The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

(Musical selection H/T Isophorone)

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Good morning Horde. Hopefully you don't find any type of foreign objects in your coffee mug this fine morning.

Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to take care of. (Rulz for those of you in Sayner.)

1) This is an open thread, feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate away.
2) Please wipe your feet off on the door mat and be nice to one another.
3) Running with sharp objects? Go ahead, no sympathy to be found here.
4) Have a nice weekend.

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Drinking from a scaley coffee pot or tea kettle? Do you feel lucky, well do you caffeine drinker?

Do I really need to descale my coffeepot and teakettle?
If like so many people your day begins with a jolt of caffeine, you undoubtably have a teakettle or coffee maker in your kitchen. And if you’ve ever looked closely at them while making up your morning brew, you may have noticed a crust or film inside. As it turns out, that annoying-to-clean buildup is composed of minerals from your water, and it's what happens when you aren't following your user manual (now, where did you put that thing?) and regularly descaling your kettle or coffeepot. But is it bad for your health? And can it affect how your beloved cup of joe (or bedtime chamomile tea) tastes? Here's what experts say.

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AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
2/3 -Washington Nearsider has been and remains sincerely grateful for the prayers and well-wishes of the Horde. He has withdrawn his TSP and has enough money left to get through late March – early April. He will accrue debt with the custody hearings which begin 3/6. He has 3 interviews scheduled for the week of 2/5. He is also attempting to expand his custom model building services to bring in additional income by leaning on 20 years of experience building models of all kinds: building planes, tanks, ships, etc. Please contact him through the comments or email Annie’s Stew, and she can send you his direct contact information. He sends his thanks for his daily dose of sanity in an otherwise crazy world, and for the constant stream of wonderful Fani Willis euphemisms.
2/28 Update – Washington Nearsider has learned that this coming Wednesday, he is likely to lose full custody of his two young children until he can replace the salary he lost after being removed from his federal position. While he is still pursuing a higher-level job, he has started working at the local Home Depot, more to keep his children insured than for the wages. He has several more interviews over the coming week or so and hopes that at least one of them will pan out. His savings will run out in about three weeks, and then things have the potential to become extremely difficult; however, three weeks is three weeks, and anything could happen between now and then.
1/20 – Jewells said she has spent the last 2 days recovering from the latest chemo treatment. Praise God, it has gone much better. She still had pain, but was able to manage it with oxy, but it makes her very weak.
2/15 – Jewells has an update that the PET scan showed great results, and her MRI showed no cancer!
2/3 – Teresa in Fort Worth would appreciate prayers for Leigh, the director of a school for students of all ages with Down Syndrome. Leigh has been diagnosed with Soft Tissue Sarcoma. The tumor was removed this week, and they think they got all of it. Leigh would appreciate the prayers.
2/17 Update – The mass in Leigh’s shoulder is benign, and she does NOT have soft tissue sarcoma. She thanks everyone for their prayers on her behalf.
2/3 – Reforger asked for prayers for his Coworker, “D”, a widowed mom of 4 who is having a rough time with daughter #1. The daughter is skipping school, was caught 3 times and now police and social workers are involved. “D” is beside herself. She is having to miss work (and pay) to do probation stuff and keep appointments with “therapists”.
2/10 Update – Reforger reports that Coworker “D” and her daughter are doing better. He also relayed a funny story that ended up with him being able to bless “D” with another $200!
3/2 Update – Coworker D’s daughter had to be incarcerated. She went nuts, trashed her room, broke things, and even kicked a cop. She could use a lot of prayers.
2/3 – Polliwog the ‘Ette would appreciate prayers for Inspector’s back pain. It’s been bad enough that he’s had to admit it’s a problem. It also keeps him from sleeping or being able to do even mild exercise, both of which are important for managing his blood pressure. They’d appreciate prayers for complete healing, but also wisdom on how to prevent future problems.
2/10 Update – As soon as she asked for prayers, God brought to mind something that helped Inspector the last time, but they’d forgotten to try. His back is substantially better, and he’s become convinced that it’s the sitting, not the exercise, that causes problems, and that is also a victory.
2/3 – Fenelon Spoke asked for “P”, who needs prayers for his return to faith as a Christian. Also, prayers for Pam, who needs continued healing after a pacemaker insertion, are appreciated.
2/24 Update – Please keep praying for “P” and his faith.
2/8 – It’s me, Donna, asked for prayers after some bad lab tests. It turns out it’s not as bad as thought and easily treated. Thanks so much for the prayers.
2/10 – Sock Monkey asked for prayers for his BIL, who woke up 2/9 with no feeling in his legs and unable to walk. After a lengthy visit to the ER, a growth was discovered on his spine. Doctors were only able to remove part of it during an 8.5 hour surgery on 2/10. The mass is probably cancerous, but they don’t know what type. His prognosis for walking again is not high. The family would appreciate prayers for healing, strength, and comfort.
2/10 - Mindful webworker asked for prayers for a dear, long-time family friend, Levi, who is in a desperate, dangerous state of distress and is an immediate threat to himself and others. Please send up prayers that he can swiftly be freed from the demons that confuse his mind and torture his soul, and that his family would be protected, and that he would return to Jesus.
2/10 – Martini Farmer asked for prayers for his son, who lost his job this past week due to DEI.
2/10 – Berserker-Dragonheads Division is in the hospital. He had a cardiac cath, then was sent straight in for bypass surgery.
2/11 Update – He had 2 arteries 100% blocked, 1 that was 95%, and another that was 80%. So he had a quad. He says the hospital and staff are great.
3/2 Update – He is healing well ahead of schedule.
2/17 – Muldoon humbly asks for prayers for his daughter Michele, for healing. She has suffered for years from severe debilitating migraines that have resulted in her becoming largely withdrawn from society.
2/20 – Lady in Black requested prayers for her stepmother, Bonnie. She was diagnosed with breast cancer 9 years ago. About 2 years ago, it came back and she had a mastectomy. Now she has a lump showing in her lung and is getting ready to have a biopsy. She is depressed and very worried. Any prayers for her would be greatly appreciated.
2/21 – TecumsehTea sends many thanks for the prayers for Pastor Joe. He had his post-surgical followup today. Stitches are out, no radiation or other treatments are needed. In 3 months he will have another MRI.
2/21 – Prayers for the family and friends who mourn the loss of GnuBreed.
2/24 – FenelonSpoke asked for prayers for Joanne, who has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, stage 4. Prayers are also needed for Karen, Joanne’s niece, who will have to manage things for Joanne (as the closest family member).
2/26 – Alex the Chick reported that Bandersnatch passed away last night.
2/27 – rhennigantx asked for prayers for his friend Tim, who had a stroke on Sunday.
2/29 – DaveT asks for prayers. We had prayed in the past for him, as he was trying to save his cats and his home from repossession (due to a relative who burned the family home with debt). DaveT is over 65 and is not able to work much. The cats are elderly and one is blind, and the only family he has. Things had turned around and it looked like he was going to be fine last summer, but now a new judge is on the case and seems to want to kick DaveT and the cats out of the house. Please pray. If anyone wants to contribute, Annie’s Stew has the details of his givesendgo.
3/2 – Sa: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at asked for prayers for those affected by the Panhandle wildfires. Many still own their land, but literally nothing else.
3/2 – Eromero thanked the Lord for the many blessings already received, for placing each of us on His path, and for the strength to resist temptation, and for Jesus, who paid for our sins.
3/2 – Matthew Kant Cipher asked for prayers for his SIL, whose brother (late forties) died suddenly/unexpectedly this week.
3/2 – FortWorthMike sent some updates. The good news is that his grand niece, who we prayed for when she was in need of a kidney transplant, celebrated her 5th birthday. She is doing well. She is still trying to learn to eat, as she was tube fed since birth. She has a long journey, but the kid is amazing and FortWorthMike attributes it to the miracle of our prayers finding her a donor. The bad news is, his MIL suffered a fall several months back. He got her through the broken bones, but they found cancer. She has been through chemo and radiation. As she is 87, it took a lot out of her. She could use prayers for strength and healing.
3/2 – Vmom posted and asked for prayers for her pup, who had emergency surgery a couple of weeks ago. He popped a couple of stitches and has to wear the cone for a few more weeks. Also, her husband is having issues recovering from Covid.
3/2 – Artruen asked for prayers for his sister. Her son “Mick” was killed on his motorcycle a few weeks ago on his way to church. Mick was a good man: a proud US Marine (three tours in hot zones), proud American, proud Texan, proud father of two beautiful children. He lived hard and fast and is greatly missed.
3/2 – Fox2! Asked for prayers for Margaret K (to overcome alcoholism), Brooke V (to watch over her, a young woman from a broken family), Janet K (to guide and watch over her and her family).
3/3 – Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards asked for prayers as he is scared to death of some much-needed surgery. Pain, healing, iyiyi! Even the red tape involved in scheduling. Thank you all again!
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

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Once again, this thread's staff wishes you a fine and dandy weekend.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 08:32 AM

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1 Wow, serious nightmare fuel to lead off the thread.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 08:35 AM (llXky)

2 So, Australian coffee, then?

Good morning, horde!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 09, 2024 08:35 AM (OX9vb)

3 I had an interview for a job this week. It went well, but I'm asking for prayers that it went well enough.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at March 09, 2024 08:36 AM (iZEhM)

4 Nobody show this to AtC.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 09, 2024 08:36 AM (PiwSw)

5 Foist?!

Posted by: Aunt Ralph at March 09, 2024 08:37 AM (qMeWG)

6 A lot of phones might be broken today as drowsy Horde members browse in bed.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 08:38 AM (llXky)

7
Please keep Jim in kalifornia in your prayers as well.

He lost his FiL just after midnight last night.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 08:40 AM (a1415)

8 BRCC AK48

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2024 08:40 AM (ENQN6)

9 47 48 whatever it takes

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2024 08:40 AM (ENQN6)

10 I'm trying to imagine alexthechick's reaction upon finding that in her coffee mug....

I'm guessing she'd burn down every coffee plantation on earth, just so it never, ever happens again.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 09, 2024 08:41 AM (BpYfr)

11 Coffee Infused Wolf Spider is good eats.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 09, 2024 08:41 AM (aD39U)

12 At the start of this year, I felt a strange sense of optimism, and it's persisting in spite - or I think because of - the ongoing chaos around us. The old system was unsustainable, and it was also impossible to fix it within the existing framework.

We should therefore expect upheaval and disorder, and use these thing to inspire us to repent and redirect our thoughts and energies to God, rather than politics. None of us can influence the Big Things, of which there are many. It's like a machine whose bearings are starting wear - the best thing to do is just let it work itself to pieces.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 08:42 AM (llXky)

13 Drowning a spider in coffee is how they make The Water of Life.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 09, 2024 08:42 AM (aD39U)

14 Prayers for my friend Tim and his daughters. They are going to move him to a rehab hospital.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2024 08:42 AM (ENQN6)

15 "Coffee Infused Wolf Spider is good eats."

Wolf Spider infused coffee is good drinks.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 08:42 AM (a1415)

16 Mornin' y'all. What makes that first sip of coffee in the morning so good?

On Tuesday, my beloved wife goes in for her 2nd hip replacement. The last one went well, and we have every expectation this one will also, ending what has become years of terrible pain and giving her back real mobility. So, spare a prayer for MiladyJo if you will.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Saturday Morning Fever at March 09, 2024 08:43 AM (kPJtn)

17 Prayers for Tim, and his daughter.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 08:43 AM (a1415)

18 "Here's what experts say."

I've learned to never read beyond that phrase.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 09, 2024 08:43 AM (dg+HA)

19 I always take a spider in my coffee after swallowing flies.

Posted by: An Old Lady at March 09, 2024 08:44 AM (vFG9F)

20 What will be said to spiders as food? But these form an article in the list of the Bushman’s dainties in South Africa, and the inhabitants of New Caledonia, seek for, and eat with avidity, large quantities of a spider nearly an inch long, which they roast over the fire. Even individuals amongst the more polished nations of Europe are recorded as having a similar taste; so that if you could rise above vulgar prejudices, you would in all probability find them a most delicate morsel. If you require precedents, Reaumur tells us of a young lady, who, when she walked in her grounds, never saw a spider that she did not take and crunch upon the spot. Another female, the celebrated Anna Maria Schurman, used to eat them like nuts, which she affirmed they much resembled in taste, excusing her propensity by saying that she was born under the sign Scorpio.

Posted by: Spider Facts at March 09, 2024 08:46 AM (vFG9F)

21 I had an interview for a job this week. It went well, but I'm asking for prayers that it went well enough.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at March 09, 2024 08:36 AM (iZEhM)
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It's always hard to tell where things will go. I had a job interview many years ago that left me convinced I had the thing locked up, but I was wrong. I was very upset, but looking back, it was for the best. The gig I ended up with was far better.

Remember, we don't pray for the thing, we pray for the strength to handle whatever happens.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 08:47 AM (llXky)

22 That cup would have hit the floor about 20 feet away if I found that after drinking.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 09, 2024 08:47 AM (XjtdB)

23 There once were accepted verities that a majority of voters believed in, even if never actually true.

Democrats are well-intentioned and put the interests of the little guy first. Blacks and other minorities especially.

Republicans are the party of the Country Club and Owner Class. Even when they're right about something they have a Black Heart.

Individual media outlets can be biased but the competition in revealing Holy Shit Headlines keeps them collectively honest and the people infomed. "There's always the WSJ to offset the NYT."

Big companies are driven solely by profit, and hence are Evil. (Ignore that they only make a profit by giving people what they want, either well done or cheaply, or both).

People are waking up that none of these are true. There's a potentially large political realignment coming. Let us pray ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 09, 2024 08:49 AM (Gse2f)

24 My worst interview was for a Systems Programmer position. As they showed me their set up I got all excited and said something like 'This is perfect! I just upgraded a system like this and can fix all your problems!' They replied 'What problems?'

That's when I knew I had no chance.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 09, 2024 08:50 AM (aD39U)

25 Oh, I'm sorry. That music means we're all out of time for today. Tune in next week for another exciting episode of Spider Talk on this and many other NPR stations. Made possible by Listeners Like You.

Posted by: Mellifluous Announcer Voice at March 09, 2024 08:50 AM (dg+HA)

26 That top pic - aw, it looks like it's only what we call a garden spider, or at worst a tarantula. Not like it's a Black Widow or anything. Fish it out, the coffee's still good, don't want to waste it.
😜

Posted by: mindful webworker - Saturday Morning Fever at March 09, 2024 08:50 AM (fIaE2)

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Individual media outlets can be biased but the competition in revealing Holy Shit Headlines keeps them collectively honest and the people infomed. "There's always the WSJ to offset the NYT."

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 09, 2024 08:49 AM (Gse2f)
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My father will not accept that Big Media covers up stories harmful to their narrative. He's convinced that they're all thirsty for the scoop. Yeah, maybe 40 years ago, but certainly not now.

It is interesting to look back at other elections and see how much things have changed. Yes, the press leaned Democrat and favored them in tone of coverage, but they turned on Carter viciously because he was so incompetent. They weren't willing to see the nation broken and humiliated simply because of politics.

Now they'd burn it all down so long as their side wins.

As faith fades, the demons have more freedom of action, and we're seeing the results.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 08:52 AM (llXky)

28 So. It turns out that the reason I was sneezing my head off after every meal, and just generally extremely congested, was coffee. It's been a week since I've had any and I no longer feel the need to kill all those around me (depressing that coffee withdrawal is a real thing) *and* I am breathing much more easily, which is certainly pleasant.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 09, 2024 08:52 AM (XjtdB)

29 Please keep Jim in kalifornia in your prayers as well.

He lost his FiL just after midnight last night.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 08:40 AM (a1415)

He has been beset by tragedy this year.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2024 08:52 AM (tkR6S)

30 Remember, we don't pray for the thing, we pray for the strength to handle whatever happens.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 08:47 AM[/i[

I usually pray for the right thing to happen, whatever that is, because who can say what the right thing is? I blame my lack of caffeination for my poor quality request.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at March 09, 2024 08:52 AM (iZEhM)

31 We bought these "bagel thins" the other day. Basically two really thin slices of a bagel top and bottom. They make a really good foundation for a breakfast sandwich; ham, egg and cheese this morning.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 09, 2024 08:53 AM (Q4IgG)

32 I also blame my lack of caffeination for screwing up that closing tag. Saved by the signature!

Posted by: Cybersmythe at March 09, 2024 08:54 AM (iZEhM)

33 21 I had an interview for a job this week. It went well, but I'm asking for prayers that it went well enough.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at March 09, 2024 08:36 AM (iZEhM)
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It's always hard to tell where things will go. I had a job interview many years ago that left me convinced I had the thing locked up, but I was wrong. I was very upset, but looking back, it was for the best. The gig I ended up with was far better.

Remember, we don't pray for the thing, we pray for the strength to handle whatever happens.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 08:47 AM (llXky)

In my last job the first 2 interviews went great. The 3rd one, not so much. I felt doomed.

But then I was offered the job a few days later.

Prayers up for all of youse guys & gals, as the Lord's Prayer goes,
Thy will be done.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 08:54 AM (QXQ4l)

34 I wonder why the EU can stand up to Alphabet Corp, but the US can't. I'm sure they're every bit as "generous" in Brussels as they are in DC, and the dispute was relatively minor, but it was still a dispute, and the anti-Alphabet faction won. In the US, there would never have been a dispute in the first place, and if in some alternate dimension a faction of our government turned on Alphabet, it would be crushed like a bug.

My theory is that it's a combination of two things, and they both boil down to "kompromat," because the usual enormous bribes didn't work in this case, either.

1.) As corrupt as the EUrocracy is, and as personally vile as its factors may be, it is so much less vile and corrupt than ours that the usual blackmail and intimidation tactics don't work nearly as well - Alphabet doesn't have the goods on every single one of them, because some of them are actually, somehow, relatively "clean."

2.) They are more loyal to their own faction, and won't sell each other out to Alphabet nearly as readily - so Alphabet can't 100% count on those tactics being effective, where they could be leveraged.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 09, 2024 08:55 AM (0FoWg)

35 But is it bad for your health? And can it affect how your beloved cup of joe (or bedtime chamomile tea) tastes? Here's what experts say.

I know it's not healthy for the coffee maker, so we clean it pretty regularly. As for my health? Oh, sorry, no time to read what the "experts" say, gotta get on to reading the prayer list...

Posted by: mindful webworker - on my 2nd cup at March 09, 2024 08:55 AM (fIaE2)

36 Almost done work, home soon

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 08:55 AM (y0PB5)

37 I also blame my lack of caffeination for screwing up that closing tag. Saved by the signature!

Posted by: Cybersmythe at March 09, 2024 08:54 AM (iZEhM)
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If you pray for the thing and don't get it, it's disappointing. If you pray humbly for guidance and the larger picture (I need "a job" not "this job"), you'll be happier.

In the mean time, contemplate why you are where you are, because there is also a purpose behind that.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 08:56 AM (llXky)

38 For all you gamers out there, now you can take it wth you:

https://tinyurl.com/bdhffs23

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #156 at March 09, 2024 08:57 AM (qfLjt)

39 That was a long list. Prayers said for those who have asked, and extra prayers for those who haven't. Our Father knows who you are, and what you need.

Cybersmythe, best of luck with your job search. I hope you find the right one soon.

And for Milady Jo, and for jim in kalifornia. Such trials he's had in recent months.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 09, 2024 08:57 AM (OX9vb)

40 Spider Coffee FTW!

One time after being overseas and out in the boonies for a few months I came home and went to my sister's house to hang and swim in the pool. I jumped in the pool and felt something shift in my head and ear hole. I cocked my head to the side and a big old brown spider flopped out, about the size of a JFK half dollar.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 09, 2024 08:58 AM (R/m4+)

41 "Coffee Infused Wolf Spider is good eats."

Wolf Spider infused coffee is good drinks.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 08:42 AM (a1415)
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Wolf Coffee is a subsidiary of Wolf Cola, which is itself a subsidiary of Frank's Fluids, maker of the Official UFC drink, Fight Milk.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 09, 2024 08:58 AM (BpYfr)

42 2.) They are more loyal to their own faction, and won't sell each other out to Alphabet nearly as readily - so Alphabet can't 100% count on those tactics being effective, where they could be leveraged.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 09, 2024 08:55 AM (0FoWg)
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You left out the most important reason:

3.) They are Europeans and have a visceral, implacable hatred of American businesses and no amount of bribe can overcome this.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 08:58 AM (llXky)

43 Big companies are driven solely by profit, and hence are Evil. (Ignore that they only make a profit by giving people what they want, either well done or cheaply, or both).

People are waking up that none of these are true. There's a potentially large political realignment coming. Let us pray ...
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 09, 2024 08:49 AM (Gse2f)

Mr Smith:
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chuses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2024 08:58 AM (ENQN6)

44 Prayers up for all of youse guys & gals, as the Lord's Prayer goes,
Thy will be done.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 08:54 AM (QXQ4l)
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Amen!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 08:59 AM (llXky)

45 Too bad Ace isn't around. I just saw a fake movie poster for "Call of Booty: Modern Whorefare" starring Fani Willis and Nathan Wade that I'm sure he'd enjoy.

The bad news, it was a YouTube community post, so I can't link it, and DON'T try to Google it...there's an actual porn parody movie with the same name! Lol

Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 09, 2024 09:00 AM (ycI94)

46 I seem to remember tarantulas in bunches of bananas.

Posted by: BignJames at March 09, 2024 09:00 AM (AwYPR)

47 Wolf Coffee is a subsidiary of Wolf Cola, which is itself a subsidiary of Frank's Fluids, maker of the Official UFC drink, Fight Milk.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 09, 2024 08:58 AM (BpYfr)

moron lies sometimes are quite close to the truth

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2024 09:01 AM (ENQN6)

48 Anybody flying today? Be sure to kick the tires before getting on the plane.

Posted by: fd at March 09, 2024 09:01 AM (vFG9F)

49 They are Europeans and have a visceral, implacable hatred of American businesses and no amount of bribe can overcome this.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 08:58 AM (llXky)

Fair. This was certainly the case in China, who did humiliated those bastards, robbed them at gunpoint, and then sent them packing altogether. I don't think the EU will go that far - though they likely could.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 09, 2024 09:01 AM (0FoWg)

50 Who put the critter in the coffee. Some sicko.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2024 09:02 AM (SfhV1)

51
Anybody flying today? Be sure to kick the tires before getting on the plane.

Posted by: fd at March 09, 2024 09:01 AM

Did you see the Boeing that the entire landing gear collapsed? Maybe the pilot came down too hot or something and it's not negligence, but damn this stuff is happening way too much.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 09, 2024 09:03 AM (RKVpM)

52 Wonder if Joe's had his methamucil this morning?

Posted by: BignJames at March 09, 2024 09:03 AM (AwYPR)

53 "Be sure to kick the tires before getting on the plane."

Great, ow I gotta go wandering the parking lot, looking for aircraft tires to kick.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 09:04 AM (a1415)

54 Fair. This was certainly the case in China, who did humiliated those bastards, robbed them at gunpoint, and then sent them packing altogether. I don't think the EU will go that far - though they likely could.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 09, 2024 09:01 AM (0FoWg)
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The level of seething in Brussels right now is epic. The US has destroyed their energy supplies, trashed their economies and all to protect our grifting in Ukraine. At least the Pershing IIs were there to defend them from the Soviets and involved no immediate, foreseeable risk.

They can't engage us directly, so this is how they retaliate.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 09:04 AM (llXky)

55 It seems Tesla needs to add some pond avoidance programming to their cars. They make terrible submarines.

Posted by: fd at March 09, 2024 09:04 AM (vFG9F)

56
If like so many people your day begins with a jolt of caffeine, you undoubtably have a teakettle or coffee maker in your kitchen. And if you’ve ever looked closely at them while making up your morning brew, you may have noticed a crust or film inside. As it turns out, that annoying-to-clean buildup is composed of minerals from your water, and it's what happens when you aren't following your user manual (now, where did you put that thing?) and regularly descaling your kettle or coffeepot. But is it bad for your health? And can it affect how your beloved cup of joe (or bedtime chamomile tea) tastes? Here's what experts say.

I've got news for you: the same thing happens inside your hot water heater.

And that's why you heat cold water for cooking and making coffee.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 09, 2024 09:04 AM (xG4kz)

57 We bought these "bagel thins" the other day. Basically two really thin slices of a bagel top and bottom.

What do they do with the rest of the bagel? Inquiring minds...

Posted by: Oddbob at March 09, 2024 09:05 AM (sNc8Y)

58 SOME COFFEE!

Posted by: Charlotte at March 09, 2024 09:05 AM (4I/2K)

59 "What do they do with the rest of the bagel? Inquiring minds...
Posted by: Oddbob

I was wondering the same thing. Maybe they can airdrop them on Gaza.

Posted by: fd at March 09, 2024 09:06 AM (vFG9F)

60 > Did you see the Boeing that the entire landing gear collapsed? Maybe the pilot came down too hot or something and it's not negligence, but damn this stuff is happening way too much.
_____________

I attribute much of this to the woke being hired instead of competent, potentially white people who actually know what they're doing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 09, 2024 09:06 AM (Q4IgG)

61 "Did you see the Boeing that the entire landing gear collapsed? Maybe the pilot came down too hot or something and it's not negligence, but damn this stuff is happening way too much."

According to the big brains at the Aviation Forum on Airliners.net was possibly exiting the runway too fast on a right turn, front wheel skidded, and the main gear dug into the soft dirt after it left the runway.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 09:06 AM (a1415)

62 Did you see the Boeing that the entire landing gear collapsed? Maybe the pilot came down too hot or something and it's not negligence, but damn this stuff is happening way too much.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 09, 2024 09:03 AM (RKVpM)
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There has been a serious erosion in competence across the board. People simply aren't as dedicated or diligent as they used to be. There's very much as "hey, I did enough, and you're traumatizing me" mentality.

The whole actions --> consequences relationship has been gravely weakened. Engineering is just the most obvious form of failure, but it's happening everywhere.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 09:06 AM (llXky)

63 "According to the big brains at the Aviation Forum on Airliners.net was possibly exiting the runway too fast on a right turn, front wheel skidded, and the main gear dug into the soft dirt after it left the runway.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice"

Huh. Who was driving?

Posted by: fd at March 09, 2024 09:07 AM (vFG9F)

64 *sigh*

Horde, please pray for my dear friend who miscarried Wednesday. Again.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 09, 2024 09:08 AM (Wnv9h)

65 I attribute much of this to the woke being hired instead of competent, potentially white people who actually know what they're doing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 09, 2024 09:06 AM (Q4IgG)
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Doesn't have to be woke hiring. It could be what they do with the time of the job. Are pilots reviewing protocols or sitting through diversity seminars? Look at our broken, useless military wasting precious training time on pronouns.

Meanwhile the Russians are cranking out shells by the million and taking drone ISR to the next level while sustaining a high operational tempo.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 09:08 AM (llXky)

66 "Huh. Who was driving?"

Asian Lady?

Actually, there is mention that the tower asked the pilot to pick up speed exiting the runway to clear it faster for another flight on final.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 09:09 AM (a1415)

67 Prayers for all the fine folk who've asked, and repeated thanks to those who thought of me when I asked.

Been just over 6 months since my mother passed. She's probably cackling with glee in the afterlife that I've become infected with the Strauss waltz bug. She was a good mother...the best.

Posted by: Don Draper at March 09, 2024 09:09 AM (DBek0)

68 RMBS, prayers sent.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 09:09 AM (a1415)

69 Horde, please pray for my dear friend who miscarried Wednesday. Again.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 09, 2024 09:08 AM (Wnv9h)

What a heartbreak.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2024 09:09 AM (SfhV1)

70
The EU swaggers by imposing hefty fines.

The US swaggers by sending sternly worded letters.

Someone needs to gear up to run the ol' Number 6 on a wide variety of targets.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 09, 2024 09:09 AM (xG4kz)

71 SOME COFFEE!
Posted by: Charlotte at March 09, 2024 09:05 AM

Mine just hit the monitor.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 09, 2024 09:10 AM (Wnv9h)

72 Now the weekend is coming

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 09:10 AM (y0PB5)

73 They can't engage us directly, so this is how they retaliate.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 09:04 AM (llXky)

Yup. And it's a sad state of affairs when I have to cheer on their retaliation, because these foreign scum pose less of a threat to my liberty and dignity than my own putative countrymen do.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 09, 2024 09:11 AM (0FoWg)

74 A reduction in core competency you say.....

Did I mention that UPS lost my tax return paperwork that we were sanding back to our tax advisor for filing?

Never used to happen.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 09:11 AM (a1415)

75 Did I mention that UPS lost my tax return paperwork that we were sanding back to our tax advisor for filing?

Yikes!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2024 09:12 AM (SfhV1)

76 Did anyone see the tranny Space Force officer talking about how diversity build a war-winning culture? My daughter showed it to me and I told her that I was aware of it but hadn't watched it. She was never to show me stuff like that again because I might drop dead in an apoplectic fit.

I mean, what wars have we won? How will having drag queens running around the female showers bring us victory? Our last actual, outright victory was when gays were banned and women were not allowed on warships, let alone in the infantry.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 09:12 AM (llXky)

77 If you pray for the thing and don't get it, it's disappointing. If you pray humbly for guidance and the larger picture (I need "a job" not "this job"), you'll be happier.
In the mean time, contemplate why you are where you are, because there is also a purpose behind that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 08:56 AM (llXky)

Excellent advice.

Thanks Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 09, 2024 09:12 AM (R/m4+)

78 sanding=sending.

Even auto-cucumber is giving me problems.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 09:12 AM (a1415)

79 Even auto-cucumber is giving me problems.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 09:12 AM

*nods*

Autocucumber mocks us.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 09, 2024 09:14 AM (Wnv9h)

80 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 09:11 AM (a1415)

That reminds me, I need to do my income tax return. Wonder how much I will have pay this year.

Posted by: dantesed at March 09, 2024 09:14 AM (88xKn)

81 {46} I seem to remember tarantulas in bunches of bananas.

Posted by: BignJames at March 09, 2024 09:00 AM (AwYPR)

https://youtu.be/YO7M0Hx_1D8?t=90

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 09, 2024 09:14 AM (qPw5n)

82 I attribute much of this to the woke being hired instead of competent, potentially white people who actually know what they're doing.

A truly surprising number of posters jump onto this one, apparently having never yet in their lives met a white fuckup.
You need to get outside the compound more.

Or come around for the ONT, when we get together to whimper about our failed children, our ex-wives and their attorneys, and shit we bumped into today while blundering about. But it's different because? We consider ourselves White (and by real standards, mostly aren't). Yes you really do suck that hard.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 09, 2024 09:15 AM (zdLoL)

83 Prayers for the Prayer-list, thanks Anne.
Prayers for the Horde's voiced and unvoiced needs.
Prayers for the Coffee Thread requests.
May God's will be done.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 09:15 AM (B8kct)

84 What about drinking hot coffee, feeling something solid in the mouth and fishing out a boiled fly? Yeah!
Or, getting to the bottom of the cup and finding a few unidentified insect legs and a wing? Yeah!
Been there, done that!

Posted by: Ciampino - Bugs but not Bunny at March 09, 2024 09:15 AM (qfLjt)

85 I long ago stopped doing our own taxes. With clergy regulations, it got to be too much. Now I pay a guy so I don't have to set my hair on fire.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2024 09:16 AM (SfhV1)

86 *What do they do with the rest of the bagel? Inquiring minds...*

Perhaps they treat them like muffin stumps.

https://youtu.be/Jxph6zErgYI

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at March 09, 2024 09:16 AM (dg+HA)

87 "Or, getting to the bottom of the cup and finding a few unidentified insect legs and a wing? Yeah!
Been there, done that!"

Remember the old joke?

What's worse than biting into an apple and finding a worm?

Biting into an apple and finding half a worm.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 09:17 AM (a1415)

88 Excellent advice.

Thanks Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 09, 2024 09:12 AM (R/m4+)
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Thank you. I come here in part to share faith with others, but also to remind myself to practice what I preach. I lost an auction last week and was PISSED. The usual story, high bid, big cushion, 40 minutes left and zing! Some unrated user kicked of a bidding war.

Stewed on it for a few hours, then let it go because it simply wasn't meant to be. I recognized that I had set parameters that weren't meant and maybe the winner's need was greater than mine. Who knows?

So I went looking and found a much, much better deal that otherwise I would have missed. I approached that with humility and also restraint, because as the clock wound down I had to admit that I had no right to EVER win an auction, it's just stuff. Useful stuff, but stuff all the same. And I was actually ashamed of my wrath, which is partly why I confess it here.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 09:18 AM (llXky)

89
I seem to remember tarantulas in bunches of bananas.

Posted by: BignJames

That was famously covered by H. Belafonte:

A beautiful bunch of ripe bananas ...
(Daylight come and me want to go home)
Hide the deadly black tarantula ...
(Daylight come and me want to go home)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 09, 2024 09:20 AM (xG4kz)

90 A truly surprising number of posters jump onto this one, apparently having never yet in their lives met a white fuckup.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 09, 2024 09:15 AM (zdLoL)

This, thank you.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 09, 2024 09:20 AM (OX9vb)

91 UN lauds trans activist as 'inspiration' at women's rights meet, despite admissions that she used to steal and wear her sister's panties because it 'felt so right'

https://mol.im/a/13175127

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #157 at March 09, 2024 09:20 AM (qfLjt)

92 I m suddenly reminded of several video clips I have seen within the last year.
To paraphrase

School student: I feel I can't learn unless my teachers look like me.

Medical patient: I feel like I am better served if my doctor looks like me.

Community members: We feel safer if the Police look more like we do.

I don't know why that just popped into my head.

Sorry.....carry on.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 09:21 AM (a1415)

93 I haven't provided an update for a while, but my dear friend and former neighbor Kathleen who was diagnosed with breast cancer last year has undergone her double mastectomy and is healing well. She starts radiation treatment this month and the first of reconstructive surgeries in April. She could really use some additional prayers and support.

Posted by: Halfhand at March 09, 2024 09:21 AM (N0Aec)

94 A truly surprising number of posters jump onto this one, apparently having never yet in their lives met a white fuckup.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 09, 2024 09:15 AM (zdLo)
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Most of the military trannies I've seen are white. It's a way for them to gain protected status.

Discriminatory hiring and promotion is a thing, but it's not the only thing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 09:21 AM (llXky)

95
Just yesterday I used the Breville cleaning powder they made for the Breville Tea Maker that I bought the lovely and tea-drinking Mrs naturalfake.

I did a great job. Whistle clean.

The cleaner smells a bit like vinegar, so that makes sense.

A mix of 50/50 water/vinegar is supposed to be a great coffee pot/maker descaler. That would appear to be the budget conscious way to do these descaling chores.

All Pots Clean Now! - I think Bide said this at his SOTU.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 09, 2024 09:21 AM (nFnyb)

96
auto cucumber is blog posting's very own Mr. Clippy

Fight me!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 09, 2024 09:22 AM (xG4kz)

97 New York State now removing red tape to ALLOW ILLEGAL ALIENS the ability to obtain government state jobs.

https://tinyurl.com/26jwwtj6

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #158 at March 09, 2024 09:23 AM (qfLjt)

98 A mix of 50/50 water/vinegar is supposed to be a great coffee pot/maker descaler.

Vinegar is miraculous.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2024 09:23 AM (SfhV1)

99 Halfhand.

Prayers up.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 09:23 AM (a1415)

100 Remember the old joke?
What's worse than biting into an apple and finding a worm?
Biting into an apple and finding half a worm.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Why do you think that is a joke?
It always struck me as a statement of fact.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 09:23 AM (B8kct)

101 If like so many people your day begins with a jolt of caffeine, you undoubtably have a teakettle or coffee maker in your kitchen. And if you’ve ever looked closely at them while making up your morning brew, you may have noticed a crust or film inside. As it turns out, that annoying-to-clean buildup is composed of minerals from your water, and it's what happens when you aren't following your user manual (now, where did you put that thing?) and regularly descaling your kettle or coffeepot.

I have a transparent kettle and tea steeper. Around here, and in a lot of places, the scale is calcium carbonate. To get rid of it, I use white vinegar diluted with about as much water as vinegar. The acidity of the vinegar makes the scale more soluble in water.

You can just leave it overnight, but if you're in a hurry heat will increase the rate of the scale dissolving and the pH of the vinegar offsets the reduction in solubility at high temperatures that makes the scale form in the first place.

Removing the scale doesn't improve the quality of the water, it just makes the kettle work better.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at March 09, 2024 09:23 AM (iZEhM)

102 Good Morning Everyone

*wonders if ATC is gonna see that spider in the coffee cup*

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 09, 2024 09:24 AM (MsrgL)

103 https://mol.im/a/13175127
Posted by: Ciampino - Update #157 at March 09, 2024 09:20 AM (qfLjt)

She looks hideous.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 09, 2024 09:24 AM (OX9vb)

104 Who put the critter in the coffee. Some sicko.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2024 09:02 AM (SfhV1)

Come to New Mexico. The insects there put themselves in your coffee cup, shoes, etc. without help.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 09, 2024 09:25 AM (/HDaX)

105 We have vinegar, and we have 'cleaning vinegar'.

That stuff is WAY stronger than regular vinegar.

I wonder how that would do on a coffee pot, or if it would eat the guts out of it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 09:25 AM (a1415)

106 > truly surprising number of posters jump onto this one, apparently having never yet in their lives met a white fuckup.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
____________

I've met quite a few in my time. Thus, the word "potentially" in my comment. Chill out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 09, 2024 09:25 AM (Q4IgG)

107 I finish calculating my taxes on New Years Eve, wait for the W2s and 1099s, and send it in around Valentine's Day. I created my own spreadsheet and update it during the year, so I can ensure i owe money by year end.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 09, 2024 09:25 AM (+NgM6)

108 If your coffee didn't dissolve the spider, it wasn't strong enough.

Wimp!

Posted by: JTB at March 09, 2024 09:25 AM (zudum)

109 Yes you really do suck that hard.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 09, 2024 09:15 AM (zdLoL)

I ignored you til recently, because I try not to attack regulars, but you came after me personally the other day, so that's over now.

You're a sanctimonious cunt. All you ever do is complain about people here. You try to position yourself as intellectually superior, when you're just too clever by half, which is the worst sort of mediocrity - aside from moral self-superiority, which you also indulge in far too much. You call this place a dung heap, you call us "moral cripples," as you put it, and so on.

Well... If you're so damned fantastic, why don't you climb down off that cross of yours, get onto a barge, and float down your clown river to somewhere more salubrious?

Maybe you could go find George Will, or something. You two latter-day solons could commiserate on the important issues of the day. Like the substandard breeding, grooming, and education of the hoi-polloi. Why, we even wear dungarees to the movies! Quelle horreur!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 09, 2024 09:26 AM (0FoWg)

110 Overcast, cool and raining. Lovely reading weather. (As if I needed a reason.)

Posted by: JTB at March 09, 2024 09:27 AM (zudum)

111
Meghan Markle put her most fashionable foot forward as she marked International Women's Day in true Hollywood style by appearing on a celebrity-studded panel at SXSW - while her husband Prince Harry cheered her on from the front row.

"She has so much to teach us!"

-- midwits at SXSW

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 09, 2024 09:27 AM (xG4kz)

112 It's been a while since I did a Catholic Church update, but here goes for those who care. Fideles Supplicans (which declared it okay to bless sinful couples) continues to bite Pope Francis in his crozier. Twenty-plus bishops conferences (including all of Africa) have rejected it, protests continue to mount and last week the Coptic Orthodox Church decided to jump into the debate.

For those who don't know, the Copts have been in schism with Rome (and Constantinople) since AD 451. Over the last 20 years, a series of goodwill measures have taken place, most recently in a joint canonization ceremony for Egyptian Christians martyred by ISIS. This really looked like a huge win for Francis' pontificate, something to offset all the other disappointments.

Well, turns out the Copts have a problem with blessing sin, so they announced a halt to any further dialog because of it, and will be reviewing the path they've taken to get to this point. This is a massive humiliation, and a likely harbinger of the Eastern Orthodox taking similar action.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 09:28 AM (llXky)

113 Thanks, beloved Horde, for your prayers on behalf of Mr. Bassman as he recovers from knee replacement. This week he has his first performances since the surgery. He's doing great! I'm especially pleased with his dedication to his physical therapy routines.

I mostly lurk these days, but you are all special to me. You are often in my prayers.

Posted by: Emmie, rock'n'roll widow at March 09, 2024 09:28 AM (Sf2cq)

114 58 SOME COFFEE!
Posted by: Charlotte at March 09, 2024 09:05 AM (4I/2K)

Hello luv!

Posted by: Boris at March 09, 2024 09:28 AM (PiwSw)

115 Heavier than air jet powered machines that transport you at 500+ miles per hour. Radar navigation systems. Radio communications. Autopilot. In-flight entertainment systems. Tiny bags of peanuts and pretzels. Little baby bottles of adult beverages.

You're welcome.

Posted by: The Patriarchy at March 09, 2024 09:28 AM (dg+HA)

116 ""She has so much to teach us!"

Apparently Husband pleasing and sandwich making are probably not in her powerpoint presentations.

But hey....teach on!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 09:29 AM (a1415)

117
You're a sanctimonious cunt. All you ever do is complain about people here

Agreed. I have it on auto-ignore because it's the same "I just got my period and I wanna bitch' every time.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 09, 2024 09:29 AM (RKVpM)

118 The weekend is here and it can be 2nd break time

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 09:30 AM (fwDg9)

119 Women can do everything men can do and better:

https://tinyurl.com/45paper4

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #159 at March 09, 2024 09:31 AM (qfLjt)

120 He's doing great! I'm especially pleased with his dedication to his physical therapy routines.

Posted by: Emmie

Great to hear great news Emmie!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 09:31 AM (B8kct)

121 Got to get rolling, all. ATM, gas station, bank, Aldi, and who knows up what roads all that may lead. (Probably poorly-paved ones.) 'Tis cool, no rain, so I'll don my leather jacket and one of my fedoras and strike out on the trail!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 09, 2024 09:32 AM (omVj0)

122
The weekend is here and it can be 2nd break time

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 09:30 AM

I feel sorry for you... is it my imagination or does it rain half of every weekend anymore?

Flood warnings for the area through tomorrow.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 09, 2024 09:32 AM (RKVpM)

123 Making matters worse, the source of the letter, Cardinal Fernandez has himself created scandal by authoring a book of religiously-based sexual fantasies. The sensible thing would be to have him step down, and rescind the letter, but I doubt that will happen. Francis has consistently shown a lack of humility or self-awareness.

What must certainly gall him is the knowledge that this will almost certainly be done by his successor, so his resistance is ultimately futile, and only further damages his legacy.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 09:32 AM (llXky)

124 I figure if someone wants to fight me in the octagon of applicants selection, define the requirements, and let us decide it upon the level playing field of 'Who is best qualified'.

And may the best person win.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 09:33 AM (a1415)

125 Cardinal Fernandez has himself created scandal by authoring a book of religiously-based sexual fantasies.

Er, what?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2024 09:34 AM (SfhV1)

126 The weekend is here and it can be 2nd break time

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 09:30 AM (fwDg9)

Pre-break break
Break
Post-break break

Posted by: BignJames at March 09, 2024 09:34 AM (AwYPR)

127 My theory is that it's a combination of two things, and they both boil down to "kompromat," because the usual enormous bribes didn't work in this case, either.
=====

In addition, Eurocrats are not directly answerable to any voters. Kill the evil US corporations is a war cry for the simple peasants and keeps Eurocrat status as protectors of the 'little' countries and 'little' people.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 09, 2024 09:34 AM (MIKMs)

128 Women can do everything men can do and better:

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #159 at March 09, 2024 09:31 AM (qfLjt)
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I am reliably informed that men make better women than women do. That's why trannies are dominating sports and winning Woman of the Year awards. Sorry ladies.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 09:34 AM (llXky)

129 Women can do everything men can do and better:
Posted by: Ciampino

Her expressions and comments are great.

Nephew works oil rigs, ashore though, still not work I'd want to have done at that age.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 09:35 AM (B8kct)

130 Days get longer tomorrow.
Woo hoo.

Posted by: Montec at March 09, 2024 09:35 AM (bWsRe)

131 Dang, that piccolo player really gets a lot of notes out of a hollow stick with holes in it. Very nice.

Posted by: huerfano at March 09, 2024 09:36 AM (Q4KYm)

132 And I was actually ashamed of my wrath, which is partly why I confess it here.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 09:18 AM (llXky)

You have humbly confessed and sincerely repented. "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." He loves you and forgives you and has paid your debt and remembers your sin no more.

May we always seek to please Him and always seek His mercy.

Posted by: Emmie, rock'n'roll widow at March 09, 2024 09:37 AM (Sf2cq)

133 And may the best person win.

Spell it "persyn" and I'm sure that he ~~they~~ it will.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 09, 2024 09:37 AM (sNc8Y)

134 Sparkles could teach a PhD level class on how to grift. I’ll give her that.

Posted by: Montec at March 09, 2024 09:38 AM (bWsRe)

135 Hard water / soft water confuses me. As I understand it, hard stone makes soft water, and vice versa. So we here in the Northeast, sitting on worn down granite, got soft water because the dissolved rock don't mix well, but those on the gulf coast on all the former inland seas areas got hard water because the soft stone, still harder than water, dissolves in it.
I think that's right. Need more coffee.

Posted by: From about that Time at March 09, 2024 09:38 AM (4780s)

136 and only further damages his legacy.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

I'm not sure his 'legacy' is capable of being any worse; but, I keep being amazed at his endeavoring to persevere to ensure the result.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 09:38 AM (B8kct)

137 Prayers up for all the Horde's intentions. Those asked and unasked.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 09, 2024 09:39 AM (ju2Fy)

138 Great to hear great news Emmie!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 09:31 AM (B8kct)

And it's always nice to see you in the comments. Hope things are well with you and yours!

Posted by: Emmie, rock'n'roll widow at March 09, 2024 09:40 AM (Sf2cq)

139
Er, what?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2024 09:34 AM (SfhV1)
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He wrote a book more than 20 years ago exploring sexuality and faith, but not in a Theology of the Body way, but using explicit pornographic language. This was known to Pope Francis before his appointment, when it became public, no action was taken. So the head of the Vatican theology dept. is a known perv.

Some think this discredits the Church, but it only discredits Francis. The Church is outraged by it, and things like this push the faithful deeper into orthodoxy. It's like his fanatical war on the Traditional Latin Mass. What was once a curiosity is now a hot ticket, particularly among young people.

Cardinal Zen has circulated an anonymous document outlining what the next pope must do, and what characteristic he must possess. It's got to be rough to have senior Church leaders publicly announced they're done with you and it's time to talk about what happens after you're dead.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 09:40 AM (llXky)

140 Days get longer tomorrow.
Woo hoo.
Posted by: Montec

I really despise DST. I can fly all over the world without jet lag, but that one hour takes me a week to get over. I had to throw away a clock because it adjusted automatically to the old switch dates. Just pick one and stick with it.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 09, 2024 09:40 AM (+NgM6)

141 Days get longer tomorrow.
Woo hoo.
Posted by: Montec

Heh, Old Indian (feather) saying: Only white man thinks cutting foot off bottom of blanket and sewing it back on top of blanket makes blanket bigger.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 09:40 AM (B8kct)

142
I saw Sanctimonious Cunt open for the Dixie Chicks at Lilith Fair in '98.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 09, 2024 09:41 AM (nFnyb)

143 A truly surprising number of posters jump onto this one, apparently having never yet in their lives met a white fuckup.

YT fuck up? Of course not. Being YT and competent, I, being the huge rayciss the democrats say I am, naturally assume every other YT is just as competent and does a great job at whatever they bees doing.

Plus, the democrats say I'm sexist, homophobic, transphobic and a bible thumping, gun clinging hillbilly. So I try to live up to that when I can.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 09, 2024 09:41 AM (R/m4+)

144 126 The weekend is here and it can be 2nd break time

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 09:30 AM (fwDg9)

Pre-break break
Break
Post-break break

Posted by: BignJames at March 09, 2024 09:34 AM (AwYPR)
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So break-break is a real break as in rape-rape?

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #160 at March 09, 2024 09:41 AM (qfLjt)

145 I adore DST.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2024 09:42 AM (SfhV1)

146
And it's always nice to see you in the comments. Hope things are well with you and yours!
Posted by: Emmie

Thank you, we're good.
Hoping for 'This year in Corsicana'.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 09:42 AM (B8kct)

147 Good morning, dear Morons! Thank you Mis Hum and Annie. I shall offer my prayers for all those asked and unasked intentions. And a special prayer that our country sees a re-awakening of the spirit of our Founders who, despite their human imperfections, proved to the world that self-governance is possible by a God-fearing people. May we find the humility return ourselves and our country to a station deserving of His grace.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at March 09, 2024 09:43 AM (kOluj)

148 I really despise DST. I can fly all over the world without jet lag, but that one hour takes me a week to get over. I had to throw away a clock because it adjusted automatically to the old switch dates. Just pick one and stick with it.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 09, 2024 09:40 AM (+NgM6)

I don’t really have a set bed time so to speak. One day I can get 6 hrs of sleep next 8 then 7, etc. so one hour change doesn’t affect me since it’s just my normal pattern.

Posted by: Montec at March 09, 2024 09:43 AM (bWsRe)

149 I really despise DST. I can fly all over the world without jet lag, but that one hour takes me a week to get over. I had to throw away a clock because it adjusted automatically to the old switch dates. Just pick one and stick with it.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 09, 2024 09:40 A

I'm with ya, buddy. I always liked that apocryphal quote from some Indian chief - "only the white man could think you can a cut a foot of cloth off one end of a blanket, sew it to the other, and make it longer."

If King FDR's Miraculous Time Travel were a real possibility, there'd be photos of me when I went back in time and tipped that ol' gimp out of his wheelchair for doing this nonsense.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 09, 2024 09:44 AM (0FoWg)

150 Rain as long as not hard and heavy winds means it's pine gone time

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 09:44 AM (fwDg9)

151 I adore DST.
Posted by: grammie winger

Either DST or standard is fine with me, just stick with one of them.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 09, 2024 09:45 AM (+NgM6)

152 I am reliably informed that men make better women than women do. That's why trannies are dominating sports and winning Woman of the Year awards. Sorry ladies.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 09:34 AM (llXky)

Yep. Feminism has come full circle, and we're back to second-class citizens. Except, for real, this time.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 09, 2024 09:46 AM (OX9vb)

153 I know DST doesn’t save energy or have anything to do with farming or any of the other myths. I just like the extra hour of daylight at the end Of the day vs the beginning of the day,

Posted by: Montec at March 09, 2024 09:46 AM (bWsRe)

154
I adore DST.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2024 09:42 AM

People at the beginning and ends of time zones have vastly different opinions. Here in Pennsylvania I'm sorta in the middle and don't care too much either way and would prefer they picked one and left it alone.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 09, 2024 09:46 AM (RKVpM)

155 We're house-hunting this weekend, which is one of my least favorite activities in the world. I know now is not a great time to buy, what with the inflated prices and interest rates, but our current dwelling isn't suiting us too well and I'm not sure the market will ever improve. I could drop the price of a new house into renovating our current one and still not like it, so that's not an option. Of course, my idea home would be a bunker in the middle of nowhere, but I doubt I can convince wife and kiddo to go full survivalist.

Posted by: PabloD at March 09, 2024 09:47 AM (zqwN3)

156 El Nino year means more rain and warmer temperatures usually, but do think our biggest snowfall happens during them as well. Goes with more precipitation

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 09:47 AM (fwDg9)

157 People at the beginning and ends of time zones have vastly different opinions. Here in Pennsylvania I'm sorta in the middle and don't care too much either way and would prefer they picked one and left it alone.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 09, 2024 09:46 AM (RKVpM)

Yep. I suppose I prefer "regular" time if given the choice but I could go either way.

Just pick one.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 09, 2024 09:48 AM (nFnyb)

158 #28, it might not be the coffee making you sneeze, it might be the hot beverage. The heating up of your sinuses via the roof of your mouth might be the problem. Hot soup can cause this also.
Try adding cream to your coffee before you give it up

Posted by: From about that Time at March 09, 2024 09:49 AM (4780s)

159 El Nino year means more rain and warmer temperatures usually, but do think our biggest snowfall happens during them as well. Goes with more precipitation

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 09:47 AM (fwDg9)

We had one snowfall in January, that's it. Maybe 3 inches. Temps have been in the 40-ish range throughout. Weird winter, but I'll take it.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2024 09:49 AM (SfhV1)

160 Time zones are another frivolity. Get rid of those, too. People know when it's day or night. The number on the clock doesn't matter.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 09, 2024 09:50 AM (0FoWg)

161 > Either DST or standard is fine with me, just stick with one of them.
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+1

I get that people like having the longer daylight hours, but you'll get that anyway come June - August. Some of that just depends on where you're located within whatever time zone you live in.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 09, 2024 09:51 AM (Q4IgG)

162 Morning all.
No progress on coworker D's daughter. Still in the clink.
Prayers upnfor those asking and thise needing but not asking.

I somehow locked myself out of the house so I'm sitting in my shop with no coffee and it's 28° out... in my pajamas. Little 1500 watt heater is doing it's best.
Not a good start to the weekend. I'd wake the wife up but that wouldn't make anything better so I'll just wait.

Posted by: Reforger at March 09, 2024 09:51 AM (0MuVc)

163 Ideally we should get rid of time zones. One universal time. Yeah some people would go to bed at 2pm and some would start work at 12am. But it’s just a number. Everyone would get used to it pretty fast.

Posted by: Montec at March 09, 2024 09:52 AM (bWsRe)

164 Oh, I really do wanna know this bit of oddness -- coffee related.

Our own King Harv has ads with changing themes, the last one was Starship Troopers, I think, but I have no clue as to what he is referring to for this one.

Help a Moron out here.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 09, 2024 09:52 AM (MIKMs)

165 Thanks for the Coffee Thread and Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!

Prayers up for those in need, whether the intentions are known or unknown.

Ugh, that spider!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 09, 2024 09:52 AM (KglbO)

166 Hoping for 'This year in Corsicana'.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 09:42 AM (B8kct

I do hope you can go. It's a bit tougher for us now that I've returned to school. Maybe we can go this year if my attendance is otherwise good and we skip the other stuff we try to do while in Texas.

Posted by: Emmie, rock'n'roll widow at March 09, 2024 09:52 AM (Sf2cq)

167 Women are happiest doing women things.
Men are happiest doing men things.

But you already knew that.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 09, 2024 09:53 AM (dg+HA)

168 Everyone would get used to it pretty fast.
Posted by: Montec at March 09, 2024 09:52 AM (bWsRe)

*fist bump*

The whole concept is silly British nonsense.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 09, 2024 09:53 AM (0FoWg)

169 160, 163

Great minds.

Posted by: Montec at March 09, 2024 09:53 AM (bWsRe)

170 I just like the extra hour of daylight at the end Of the day vs the beginning of the day,
Posted by: Montec

I completely agree with more daylight, I just watch sunrise and sunset and am pleased.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 09:53 AM (B8kct)

171 Posted by: Reforger at March 09, 2024 09:51 AM (0MuVc)

I've done stuff like that....makes you feel...stupid.

Posted by: BignJames at March 09, 2024 09:54 AM (AwYPR)

172 I'm a fan of DST, but if my community just wants to switch the usual 8-5 to an earlier 7-4, that would have the same impact for me.

Posted by: Emmie, rock'n'roll widow at March 09, 2024 09:55 AM (Sf2cq)

173 I once locked myself in a chicken coop in winter without my phone on me. Nobody else was home. It was the most miserable 2 hours of my life until my wife got home.

Posted by: Montec at March 09, 2024 09:56 AM (bWsRe)

174 Good morning.

Today's my birthday.
It's raining.
It's okay.
I've made it this far.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 09, 2024 09:56 AM (t/2Uw)

175
Help a Moron out here.
Posted by: mustbequantum

Godzilla move, something "all monster's must die".

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 09:57 AM (B8kct)

176 Happy Birthday Sharon!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2024 09:57 AM (SfhV1)

177 I know DST doesn’t save energy or have anything to do with farming or any of the other myths. I just like the extra hour of daylight at the end Of the day vs the beginning of the day,
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Before I was 29, I thought so too. After 29, I like the extra daylight at the beginning of the day.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 09, 2024 09:57 AM (MIKMs)

178 Ideally we should get rid of time zones. One universal time. Yeah some people would go to bed at 2pm and some would start work at 12am. But it’s just a number. Everyone would get used to it pretty fast.
Posted by: Montec

China has only one time zone. I was out in the Taklimakan and we were 2000 miles west of the coast. At 8 am it was still a few hours before the dawn.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 09, 2024 09:57 AM (+NgM6)

179 "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

~ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 09, 2024 09:58 AM (dg+HA)

180
Today's my birthday.
Posted by: Sharon

Hope you have a most excellent and Happy Birthday!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 09:58 AM (B8kct)

181 En mi casa toman Bustelo!

Hopefully, mostly spider-free.

Posted by: Daily Grind at March 09, 2024 09:59 AM (V5BDR)

182 thanks for the beautiful music behind the creepy spider!
I didn't know Vivaldi had a piccolo piece. Nice. Saving it to show my granddaughter who plays flute and piccolo in band.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 09, 2024 09:59 AM (JrYM1)

183 Happy birthday, Sharon!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 09, 2024 09:59 AM (u73oe)

184 We drove through a flood between Casa Eromero and Caddo lake yesterday, and just past Kilgore we noticed the passenger side windshield wiper blade separating. Got to O’Reilleys in Longview, got new blades all around and headed (passing through intersection under construction) back on I-20 east. The on-ramp was flooded with almost 2 feet of water and in the rain would have been hard to see, but we had NEW wipers. Providence!

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2024 10:00 AM (NxC5+)

185 India has 1 time zone as well and it’s about 2000 miles at its widest. They make it work.

Posted by: Montec at March 09, 2024 10:00 AM (bWsRe)

186 135 Hard and soft water (here comes the Inorganic Chemistry lecture).
Soft water contains little or no dissolved calcium or magnesium salts so does not create scale in the long term.
Hard water comes in two types: temporarily hard and permanently hard.
Permanently hard: contains calcium sulfate (from water percolating over gypsum-containing rocks) which unlike most chemicals, is less soluble in hot water than in cold so it precipitates out in boiling water and produces scale.
Temporarily hard: CO2 in water percolating through limestone dissolves the calcium carbonate and forms soluble calcium bicarbonate. When this water is heated the bicarbonate decomposes back to CO2 and calcium carbonate which becomes scale. The water is now 'softer'.
Vinegar will dissolve both scales, the carbonate will fizz with the vinegar.
End of lesson. QUIZ ON MONDAY!

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #161 at March 09, 2024 10:01 AM (qfLjt)

187 If there was only one time zone, how would I know when the away-games start?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2024 10:02 AM (SfhV1)

188 {162}/Reforger ... I somehow locked myself out of the house
Posted by: Reforger at March 09, 2024 09:51 AM (0MuVc)

This is why I like deadbolt locks. I can't lock myself out by accident.

I'm glad you have a heater, and it's kind of you to not want to wake your wife, but she's still probably going to give you "that look" when she finds you.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 09, 2024 10:02 AM (qPw5n)

189 En mi casa toman Bustelo!
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I love the stuff. Makes a thick, rich, non-acidic brew.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 09, 2024 10:03 AM (MIKMs)

190 What time zone do they use on the ISS? Do they just go with GMT?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 09, 2024 10:03 AM (BpYfr)

191 By summer I go to bed before the sun does, it doesn't do me a bit of good

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 10:03 AM (fwDg9)

192 >>> 162 Morning all.
No progress on coworker D's daughter. Still in the clink.
Prayers upnfor those asking and thise needing but not asking.

I somehow locked myself out of the house so I'm sitting in my shop with no coffee and it's 28° out... in my pajamas. Little 1500 watt heater is doing it's best.
Not a good start to the weekend. I'd wake the wife up but that wouldn't make anything better so I'll just wait.
Posted by: Reforger at March 09, 2024 09:51 AM (0MuVc)

Find some tools to pick the house lock?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 09, 2024 10:03 AM (llON8)

193 India has 1 time zone as well and it’s about 2000 miles at its widest. They make it work.
Posted by: Montec

India may be a bit more forgiving than China. In China, people are expected to work on Peking time. So they go to work at night and go home and go to bed in daytime.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 09, 2024 10:04 AM (+NgM6)

194 QUIZ ON MONDAY!
Posted by: Ciampino - Update #161 at March 09, 2024 10:01 AM (qfLjt)
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There goes the weekend....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 09, 2024 10:04 AM (BpYfr)

195 I adore DST.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2024 09:42 AM (SfhV1)

I don't miss it here in AZ. Sure, it only stays light as long as it does in the evening, but I do treasure the sun being up before me. And it's already started doing that, will continue until later in the summer/early in the autumn.

I do get confused as to where the rest of you are though, time-wise. Especially this place. I'll be thinking a thread's going to be up for another hour, and poof, it's gone.

Seriously, AoSHQ is the one place in this world it causes me any inconvenience.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2024 10:04 AM (/OUg5)

196 Hope Mis Hum is satisfied. Took a long look before swallowing the last gulp of coffee at the bottom of the mug.

Posted by: Once Bitten, No Twice Bitten, No... at March 09, 2024 10:05 AM (V5BDR)

197 Perfessor- when I was in England all of our schedules worked from Greenwich Mean Time because planes might be in different time zones. Assume space does too

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 10:05 AM (fwDg9)

198 We bought these "bagel thins" the other day. Basically two really thin slices of a bagel top and bottom.

What do they do with the rest of the bagel? Inquiring minds...
Posted by: Oddbob at March 09, 2024 09:05 AM (sNc8Y)

Not even the bums want the bagel stumps.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 09, 2024 10:05 AM (aD39U)

199 I somehow locked myself out of the house
Posted by: Reforger

Can you fashion some sort of rudimentary lathe?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 09, 2024 10:05 AM (+NgM6)

200 ---A mindful textwork from 2023, for those confused into thinking DST is a real thing:

Daylight Saving Time: The Simple Alternative
How free people would handle the seasons
[click nic link]

Instead of the ludicrous and ignorant re-setting of clocks, how much harder would it be to say, on such-and-such days, businesses, schools, et al. shift to summer (or winter) hours Anyone can follow the gov't recommended (but not mandated) "shift" days if preferred. Just change the "business" hours for those that want to. Not the clocks!

Posted by: mindful webworker - Spring sideways at March 09, 2024 10:05 AM (fIaE2)

201 I've done stuff like that....makes you feel...stupid.
Posted by: BignJames at March 09, 2024 09:54 AM (AwYPR)

YyyyYyyah. Ssssstupid...
Worst part is I didn't make coffee before I slipped out for a smoke and letting the wife wake up to no coffee is bad.
I going to go get a spare key made and stash it out here today.

Posted by: Reforger at March 09, 2024 10:05 AM (6Oqc/)

202 Heh, he thinks he locked himself out of the house.

Posted by: HAL at March 09, 2024 10:06 AM (SYTee)

203 mustbequantum @ 189- bustelo
Thanks, I’m writing ‘cafe bustelo’ on my hand right now for when I go by Mercado Monterey.

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2024 10:07 AM (NxC5+)

204 >>> 200 ---A mindful textwork from 2023, for those confused into thinking DST is a real thing:

Daylight Saving Time: The Simple Alternative
How free people would handle the seasons
[click nic link]

Instead of the ludicrous and ignorant re-setting of clocks, how much harder would it be to say, on such-and-such days, businesses, schools, et al. shift to summer (or winter) hours Anyone can follow the gov't recommended (but not mandated) "shift" days if preferred. Just change the "business" hours for those that want to. Not the clocks!
Posted by: mindful webworker - Spring sideways at March 09, 2024 10:05 AM (fIaE2)

But then you people would think you didn't need us telling you what to do.

Posted by: congresscritters at March 09, 2024 10:07 AM (llON8)

205 What time zone do they use on the ISS? Do they just go with GMT?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I laughed at Weird Dave's GMT coffee cup in last night's ONT.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 10:07 AM (B8kct)

206 Just change the "business" hours for those that want to. Not the clocks!
Posted by: mindful webworker - Spring sideways at March 09, 2024 10:05 AM (fIaE2)

That would make sense, and that's not what we do!
-The Government

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 09, 2024 10:07 AM (OX9vb)

207 A fun time wasting website: The Real Size Of.

https://tinyurl.com/2ujsvpfh

It allows you to overlay the map of a country, state, or province over any other and adjusts the size for latitude.

Helpful when you consider time zones.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 09, 2024 10:07 AM (dg+HA)

208 I have a spare key hidden out front, as well as a back door key in the detached garage. Not locking myself out!

Posted by: Back Door Man at March 09, 2024 10:09 AM (V5BDR)

209 I have actually done that with a cricket in my coffee, but that's not even close to a spider.

Posted by: t-bird at March 09, 2024 10:09 AM (S9XeJ)

210
"Give me your answer, doooooooooooooo ..."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 09, 2024 10:09 AM (xG4kz)

211 What time zone do they use on the ISS? Do they just go with GMT?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I laughed at Weird Dave's GMT coffee cup in last night's ONT.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 10:07 AM (B8kct)
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How soon until the Cancel Pigs decide that GMT must be cancelled in favor of "Lome Mean Time" named after Lome, Togo (in Africa), which is only 1 degree East of Greenwich?

You know, to be more "diverse" and "inclusive."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 09, 2024 10:10 AM (BpYfr)

212 Hope Mis Hum is satisfied. Took a long look before swallowing the last gulp of coffee at the bottom of the mug.
Posted by: Once Bitten, No Twice Bitten, No... at March 09, 2024 10:05 AM (V5BDR)

I've never been so sleepy as to pour fresh coffee onto a spider in my mug, and it doesn't leave my sight long enough for one to jump in there after it's filled.

Of all the terrors in this world, spiders in my coffee, for me is not one of them.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2024 10:10 AM (/OUg5)

213 Although the strangest place I went to was the north slope of Alaska. 24 hours of daylight and the sun goes around in a circle. No permanent roads, no trees, no fences, and flat as a board. Oh, and if you are confused as to your directions, compasses poor east.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 09, 2024 10:11 AM (+NgM6)

214 I never used the front door of my house but always went in and out of the garage. One time I got home and the power was out and there was no way to get in. Ended up (after eventually getting in) having to put new lock on the door as I had no idea where the keys were for the old one.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 09, 2024 10:11 AM (t/2Uw)

215
No spiders tonight in my coffee
No spiders tonight in my tea

Posted by: The Guess Who at March 09, 2024 10:12 AM (SYTee)

216 Yep. Feminism has come full circle, and we're back to second-class citizens. Except, for real, this time.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 09, 2024 09:46 AM (OX9vb)
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Yes, women were never second-class citizens; there was a male sphere and a female sphere. Then women decided that the male sphere was more interesting, and they demanded entrance while at the same time insisting that their sphere remained theirs.

This was ultimately unworkable, and now they've lost their sphere and have to compete against men in both.

The old arrangement was more workable and sustainable. The current one is leading to depopulation and societal collapse.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 10:12 AM (llXky)

217 I don't believe I've shared with the Horde that Mom's multiple myeloma had returned about a year ago. They tried a few different medications, but her light chain levels continued to increase. Last month they put her on a new immunotherapy that had just received FDA approval back in August. As of this week, after only 4 treatments, her light chain levels are already back to normal.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 09, 2024 10:13 AM (FzDG4)

218 How soon until the Cancel Pigs decide that GMT must be cancelled
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

UTC was adopted in 1972 so it's too late for the cancel pigs to have an effect.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 10:13 AM (B8kct)

219 Time zones are another frivolity. Get rid of those, too. People know when it's day or night. The number on the clock doesn't matter.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 09, 2024 09:50 AM (0FoWg)
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Moved from CST to EST a month ago and I'm still trying to figure it out. With work still being on CST I'm still living by that time. Bottom line I don't know when to eat lunch lol.

Posted by: jhawk90 at March 09, 2024 10:14 AM (ggOdn)

220 Everyone should have a lockpick set in their shed.

Most house locks are a simple rakeable type that require no real skill or ingenuity.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 09, 2024 10:14 AM (aD39U)

221 Noticed a scratch on my car today. Not super deep but more than just surface. Are there any products that you can buy to fix that that actually work? I know there’s a bazillion for sale but do any of them work? As an alternative to a detailer charging $400 to do it.

Posted by: Montec at March 09, 2024 10:14 AM (bWsRe)

222 Apparently Husband pleasing and sandwich making are probably not in her powerpoint presentations.

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Ranch Style Beans, based in Fort Worth used to have a little banner on the can, announcing the beans were "Husband Pleasing", with a cute little cartoon smiling man's face.
Well, that went the way of the dodo about 30 years ago.
An early casualty of woke.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at March 09, 2024 10:15 AM (jN2/U)

223 Find some tools to pick the house lock?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 09, 2024 10:03 AM (llON

I actually have a professional lockpick set...somewhere around hear, not near the heater.

Wife is up. I'm in.. trouble that is. No coffee made. Bad husband.
I'm blaming everthing on the extra hour of sleep I got.
Need that time shift to set me right.

Posted by: Reforger at March 09, 2024 10:15 AM (6Oqc/)

224 But then you people would think you didn't need us telling you what to do.

Posted by: congresscritters at March 09, 2024 10:07 AM (llON

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Wasn't it originally imposed as a wartime measure to increase production during all daylight hours and reduce lighting needs?

One of those "yeah, it's an emergency, but we'll change it back" things that never got changed back. Like the income tax, inheritance tax, phone tax...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 10:15 AM (llXky)

225 By the way, did anybody identify the spider in the coffee yet? It’s a juvenile facespider, not poisonous yet, but really really horny.

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2024 10:15 AM (NxC5+)

226 I have a spare key hidden out front, as well as a back door key in the detached garage. Not locking myself out!
Posted by: Back Door Man at March 09, 2024 10:09 AM (V5BDR)

That's not what the phrase is about, genius.

Posted by: Back Door Man's Frustrated Wife at March 09, 2024 10:16 AM (IydiK)

227 Good morning, MisHum, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at March 09, 2024 10:16 AM (JcnCJ)

228 The clock went all to hell when they invented railroad time.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 09, 2024 10:16 AM (aD39U)

229 Find out the specific color code and go to the local auto parts store for a little bottle of touch-up paint.

Posted by: davidt at March 09, 2024 10:16 AM (SYTee)

230 As of this week, after only 4 treatments, her light chain levels are already back to normal.
Posted by: Jordan61

That is excellent news. Congrats to you, your mom, and her providers.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 10:17 AM (B8kct)

231 > Most house locks are a simple rakeable type that require no real skill or ingenuity.
____________

Wi-Fi locks.... aka "SmartHome." All well and fine until the power's out.

Ask the guy who was locked out of his place. In winter. Due to a prolonged power outage. Both house and garage. LMFAO

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 09, 2024 10:17 AM (Q4IgG)

232 It was the most miserable 2 hours of my life until my wife got home.
Posted by: Montec
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Things start breaking after twenty minutes.

Posted by: From about that Time at March 09, 2024 10:18 AM (4780s)

233 That's not what the phrase is about, genius.
Posted by: Back Door Man's Frustrated Wife at March 09, 2024 10:16 AM (IydiK)

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LOL

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 09, 2024 10:18 AM (FzDG4)

234 Where is my pet spider ???

Posted by: runner at March 09, 2024 10:19 AM (V13WU)

235 I was shocked to find that a DEI leader at Hopkins would sound so.....stupid?

https://tinyurl.com/yzps7xkt

I was fortunate to know Hugh P. McCormick in real life for a number of years.

He would often entertain me with stories of World War Two, and his time on Sub Chasers.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 10:19 AM (a1415)

236 Noticed a scratch on my car today. Not super deep but more than just surface. Are there any products that you can buy to fix that that actually work? I know there’s a bazillion for sale but do any of them work? As an alternative to a detailer charging $400 to do it.
Posted by: Montec

It depends on the color. Auto parts stores have touch up paint that forms a hard shell, and if you can color match, it works. I would follow it up with some rubbing compound to blend it in.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 09, 2024 10:19 AM (+NgM6)

237 Wife is up. I'm in..
Posted by: Reforger

Glad to read you made it in before freezeing!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 10:20 AM (B8kct)

238 I like this new term, "cancel pig." Maybe it's not new, I've just never seen it before I saw it on the sidebar.

It's perfect.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 09, 2024 10:20 AM (OX9vb)

239 You know, to be more "diverse" and "inclusive."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 09, 2024 10:10 AM (BpYfr)

I'm still pissed at the switch to CE/BCE nonsense.

JUST LET US HAVE THIS ONE THING!!!

Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2024 10:20 AM (IydiK)

240 I going to go get a spare key made and stash it out here today.
Posted by: Reforger at March 09, 2024 10:05 AM (6Oqc/)

Mine is in the pill bottle marked "Slug Salt" in the green wooden mini-crate, should anyone need it...

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at March 09, 2024 10:20 AM (jN2/U)

241 Where is my pet spider ???
Posted by: runner at March 09, 2024 10:19 AM (V13WU)

Mein Fuhrer ... die Spinne ..

Posted by: G'rump928(c) tugs collar at March 09, 2024 10:20 AM (aD39U)

242 I once locked myself in a chicken coop in winter without my phone on me. Nobody else was home. It was the most miserable 2 hours of my life until my wife got home.

==

she got home an hour earlier, but could not think of the best, most expedient way to dispose of the body....

Posted by: runner at March 09, 2024 10:20 AM (V13WU)

243 The clock went all to hell when they invented railroad time.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

Well, yeah, but train collisions dropped dramatically.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 09, 2024 10:21 AM (+NgM6)

244 We don't have a wifi lock, but a battery powered keypad, as well as a keyhole for a real key.

I didn't think I would like it, but have grown fond of it.

If the batteries die, we use the key.

And each of us carries a key.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 10:22 AM (a1415)

245 When the fastest you could travel was by horse, and there was no telegraph, local noon was always local noon.

It was a simpler time, so to speak.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) tugs collar at March 09, 2024 10:23 AM (aD39U)

246 Ranch Style Beans, based in Fort Worth used to have a little banner on the can, announcing the beans were "Husband Pleasing", with a cute little cartoon smiling man's face.
Well, that went the way of the dodo about 30 years ago.
An early casualty of woke.
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at March 09, 2024 10:15 AM (jN2/U)

Huh. I only discovered RSB the last few years here out west. Apparently they never made it to the midwest.

I don't know what they put in them, and I don't care. For reasons I can't explain they are the best beans. I accidently bought some with a splash of jalapeno in them not too long ago. My tummy can't handle hot peppers anymore, but I ate it anyway.

Suffered later, but I don't care. I'm a rebel like that.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2024 10:23 AM (IydiK)

247 UTC was adopted in 1972 so it's too late for the cancel pigs to have an effect.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 10:13 AM (B8kct)
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UTC is based on GMT, so it's obviously a product of white supremacy. Look for them to move it to "Gaza Mean Time."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 09, 2024 10:24 AM (BpYfr)

248 The clock went all to hell when they invented railroad time.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 09, 2024 10:16 AM (aD39U)

I'm guessing it was the British who started that, no?

Posted by: dantesed at March 09, 2024 10:24 AM (88xKn)

249 When I ran away from home as a six year old, the only food I took was a can of RSB. And the meat cleaver. I guess I was going to open the can with it.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 09, 2024 10:25 AM (aD39U)

250 VIA @ 244-
do you have a keypad or combination on your safe?

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2024 10:25 AM (NxC5+)

251 Darnitall, reminds me that I have to buy new locks for all my doors. Never had to worry about it before because always had big dogs and kids and neighbors in and out. Hope I won't turn into one of those paranoid oldsters now. I really need a big old dog around.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 09, 2024 10:26 AM (MIKMs)

252 "do you have a keypad or combination on your safe?"

Yes.

And a physical key.

No wi-fi.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 10:26 AM (a1415)

253 When I ran away from home as a six year old, the only food I took was a can of RSB. And the meat cleaver. I guess I was going to open the can with it.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 09, 2024 10:25 AM (aD39U)
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Or maybe season the RSBs with some fresh hobo meat and make a nice stew?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 09, 2024 10:27 AM (BpYfr)

254 Prayers for all.

Posted by: Mick at March 09, 2024 10:27 AM (CfA7j)

255 When I ran away from home as a six year old, the only food I took was a can of RSB. And the meat cleaver. I guess I was going to open the can with it.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

Precocious kid, you took food and a weapon to get more!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 10:27 AM (B8kct)

256 When the fastest you could travel was by horse, and there was no telegraph, local noon was always local noon.

It was a simpler time, so to speak.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) tugs collar at March 09, 2024 10:23 AM (aD39U)

Human evolution being what it is, there's no doubt if the species lasts long enough, our modern tech will change the way our brains work, and memory will be one of the first things we lose.

I do wonder then, if people didn't have clocks before, or they weren't used by most people to order their days, how have we changed human functioning with them?

Is that part of the reason we're so f'd up as a species? Because too many people are running around, chasing the clock instead of doing what naturally comes with the rhythm of the day?

Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2024 10:28 AM (IydiK)

257 45 When the fastest you could travel was by horse, and there was no telegraph, local noon was always local noon.

I have a ceramic horse with a clock in it's stomach on my mantel.

Posted by: Neighsayer at March 09, 2024 10:28 AM (V5BDR)

258 Yes, they are the best beans. I used to pour a can over a
package of Beef Rice-a-Roni and tell the kids it was
"Cowboy Dinner".
Because they are so good, I overlooked the label change.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at March 09, 2024 10:29 AM (jN2/U)

259 I was shocked to find that a DEI leader at Hopkins would sound so.....stupid?

I assume you mean that sardonically. It was precisely what you, I, she, and Johns Hopkins expected from a DEI officer.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 09, 2024 10:29 AM (sNc8Y)

260 I seem to remember tarantulas in bunches of bananas.
Posted by: BignJames'

I may have mentioned before, all supermarkets get spiders in their bananas occasionally. There is such a thing as a banana spider, which isn't that big (3 inches or so) but sometimes we get some real monsters that look like the facehugger from 'Alien'. None are dangerous, but they all look pretty creepy.
You can tell when someone finds one from the hideous screaming from the produce department.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 09, 2024 10:29 AM (43xH1)

261 Precocious kid, you took food and a weapon to get more!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 10:27 AM (B8kct)

We lived at the edge of the wildlife refuge. Maybe I was also planning to use it as a hatchet. I managed to lose it though. I wonder if my mother is still baffled by what happened to her cleaver.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 09, 2024 10:29 AM (aD39U)

262 "I have a ceramic horse with a clock in it's stomach on my mantel."

I thought it was bad when a neighbor had a child with a dime in it's tummy.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 10:29 AM (a1415)

263 Darnitall, reminds me that I have to buy new locks for all my doors.
Posted by: mustbequantum

If the locks all work you can pull them take them to a place that sells the same brand and have them rekeyed.
Lowes and Home Depot will rekey for about 5 bucks each.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 10:29 AM (B8kct)

264 When I ran away from home as a six year old, the only food I took was a can of RSB. And the meat cleaver. I guess I was going to open the can with it.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

Very cool. (thinks back to the ONT) How long did you survive in the wilderness before they found you ???

Posted by: runner at March 09, 2024 10:30 AM (V13WU)

265 The clock went all to hell when they invented railroad time.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 09, 2024 10:16 AM (aD39U)

I'm guessing it was the British who started that, no?
Posted by: dantesed at March 09, 2024 10:24 AM (88xKn)

I don't think we blame the British enough, for what's wrong with this planet.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2024 10:30 AM (IydiK)

266 I'm still pissed at the switch to CE/BCE nonsense.

JUST LET US HAVE THIS ONE THING!!!

Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2024 10:20 AM (IydiK)
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I refuse to comply. You'll notice Walls of Men uses the traditional dating - it's right there in the title.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 10:30 AM (llXky)

267 Dear Horde may I ask for prayers for Sebastian R., an autistic 15 year old missing from his Hendersonville, Tn home since Feb. 26. His disappearance was the subject of a massive search which has now been scaled back. According to the news reports there's not much info to go on. When I saw his pictures in the news my heart just broke. Such a wonderful smile. I can't explain why this affecting so. Maybe because I have 2 young grandsons and one of them bears a slight resemblance to the missing boy. I don't know. Anyway, I know that your prayers helped me when my husband passed last summer so I thought I'd ask. Prayers for Sebastian and for all missing children.

Posted by: Tuna at March 09, 2024 10:30 AM (oaGWv)

268 "I assume you mean that sardonically. It was precisely what you, I, she, and Johns Hopkins expected from a DEI officer."

True dat!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 10:31 AM (a1415)

269 Very cool. (thinks back to the ONT) How long did you survive in the wilderness before they found you ???
Posted by: runner at March 09, 2024 10:30 AM (V13WU)

I'm sure I was back by dinner time.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 09, 2024 10:31 AM (aD39U)

270 Prayers up for Alla Youse !

Posted by: JT at March 09, 2024 10:31 AM (T4tVD)

271 Human evolution being what it is, there's no doubt if the species lasts long enough, our modern tech will change the way our brains work, and memory will be one of the first things we lose.
=====

Been working on a rant about the loss of memorization skills in the US. I really think it is one of those hardwired necessities for optimal brain function.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 09, 2024 10:31 AM (MIKMs)

272 G’rump928(c) @ 249-
I usually took some beans, a .22 rifle, my sheath knife, a hatchet, some rope and tent half, matches, and a 10” skillet. But I was going to be gone 2 or 3 days. And I was 12 years old.

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2024 10:31 AM (NxC5+)

273 The cat realized something was wrong and woke my wife up.
I owe you one buddy.

Posted by: Reforger at March 09, 2024 10:31 AM (6Oqc/)

274 I'm guessing it was the British who started that, no?

Posted by: dantesed at March 09, 2024 10:24 AM (88xKn)
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No, I think that was us. The UK isn't big enough to need more than one time zone.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 10:32 AM (llXky)

275 We lived at the edge of the wildlife refuge. Maybe I was also planning to use it as a hatchet. I managed to lose it though. I wonder if my mother is still baffled by what happened to her cleaver.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 09, 2024 10:29 AM (aD39U)

Prolly assumed beavers took it.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2024 10:32 AM (IydiK)

276 Jordan, happy for your Mom, but I have no idea what a light change level is or means.
I guess I'm happy about that.

Posted by: From about that Time at March 09, 2024 10:32 AM (4780s)

277 Happy Birthday Sharon !

Happy Birthday Vic !

Posted by: JT at March 09, 2024 10:32 AM (T4tVD)

278 Because too many people are running around, chasing the clock instead of doing what naturally comes with the rhythm of the day?
Posted by: BurtTC

The best vacation I ever had was on a small island in the Marshalls. No cell service to speak of, almost no television or radio. Get up with the sun, and go to bed when it went down. Second best was Yellowstone, which has almost no cell service.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 09, 2024 10:33 AM (+NgM6)

279 I thought it was bad when a neighbor had a child with a dime in it's tummy.

Big Guy still gets 10%.

Posted by: First Son at March 09, 2024 10:33 AM (V5BDR)

280 Happy Birthday Vic !
Posted by: JT at March 09, 2024 10:32 AM (T4tVD)

Is it the Great Old One's birthday?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 09, 2024 10:33 AM (aD39U)

281 "I thought it was bad when a neighbor had a child with a dime in it's tummy.

Big Guy still gets 10%."

Hey Joe....for you!

* Pulls penny out my ass*

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 10:34 AM (a1415)

282 Prolly assumed beavers took it.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2024 10:32 AM (IydiK)

Heh, Beaver's Cleaver.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 09, 2024 10:35 AM (aD39U)

283 The best vacation I ever had was on a small island in the Marshalls. No cell service to speak of, almost no television or radio. Get up with the sun, and go to bed when it went down. Second best was Yellowstone, which has almost no cell service.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 09, 2024 10:33 AM (+NgM6)

Those few times in my life when I wasn't chasing a clock, I noticed I was staying up later, getting up closer to noon.

I don't know if that means it's my natural cycle, but in those times I wasn't going to have sunlight as an influence, nor would the darkness have been, because I was indoors. Still, I wonder.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2024 10:37 AM (IydiK)

284 Thanks for the Thread MisHum !

Posted by: JT at March 09, 2024 10:37 AM (T4tVD)

285 I have more cleaning to do in the barn today and my back is already hurting. BBL

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 09, 2024 10:37 AM (aD39U)

286 >>> 273 The cat realized something was wrong and woke my wife up.
I owe you one buddy.
Posted by: Reforger at March 09, 2024 10:31 AM (6Oqc/)

You forgot to feed me!

Posted by: Reforger's cat at March 09, 2024 10:38 AM (llON8)

287 Clickbait ads I'd like to see:

People over 60 need to doo this one simple thing to lose weight. Number 6 will amaze you!

Posted by: Muldoon at March 09, 2024 10:38 AM (991eG)

288 In the 60s and into the 70s, before cable TV, an Outer Banks vacation was truly unconnected with media. I remember reading about people who got home from vacation after completely missing the Six Day War. You couldn't even get much of anything on the radio until after dark when the AM stations came in from long distances.

Posted by: Remote Viewer at March 09, 2024 10:38 AM (V5BDR)

289 Eromero, painted a perfect picture of you as a 12 year old.
Already made plane reservation for October. 🤠

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 09, 2024 10:39 AM (t/2Uw)

290
@unusual_whales
The American Dream now costs $3,455,305—that's the estimated lifetime cost of common milestones including marriage, two children, homes, healthcare, cars, and education, per Investopedia:

/ save your pennies, kids

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 09, 2024 10:39 AM (RKVpM)

291 ...something tickles your lip...

"Honey? I found your other eyelash!"

Posted by: Muldoon at March 09, 2024 10:40 AM (991eG)

292 In the 60s and into the 70s, before cable TV, an Outer Banks vacation was truly unconnected with media. I remember reading about people who got home from vacation after completely missing the Six Day War. You couldn't even get much of anything on the radio until after dark when the AM stations came in from long distances.

Posted by: Remote Viewer at March 09, 2024 10:38 AM (V5BDR)

One road in/out..Rt.12?...unless you took the ferry.

Posted by: BignJames at March 09, 2024 10:41 AM (AwYPR)

293 Still waiting.

Currently waiting on the investigators to decide on the date for a cadaver dog search of the suspect's former property...

Posted by: Muldoon at March 09, 2024 10:41 AM (991eG)

294 In the 60s and into the 70s, before cable TV, an Outer Banks vacation was truly unconnected with media. I remember reading about people who got home from vacation after completely missing the Six Day War. You couldn't even get much of anything on the radio until after dark when the AM stations came in from long distances.
Posted by: Remote Viewer at March 09, 2024 10:38 AM (V5BDR)

Takes me back to when we were kids, taking a weekend (or longer), staying in the middle of nowhere... one time we came home, older siblings weren't going with us on those trips, one of my sisters comes outside as we're getting home, tells us about a neighborhood tragedy, where someone had been accidentally shot and killed.

First time it ever occurred to me that a person roughly around my age could die. And it changed after the fact, my whole view of the week we had away from it all.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2024 10:42 AM (IydiK)

295 I owe you one buddy.
Posted by: Reforger
===
All you owe him is the feeding he was looking for. You were entirely incidental.

Posted by: From about that Time at March 09, 2024 10:43 AM (4780s)

296 "Currently waiting on the investigators to decide on the date for a cadaver dog search of the suspect's former property.."

You are more patient that I would be.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 10:43 AM (a1415)

297 I usually took some beans, a .22 rifle, my sheath knife, a hatchet, some rope and tent half, matches, and a 10” skillet. But I was going to be gone 2 or 3 days. And I was 12 years old.
Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2024 10:31 AM (NxC5+)

We used to call that camping.
I built my own place it the field behind my house when I was 7. Hole in the ground with a piece of old plywood on it. Ran away one day and that's where I went. So my dad (knowing right were I was) ran away too. Came out and climbed into my hole and had a heart to heart with me. Talked for an hour or so.
Told me I could stay if I wanted to and left. I was home about 5 minutes later.

Posted by: Reforger at March 09, 2024 10:44 AM (6Oqc/)

298
@TheBabylonBee
7 More Gun-Free Tactics To Defend Your Home

https://t.ly/4SAIv

3:40 video

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 09, 2024 10:45 AM (RKVpM)

299 "In the 60s and into the 70s, before cable TV, an Outer Banks vacation was truly unconnected with media. I remember reading about people who got home from vacation after completely missing the Six Day War. You couldn't even get much of anything on the radio until after dark when the AM stations came in from long distances."

We vacationed there in the 80's and 90's. My parents had a lovely seafront home in Duck. It was heaven and still disconnected enough from the real world as to make returning home a shock to the system.

Posted by: Tuna at March 09, 2024 10:45 AM (oaGWv)

300 "Currently waiting on the investigators to decide on the date for a cadaver dog search of the suspect's former property.."
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You are more patient that I would be.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 10:43 AM (a1415)

I think I missed the beginning part of this story.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2024 10:46 AM (IydiK)

301 Prayers up Muldoon !

Posted by: JT at March 09, 2024 10:47 AM (T4tVD)

302 Sharon(willow’s apprentice)@ 289-
As a 12 year old, I could do that, but not allowed today. Mrs. E says I’m too old.

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2024 10:48 AM (NxC5+)

303 "You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love."

Galatians 5:13

Posted by: Marcus T at March 09, 2024 10:48 AM (MKu/Q)

304 I really think it [memory] is one of those hardwired necessities for optimal brain function.

*******

It's just one of several necessities. I can't recall the others

Posted by: Muldoon at March 09, 2024 10:49 AM (991eG)

305 Burt, it's not a story, it's an ongoing saga. We are all waiting for it's resolution.

Posted by: From about that Time at March 09, 2024 10:49 AM (4780s)

306 I never pondered running away from home

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 10:50 AM (fwDg9)

307 Currently waiting on the investigators to decide on the date for a cadaver dog search of the suspect's former property...

Posted by: Muldoon at March 09, 2024 10:41 AM (991eG)
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Patience is a virtue.

I see your daughter in the prayers, have you looked at the ear piercing or acupuncture? Both helped my wife a lot. She had a migraine that lasted for 10 months before finally stopping. That and botox injections around her head.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 10:52 AM (llXky)

308 I watched a Babylon Bee podcast/interview with Gina Carano last night. Very interesting. She seems like a nice person who has straightened herself out. After getting cancelled by DEIsney, she went through a tough time, and finally just decided to let God do his thing.

A week later, she was approached by Elon Musk's lawyers, saying they were interested in defending her

Hmmm....

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 09, 2024 10:54 AM (ufFY8)

309 But I was going to be gone 2 or 3 days. And I was 12 years old.
Posted by: Eromero

*********

That happened to me once, my parents dropped me off in the woods. It took me a couple days to figure out they had merely moved to a new house.

In a neighboring city.

Under assumed names.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 09, 2024 10:54 AM (991eG)

310 306 I never pondered running away from home
Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 10:50 AM (fwDg9)

I have and still do

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 10:56 AM (QXQ4l)

311 Mornin.

Religion question.

Would it be fair to describe the Gnostics as the Tumblristas of their day?

Posted by: Robert at March 09, 2024 10:56 AM (KxYwl)

312 Anyone else think that these internet ads are designed to turn us all into hypochondriacs?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 09, 2024 10:57 AM (t/2Uw)

313 I think I missed the beginning part of this story.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2024 10:46 AM (IydiK)

I think I dreamed the middle part of the story because I thought the cadaver dogs had already found a likely spot and the digging part of the process was waiting for the ground to thaw.

Posted by: Emmie, rock'n'roll widow at March 09, 2024 10:57 AM (Sf2cq)

314 That happened to me once, my parents dropped me off in the woods. It took me a couple days to figure out they had merely moved to a new house.

In a neighboring city.

Under assumed names.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 09, 2024 10:54 AM (991eG)

I knew a guy that actually happened to. He was not a kid anymore, in years, but had never really grown up. He had been adopted, and the adoptive parents just up and left one day. Took everything with them of course, but still, he was left, and never found them again.

Needless to say, this wasn't the mentally healthiest person on the planet before all that, and certainly wasn't after.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2024 10:58 AM (IydiK)

315 What time zone do they use on the ISS? Do they just go with GMT?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 09, 2024 10:03 AM

Yes. Which means that any ground support in Houston for the day shift in the ISS has to work third shift because 8AM in GMT is either 1AM or 2AM Houston time.

It causes occasional troubles.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at March 09, 2024 10:59 AM (iZEhM)

316 Good Morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2024 10:59 AM (u82oZ)

317 It seems like starting in the eighties maybe, all advertisements turned to inspiring fear of dying or fear of missing out.
Because I blame everything on the lawyers, I have decided it's because positive assertions can be sued for reliance upon, whereas fearfulness is all on the viewer.

Posted by: From about that Time at March 09, 2024 11:00 AM (4780s)

318 "Wait a second", you might say. "Didn't the cadaver dogs find strong, nay compelling, evidence of human remains back at the end of October?" you might ask.

"Why yes, yes they did." I might reply.

"But you just said they have not set a date for a cadaver dog search", you might rejoinder.

"Yeah. You don't want to know..."😳

Posted by: Muldoon at March 09, 2024 11:01 AM (991eG)

319 I have a very vague recollection of trying some beef gravy once that, I believe, my stepfather made by adding coffee. I seem to remember that it was pretty good.

Posted by: Paco at March 09, 2024 11:01 AM (njExo)

320 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S LIKE ALL IN THE FAMILY.

https://tinyurl.com/y92mctuz

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at March 09, 2024 11:02 AM (FVME7)

321 Gubshow today. GOD blessed Texas!

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2024 11:02 AM (NxC5+)

322 I thought it was bad when a neighbor had a child with a dime in it's tummy.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2024 10:29 AM (a1415)

Albert and the Jubilee Sovereign

https://tinyurl.com/5n92rxzn

Posted by: Kindltot at March 09, 2024 11:02 AM (D7oie)

323 10
' I'm trying to imagine alexthechick's reaction upon finding that in her coffee mug....'

Here's mine
Carefully removes spider from mug. Splatters spider under heel of shoe.
"That coffee's for me!" Resumes drinking.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 09, 2024 11:04 AM (roH4R)

324 I have a very vague recollection of trying some beef gravy once that, I believe, my stepfather made by adding coffee. I seem to remember that it was pretty good.

Posted by: Paco at March 09, 2024 11:01 AM (njExo)

Know a guy that puts day old coffee in his chili...no carrots.

Posted by: BignJames at March 09, 2024 11:04 AM (AwYPR)

325 I never pondered running away from home

I have pondered all my siblings running away from home.

Posted by: t-bird at March 09, 2024 11:04 AM (bVjdw)

326 "Yeah. You don't want to know..."😳
Posted by: Muldoon at March 09, 2024 11:01 AM (991eG)

I want to know so bad but understand and can wait.

Posted by: Reforger at March 09, 2024 11:05 AM (fKSGo)

327
2.) They are more loyal to their own faction, and won't sell each other out to Alphabet nearly as readily - so Alphabet can't 100% count on those tactics being effective, where they could be leveraged.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 09, 2024 08:55 AM (0FoWg)

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I think Alphabet is viewed as American and thus and easy target. Same with Facebook.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 09, 2024 11:05 AM (++4z6)

328
Here's mine
Carefully removes spider from mug. Splatters spider under heel of shoe.
"That coffee's for me!" Resumes drinking.

You forgot to squeeze out all the coffee previously consumed by the spider. Wasteful.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 11:05 AM (B8kct)

329 Here you go Eromero

https://youtu.be/mbH60wCO-Yw?si=5e3exUvdFurUx0Ew

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 09, 2024 11:06 AM (t/2Uw)

330 It's just one of several necessities. I can't recall the others
Posted by: Muldoon at March 09, 2024 10:49 AM (991eG)

Clean underwear and a spare handkerchief, I think.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 09, 2024 11:06 AM (D7oie)

331 Lot’s of young men ran away from home during the 60s. Jimmy Carter let them return.

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2024 11:06 AM (NxC5+)

332 I never pondered running away from home
Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 10:50 AM (fwDg9)

Dad said he was going to trade me for a pony.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 09, 2024 11:07 AM (D7oie)

333 https://tinyurl.com/3vf72f7v

Here's the proper one.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 09, 2024 11:07 AM (t/2Uw)

334 "You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love."

Galatians 5:13
Posted by: Marcus T

Right wing Christian nationalism MAGA extremism.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 09, 2024 11:07 AM (FVME7)

335 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 12h
JUST IN - Wisconsin man named ‘Deez-Nuts’ arrested, charged with battery - WFRV
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Police are also questioning his brother, Bofa.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 09, 2024 11:08 AM (2yu8s)

336 I threatened to run away when I was about six. Mom offered to help me pack.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 09, 2024 11:09 AM (u73oe)

337 I kept a packed go-bag visible in my bedroom whenever mom and dad "crossed the line."

They were amused.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 09, 2024 11:09 AM (RIvkX)

338 >>I never pondered running away from home

Me neither...until about a year into my first marriage.

Posted by: bed head at March 09, 2024 11:09 AM (Y1sOo)

339 Time for a smoke...coffee w/knockoff kahlua,

Posted by: BignJames at March 09, 2024 11:10 AM (AwYPR)

340 When I retire I'm going to be on MAGA-Ken time. High noon locally will be 12:00pm for me.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 09, 2024 11:10 AM (++4z6)

341 219
Moved from CST to EST a month ago and I'm still trying to figure it out. With work still being on CST I'm still living by that time. Bottom line I don't know when to eat lunch lol.

Posted by: jhawk90 at March 09, 2024 10:14 AM (ggOdn)
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In Africa lunchtime is 1PM-2PM then work until 4:30 or 5:00pm. It took me a long time to get used to having lunch at 12 noon especially if I had a snack at 10:30AM (breaktime).

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #162 DST at March 09, 2024 11:11 AM (qfLjt)

342 I have a very vague recollection of trying some beef gravy once that, I believe, my stepfather made by adding coffee. I seem to remember that it was pretty good.
Posted by: Paco at March 09, 2024 11:01 AM (njExo)
===

Redeye gravy

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 09, 2024 11:12 AM (RIvkX)

343 New York Post
@nypost
Trans golfer Hailey Davidson banned from women’s pro tour

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Yeah? Well, he'll always be a dumb c*nt to me.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 09, 2024 11:12 AM (FVME7)

344 My son showed me how to get on Chrome. Now I don't have to read the stupid links Micosoft Bing sends me, because I really don't need to know the story of "I was abrosexual for 30 years and didn' t know it "I'm "fraysexual". I don't care what bizarre name you call your brand of sexuality. Go away! along with the articles, How do you know you're dating a narcissist?" I'm not. Aaaaaargh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2024 11:13 AM (Ki//m)

345 Have a great day, everyone.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2024 11:13 AM (u82oZ)

346 Dad said he was going to trade me for a pony.
Posted by: Kindltot

**********

Kindltot's dad: Son, we got a pony for you.

Kindltot: "Yayyyy!"

Kindltot's dad: "...and a second round draft pick."

Kindltot: 😢

Posted by: Muldoon at March 09, 2024 11:13 AM (991eG)

347
Religion question.

Would it be fair to describe the Gnostics as the Tumblristas of their day?

Posted by: Robert at March 09, 2024 10:56 AM (KxYwl)
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No, they'd be Manichees.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 11:13 AM (llXky)

348 I started running away as soon as I could reach the hook on the garden gate.

The first thing I always did was take off my shoes and socks, so my parents learned to look at the nearest store selling shoes, because whoever found me always bought me a pair!

Once it was cops in Rapid City. I remember them driving me around looking for the rest of my family.

Still love going barefoot.

Posted by: Wenda at March 09, 2024 11:13 AM (G1K9S)

349 I have a very vague recollection of trying some beef gravy once that, I believe, my stepfather made by adding coffee. I seem to remember that it was pretty good.
Posted by: Paco at March 09, 2024 11:01 AM (njExo)

Red-Eye gravy, it is not bad at all.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 09, 2024 11:13 AM (D7oie)

350 Mom threw lib little sis and me out of her car on Queens Blvd when I was about seven. The only reason she came back was her mother was riding shotgun and made her turn the car around,

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 09, 2024 11:14 AM (RIvkX)

351 I'm in the group that thinks having the clocks go back to standard time in the winter is fine because having more light helps me fully wake up and be able to do my job, but it is nice to have more evening daylight when the days are longer.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 09, 2024 11:14 AM (wTs+0)

352 There was a $6 billion "mental health" bond on the ballot in California Tuesday.

As of yesterday, 57% of the vote had been counted (it's still too close to call).

One of the striking characteristics of blue states is how incompetent their governmental bureaucracies are.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 09, 2024 11:15 AM (YAtuc)

353 "Yeah. You don't want to know..."😳
Posted by: Muldoon at March 09, 2024 11:01 AM (991eG)

Oh dear. Hope all is resolved soon.

Posted by: Emmie, rock'n'roll widow at March 09, 2024 11:15 AM (Sf2cq)

354 BigNJames @ 339- knockoff Kailua?
I jus made a cup with Appalachian Butter Pecan Sippin’ Cream. Second breakfast.

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2024 11:15 AM (NxC5+)

355 Dad said he was going to trade me for a pony.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 09, 2024 11:07 AM (D7oie)
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My father tried to trade his brother for a puppy.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 11:15 AM (llXky)

356 Good morning everyone. Prayers for all intentions - those requested and those known but to God.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 09, 2024 11:16 AM (51G5w)

357 One of the striking characteristics of blue states is how incompetent their governmental bureaucracies are.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 09, 2024 11:15 AM (YAtuc)
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If it's on purpose, it isn't incompetence. Multi-day vote counts are not necessary unless you want to cheat.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 11:16 AM (llXky)

358 Yeah? Well, he'll always be a dumb c*nt to me.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 09, 2024 11:12 AM (FVME7)

Yeah, but he won't be allowed to drive from the red tees

Posted by: Kindltot at March 09, 2024 11:17 AM (D7oie)

359 When I was six, I told Mom I was going to run away. She asked me where I was going to eat. I told her Woolworth's.

Funniest thing she ever heard.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 09, 2024 11:18 AM (51G5w)

360 Kindltot: 😢

Posted by: Muldoon at March 09, 2024 11:13 AM (991eG)

Oh, I was outraged, because he would have had the pony and I would have wound up in a stable somewhere.

foolish me, I wasn't thinking that if I lived in a stable there would have been all sorts of ponies there.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 09, 2024 11:19 AM (D7oie)

361 Real Time with Bill Maher
@RealTimers
Robert De Niro on Trump: "I'd never play him as an actor, because I can't see any good in him. Nothing."

-
Once Upon a Time In America was on last night and I considered watching it but then I thought De Niro.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 09, 2024 11:19 AM (FVME7)

362 Tonypete, we lived near a Holiday Inn when my little brother was about six. They advertised that "kids eat free!", so when he "ran away" he told my parents that was where he would eat.

Posted by: skywch at March 09, 2024 11:20 AM (uqhmb)

363 *Dad said he was going to trade me for a pony.*

https://youtu.be/U4NjRLqSc2Q

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at March 09, 2024 11:20 AM (dg+HA)

364 Real Time with Bill Maher
@RealTimers
Robert De Niro on Trump: "I'd never play him as an actor, because I can't see any good in him. Nothing."

"Who the hell wants to listen to actors speak?"

-- Zombie Harry Warner

Posted by: Tonypete at March 09, 2024 11:21 AM (51G5w)

365 Robert De Niro on Trump: "I'd never play him as an actor, because I can't see any good in him. Nothing."

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Once Upon a Time In America was on last night and I considered watching it but then I thought De Niro.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 09, 2024 11:19 AM (FVME7)

Considering all the bloodthirsty murderers and wife beaters DeNiro has played, I think that says quite a bit about what he thinks is good.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2024 11:22 AM (mpzK0)

366 There was a $6 billion "mental health" bond on the ballot in California Tuesday.

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Are they trying to stamp it out?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 09, 2024 11:22 AM (FVME7)

367 Robert de Niro ain’t tall enough nor man enough.
-President Donald Trump

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2024 11:22 AM (NxC5+)

368 skywch - smart brother!!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 09, 2024 11:22 AM (51G5w)

369 I want to know so bad but understand and can wait.
Posted by: Reforger

******

Previously on "The Curious Disappearance"

2008: Muldoon's FIL, Jack, disappears. Jack's neighbor goes on the lam
15 years of no police investigation
2023 New owner of Jack's neighbor's property contacts Muldoon, offers to help
Fall 2023: Missus M. locates archeologist/ K9 handler who volunteers to search property
Oct 2023: Four different cadaver dogs show strong trained response on a specific spot within the property. Archeologist plans to doo GPR survey to hone in.
Jann 2024 Archeologist flakes out, says, "Nah Bro"
Now: CBI takes over, plans cadaver dog search for sometime this spring. So back to square zero.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 09, 2024 11:23 AM (991eG)

370
foolish me, I wasn't thinking that if I lived in a stable there would have been all sorts of ponies there.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 09, 2024 11:19 AM (D7oie)
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I never wanted a pony. My aunt, who is only 12 years older than me, had a horse and did the show-jumping stuff as a teenager, so I have vague early memories of mud and trying to avoid falling down in the horse dung. Unhappy memories.

Later on a friend bought a farm, got some horses so his third wife could do dressage, offered to teach me to ride. Not my cup tea. When she left him, he sold the horses, pulled down the fences and put up a shooting range.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 09, 2024 11:23 AM (llXky)

371 We have a NOOD but haven't found a way in on my phone

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 11:25 AM (fwDg9)

372 Re: Europe and techlords, one thing I'll give the Euros for is that they actually enforce their laws. The EU charter is like 10,000 pages long so everything's illegal, but if you're not a good little serf there WILL be consequences even/especially if you're loaded. In America, everything's illegal as well but everything is also negotiable and ultimately decided by lawyers and lobbyists. Such an arrangement favors the techlord approach of doing whatever feels good at the time and sorting it out with the authorities later if called on it.

Also, trade protectionism isn't a dirty word over there like it is here so there's nothing objectionable about throwing the book at foreign interlopers to give the local guy a fighting chance.

tl, dr: EU is the Fourth Reich and it is ruled by the noble houses of Siemens and Bosch.

Posted by: CppThis at March 09, 2024 11:25 AM (PZvjL)

373 Entry takes you back to Tech Thread

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 11:26 AM (fwDg9)

374 April 2024: Muldoon asks new owner of property if he would like to take up gardening, I know the perfect spot. I can set my Rototiller to the "shallow grave" depth setting.

We can beat the dog team by 2 weeks.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 09, 2024 11:26 AM (991eG)

375 Sharp as a tack!

RNC Research
@RNCResearch
BIDEN: "Pennsylvania, I have a message for you: send me to Congress!" 😬

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 09, 2024 11:26 AM (FVME7)

376 foolish me, I wasn't thinking that if I lived in a stable there would have been all sorts of ponies there.
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So you're not from prewar Krakow.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 09, 2024 11:27 AM (2yu8s)

377 Nood KT thread is jacked up. Takes you back to Tech Thread.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 09, 2024 11:27 AM (ju2Fy)

378 >>> Know a guy that puts day old coffee in his chili...no carrots.
Posted by: BignJames

Lt or dark roast?
Dark might give it a smokey tone.

I just throw in chipotle peppers.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 09, 2024 11:29 AM (cOq4q)

379 Just looked out the window.
Birdbath status: in use. No wonder it has to be filled every day, there must have 15 finches in and around it.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 09, 2024 11:29 AM (B8kct)

380 Nood

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 09, 2024 11:29 AM (u73oe)

381 BIDEN: "Pennsylvania, I have a message for you: send me to Congress!" 😬
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And he also said that in Congress he would see that Roe vs. Wade would become the law of the land again. WTF??

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 09, 2024 11:29 AM (2yu8s)

382 Nood but a link in would be nice.

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 11:31 AM (fwDg9)

383 I think it's fixed now

Posted by: Skip at March 09, 2024 11:32 AM (fwDg9)

384 New thread link

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=408628

Posted by: Muldoon at March 09, 2024 11:33 AM (991eG)

385 384 New thread link
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Like I'm going to trust that link!

Click it and next thing you know, you're in a Yoko Ono nude shot!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 09, 2024 11:38 AM (2yu8s)

386 This is the Best Biden.

Posted by: Butthead at March 09, 2024 11:40 AM (w6EFb)

387 It seems like starting in the eighties maybe, all advertisements turned to inspiring fear of dying or fear of missing out.
Because I blame everything on the lawyers, I have decided it's because positive assertions can be sued for reliance upon, whereas fearfulness is all on the viewer.
Posted by: From about that Time at March 09, 2024 11:00 AM (4780s)

That's around the time where lawyers and drug companies were finally permitted to advertise in the mass media. Before that time, lawyers were permitted to place ads in the Yellow Pages. No advertising in mass media either for Pharmaceutical companies.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at March 09, 2024 11:41 AM (iODuv)

388 Click it and next thing you know, you're in a Yoko Ono nude shot!
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 09, 2024 11:38 AM

With or without sound track?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 09, 2024 11:43 AM (a3Q+t)

389 In my barn cleaning, I have uncovered the JD riding mover that I inherited years ago, I think I am going to make it run.

IIRC, the mower part isn't working but I can use it as a donkey to pull the big cart around.

I am getting lazy in my dotage.

So, off to buy a new battery.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 09, 2024 11:55 AM (aD39U)

390 Once Upon a Time In America was on last night and I considered watching it but then I thought De Niro.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 09, 2024 11:19 AM (FVME7)

You should though. It is enjoyable and DeNiro's part is really minor, almost a cameo.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 09, 2024 11:57 AM (aD39U)

391 BigNJames @ 339- knockoff Kailua?

I jus made a cup with Appalachian Butter Pecan Sippin’ Cream. Second breakfast.

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2024 11:15 AM (NxC5+)

Cafe de Oro....<half price Kahlua...not bad. Gonna' try making "home made".

Posted by: BignJames at March 09, 2024 12:00 PM (AwYPR)

392 Oh wait, I was thinking of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Yeah, DeNiro is a main part of the other one. But on the plus side, James Woods! Prime Elizabeth McGovern, and Jennifer Connelly in her first movie role.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 09, 2024 12:14 PM (aD39U)

393 I used to be a regular lurker here. But now every time I come here I'll remember the spider in the cup, so I can't come here anymore.

Posted by: former_lurker at March 09, 2024 01:18 PM (vVLqS)

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