https://tinyurl.com/4nmsyk3r

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 30, 2023 11:45 PM (4PZHB)

209 Pizza the Hutt from Spaceballs would be very quickly eaten here on Earth

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2023 11:46 PM (rOOBk)

210 @207 JJ commented the other day that Rose Dilauro had been interrupted while scissoring Helen Thomas's corpse. Rough to think of during breakfast

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2023 11:48 PM (rOOBk)

211 Good evening morons and gracias mh

I feel like I'm supposed to like Cheap Trick, but I don't.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2023 11:50 PM (RIvkX)

212 Pizza the Hutt from Spaceballs would be very quickly eaten here on Earth

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2023 11:46 PM (rOOBk)


Only if they deliver.

Posted by: RickZ at September 30, 2023 11:50 PM (emlEe)

213 JJ commented the other day that Rose Dilauro had been interrupted while scissoring Helen Thomas's corpse. Rough to think of during breakfast
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2023 11:48 PM (rOOBk)
==
Thanks for really cementing that image in my memory.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2023 11:51 PM (RIvkX)

214 Love the Cheap Trick hook up. I figured you to be manila vanilla gorilla patron.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 30, 2023 11:51 PM (KVGVf)

215
It's basically the hydrocarbon ethane, with one of the six hydrogens replaced by a hydroxyl group. A silicon analog, if it exists, would be Si2H5OH.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

This would be a silanol, which are widely used in a lot of chemistry synthesis. But you cannot isolate a compound like that in "air", as the Si-O-H bond is too reactive with oxygen. Silanols and silanes (Si-4H, for example), react, sometimes violently, in air.
A million years ago, when I worked in a semiconductor factory, we used Silane (SiH4) in reaction with ammonia to make a silicon nitride layer on a wafer chip.
Silane actually burns on contact with air.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at September 30, 2023 11:52 PM (tjZg/)

216 And that leads to this:
https://tinyurl.com/4nmsyk3r
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 30, 2023 11:45 PM (4PZHB)

Heh. I think a home-made ute, to be useful, has to be made from a sedan tall enough for one to enter/exit without bending double. Some of the modern crossover SUV's might be good candidates.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2023 11:53 PM (TCoW9)

217 RESEARCHERS have claimed that alien life could evolve from elements different from what we're used to.
The findings were presented in a new study published in the Journal of American Chemical Society.

In one of Vonnegut's books, he has an alien that communicates by tap dancing and farting. Point being that theoretically if there are aliens, theoretically they could be anything. Wonder how much money went into giving researchers comfortable middle class lives so they can come up with this juvenile twaddle that is less intellectual than 50 year old science fiction

Posted by: Azjaeger at September 30, 2023 11:54 PM (bOK50)

218
Pizza the Hutt from Spaceballs would be very quickly eaten here on Earth
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Only if they deliver.
Posted by: RickZ


Pizza sends out for YOU!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2023 11:55 PM (63Dwl)

219 I'm watching Chris Williams interview Michael Malice who wrote a book on the cold war, I guess targeted at Millennials.

Early on he remarks that it is amazing that the Cold War and the Soviet Union were such fundamentally important parts of the last 100 years of world history and a story of terrible atrocities but it is a real mystery why no one talks about it any more.

Later on he mentions reading some non-Soviet aligned leftists noting that their brethren where willing to let the Soviet Union by a horrible experiment because if it worked out it would justify their views on socialism, he doesn't mention it specifically, but this is the same idea as "have to break a few eggs to make an omelet".

But...notice Malice can't then take this back to the original point. Why doesn't the western media talk about the cold war and the USSR? Because it is bad for their current flavor of socialism.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2023 11:55 PM (XqcwY)

220 Only if they deliver.

Many of my local pizza joints have stopped delivering. They can't find anyone to do the work anymore.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2023 11:56 PM (XqcwY)

221 Ciampino's Rescue kitties

Still accepting donations towards the unkindest cut of all

There's another more extensive photo update #183 at the link.
Take a look if interested. Make sure to click on
"See Older Updates" as well if it's your first time.
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Posted by: Ciampino - What is Gordon Ramsay's least favorite movie? 'Frozen'. at September 30, 2023 11:56 PM (qfLjt)

222 This would be a silanol, which are widely used in a lot of chemistry synthesis. But you cannot isolate a compound like that in "air", as the Si-O-H bond is too reactive with oxygen. Silanols and silanes (Si-4H, for example), react, sometimes violently, in air.
A million years ago, when I worked in a semiconductor factory, we used Silane (SiH4) in reaction with ammonia to make a silicon nitride layer on a wafer chip.
Silane actually burns on contact with air.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at September 30, 2023 11:52 PM (tjZg/)

Thanks. I did subsequently look that up.

Hmmm. I wonder if Silane could be used as a fuel gas? Use scrubbers to trap the SiO2, and vent the H2O. I expect it would be abrasive as Hell in an engine, though. Bad juju if silicone brake fluid gets sucked into an engine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2023 11:57 PM (TCoW9)

223 220 Only if they deliver.

Many of my local pizza joints have stopped delivering. They can't find anyone to do the work anymore.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2023 11:56 PM (XqcwY)
----
Around here they make you use Door-Dash and similar delivery services. Having a middleman doesn't help when there's a problem with the actual order.

Posted by: Ciampino - Help! My Reality Check Bounced! at October 01, 2023 12:00 AM (qfLjt)

224 Around here they make you use Door-Dash and similar delivery services. Having a middleman doesn't help when there's a problem with the actual order.

Door dash will basically double the price of the food.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2023 12:01 AM (XqcwY)

225 @217 in the original Star Trek episode The Devil in the Dark the creature , the Horta , was based on silicon. So your point about these intellectuals being paid for rehashing 50 year old scifi is spot on

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 01, 2023 12:03 AM (rOOBk)

226
Around here they make you use Door-Dash and similar delivery services. Having a middleman doesn't help when there's a problem with the actual order.

Door dash will basically double the price of the food.
Posted by: 18-1


People evidently have infinite money.
Bidenomics!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 01, 2023 12:03 AM (63Dwl)

227 The Eukas can keep their riots where they are we have enough problems as it is.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 01, 2023 12:04 AM (YdNEG)

228 224 Around here they make you use Door-Dash and similar delivery services. Having a middleman doesn't help when there's a problem with the actual order.

Door dash will basically double the price of the food.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2023 12:01 AM (XqcwY)


TANSTAAFD

Posted by: GL at October 01, 2023 12:05 AM (5fDan)

229 ...Having a middleman doesn't help when there's a problem with the actual order.
Posted by: Ciampino - Help! My Reality Check Bounced! at October 01, 2023 12:00 AM (qfLjt)
===
No problem, just call their national 800 number and open a trouble ticket.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2023 12:05 AM (RIvkX)

230 I'm currently canning 12 pints of chicken pot pie filling. Beef in wine sauce tomorrow, particularly if I can find a recipe including potatoes. Could also do the beef stroganoff thing, I suppose, since I have a pile of mushrooms not going anywhere soon.

DH loves those canned dinners. No thinking, just eating.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at October 01, 2023 12:06 AM (LOVUx)

231 207 Rep. Rosa DeLauro D (Conn). Between her and Lurch its like Halloween all year long.

https://tinyurl.com/rs24cbxr

Posted by: lost in space
-------------------

Your taste in women is exceptional.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 01, 2023 12:06 AM (YdNEG)

232
Cheers!
Posted by: nurse ratched

+++++++++++

Nothing beats sipping vino, sitting on the bed, watching All About Eve.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 01, 2023 12:07 AM (n7rxJ)

233 I'm currently canning 12 pints of chicken pot pie filling. Beef in wine sauce tomorrow, particularly if I can find a recipe including potatoes. Could also do the beef stroganoff thing, I suppose, since I have a pile of mushrooms not going anywhere soon.

DH loves those canned dinners. No thinking, just eating.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at October 01, 2023 12:06 AM (LOVUx)

Do you use greenhouse pot, or free-range pot?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 01, 2023 12:09 AM (TCoW9)

234 But...notice Malice can't then take this back to the original point. Why doesn't the western media talk about the cold war and the USSR? Because it is bad for their current flavor of socialism.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2023 11:55 PM (XqcwY)


I always point to this:

Socialism doesn't work, even on a small scale. It was tried here before the word 'socialism' existed, it was just under a different guise. Here it was 'community'. When the Pilgrims landed off course up in Massachusetts, they were a religious community. They grew food as a community. The food was equally split at harvest. Some noticed those who didn't work as hard got the same split so, human nature being human nature, they slacked off, helping create a food shortage. Then the Natives came to their rescue and now we celebrate Thanksgiving -- all thanks to failed socialism.

And that's the rest of the story.

Posted by: RickZ, Not Identifying as Paul Harvey at October 01, 2023 12:10 AM (emlEe)

235 I feel like I'm supposed to like Cheap Trick, but I don't.

They want you to want them.

Which, really, sounds kinda needy.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 01, 2023 12:10 AM (Bd6X8)

236 I feel like I'm supposed to like Cheap Trick, but I don't.

They want you to want them.

Which, really, sounds kinda needy.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 01, 2023 12:10 AM (Bd6X

A baby chicken hooker turns cheep tricks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 01, 2023 12:12 AM (TCoW9)

237 A baby chicken hooker turns cheep tricks.

Yeah, but she'll give you chirpies. And that's an untweetable disease.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 01, 2023 12:13 AM (Bd6X8)

238 Yeah, but she'll give you chirpies. And that's an untweetable disease.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 01, 2023 12:13 AM (Bd6X

Hah!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 01, 2023 12:13 AM (TCoW9)

239 73
Small pickups? Well around the world the Toyota Hilux and the Nissan contemporary were/are really poplar. When as that Maverick truck mentioned? In 1974 I bought a brans new Mustang II for $3400 in Boston/Cambridge - I even remember the name: Arlington Ford. I wonder if they are still in business?

Posted by: Ciampino - Help! My Reality Check Bounced!! at October 01, 2023 12:15 AM (qfLjt)

240 Many of my local pizza joints have stopped delivering. They can't find anyone to do the work anymore.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2023 11:56 PM (XqcwY)


A lifetime ago, I delivered one summer for a small local pizza/sub shop a block over from the Va Beach 'strip' with all the tourist hotels; delivered local as well. Would NOT do that job today. Too many stories of set-ups for robbery and murder. Thanks but I'll get a job over there>> selling paint.

Posted by: RickZ at October 01, 2023 12:17 AM (emlEe)

241 MSM stock cold war footage favorite was Russian grocery store half empty shelves and display cases.
Also windshield wipers were so scarce and expensive that drivers put them in the trunk unless it was raining.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 01, 2023 12:18 AM (YdNEG)

242 Hello, human.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at September 30, 2023 11:30 PM (tjZg/)

;-)

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 01, 2023 12:18 AM (Mzdiz)

243 240 Many of my local pizza joints have stopped delivering. They can't find anyone to do the work anymore.

Posted by: 18-1 at S
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They are afraid of being shot.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 01, 2023 12:21 AM (YdNEG)

244 Hey, Blanco. I have, here on the desk before me, an old ARC-5 aircraft radio transmitter that has been modded into 15m/40m ham transmitter, Has 807 and 6AG7 tubes, a plate current meter and an 8640 kHz crystal. Is it of any interest to you? Yours, if you want it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 01, 2023 12:22 AM (TCoW9)

245 216 And that leads to this:
https://tinyurl.com/4nmsyk3r
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
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That's the car. That model was just asking to be made into a Camino type conversion.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 01, 2023 12:24 AM (YdNEG)

246
They are afraid of being shot.


A few years ago someone created a plugin for google maps so you could route around high crime areas.

Google made them remove it though because it was "racist"

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2023 12:24 AM (XqcwY)

247 In 1984 I bought a new Chevy S-10 pickup for $7000. 4 cylinder Isuzu engine, no radio, 1-ply nylon-belted tires. I was convinced that it was an over run from a Navy contract due to its battleship-gray paint job.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 01, 2023 12:26 AM (0zqNr)

248 Note to self: Never piss off the Brazilian Federal Police.

https://tinyurl.com/646h2279

Posted by: lost in space at October 01, 2023 12:26 AM (kmEPs)

249
They are afraid of being shot.
Posted by: Braenyard

++++++++++++

This is why I hold out little hope for change as Target, Wal-mart, CVS, etc opt out of brick-and-mortar retail and people predict more Amazon and other deliveries.

So the thugs will just switch to jacking delivery trucks and engaging in porch piracy.

When drivers start refusing to go to certain hoods, it will be an increase in robbing freight trains, which has already reached such levels in L.A. that Union Pacific has threatened to circumvent L.A. County.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 01, 2023 12:30 AM (n7rxJ)

250 What about aliens that can interact with other dimensions? Notice how everyone's hush-hush about that?

Posted by: SFGoth at October 01, 2023 12:31 AM (KAi1n)

251 Hey, Blanco. I have, here on the desk before me, an old ARC-5 aircraft radio transmitter that has been modded into 15m/40m ham transmitter, Has 807 and 6AG7 tubes, a plate current meter and an 8640 kHz crystal. Is it of any interest to you? Yours, if you want it.

Sounds good, we'll have to arrange a meetup while you're down here this winter.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 01, 2023 12:32 AM (Bd6X8)

252
This is why I hold out little hope for change as Target, Wal-mart, CVS, etc opt out of brick-and-mortar retail and people predict more Amazon and other deliveries.


First: The only reason you are arresting people for shoplifting is racism!

Then: There aren't any brick and mortar stores anymore because of racism!

Finally: The only reason you won't go out and take stuff in the burbs is racism!

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2023 12:33 AM (XqcwY)

253 Standards are racist.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 01, 2023 12:36 AM (Mzdiz)

254 So the thugs will just switch to jacking delivery trucks and engaging in porch piracy.

When drivers start refusing to go to certain hoods, it will be an increase in robbing freight trains, which has already reached such levels in L.A. that Union Pacific has threatened to circumvent L.A. County.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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It's happening in CA and other blue lagoons because they let it happen. Most areas in the US police don't tolerate it and citizens are allowed to shoot - and they will.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 01, 2023 12:37 AM (YdNEG)

255 Good. I will set it aside, and put your name on it, to take with me when I head south.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 01, 2023 12:39 AM (TCoW9)

256 250 What about aliens that can interact with other dimensions? Notice how everyone's hush-hush about that?

Posted by: SFGoth at October 01, 2023 12:31 AM (KAi1n)
----
https://is.gd/g1BpiU (text)
https://is.gd/kOm5zZ (video)

Posted by: Ciampino - Help! My Reality Check Bounced!! at October 01, 2023 12:39 AM (qfLjt)

257 The topic of non-carbon based life forms always reminds me of Felisa Wolfe Simon.
"Wolfe-Simon led a team that discovered GFAJ-1, an extremophile bacterium that they claimed was capable of substituting arsenic for a small percentage of its phosphorus to sustain its growth, thus advancing the remarkable possibility of non-RNA/DNA-based genetics"

There was a huge roll-out by NASA (who provided the funding). Big press conference with a panel of NASA scientists. In the end, it was junk science, and a huge embarrassment.

Skip down to the 'Controversy' section:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felisa_Wolfe-Simon

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2023 12:43 AM (XeU6L)

258
WHY YOU
NO CALL
SPOCK?

Posted by: The Horta at October 01, 2023 12:44 AM (aD39U)

259 Why Every Film Today Looks the Same
It uses classic films to show side by side how they bastardize movies nowadays using cameras and shot angles. Enjoy! Its a real interesting video.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKx5JEvP5og

Posted by: Braenyard at October 01, 2023 12:45 AM (YdNEG)

260 It's happening in CA and other blue lagoons because they let it happen. Most areas in the US police don't tolerate it and citizens are allowed to shoot - and they will.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 01, 2023 12:37 AM (YdNEG)


Here's the part of human nature the social justice wankers in our legal system always ignore: The legal system, trial and imprisonment, is not to protect the citizenry from the criminal but the criminal from the vigilante justice of the citizenry. When crime is ignored, that's what ends up happening every time, whether the results are right or wrong. The 'wrong' is the problem with vigilante 'justice' and is Exhibit A for why need a functioning impartial legal system that prosecutes crime.

Posted by: RickZ at October 01, 2023 12:46 AM (emlEe)

261 "Silicon based life forms (which have been speculated about) could not exist in an oxidizing atmosphere, "

Sure they could. Through the (long) process of EVOLUTION. The Universe is a big place with a lot of time. Nearly anything is possible...

Posted by: formerly known as at October 01, 2023 12:49 AM (5rLr3)

262 247 In 1983 I bought a 1970 Dodge Challenger with the 383 for $300 in the original lime green paint

Posted by: MAxIE at October 01, 2023 12:51 AM (twxj3)

263 Darned near 2300 here. Time for bed. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 01, 2023 12:55 AM (TCoW9)

264 Watching Kolchak on MeTV.

Why the hell doesn’t the guy ever carry a firearm?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 01, 2023 12:59 AM (xTRSc)

265 Why the hell doesn’t the guy ever carry a firearm?

Guns? Yawn

Posted by: Some Vampire at October 01, 2023 01:03 AM (XqcwY)

266 here comes the push

Posted by: gird your loins at October 01, 2023 01:03 AM (uvLtm)

267 So, who's dead because of the gubmint shutdown?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 01, 2023 01:05 AM (4I/2K)

268 Seems to get it.

So does elon.

Posted by: alan parson at October 01, 2023 01:05 AM (uvLtm)

269 Watching Kolchak on MeTV.

Why the hell doesn’t the guy ever carry a firearm?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 01, 2023 12:59 AM (xTRSc)

Because the pen is mightier than the sword?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 01, 2023 01:06 AM (0zqNr)

270 y
didn't you use this first?














Posted by: mightier than the sword at October 01, 2023 01:09 AM (uvLtm)

271 enjoy the show

Posted by: the moon is older than the earth at October 01, 2023 01:11 AM (uvLtm)

272 are you worthy?

Posted by: we are here for a reason at October 01, 2023 01:14 AM (uvLtm)

273 This is the warm up test.

Posted by: the real test is coming at October 01, 2023 01:16 AM (uvLtm)

274 Meat? Just meat.
How does it communicate?
It blows air out its flapping meat hole.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 01, 2023 01:18 AM (YdNEG)

275 Good. I will set it aside, and put your name on it, to take with me when I head south.

Thank you very much, sir!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 01, 2023 01:19 AM (Bd6X8)

276 This is the warm up test.

Posted by: the real test is coming at October 01, 2023 01:16 AM (uvLtm)


Hope it's not for a urine test. I never pass those damn things.

Posted by: Hunter B., Rakin' In The Cash at October 01, 2023 01:19 AM (emlEe)

277 are you worthy?

No. No one is. And yet...

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 01, 2023 01:21 AM (Bd6X8)

278 I went over to cracked dot com and they had an article on movie cliches that must die.

One of them is that cars explode when they crash. Ha ha. Stupid Michael Bay.

Some one should let Gov Kemp's staffer know that so he can stop being dead.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2023 01:22 AM (XqcwY)

279 horse poop?

Posted by: what are we going to do at October 01, 2023 01:23 AM (uvLtm)

280 horse poop!

Posted by: it's in the streets' at October 01, 2023 01:28 AM (uvLtm)

281 horse poop?

No, that's all mine. I know it's a lot, but I have been eating more fiber lately.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 01, 2023 01:28 AM (Bd6X8)

282 it's on the streets'.

Posted by: it's in the streets' at October 01, 2023 01:30 AM (uvLtm)

283 Rosa De Lauro is a great Halloween costume if you are searching for something perhaps a bit more obscure. I knew nothing of brownies when I was actually at the MoMe, will someone please point me in the right direction this year. Ponders slipping Helena a few bucks for a private stash.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 01, 2023 01:30 AM (Sgq8y)

284 just because

Posted by: penis at October 01, 2023 01:31 AM (uvLtm)

285 Heading out for the night. Someone please make sure uvLtm get their meds sorted out.

Goodnight Horde!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 01, 2023 01:32 AM (Bd6X8)

286 > 267 So, who's dead because of the gubmint shutdown?
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 01, 2023 01:05 AM (4I/2K)

There isn't going to be one. The Senate passed the continuing resolution, and Dopey Joe allegedly signed it just before midnight (or his autopen signed it, anyway).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 01, 2023 01:33 AM (Y6AXb)

287 never thought i could do that

Posted by: wow at October 01, 2023 01:33 AM (uvLtm)

288 > Hope it's not for a urine test. I never pass those damn things.
Posted by: Hunter B., Rakin' In The Cash at October 01, 2023 01:19 AM (emlEe)

I'm really good at STD tests. I know what all of them look like.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at October 01, 2023 01:34 AM (Y6AXb)

289 ?
what happened to our assets?

Posted by: here comes the fun at October 01, 2023 01:36 AM (uvLtm)

290 going up river is everything.

Posted by: up river is an art at October 01, 2023 01:38 AM (uvLtm)

291 Apparently $6 billion for the Ukes has been cut from the continuing resolution.

I'm still waiting to see how badly we got reamed in other areas. It's never a good sign when the gummint does money things at midnight on a Saturday.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 01, 2023 01:39 AM (Y6AXb)

292 This is the warm up test.

Posted by: the real test is coming at October 01, 2023 01:16 AM (uvLtm)


Who're yuze?

Posted by: Going Up River -- To Sing Sing at October 01, 2023 01:41 AM (emlEe)

293 Aw fuck. Killed that 'joke'.

Posted by: RickZ at October 01, 2023 01:41 AM (emlEe)

294 > 240 Many of my local pizza joints have stopped delivering. They can't find anyone to do the work anymore.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2023 11:56 PM (XqcwY)


My feeling about the Door Dash/Uber-type operations is mixed, but they do have the advantage that the driver is less likely to be robbed, as there's not even an option for a cash transaction.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 01, 2023 01:42 AM (Y6AXb)

295 Jaamal (or Jamaal, or Jaaaaaaaaamaaaaaal, whatever) Bowman apparently pulled the fire alarm in an attempt to stop the vote.

Of course, he'll never be prosecuted for this.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 01, 2023 01:48 AM (Y6AXb)

296 The story about the coked up pilot would be improved by the use of an Oxford comma...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 01, 2023 01:49 AM (XMwZJ)

297 Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) ripped down two signs warning a second floor door in the Cannon House Office Building was for emergency use only before pulling the fire alarm and running out through a different door on a different floor,
----------------

Whatever it takes

Posted by: Braenyard at October 01, 2023 01:53 AM (YdNEG)

298 Sweden: A 26-year-old taxi driver from the Middle East was reported for raping a 14-year-old girl - then he was found hanged in a nature reserve. Now the girl, her boyfriend and three of his brothers are suspected of the very painful murder,
--------------

So sad the hanging was painful.
Wonder how the rape felt?
https://www.friatider.se/

Posted by: Braenyard at October 01, 2023 01:58 AM (YdNEG)

299 So sad the hanging was painful

The Viking "Blood Eagle" has entered the chat.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 01, 2023 02:02 AM (0zqNr)

300 Seen on Xhitter: Greta Thunberg and Kyle Rittenhouse have the same birthday. So much for astrology.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 01, 2023 02:02 AM (Y6AXb)

301 Democrats Join McCarthy In Celebrating Budget Stopgap—And Taunting MAGA Wing

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) ...[enjoyed] riling far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who she says “threw a tantrum.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) also celebrated the vote, saying “all extreme right-wing policies have been removed” from it, arguing in a post that “MAGA Republicans have surrendered.”
_Forbes

Posted by: Braenyard at October 01, 2023 02:05 AM (YdNEG)

302 Viktor Orbán ,said,Tuesday, in parliament in Budapest, migrants had shot the Hungarian border officials with automatic weapons on the last few nights. As early [many] as 168 border guards are said to have been seriously injured on the southern border
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Posted by: Braenyard at October 01, 2023 02:12 AM (YdNEG)

303 every thing is wrong.

good bye and

good luck.

Posted by: hardly wait at October 01, 2023 02:15 AM (uvLtm)

304 > As early [many] as 168 border guards are said to have been seriously injured on the southern border

When do they, and we, start calling this kind of thing an invasion?

These aren't "migrants". They're invading enemy soldiers.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 01, 2023 02:15 AM (Y6AXb)

305 Good night all.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 01, 2023 02:16 AM (Y6AXb)

306 for the new folk.

Posted by: welcome campers. at October 01, 2023 02:17 AM (uvLtm)

307 leave it like you found it.

Posted by: obvious rule at October 01, 2023 02:19 AM (uvLtm)

308 conservative women?

we'll see.

love'm or leav'm.
'
the left is in a heap a trouble.

Posted by: good vs evil at October 01, 2023 02:25 AM (uvLtm)

309 is anything real anymore?

everything has all gone away..

belt of truth

it's what we have

belt of truth.

can't wear the armor without it,

they are fucked.

i"m coming

Posted by: good vs evil at October 01, 2023 02:32 AM (uvLtm)

310 Hiya

Posted by: Skip at October 01, 2023 03:02 AM (fwDg9)

311 Cheap Trick was the quintessential band of the decade.

I still like them and their majesty.

It's just rock and roll. And I like it!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 01, 2023 03:11 AM (KVGVf)

312 Bodega clerk sues woke Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg for RACIAL DISCRIMINATION after he was slung in Rikers Island for killing attacker in self defense 'to push prosecutor's 'equity' agenda'

https://mol.im/a/12579617

Posted by: Ciampino - He who hesitates is probably right at October 01, 2023 03:13 AM (qfLjt)

313 Schumer: “McConnell and I have agreed to continue fighting for more economic and security aid for Ukraine.”

https://is.gd/47TM2j

Posted by: Ciampino - He who hesitates is probably right. at October 01, 2023 03:16 AM (qfLjt)

314 If you won't take the jab then we'll feed it to you.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has recently brought to light a deeply concerning issue that should alarm every American citizen. The U.S. government is currently funding research into “transgenic edible vaccines,” .

https://is.gd/dEzUQk

Posted by: Ciampino - Honk if you love peace and quiet at October 01, 2023 03:20 AM (qfLjt)

315 Another bizarre political story. Democrat Congressman pulls fire alarm in order to stop Congressional funding vote:

https://tinyurl.com/mrfp7x4r

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2023 03:27 AM (RSbhh)

316 And the NY Post has over 2000 comments on it- and no, I didn't read them all-or even most of them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2023 03:36 AM (RSbhh)

317 I'm fairly certain that an ewok with a raging boner made somebody disappear without anybody's knowledge.

It happens like a loch ness sighting or bigfoot encounter. Ba-Boom! What? Where?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 01, 2023 03:37 AM (KVGVf)

318 Posted by: Dr. Bone

Yes; That person was some bizarre poster or spambot.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2023 03:42 AM (RSbhh)

319 Posted by: Ciampino - He who hesitates is probably right at October 01, 2023 03:13 AM (qfLjt)

Good; Bragg should be sued over that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2023 03:43 AM (RSbhh)

320 My feeling about the Door Dash/Uber-type operations is mixed, but they do have the advantage that the driver is less likely to be robbed, as there's not even an option for a cash transaction.
Posted by: Rodrigo

These drivers still have a car and a wallet. My thoughts anymore are that we are in the age feral psychopaths who
operate under the thunderdome deconstruction of society rules aka as in there no rules anymore.

Posted by: Lost In Space at October 01, 2023 03:43 AM (W028D)

321 Bathroom water leaks are so yesterday Fen

Posted by: Skip at October 01, 2023 03:51 AM (fwDg9)

322 Seems to me, using the rules of multi-culturalism, if a Muslim man commits an honor killing because somebody raped his sister or daughter, the rules state, that while not celebrated this class of murders are understandable. I would apply the same rules to the Swedish family members if they actually committed this murder. Who am I kidding? They will all probably get 25 years in prison. Western liberal culture has become a suicide pact and it's a matter of time before Notre Dame and all the other cathedrals become mosques unless something changes dramatically.

Posted by: Lost In Space at October 01, 2023 03:52 AM (W028D)

323 I think that might be a Sidecar in the top photo.

Posted by: m at October 01, 2023 04:03 AM (aWeTk)

324 Pixy's up at https://ai.mee.nu but not here yet.

Posted by: m at October 01, 2023 04:07 AM (aWeTk)

325 But one of favorite comments on the story of the leftist Congressman pulling the fire alarm was this:

A MISTAKE???
He DID NOT REALIZE it was a fire alarm..... THEN.... HE IS TOO STUPID TO BE A REPRESENTATIVE IN OUR GOVERNMENT!!!!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2023 04:07 AM (RSbhh)

326 Disclaimer: This is not a blog, the opinions found herein do not exist and are merely figments of your imagination, and very likely you do not exist either. We are all buy bees.

Posted by: m at October 01, 2023 04:08 AM (aWeTk)

327 Busy bees?

Posted by: m at October 01, 2023 04:09 AM (aWeTk)

328 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at October 01, 2023 04:09 AM (aWeTk)

329 PIXY NOOD IS UP

Posted by: Skip at October 01, 2023 04:10 AM (fwDg9)

330 330

Posted by: m at October 01, 2023 04:11 AM (aWeTk)

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