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Tansey untitled1.jpg


Untitled
Mark Tansey

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




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1 Uh Oh...

Would Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 16, 2024 09:30 AM (cDEsv)

2 1st?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 09:30 AM (9yWhg)

3 Not first.


That canoe=Biden's America.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 09:31 AM (9yWhg)

4 Timely and prophetic?

Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 16, 2024 09:31 AM (w61ve)

5 "The ultimate canoeing accident" -- How many bangsticks were lost?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 16, 2024 09:31 AM (7fElN)

6 I'd hang that in the Federal Reserve.

Posted by: t-bird at April 16, 2024 09:32 AM (yZv1m)

7 The otters have been culled.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 09:32 AM (9yWhg)

8 So, Gravity; we meet again.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at April 16, 2024 09:32 AM (MvF+J)

9 The tragedy of canoe accidents.

Posted by: BignJames at April 16, 2024 09:32 AM (AwYPR)

10 Great metaphor for the US economy since the Junta was installed

Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2024 09:32 AM (ibTVg)

11 And there were no survivors.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2024 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

12 I can't find the man in the boat.

Posted by: My 12 year old self at April 16, 2024 09:32 AM (dg+HA)

13 Amateurs use canoes. Experts use barrels!

Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2024 09:32 AM (ibTVg)

14 There went my guns.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 16, 2024 09:33 AM (ENQN6)

15 Why is it the little man in the boat and not the little woman?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2024 09:33 AM (ibTVg)

16 Cue the banjo music...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 16, 2024 09:33 AM (7fElN)

17 Reminds me of the scene in "Last of the Mohicans" where they push their canoes over the waterfall.

Posted by: Tuna at April 16, 2024 09:33 AM (oaGWv)

18 Untitled is also UnCaptained !

Posted by: JT at April 16, 2024 09:33 AM (T4tVD)

19 Stick in lower left corner mocks the canoe's predicament.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at April 16, 2024 09:33 AM (MvF+J)

20 Bummer that it's untitled. He could have named it "Ship of State" and been prophetic.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 09:33 AM (HnUIn)

21 I like the repetition of imagery between the dangling canoe and the stick on the cliff at lower left.

Posted by: Kris at April 16, 2024 09:34 AM (OyyDO)

22 It's got a photographic quality with the lighting. Beautiful work.

Posted by: t-bird at April 16, 2024 09:34 AM (yZv1m)

23 Lewis and Clark unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Breaking News at April 16, 2024 09:34 AM (dg+HA)

24 Row row row your boat
Gently over the waterfall...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2024 09:34 AM (ibTVg)

25 I'm glad that it's unoccupied.

I hope the occupant was able to make it to shore, and isn't flailing around just out of frame...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 09:34 AM (HnUIn)

26 17 Reminds me of the scene in "Last of the Mohicans" where they push their canoes over the waterfall.
Posted by: Tuna at April 16, 2024 09:33 AM (oaGWv)
******
That was a good movie. Loved the soundtrack too.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2024 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

27 Would not hang

...

out in that boat.

Posted by: Axeman at April 16, 2024 09:34 AM (krQz2)

28 "Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

Title suggestion

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2024 09:34 AM (cCVOS)

29 Go through the trouble panting a canoe going over a waterfall and not labeling it?
Where are the passengers?
Where is this located?

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2024 09:34 AM (M/bSR)

30 It is a little strange that the artist went with "Untitled" as the name of this piece.

Any of us Morons can easily come up with clever titles.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 16, 2024 09:35 AM (7fElN)

31 Untitled





Titled: Republican Party

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 09:35 AM (/SITW)

32 A tipping canoe.

Tyler, too?

Posted by: Doof at April 16, 2024 09:35 AM (JunzL)

33 Something something cabin boys something comforted something.

Posted by: Clutch your pearls at April 16, 2024 09:36 AM (dg+HA)

34 Slowly, I turned....

Posted by: Niagara Falls at April 16, 2024 09:36 AM (V5BDR)

35 A tipping canoe.

Tyler, too?
Posted by: Doof at April 16, 2024 09:35 AM (JunzL)
++++
*snort*

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 09:36 AM (HnUIn)

36 Morning.

The depiction of the moment we lost all our guns in that tragic canoeing accident.

Would hang.

Posted by: Robert at April 16, 2024 09:36 AM (iAg1U)

37 "Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

Title suggestion
Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2024 09:34 AM (cCVOS)
---
Alternate title:

"WHEEEEEEE!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 16, 2024 09:36 AM (7fElN)

38 I can't find the man in the boat.
Posted by: My 12 year old self at April 16, 2024 09:32 AM (dg+HA)


Delores!!!

Posted by: Doof - with the obligatory Seinfeld reference at April 16, 2024 09:37 AM (JunzL)

39 Tippy canoe.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 16, 2024 09:37 AM (vtyCZ)

40 "Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

Title suggestion
Posted by: Lizzy


"Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"
Sam Kinison

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 09:37 AM (/SITW)

41 ******
That was a good movie. Loved the soundtrack too.

Try this version

https://youtu.be/5VIH0QIrqdE

Posted by: 40 Fingers at April 16, 2024 09:38 AM (dg+HA)

42 Remarkable painting, catching a wooden boat just at the moment of crisis. Two minutes later it was probably twisted sideways, and broken against rocks.

While this painting is not anywhere near as technically accomplished as much of the art to which CBD has introduced us, I admire the action portrayed, the natural surroundings, and I would definitely hang.

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 16, 2024 09:38 AM (0/IAB)

43 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around.
Dang...That is one serious water hazard. Speaking of...it's Geezer Gold Tuesday! Be sure to rub the bellies of your favorite golfing geezer! Oh...wait. That's nurse's tummy thing for her cat. Never mind.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 16, 2024 09:38 AM (W/lyH)

44 That was a good movie. Loved the soundtrack too.

In the remake Magua will seize Hawkeye as his bride, and while Cora Munro will track him down and beat him up in their final show down Hawkeye will instead save Magua and say he's actually always known he was a woman inside and they will walk off into the sunset in each other's arms.

/Hollywood call me

Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2024 09:38 AM (ibTVg)

45 If you turn it sideways [I'm using a laptop], it looks like it's going upriver!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 16, 2024 09:38 AM (vtyCZ)

46 Boring, with no redeeming coloration. Would. Not. Hang.

Posted by: Gref at April 16, 2024 09:38 AM (5fDan)

47 The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 09:38 AM (9yWhg)

48 I feel like this painting would be the spark of a twilight zone episode or Stephen King short story.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2024 09:38 AM (cCVOS)

49 They used every part of the canoe.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 16, 2024 09:39 AM (CIS44)

50 Reminds me of the scene in "Last of the Mohicans" where they push their canoes over the waterfall.

Posted by: Tuna
--------------------------------

That was filmed near Asheville.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 16, 2024 09:39 AM (fv27Y)

51 The waterfall was angry that day, my friends...

Posted by: George Costanza at April 16, 2024 09:39 AM (dg+HA)

52 Class 5, at least.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2024 09:39 AM (XeU6L)

53 The title of this one should have been "Long Walk Back to the Truck"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2024 09:39 AM (J2vNu)

54 Is this a metaphor for our country in 2024?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at April 16, 2024 09:39 AM (BHrzb)

55 Remarkable painting, catching a wooden boat just at the moment of crisis. Two minutes later it was probably twisted sideways, and broken against rocks.


It took down the Francis Scott Key bridge.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 09:39 AM (9yWhg)

56 Robert - Good morning

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2024 09:39 AM (XeU6L)

57 "Wherever you go, I will find you!"
Hawkeye

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2024 09:39 AM (M/bSR)

58 Or "How Old Is That Map You Had Us Using???"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2024 09:40 AM (J2vNu)

59 If titled, it should be “Not A Good Day”.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 16, 2024 09:40 AM (nvtOt)

60 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 09:40 AM (vf0Uk)

61 We assume the canoe is falling but how do we not know it isn't swimming upstream to spawn?

Posted by: Robert at April 16, 2024 09:40 AM (iAg1U)

62 Suggested title: Tie up yer fukkin boat, fool.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 16, 2024 09:40 AM (pohLc)

63 "No, dipshit. It's 'over the falls in a BARREL.'"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 09:41 AM (vf0Uk)

64 Good morning
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2024 09:39 AM (XeU6L)

Morning, Mistah Hammah!

Posted by: Robert at April 16, 2024 09:41 AM (iAg1U)

65 Whoever had bowline duty is getting chewed out good.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at April 16, 2024 09:41 AM (MvF+J)

66 Is that an AR-15 in the bottom front??

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 16, 2024 09:41 AM (vtyCZ)

67 The passengers woke up in the Land of the Lost...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 16, 2024 09:41 AM (7fElN)

68 The Invisible Man suddenly realizes that his superpower is pretty much useless in this situation.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 16, 2024 09:41 AM (T+Iwg)

69 In West Virginia we call this "Tuesday."

Posted by: Ace Raft Company at April 16, 2024 09:42 AM (dg+HA)

70 Experts use barrels!
Posted by: 18-1



I ain't goin' over no waterfall, fella.

Posted by: The Barrel at April 16, 2024 09:42 AM (9yWhg)

71 https://youtu.be/5VIH0QIrqdE
Posted by: 40 Fingers at April 16, 2024 09:38 AM (dg+HA)
*****
Nice.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2024 09:42 AM (NpAcC)

72 We assume the canoe is falling but how do we not know it isn't swimming upstream to spawn?
Posted by: Robert at April 16, 2024 09:40 AM (iAg1U)



Because California would've killed them all off in the name of saving da earf by now.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 09:42 AM (vf0Uk)

73 This could depict a moment in a Western, or a post-Rev. War story in Ohio (which was then "the West" to the original thirteen colonies). The hero and his woman secured their canoe farther upriver. While they were making love under a sycamore, the devilish Iroquois Indian Famous Frog stole up and cut the rope, stranding them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2024 09:43 AM (J2vNu)

74 The only thing missing is Greta.

Posted by: How dare you! at April 16, 2024 09:44 AM (dg+HA)

75 Thought the artist's name was familiar. His "Innocent Eye Test" was featured in my art history class many moons ago. Very amusing painting.

Posted by: Tuna at April 16, 2024 09:44 AM (oaGWv)

76 --------------------------------

That was filmed near Asheville.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 16, 2024 09:39 AM (fv27Y)

I seem to recall there was a good bit of squawk about the land cleared for the Fort William-Henry scenes that was silenced by the extremely quick rehabilitation of the site.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 16, 2024 09:45 AM (T+Iwg)

77 That boat seems to have lost its paddles! (And paddlers).

Posted by: Piper at April 16, 2024 09:45 AM (ZdaMQ)

78 I don't see Borimirs body. Would hang though

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 16, 2024 09:45 AM (nYX8q)

79 "Google says this way is the fastest"

Posted by: t-bird at April 16, 2024 09:45 AM (OqC0L)

80 42 Remarkable painting, catching a wooden boat just at the moment of crisis. Two minutes later it was probably twisted sideways, and broken against rocks.

While this painting is not anywhere near as technically accomplished as much of the art to which CBD has introduced us, I admire the action portrayed, the natural surroundings, and I would definitely hang.
Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 16, 2024 09:38 AM (0/IAB)

I like the lack of any humanity to provide context. Like the ambiguous title, the picture is what it is. I fill in the rest.

Posted by: Kris at April 16, 2024 09:45 AM (OyyDO)

81 Yea.... that's exactly how the unfortunate canoe accident looked.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2024 09:45 AM (Q4IgG)

82 Sigh. The monomaniacal bird has returned, and has resumed its life's purpose of repeatedly flying into the living room window.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 09:45 AM (HnUIn)

83 Love the detail and realistic use of color and light. You can hear the roar of the rushing river and falls and smell the damp air. I know nothing about the artist or his other works but this one is excellent. And it inspires thoughts about a story line to go with the scene.

Posted by: JTB at April 16, 2024 09:46 AM (zudum)

84 That canoe=Biden's America.

And just like Biden's America, nobody is in charge so nobody can be blamed.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 16, 2024 09:46 AM (CsUN+)

85 Put a chick in it and make her lame and gay.

Posted by: Every movie plot everywhere at April 16, 2024 09:46 AM (dg+HA)

86 Sigh. The monomaniacal bird has returned, and has resumed its life's purpose of repeatedly flying into the living room window.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)


I think you need to put that thing out of its misery, Joe.

Posted by: The Barrel at April 16, 2024 09:46 AM (9yWhg)

87 The passengers woke up in the Land of the Lost...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel


Those damn bug-eyed Sleestak!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 09:46 AM (/SITW)

88 Would have liked to have seen some water in it. Would have added to the intrigue/realism. Canoes don't usually lose their passengers and remain dry.

Posted by: crabgrass farmer at April 16, 2024 09:46 AM (cb5CT)

89 Female driver.

Posted by: m at April 16, 2024 09:47 AM (o3SCB)

90 >>I feel like this painting would be the spark of a twilight zone episode or Stephen King short story.


Man discovers this painting bundled up in his recently deceased great aunt's attic Seems she had purchased it for her beloved husband who disappeared mysteriously within weeks of receiving it. Man becomes obsessed with finding out its painter and origins. The painter's great, great granddaughter reports that the painter died in a boating accident, as did her great grandfather, her grandfather, and her parents. Man is so charmed by the lovely lady he invites her out to a day of sailing. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2024 09:47 AM (cCVOS)

91 I can imagine thins hanging in Jack London's study.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 09:47 AM (HnUIn)

92 I can't find the man in the boat.
Posted by: My 12 year old self at April 16, 2024 09:32 AM (dg+HA)
-------------------------------

Keep Looking!

Posted by: South Park Mayor McDanials at April 16, 2024 09:47 AM (fv27Y)

93 Oops. Strike one!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 09:47 AM (9yWhg)

94 Love the detail and realistic use of color and light. You can hear the roar of the rushing river and falls and smell the damp air. I know nothing about the artist or his other works but this one is excellent. And it inspires thoughts about a story line to go with the scene.
Posted by: JTB at April 16, 2024 09:46 AM (zudum)



And why clutter up the scene with an empty boat?

Seems, an afterthought that should've stayed a thought.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 09:47 AM (vf0Uk)

95 Oh, so Tansey is a modern painter; "Innocent Eye Test" is from 1981. The "Untitled" here is from 1974.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2024 09:47 AM (J2vNu)

96 I would probably hang that. It's a conversation starter!

Posted by: m at April 16, 2024 09:47 AM (o3SCB)

97 Jim, you were supposed to tie off the canoe! How are we going to get home now?!

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at April 16, 2024 09:47 AM (aZFbT)

98 Fredo regretted taking that last canoe trip. No fish were caught, and things ended badly.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 16, 2024 09:47 AM (CsUN+)

99 Sigh. The monomaniacal bird has returned, and has resumed its life's purpose of repeatedly flying into the living room window.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 09:45 AM (HnUIn)

Let it in, offer it coffee.

Posted by: Robert at April 16, 2024 09:47 AM (q0KDB)

100 The river was angry that day my friends.

Posted by: Montec at April 16, 2024 09:47 AM (tpjlM)

101 Man discovers this painting bundled up in his recently deceased great aunt's attic Seems she had purchased it for her beloved husband who disappeared mysteriously within weeks of receiving it. Man becomes obsessed with finding out its painter and origins. The painter's great, great granddaughter reports that the painter died in a boating accident, as did her great grandfather, her grandfather, and her parents. Man is so charmed by the lovely lady he invites her out to a day of sailing. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2024 09:47 AM (cCVOS)
++++
LOL.

This would be better than at least 95% of the movies made over the past five years. It will never be greenlit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 09:48 AM (HnUIn)

102 I can imagine thins hanging in Jack London's study.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 09:47 AM (HnUIn)



Oreo thins or Girl Scout thin mints?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 09:48 AM (vf0Uk)

103 Goodbye Joe, me gotta go, me oh my oh

Posted by: Don Black at April 16, 2024 09:48 AM (oCjPU)

104 Oreo thins or Girl Scout thin mints?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 09:48 AM (vf0Uk)
++++
Either. Both. Whatever.

He wasn't picky!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 09:48 AM (HnUIn)

105 Bank of America profits plunge.

So sad.

Anyway….

Posted by: Montec at April 16, 2024 09:49 AM (tpjlM)

106 Maybe....It good thing no dog in this one?

Posted by: MR. KIM at April 16, 2024 09:49 AM (DGlaL)

107 Oh, so Tansey is a modern painter; "Innocent Eye Test" is from 1981. The "Untitled" here is from 1974.

Wait did you people have like um...electricity in 1974?

Posted by: Some Millenial at April 16, 2024 09:49 AM (ibTVg)

108 The monomaniacal bird has returned, and has resumed its life's purpose of repeatedly flying into the living room window.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024
*
Let it in, offer it coffee.
Posted by: Robert at April 16, 2024


***
Then let the cats in. Heh, heh, heh. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2024 09:49 AM (J2vNu)

109 Girl Scouts > Girl Scout cookies

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 09:49 AM (ibTVg)

110 Sigh. The monomaniacal bird has returned, and has resumed its life's purpose of repeatedly flying into the living room window.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)


I think you need to put that thing out of its misery, Joe.
Posted by: The Barrel


Sounds like it has a nest snd babies somewhere close and it's seeing it's reflection and is trying to dive "it's reflection" away.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 09:49 AM (/SITW)

111 19 Stick in lower left corner mocks the canoe's predicament.
Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at April 16, 2024 09:33 AM (MvF+J)

Huh. Indeed.

Posted by: m at April 16, 2024 09:50 AM (o3SCB)

112 Is this a scene from Deliverance?

Posted by: dantesed at April 16, 2024 09:50 AM (88xKn)

113 That boat seems to have lost its paddles! (And paddlers).

You'd have to stand up and pole this boat. No crossbars to sit on. Dicey, to say the least.

Posted by: t-bird at April 16, 2024 09:50 AM (OqC0L)

114 Alternate title:

"WHEEEEEEE!"


Alternate, alternate title: "Welp.... F*ck."

Posted by: Oddbob at April 16, 2024 09:50 AM (/y8xj)

115 Girl Scout cookies
Posted by: Joe Biden at

Thanks to you they are 7$ a box now

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 16, 2024 09:50 AM (CIS44)

116 >>Sigh. The monomaniacal bird has returned, and has resumed its life's purpose of repeatedly flying into the living room window.


FWIW, they make special clear-ish stickers you can put on a window that make it visible to birds to prevent them from flying into it. Like this: https://tinyurl.com/mr3n6ac9

Local bird feeder story would have them. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2024 09:50 AM (cCVOS)

117
*sings*

I took myself a blue canoe
And I floated like a leaf
...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HskPT1xLtzQ

Posted by: Pre Zombie Elton John's Old West Country Album "Tumbleweed Connection" from long ago and far away at April 16, 2024 09:50 AM (eDfFs)

118 Sounds like it has a nest snd babies somewhere close and it's seeing it's reflection and is trying to dive "it's reflection" away.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 09:49 AM (/SITW)
++++
Possibly.

"Bird-brained" is a slur for a reason.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 09:50 AM (HnUIn)

119 Oh, so Tansey is a modern painter; "Innocent Eye Test" is from 1981. The "Untitled" here is from 1974.
*
Wait did you people have like um...electricity in 1974?
Posted by: Some Millenial at April 16, 2024


***
No, doofus, he painted by candlelight! Duh!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2024 09:50 AM (J2vNu)

120 Oh, so Tansey is a modern painter; "Innocent Eye Test" is from 1981. The "Untitled" here is from 1974.

Wait did you people have like um...electricity in 1974?
Posted by: Some Millenial



Whale oil lamps in 1974.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 09:50 AM (/SITW)

121
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 16, 2024 09:51 AM (pdyAL)

122 FWIW, they make special clear-ish stickers you can put on a window that make it visible to birds to prevent them from flying into it. ...
Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2024 09:50 AM (cCVOS)
++++
Hmm. But then I have crap on my windows. I might consider it if this keeps up, though. Thanks for the tip.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 09:51 AM (HnUIn)

123 Norm, if this were in Louisiana that canoe would be called a "pirogue." But you'd be hard pressed to find a waterfall.

Posted by: Cliff Clavin at April 16, 2024 09:52 AM (dg+HA)

124 >Sounds like it has a nest snd babies somewhere close and it's seeing it's reflection and is trying to dive "it's reflection" away.


so put something over the window to defeat the reflection, and Bob's your uncle

Posted by: Don Black at April 16, 2024 09:52 AM (oCjPU)

125 I can imagine thins hanging in Jack London's study.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024
*
Oreo thins or Girl Scout thin mints?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024


***
Wheat Thins. Whole grains; good for you.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2024 09:52 AM (J2vNu)

126 "Bird-brained" is a slur for a reason.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)


Not appropriate in all cases. Crows are very smart.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 09:52 AM (9yWhg)

127 If a dog was pictured, maybe barking in alarm from the shore, this painting would really be art.

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 16, 2024 09:52 AM (FSX1K)

128 I can paddle, canoe?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 16, 2024 09:52 AM (sfObP)

129 126 "Bird-brained" is a slur for a reason.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)


Not appropriate in all cases. Crows are very smart.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 09:52 AM (9yWhg)

Ravens too.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 16, 2024 09:52 AM (nvtOt)

130 I seem to recall there was a good bit of squawk about the land cleared for the Fort William-Henry scenes that was silenced by the extremely quick rehabilitation of the site.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher
------------------------------------------------

Some people will complain about anything...

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 16, 2024 09:52 AM (fv27Y)

131 Wait did you people have like um...electricity in 1974?
Posted by: Some Millenial


Absolutely not. It would be another five years before that Franklin guy invented it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 09:53 AM (9yWhg)

132 Since we are past comment 100...

I had a dream last night where CBD was my history professor.

He gave us a very challenging final exam, which only seemed appropriate...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 16, 2024 09:53 AM (7fElN)

133 "Bird-brained" is a slur for a reason.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024


***
Miss Linda keeps touting how smart crows, ravens, and other corvids are: that they can recognize individual people, and have been seen to take up a pebble in their beaks and use it as a tool to crack something. I dunno, I've never researched it or seen them do anything like that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2024 09:54 AM (J2vNu)

134 One of the best scenes in that movie was the parlay between the French commander and the British commander over the fate of the fort

Posted by: Don Black at April 16, 2024 09:54 AM (oCjPU)

135 one wonders what the broken bough teetering in the foreground has to do with the canoe teetering over the water fall?

Posted by: DanMan at April 16, 2024 09:54 AM (8uzBS)

136 An unkindness of ravens, a murder of crows? People really do not like these birds.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 16, 2024 09:54 AM (nvtOt)

137 Ravens too.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 16, 2024 09:52 AM (nvtOt)
++++
:: borrows Sponge's shtick ::

You asked for it:
https://youtu.be/T7zR3IDEHrM

You also asked for this:
https://youtu.be/fxQcBKUPm8o

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 09:54 AM (HnUIn)

138 IMO (this is AoS after all)

Posted by: Don Black at April 16, 2024 09:54 AM (oCjPU)

139
I experienced something very similar to this, only-

we somehow miraculously stayed upright, landed perfectly, and floated peaceful downstream.

Unfortunately, the canoe behind us tipped, broke in half and one of the guys almost drowned by being caught in the revolving water flow just below the water fall.

We were luck we could get a rope to him before he drowned.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2024 09:54 AM (eDfFs)

140 NY Post:

TJ Maxx applicant in disbelief after learning of $12 minimum wage: ‘Not taking that f–king job’



I agree. $12 is way too much for that position. $7.50 is about right.

Posted by: Montec at April 16, 2024 09:54 AM (tpjlM)

141 Hmm. But then I have crap on my windows. I might consider it if this keeps up, though. Thanks for the tip.

You could run a string from one side of the window to the other, and then tie strings on it that hang over the window. That would be easily removed.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 16, 2024 09:54 AM (CsUN+)

142 Oh, so Tansey is a modern painter; "Innocent Eye Test" is from 1981. The "Untitled" here is from 1974.

Wait did you people have like um...electricity in 1974?
Posted by: Some Millenial at April 16, 2024 09:49 AM (ibTVg)
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Nuclear-powered glow-tubes!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 16, 2024 09:55 AM (7fElN)

143 I had a dream last night where CBD was my history professor.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel


And that's how you learned that Hitler put carrots in chili and loved maple syrup.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 09:55 AM (9yWhg)

144 I had a dream last night where CBD was my history professor.

He gave us a very challenging final exam, which only seemed appropriate...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel


I hope you woke up before he got to the Ottoman Empire.

Posted by: t-bird at April 16, 2024 09:55 AM (OqC0L)

145 Sigh. The monomaniacal bird has returned, and has resumed its life's purpose of repeatedly flying into the living room window.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Let it in, offer it coffee.
Posted by: Robert
====
Rebel News @RebelNewsOnline 12h
French actress declines to press charges after home burglary by illegal immigrants

Audrey Lamy opted against filing complaint, saying she was 'touched in the heart' by suspects' circumstances.

rebelne.ws/49F8sf0

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 16, 2024 09:55 AM (vtyCZ)

146 "Bird-brained" is a slur for a reason.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)


Not appropriate in all cases. Crows are very smart.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 09:52 AM (9yWhg)

Caw! Caw! Taxation is theft! Caw!

Posted by: A Crow at April 16, 2024 09:55 AM (YA8rW)

147 That picture, that’s America. Isn’t it?

Posted by: Eromero at April 16, 2024 09:56 AM (NxC5+)

148 Norm, if this were in Louisiana that canoe would be called a "pirogue." But you'd be hard pressed to find a waterfall.
Posted by: Cliff Clavin
------

Yeah, 'boat' is a better descriptor. Not 'canoe'. Appears to have a flat bottom, and ribs.

Posted by: Pedant at April 16, 2024 09:56 AM (XeU6L)

149 Oh yeah the US government finds that nothing could have been done to prevent the bombing in Kabul that killed thirteen US service members.

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=155662

In other news Admiral Kimmel and General Short are absolved of their failures at Pearl Harbor.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 16, 2024 09:56 AM (g0rWy)

150 I saw another great conversation in the town next door where they are trying to massively raise taxes.

Apparently the pro-tax side is now admitting that a big driver in the town's increased costs are driven by Bidenflation..obviously the solution to inflation is more government spending.

But another amusing part that came out is the pro-tax side is arguing the federal aid to them was "unexpectedly" removed.

What was that aid? COVID money. They just pretended they were getting COVID money from Uncle Sugar as part of their permanent budget.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2024 09:56 AM (ibTVg)

151 Our guide on a family raft trip once read Robert Service's account of the same trip to us and what we did in a large rubber boat he did in a wooden boat. His mother must have dropped him on his head as a baby, because that is just nuts.

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 16, 2024 09:56 AM (FSX1K)

152 Wait did you people have like um...electricity in 1974?
Posted by: Some Millenial

Absolutely not. It would be another five years before that Franklin guy invented it.


It was only after electricity that millennials invented sex. You have to be able to see what you're doing.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 16, 2024 09:56 AM (CsUN+)

153 New title: America

Posted by: Eli Cash at April 16, 2024 09:57 AM (0gDOK)

154 Miss Linda keeps touting how smart crows, ravens, and other corvids are: that they can recognize individual people, and have been seen to take up a pebble in their beaks and use it as a tool to crack something. I dunno, I've never researched it or seen them do anything like that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Apparently, crows can recognize their own reflection in a mirror, and even have a rudimentary ability to count.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 09:57 AM (9yWhg)

155 I had never heard of "terror birds" til I watched a doc. on raptors the other night...yikes!

Posted by: BignJames at April 16, 2024 09:57 AM (AwYPR)

156 The passengers woke up in the Land of the Lost...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 16, 2024 09:41 AM (7fElN)

Wait did you people have like um...electricity in 1974?
Posted by: Some Millenial at April 16, 2024 09:49 AM (ibTVg)

Why, yes. Yes we did have electricity in 1974. But this is what passed for special effects:
https://tinyurl.com/339z6ysw

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at April 16, 2024 09:57 AM (JCLJi)

157 This could depict a moment in a Western, or a post-Rev. War story in Ohio (which was then "the West" to the original thirteen colonies). The hero and his woman secured their canoe farther upriver. While they were making love under a sycamore, the devilish Iroquois Indian Famous Frog stole up and cut the rope, stranding them.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2024 09:43 AM (J2vNu)


Or it could be an excised scene from TJMs Colonial Nightmare, which everyone should buy.

And my books, too.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 16, 2024 09:57 AM (Q0kLU)

158 SOMEBODY didn't spot the sniper

Posted by: Waiting For Martel at April 16, 2024 09:57 AM (EAFEJ)

159 Audrey Lamy is touched all right. In the head.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 16, 2024 09:57 AM (g0rWy)

160 Didn't play the 40 fingers video, but have watched in past, forgot about them

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2024 09:58 AM (M/bSR)

161 Audrey Lamy is touched all right. In the head.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 1

One may call her a birdbrain

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 16, 2024 09:58 AM (CIS44)

162 Norm, if this were in Louisiana that canoe would be called a "pirogue."


Russia, too. And those are edible!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 09:58 AM (9yWhg)

163 30 It is a little strange that the artist went with "Untitled" as the name of this piece.

Any of us Morons can easily come up with clever titles.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 16, 2024 09:35 AM (7fElN)

But at the risk of blocking out other titles. He's letting us help.

Posted by: m at April 16, 2024 09:58 AM (o3SCB)

164 Obligatory Far Side cartoon:

https://tinyurl.com/afhsmczf

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2024 09:59 AM (XeU6L)

165 In Soviet Russia, pirogue eats you!

Posted by: Vlad the inhaler at April 16, 2024 09:59 AM (dg+HA)

166 Wait did you people have like um...electricity in 1974?
Posted by: Some Millenial at April 16, 2024 09:49 AM (ibTVg)
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LOL! This literally happened to me. Well, something very similar.

I was a teenager when my mom's Kitchen-Aid mixer finally broke. We were out running errands, one of which was "replace the mixer." We went to buy it and it was, of course, expensive.

When it rang up, the clerk - a girl a bit older than me, so either a *very* young Xer or a leading-edge Millennial - commented that it was a lot of money for a mixer. My mom replied, "it is, but the last one worked well for 35 years, so it's worth the money." The girl's eyes widened and she said, "I didn't know they even *had* mixers 35 years ago."

I was dumbfounded.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:00 AM (HnUIn)

167 "Hold My Beer" by Mark Tansey

Posted by: Axeman at April 16, 2024 10:00 AM (krQz2)

168 Obligatory Far Side cartoon:

https://tinyurl.com/afhsmczf
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2024 09:59 AM (XeU6L)
++++
LOL. I somehow hadn't seen that one before.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:00 AM (HnUIn)

169 Miss Linda keeps touting how smart crows, ravens, and other corvids are: that they can recognize individual people, and have been seen to take up a pebble in their beaks and use it as a tool to crack something. I dunno, I've never researched it or seen them do anything like that.

I saw a story about a woman that fed a particular crow every day. She lost a ring down a steep drop near her house and couldn't get it and the next day when she went to feed the crow it had her ring. True? No idea but there have been cases of some animals do this sort of thing.

Heck at one point I was feeding a squirrel and one day it brought me a toadstool (nice thought but...no thanks)

Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2024 10:00 AM (ibTVg)

170 The Little Engine that Could
The Little Canoe that Couldn't

Posted by: m at April 16, 2024 10:00 AM (o3SCB)

171 The best version of "The Gael" [Theme Song Last of the Mohicans] evah!!!

https://tinyurl.com/38sz7jnt
3:33 minutes

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 16, 2024 10:00 AM (vtyCZ)

172
Don't Have a Stroke, Dear - a limerick

Two newlyweds from Kalamazoo
Swept downstream, didn't know what to do
The bridegroom turned and asked her,
"Can you paddle this boat any faster?"
She smiled and said, "I dunno! Canoe?"

Posted by: Muldoon at April 16, 2024 10:01 AM (991eG)

173 The girl's eyes widened and she said, "I didn't know they even *had* mixers 35 years ago."

I was dumbfounded.


You should have said "And by mixer, I of course mean slaves. Damn those yankees."

Posted by: Archimedes at April 16, 2024 10:01 AM (CsUN+)

174 49 They used every part of the canoe.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 16, 2024 09:39 AM (CIS44)

hahahaha

Posted by: m at April 16, 2024 10:02 AM (o3SCB)

175 Rebel News @RebelNewsOnline 12h
French actress declines to press charges after home burglary by illegal immigrants

Audrey Lamy opted against filing complaint, saying she was 'touched in the heart' by suspects' circumstances.

rebelne.ws/49F8sf0
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 16, 2024 09:55 AM (vtyCZ)


Years from now, while she's being gang raped, I wonder how she'll feel.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2024 10:02 AM (nR2nR)

176 Joe Biden's Canoe Trip.

Posted by: Axeman at April 16, 2024 10:02 AM (krQz2)

177 Want o have fun with a millennial? Hand them the yellow pages and a rotary phone and ask them to order pizza delivery

Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2024 10:02 AM (ibTVg)

178 Years from now, while she's being gang raped, I wonder how she'll feel.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2024 10:02 AM (nR2nR)
++++
Thrilled, of course. It's every woman's dream.

Posted by: E. Jean Carroll and Bernie Sanders at April 16, 2024 10:03 AM (HnUIn)

179 Want o have fun with a millennial? Hand them the yellow pages and a rotary phone and ask them to order pizza delivery
Posted by: 18-1


I'm not sure that I'd be able to use a rotary phone anymore.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:03 AM (9yWhg)

180 This patriarchal piece exposes the inherent misogyny in the viewer by making them realize none of us kind find the little man in the boat.

Posted by: Feminist Art Critic at April 16, 2024 10:03 AM (9zoFk)

181 In cursive with a stick shift.

Posted by: Just the punchline at April 16, 2024 10:04 AM (dg+HA)

182 How sad Boromir’s corpse fell out before the waterfall.

Posted by: Michael K at April 16, 2024 10:04 AM (7fe3o)

183 OK, where does "the little man in the boat" come from? Yet another Monty Python reference?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:04 AM (9yWhg)

184 82 Sigh. The monomaniacal bird has returned, and has resumed its life's purpose of repeatedly flying into the living room window.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 09:45 AM (HnUIn)

Put an image of a hawk up there.

Posted by: m at April 16, 2024 10:05 AM (o3SCB)

185 What was that aid? COVID money. They just pretended they were getting COVID money from Uncle Sugar as part of their permanent budget.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2024 09:56 AM (ibTVg)

To be fair, that wasn’t a crazy assumption. Most “temporary” govt programs end up being permanent. It’s kind of a miracle Covid spending stopped when it did.

Posted by: Montec at April 16, 2024 10:05 AM (tpjlM)

186 Years from now, while she's being gang raped, I wonder how she'll feel.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2024 10:02 AM (nR2nR)


Wasn't there an AWFL recently who got gang-raped and said she felt sorry for her white privilege that provoked the poor yutes into violating her?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 16, 2024 10:05 AM (Q0kLU)

187 183 OK, where does "the little man in the boat" come from? Yet another Monty Python reference?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:04 AM (9yWhg)
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It's a complete myth.

Posted by: ballistic at April 16, 2024 10:05 AM (oqH4h)

188 Rhymes with a female body part.

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at April 16, 2024 10:05 AM (dg+HA)

189 My favorite Far Side cartoon is Custer's Last Photo.

Posted by: dantesed at April 16, 2024 10:05 AM (88xKn)

190 In cursive with a stick shift.
Posted by: Just the punchline


I always hated cursive. Glad it's going away.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:05 AM (9yWhg)

191 Crazy bitch tweet what??

Katherine Maher @krmaher 10 Oct 2016
I do wish Hillary wouldn't use the language of "boy and girl" - it's erasing language for non-binary people.

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo 17h
New NPR CEO chastises Hillary Clinton for saying "boy and girl," because it erases "non-binary people"

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 16, 2024 10:06 AM (vtyCZ)

192 I'm not sure that I'd be able to use a rotary phone anymore.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:03 AM (9yWhg)
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Your VOIP box might have a "pulse dial" switch. If it's a real landline, it will *probably* still work.

But when you call the pizza joint, the IVR system you have to navigate before laboriously keying in commands or making your way through inaccurate and cumbersome voice recognition systems will certainly not be compatible with it.

"Did you know you can order line? Visit our website at www.BigPizza.com when you become too frustrated with this low-quality and deliberately awful telephone ordering system. No, you can't talk to anyone in the store. Fuck you."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:06 AM (HnUIn)

193 >OK, where does "the little man in the boat" come from? Yet another Monty Python reference?


you serious?

Posted by: Don Black at April 16, 2024 10:06 AM (oCjPU)

194 OK, where does "the little man in the boat" come from? Yet another Monty Python reference?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:04 AM (9yWhg)
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Tidy Bowl commercial?

Posted by: Axeman at April 16, 2024 10:06 AM (krQz2)

195 SNIPER!

Posted by: m at April 16, 2024 10:07 AM (o3SCB)

196 I'm not sure that I'd be able to use a rotary phone anymore.

Just stick your finger in the hole and rotate your hand, sweetie!

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at April 16, 2024 10:07 AM (Q0kLU)

197 Want o have fun with a millennial? Hand them the yellow pages and a rotary phone and ask them to order pizza delivery
Posted by: 18-1

Want to have fun with a boomer? Ask them to start a car from the 1910s. Knee slapping fun.

Posted by: Montec at April 16, 2024 10:07 AM (tpjlM)

198 I'm not sure that I'd be able to use a rotary phone anymore.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:03 AM (9yWhg)
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I can no longer operate a pen.

Posted by: Axeman at April 16, 2024 10:07 AM (krQz2)

199 I don’t think you’d have to keep the stickers on for long , just until the birds hatch and move on? They make more subtle ones than what I linked to.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2024 10:07 AM (vj+K4)

200 Our guide on a family raft trip once read Robert Service's account of the same trip to us and what we did in a large rubber boat he did in a wooden boat. His mother must have dropped him on his head as a baby, because that is just nuts.
Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 16, 2024


***
Did you mean Service was nuts, or the guide?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2024 10:07 AM (J2vNu)

201 191 New NPR CEO chastises Hillary Clinton for saying "boy and girl," because it erases "non-binary people"
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April

Erases them forever? Because that sounds like a great idea!

Posted by: Piper at April 16, 2024 10:08 AM (ZdaMQ)

202 Nobody ever remembers me.

Posted by: Custer's First Stand at April 16, 2024 10:08 AM (dg+HA)

203 Generally the point of IVR is to get people to hang up before reaching a human.

You'll have to select your language and then of course "please listen carefully as our menu options have changed"

Then they'll offer you a bunch of options easily found online like hours, location, blah blah...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2024 10:08 AM (ibTVg)

204 Miss Linda keeps touting how smart crows, ravens, and other corvids are: that they can recognize individual people, and have been seen to take up a pebble in their beaks and use it as a tool to crack something. I dunno, I've never researched it or seen them do anything like that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius


Goes to Bing Search Page of Crows using tools and pebbles to access food & water.

https://tinyurl.com/33xbwx3v

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 10:08 AM (/SITW)

205 "Some Tips on Canoeing"

Posted by: Axeman at April 16, 2024 10:08 AM (krQz2)

206 Rhymes with a female body part.
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference

Mulva?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at April 16, 2024 10:08 AM (aZFbT)

207 Sigh. The monomaniacal bird has returned, and has resumed its life's purpose of repeatedly flying into the living room window.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 09:45 AM (HnUIn)


what kind of bird?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2024 10:09 AM (eDfFs)

208 Want to have fun with a boomer? Ask them to start a car from the 1910s. Knee slapping fun.

Hey in 1910 electric cars were considered the cool new thing...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2024 10:09 AM (ibTVg)

209 I'm not sure that I'd be able to use a rotary phone anymore.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:03 AM (9yWhg)
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I can no longer operate a pen.
Posted by: Axeman at April 16, 2024 10:07 AM (krQz2)

What's a "stove"?

Posted by: A Gen Z Wife at April 16, 2024 10:09 AM (6n5FQ)

210 The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 09:38 AM (9yWhg)

Who names their lake Gitchhe Goomee ?

Posted by: JT at April 16, 2024 10:09 AM (T4tVD)

211 Rhymes with a female body part.
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at April 16, 2024 10:05 AM (dg+HA)
++++
Pro Tip: "cans" is not a mutual rhyme.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:09 AM (HnUIn)

212 More fun with boomers. Ask them to send a telegraph via Morse code. 🤣

Posted by: Montec at April 16, 2024 10:09 AM (tpjlM)

213 I like this painting a great deal and would hang it.

I'm not familiar with artist, Mark Tasey, but see he's really into symbolism, obvious from many/most of his other paintings. In particular, I like the image-morphing he's often employed.

Thank you!

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it do you, too at April 16, 2024 10:09 AM (NFX2v)

214 Tip a Canoe and Tyler Too!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 16, 2024 10:10 AM (lf83v)

215 Nobody ever remembers me.
Posted by: Custer's First Stand


I do. You pulled my cigars off the end table and broke my favorite ashtray, you little shit.

Posted by: Custer's Daddy at April 16, 2024 10:10 AM (/SITW)

216 What's a "stove"?

I've noticed the NPCs around me have a new update as they keep saying that gas stoves emit toxic fumes even when they are off...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2024 10:10 AM (ibTVg)

217 what kind of bird?
Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2024 10:09 AM (eDfFs)
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I dunno. I ain't no ornithologist!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:10 AM (HnUIn)

218 Obligatory Far Side cartoon:

https://tinyurl.com/afhsmczf

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
----------------------------------

Hi Mike!

*Waves at Mike over on the other side of the French Broad River Valley*

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 16, 2024 10:10 AM (fv27Y)

219 Looks like the guns were offloaded.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 16, 2024 10:10 AM (x/8lr)

220 Just keep pressing 0 over and over and you’ll be connected with a human. It’s the IVR hack everyone need to use.

Posted by: Montec at April 16, 2024 10:10 AM (tpjlM)

221 More fun with boomers. Ask them to send a telegraph via Morse code. 🤣
Posted by: Montec


...---...

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 10:11 AM (/SITW)

222 What's a "stove"?
Posted by: A Gen Z Wife at April 16, 2024 10:09 AM (6n5FQ)
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Heh. I doubt it. Gen-Z is pretty young. Any who got married at the leading edge are probably much more competent than the mean...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:11 AM (HnUIn)

223 These kids today with their fancy flint and steel...

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at April 16, 2024 10:11 AM (dg+HA)

224 OK, where does "the little man in the boat" come from? Yet another Monty Python reference?
_________

Monty Python, like the Bible, contains every conceivable aspect of the human condition. You just have to work hard to find it.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 16, 2024 10:11 AM (lf83v)

225 I've noticed the NPCs around me have a new update as they keep saying that gas stoves emit toxic fumes even when they are off...
Posted by: 18-1


F'n idiots. Make them explain EXACTLY what the fumes are. Because if it's gas, your house would explode.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 10:12 AM (/SITW)

226 What's a "stove"?
Posted by: A Gen Z Wife at April 16, 2024 10:09 AM (6n5FQ)


My Gen Z son is becoming quite the cook. He knows all about that stuff.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:12 AM (9yWhg)

227 Just keep pressing 0 over and over and you’ll be connected with a human. It’s the IVR hack everyone need to use.
Posted by: Montec at April 16, 2024 10:10 AM (tpjlM)
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Usually. I just gave that advice to someone very recently.

Some IVR systems simply refuse to permit it. Hit zero, give bad input, demand an agent to the voice-recognition robot, whatever. Some systems just have no "last resort" live-answer queue.

Businesses that implement those systems hate their customers more than most.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:12 AM (HnUIn)

228 Nicer stickers at Duncraft.com
Gotten bird feeder from them.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2024 10:13 AM (vj+K4)

229 Keep looking. You'll find it.

Posted by: The Song of Solomon at April 16, 2024 10:13 AM (dg+HA)

230 Miss Linda keeps touting how smart crows, ravens, and other corvids are: that they can recognize individual people, and have been seen to take up a pebble in their beaks and use it as a tool to crack something. I dunno, I've never researched it or seen them do anything like that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Apparently, crows can recognize their own reflection in a mirror, and even have a rudimentary ability to count.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024


***
Was there ever a "Far Side" cartoon featuring crows pointing and laughing at a scarecrow in a field? Perhaps captioned, "Farmer Jack's new scarecrow was not working out well" ?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2024 10:13 AM (J2vNu)

231 Rhymes with a female body part.
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference



4th down. Better punt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:13 AM (vf0Uk)

232 Re: Bird

Hang a white sheet in the window. That should suppress the reflection. Maybe it will find something better to do.

Posted by: pawn at April 16, 2024 10:14 AM (QB+5g)

233 My Gen Z son is becoming quite the cook. He knows all about that stuff.
_______

Are we talking about meth again?

Posted by: Heisenberg at April 16, 2024 10:14 AM (lf83v)

234 Joe Mannix, you can also get plastic effigies of owls and hawks to scare off the boids.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:14 AM (9yWhg)

235 I got an email recently from a car dealer. It started off with hi, I’m John and I am a human being. I thought that was funny.

Posted by: Montec at April 16, 2024 10:14 AM (tpjlM)

236 I've noticed the NPCs around me have a new update as they keep saying that gas stoves emit toxic fumes even when they are off...
Posted by: 18-1



This is why the video gamers allow you to dispose of the NPC's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:14 AM (vf0Uk)

237 164 Obligatory Far Side cartoon:

https://tinyurl.com/afhsmczf
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2024 09:59 AM (XeU6L)

; )

Posted by: m at April 16, 2024 10:14 AM (o3SCB)

238 Another tricker is saying “Operator” instead of pushing a number. I do that all the time.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2024 10:15 AM (vj+K4)

239 OK, where does "the little man in the boat" come from? Yet another Monty Python reference?
_________

Monty Python, like the Bible, contains every conceivable aspect of the human condition. You just have to work hard to find it.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 16, 2024 10:11 AM (lf83v)

If it's not in Ye Olde Holy Bible you can probably find it in Seinfeld.

Posted by: Robert at April 16, 2024 10:15 AM (6n5FQ)

240 *
Apparently, crows can recognize their own reflection in a mirror, and even have a rudimentary ability to count.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024

They also have an extremely wide range of calls. I always think of crow language as probably being pretty filthy.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 16, 2024 10:15 AM (T+Iwg)

241 I see nurse ratched beat me to my punchline. Ah well.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 16, 2024 10:15 AM (991eG)

242 My Gen Z son is becoming quite the cook. He knows all about that stuff.
_______

Are we talking about meth again?
Posted by: Heisenberg


Heh. No. But he was a big "Breaking Bad" fan back in the day.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:15 AM (9yWhg)

243 Sigh. The monomaniacal bird has returned, and has resumed its life's purpose of repeatedly flying into the living room window.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 09:45 AM (HnUIn)


Can we interest you in an Iron Dome installation?

Posted by: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems at April 16, 2024 10:15 AM (OguvZ)

244 My Gen Z son is becoming quite the cook. He knows all about that stuff.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:12 AM (9yWhg)



Speaking of. Anyone seen Pete Bog in a while?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:15 AM (vf0Uk)

245 4th down. Better punt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:13 AM (vf0Uk)


That's not funny.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 16, 2024 10:16 AM (A3700)

246 Gas stoves are like trannies. 10 years ago nobody gave it a second thought. Then one day it was the worst thing ever and needed to be banned. Just like with trannies where one day nobody have a fuck and then next it is the most important issue ever.

Whoever says the msm doesn’t have influence anymore…yeah about that.

Posted by: Montec at April 16, 2024 10:16 AM (tpjlM)

247 Can we interest you in an Iron Dome installation?
Posted by: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems at April 16, 2024 10:15 AM (OguvZ)
++++
Of course.

I doubt I can afford it, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:16 AM (HnUIn)

248 This painting invites the viewer to insert himself into the scene, replacing the missing paddlers. You might even say you could immerse yourself...

Posted by: Muldoon at April 16, 2024 10:16 AM (991eG)

249
That's not funny.


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 16, 2024 10:16 AM (A3700)




I told you.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:16 AM (vf0Uk)

250 "I maintain this painting as a painful reminder of the day, when...(gets choked up)...sorry...I lost all my guns. It was so tragic, really. Nothing I could do. (sniff) All of them, gone. And all were given girl's names in accordance with the orders of the great Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. (dabs eyes) Such an awful day..."

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 16, 2024 10:17 AM (nSG+M)

251
234 Joe Mannix, you can also get plastic effigies of owls and hawks to scare off the boids.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16

Or you can get a real owl and feed him feeder mice or a rabbit from a pet meat supplier. They are loud, though. And scratch your fence. But no squirrels! Vomited up bones on occasion. Pros and cons.

Posted by: Piper at April 16, 2024 10:17 AM (ZdaMQ)

252
238 Another tricker is saying “Operator” instead of pushing a number. I do that all the time.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2024 10:15 AM (vj+K4)

Yeah operator is the equivalent of pressing zero. It’s interpreted the same way.

Posted by: Montec at April 16, 2024 10:17 AM (tpjlM)

253 I see nurse ratched beat me to my punchline. Ah well.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 16, 2024 10:15 AM (991eG)


Is she here? I missed her post.

**waves to nurse**

How was the wedding?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 16, 2024 10:17 AM (Q0kLU)

254 Anyone seen Pete Bog in a while?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:15 AM (vf0Uk)


Recently. He's around. And an insomniac like me, so I see him a bit at vile hours of the morning.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 16, 2024 10:17 AM (A3700)

255 Your honor, I had this accident as my canoe went over the falls and all my firearms were lost in the water. Yes, this has happened to several other people and we learnt from this to never take valuables in a canoe**.

(** Depicted picture is a composite of very many canoes - yes, no one forewarned us and instead they all lined up on the banks and cheered as the canoes went over, one by one.)

Posted by: Ciampino - how to lose grubs the easy way at April 16, 2024 10:18 AM (qfLjt)

256 Paddle faster, I hear banjos.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 16, 2024 10:18 AM (4XwPj)

257 181 In cursive with a stick shift.
Posted by: Just the punchline at April 16, 2024 10:04 AM (dg+HA)

heh

Posted by: m at April 16, 2024 10:18 AM (o3SCB)

258 ++++
I dunno. I ain't no ornithologist!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:10 AM (HnUIn)

Is it small and brown? If so, prolly a wren. They're very aggressive and territorial, especially when nesting.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 16, 2024 10:18 AM (T+Iwg)

259 what kind of bird?
Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2024 10:09 AM (eDfFs)
++++
I dunno. I ain't no ornithologist!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:10 AM (HnUIn)


Well, I know a math degree isn't required to be a Cob, but-

I was sure that being a Cob at AOSHQ at least required an Ornithology Degree.

I'm shocked!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2024 10:18 AM (eDfFs)

260 243 Sigh. The monomaniacal bird has returned, and has resumed its life's purpose of repeatedly flying into the living room window.


According to JT it seems to help if the birdbath is outside.

Posted by: The more you know at April 16, 2024 10:18 AM (dg+HA)

261 I think the great tit should be the official bird of the Moron Horde.

Along with the booby.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:19 AM (9yWhg)

262 There is a growing trend of yuutes learning to drive stick shift as it’s now seen as something classic or vintage/retro.

It will never become mainstream again. But don’t assume every 28 year old is bewildered by the 3rd pedal.

Posted by: Montec at April 16, 2024 10:20 AM (tpjlM)

263
Recently. He's around. And an insomniac like me, so I see him a bit at vile hours of the morning.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 16, 2024 10:17 AM (A3700)



Ah, ok. So, if I happen to log in during daytime hours on my trip over the next couple weeks, I might bump into him.

Thanks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:20 AM (vf0Uk)

264 Can we interest you in an Iron Dome installation?
Posted by: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems at April 16, 2024 10:15 AM (OguvZ)
++++
Of course.

I doubt I can afford it, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:16 AM (HnUIn)

Whip up an Iron Done system on the cheap. When they start selling fireworks again just go get some bottle rockets and Roman candles and rig them up around your window. When psycho bird comes back just light a few fuses and watch the show.

Posted by: Robert is not responsible for damaged windows at April 16, 2024 10:20 AM (6n5FQ)

265 Ad campaign for Cascade dish detergent?

Posted by: Muldoon at April 16, 2024 10:20 AM (991eG)

266 Well, I know a math degree isn't required to be a Cob, but-

I was sure that being a Cob at AOSHQ at least required an Ornithology Degree.

I'm shocked!
Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2024 10:18 AM (eDfFs)
++++
Nepots everywhere, man...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:20 AM (HnUIn)

267 Nope, Cataract automobiles!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 16, 2024 10:21 AM (991eG)

268 NBC: Police took possession of E. Jean Carroll's unregistered gun after her testimony in Trump defamation trial. With trump and the magats who can blame her. But with the trial beginning monday why did NBC deem it appropriate to publish this story now?

So there was no attempt by law enforcement to help her get a license?

The New York pistol permit process can be an incredible PITA depending upon which county you are in. The closer you are to NYC, the harder it can get.

That's the dilemma. If E Jean Carroll had registered the gun, it would have hit the papers. And may have attracted lone wolves, seeking vengeance for their President.

As she didn't register the gun, she broke the law and lost the weapon for her protection, again, attracting lone wolves.


She should buy another.

Where are the gun wavers? The NRA? Thye should be defending her.

A High Standard 9-cylinder is a .22. About as innocuous a revolver as you can buy. Definitely not a Dirty Harry hand cannon.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 16, 2024 10:21 AM (9zoFk)

269 Bring back the floor mounted headlight dimmer switch!

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at April 16, 2024 10:21 AM (dg+HA)

270 217 what kind of bird?
Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2024 10:09 AM (eDfFs)
++++
I dunno. I ain't no ornithologist!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:10 AM (HnUIn)

It's a she-bird, and she's interested in pecker.

Posted by: Auspex at April 16, 2024 10:21 AM (j4U/Z)

271 I think the great tit should be the official bird of the Moron Horde.

Along with the booby.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:19 AM (9yWhg)



Boobs against glass > birds smashing into glass

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:21 AM (vf0Uk)

272 Great tit, not bushtit?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2024 10:21 AM (vj+K4)

273 Yeah operator is the equivalent of pressing zero. It’s interpreted the same way.
Posted by: Montec at April 16, 2024 10:17 AM (tpjlM)

Didn't the zero button on old telephones have "OPER" on them as well as the zero for that reason?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 16, 2024 10:21 AM (nSG+M)

274 More fun with boomers. Ask them to send a telegraph via Morse code. 🤣
Posted by: Montec
-------
*?*
All of the know-code amateurs that I know are boomers.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2024 10:21 AM (XeU6L)

275 ++++
I dunno. I ain't no ornithologist!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:10 AM (HnUIn)



What does dental work have to do with any of this?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:22 AM (vf0Uk)

276 Monty Python, like the Bible, contains every conceivable aspect of the human condition. You just have to work hard to find it.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot

If it's not in Ye Olde Holy Bible you can probably find it in Seinfeld.
Posted by: Robert


If it's not in Ye Olde Holy Bible you can probably find it in Blazing Saddles.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 10:22 AM (/SITW)

277 Here we go again:

@RepThomasMassie
39m
I just told Mike Johnson in conference that I’m cosponsoring the Motion to Vacate that was introduced by @RepMTG.

He should pre-announce his resignation (as Boehner did), so we can pick a new Speaker without ever being without a GOP Speaker.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 16, 2024 10:22 AM (3ImbR)

278 Boobies aren't real.

Posted by: Wait. You sure? at April 16, 2024 10:23 AM (dg+HA)

279 @amuse @amuse 6h
John Cougar Meloncamp stormed off stage when his fans pushed back against his Biden propaganda. More audiences need to push back on artists who use their stages to promote the Biden regime.

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 1h
A limit has been reached
https://tinyurl.com/294969k2
56 seconds; LNSFW LOUD

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 16, 2024 10:23 AM (vtyCZ)

280 Don't worry. I can fix it. My dad has a great set of tools.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at April 16, 2024 10:23 AM (Aoykm)

281 Earth is spinning faster than it used to. Clocks might have to skip a second to keep up.

I blame the wind turbines ...

Posted by: SMOD at April 16, 2024 10:24 AM (RHGPo)

282

If it's not in Ye Olde Holy Bible you can probably find it in Blazing Saddles

Joey, have you ever seen a grown man naked?

Posted by: Airplane! at April 16, 2024 10:24 AM (dg+HA)

283 https://x.com/gregisenberg/status/1777697410350768187

Dear heavens. Man spends $10k a month on AI girlfriends.

Posted by: Piper at April 16, 2024 10:24 AM (ZdaMQ)

284 My credit union has a “live human answer the phone” policy. I love that. It’s a small thing and I call maybe once a year. But it’s the small things that differentiate businesses and keep loyal customers.

Posted by: Montec at April 16, 2024 10:24 AM (tpjlM)

285 279 @amuse @amuse 6h
John Cougar Meloncamp stormed off stage when his fans pushed back against his Biden propaganda. More audiences need to push back on artists who use their stages to promote the Biden regime.

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 1h
A limit has been reached
https://tinyurl.com/294969k2
56 seconds; LNSFW LOUD
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 16, 2024 10:23 AM (vtyCZ)

So that's his name this week?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 16, 2024 10:24 AM (nSG+M)

286 Eric Abbenante @EricAbbenante 11h
Rachel Maddow: "If this trial is about something that happened in the lead up to the 2016 election, nearly 8 years ago, why is it coming to trial now?"

Because the left is blatantly weaponizing the justice system to take out their top political opponent. Duh

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 16, 2024 10:24 AM (vtyCZ)

287 What does dental work have to do with any of this?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:22 AM (vf0Uk)
++++
Those bastards have their sticky fingers in everything, that's what.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:24 AM (HnUIn)

288 277 Here we go again:

@RepThomasMassie
39m
I just told Mike Johnson in conference that I’m cosponsoring the Motion to Vacate that was introduced by @RepMTG.

He should pre-announce his resignation (as Boehner did), so we can pick a new Speaker without ever being without a GOP Speaker.
Posted by: IrishEi at April 16, 2024 10:22 AM (3ImbR)

hell yeah, Massie is great

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at April 16, 2024 10:24 AM (V6W16)

289 281 Earth is spinning faster than it used to. Clocks might have to skip a second to keep up.

I blame the wind turbines ...
Posted by: SMOD at April 16, 2024 10:24 AM (RHGPo)

I blame global warming.
- Sunny from The View

Posted by: Montec at April 16, 2024 10:25 AM (tpjlM)

290 @amuse 6h
John Cougar Meloncamp stormed off stage when his fans pushed back against his Biden propaganda. More audiences need to push back on artists who use their stages to promote the Biden regime.



Saw a video of it. Wow, not that he ever had a good voice, but he's HORRIBLE now and there's no WAY I'd pay money to see him perform now. Might as well find a tribute band somewhere as it would sound SOOO much better than him now, I'm sure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:25 AM (vf0Uk)

291
A High Standard 9-cylinder is a .22. About as innocuous a revolver as you can buy. Definitely not a Dirty Harry hand cannon.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions
-------

'9-cylinder'? Uh, no.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2024 10:25 AM (XeU6L)

292 Earth is spinning faster than it used to. Clocks might have to skip a second to keep up.

I blame the wind turbines ...
Posted by: SMOD

That would slow the earth down not speed it up.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron " Lex Talionis " at April 16, 2024 10:25 AM (6uE0M)

293 Earth is spinning faster than it used to. Clocks might have to skip a second to keep up.

I blame the wind turbines ...
Posted by: SMOD


Simply turn them so they blow the other way. Sheesh.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 10:25 AM (/SITW)

294 omg I have always always hated John Booger Melonhead

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 16, 2024 10:25 AM (AcWfM)

295 Don't worry. I can fix it. My dad has a great set of tools.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at April 16, 2024 10:23 AM (Aoykm)



Is he a TV repairman?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:25 AM (vf0Uk)

296 268 lone wolves, seeking vengeance for their President
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 16, 2024 10:21 AM (9zoFk)

No one can possibly have written that.

Posted by: m at April 16, 2024 10:26 AM (o3SCB)

297 Saw a video of it. Wow, not that he ever had a good voice, but he's HORRIBLE now and there's no WAY I'd pay money to see him perform now. Might as well find a tribute band somewhere as it would sound SOOO much better than him now, I'm sure.
Posted by: Sponge
-------

Mellencamp has always been a lefty.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2024 10:26 AM (XeU6L)

298
So that's his name this week?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 16, 2024 10:24 AM (nSG+M)



I've been calling him John Melonhead Cougar for a while now.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:26 AM (vf0Uk)

299 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE 'IMMERSE' CAN MEAN TO ENGAGE FULLY IN A SUBJECT OR IT CAN MEAN TO COVER COMPLETELY WITH WATER...

OH HELL! NEVER MIND, IT'S NOT THAT FUNNY. NOT EVEN THE JAMES MONROE GETS IT.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at April 16, 2024 10:26 AM (991eG)

300 Paddle faster, I hear banjos.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 16, 2024


***
I was gypped out of an Academy Award for that flick. All because I did that stupid photoshoot for Playgirl!

Posted by: Zombie Burt Reynolds at April 16, 2024 10:27 AM (J2vNu)

301 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:25 AM (vf0Uk)

You know him???

Posted by: Jak Sucio at April 16, 2024 10:27 AM (Aoykm)

302 He’s back to Cougar? I thought he dropped that. And holy shit do these fossils ever retire? Rolling Stones are touring again. Mick is fucking 80 years old.

Posted by: Montec at April 16, 2024 10:27 AM (tpjlM)

303 There is a growing trend of yuutes learning to drive stick shift as it’s now seen as something classic or vintage/retro.

It will never become mainstream again. But don’t assume every 28 year old is bewildered by the 3rd pedal.
Posted by: Montec

Heh. When I was at the stone place picking out our countertop, the kid driving the fork lift couldn't have been more than 8-9. He was damned skilled too. Of course, not a stick but still . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at April 16, 2024 10:27 AM (WXNFJ)

304
Mellencamp has always been a lefty.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2024 10:26 AM (XeU6L)



I learned to ignore him when he stated Pearl Harbor didn't happen as written because he wasn't there to witness it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:27 AM (vf0Uk)

305 Communist Cuba on the brink of collapse

The future of Cuba and the trajectory of communism are under threat, with citizens fighting back against the regime. Protesters are taking to the streets amid an ongoing economic crisis, making their concerns heard. Cuba’s communist leadership is facing a fierce backlash that has not been seen since similar protests in July 2021. Since the 2021 protests, it is estimated that nearly 500,000 Cubans have sought refuge in the United States.

.. obviously we know it will be claimed that Cuba really never had "true communism"

Posted by: SMOD at April 16, 2024 10:27 AM (RHGPo)

306 John Cougar Meloncamp stormed off stage when his fans pushed back against his Biden propaganda. More audiences need to push back on artists who use their stages to promote the Biden regime.

Somebody must be watching a different vid than the one linked. All I saw was a fan yelling at JCM, him pushing back - "you don't know me" - and the crowd cheering him on, yelling in disappointment when he left the stage.

That sure as hell doesn't look or sound like 'pushback' to me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 16, 2024 10:27 AM (Q0kLU)

307 Boat is going slooooooow this morning. Apparently there's a momma humpback whale and her calf in the bay.

I hope I get to see them!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 16, 2024 10:27 AM (CDGpN)

308 I'm actually amazed he's alive and still has people paying to see him. He looked rough on those VH1 "Remember the 80s" shows and that was 20+ years ago

Posted by: brak at April 16, 2024 10:27 AM (AR07F)

309 Want to have fun with a boomer? Ask them to start a car from the 1910s. Knee slapping fun.
Posted by: Montec at April 16, 2024 10:07 AM (tpjlM)

Wanna bet a thousand bucks? This boomer (77 this year) can, and would. And our son, born in 1983 can and would, as well.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 16, 2024 10:28 AM (iODuv)

310 Johnny Cougar Mellencamp: "You know what? Shows over."

Promise?

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at April 16, 2024 10:28 AM (JCLJi)

311
You know him???
Posted by: Jak Sucio at April 16, 2024 10:27 AM (Aoykm)



They ALWAYS have bitchen tools.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:28 AM (vf0Uk)

312 Boat is going slooooooow this morning. Apparently there's a momma humpback whale and her calf in the bay.

I hope I get to see them!
Posted by: nurse ratched


Ya gonna rub their tummies?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:28 AM (9yWhg)

313 Little Pink Houses is a socialist anthem.

Posted by: Montec at April 16, 2024 10:28 AM (tpjlM)

314 @amuse
John Cougar Meloncamp stormed off stage when his fans pushed back against his Biden propaganda. More audiences need to push back on artists who use their stages to promote the Biden regime. ...
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 16, 2024 10:23 AM (vtyCZ)
++++
LOL.

That dude paid to hear him sing and play, not propagandize and had the temerity to remind him of that. If he had any class at all, he'd have said something like, "okay, that doesn't interest you. Let's get back to the music then, eh?" Or, if he had less class but still even a scintilla of respect for his audience, he could have just ignored the heckler, continued his spiel anyway, and then finished his set.

Or insult the audience and storm off like a little bitch. Whatever.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:28 AM (HnUIn)

315 Johnny Cougar Mellencamp: "You know what? Shows over."

Promise?
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at April 16, 2024 10:28 AM (JCLJi)



All because one dude told him they just wanted to hear music.

What an obnoxious asshole that f*ck is. Glad I've never given him a DIME over my lifetime.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:29 AM (vf0Uk)

316 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 16, 2024 10:21 AM

Do these DUmmies know about the Gun Thread? Should we invite them? They might be fun to play with.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 16, 2024 10:29 AM (Wnv9h)

317 Little Pink Houses is a socialist anthem.

Posted by: Montec at April 16, 2024 10:28 AM (tpjlM)



*Born in the USA has entered the chat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:30 AM (vf0Uk)

318 Mike Johnson turned on us shortly after he met with Paul Ryan.

Paul Ryan. The man who had all of Congress, the Supreme Court and the White House, did everything he could to destroy President Trump's presidency at every turn and further divide the Republican party. He did absolutely nothing to help make America great again. Just the opposite. Ryan is a cancer.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 16, 2024 10:30 AM (3ImbR)

319 ooh it's National Orchid Day

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 16, 2024 10:30 AM (AcWfM)

320 "Well then, there Diane, we ought to run off to the city"
Diane says, "Baby, you ain't missin' nothing"
And Jackie say, uh

Posted by: SMOD at April 16, 2024 10:30 AM (RHGPo)

321 Somebody must be watching a different vid than the one linked. All I saw was a fan yelling at JCM, him pushing back - "you don't know me" - and the crowd cheering him on, yelling in disappointment when he left the stage.

That sure as hell doesn't look or sound like 'pushback' to me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 16, 2024 10:27 AM (Q0kLU)
++++
It sounded like a heckler to me, yeah. And the audience was largely (or at least most-noisily) on Mellencamp's side.

He still behaved like a little bitch, insulted his audience and cut the show short. It looks even *worse* for Mellencamp, because it didn't appear to be "the crowd." He wigged out and quit over a heckler.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:31 AM (HnUIn)

322 My credit union has a “live human answer the phone” policy. I love that. It’s a small thing and I call maybe once a year. But it’s the small things that differentiate businesses and keep loyal customers.
Posted by: Montec


Our company's Customer Service Department has phones answered 24/7/365 with a live body based in the US. And if you call during office hours, you get your dedicated cs rep unless they are on vacation. Yeah. I've handled some companies for 20 years.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 10:31 AM (/SITW)

323 What does dental work have to do with any of this?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:22 AM (vf0Uk)
----
They are gumming up the works.

Posted by: Ciampino - how to lose anything the easy way at April 16, 2024 10:31 AM (qfLjt)

324 Boobies aren't real.
Posted by: Wait. You sure?
------

Yeah, not true. I dispute it thus:

https://tinyurl.com/2bsjvcn8

Posted by: Blue-footed Boobies at April 16, 2024 10:31 AM (XeU6L)

325 I mean I'm upset about Henry Rollins (altho, from DC and trust fund baby so his poisonous politics shouldn't surprise) but Booger Melonhead was always an asshat leftist

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 16, 2024 10:31 AM (AcWfM)

326 AI girlfriends?

We finally getting closer to seeing Joi from Bladerunner 2049?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 16, 2024 10:31 AM (g0rWy)

327 314 @amuse
John Cougar Meloncamp stormed off stage when his fans pushed back against his Biden propaganda
-------------------

Didn't Linda Ronstadt have a similar experience in Las Vegas over Bush?

Posted by: Braenyard at April 16, 2024 10:32 AM (uyqzN)

328 Earth is spinning faster than it used to. Clocks might have to skip a second to keep up.

I blame the wind turbines ...
Posted by: SMOD at April 16, 2024 10:24 AM (RHGPo)

I blame global warming.
- Sunny from The View
Posted by: Montec at April 16, 2024 10:25 AM (tpjlM)

I blame Trump and I will prosecute the bastard!!

Posted by: Alvin Bragg Prosecutor Extraordinaire at April 16, 2024 10:32 AM (iODuv)

329 Even Gerry Rivers canoeing knows...

Geraldo Rivera @GeraldoRivera 18h
Like New York Attorney-General Letitia James, NY County District Attorney Alvin Bragg is an elected Democrat who openly campaigned that he was going to get Donald Trump.

This lawfare is undignified, indeed un-American. If I represented Trump I would file a Bar complaint. For political activists to stoop to this level, to make garbage precedent about the 1st criminal prosecution of a former President is shameful. Targeted persecution should not be part of our criminal justice system. This isn’t justice, this is politics.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 16, 2024 10:32 AM (vtyCZ)

330 Johnny Cougar Mellencamp: "You know what? Shows over."

Promise?
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at April 16, 2024 10:28 AM (JCLJi)


Welp...that hurt so good.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2024 10:32 AM (eDfFs)

331 ooh it's National Orchid Day
Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 16, 2024 10:30 AM (AcWfM)
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Geeze. How many days do you people get?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:32 AM (HnUIn)

332 Boy does that painting bring back some chilly memories.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2024 10:32 AM (LkLld)

333 OFF SOOCK!!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 16, 2024 10:32 AM (991eG)

334 Bladerunner 2049 was so boring I fell asleep.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2024 10:33 AM (RIvkX)

335 326 AI girlfriends?
We finally getting closer to seeing Joi from Bladerunner 2049?

Posted by: Anna Puma
------------------------

I'm waiting for the one that can cook.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 16, 2024 10:33 AM (uyqzN)

336 A High Standard 9-cylinder is a .22

A rare, special gun indeed!

Posted by: Piper at April 16, 2024 10:33 AM (ZdaMQ)

337 What does dental work have to do with any of this?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:22 AM (vf0Uk)
----
They are gumming up the works.
Posted by: Ciampino


That's an incisor comment.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:33 AM (9yWhg)

338 Scratches
Looks around.
Dang...That is one serious water hazard. Speaking of...it's Geezer Gold Tuesday! Be sure to rub the bellies of your favorite golfing geezer! Oh...wait. That's nurse's tummy thing for her cat. Never mind.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 16, 2024 09:38 AM (W/lyH)
++++
This scantily-clad, caffeinated blonde at golden hour has you covered:
http://tiny.cc/r2qsxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:33 AM (HnUIn)

339 Greetings! The AI stuff is spooky. As a side benefit, it consumes electricity like mad.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 16, 2024 10:34 AM (MeG8a)

340 Or insult the audience and storm off like a little bitch. Whatever.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
========
Leftists have reached the point where they literally cannot take a punch to the face and so they do storm off and pout like a teenager when confronted. Same as the gay snowflake activist at Vandy that got expelled for a pro HamAss sitin.

That is why if and when the levee breaks, it won't be pleasant for the AWFLs and their twink allies.

Posted by: whig at April 16, 2024 10:34 AM (z97rz)

341 It will never become mainstream again. But don’t assume every 28 year old is bewildered by the 3rd pedal.
Posted by: Montec
~~~~~

Each of my kids was taught on a standard transmission and took their road test on one. They love them and now will only buy cars with sticks, which, sadly, are getting harder to find.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 16, 2024 10:34 AM (3ImbR)

342 Geraldo Rivera @GeraldoRivera 18h
Like New York Attorney-General Letitia James, NY County District Attorney Alvin Bragg is an elected Democrat who openly campaigned that he was going to get Donald Trump.

This lawfare is undignified, indeed un-American. If I represented Trump I would file a Bar complaint. For political activists to stoop to this level, to make garbage precedent about the 1st criminal prosecution of a former President is shameful. Targeted persecution should not be part of our criminal justice system. This isn’t justice, this is politics.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 16, 2024 10:32 AM (vtyCZ)



Yet, you still back and support them.

GFY, prick.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:34 AM (vf0Uk)

343 I mean I'm upset about Henry Rollins

That guy always came across as a fraud.

Not as bad as the Rage Against My Daddy's Trust Fund singer but...pretty obvious.

Rollins is exactly as punk as Hillary Clinton and Pete Bootyjuice

Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2024 10:34 AM (ibTVg)

344 316 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 16, 2024 10:21 AM

Do these DUmmies know about the Gun Thread? Should we invite them? They might be fun to play with.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

DU does have a dedicated forum for pro gun people. When anyone is pro gun in another thread, the normal Lefties tell them to take their gun-humping beliefs to the "Gungeon" forum.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 16, 2024 10:34 AM (9zoFk)

345 This scantily-clad, caffeinated blonde at golden hour has you covered:
http://tiny.cc/r2qsxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)


She's chilly. Needs the coffee to warm up.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:35 AM (9yWhg)

346 Acura brought back the Integra and due to popular demand the top trim level is available with a manual. Pretty nice looking car, too. Still, the manual's days are numbered.

Posted by: brak at April 16, 2024 10:35 AM (AR07F)

347 339 Greetings! The AI stuff is spooky. As a side benefit, it consumes electricity like mad.
Posted by: gourmand du jour
=======
The large language models are not particularly useful over time as they go insane in unpredictable ways as Pixy's news stories have indicated. Right now, it is this 'new thing' like Block Chain was before.

Useful in walled content gardens for specialist level perusal--not so good at replacing Encyclopedia Britannica for the general public.

Posted by: whig at April 16, 2024 10:36 AM (z97rz)

348 Want to have fun with a boomer? Ask them to start a car from the 1910s. Knee slapping fun.
Posted by: Montec


Ask a millennial to pop start a car.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 10:36 AM (/SITW)

349 Mellencamp spoke out about his growing frustration with modern concert etiquette in a new interview with The Washington Post.

“I do expect etiquette inside of the theater, the same way you would at a Broadway show,” he told the publication. “My shows are not really concerts anymore. They’re performances, and there’s a difference between a performance and a concert. Look, I’m not for everyone anymore. I’m just not. And if you want to come and scream and yell and get drunk, don’t come to my show.”

... I sort of thought that speakers on college campuses should get the same treatment. Mellencamp's problem is that he got the same treatment speakers on college campuses get.

Posted by: SMOD at April 16, 2024 10:36 AM (RHGPo)

350 Acura brought back the Integra and due to popular demand the top trim level is available with a manual. Pretty nice looking car, too. Still, the manual's days are numbered.
Posted by: brak at April 16, 2024 10:35 AM (AR07F)
++++
Yeah. Long gone are the days of "if you want good gas mileage, get a manual" and with CAFE, automatics are sort of needed at this point to squeeze out the fuel economy requirements. And if you're a city-dweller stuck in rush hour, manuals are a pain in the ass.

They're not going away, but they're essentially niche and are likely to stay that way.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:37 AM (HnUIn)

351 Yeah Balderunner 2049 was not immersive Noir-esqe like the original. The pacing was slower and the plot meandered. And some of the plot points were plain stupid.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 16, 2024 10:37 AM (g0rWy)

352 My very favorite photo of Mellencamp:

https://tinyurl.com/2k7y2b47

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2024 10:37 AM (XeU6L)

353 Posted by: Joe Mannix

How do you turn a page in a book with your knee on the page?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron " Lex Talionis " at April 16, 2024 10:37 AM (6uE0M)

354 >>Ask a millennial to pop start a car.

Ask them to read a map.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2024 10:37 AM (LkLld)

355 DU does have a dedicated forum for pro gun people. When anyone is pro gun in another thread, the normal Lefties tell them to take their gun-humping beliefs to the "Gungeon" forum.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 16, 2024 10:34 AM


Hmm...I did not know that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 16, 2024 10:37 AM (Wnv9h)

356 Katherine Maher @krmaher 4 Jun 2020 Replying to @Beirutspring @beirutwhat
It's incredibly sloppy, and then there's the racism. But the inside baseball is that people have been criticising Bennet's leadership of the op-ed section for employing a strategy that preferences sensationalism over critical thinking for some time now.

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo 18h
New NPR CEO joined the mob that was mobilizing against then-NYT editor James Bennet for publishing the Tom Cotton op-ed. This is the ideology she will bring to NPR: “Only Certain Things Considered.”

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 16, 2024 10:38 AM (vtyCZ)

357
Ask a millennial to pop start a car.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 10:36 AM (/SITW)



Ask them to start a manual transmission car built after 1990.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:38 AM (vf0Uk)

358 Ask a millennial to pop start a car.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 10:36 AM (/SITW)
++++
:: raises hand ::

I was young and broke and the starter didn't work. I roll-started my car for the entire summer until I could buy a new starter. I didn't want to be roll-starting in a Colorado winter.

I got damn good at finding places to park with *just* enough slope to pull it off.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:38 AM (HnUIn)

359 This scantily-clad, caffeinated blonde at golden hour has you covered:
http://tiny.cc/r2qsxz


She's a repeat, and well worth it. It's amazing how some images just stick in your brain.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 16, 2024 10:38 AM (CsUN+)

360 Greetings! The AI stuff is spooky. As a side benefit, it consumes electricity like mad.

Posted by: gourmand du jour


We're starvin' here and you bring AI's to the table?!?!


Fuck all y'all. Just fuck you!!!

We were here first!!!!

Posted by: EVs at April 16, 2024 10:38 AM (eDfFs)

361 Monty Python, like the Bible, contains every conceivable aspect of the human condition. You just have to work hard to find it.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot

If it's not in Ye Olde Holy Bible you can probably find it in Seinfeld.
Posted by: Robert


If it's not in Ye Olde Holy Bible you can probably find it in Blazing Saddles.

Posted by: rickb223


Wait, so no more with the Godfather and Goodfellas?

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at April 16, 2024 10:38 AM (OUMaO)

362 “I do expect etiquette inside of the theater, the same way you would at a Broadway show,” he told the publication. “My shows are not really concerts anymore. They’re performances, and there’s a difference between a performance and a concert.

Pompous, no-talent, asswipe says what?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 16, 2024 10:39 AM (CsUN+)

363 Ask them to read a map.


oh come on that's Zoomers who've never known a world without smart phones. Millennials are rolling into their 40s

Posted by: brak at April 16, 2024 10:39 AM (AR07F)

364 ... “I do expect etiquette inside of the theater, the same way you would at a Broadway show,” he told the publication. “My shows are not really concerts anymore. They’re performances, and there’s a difference between a performance and a concert. Look, I’m not for everyone anymore. I’m just not. And if you want to come and scream and yell and get drunk, don’t come to my show.” ...
Posted by: SMOD at April 16, 2024 10:36 AM (RHGPo)
++++
Okay. But is he selling concerts, or is he selling multi-point "performances?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:39 AM (HnUIn)

365 Do these DUmmies know about the Gun Thread? Should we invite them? They might be fun to play with.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
--------
No. Had to deal with the few pro gun leftists as a mod at a general firearm site years ago. They cannot help but put their psychoses into their comments. They are essentially useless as supporters of the 2A because they buy guns as a fear response from imaginary issues or they have them because of a personal issue in their life (being stalked, etc.). All too often, they support 'reasonable' restrictions because they have their guns Jack as a bulwark against the White Christian Nationalists or whoever the media tells them to hate.

Posted by: whig at April 16, 2024 10:40 AM (z97rz)

366 Saw a video of it. Wow, not that he ever had a good voice, but he's HORRIBLE now and there's no WAY I'd pay money to see him perform now. Might as well find a tribute band somewhere as it would sound SOOO much better than him now, I'm sure.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:25 AM (vf0Uk)


Tribute bands are a great way to enjoy the music of a band / artist at a tremendous value. They put in an outstanding effort to sound like the original performers, and they tend to adhere to the "shut up and sing" approach. Sometimes you can see multiple bands for a very reasonable price.

Last year I saw a double bill -- Stone Temple Pilots and Pearl Jam tribute bands back to back for $25 at a very small venue. They were both amazing, and I didn't have to pay a ton of money to be far away from the stage and listen to a bunch of douchebaggery coming out of Eddie Vedder's mouth.

Posted by: Doof at April 16, 2024 10:40 AM (JunzL)

367 A High Standard 9-cylinder is a .22

A rare, special gun indeed!
Posted by: Piper
-------

High capacity...should be banned.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2024 10:40 AM (XeU6L)

368 Yeah Balderunner 2049 was not immersive Noir-esqe like the original.


If you see me running, you'd best catch up. Because I've expended all ammo and bad juju is coming.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 10:40 AM (/SITW)

369 260 243 Sigh. The monomaniacal bird has returned, and has resumed its life's purpose of repeatedly flying into the living room window.


According to JT it seems to help if the birdbath is outside.
Posted by: The more you know at April 16, 2024 10:18 AM (dg+HA)

I never figured birds to be stupid until I moved to the Panhandle. I have been hitting them as a matter of routing with my truck.

YOU HAVE THESE THINGS CALLED "WINGS". USE THEM!!!

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 16, 2024 10:40 AM (nSG+M)

370 The place for your stick shift, considering today's slick 10speed auto's, is in your analogue get out of town vehicle. My pick is a
52 Chevy p/u - lots of parts and interchangeable parts more than any other.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 16, 2024 10:41 AM (uyqzN)

371 “I do expect etiquette inside of the theater, the same way you would at a Broadway show,”



Lauren Boebert says "What?"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:41 AM (9yWhg)

372 My credit union has a “live human answer the phone” policy. I love that. It’s a small thing and I call maybe once a year. But it’s the small things that differentiate businesses and keep loyal customers.
Posted by: Montec

Navy Federal CU for the win. One call center in Virginia always staffed with Americans.

And they WANT to help you. Amazing.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 16, 2024 10:41 AM (WXNFJ)

373 I never figured birds to be stupid until I moved to the Panhandle. I have been hitting them as a matter of routing with my truck. ...
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 16, 2024 10:40 AM (nSG+M)
++++
Well, if you're picking routes to maximize bird impacts, you can hardly complain when you achieve your goal ...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:41 AM (HnUIn)

374 Last year I saw a double bill -- Stone Temple Pilots and Pearl Jam tribute bands back to back for $25 at a very small venue. They were both amazing, and I didn't have to pay a ton of money to be far away from the stage and listen to a bunch of douchebaggery coming out of Eddie Vedder's mouth.
Posted by: Doof at April 16, 2024 10:40 AM (JunzL)

Who do they have as a vocalist for STP now?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 16, 2024 10:41 AM (nSG+M)

375 >>oh come on that's Zoomers who've never known a world without smart phones. Millennials are rolling into their 40s

GPS systems in cars starting showing up in the 1990s. It's even worse in boats.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2024 10:42 AM (LkLld)

376 Axios @axios 9h
Ant populations are marching one by one out of their natural habitat due to climate change. This signals yet another sign of the "insect apocalypse" that devastated their diversity and overall population worldwide.

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 1h
We'd better eat them while they last.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 16, 2024 10:42 AM (vtyCZ)

377 Who do they have as a vocalist for STP now?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 16, 2024 10:41 AM (nSG+M)


Zombie Richard Petty?

Posted by: Doof at April 16, 2024 10:42 AM (JunzL)

378 343 I mean I'm upset about Henry Rollins

That guy always came across as a fraud.

Not as bad as the Rage Against My Daddy's Trust Fund singer but...pretty obvious.

Rollins is exactly as punk as Hillary Clinton and Pete Bootyjuice
Posted by: 18-1
=======
All celebutards are suspect unless they have been publicly through the fire and suffered for their beliefs by losing their former livelihood--like James Wood and now apparently JK Rowling on trans issues.

Posted by: whig at April 16, 2024 10:42 AM (z97rz)

379 Navy Federal CU for the win. One call center in Virginia always staffed with Americans.

And they WANT to help you. Amazing.
Posted by: Tonypete


I need to call them. Was never in the Navy, yet they keep emailing me about my account.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 10:43 AM (/SITW)

380 @axios 9h
Ant populations are marching one by one out of their natural habitat due to climate change. This signals yet another sign of the "insect apocalypse" that devastated their diversity and overall population worldwide. ...
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 16, 2024 10:42 AM (vtyCZ)
++++
Something tells me that if I bothered to read the article, the claims would be totally unsubstantiated.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:43 AM (HnUIn)

381 Mellencamp has always been a lefty putz.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2024 10:26 AM (XeU6L)

fify

Posted by: BignJames at April 16, 2024 10:43 AM (AwYPR)

382 Who do they have as a vocalist for STP now?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 16, 2024 10:41 AM (nSG+M)

Zombie Richard Petty?
Posted by: Doof


Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 10:43 AM (/SITW)

383 Navy Federal CU for the win. One call center in Virginia always staffed with Americans.

And they WANT to help you. Amazing.
Posted by: Tonypete
=======
Navy Federal is nice to do business with but so are other credit unions. A few banks that I have dealt with also make the grade.

Posted by: whig at April 16, 2024 10:44 AM (z97rz)

384 All celebutards are suspect unless they have been publicly through the fire and suffered for their beliefs by losing their former livelihood--like James Wood and now apparently JK Rowling on trans issues.

JKR will be absolutely fine, even if she never sells another book, but she will. James Wood took much more of a career hit.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 16, 2024 10:44 AM (CsUN+)

385 Axios @axios 9h
Ant populations are marching one by one out of their natural habitat due to climate change. This signals yet another sign of the "insect apocalypse" that devastated their diversity and overall population worldwide.


Time to watch Phase IV again? Or maybe Them!?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 16, 2024 10:44 AM (g0rWy)

386 Ant populations are marching one by one out of their natural habitat due to climate change. This signals yet another sign of the "insect apocalypse" that devastated their diversity and overall population worldwide. ...


ha ha! good

eff the ants

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 16, 2024 10:44 AM (AcWfM)

387 350 Acura brought back the Integra and due to popular demand the top trim level is available with a manual. Pretty nice looking car, too. Still, the manual's days are numbered.
Posted by: brak at April 16, 2024 10:35 AM (AR07F)
++++
Yeah. Long gone are the days of "if you want good gas mileage, get a manual" and with CAFE, automatics are sort of needed at this point to squeeze out the fuel economy requirements. And if you're a city-dweller stuck in rush hour, manuals are a pain in the ass.

They're not going away, but they're essentially niche and are likely to stay that way.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:37 AM (HnUIn)

This is why I have not given up on my truck. The superiority of the manual transmission can't be beat. Even in city driving, I would much rather have the stick. It WILL move at the exact moment I TELL it to move. Try that with an automatic.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 16, 2024 10:45 AM (nSG+M)

388 Ant populations are marching one by one out of their natural habitat due to climate change.

They're all showing up in my kitchen.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 16, 2024 10:45 AM (CsUN+)

389 I need to call them. Was never in the Navy, yet they keep emailing me about my account.
Posted by: rickb223
========
If you served in the military in most any capacity (Guards and Reserves included) or in some cases are military adjacent (son or daughter of someone who served, spouse, etc.), you can join.

Posted by: whig at April 16, 2024 10:45 AM (z97rz)

390 386 Ant populations are marching one by one out of their natural habitat due to climate change. This signals yet another sign of the "insect apocalypse" that devastated their diversity and overall population worldwide. ...


ha ha! good

eff the ants
Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 16, 2024 10:44 AM (AcWfM)

Climate always changes.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 16, 2024 10:45 AM (nSG+M)

391 This scantily-clad, caffeinated blonde at golden hour has you covered:
http://tiny.cc/r2qsxz


**shrugs**

Not my type. But chacun a son gout, as the kids say.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 16, 2024 10:46 AM (Q0kLU)

392 Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 1h
A limit has been reached
https://tinyurl.com/294969k2


Dang, he hasn't aged well. And what's with the grandpa coveralls?

Posted by: Oddbob at April 16, 2024 10:46 AM (/y8xj)

393 Who do they have as a vocalist for STP now?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 16, 2024 10:41 AM (nSG+M)



Andy Granatelli.

And it's called being a spokesman, not a vocalist.

Yeeeesh!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2024 10:46 AM (eDfFs)

394 Or maybe Them!?
Posted by: Anna Puma


Them is one of my favorite flicks. The little girl who is catatonic at the beginning was an amazing actress.

Plus, Joan Weldon. Hubba hubba.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:46 AM (9yWhg)

395 Dang, he hasn't aged well. And what's with the grandpa coveralls?


that's his "look I'm a blue collar worker like you!" fakery

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 16, 2024 10:46 AM (AcWfM)

396 This doesn't sound too much like lying through stats...

Axios @axios 4h
🚨 NEW: In an election year, the U.S. is on track to see one of the lowest levels of violent crimes and homicides since President Obama was in office.

• Murders declined by nearly 20% in 204 cities during the first three months.

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 1h
I knew sending all of our ammo to Ukraine would work out.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 16, 2024 10:46 AM (vtyCZ)

397 This is why I have not given up on my truck. The superiority of the manual transmission can't be beat. Even in city driving, I would much rather have the stick. It WILL move at the exact moment I TELL it to move. Try that with an automatic.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 16, 2024 10:45 AM (nSG+M)
++++
Modern automatics are quite responsive. I don't really have a complaint on that front.

For me, the downside is that modern automatics are very complicated and therefore very expensive to service and you'd better be ready for *serious* pain if one of 'em has to be replaced.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:46 AM (HnUIn)

398
Time to watch Phase IV again? Or maybe Them!?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 16, 2024 10:44 AM (g0rWy)

(sigh) do we have to go through this AGAIN???

Don't get us started on Empire of the Ants either...

Posted by: Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein at April 16, 2024 10:47 AM (nSG+M)

399 I was young and broke and the starter didn't work. I roll-started my car for the entire summer until I could buy a new starter. I didn't want to be roll-starting in a Colorado winter.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:38 AM (HnUIn)
~~~~~

Same here with my old Beetle. Problem was I lived in NYC and trying to find a parking space on a corner and preferably on a slight hill was not easy.

There was another issue too. Parking a small car on a corner in any city is an invitation for someone to push your car into the intersection and then steal your parking space. Happened more than once. Ha!

Posted by: IrishEi at April 16, 2024 10:47 AM (3ImbR)

400 This scantily-clad, caffeinated blonde at golden hour has you covered:
http://tiny.cc/r2qsxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

This is a nice start to my day!

Posted by: Robert at April 16, 2024 10:47 AM (KF3WX)

401 2006-2008 Aston Martin V8 Vantage, if you can find one with a manual gearbox, can be had for less than the price of the new Acura Integra.

I'd rather the Aston, personally.

Posted by: ballistic at April 16, 2024 10:47 AM (oqH4h)

402 If you just don't investigate urban yutes shooting each other murder rates go way down...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2024 10:47 AM (ibTVg)

403 Richard Petty isn't dead.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:47 AM (vf0Uk)

404 Axios @axios 9h
Ant populations are marching one by one out of their natural habitat due to climate change. This signals yet another sign of the "insect apocalypse" that devastated their diversity and overall population worldwide.

Time to watch Phase IV again? Or maybe Them!?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 16, 2024 10:44 AM (g0rWy)


Or Empire of the Ants.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 16, 2024 10:47 AM (Q0kLU)

405 JKR will be absolutely fine, even if she never sells another book, but she will. James Wood took much more of a career hit.
Posted by: Archimedes
=========
Woods is probably all right money wise. It is all about the end of a career. JKR basically has cut herself off from the toxic publishing and now has pissed off Hollyweird. That takes guts and fakers ain't gonna do that.

Parker Posey is another James Wood situation over the trans issue.

Posted by: whig at April 16, 2024 10:47 AM (z97rz)

406 Beaten to the punch.

*kicks rock*

Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2024 10:48 AM (eDfFs)

407 I miss Lewis and Clark.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 16, 2024 10:48 AM (eYF7X)

408 2006-2008 Aston Martin V8 Vantage, if you can find one with a manual gearbox, can be had for less than the price of the new Acura Integra.

I'd rather the Aston, personally.
Posted by: ballistic at April 16, 2024 10:47 AM (oqH4h)
++++
Absolutely.

Posted by: Aston mechanic in Gucci overalls at April 16, 2024 10:48 AM (HnUIn)

409 This scantily-clad, caffeinated blonde at golden hour has you covered:
http://tiny.cc/r2qsxz


Her name is abby neff

Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2024 10:48 AM (ibTVg)

410 How quickly we forget, 'Empire of the Ants' movie poster, 1977

https://tinyurl.com/23ju98p9

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2024 10:48 AM (XeU6L)

411 I never had the patience to learn how to drive a stick, and no one had the patience to teach me.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:48 AM (9yWhg)

412 ooh it's National Orchid Day
Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 16, 2024


***
Have you ever noticed how much they resemble orchids? Lovely!

Posted by: Lazarus Long at April 16, 2024 10:49 AM (J2vNu)

413 Dang, he hasn't aged well. And what's with the grandpa coveralls?


that's his "look I'm a blue collar worker like you!" fakery


Psshhhhh. I know, right?

Posted by: Bruce Springsteen at April 16, 2024 10:49 AM (CsUN+)

414 Modern automatics are quite responsive. I don't really have a complaint on that front.

For me, the downside is that modern automatics are very complicated and therefore very expensive to service and you'd better be ready for *serious* pain if one of 'em has to be replaced.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
-----------
Easier to just buy a rebuilt one with a warranty than trying to sort through them unless you are AOP. Much cheaper on labor and time to simply swap units.

Posted by: whig at April 16, 2024 10:49 AM (z97rz)

415 Wow does that movie poster scream 'low budget cheese'

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 16, 2024 10:50 AM (g0rWy)

416 Modern automatics are quite responsive. I don't really have a complaint on that front.

For me, the downside is that modern automatics are very complicated and therefore very expensive to service and you'd better be ready for *serious* pain if one of 'em has to be replaced.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:46 AM (HnUIn)

Hmmm. This hasn't been my experience. They tend to hesitate when starting at, say, the light turning green.

Also, my biggest pet peeve when driving is people who do not know how to enter a highway. In my truck, I use the tach and keep the truck typically at third gear to match highway speed rapidly. I don't play around on an on ramp. Nothing pisses me off more than people who are hesitant there, or worse, stop on the on ramp.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 16, 2024 10:50 AM (nSG+M)

417 Her name is abby neff
Posted by: 18-1


Nee Abby Normal

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:50 AM (9yWhg)

418 411 I never had the patience to learn how to drive a stick, and no one had the patience to teach me.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
--------
I am out of practice but I learned on a clapped out 60's model 6x6 Army Dump truck.

Posted by: whig at April 16, 2024 10:50 AM (z97rz)

419 Easier to just buy a rebuilt one with a warranty than trying to sort through them unless you are AOP. Much cheaper on labor and time to simply swap units.
Posted by: whig at April 16, 2024 10:49 AM (z97rz)
++++
Yup, and this is what most transmission shops do if they can't be efficiently serviced.

Still, the price is gonna make you cry. Rivers. Of blood.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:50 AM (HnUIn)

420
Or Empire of the Ants.
Posted by: Mary Poppins
--------

Dang...beat me to it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2024 10:50 AM (XeU6L)

421 Ant populations are marching one by one out of their natural habitat due to climate change.

They're all showing up in my kitchen.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 16, 2024 10:45 AM (CsUN+)


My problem is houseflies in the attic. I have no idea where they're coming from. I suspect there may be something dead in the little storage spaces under the eaves, so I've got to mask / glove up and go searching. Right now I have fly paper all over the place.

I wouldn't particularly care, except the attic is my home office / writing den, and so I need it to be vermin-free.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 16, 2024 10:50 AM (Q0kLU)

422 Our new truck has a 10 speed Allison transmission. I must say, it's always in the right gear, especially when towing something.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 16, 2024 10:50 AM (eYF7X)

423 I never had the patience to learn how to drive a stick, and no one had the patience to teach me.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus



It really shouldn't take more than 15 minutes to learn.

Everything after that is practice.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:51 AM (vf0Uk)

424 I miss Lewis and Clark.
Posted by: Maj. Healey



Me too!

Posted by: Zombie Sacagawea at April 16, 2024 10:51 AM (/SITW)

425 I've had manuals in most of my vehicles until recently. My truck only came with a manual if you got the 4 cyl diesel. The wife's Explorer has a 10 speed auto... but does have paddle shifters.

I'm looking for something "sporty" with a stick, but not finding much.

Although there was a Dodge Challenger with a hemi V-8 Scat Pack that had a 6-speed. But... they were asking previous model Vette money for it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2024 10:51 AM (Q4IgG)

426 I learned to drive on a manual transmission International (early SUV! kinda)

it was a piece of garbage but my dad didn't care much if I hit things with it

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 16, 2024 10:51 AM (AcWfM)

427 It really shouldn't take more than 15 minutes to learn.

Everything after that is practice.
Posted by: Sponge


Not for me. I have a looooong learning curve when it comes to gadgets.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:52 AM (9yWhg)

428 Dang, he hasn't aged well. And what's with the grandpa coveralls?
Posted by: Oddbob
--------
He had a situation with his previous glam gold digger partner and that tends to age oneself. Getting rid of her meant that he could simply be himself is my guess. You can tell when a guy is simply out of the relationship market because they no longer try to please the distaff side.

Posted by: whig at April 16, 2024 10:52 AM (z97rz)

429 I learned to drive on a manual transmission International (early SUV! kinda)

it was a piece of garbage but my dad didn't care much if I hit things with it
Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 16, 2024 10:51 AM (AcWfM)
++++
Heh. Every member of the family except my mom did *some* kind of damage to the family pickup truck!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:52 AM (HnUIn)

430 Our new truck has a 10 speed Allison transmission. I must say, it's always in the right gear, especially when towing something.
Posted by: Maj. Healey


I like how our F150 has a dial.
Dial it to "Tow" and it adjusts.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 10:53 AM (/SITW)

431
Not for me. I have a looooong learning curve when it comes to gadgets.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:52 AM (9yWhg)



Fifteen. Minutes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:53 AM (vf0Uk)

432 I learned to drive on a manual transmission International (early SUV! kinda)

it was a piece of garbage but my dad didn't care much if I hit things with it
Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 16, 2024 10:51 AM (AcWfM)

Ha! He put you in a tank.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 16, 2024 10:53 AM (R4t5M)

433 Also, no one wanted their transmissions destroyed in trying to teach me.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:53 AM (9yWhg)

434 my oldest son drove a '54 Chevy 3100 to high school. He could leave the keys in it and it wouldn't get stolen because the kids couldn't figure out what all the levers, switches and buttons did. He was so in tune with that rig once he got it rolling he never used the clutch. He used a stick as his gas gauge.
He took it to UT and brought it back after about 6 weeks because he found out somebody with a pick up was always going to be moving cheap furniture around Austin.

Posted by: DanMan at April 16, 2024 10:53 AM (8uzBS)

435 >>I am out of practice but I learned on a clapped out 60's model 6x6 Army Dump truck.

Summer job the year I got my drivers license was with a construction company. First day the boss throws me the keys to the dump truck and tells me to hustle to the job site.

Alrighty then.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2024 10:53 AM (LkLld)

436 I am out of practice but I learned on a clapped out 60's model 6x6 Army Dump truck.
~~~~~

I learned on a rented Austin Mini 850 in Dublin with the stick on my left. Add that to driving on the wrong side of the road and you too will go over the O'Connell Street Bridge 15 times in 10 minutes.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 16, 2024 10:54 AM (3ImbR)

437 I learned to drive in an old GMC pickup in a hay field. 3 on the tree and a sticky clutch. I would still pay real money for a truck like that.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 16, 2024 10:54 AM (4XwPj)

438 Our new truck has a 10 speed Allison transmission. I must say, it's always in the right gear, especially when towing something.

In the Dave Dudley song "Six Days On The Road," he has a line about "ten forward gears and a Georgia overdrive," whatever that is / was.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 16, 2024 10:54 AM (Q0kLU)

439
Meh. On manual transmission.

I drove them for years.

Huge pain in the butt if you live anywhere that's hilly.

Esp when you have to stop at a stoplight pointed uphill.

I luvs me an automatic esp. the new fangled ones.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2024 10:54 AM (eDfFs)

440 First day the boss throws me the keys to the dump truck and tells me to hustle to the job site.
Alrighty then.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2024 10:53 AM (LkLld)
~~~~~

The best way. Like being thrown into a pool.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 16, 2024 10:55 AM (3ImbR)

441 I learned on a rented Austin Mini 850 in Dublin with the stick on my left. Add that to driving on the wrong side of the road and you too will go over the O'Connell Street Bridge 15 times in 10 minutes.


oh man! not sure if that sounds fun or not

but yeah knowing how to drive stick does help with traveling abroad, altho nothing helps when you have to drive a rental fiat

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 16, 2024 10:55 AM (AcWfM)

442 433 Also, no one wanted their transmissions destroyed in trying to teach me.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:53 AM (9yWhg)

I confess this is why I didn't teach my kids in my Wrangler - but they don't seem to mind too much.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 16, 2024 10:55 AM (T+Iwg)

443 I learned to drive on a manual transmission International (early SUV! kinda)

it was a piece of garbage but my dad didn't care much if I hit things with it
Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 16, 2024 10:51 AM


My friends and I all learned on a buddy's old Honda Civic hatchback. Fun little car to play with.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 16, 2024 10:55 AM (Wnv9h)

444 I learned stick on an old Chevy truck (early 60's model) that had 3 on the tree, and the gears were so loose you would just kind of wiggle the shifter around until you found a gear, and hoped it was the one you wanted.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 16, 2024 10:55 AM (i9ffA)

445 I never had the patience to learn how to drive a stick, and no one had the patience to teach me.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus


***
Same here. My father's cars, once I was old enough to insist on the two lousy lessons he ever gave me, were autoboxes. So was the future Mrs. Wolfus No. 1's Ford Maverick (a nice car for its day, esp. if you'd been riding buses or cadging rides from friends for a decade or more to get to school).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2024 10:56 AM (J2vNu)

446 >>The best way. Like being thrown into a pool.

I was more concerned about the other swimmers.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2024 10:56 AM (LkLld)

447 Still, the price is gonna make you cry. Rivers. Of blood.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
========
Nah. Fixing an old car is nothing like the expense and hit that you get when buying a new one. Even engine replacement become reasonable.

Major pain in the butt for older ones is things that are rubber/plastic based deteriorating from age and internal wiring. Often easier costwise if not time wise to simply replace the entire wiring harness than track down various shorts etc on a old vehicle.

Posted by: whig at April 16, 2024 10:56 AM (z97rz)

448 It really shouldn't take more than 15 minutes to learn.

Everything after that is practice.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 10:51 AM (vf0Uk

The concept takes less than that, even. The problem is figuring out how to get the car or truck rolling. Shifting from, say, second to third, is nothing. Taking the foot off the clutch and applying the right amount of gas to get the car or truck smoothly is the real trick.

I still can't believe my father turned out to be the best, most patient teacher of the stick shift.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 16, 2024 10:56 AM (nSG+M)

449 ... Huge pain in the butt if you live anywhere that's hilly.

Esp when you have to stop at a stoplight pointed uphill. ...Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2024 10:54 AM (eDfFs)
++++
In college, a friend's girlfriend learned to drive stick in a Subaru, which had a "hill hold" clutch. A group of us were taking a little trip and we were in my car. It was her shift to drive and at a light, she rolled backwards and panicked. Had never had to deal with it.

She got over it quickly, though. She did know how to drive, just had never experienced that behavior.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:56 AM (HnUIn)

450 I'm looking for something "sporty" with a stick, but not finding much.

Posted by: Martini Farmer


'69 GTO.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 10:57 AM (/SITW)

451 For those of you who haven't spent much time on rivers in the woods, that Bost should properly be called a bateaux
First dory type mass produced during the French Indian Ears

Posted by: Paul banned at April 16, 2024 10:57 AM (pCjlz)

452 Driving in England was fun.

When I first got back to the states, I pulled into the left lane in front of a truck. Yeesh.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 16, 2024 10:57 AM (R4t5M)

453 Nah. Fixing an old car is nothing like the expense and hit that you get when buying a new one. Even engine replacement become reasonable. ...
Posted by: whig at April 16, 2024 10:56 AM (z97rz)
++++
Trans replacements usually outprice engine replacements at this point. Modern automatics are seriously expensive.

But that isn't the point. It will be cheaper than a new car, yeah, for sure - and may be better value as well. That doesn't mean the price won't bring tears to your eyes, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 10:57 AM (HnUIn)

454 I learned on a rented Austin Mini 850 in Dublin with the stick on my left. Add that to driving on the wrong side of the road and you too will go over the O'Connell Street Bridge 15 times in 10 minutes.
Posted by: IrishEi
======
You got me beat, I learned at Ft. Leonard Wood aka Ft. Lost in the Woods on their dirt/gravel trails in the woods.

Posted by: whig at April 16, 2024 10:58 AM (z97rz)

455 >>I'm looking for something "sporty" with a stick, but not finding much.

You're talking about a car, right?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2024 10:58 AM (LkLld)

456 I learned stick on an old Chevy truck (early 60's model) that had 3 on the tree, and the gears were so loose you would just kind of wiggle the shifter around until you found a gear, and hoped it was the one you wanted.
Posted by: Tom Servo


Those were the days. Three on the tree, four on the floor & a fifth under the seat!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 10:58 AM (/SITW)

457 First dory type mass produced during the French Indian Ears


Are those like the elephant ears they sell at county fairs, only with truffles and squash on them?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:59 AM (9yWhg)

458 392 Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 1h
A limit has been reached
https://tinyurl.com/294969k2

Dang, he hasn't aged well. And what's with the grandpa coveralls?
Posted by: Oddbob at April 16, 2024 10:46 AM (/y8xj)

He looks like your average drunk in a Dublin bar.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 16, 2024 10:59 AM (i9ffA)

459 Manual transmissions vs. auto: That said, I had fun using the auto stick in manual mode and shifting (albeit with no clutch needed) in the 1980s Mercedes sedans, the 2011 Buick Regal, and the 2015 BMW 328i. In '21, staying in the hilly suburbs of Birmingham, AL, I found great entertainment in shifting to manual mode in the Buick LaCrosse and traversing a twisty residential road with some fairly steep climbs. (Nothing like in CO, but I was out of practice for hill driving, and had to adjust.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2024 10:59 AM (J2vNu)

460 I'm thinking back to the shitty cars we drove in HS ... my friend had a Thing that would lose pieces, another friend had an ex-police vehicle with a hole in the floor and back door locks that didn't exist ...

nowadays kids get such nice cars from us parents!!! "for safety"

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 16, 2024 10:59 AM (AcWfM)

461 This painting reminds me of the time I very nearly had the pleasure of drowning in the Buffalo National River. That was years before it was the Buffalo National River.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 16, 2024 11:00 AM (pohLc)

462 431
Not for me. I have a looooong learning curve when it comes to gadgets.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 10:52 AM (9yWhg)

Fifteen. Minutes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden
-----------------

He's right. It's a knack, after you get the knack it's just practice smoothing it out.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 16, 2024 11:00 AM (uyqzN)

463 I'm looking for something "sporty" with a stick, but not finding much. ...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2024 10:51 AM (Q4IgG)
++++
Miata

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 16, 2024 11:00 AM (HnUIn)

464 I never even learned how to use the gears on a bicycle.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 11:00 AM (9yWhg)

465 Axios @axios 9h
Ant populations are marching one by one out of their natural habitat due to climate change. This signals yet another sign of the "insect apocalypse" that devastated their diversity and overall population worldwide.
=====

Garfield and Friends. The Ants sing and take over and picnic and in the next season, the house.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 16, 2024 11:00 AM (MIKMs)

466 Nood punk monkey

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2024 11:01 AM (/SITW)

467 Nood.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 11:01 AM (9yWhg)

468 Axios @axios 9h
Ant populations are marching one by one out of their natural habitat due to climate change. This signals yet another sign of the "insect apocalypse" that devastated their diversity and overall population worldwide.
=====




"Winning!!!!!"

- - - - - The Aardvark

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 16, 2024 11:01 AM (vf0Uk)

469 When I first got back to the states, I pulled into the left lane in front of a truck. Yeesh.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 16, 2024 10:57 AM (R4t5M)
~~~~~

Scary, isn't it! And it's amazing how long it takes to get back to normal. Although I guess pulling in front of a truck will speed that learning curve up right quick.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 16, 2024 11:02 AM (3ImbR)

470 But that isn't the point. It will be cheaper than a new car, yeah, for sure - and may be better value as well. That doesn't mean the price won't bring tears to your eyes, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
--------
I tend to stay in the mainstream on vehicles because I don't have my identity tied up in them. Drove far too many different vehicles over the years including for work to get sentimental much about them. By avoiding the 'premium' models, one can pretty much find components from wrecked vehicles if nothing else. At a certain age though, these dry up.

Posted by: whig at April 16, 2024 11:02 AM (z97rz)

471 By avoiding the 'premium' models, one can pretty much find components from wrecked vehicles if nothing else. At a certain age though, these dry up.
Posted by: whig
--------

The only way to find parts for my '78 Cutlass is to crawl around in kudzu infested junk yards.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2024 11:04 AM (XeU6L)

472 john cougar is a Hoosier and as a fellow Hoosier I disown the asshole. He's an idiot, has always been an idiot and it will not change. He and potatus were birthed from the same demonic spirit. If sprinsteen wasn't around, jc would be the idiot I would hate as number 1.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 16, 2024 11:04 AM (2NHgQ)

473 If someone is learning to stick shift they should be taught the heel toe method for hills.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 16, 2024 11:04 AM (uyqzN)

474 I never even learned how to use the gears on a bicycle.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 16, 2024 11:00 AM (9yWhg)
~~~~~

Move down by me. Everyone here rides beach cruisers--no gears and foot pedal brake.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 16, 2024 11:05 AM (3ImbR)

475 Just read River of Doubt about Teddy Roosevelt's trek down the offshoot of the Amazon that goes by the same name. This painting would have been perfect for that book and story (they lost a bunch of canoes this way, and he almost died from disease and other nasty things during the journey)

Posted by: JimA at April 16, 2024 11:22 AM (z7LF7)

476 That's how I lost my Bitcoin

Posted by: Ben at April 16, 2024 11:27 AM (DFxgq)

477 can somebody help me, there was an item about texas v pennsylvania lately, but i cant find it, what was it about ?

Posted by: rusty schaklefjord at April 16, 2024 11:27 AM (Gp/9/)

478
That painting strongly resembles the scene from "A River Runs Through It" in which the two Presbyterian minister's kids ride a purloined skiff through "the chutes", a waterfall on the river in Missoula, MT.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 16, 2024 11:56 AM (xG4kz)

479 Here it is:

Scientists think they have found a way to double the lifespan of lithium-ion batteries. (Science Daily)

Lithium-ion batteries wear out a little each time they are recharged (and have another flaw that if you keep them on the charger full-time they can swell up and destroy your expensive gadget entirely).

In testing the effects of different charging patterns, researchers found that charging with high-frequency AC power caused half as much wear as regular DC power.

It should be cheap and simple to implement as well.

https://tinyurl.com/4acj93me

Posted by: Braenyard at April 16, 2024 12:13 PM (uyqzN)

480 Okay, who cut the lines mooring the NPR corporate yacht?'

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at April 16, 2024 12:55 PM (fvaUq)

481 Re LiOn battery charging: Alternating Current (AC) is not the same as Pulsed Current (PC):

AC: >
PC: > > > > >

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at April 16, 2024 01:04 PM (fvaUq)

482 Pixy messed up my AC diagram!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at April 16, 2024 01:05 PM (fvaUq)

483 "Untitled"? Should have been named "Unmanned."

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at April 16, 2024 01:07 PM (TOe+Q)

484 Oops, Boromir fell out

Posted by: hurricane567 at April 16, 2024 01:22 PM (qmtIu)

485 ROW ROW ROW YOUR BOAT, DOWN NIAGRA FALLS

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 16, 2024 05:19 PM (wGqjj)

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Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
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John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
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Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
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Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
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