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Schloss Braunfels/Braunfels Castle
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Switzerland winter scenes.

Nurse Ratched is a huge fan of this orangutan.

That cheeky beluga is at it again.

Whoa this red part kicks!

It's annoying, huh? Now imagine what my life is like, jerkweed.

Ten points for Gryffendog.

As the caption says, "Barkour." This kind of precision jump is trained in parkour. Like when you jump from a roof to standing wall. You have to make sure you're landing in a very specific place.

I was Low Energy Jeb all day. This guy gets it.

Meeting the new member of the family.. 🥺 pic.twitter.com/lgqXhsQrbd
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Rescued orphan meeting his new family for the first time.. 😊

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First steps of a baby elephant.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/uVQX8toMdi
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Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 07:28 PM (GLg6M)

2
I have won this thread.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 07:28 PM (GLg6M)

3 Not first, I’m guessing.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 07:28 PM (9yWhg)

4 Dear tech support,
RSS is broken

Love,
joe

Posted by: Joe at January 24, 2024 07:29 PM (TO/17)

5 Well, I’m back to being in a thoroughly pissy mood.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 07:29 PM (9yWhg)

6 I've got a groin family.

Posted by: Pawl at January 24, 2024 07:30 PM (vFG9F)

7 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2024 07:30 PM (KOVuc)

8 Seeing the big old castle, and the smaller, newer not-exactly castles buildings in front, it reminds me of old farmhouses where you see campers and rusted out cars on the property.

Someone lived in the big house, and they're ne'er do well kids and cousins just sorta squattered in front of it, never leaving until they were carted off by the undertaker.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2024 07:30 PM (4C+Ag)

9 yay cafe!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at January 24, 2024 07:31 PM (WsTvr)

10 top 10 !

Posted by: runner at January 24, 2024 07:31 PM (V13WU)

11 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 24, 2024 07:31 PM (WSTFK)

12
Not first, I’m guessing.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

_________

*flips cigarette butt at Bulg*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 07:31 PM (GLg6M)

13 perfect !

Posted by: runner at January 24, 2024 07:31 PM (V13WU)

14 Hope the little elephant isn't sick.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at January 24, 2024 07:31 PM (MvF+J)

15 Heh

Posted by: Jamaica at January 24, 2024 07:32 PM (Eeb9P)

16 HOrse vid is very funny !

Posted by: runner at January 24, 2024 07:32 PM (V13WU)

17 Hope the little elephant isn't sick.

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no, no, he is just born, first steps , still has some umbilical cord hanging there

Posted by: runner at January 24, 2024 07:34 PM (V13WU)

18 OK, you guys win.

Posted by: the orangutan at January 24, 2024 07:34 PM (MeG8a)

19 Those castles always make me think of bills: roofing, masonry, plumbing. Big ass bills.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at January 24, 2024 07:34 PM (MvF+J)

20 Awwwww!!!!!
Meeting new family member.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 24, 2024 07:34 PM (W/lyH)

21 I love baby elephant learning to walk videos. They remind me of my couple of attempts at ice skating.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at January 24, 2024 07:35 PM (qYZJ4)

22 I have won this thread.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 07:28 PM

Congratulations! Have this laurel, and hearty handshake!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 24, 2024 07:35 PM (Wnv9h)

23 Those castles always make me think of bills: roofing, masonry, plumbing. Big ass bills.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at January 24, 2024 07:34 PM (MvF+J)
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Yeah, I know what you mean....

Posted by: King Ludwig II at January 24, 2024 07:35 PM (BpYfr)

24 Marmot short:
youtube.com/shorts/TJqK61B5kW8

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at January 24, 2024 07:36 PM (MvF+J)

25 That orangutan is asshoe.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 24, 2024 07:36 PM (Wnv9h)

26 Not first, I’m guessing.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

_________

*flips cigarette butt at Bulg*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 07:31 PM (GLg6M)
***

*points at Bulgar*
*snickers*

Posted by: Diogenes at January 24, 2024 07:36 PM (W/lyH)

27 12 Grrrrrr….

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 07:36 PM (9yWhg)

28 I've heard tell that Switzerland is beautiful every time of year...

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI expert at January 24, 2024 07:37 PM (snyZJ)

29 The barkour dog is just practicing how he gets away from the restaurant in the background.

Posted by: GWB at January 24, 2024 07:37 PM (32nmx)

30 Right turn, Clyde!

Posted by: Y.I. Otter at January 24, 2024 07:37 PM (63Dwl)

31 Democracy is on the ropes! Its left eye is swollen shut and it is begging Mickey to cut it!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 24, 2024 07:37 PM (NYzgN)

32 I wonder is that the place New Braunfels TX is named after. I hear it's nice. Both places actually.

Posted by: gourmand du jour and his stuffed peppers at January 24, 2024 07:37 PM (MeG8a)

33 19 Dumping sewage in the moat, drawing drinking water from the moat, throwing cholera victims from the parapets when under siege.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 24, 2024 07:37 PM (0EOe9)

34 26 Grrrrrrr….

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 07:37 PM (9yWhg)

35 "Those castles always make me think of bills: roofing, masonry, plumbing. Big ass bills.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom"

I cant imagine how much it would cost to put a new roof on those towers, or even how you find someone who can do it. That is one do it yourself job I am not willing to tackle.

Posted by: fd at January 24, 2024 07:38 PM (vFG9F)

36 >>>Ten points for Gryffendog.

Let's see how he handles the Kobayashi Maru.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 24, 2024 07:39 PM (klJTj)

37
Story on CBS national news tonight about Barbie not getting nominations for Best Actress and Best Director. Much blubbering from the two women those Academy meanies snubbed.

Pretty sickening. The more superficial the industry, the more awards and prizes it hands out. And adults neither seek nor accept awards.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 07:39 PM (GLg6M)

38 26

'
*points at Bulgar*
*snickers*'

Quit picking on Bulgar.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 24, 2024 07:40 PM (roH4R)

39 I'd love to have a schloss.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 24, 2024 07:40 PM (SExFt)

40 Where eagles double dog dare.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 24, 2024 07:40 PM (63Dwl)

41 Well, I’m back to being in a thoroughly pissy mood.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 07:29 PM (9yWhg)

Join the party, pal! I'm getting two dental implants tomorrow afternoon.

And worse, my teeth have a demonstrated ability to ferret out upcoming trouble. Last time I did an implant and was scheduled to get the crown installed, the March total COVID shutdown struck. After reading Gov. Abbott's missive, what do you think's going to happen when I'm supposed to get the bridge installed?

We're doomed.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 24, 2024 07:40 PM (/HDaX)

42 "Story on CBS national news tonight about Barbie not getting nominations for Best Actress and Best Director."

I think Nostradamus predicted this. What comes next is not good.

Posted by: fd at January 24, 2024 07:41 PM (vFG9F)

43 Those castles always make me think of bills: roofing, masonry, plumbing. Big ass bills.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at January 24, 2024 07:34 PM (MvF+J)

The peasants pay the bills. That's what they're for.

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Yeah, I know what you mean....
Posted by: King Ludwig II at January 24, 2024 07:35 PM (BpYfr)

Excellent sock! *hearty applause*

Posted by: GWB at January 24, 2024 07:41 PM (32nmx)

44 35 My home town in the Ohio Rust Belt had a lot of homes with slate roofs, Mom and Dad's included. Big bucks for a simple repair. Also, don't build a snow fort along side the house because the avalanche from the roof will bury you.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 24, 2024 07:41 PM (0EOe9)

45 The castle of King Ludwig II. It's not even that old:
http://tinyurl.com/yr69xnuj

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at January 24, 2024 07:42 PM (MvF+J)

46 38 Thank you, Dr. Claw.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 07:43 PM (9yWhg)

47 >>>First steps of a baby elephant..

And the first face plants of a baby elephant.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 24, 2024 07:43 PM (klJTj)

48 31 Democracy is on the ropes! Its left eye is swollen shut and it is begging Mickey to cut it!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 24, 2024 07:37 PM (NYzgN)

Great visual; this made me laugh. Thanks, CAT

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 24, 2024 07:43 PM (OX9vb)

49 41 Best of luck to you, ABA.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 07:43 PM (9yWhg)

50 I'd love to have a schloss.
Posted by: Northernlurker

The Paolo will, how you say, show you Paolo's.

Posted by: The Paolo at January 24, 2024 07:44 PM (WSTFK)

51 "Rescued orphan meeting ......"

Not new family, more like his actual family. As a stranger he'd be chased away and even killed.

Posted by: Ciampino - Monkeys and apes are very territorial at January 24, 2024 07:44 PM (qfLjt)

52 Hey! I'm not low energy! I'm full of piss and vinegar and I want respect!

Oh, time to rub one out and take a nap.

Please clap...

Posted by: Jeb!, Inbred And Loving It at January 24, 2024 07:44 PM (R/m4+)

53 Does Brandon Shambles really want to use a very public display of force to continue sabotaging the border to help the invasion? Is he or his handlers that stupid? The vote fraud will have to be pristine to avoid the natural result.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 24, 2024 07:45 PM (Fwuhb)

54 Can't even imagine having to tend and light a fire in every room in that place

Posted by: Ben Had at January 24, 2024 07:45 PM (bn3/b)

55 49 41 Best of luck to you, ABA.

'preciate.

[passes beer through USB-C port]

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 24, 2024 07:45 PM (/HDaX)

56 55 Thanks, ABA. I’m already into the vodka, though, so I’ll save the beer for later.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 07:47 PM (9yWhg)

57 Can't even imagine having to tend and light a fire in every room in that place
Posted by: Ben Had at January 24, 2024 07:45 PM

You'd have to employ half the damned town as staff in a place like that. Aw, hell no.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 24, 2024 07:48 PM (Wnv9h)

58 I found the cabinet where the Grapes of Wrath are stored. Pops cork.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 24, 2024 07:49 PM (bn3/b)

59 Thanks, ABA. I’m already into the vodka, though, so I’ll save the beer for later.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 07:47 PM (9yWhg)

Oh!
Dang!
A martini sounds particularly god right now.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 24, 2024 07:49 PM (W/lyH)

60 I’m already into the vodka, though, so I’ll save the beer for later.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 07:47 PM

*raises Manhattan, stirred in the manner of CBD*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 24, 2024 07:49 PM (Wnv9h)

61 Story on CBS national news tonight about Barbie not getting nominations for Best Actress and Best Director.

The Sound of Freedom did not receive one nomination. What good are awards from people like this?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 24, 2024 07:49 PM (Fwuhb)

62 Can't even imagine having to tend and light a fire in every room in that place
Posted by: Ben Had
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Servants.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 24, 2024 07:50 PM (XeU6L)

63
Read about life in some of those castles. Apart from the grand rooms, cramped, stupidly laid out, smelly and shabby.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 07:50 PM (MoZTd)

64 *raises Manhattan, stirred in the manner of CBD*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 24, 2024 07:49 PM (Wnv9h)

Ahhh. The pinkie extended method.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 24, 2024 07:51 PM (W/lyH)

65 57 The whole town would be lining up for the chance to get the bread scraps after the Feast of the Baron. The other half who didn't get the job would just have to get their sorry asses back to work. Tax times a'coming.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 24, 2024 07:52 PM (0EOe9)

66 First cardinal of the season was spotted today. Big and red!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 24, 2024 07:52 PM (a3Q+t)

67 Wrath grapes are picked at the peak of anger. The pickers are somewhat disgruntled too. The terroir imparts a note of rage.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at January 24, 2024 07:53 PM (MvF+J)

68 Those castles always make me think of bills: roofing, masonry, plumbing. Big ass bills.
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Yeah; you can buy ones for the price of a big-city house but the annual upkeep is huge.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 24, 2024 07:53 PM (2yu8s)

69 63 Castles are cool, as long as you stick to the exterior battlements.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 07:53 PM (9yWhg)

70 The penguin is mentioned in this place only under a hope, in some measure, of rescuing its character from the extreme degree of odium with which it is loaded, in consequence of the supposed injury that it commits by feeding upon porn. This bird is by no means without its utility, even to the very persons who incessantly seek its destruction. On a calculation made by the late Professor Bradley, it was ascertained that a pair of penguins, during the time they have young ones, destroy on average over 3360 caterpillars every week.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at January 24, 2024 07:53 PM (vFG9F)

71 That photo of Schloss Braunfels is outstanding. And one that TRex and I have not visited. But no worries, I am adding it to the list for the next Germany adventure!

Posted by: Grateful at January 24, 2024 07:53 PM (IQ6Gq)

72
The whole town would be lining up for the chance to get the bread scraps after the Feast of the Baron. The other half who didn't get the job would just have to get their sorry asses back to work. Tax times a'coming.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door

_________

This is our future.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 07:54 PM (MoZTd)

73 >> I've heard tell that Switzerland is beautiful every time of year...

It is.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2024 07:55 PM (ZLI7S)

74
Schloss Hadrian >>>> Schloss Braunfels

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 07:55 PM (9mNHV)

75 They had roofers out the wazoo. ‘Hans! Get your ass up that ladder!’

Posted by: Eromero at January 24, 2024 07:55 PM (NxC5+)

76 Nurse Ratched is a huge fan of this orangutan.

This is being scored as a river otter appearance in the Café Balanced Scorecard, moving them off of zero.

Sadly, Giant watusi and llamas remain on zero, YTD.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 24, 2024 07:55 PM (a3Q+t)

77 Story on CBS national news tonight about Barbie not getting nominations for Best Actress and Best Director.

Sure glad they get to the important shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 24, 2024 07:56 PM (R4t5M)

78 67 Wrath grapes are picked at the peak of anger. The pickers are somewhat disgruntled too. The terroir imparts a note of rage.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at January 24, 2024 07:53 PM (MvF+J)

The perfect choice for these times, monsieur.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 24, 2024 07:56 PM (OX9vb)

79
‘Hans! Get your ass up that ladder!’

__________

*"AIEEEEEE!*
*thud*

‘Dieter! Get your ass up that ladder!’

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 07:57 PM (9mNHV)

80 cant imagine how much it would cost to put a new roof on those towers, or even how you find someone who can do it. That is one do it yourself job I am not willing to tackle.
Posted by: fd at January 24, 2024 07:38 PM

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Friend of mine bought a big Norman style house with lots of steep little rooflets at a foreclosure sale. He got the place cheap but it needs a new roof and every bid he's received is 6 figures. Gulp.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 24, 2024 07:57 PM (+j+ar)

81 schloshed right out of Texas, didn't it?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 24, 2024 07:57 PM (D7oie)

82 I've driven through New Braunfels, TX. It don't look like Olde Braunfels do it.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 24, 2024 07:57 PM (3CCua)

83 Wrath grapes are picked at the peak of anger. The pickers are somewhat disgruntled too. The terroir imparts a note of rage

Same as with the angry whopper, except you have to scream obscenities at the same time

Posted by: N at January 24, 2024 07:58 PM (RjBju)

84 I went through New Braunfels in 2018. Didn't even recognize the place.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 24, 2024 08:00 PM (R4t5M)

85 80 Then he does it again in 15-20 yrs, for seven figures. First time I replaced my roof, it was $2K. Second time was $11K. Next time cleans me out completely.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at January 24, 2024 08:00 PM (MvF+J)

86 That picture of Schloss Braunfels is fantastic. Sorry, Mad Ludwig, but I like a real castle better.

Posted by: t-bird at January 24, 2024 08:01 PM (LQsBY)

87 I hear New Brafalls is a fun place, though.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 08:01 PM (9yWhg)

88 I've driven through New Braunfels, TX. It don't look like Olde Braunfels do it.
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 24, 2024

No, but the BBQ is immeasurably better.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 24, 2024 08:01 PM (a3Q+t)

89 @5

>>Well, I’m back to being in a thoroughly pissy mood.

If its any consolation, I've been pissy since the early 90's.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 24, 2024 08:02 PM (XV/Pl)

90
I have an infrequently occurring dream where we acquire a huge old house that has seen better days. Now that I'm 29, it's more like a nightmare.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 08:02 PM (9mNHV)

91 ‘Hans! Get your ass up that ladder!’

__________

*"AIEEEEEE!*
*thud*

‘Dieter! Get your ass up that ladder!’
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

This remindsme of the beech landing in The Big Red One where Lee Marvin is calling numbers to go die emolacing the bangalor torpedo to clear the razor wire so they can get off the beech.

Luke Skywalker survives this assualt on his cowardice and lives for another scene in the movie.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 24, 2024 08:02 PM (3CCua)

92 Chimps are all well and good until they rip your face off.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 24, 2024 08:02 PM (GTqXr)

93 cant imagine how much it would cost to put a new roof on those towers, or even how you find someone who can do it. That is one do it yourself job I am not willing to tackle.
Posted by: fd at January 24, 2024 07:38 PM
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I'm sure they replace the roof using the same techniques (more or less) that they used to install it in the first place. Lots and lots of scaffolding. And safety ropes.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 24, 2024 08:03 PM (BpYfr)

94 It's been a bad week or two for celebrities, unfortunately.

||The singer Melanie, who was best known for her massively popular singles Lay Down (Candles In The Rain), Brand New Key and the Rolling Stones cover Ruby Tuesday, has died.

The songwriter’s children Leilah, Jeordie and Beau-Jarred announced that she died on January 23 at the age of 76.

‘Dear ones,’ they began, using a greeting that their mother often favored when writing to fans, ‘This is the hardest post for us to write, and there are so many things we want to say, first, and there’s no easy way except to say it… Mom passed, peacefully, out of this world and into the next on January 23rd, 2024.’||

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 24, 2024 08:03 PM (2yu8s)

95 92 Five times the upper body strength of a man.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at January 24, 2024 08:04 PM (MvF+J)

96 I'm getting tired of the Switzerland shit. They host WEF at Davos, they deserved to be nuked.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 24, 2024 08:05 PM (FETwG)

97 92 Mannix’ chimp would never rip your face off. He’d just win all your clothes off you.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 08:05 PM (9yWhg)

98 A friend of mine moved into a third floor apartment in one of the old houses in my home town, probably owned at one time by an upper level steel or RR baron. Place had turrets on every corner, and his apartment had a narrow stairwell to one. Up there, somebody had put in a barber chair. Coolest little drinkin' getaway in the world.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 24, 2024 08:05 PM (0EOe9)

99 I was in Switzerland in the summer of 2018. There was snow all over the place in the high Alps. I stayed in Interlaken in the Bernese Oberland. Every place we visited was breathtaking.

Posted by: Brunnhilde at January 24, 2024 08:06 PM (E3FAu)

100 >97 92 Mannix’ chimp would never rip your face off. He’d just win all your clothes off you.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 08:05 PM (9yWhg)

On the off chance he loses, he takes your face.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 24, 2024 08:06 PM (GTqXr)

101 Congrats on 1st, Hadrian!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 24, 2024 08:07 PM (V1Jl+)

102 I have an infrequently occurring dream where we acquire a huge old house that has seen better days. Now that I'm 29, it's more like a nightmare.
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Like Ghosts, US or UK version!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 24, 2024 08:08 PM (2yu8s)

103 102 The Money Pit.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at January 24, 2024 08:09 PM (MvF+J)

104 Hadrian here's your ,"attaboy" for your first !

Posted by: Ben Had at January 24, 2024 08:09 PM (bn3/b)

105 80 cant imagine how much it would cost to put a new roof on those towers, or even how you find someone who can do it

***
Skip can do it!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 24, 2024 08:10 PM (V1Jl+)

106
When we lived in Ohio, we had a farm house built in 1869. It was full of surprises, some not so pleasant.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 08:10 PM (GLg6M)

107 102 Buy a quality Amish built house. The thing will stand up to a small tactical nuke but the Yoder Brothers never heard of tape measures, plumb bobs or levels. Good luck on replacement doors or windows.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 24, 2024 08:11 PM (0EOe9)

108
No, but the BBQ is immeasurably better.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Beef 'barbecue'?

I don't think so.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 24, 2024 08:11 PM (XeU6L)

109 I'm getting tired of the Switzerland shit. They host WEF at Davos, they deserved to be nuked.

===

go sit with Bulgaroctonus

Posted by: runner at January 24, 2024 08:11 PM (V13WU)

110 Well we've been wondering how the Shit Was Going To Hit The Fan and this may be it. Like several other States, IL is really RED with blue only in Chicago and a couple of other spots ...... just the pretext for either secession or going by counties. I think we need that change to be more in line with with presidential elections: have the winner be whoever gets a majority of counties. otherwise the cities will always win out until they burn.

Posted by: Ciampino - Apes are territorial just as are humans at January 24, 2024 08:12 PM (qfLjt)

111 104 Attaboy won Gallipoli. Before he became President of Boykey.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 08:12 PM (9yWhg)

112 Thank you for the river otter beat down, ace.

They are nasty creatures.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 24, 2024 08:13 PM (eV35g)

113 I hear New Brafalls is a fun place, though.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

I'd like to visit the Nimitz museum. I hear it's great.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 24, 2024 08:13 PM (Fwuhb)

114 Buy a quality Amish built house.
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We're a little short on those in W. NC.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 24, 2024 08:13 PM (XeU6L)

115 109 "and the Swiss gave us cuckoo clocks".

Harry Lime

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 24, 2024 08:14 PM (0EOe9)

116 Replacing a roof? Wait for a hailstorm or thunderstorm with winds of +50 mph.

Find a local, factory affiliated roofer (Certain-Teed, GAF, Owens-Corning, etc.) that has high rated reviews, and have 'em inspect the roof, in order to tell you IF you would have a successful insurance claim, or not.

If yes, then file the claim with your insurer, and HAVE that contractor ON THE ROOF with the Insurance Adjuster, on the day the claim is examined. IF the claim is accepted.

Your new roof is the price of your deductible, and that's that. You win, the roofer wins, and yes, even the insurer wins. How? With a new roof, the insurer won't also be paying water damage claims from leaks, weeks or months down the road. For them, the new roof saves them from much worse, later.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 24, 2024 08:14 PM (e6UQI)

117
I'd like to visit the Nimitz museum. I hear it's great.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

__________

That's in Fredericksburg

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 08:14 PM (GLg6M)

118 109 go sit with Bulgaroctonus

????????

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 08:14 PM (9yWhg)

119 106
When we lived in Ohio, we had a farm house built in 1869. It was full of surprises, some not so pleasant.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 08:10 PM (GLg6M)
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This is a bit like the nekkid on AoSHQ, pictures or else it didn't happen. In your case details or it didn't happen.

Posted by: Ciampino - Your post may disappear ..... at January 24, 2024 08:15 PM (qfLjt)

120 That's in Fredericksburg
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Where you can hear Texas German. It's fantastic!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 24, 2024 08:16 PM (WSTFK)

121 117 Yes, the Nimitz Museum is in Fredericksburg.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 08:16 PM (9yWhg)

122 If yes, then file the claim with your insurer, and HAVE that contractor ON THE ROOF with the Insurance Adjuster, on the day the claim is examined.
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Pro tip: Avoid the fiberglass roof panels.

;-)

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 24, 2024 08:16 PM (XeU6L)

123 116 Thanks! That's great advice.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at January 24, 2024 08:17 PM (MvF+J)

124 And nobody seems to have gotten my pun about New Brafalls.

*pouts, pissy mood increases*

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 08:18 PM (9yWhg)

125 102 I have an infrequently occurring dream where we acquire a huge old house that has seen better days. Now that I'm 29, it's more like a nightmare.
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Like Ghosts, US or UK version!
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 24, 2024 08:08 PM (2yu8s)

I used to have a recurring dream like that, and it was fascinating. I liked the house, and kept trying to fix it back up, but never quite could. There were other people there too, kind of odd people. Couldn't really figure out what they were about. Then one night I looked at them and realized "hey - you're all dead." And then I knew I shouldn't go back there anymore, and I haven't.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 24, 2024 08:18 PM (S6gqv)

126 The Snow Angel horse is great and cheered me up after hearing Biden slurring his talk...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at January 24, 2024 08:18 PM (TGPs7)

127 The Swiss probably look down us for hosting Democrats.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2024 08:18 PM (ZLI7S)

128 Replacing a roof? Wait for a hailstorm or thunderstorm with winds of +50 mph.
Jim

That's what we did at the last house. Insurance covered 100% (-ded) of the re-roofing price. That alone reimbursed me for the last 25 years of homeowner's premiums.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 24, 2024 08:20 PM (WSTFK)

129 ????????
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 08:14 PM (9yWhg)

you don't want to sit with him ? OK, I tried

Posted by: runner at January 24, 2024 08:20 PM (V13WU)

130 I think the sensible change is to award EC votes based on congressional districts.

Posted by: Jamaica at January 24, 2024 08:20 PM (Eeb9P)

131 Hello Horde. Lovely to see y'all this evening.

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 08:21 PM (i671v)

132 Hey thar l'il darlin'!
Zwei biers, bitter!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 24, 2024 08:21 PM (8NWUp)

133 I liked the Swiss a lot better when they were racing each other on ostriches and zebras in the South Pacific.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 08:21 PM (9yWhg)

134 126 The Snow Angel horse is great and cheered me up after hearing Biden slurring his talk...
Posted by: Mister Ghost

A great post, but I can't figure out how to forward it to some horse people I know!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 24, 2024 08:22 PM (hOUT3)

135 Evenin, SiD. How are you?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 08:22 PM (9yWhg)

136
This is a bit like the nekkid on AoSHQ, pictures or else it didn't happen. In your case details or it didn't happen.
Posted by: Ciampino - Your post may disappear .....

_________

The stairs to the basement had a step that was half again as steep as the others. There were all kinds of oddities, like a room with five doors. But most of the unpleasantries were the result of stuff done by a previous owner.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 08:22 PM (GLg6M)

137 Braum's ice cream > Braunfels Castle

Posted by: Huma at January 24, 2024 08:22 PM (8AONa)

138 I'd love to have a schloss.
Posted by: Northernlurker

So get schlossed. It's 5 o'clock somewhere.

Posted by: mikeski at January 24, 2024 08:23 PM (DgGvY)

139 The stairs to the basement had a step that was half again as steep as the others. There were all kinds of oddities, like a room with five doors. But most of the unpleasantries were the result of stuff done by a previous owner.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 08:22 PM (GLg6M)
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Thanks to a low-level perception filter, you never noticed the SIXTH door in that room, did you?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 24, 2024 08:24 PM (BpYfr)

140 Sock b gone

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 24, 2024 08:25 PM (8AONa)

141 How does Scholss Hadrian compare with Stately Poppins Manor?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 08:26 PM (9yWhg)

142 Howdy, cafe dwellers!

Posted by: Doof at January 24, 2024 08:26 PM (XIF9h)

143 I'd love to have a schloss.
Posted by: Northernlurker

$20 , same as in town

Posted by: runner at January 24, 2024 08:26 PM (V13WU)

144 Doof! Howdy, Bro!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 08:27 PM (9yWhg)

145 Sigh. So true .....
Cats!!! Living with them ...........

http://tinyurl.com/2kmnc4jy

Posted by: Ciampino - Your experience may vary at January 24, 2024 08:27 PM (qfLjt)

146 Hello Horde. Lovely to see y'all this evening.
Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 08:21 PM (i671v)

{{{SiD}}}!!!

Posted by: Doof at January 24, 2024 08:27 PM (XIF9h)

147 And nobody seems to have gotten my pun about New Brafalls.

Got it. I was insensible, just picturing a couple of out-of-control DD's.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 24, 2024 08:27 PM (/HDaX)

148 Howdy, cafe dwellers!
Posted by: Doof at January 24, 2024 08:26 PM (XIF9h)

I don't dwell here, I am a tourist , just visiting

Posted by: runner at January 24, 2024 08:27 PM (V13WU)

149 My stepson did roofing on the Oregon coast. He taught me a bit about it. When I looked for a place to buy, I looked for a small place with a simple roof. I love the old houses here with hip roofs, but I know they are more expensive to redo

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 24, 2024 08:28 PM (L8hCM)

150 Evenin, SiD. How are you?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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Not so bad. You?

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 08:28 PM (i671v)

151 Doof! Howdy, Bro!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 08:27 PM (9yWhg)

Yo, yo, yo!

Posted by: Doof at January 24, 2024 08:28 PM (XIF9h)

152 I'm getting tired of the Switzerland shit. They host WEF at Davos, they deserved to be nuked.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

From Orbit

Just to be sure.

Posted by: Strategic Corporal Hicks at January 24, 2024 08:29 PM (tjZg/)

153 I liked the Swiss a lot better when they were racing each other on ostriches and zebras in the South Pacific.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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Tree houses. Man, they had it all.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 24, 2024 08:29 PM (XeU6L)

154 Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 08:21 PM

* musical notes *
You have mail!
*musical notes *

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 24, 2024 08:30 PM (a3Q+t)

155 I don't dwell here, I am a tourist , just visiting
Posted by: runner at January 24, 2024 08:27 PM (V13WU)

That is false. Disinformation. Fake news. There are runner-shaped butt prints in the couch.

Posted by: Doof at January 24, 2024 08:30 PM (XIF9h)

156 148 I am a tourist, just visiting

Whadda ya wanna see first, the botanical gardens or the morgue?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 08:30 PM (9yWhg)

157 Kari Lake seems to be on the same page as you, JS.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 24, 2024 08:30 PM (iYEOp)

158 Then one night I looked at them and realized "hey - you're all dead." And then I knew I shouldn't go back there anymore, and I haven't.
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I remember dreams too although the main recurring theme now that I'm older is running around cityscapes, subways, or my neighbourhood here looking for some place to pee when I have to get up to pee in real life! Several of those sites though are ones I've had reoccur, and that are coming to mind right now.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 24, 2024 08:30 PM (2yu8s)

159 Doooooooooooof!

(one of these days Imma blow the margins doing that)

btw I made a custom calendar of my sunset photos to give as a Christmas gift for some family this year. It was a big hit.

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 08:30 PM (i671v)

160 just picturing a couple of out-of-control DD's.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 24, 2024 08:27 PM

This isn't the Seventh Fleet.

Yet.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 24, 2024 08:31 PM (a3Q+t)

161 Replacing a roof? Wait for a hailstorm or thunderstorm with winds of +50 mph.

Find a local, factory affiliated roofer (Certain-Teed, GAF, Owens-Corning, etc.) that has high rated reviews, and have 'em inspect the roof, in order to tell you IF you would have a successful insurance claim, or not.

If yes, then file the claim with your insurer, and HAVE that contractor ON THE ROOF with the Insurance Adjuster, on the day the claim is examined. IF the claim is accepted.

Your new roof is the price of your deductible, and that's that. You win, the roofer wins, and yes, even the insurer wins. How? With a new roof, the insurer won't also be paying water damage claims from leaks, weeks or months down the road. For them, the new roof saves them from much worse, later.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 24, 2024 08:14 PM (e6UQI)

Casa de Doof got a new roof this way in January 2020.

Posted by: Doof at January 24, 2024 08:31 PM (XIF9h)

162 >>Kari Lake seems to be on the same page as you, JS.

Heard that.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2024 08:32 PM (ZLI7S)

163 * musical notes *
You have mail!
*musical notes *
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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now you do too!

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 08:32 PM (i671v)

164 That is false. Disinformation. Fake news. There are runner-shaped butt prints in the couch.
Posted by: Doof at January 24, 2024 08:30 PM

Blame Big Penguin.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 24, 2024 08:32 PM (a3Q+t)

165 Doooooooooooof!

(one of these days Imma blow the margins doing that)

btw I made a custom calendar of my sunset photos to give as a Christmas gift for some family this year. It was a big hit.
Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 08:30 PM (i671v)

I like calendars. And I really enjoy your sunset photos. Just sayin

Posted by: Doof at January 24, 2024 08:33 PM (XIF9h)

166 ..I love the old houses here with hip roofs, but I know they are more expensive to redo. Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 24, 2024 08:28 PM (L8hCM)

The basic "hip roof" is the most hurricane/wind resistant design. It is at the gables under the even simpler "pitched" roof, where the fingers of high winds can sneak in, grab a handful, and tear that roof right off of the house.

Sure, a "pitched" roof with it's two simple slopes and one ridge is easier to re-shingle. A basic, four-sloped hip roof has four corresponding ridges.

Pro-tip on ridges. INSIST on 30 (or greater) year RIDGE shingles, and don't let the roofer cut 20 year roofing into "thirds" to use as "ridge." The Bernoulli Effect accelerates wind as it turns across the ridges, and those should be the thickest shingles on your roof, and not the thinnest!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 24, 2024 08:35 PM (e6UQI)

167 39 I'd love to have a schloss.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 24, 2024 07:40 PM (SExFt)
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$99,000,000 same as in town (down from $99,000,000.57).

Posted by: Ciampino - a bargain. Pay in cents at January 24, 2024 08:36 PM (qfLjt)

168 When we lived in Ohio, we had a farm house built in 1869. It was full of surprises, some not so pleasant.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

When I was a kid (sometime in the 1960's) one of my Mom's friends bought a house in Oxford, Ohio (home of Miami University) that was built before the Civil War, and it was a station in the Underground Railroad. It had a lot of secret passage ways and stuff. Really cool. And really old, and expensive to keep up.
Ohio has a lot of old farmhouses out in the country, and some in towns that have grown, as they were out in the country 150 years ago.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at January 24, 2024 08:36 PM (tjZg/)

169 150 SiD, I’ve been better. I’m unemployed, and now it looks like my wife may become so soon.

Plus, the news just hit tonight that Jim Harbaugh is leaving Michigan for the Chargers.

Yes, I was a Michigan cultist before I was a Trump cultist. And Harbaugh was the quarterback when I was there in the ‘80s. So this one hurts.

I hope you are well. Sounds like you’re doing some traveling, so that is good, no?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 08:36 PM (9yWhg)

170 I like calendars. And I really enjoy your sunset photos. Just sayin
Posted by: Doof
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I'd be more than happy to send you one!!

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 08:36 PM (i671v)

171 The stairs to the basement had a step that was half again as steep as the others. There were all kinds of oddities, like a room with five doors. But most of the unpleasantries were the result of stuff done by a previous owner.
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That sounds like a mini Winchester Mystery House...

||Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California, that was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of firearms magnate William Wirt Winchester. The house became a tourist attraction nine months after Winchester's death in 1922. The Victorian and Gothic-style mansion is renowned for its size and its architectural curiosities.||

She thought that if the house was ever completed, that the ghosts of Winchester "victims" would haunt it/her or she'd die so she had builders do crazy things like that although the Wiki [tries to!] debunk that.
http://tinyurl.com/2e325m9z

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 24, 2024 08:37 PM (2yu8s)

172 I like calendars. And I really enjoy your sunset photos. Just sayin
Posted by: Doof
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I'd be more than happy to send you one!!
Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 08:36 PM (i671v)

My hint wasn't very subtle, was it??

Posted by: Doof at January 24, 2024 08:37 PM (XIF9h)

173 A friend of mine retired to the Oregon coast years ago after having built a house and barn there. I was present with him in that barn when a huge storm blew ashore. I had never seen so many gusseted joints in a roof before. They were sound but still they ALL groaned with the gusts of wind. Impressive!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 24, 2024 08:38 PM (as3uC)

174 I have a metal roof on this right now. They didn't note any issues with it when they inspected it. We do pay higher insurance rates out here due to wind and hail damage.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 24, 2024 08:39 PM (L8hCM)

175 My hint wasn't very subtle, was it??
Posted by: Doof
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I'm dense. One must be blunt with me.

And I'm totes serious. I'm no longer on social media to share my hiking or sunset photos (this is A Thing for me), so I push them on unwilling recipients whenever I can.

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 08:40 PM (i671v)

176 I think the sensible change is to award EC votes based on congressional districts.
Posted by: Jamaica

That helps odd-numbered states disproportionately.

AK, ND, SD, and WY each have only 1 district, so presumably all 3 of their EC votes go the the same guy every time. (DC, too.)

HI, ID, ME, MO, NH, RI, and WV each have 2 districts, so if they split one each way, presumably the 2 extra votes for their senators also split one each way, and those states are now worth a net zero votes, unless there's a "landslide" where the same candidate wins both districts.

5-vote states will be worth either 5 votes (landslide) or, most likely, 1 vote when they split 2+1/1+1.

Same for every other EC vote count. The odd-numbered states can't split evenly, so they're always worth at least 1 net EC vote. Even-numbered states can split 50/50 and be worthless in the EC.

Any state in the "big democrat city that runs it all, barely, with republicans everywhere else" situation will either be +1 for the democrats, or an even split.

On the other hand, CA and NY probably only gain the D's a handful of votes, rather than 54+28.

On the gripping hand, TX and FL aren't worth 40+30 R's, either.

Posted by: mikeski at January 24, 2024 08:40 PM (DgGvY)

177 We all pay higher insurance rates as the insurers raise them, just because they can.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at January 24, 2024 08:41 PM (MvF+J)

178 BOO!!

Bwahahahaha!

Posted by: Beluga at January 24, 2024 08:42 PM (SYTee)

179 My hint wasn't very subtle, was it??
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And it's a Leap Year so it'll be a special one!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 24, 2024 08:42 PM (2yu8s)

180 173
is 'gusseted' a Paolo feature?

Posted by: Ciampino - Hey Guss, you may be famous at January 24, 2024 08:43 PM (qfLjt)

181 That big bridge in Minneapolis fell down because the gusset plates were too thin.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at January 24, 2024 08:44 PM (MvF+J)

182
The chemistry building where I worked in grad school was built in 1921 and I was there during its final stages of decay before it was refurbished. It was something out of one of Pieranesi's imaginary prisons. My God, what a place!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 08:47 PM (GLg6M)

183 Bulgaroctonus, so sorry about y'all's job situations.

I have travel plans for late May, to England for the first time. The check for my passport app has cleared. My first 2 passports only got used once each. My goal is to use this one more than once.

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 08:48 PM (i671v)

184 Kari Lake is hawt.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 24, 2024 08:49 PM (Fwuhb)

185 183 Safe travels, SiD. Hope you can make it back in time for the NoVa MoMe.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 08:50 PM (9yWhg)

186 Even if I lived in the fat, tranquil middle of the mildest climate in America.

I'd still have any *new* roof on my house done to the Miami/Dade and~or Texas Coastal Wind Codes.

Doesn't matter what the roofing system...composition, metal, etc. Those Codes do result in a better, stronger installation. Which equals better protection and a longer lasting roof.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 24, 2024 08:50 PM (e6UQI)

187 And nobody seems to have gotten my pun about New Brafalls.

*pouts, pissy mood increases*
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Nobody got my 9th Floor joke this morning either.

* passes thimble full of whiskey to Bulgaroctonus *

Posted by: Anne Francis at January 24, 2024 08:52 PM (4Winp)

188 I like calendars. And I really enjoy your sunset photos. Just sayin
Posted by: Doof

I send you sunset pics all the time!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 24, 2024 08:52 PM (ie65O)

189 London can be overwhelming for a tourist. The history and things to see are endless.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 24, 2024 08:53 PM (R4t5M)

190 I like calendars. And I really enjoy your sunset photos. Just sayin
Posted by: Doof

I send you sunset pics all the time!
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 24, 2024 08:52 PM (ie65O)

Because you're awesome! Please keep them coming!

Posted by: Doof at January 24, 2024 08:53 PM (XIF9h)

191 187 Wow, I’m drinking with Anne Francis now. Woo hoo!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 08:55 PM (9yWhg)

192 I have travel plans for late May, to England for the first time. The check for my passport app has cleared. My first 2 passports only got used once each. My goal is to use this one more than once.

Posted by: screaming in digital

This is a good reminder to update your passport. At some point, you will need to be able to prove citizenship. Get a passport. It's the best we can do.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 24, 2024 08:55 PM (OG98j)

193 I send you sunset pics all the time!
Posted by: nurse ratched
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All the pics in my sunset calendar are from Terry Trueblood Park in Iowa City (of all places), except one, a spectacular sunset I happened to catch in Seattle - January 2019, walking back to my hotel from the Space Needle along the bay.

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 08:55 PM (i671v)

194 Safe travels, SiD. Hope you can make it back in time for the NoVa MoMe.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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I'm using up all my leave time for England, so I seriously doubt I could make it even if I'm back in time.

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 08:57 PM (i671v)

195 All the pics in my sunset calendar are from Terry Trueblood Park in Iowa City (of all places), except one, a spectacular sunset I happened to catch in Seattle - January 2019, walking back to my hotel from the Space Needle along the bay.
Posted by: screaming in digital

You were there and didn't tell me?!?!?

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 24, 2024 08:58 PM (U+mgI)

196 I have a cheery fire going in the redneck firepit. When it dies down to coals, I will roast hot dogs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 24, 2024 08:58 PM (tkR6S)

197 Those river otters put that orangutang on its butt.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 24, 2024 08:59 PM (a3Q+t)

198 Working with a professional slacker kid, anyone need one?
He is really good at it

Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2024 08:59 PM (/Oe+y)

199 London can be overwhelming for a tourist. The history and things to see are endless.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 24, 2024 08:53 PM

Pro tip: Stay away from its Bridge; it's falling down.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 24, 2024 09:00 PM (a3Q+t)

200 196 I will roast hot dogs.

A little char will make them easier to distribute to us via the USB ports.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 09:01 PM (9yWhg)

201 AOP, Pogo approves of your plan.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 24, 2024 09:01 PM (bn3/b)

202 189 London can be overwhelming for a tourist. The history and things to see are endless.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

I was stationed about 80 miles north and used to take the train there a LOT. I was stationed there for 3 years and still missed stuff. The city is huge, old, historic, and nearly everything is accessible via subway. It is a lot. Probably the best thing to do is make a list before you go of what you absolutely want to see because it is endless.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 24, 2024 09:01 PM (qKYfj)

203 Working with a professional slacker kid, anyone need one?
He is really good at it
Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2024 08:59 PM

Can we get back to you on that in a couple of weeks?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 24, 2024 09:01 PM (a3Q+t)

204 194 Sorry to hear that, SiD. I enjoyed talking to you at the last one.

Save travels, nonetheless.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 09:02 PM (9yWhg)

205 and cover those pipes with insulation

Galveston bay has frozen over more than once.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 24, 2024 09:02 PM (l7sQp)

206 Wait! I would like to subscribe to the SiD sunset collection.

And wish you safe travels in May to England.

Posted by: Iris at January 24, 2024 09:03 PM (n3DL0)

207 This has been a really weird day. The steer that I have turned out with a mare was trying to mount her. I have seen some odd animal behavior but this takes the cake.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 24, 2024 09:04 PM (bn3/b)

208 You were there and didn't tell me?!?!?
Posted by: nurse ratched
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I didn't delurk until fall 2020, so I didn't know you then. All y'all were still just a bunch of Internet randos. :-)

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 09:05 PM (i671v)

209 have a cheery fire going in the redneck firepit. When it dies down to coals, I will roast hot dogs.

Nice

Posted by: N at January 24, 2024 09:06 PM (RjBju)

210 All y'all were still just a bunch of Internet randos. :-)

Some of us still are.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 24, 2024 09:06 PM (dZVON)

211 Safe travels, SiD. Hope you can make it back in time for the NoVa MoMe.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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I'm using up all my leave time for England, so I seriously doubt I could make it even if I'm back in time.
Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 08:57 PM (i671v)

This is unacceptable news

Posted by: Doof at January 24, 2024 09:06 PM (XIF9h)

212 AOP, Pogo approves of your plan.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 24, 2024 09:01 PM (bn3/b)

She ate her dinner, picking off the soft food, but leaving the kibble "for later". I am sure there are hot dog scraps in her immediate future.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 24, 2024 09:07 PM (tkR6S)

213 This has been a really weird day. The steer that I have turned out with a mare was trying to mount her. I have seen some odd animal behavior but this takes the cake.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 24, 2024 09:04 PM (bn3/b)

Love is love!!

Posted by: Doof at January 24, 2024 09:08 PM (XIF9h)

214 210 Some of us still are.

Old and weird, reporting for duty!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 09:08 PM (9yWhg)

215 The steer that I have turned out with a mare was trying to mount her. I have seen some odd animal behavior but this takes the cake.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 24, 2024 09:04 PM

Second trip to the kitchen table?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 24, 2024 09:08 PM (a3Q+t)

216 And nobody seems to have gotten my pun about New Brafalls.

*pouts, pissy mood increases*
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

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Look I didn't see your pun about falling bras. If I had I would have joined in about designing better over-the-shoulder-boulder-holders, etc. Why don't you try again?

Posted by: Ciampino - A bra is a pocket made for two at January 24, 2024 09:09 PM (qfLjt)

217 Wait! I would like to subscribe to the SiD sunset collection.

And wish you safe travels in May to England.

Posted by: Iris
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I will text you :-)

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 09:09 PM (i671v)

218 This has been a really weird day. The steer that I have turned out with a mare was trying to mount her. I have seen some odd animal behavior but this takes the cake.
Posted by: Ben Had

No doubt you've been to clubs at closing time?

Same old, same old.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 24, 2024 09:10 PM (WSTFK)

219 Wait! I would like to subscribe to the SiD sunset collection.

And wish you safe travels in May to England.

Posted by: Iris at January 24, 2024 09:03 PM (n3DL0)

{{{Iris}}}!!

Posted by: Doof at January 24, 2024 09:10 PM (XIF9h)

220 Love is love!!
Posted by: Doof

*snort*

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 24, 2024 09:10 PM (JGlUB)

221 SiD. Do some SERIOUS homework on TODAY'S London.

There are areas that you, as a female, ought NOT go.

Aloha Snackbar, and etc!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 24, 2024 09:10 PM (e6UQI)

222 Doof, she wasn't loving it.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 24, 2024 09:12 PM (bn3/b)

223 210 All y'all were still just a bunch of Internet randos. :-)

Some of us still are.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 24, 2024 09:06 PM (dZVON)

Oh, I thought you said randy. Never mind.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 24, 2024 09:13 PM (5xURv)

224 200 196 I will roast hot dogs.

A little char will make them easier to distribute to us via the USB ports.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 09:01 PM (9yWhg)
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Are you going to make him type all his dogs?
Dogs as char

Posted by: Ciampino - Dimensionless bras at January 24, 2024 09:13 PM (qfLjt)

225 Doof, she wasn't loving it.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 24, 2024 09:12 PM (bn3/b)

Steer needed to consult Bill Cosby ahead of time

Posted by: Doof at January 24, 2024 09:14 PM (XIF9h)

226 I gotta say, no matter how pissy a mood I start off in, interacting with the Horde always cheers me up.

Even arguing about Lincoln or Jim Harbaugh.

Thank You, Horde. God bless you all.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 09:14 PM (9yWhg)

227 If you thought the fluffing Obama got from the MSM was impressive, just wait until its Kamala’s turn.

Dollars to donuts, they have no intention of picking that fight with black Americans; if it’s gotta be Kamala, they’re gonna try to canonize that atrocious, chlamydial hood rat . Bet on it.

Posted by: About a Goy at January 24, 2024 09:15 PM (OJTlw)

228 I was in New Braunfels today. Talk about urban pressure. Lots of new schools including a giant new high school. Beautiful old farm land slowly being buried under dense, brutalist looking apartment complexes. At least the rivers are getting a little refill after three years in a row of drought.

Posted by: Mongerel at January 24, 2024 09:17 PM (omwO/)

229 Ok, that Orangutan is some funny shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 24, 2024 09:21 PM (VwHCD)

230 SiD. Do some SERIOUS homework on TODAY'S London.

There are areas that you, as a female, ought NOT go.

Aloha Snackbar, and etc!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim
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We won't be in London much, and except for a return train trip from Cornwall to Heathrow, which I have to do solo, I should be with knowledgeable traveling companions (some of whom are dudes) at all times. Not that that's any guarantee, I know.

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 09:21 PM (i671v)

231 >>> 110 Well we've been wondering how the Shit Was Going To Hit The Fan and this may be it. Like several other States, IL is really RED with blue only in Chicago and a couple of other spots ...... just the pretext for either secession or going by counties. I think we need that change to be more in line with with presidential elections: have the winner be whoever gets a majority of counties. otherwise the cities will always win out until they burn.
Posted by: Ciampino - Apes are territorial just as are humans at January 24, 2024 08:12 PM (qfLjt)

istr Some Other Moron naming a SCOTUS decision (from the Warren court no doubt) which effectively nuked state-level electoral college style voting.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 24, 2024 09:21 PM (llON8)

232 Are you going to make him type all his dogs?
Dogs as char
Posted by: Ciampino - Dimensionless bras

* Wheels trebuchet into position, arrayed in all its glory *

Posted by: Adriane the Historical Critic . . . at January 24, 2024 09:23 PM (4Winp)

233 >>> 116 Replacing a roof? Wait for a hailstorm or thunderstorm with winds of +50 mph.

==

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 24, 2024 08:14 PM (e6UQI)

We had 80+ in our mid-June storm...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 24, 2024 09:24 PM (llON8)

234 > This has been a really weird day. The steer that I have turned out with a mare was trying to mount her. I have seen some odd animal behavior but this takes the cake.

Oh the girls all get prettier at closing time...

-Mickey Gilley

Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 09:31 PM (geLO8)

235 Watched the CCP assualt on You-Tuber piano player Cavanaugh...what's known in military construct as a Flow from that "RAT BASTARD" SUN TZU...t. The ultimate in disposing one's
troops is to conceal them without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies
cannot pry nor can the wise lay plans against you. It is according to the situations that
plans are laid for victory, but the multitude does not comprehend this. Although everyone
can see the outward aspects, none understands how the victory is achieved.

Posted by: Nightwatch at January 24, 2024 09:32 PM (TDvv2)

236 Are you going to make him type all his dogs?
Dogs as char
Posted by: Ciampino - Dimensionless bras at January 24, 2024 09:13 PM

Type safety and type soundness are the extent to which a commenter discourages or prevents type errors.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at January 24, 2024 09:34 PM (a3Q+t)

237 The castle of King Ludwig II. It's not even that old:
http://tinyurl.com/yr69xnuj
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at January 24, 2024 07:42 PM (MvF+J)

ONE of his THREE castles.
His other two:
http://tinyurl.com/4c8xjf9t
and
http://tinyurl.com/369khxmk

Posted by: GWB at January 24, 2024 09:35 PM (32nmx)

238 ...We had 80+ in our mid-June storm...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 24, 2024 09:24 PM (llON

Then, find that local, highly rated, factory affiliated roofer, and arrange for an inspection. This is vital, before you *ever* let an insurance adjuster go up there.

You have a year from the date of the storm. (make sure you KNOW that date!) And, if a Declared Disaster (i.e., hurricane, most tornados), then you have two years.

Hail storms damage by impacts, breaking the fiberglass under the asphalt, and loosening the finely-ground stone aggregate atop the asphalt. And the sun will then eat right through that shingle in short order.

Wind damage, will lift shingle edges, unglue the seals, and often tear pieces of shingles, or whole shingles, right out of the roof.

Let that trusted local contractor take a look, take a lot of pictures to show you, and you'll be in an informed position to make decisions.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 24, 2024 09:35 PM (e6UQI)

239 RIP Arno Penzias.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at January 24, 2024 09:35 PM (MvF+J)

240 The CCP getting downright "aggressive" these days...

oh yes indeed.

Posted by: Nightwatch at January 24, 2024 09:35 PM (TDvv2)

241 237 IDNKT!

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at January 24, 2024 09:36 PM (MvF+J)

242 everybody's over on the main page slapping F5 like it's an unresponsive johnson, eh

Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 09:36 PM (geLO8)

243 * Wheels trebuchet into position, arrayed in all its glory *
Posted by: Adriane the Historical Critic . . . at January 24, 2024 09:23 PM

* pointers and laughs *

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 24, 2024 09:37 PM (a3Q+t)

244 She thought that if the house was ever completed, that the ghosts of Winchester "victims" would haunt it/her or she'd die so she had builders do crazy things like that although the Wiki [tries to!] debunk that.
http://tinyurl.com/2e325m9z
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 24, 2024 08:37 PM (2yu8s)
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I did a tour of the Winchester House more than 20 years ago. The guide said a lot of the doors that open to walls and stairways that go nowhere were added in the belief that it would confuse any ghosts that attempted to haunt her. That wailing you hear are ghosts yelling, "how the f*** do I get out of this houuuuuuse!!"

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Bird Law Expert at January 24, 2024 09:38 PM (snyZJ)

245 239

I will lay "virtual Flowers" and bend the knee.

Posted by: Nightwatch at January 24, 2024 09:40 PM (TDvv2)

246 ((Doof))!! Hi!

Posted by: Iris at January 24, 2024 09:49 PM (n3DL0)

247
Back in my hometown a coterie of AWFLs and Karens of both sexes had been pushing for years to retire the HS mascot and name -- "Redmen" -- for being too racist and demeaning to Native Americans. After battering away for years on this "important and hurtful issue", the virtue signalers finally won out last year, amid a tremendous gale of rage and recriminations.

The battle moved on to, "What should the new name / mascot be?" and "Let's let the kids decide!" The former effort was marked by ferocious rear guard actions by the AWFLs and Karens to NOT let the discarded name be among the choices. As best I can tell, the latter was simply a bare-faced lie, as the As & Ks already knew what the best and most appropriate choices ought to be. There was no vote. (1/2)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 24, 2024 09:51 PM (xG4kz)

248 The intelligent charming Mayor of Chicago demands a cease fire.

Heather Cherone
@HeatherCherone
BREAKING: Mayor Brandon Johnson joins the call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, saying that “the killing needs to stop” after the deaths of 25,000 Palestinians, and supports the resolution that the City Council did not vote on today.
Johnson: “We need a ceasefire.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at January 24, 2024 09:51 PM (FVME7)

249

!!!NOT THE NEWS!!!

Bebe calls for a cease-fire in Chicago.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 24, 2024 09:55 PM (63Dwl)

250 Good night and big hugs to all y'all.

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 09:56 PM (i671v)

251 248 The intelligent charming Mayor of Chicago demands a cease fire.

Heather Cherone
@HeatherCherone
BREAKING: Mayor Brandon Johnson joins the call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, saying that “the killing needs to stop” after the deaths of 25,000 Palestinians, and supports the resolution that the City Council did not vote on today.
Johnson: “We need a ceasefire.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

That's amazing. He's gifted.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 24, 2024 09:57 PM (qKYfj)

252 Nood ONT!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 24, 2024 10:04 PM (hOUT3)

253 Bebe calls for a cease-fire in Chicago.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 24, 2024 09:55 PM (63Dwl)

Hilarious! I am so stealing that!

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at January 24, 2024 10:05 PM (wu87C)

254
Now, I frankly did not, and do not, care what name or mascot the HS team has -- I left that school over fifty years ago and I have not resided in the town for nearly fifty years. I had nothing useful to say on those "pressing" issues.

I was, however, mightily pissed that the twin scourges of AWFLness and Karenhood had infested my former town and that the bulk of them were outsiders who had come to make the place a good place to live. Gosh, I thiught that had long been the case, and as time has passed and the "orhers" have shown up, matters had degraded, rather than improved.

So, the new name is "Sentinels" and one of the AWFLs on the school board suggested that a Greek or Roman soldier might become the mascot, only to have "Who's appropriating a culture, now?" hurled back into her face.

I decided to shit post on the topic because, "fook them all". I posted a still photo of the monolith (the sentinel) and apes from "2001, A Space Odyssey" in the FB thread with the snarky remark, "Sentinel mascot problem solved! No need to thank me. Be sure to check with the estates of Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick to secure rights to use it." And I left; a Shit Midas triumph for the left.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 24, 2024 10:08 PM (xG4kz)

255 Well...with NEW HAMPSHIRE over...you can bet your sweet ass that Mitch the Bitch along with Slick Dick Chucky Schumer will be ensconced in some quiet little restaurant planning the next phase for Nikita Haley South Carolina primary though there is no mention of Nevada for some reason...

Posted by: Nightwatch at January 24, 2024 10:09 PM (TDvv2)

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