Rubber Wombat Buggy Bumpers Cafe

Elephants taking advantage of a broken down orange truck in South Africa.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/UAG9xSJNGO
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) May 29, 2024

So cool.

pic.twitter.com/YdQBtyJPrm
— Figen (@TheFigen_) May 29, 2024

Let me be the first to wish you all "Happy Pride!"

Did you get all of your Pride Month shopping done, so you can avoid all corporate-owned stores for the next thirty days?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:30 PM

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1 St

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2024 07:31 PM (FzDG4)

2 Good evening everyone
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2024 07:32 PM (fwDg9)

3 I been to Kauai

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2024 07:33 PM (fwDg9)

4 Just in time for Pride Month

Some in the United Kingdom think Hadrian's Wall is a gay icon.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 07:34 PM (zpM2M)

5 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2024 07:34 PM (T4tVD)

6 Hola, friends! I just got my Trump fundraising text.

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 07:35 PM (pZEOD)

7 Ugh, pride month tomorrow. These dickheads have ruined my birthday.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2024 07:35 PM (FzDG4)

8 Is the internet f'd or is it just me?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 31, 2024 07:35 PM (IG4Id)

9 Greetings! My mood is improving. I learned a new legal phrase: Intentional malfeasance.

Kauai is an amazing place. Years ago the wife and I hiked the place they call The Grand Canyon of the Pacific. We got so damn lost. No cell signal. Meant to be home by cocktail hour.
Finally staggered out of there about midnight.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 31, 2024 07:36 PM (MeG8a)

10 It's all fun and games until that gal tries to take a selfie with a lava flow.

Then it's just funny. And sad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 31, 2024 07:36 PM (nr7mR)

11 Finally staggered out of there about midnight.

Look on the bright side, no cannibals.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 07:37 PM (zpM2M)

12 I think the tattoo cat is trying to work out the difference between 2d and 3d.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 31, 2024 07:39 PM (ZdexC)

13 Eminem's got a new rap out.
REVIEW: "Houdini" is a self-referential and disorganized mess, wrapped around Steve Miller's "Abracadabra". Mathers used to be better.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 31, 2024 07:40 PM (gKWVE)

14 Wombat gets 2 minutes for embellishment

Posted by: steevy at May 31, 2024 07:40 PM (FQmDC)

15 Know your fan base...

Actor on The Acolyte, which premiers on June 4th, thinks Anakin blew up the Death Star.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 07:41 PM (zpM2M)

16 Kauai is an amazing place. Years ago the wife and I hiked the place they call The Grand Canyon of the Pacific. We got so damn lost. No cell signal. Meant to be home by cocktail hour.
Finally staggered out of there about midnight.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 31, 2024 07:36 PM (MeG8a)
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Next time take the left turn at Albuquerque....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 31, 2024 07:41 PM (BpYfr)

17 Wombats are much cuter than real bats

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2024 07:42 PM (fwDg9)

18 Ace: Thank you for the Cafe!

Link is broken/malformed for: "Cute pupper wants to play peek-a-boo too."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 31, 2024 07:42 PM (O7YUW)

19 I'm not happy about the conviction, but I have wonderful news about me. I get to retire! I am going to give two weeks notice on Monday. It's like a weight off my shoulders.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 07:43 PM (xjTDL)

20 thanks, grumpy and recalcitrant. I fixed it.

Posted by: ace at May 31, 2024 07:43 PM (KRtlO)

21 Know your fan base...

Actor on The Acolyte, which premiers on June 4th, thinks Anakin blew up the Death Star.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 07:41 PM (zpM2M)
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The idiots who star in modern versions of classic IPs take pride in NOT knowing anything about the original material.

They don't do a lick of research to understand the universe in which they will be playing.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 31, 2024 07:43 PM (BpYfr)

22 Little dog says Get out of here, Moose Punk! I'll nibble your hooves off!
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The size of the fight in the dog.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 31, 2024 07:43 PM (ZdexC)

23 The best thing about The Acolyte is that the audience that isn't going to watch it has been been called racist and sexist for making it fail before it's even premiered.

It's really amazing.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at May 31, 2024 07:44 PM (UfRqq)

24 19 I'm not happy about the conviction, but I have wonderful news about me. I get to retire! I am going to give two weeks notice on Monday. It's like a weight off my shoulders.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 07:43 PM (xjTDL)

Congratulations!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 31, 2024 07:44 PM (nr7mR)

25 "Did you get all of your Pride Month shopping done, so you can avoid all corporate-owned stores for the next thirty days?"

Oh, what a good idea. I should work up a shopping list.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 31, 2024 07:45 PM (ou9hh)

26 Did you see the little dog come out to save his owner from a moose? Distracted it away and made it to safety fortunately

Posted by: steevy at May 31, 2024 07:45 PM (FQmDC)

27 Love the street justice clip. From criminal to holey man in one shot !

Thanks ace, I needed that

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at May 31, 2024 07:45 PM (G/eSj)

28 Willowed:

I'm having a hard time finding a federal right that Trump could sue for in the federal courts. Maybe Due Process?

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If this exact trial, with the gag orders, 30+ felonies but no crime, jury instructions, lawyers guiding from the inside, etc. happened to a black meth dealer and lifetime criminal, do you think there would be a way forward to the SCOTUS for *him*?

Why is that I wonder?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - without abortion the black population would be 36 percent larger at May 31, 2024 07:45 PM (LijfE)

29 Ace: Thank you for the Cafe!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 31, 2024 07:42 PM (O7YUW)
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Thank you, Ace! May I have another?!

Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 07:45 PM (OaZlZ)

30 I was reluctant to retire. Couldn't wrap my mind around it. I'm over that now. It took me about a half an hour, LOL...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 31, 2024 07:45 PM (MeG8a)

31 Will the Stanley Cup final be rainbowed?

Posted by: Northernlurker at May 31, 2024 07:46 PM (JLq/1)

32 One of the writers said he told her all he knew about Star Wars was Han Solo flying around with a giant dog shooting a laser and Headland said. You're hired!"

Posted by: steevy at May 31, 2024 07:47 PM (FQmDC)

33 They apparently have an air-tight echo chamber

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 07:47 PM (zpM2M)

34 Actor on The Acolyte, which premiers on June 4th, thinks Anakin blew up the Death Star.
Posted by: Anna Puma

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I assume he did, didn't he?

Because that's the plot of every Star Wars movie. At some point Anakin had to have destroyed a Death Star.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - without abortion the black population would be 36 percent larger at May 31, 2024 07:47 PM (LijfE)

35 23 The best thing about The Acolyte is that the audience that isn't going to watch it has been been called racist and sexist for making it fail before it's even premiered.

It's really amazing.
Posted by: leoncaruthers at May 31, 2024 07:44 PM (UfRqq)

It's odd, but I actually have a throughline. I saw where Carrie Ann Moss was going to be in that.

I have been rewatching Chuck on prime lately (there were about 2-3 seasons I never saw) and she guest starred there. One of the best examples of smoky, smoldering- but not classically beautiful- hot in modern day. Kind of a modern Lauren Bacall.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 31, 2024 07:47 PM (nr7mR)

36 19 I'm not happy about the conviction, but I have wonderful news about me. I get to retire! I am going to give two weeks notice on Monday. It's like a weight off my shoulders.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 07:43 PM (xjTDL)

Fantastic!

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2024 07:47 PM (S6gqv)

37 19 I'm not happy about the conviction, but I have wonderful news about me. I get to retire! I am going to give two weeks notice on Monday. It's like a weight off my shoulders.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31

Congratulations!

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 07:47 PM (d2kuJ)

38 In the past 24 hours Trump has raised $53 million.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 31, 2024 07:48 PM (NpAcC)

39 They can take pride month and shove it up their ass with the rest of the stuff they stick up there.

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at May 31, 2024 07:48 PM (G/eSj)

40 They want us to hate them for what they have done to SW.
In other news, Kia is replacing my Sorento's engine. Should get it back next Friday. No loaner, tho, Enterprise has that honor. They did debit my account 1200$ just in case. I switched it to a credit card.

Posted by: Jamaica at May 31, 2024 07:48 PM (IG7T0)

41 The only person Biden could plausibly beat is Trump. The Dem's wanted a rematch from day 1.

Posted by: Jamaica at May 31, 2024 07:50 PM (IG7T0)

42 The same flaming gay actor also said there is no good or bad in Star Wars

Posted by: steevy at May 31, 2024 07:50 PM (FQmDC)

43 We will not be doing anything special for Pride Month at my business. Not a post, not a playlist not a nothing.

We are going to celebrate Shark Week, however. 🦈

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 07:50 PM (d2kuJ)

44 I just don't have time to do anything. Can't even put hardware on the kitchen cabinets so they stay closed. The funnt thing is that they gave in and mailed me a work laptop, which I got today. I'm leaving it in the box and will send it back. They should have done that months ago.

And my dog doesn't want me to work any more

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 07:50 PM (xjTDL)

45 My kid wants a cockatiel.

Posted by: Jamaica at May 31, 2024 07:50 PM (IG7T0)

46 Neat trick on the vpn setting

Posted by: Lizzy at May 31, 2024 07:50 PM (cCVOS)

47 I'm not happy about the conviction, but I have wonderful news about me. I get to retire! I am going to give two weeks notice on Monday. It's like a weight off my shoulders.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 07:43 PM (xjTDL)

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Yay, congratulations!

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2024 07:50 PM (FzDG4)

48 I can't retire (yet), but every time I hit some frustration or get a new email from corporate about Pride Month, I get that much closer to just buying a Bobcat and trying to make money brushhogging and grading driveways.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at May 31, 2024 07:50 PM (UfRqq)

49 Really confuse the 'new' fan base, say it was Princess Leia who blew up the Death Star.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 07:51 PM (zpM2M)

50 My kid wants a cockatiel.
Posted by: Jamaica at May 31, 2024 07:50 PM (IG7T0)

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I had four at one point. Down to one now. He's 25.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2024 07:51 PM (FzDG4)

51 Just got back from the range. Shot the new (to me) 1911. Shoots a little to the left or I just suck. Probably the suck.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 31, 2024 07:52 PM (JOs7v)

52 Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 07:43 PM (xjTDL)
******
Congratulations! 🎉

Posted by: redridinghood at May 31, 2024 07:52 PM (NpAcC)

53 The same flaming gay actor also said there is no good or bad in Star Wars
Posted by: steevy at May 31, 2024 07:50 PM (FQmDC)

Looking at the last three or four movies, you know he technically is not wrong

Posted by: Kindltot at May 31, 2024 07:52 PM (D7oie)

54 Notsothoreau congratulations, but do keep busy

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2024 07:52 PM (fwDg9)

55 Patriotism gets a day here and there and I'm supposed to support a month of perversion.

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at May 31, 2024 07:52 PM (G/eSj)

56 Wear a dust mask when you clean the cage. You don't want Bird Fanciers

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 07:52 PM (xjTDL)

57 I get to retire! I am going to give two weeks notice on Monday. It's like a weight off my shoulders.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Outstanding!
Betterhalf retired 3 weeks ago, she's loving it.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2024 07:53 PM (hmWcn)

58 No, he's wrong.

Star Wars is all bad anymore.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at May 31, 2024 07:53 PM (UfRqq)

59 In the past 24 hours Trump has raised $53 million.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 31, 2024 07:48 PM (NpAcC)
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That should be illegal!!! -- Dems

You can't profit off crimes!!

Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 07:53 PM (OaZlZ)

60 I have plans, for sure.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 07:53 PM (xjTDL)

61 Love the elephants!!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 31, 2024 07:53 PM (cCVOS)

62 Great videos tonight. The elephants napping are so cute especially the little baby.

Posted by: Tuna at May 31, 2024 07:54 PM (oaGWv)

63 My kid wants a cockatiel.
Posted by: Jamaica at May 31, 2024 07:50 PM (IG7T0)

Depends on his age, in my experience.
No one fifteen or younger should be served a dry martini.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 31, 2024 07:54 PM (D7oie)

64 42 The same flaming gay actor also said there is no good or bad in Star Wars
Posted by: steevy at May 31, 2024 07:50 PM (FQmDC)

Most of the modern left does not believe in Objective morality. It is all Subjective to them.

So, t them, there is no morality in Star Wars, because there is nothing that relates to them (they think.)

Huh. I wonder if you could make an argument that today's 'everything is political' is just them trying to relate to everything with fierce moral urgency?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 31, 2024 07:55 PM (nr7mR)

65 Really confuse the 'new' fan base, say it was Princess Leia who blew up the Death Star.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 07:51 PM (zpM2M)
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Nah. Everyone knows it was really Salacious Crumb who infiltrated the Death Star and chewed on some wiring that led to the creation of a fatal weak point.

He's the real hero of the Rebellion.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 31, 2024 07:55 PM (BpYfr)

66 No, he's wrong.

Star Wars is all bad anymore.
Posted by: leoncaruthers at May 31, 2024 07:53 PM (UfRqq)
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Since the 80s.

Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 07:55 PM (OaZlZ)

67 Wombats have bat in the name.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 31, 2024 07:55 PM (a3Q+t)

68 That's what I worry about, her having a pet for 20 years. I had one cat for 26.
She's autistic. Went from nonverbal to verbal to shut up kid, will ya

Posted by: Jamaica at May 31, 2024 07:55 PM (IG7T0)

69 I had a month off before they called me back to work. Took that long to really rest up. At some point you don't have much time left. They can't pay you enough to make up for that.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 07:55 PM (xjTDL)

70 Evening.

I tried watching that Jenny Nicholson Star Wars hotel video and I was instantly taken with an overwhelming desire to punch her right in the face.

Like *POW*!!! Right in the kisser.

There's just something about her voice that makes a man want to do describable violence to her. Nothing bad. Nothing horrific, at least.

Good gravy...

Posted by: Robert at May 31, 2024 07:55 PM (XnpBo)

71 Yea... Elephants!

Posted by: redridinghood at May 31, 2024 07:56 PM (NpAcC)

72 I have plans, for sure.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 07:53 PM (xjTDL)
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Me too!

I'm going to turn my ON switch to OFF!

Posted by: Bender "Bending" Rodriguez at May 31, 2024 07:56 PM (BpYfr)

73 D
Sad that I know who Salacious Crumb is?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 31, 2024 07:56 PM (cCVOS)

74 I can't retire (yet), but every time I hit some frustration or get a new email from corporate about Pride Month, I get that much closer to just buying a Bobcat and trying to make money brushhogging and grading driveways.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at May 31, 2024 07:50 PM

If you can come up with a diesel dually and a trailer to drag that bobcat around you can pretty much name your price for that kind of work here in NE Texas if you show up on time and do good work for a decent price.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 31, 2024 07:56 PM (QNSds)

75 Do I click on this. Do I care? Not really.

Coven of lesbian witches will be in The Acolyte?

They will probably all look like Leslie.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 07:56 PM (zpM2M)

76 Star Wars: 2.5 good movies > 40 yeasts ago.

The shark showed up in Return of the Jedi.

Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 07:57 PM (OaZlZ)

77 Jenny is a Branch Covidian. Ace's point -- and it's a good one -- is that if they've lost her sorry ass, Disney's fucked.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at May 31, 2024 07:57 PM (UfRqq)

78 75 One of the Jedi is her "wife" irl

Posted by: steevy at May 31, 2024 07:57 PM (FQmDC)

79 In the past 24 hours Trump has raised $53 million.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 31, 2024 07:48 PM (NpAcC)
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That should be illegal!!! -- Dems

You can't profit off crimes!!
Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 07:53 PM (OaZlZ)
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"Since when?" -- Judge Merchan's daughter...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 31, 2024 07:58 PM (BpYfr)

80 Star Wars is all bad anymore.
Posted by: leoncaruthers at May 31, 2024 07:53 PM (UfRqq)

The word you are thinking of is "poor"

poorly written, poorly plotted, poorly cast, poorly directed, and the CGi is poorly done.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 31, 2024 07:58 PM (D7oie)

81 Well Salacious was a member of the band.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 07:58 PM (zpM2M)

82 7 Ugh, pride month tomorrow. These dickheads have ruined my birthday.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2024 07:35 PM (FzDG4)

They shall not!!! Happy Birthday Jordan!! 🎂

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 31, 2024 07:58 PM (PiwSw)

83 >>>Compilation of street justice clips.

These days, street justice is the only justice.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 31, 2024 07:58 PM (klJTj)

84 It's her problem. I told her to deal with it or I open the window.
We had 3 raccoons digging thru an old maple stump. Pelted one with a potato and got a nice yelp with my coffee.

Posted by: Jamaica at May 31, 2024 07:59 PM (IG7T0)

85 My neighbor’s ridiculously cute, but ridiculously dumb golden doodle just popped his head up in my window. My cat growled, jumped on the window sill and whacked the window with his paw. The dog RAN back to his house.

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 07:59 PM (CM7zZ)

86 Sad that I know who Salacious Crumb is?
Posted by: Lizzy at May 31, 2024 07:56 PM (cCVOS)

This *is* the internet. One assumes that internet commentors are people of the dorky or nerdy variety. If you said, "Salacious What," you would be pegged as a filthy normy and we might be forced to drive you from polite Moron society.

Posted by: Robert at May 31, 2024 07:59 PM (XnpBo)

87 Is it Butt stuff month again already!?

Posted by: Crazy Ivan at May 31, 2024 07:59 PM (I8Xka)

88 I canceled Disney+ even though I had it for free from Verizon. That’s like a super boycott.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 31, 2024 08:00 PM (JOs7v)

89 \Sad that I know who Salacious Crumb is?
Posted by: Lizzy at May 31, 2024 07:56 PM (cCVOS)

Robert Crumb's younger brother. He did less acid so his busty chicks had a bit more realistic cast to them.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 31, 2024 08:00 PM (D7oie)

90 Robert

Have you stopped Fapping yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:00 PM (zpM2M)

91 I have a BB gun, a revolver. I can't hit anything with it my it scares the neighbor dogs off.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 08:00 PM (xjTDL)

92 The quality of Star Wars is terrible, true, but I mostly meant there are no good characters. There's just teams where the moral acts of both sides are entirely equivalent. No "good guys", just protagonists.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at May 31, 2024 08:01 PM (UfRqq)

93 I'm assured that DOCTOR Jill Biden has seen a cockatoo in her day.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 31, 2024 08:01 PM (ZdexC)

94 The "So cool" video is soooo cool.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 31, 2024 08:01 PM (NpAcC)

95 Hey gang, I need advice and this is the place to get it. I'll be renting a car for a few days middle of the month. It's been over twenty years since I rented one. What insurance should I opt for? I'll be using my CC. I dropped collision on my car when it reached twelve years old (mistake what with increasing values).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 31, 2024 08:01 PM (V5eKu)

96 7 Ugh, pride month tomorrow. These dickheads have ruined my birthday.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2024 07:35 PM (FzDG4)

Have a good one. That's the best revenge. Include bacon.

Posted by: javems at May 31, 2024 08:01 PM (8I4hW)

97 90 Robert

Have you stopped Fapping yet?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:00 PM (zpM2M)

You know that's how you go blind, right?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 31, 2024 08:01 PM (Y2wSa)

98 Is that a real coven of witches or they have written into Acyte a coven of witches?

If it’s the former it’s likely the show runner’s pals…

Posted by: Lizzy at May 31, 2024 08:02 PM (cCVOS)

99 Also violent: Thug from NYC gets warm, red welcome from local muscle.
_____________________________

Yup, get used to that one. It will be playing out quite a bit in the future.

Posted by: Orson at May 31, 2024 08:02 PM (dIske)

100 76 Star Wars: 2.5 good movies > 40 yeasts ago.

The shark showed up in Return of the Jedi.
Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 07:57 PM (OaZlZ)

Jedi is the half. The Luke-Vader side is pretty damn good. Some of the best star wars has ever done as far as tension, plotline, music and resolution.

It is just so jarring when you think about how you go from one side where you actually have high drama going on and then swap to the other side and it is goofy ewoks.

Then you had Phantom Menace which was almost entirely goof.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 31, 2024 08:02 PM (nr7mR)

101 Blonde is blonde.
I saw a Ruger pellet gun in a TSC in Maine. Possion is a felony in NYC.

Posted by: Jamaica at May 31, 2024 08:03 PM (IG7T0)

102 if they've lost her sorry ass,
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Who mentioned Brie Larson??

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 31, 2024 08:03 PM (ZdexC)

103 Damn Ewoks.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 31, 2024 08:03 PM (Y2wSa)

104 You know - Id bet Steve Inman is available for the Veep running mate of our Orange-haired Disruptor.

Just a thought here -

Posted by: Tonypete at May 31, 2024 08:03 PM (WXNFJ)

105 It's more fun throwing potatoes and lemons

Posted by: Jamaica at May 31, 2024 08:03 PM (IG7T0)

106 @28 - can't cite the usc #, but the key words that come to mind are "deprivation of rights under color of law" ...

should apply to anyone who votes for gun control too ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 31, 2024 08:04 PM (tQtDb)

107 Somewhere around minute 4 of the Phantom Menace podrace I realized the movie was garbage and I didn't care about Star Wars anymore. Then the podrace continued for another 20 minutes.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at May 31, 2024 08:04 PM (UfRqq)

108 Have you stopped Fapping yet?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:00 PM (zpM2M)

You know that's how you go blind, right?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 31, 2024 08:01 PM (Y2wSa)

WHO SAID THAT?!?

Posted by: Robert at May 31, 2024 08:04 PM (YZbzD)

109 This one has "bullets" and you put the BB in the tip. There's a different set for the pellets.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 08:04 PM (xjTDL)

110 I get to retire! I am going to give two weeks notice on Monday. It's like a weight off my shoulders.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Congratulations! After my husband passed I couldn't stomach going back to work. I was already years past retirement age so I took the plunge and gave my notice. Moved to TN to be close to son and grandkids. I can't tell what a relief it is not having to clock in every morning and the occasional Saturday. DEI was becoming a real annoyance so it was time to leave anyway. I know you'll love your freedom. Enjoy!

Posted by: Tuna at May 31, 2024 08:04 PM (oaGWv)

111 Baka!

I am not paying $110 for a 1/12 action figure of Major Motoko Kusanagi.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:05 PM (zpM2M)

112 Narrow trail makes me want to get a mountain bike

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2024 08:05 PM (fwDg9)

113 You know that's how you go blind, right?
00000
givl yjsy@

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 31, 2024 08:06 PM (ZdexC)

114 Insure the rental for damage otherwise you pay in full when you return it

Posted by: Jamaica at May 31, 2024 08:06 PM (IG7T0)

115 WHO SAID THAT?!?
Posted by: Robert at May 31, 2024 08:04 PM (YZbzD)

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*snort*

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2024 08:06 PM (FzDG4)

116 Wombats are in fact, not bats, and are more closely related to Womprats, which may be easily "bulls eyed" in Beggars Canyon on Tatooine.

Posted by: Wombat Facts at May 31, 2024 08:06 PM (vFG9F)

117 Since The Phantom Menace, Star Wars has pretty much been Bantha podo.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:07 PM (zpM2M)

118 Why do I have feeling the elephants caused the truck breakdown?

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2024 08:07 PM (fwDg9)

119 If you try to kill Orange Julius Caesar, you had better be sure and kill Orange Julius Caesar.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2024 08:07 PM (S6gqv)

120 Laura Loomer on Timcast. Did she born with Mummy Face, or did she buy it?

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 08:07 PM (MvF+J)

121 Did she -> Was she

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 08:07 PM (MvF+J)

122 I'm way past retirement age. I'm having to do business support, which I don't enjoy plus work with the third world suport team. I want to be able to go outside and do stuff.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 08:07 PM (xjTDL)

123 Weasel should do a BB/pellet gun post.

Posted by: Jamaica at May 31, 2024 08:07 PM (IG7T0)

124 "They shall not!!! Happy Birthday Jordan!! 🎂
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper"

Seconded!

and many more!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 31, 2024 08:08 PM (tQtDb)

125 Laura Loomer has messed with her face - Botox, maybe? She’s crazy

Posted by: Lizzy at May 31, 2024 08:08 PM (cCVOS)

126 They did kill JC. It was the nephew who did them.

Posted by: Jamaica at May 31, 2024 08:08 PM (IG7T0)

127 Then you had Phantom Menace which was almost entirely goof.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 31, 2024 08:02 PM (nr7mR)

I'm pretty much convinced if it were not for John Williams and Ray Park, episodes 2 and 3 would never have even gotten made. TPM was boring, convoluted, and rediculous... until the Duel of the Fates starts playing and Maul activates the double bladed lightsaber. Those last 10 or whatever minutes are almost enough to make you completely forget how terrible the rest of the movie is.

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at May 31, 2024 08:08 PM (B9Prs)

128 Baka!

I am not paying $110 for a 1/12 action figure of Major Motoko Kusanagi.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:05 PM (zpM2M)

Top half or bottom half?

Posted by: Robert at May 31, 2024 08:08 PM (YZbzD)

129 Does Robert now need an emotional support futanari?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:09 PM (zpM2M)

130 107 Somewhere around minute 4 of the Phantom Menace podrace I realized the movie was garbage and I didn't care about Star Wars anymore. Then the podrace continued for another 20 minutes.
Posted by: leoncaruthers at May 31, 2024 08:04 PM (UfRqq)

I try to think of it in context. I remember when the promotional material came out (with the child anakin casting the shadow of vader and the snipets of Duel of the Fates in the trailer) and how stoked we were. They were doing it right. My buddy and I discussed endlessly how they seemed to be going for the troubled, haunted thing for Anakin and how that could mitigate the whole child actor thing if they did it like Sixth Sense (Haley Joel Osmont(sp?)

Then, the first initial action sequence was just boring and lifeless. There was no verve to the movie. Then the Gungans showed up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 31, 2024 08:09 PM (nr7mR)

131 Having bourbon and ice pops again.

Great combination.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2024 08:09 PM (XV/Pl)

132 Some of the best star wars has ever done as far as tension, plotline, music and resolution.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 31, 2024 08:02 PM (nr7mR)
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Great resolution. But Hamill should have been flogged for his performance through most of it.

The soap-opera twists were the nadir.

I will mention the one late nicely-lit spot, which is mainly a rehash of the first movie: Rogue One.

Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 08:09 PM (OaZlZ)

133 Don't know but Laura Loomer has been on fire on Twitter about the verdict.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 08:09 PM (xjTDL)

134 Evenin'

I'll be in Western PA for a couple of weeks in June. Not too much wall-to-wall gay crap up there, at least not where I'm going.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 31, 2024 08:10 PM (gcUgZ)

135 The Kusanagi figure is a pre-order on HLJ.

Just ridiculous price for a figure that is barely taller than Thousand Millimeter Reich.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:10 PM (zpM2M)

136 Laura Loomer has messed with her face - Botox, maybe? She’s crazy
Posted by: Lizzy at May 31, 2024 08:08 PM (cCVOS)
********
I've stopped paying attention to her. She's nuts.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 31, 2024 08:11 PM (NpAcC)

137 95 Hey gang, I need advice and this is the place to get it. I'll be renting a car for a few days middle of the month. It's been over twenty years since I rented one. What insurance should I opt for? I'll be using my CC. I dropped collision on my car when it reached twelve years old (mistake what with increasing values).
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 31, 2024 08

Check your credit card and your current policy to see what they cover before you purchase add ons. When J rents cars for me, he always uses his Amex because it has coverage to the extent we don’t need to add anything additional. It’s covered between the card and our car insurance. I don’t know if it matters what type of Amex, or what covers what part between car insurance and the credit card. Sorry I am not more help.

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 08:11 PM (GMx4K)

138 CBC not airing the Oilers game tonight -- it's on the specialist sports network only, that I cancelled over BLM etc.

Not interested in watching online.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 31, 2024 08:11 PM (ZdexC)

139 Turning young Anakin into a streetwise Wesley Crusher was a foreseeable error.

Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 08:12 PM (OaZlZ)

140 Why would you want an action figure of that guy from Iran that Trump killed with a ninja bomb?

Doe it come with a ninja bomb?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 31, 2024 08:12 PM (JOs7v)

141 bill, I always take the maximum available insurance on a rental car;
my 0.02, cheap at the price to have zero liability for whatever happens because rental companies got no mercy at all.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 31, 2024 08:13 PM (tQtDb)

142 it's on the specialist sports network only, that I cancelled over BLM etc.

Not interested in watching online.
Posted by: andycanuck

If you must see it every sport bar will have in on and you can nurse a beer for the length of the game.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2024 08:13 PM (hmWcn)

143 Aetius

I remember being their for the sneak peak for The Phantom Menace, and one tourist yelled "Goerge Lucas is great!"

I yelled back, 'Go watch Howard the Duck!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:13 PM (zpM2M)

144 Having bourbon and ice pops again.

Great combination.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Finishing off half a bottle of Vinho Verde in anticipation of Pride Month. {{Shudder}}

Posted by: Tuna at May 31, 2024 08:13 PM (oaGWv)

145 Happy Birthday Jordan!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 31, 2024 08:14 PM (Y2wSa)

146 139 Turning young Anakin into a streetwise Wesley Crusher was a foreseeable error.
Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 08:12 PM (OaZlZ)

Does this mean I'm *not* streetwise?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 31, 2024 08:14 PM (PiwSw)

147 You know - Id bet Steve Inman is available for the Veep running mate of our Orange-haired Disruptor.

Just a thought here -
Posted by: Tonypete at May 31, 2024 08:03 PM (WXNFJ)

If nothing else, see if he's available for Trump's rallies... and his introduction at the RNC in Milwaukee.

PS. Don't know if this was mentioned, but SS will allow protesters within a few blocks of the RNC convention, without fences. The DNC gets a 3.5 mile buffer.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 31, 2024 08:14 PM (VNX3d)

148 138 CBC not airing the Oilers game tonight -- it's on the specialist sports network only, that I cancelled over BLM etc.

Not interested in watching online.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 31, 2024 08:11 PM (ZdexC)

WUT …

That’s bullshit.

I’m supposed to watch these mooks on US broadcasts

🤬

Posted by: browndog heading for his crate at May 31, 2024 08:14 PM (TTAGa)

149 Thanks, I am the Shadout Mapes, javems, sock_rat_eez! I am planning on having a lovely day with my family.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2024 08:15 PM (FzDG4)

150 Does Robert now need an emotional support futanari?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:09 PM (zpM2M)

Chicks with dicks!

https://youtu.be/LLtBoUrBYu0?si=wwAJGjyFEvp3Pbjs&t=8

Posted by: Robert at May 31, 2024 08:15 PM (YMSnq)

151 Happy birthday Jordan61!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 31, 2024 08:15 PM (cCVOS)

152 A ninja bomb would have improved things.

"Suprise package for Count Dooku!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:15 PM (zpM2M)

153 Shut up, Wesley!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 31, 2024 08:15 PM (Y2wSa)

154 Thank you AlaBAMA!

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2024 08:16 PM (FzDG4)

155 Kauai is an amazing place. Years ago the wife and I hiked the place they call The Grand Canyon of the Pacific. We got so damn lost. No cell signal. Meant to be home by cocktail hour.
Finally staggered out of there about midnight.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

Topo map and a compass ftw.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 31, 2024 08:16 PM (HXGNm)

156 I just had a rental for 5 weeks while my pos car was getting a new engine. Check engine light is already on. Mocking me.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 31, 2024 08:16 PM (JOs7v)

157 when it comes to rental car insurance, I would love it if someone offered the Thelma and Louise option.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2024 08:16 PM (S6gqv)

158 144 Finishing off half a bottle of Vinho Verde in anticipation of Pride Month. {{Shudder}}
Posted by: Tuna at May 31, 2024 08:13 PM (oaGWv)

Sounds better than my peppermint tea. My voice gave up the ghost so I am trying to nurse it back. Funnily enough, no one around here is complaining I can’t speak. 😂

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 08:16 PM (BgmlQ)

159 Will Wheaton's greatest role was the showing of his back in The Last Starfighter.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:16 PM (zpM2M)

160 Happy birthday Jordan61!
Posted by: Lizzy

May the only rainbow you encounter on your birthday be created by God. Enjoy your 29th birthday.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 31, 2024 08:16 PM (VNX3d)

161 Also, Happy Birthday, Jordan!

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 08:17 PM (BgmlQ)

162 Gemini rule. Happy Birthday, Jordan.

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at May 31, 2024 08:17 PM (G/eSj)

163 Is it Ns. Jordan's birfday?

Happy birfday!

Tell your man that in the morning *he* gets to be the Bacon Wench.

Posted by: Robert at May 31, 2024 08:17 PM (YMSnq)

164 Then you had Phantom Menace which was almost entirely goof.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 31, 2024 08:02 PM (nr7mR)

Meesa kick your ass!

Posted by: Jar-Jar Binks, history's greatest monster at May 31, 2024 08:17 PM (8CgXU)

165 Happy birthday Jordan61!
Posted by: Lizzy

If this isn't like JJ's birthday: I hope you have a most excellent Birthday!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2024 08:18 PM (hmWcn)

166 162 Gemini rule. Happy Birthday, Jordan.
Posted by: Ben HaduButker

Word!

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 08:18 PM (BgmlQ)

167 153 Shut up, Wesley!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 31, 2024 08:15 PM (Y2wSa)

"Shut the fuck up Donny!!!"

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

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2024 08:18 PM (S6gqv)

168 Jordan shares a birthday with JJ?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 31, 2024 08:18 PM (Y2wSa)

169 If this isn't like JJ's birthday: I hope you have a most excellent Birthday!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2024 08:18 PM (hmWcn)

=====

Ha, no I don't get to have a birthday every day. The 61 in my nic is for 6/1.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2024 08:19 PM (FzDG4)

170 The most enjoyable Star Wars movie in years has been Fanboys, even despite Seth Rogan having several cameos. Also, it’s about guys, not brunette, Brit Marysues.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 31, 2024 08:19 PM (cCVOS)

171 OK, her face is limbering up a little now. Maybe she slept on it and it went numb for a while. She looked like Robocop.

Now let's discuss her forest green shirt with big shiny gold buttons down the sleeves.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 08:19 PM (MvF+J)

172 I just had a rental for 5 weeks while my pos car was getting a new engine. Check engine light is already on. Mocking me.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Jeez louise. That check engine light is Satan.

Posted by: Tuna at May 31, 2024 08:19 PM (oaGWv)

173 Howard the Duck >>> Phantom Menace.

If only for Lia Thompson in her skivvies.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at May 31, 2024 08:19 PM (UfRqq)

174 Robert,

You really expect me to click on that?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:19 PM (zpM2M)

175 I hope the Stars show up for the entire game tonight.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 31, 2024 08:20 PM (u73oe)

176 152 A ninja bomb would have improved things.

"Suprise package for Count Dooku!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:15 PM (zpM2M)

Indictment of Attack of the Clones: Christopher Lee could not salvage it. AND his lines were badly delivered. THAT is shit direction and editing. You have Christopher Fucking Lee, you retard!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 31, 2024 08:20 PM (nr7mR)

177 @156

>>I just had a rental for 5 weeks while my pos car was getting a new engine. Check engine light is already on. Mocking me.

Was it a crate engine or a long block?

Finding techs that can reassemble an engine from a long block is getting harder and harder.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2024 08:20 PM (XV/Pl)

178 The 61 in my nic is for 6/1.
Posted by: Jordan61

Well I hope you have a most excellent Birthday Tomorrow!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2024 08:20 PM (hmWcn)

179 Will Wheaton's greatest role was the showing of his back in The Last Starfighter.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:16 PM (zpM2M)
----
I don't blame Will Wheaton. It's Roddenberry who gave us his projection as Wesley. His writers tried to tell him, but they realized Gene saw himself in Wesley.

Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 08:21 PM (OaZlZ)

180 The other day I forgot how old I was.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 31, 2024 08:21 PM (JOs7v)

181 We will not be doing anything special for Pride Month at my business. Not a post, not a playlist not a nothing.

We are going to celebrate Shark Week, however. 🦈
Posted by: Piper

All dance classes will use the Baby Shark song?

Posted by: mikeski at May 31, 2024 08:21 PM (DgGvY)

182 Jordan,

Have a gloriously grand birthday tomorrow.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:21 PM (zpM2M)

183 Happy Birthday, Jordan.

If it's any consolation, mine is now Earth Day. Also the date of the Founding of the city of Rome.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 31, 2024 08:22 PM (nr7mR)

184 Along the way, George Lucas stopped taking Star Wars seriously.

He got fat on the money and fame and mailed it in.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 31, 2024 08:23 PM (Y2wSa)

185 Howard the Duck >>> Phantom Menace.

If only for Lia Thompson in her skivvies.
Posted by: leoncaruthers at May 31, 2024 08:19 PM (UfRqq)

And seeing that as a young lad ensured that I would forever have an appreciation for cute young women in tiny panties.

Posted by: Robert at May 31, 2024 08:23 PM (4ehmK)

186 Aetius

Yeah they really did a disservice on Christopher Lee... the guy who made some of those Hammer horror films tolerable,
and then his hands got cut off by a lightsaber.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:23 PM (zpM2M)

187 180 The other day I forgot how old I was.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

You're 29.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 31, 2024 08:23 PM (gcUgZ)

188 187 180 The other day I forgot how old I was.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

You're 29.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 31, 2024 08:23 PM (gcUgZ)

Same every year. Not sure how one forgets.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 31, 2024 08:24 PM (Y2wSa)

189 I'm older than water.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 08:24 PM (MvF+J)

190 Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2024 08:20 PM (XV/Pl)

VW 4-cyl diesel. Damn things are supposed to be bulletproof, but mine sized up with just a little over 100k.

Now I have a 11 yr old car with a new engine. Woo hoo.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 31, 2024 08:24 PM (JOs7v)

191 110 I get to retire! I am going to give two weeks notice on Monday. It's like a weight off my shoulders.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
---------------------------------

Congratulations !!!

Posted by: Braenyard at May 31, 2024 08:24 PM (0ZYe2)

192 and then his hands got cut off by a lightsaber.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:23 PM (zpM2M)

And he got beheaded by a whiny, angsty teen.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 31, 2024 08:24 PM (nr7mR)

193 Pride Month is Love that enjoys the lamentation of our women.

Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 08:25 PM (OaZlZ)

194 183 Happy Birthday, Jordan.

If it's any consolation, mine is now Earth Day. Also the date of the Founding of the city of Rome.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

And Vladimir Lenin's birthday. There is a a reason that date was chosen for 'Earf Day'.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 31, 2024 08:25 PM (gcUgZ)

195 Vincent Price would have nailed the Dooku role!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 31, 2024 08:25 PM (Y2wSa)

196 You really expect me to click on that?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:19 PM (zpM2M)

I'll say this...

It's not fat chicks.

Posted by: Robert at May 31, 2024 08:25 PM (4ehmK)

197 I will go to my grave having never seen anything starwars

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at May 31, 2024 08:25 PM (G/eSj)

198 We come here not to praise George Lucas, but to bury him. In Bantha podo.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:25 PM (zpM2M)

199 Greg Price @greg_price11 45m
Four years ago tonight, this is what leftists did to Washington D.C.

Corey Inganamort @TheBirdWords 11m
Two days ago, pandering to a black audience, Biden called the protests peaceful

https://tinyurl.com/yc2dpbf3
6 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 31, 2024 08:26 PM (ZdexC)

200 137 141 Thank you. I'll call the two CCs I can use, find out which covers the most, and just add on at the rental agency. What's a few bucks when you are paying through every orifice to rent a car. Hoo boy, they are out of sight on prices nowadays. Had a friend some years back. His wife died and he gave the house and car to his kid and DiL. Moved into a nice retirement tower. Every other weekend he would rent a car just to get out and about. Dirt cheap, like $29.95. Those days, even allowing for inflation, are long gone.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 31, 2024 08:26 PM (V5eKu)

201 "110 I get to retire! I am going to give two weeks notice on Monday. It's like a weight off my shoulders."

Congrats! Retirement is glorious.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 08:26 PM (MvF+J)

202 Thanks, everyone!

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2024 08:27 PM (FzDG4)

203 And Vladimir Lenin's birthday. There is a a reason that date was chosen for 'Earf Day'.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 31, 2024 08:25 PM (gcUgZ)

Oh, crap. Earth day is the day after my birthday. the 22nd was my Mammaw's birthday.

And she hated all of that shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 31, 2024 08:27 PM (nr7mR)

204 Wombats are far superior to those winged terror-bats. More Penguins and Wombats would make for a better world.

Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at May 31, 2024 08:27 PM (V5BDR)

205 He got fat on the money and fame and mailed it in.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 31, 2024 08:23 PM (Y2wSa)
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It became more about merch for him.

Jar Jar was about selling toys, by making a character kids would think was funny.

Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 08:27 PM (OaZlZ)

206 Despite the fact the crankshaft was ruined, my car popped only 3 codes in 112k: downstream O2, loose fuel cap and P0014, timing too advanced. I brought it in for that. The rep saw me walk in and said " I ordered a new engine.I can't let you have the car. I'll be right back."

Posted by: Jamaica at May 31, 2024 08:28 PM (IG7T0)

207 @190

>>Now I have a 11 yr old car with a new engine. Woo hoo.

The only 4 Cylinders that belong in vehicles are VTechs and diesels.

I have a friend who has a diesel Jetta and he loves that thing more than ice cream.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2024 08:28 PM (XV/Pl)

208 197 I have never seen any of the thirty five Fast and Furious movies.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 31, 2024 08:28 PM (V5eKu)

209 Jar Jar got strapped to a lot of fireworks I bet.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 31, 2024 08:29 PM (JOs7v)

210 Jar Jar was the best actor in that whole stupid movie. The kid was the worst child actor evah in cinema history.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 08:29 PM (MvF+J)

211 >>Narrow trail makes me want to get a mountain bike

You have to peddle back up that hill to get to your car.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 31, 2024 08:29 PM (LkLld)

212 Frodo blew up the Death Star, duh

Happy Pride eve

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at May 31, 2024 08:30 PM (sJHOI)

213 Jar Jar got strapped to a lot of fireworks I bet.

Character or action figures?

*whooosh* "meessa sowwwyyy...!!!!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:30 PM (zpM2M)

214 Jar Jar could be found on top of a lot of programer's monitors in those days.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2024 08:31 PM (hmWcn)

215 My favorite post of the day, every day! Have a great weekend Ace!

Posted by: Moonbeam at May 31, 2024 08:31 PM (rbKZ6)

216 Frodo dropped the one Ring down the auxiliary exhaust shaft?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:31 PM (zpM2M)

217 It became more about merch for him.

Jar Jar was about selling toys, by making a character kids would think was funny.
Posted by: Axeman

And the pod race about selling video games. Jedio Kart.

Posted by: mikeski at May 31, 2024 08:32 PM (DgGvY)

218 181
All dance classes will use the Baby Shark song?
Posted by: mikeski at May

That would be awful! But no. During class, we do hands on corrections to make sure people are in the right form or to challenge them a little more. Because it’s one of us and 20 of them, we can usually manage getting to each person once (unless they are doing something that could cause an injury, of course). For shark week, as many instructors who can make it show up for all the classes the entire week. While the primary instructor teaches, we go around the room and do the hands on corrections. We are the sharks and our clients get a lot of support and / or challenges making the workout harder. We have a big inflatable shark who lives in the boutique. He isn’t nearly as loved as our Skeleton (Skelly) who has her own instagram. We have to make him more fun somehow.

Aren’t you glad you asked?

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 08:32 PM (p4NUW)

219 Then you had Phantom Menace which was almost entirely goof.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 31, 2024 08:02 PM (nr7mR)

I remember the excitement and anticipation before Phantom Menace was released. All the drive time DJs were jabbering endlessly about it, articles in the newspaper, etc. I think we boomers were expecting to be wowed like we were when we first saw Star Wars. We were bitterly disappointed. I think it's hard to capture that kind of magic twice and it seems that Lucas didn't even try.

Posted by: Tuna at May 31, 2024 08:32 PM (oaGWv)

220 "110 I get to retire! I am going to give two weeks notice on Monday. It's like a weight off my shoulders."

You're obviously mentally and emotionally ready for it. Congrats !!! Let us know about your hobbies. Seriously. I'd like to hear it.

After going self contractor, and being part-retired at 52 for five years ? I'm going back full time. For a sweet deal ... but I wasn't ready yet to embrace that lifestyle. Of course, I'm nervous as shit about going back full time. Yet here we go.

Enjoy, my man. Seriously - tell me about your hobbies.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 08:33 PM (LdXFl)

221 Christopher Lee? the guy who once told a director "that's not what cutting a throat sounds like"? because he was a commando in The War, and knew ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 31, 2024 08:33 PM (tQtDb)

222 Ehh, I enjoyed The Prequels, even Jar-Jar, and Jake Llyod and Hayden Christensen, the only thing that bothered me was the introduction of the concept of Midi-Clorian's, which was stupid.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2024 08:33 PM (XV/Pl)

223 I remember a friend showing me the preview for "Phantom Menace" and he was all pumped up. All I could think was, in the words of Eric Cartman, "Man, this is gonna suck donkey balls." And I was right.

The people responsible for the previews are the best filmmakers in Hollywood. They take two hours of footage and make a two minute movie that gets your butt into the theater. They can make a bad movie look good. If they can't make a movie look good, you know it'll be really bad.

Posted by: PabloD at May 31, 2024 08:34 PM (euahq)

224 Watching Beverley Hills Cop on AMC. Great flick:

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2024 08:34 PM (v6JzV)

225 Jar Jar was the best actor in that whole stupid movie.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 08:29 PM (MvF+J)
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Yeah. And they had Sam Jackson and Liam Neeson in that movie.

I think McGregor probably ended up with a decent performance overall. But after the first movie.

Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 08:34 PM (OaZlZ)

226 Will the COVID shot cure you of Mittichlorians?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:34 PM (zpM2M)

227 208 197 I have never seen any of the thirty five Fast and Furious movies.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 31, 2024 08:28 PM

Me neither, and I only saw the first Star Wars. But I remember it vividly because I had a really dreamy date to the movies.

Posted by: Moonbeam at May 31, 2024 08:34 PM (rbKZ6)

228 @208

>>I have never seen any of the thirty five Fast and Furious movies.

The first one is good and probably the last time Vin Diesel actually acted in a movie.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2024 08:35 PM (XV/Pl)

229 Robert
Have you stopped Fapping yet?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 08:00 PM

Isn't November the month for that?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 31, 2024 08:36 PM (a3Q+t)

230 sounds cool, Piper!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 31, 2024 08:36 PM (tQtDb)

231 I have a friend who has a diesel Jetta and he loves that thing more than ice cream.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Buddy had one of the old forbidden one's. He drove it till the wheels fell off. Loved it.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 31, 2024 08:36 PM (0ZYe2)

232 Best Retirement Thing: Being in complete control of your schedule. Master Of Time!

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 08:37 PM (MvF+J)

233 "I have never seen any of the thirty five Fast and Furious movies."

Me neither.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 08:38 PM (MvF+J)

234 I get to retire! I am going to give two weeks notice on Monday. It's like a weight off my shoulders."

Congratulations! It's the best thing ever. You can be as busy as you want. Some days, I just go to the Marina and sit there and watch the boats go by for the entire afternoon.

And the peddle-Duck.

Or feed the catfish. They look like slow moving logs.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 31, 2024 08:38 PM (WXNFJ)

235 You are too kind, Sock rat.

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 08:39 PM (p4NUW)

236 I have never seen any of the thirty five Fast and Furious movies.

Never watched one straight through ... but that Michelle Rodriguez got my attention. In my younger days ? Yeah.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 08:39 PM (LdXFl)

237 Best Retirement Thing: Being in complete control of your schedule.
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy

I just heard God laugh.

Posted by: mikeski at May 31, 2024 08:39 PM (DgGvY)

238 @231

>>Buddy had one of the old forbidden one's. He drove it till the wheels fell off. Loved it.

It's the station wagon, the back seats are folded down and he hauls so much crap around in it that you would thinks he's some kind of traveling salesman.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2024 08:39 PM (XV/Pl)

239 237 Good point!

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 08:40 PM (MvF+J)

240 Bulgaroctonus :

opening scenes qualify as one of the All-Time Greatest Chase Scenes

*lol*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 31, 2024 08:40 PM (tQtDb)

241 216 Frodo dropped the one Ring down the auxiliary exhaust shaft?
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Then Scotty beamed 10-million tribbles in after it to plug up the plasma exhaust, causing the explosion.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 31, 2024 08:41 PM (ZdexC)

242 The VW diesels were fun to drive, and could push 50 mpg.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 31, 2024 08:41 PM (a3Q+t)

243 Best Retirement Thing: Being in complete control of your schedule. Master Of Time!
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy

Seconded. Time is no longer an issue. Just go with the flow.

Posted by: Tuna at May 31, 2024 08:41 PM (oaGWv)

244 234 And the peddle-Duck.

Or feed the catfish. They look like slow moving logs.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 31, 2024 08:38 PM (WXNFJ)

This sounds great, Tonypete. I didn’t retire, I just quit. But then I started this new gig. What was I thinking? 😂

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 08:43 PM (p4NUW)

245 Eh, I retire I would be bored

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2024 08:43 PM (fwDg9)

246 Best Retirement Thing: Being in complete control of your schedule. Master Of Time!
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy

Seconded. Time is no longer an issue. Just go with the flow.
Posted by: Tuna

You do have to remember trash day - but other than that. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at May 31, 2024 08:43 PM (WXNFJ)

247 Eh, I retire I would be bored
Posted by: Skip

No you wouldn't - you'd fill your day with events and tasks that you love.

By choice, my days are filled.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 31, 2024 08:44 PM (WXNFJ)

248 You do have to remember trash day - but other than that. . .
Posted by: Tonypete
---------------------------

That's a permanent alarm on my phone.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 31, 2024 08:45 PM (0ZYe2)

249 Eh, I retire I would be bored

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2024 08:43 PM (fwDg9)

What I'm saying. Going freelance ... and then Covid ... taught me something. I'll have to work until I die. Part-time once I start breaking down, sure. But I simply can't retire.

Not going to piss on those that can. I envy it. And I've been pretty good with 1/4 retired over the last five years. But I can't just up and not work. Which sucks ... not a fan of what I do. Its a source of stress. Also a source of stress ? Sitting around watching the clock before I pop my first one, with nothing to do.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 08:45 PM (LdXFl)

250 Happy birthday, Jordan!

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 08:45 PM (xjTDL)

251 Tonypete, you more than fill your days with all of your charitable works.

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at May 31, 2024 08:45 PM (G/eSj)

252 Oh look, the baby's up.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 31, 2024 08:47 PM (WXNFJ)

253 You do have to remember trash day - but other than that. . .
Posted by: Tonypete

That's a permanent alarm on my phone.
Posted by: Braenyard

And then you forget it's Memorial Day week, and the pickup schedule shifts a day, and put it out on the usual day anyway.

Posted by: mikeski totally didn't do that at May 31, 2024 08:48 PM (DgGvY)

254 19 I'm not happy about the conviction, but I have wonderful news about me. I get to retire! I am going to give two weeks notice on Monday. It's like a weight off my shoulders.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 07:43 PM

Congratulations! My “retirement” came about via a “position elimination” when I was a bitter younger than the age I expected to retire at. I thought that I would go out and get another “professional” job but I never did. I moved back to my home state and have no regrets at all. I have a part-time job pet-sitting and I absolutely love it. I think you’ll be so happy!

Posted by: Moonbeam at May 31, 2024 08:48 PM (rbKZ6)

255 Loser. Jonah Goldberg laughs every time he dumps a HUGH turd and thinks of you!
Posted by: Not Fat Dumb Ron at May 31, 2024 08:46 PM (scZui)
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Obviously by "turd" you mean article....

I concur

Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 08:48 PM (OaZlZ)

256 I served with Hugh Turd. I knew Hugh Turd. Hugh Turd was a friend of mine. You, sir, are no Hugh Turd.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 08:49 PM (MvF+J)

257 Jonah Goldberg has groupies?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 31, 2024 08:49 PM (LkLld)

258 (scZui) seems nice...

Posted by: JQ at May 31, 2024 08:50 PM (njWTi)

259 I plan to get a teardrop trailer and do little overnight trips in this area. I do bad watercolors so I want to play around with that. Will have work done on the house and try to put things away. There are things I can do in the community that I can't do now because I work till 7.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 08:50 PM (xjTDL)

260 257 I served with Hugh Turd. I knew Hugh Turd. Hugh Turd was a friend of mine. You, sir, are no Hugh Turd.
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy

I literally lol’d and the cats are staring at me now like I am a lunatic.

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 08:50 PM (p4NUW)

261 Jonah Goldberg has groupies?
Posted by: JackStraw

Well, probably not in the plural.

Posted by: mikeski at May 31, 2024 08:50 PM (DgGvY)

262 That meme dog just died right?

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 08:51 PM (SHMXB)

263 When I can get a lol out of you morons, I'm walking on air for a week. Thanks!

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 08:52 PM (MvF+J)

264 They don't change trash day here. Mine is Tuesday. It's done by local folks, not Waste Management.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 08:52 PM (xjTDL)

265 It's odd, but I actually have a throughline. I saw where Carrie Ann Moss was going to be in that.

I have been rewatching Chuck on prime lately (there were about 2-3 seasons I never saw) and she guest starred there. One of the best examples of smoky, smoldering- but not classically beautiful- hot in modern day. Kind of a modern Lauren Bacall.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 31, 2024 07:47 PM (nr7mR)

————

They have a trailer with her in it. It actually looked pretty good, but it was just a scene of CAM doing to Jedi stuff.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 31, 2024 08:52 PM (2fIO4)

266 245 Eh, I retire I would be bored
Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2024 08:43 PM (fwDg9)

This. Absolutely this. Covid showed me I do not do well at loose ends.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 31, 2024 08:52 PM (nr7mR)

267 That meme dog just died right?
Posted by: polynikes

Yes.

Posted by: JQ at May 31, 2024 08:52 PM (njWTi)

268 Congratulations! My “retirement” came about via a “position elimination” when I was a bitter younger than the age I expected to retire at. I thought that I would go out and get another “professional” job but I never did. I moved back to my home state and have no regrets at all. I have a part-time job pet-sitting and I absolutely love it. I think you’ll be so happy!
Posted by: Moonbeam at May 31, 2024 08:48 PM

Oops! I definitely wasn’t bitter!

Posted by: Moonbeam at May 31, 2024 08:52 PM (rbKZ6)

269 Yes, I think the meme dog did die

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 08:52 PM (xjTDL)

270 Usually, when I like to gouge CBD or Ace or anyone else in a supposed position of authority - or more often just assumed importance in the social structure that is the board - I like to have a point. A good one is preferable.

I have no idea what that screed was. If you want to be argumentative ? Contrarian ? Then be argumentative and contrarian.

At least the spelling and sentence structure were solid. About all I can say in that post's favor.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 08:52 PM (LdXFl)

271 Shaun Maguire
@shaunmmaguire
I just donated $300k to Trump

https://tinyurl.com/yntk5e2f

It's a much lengthier Twatter post from a Hillary supporting lefty. Worth a read.

Via Instapundit.

Posted by: Robert at May 31, 2024 08:53 PM (4ehmK)

272 9 I'm not happy about the conviction, but I have wonderful news about me. I get to retire! I am going to give two weeks notice on Monday. It's like a weight off my shoulders.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 07:43 PM (xjTDL)

Congratulations!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 31, 2024 07:44 PM (nr7mR)

Seconded !

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2024 08:53 PM (T4tVD)

273 Jar Jar was a Sith Lord.

Posted by: davidt at May 31, 2024 08:53 PM (SYTee)

274 At least the spelling and sentence structure were solid. About all I can say in that post's favor.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 08:52 PM (LdXFl)
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It's like raimondo became literate.

Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 08:54 PM (OaZlZ)

275 I retired at 60 and haven't regretted it one bit. I've got plenty to do and the energy to do it at this point. One of the main reasons I did early retirement.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 08:55 PM (SHMXB)

276 At least the spelling and sentence structure were solid.

Not really.

Posted by: Hugh at May 31, 2024 08:55 PM (mH6SG)

277 Skip, you don't sit at a desk and stare at a screen all day. I will get more exercise retired than working.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 08:55 PM (xjTDL)

278 That meme dog just died right?
Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 08:51 PM (SHMXB
~~~~~

Yes. Doge. His real name was Kabosu.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 31, 2024 08:56 PM (3ImbR)

279 Jonah Goldberg has groupies?
Posted by: JackStraw

Well, probably not in the plural.
Posted by: mikeski

Are his groupies flies and/or cockroaches?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 31, 2024 08:56 PM (VNX3d)

280 At least the spelling and sentence structure were solid. About all I can say in that post's favor.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 08:52 PM (LdXFl)
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It's like raimondo became literate.
Posted by: Axeman
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It's like a butthurt banninated former regular commenter

Posted by: JQ at May 31, 2024 08:57 PM (njWTi)

281 and

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 31, 2024 08:57 PM (tQtDb)

282 I assume that I will die at desk, preferably on a Friday evening after everyone else has left for the day so someone on Monday will have to deal with my bloated corpse.

Posted by: PabloD at May 31, 2024 08:57 PM (euahq)

283 The other thing I like about retirement is not having anyone telling me what I have to do. ( I'm not married so no low hanging snark available)

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 08:57 PM (SHMXB)

284 And thanks for the congratulations! I'm pretty stoked about it. Just got to get past that giving notice part.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 08:57 PM (xjTDL)

285 assume that I will die at desk, preferably on a Friday evening after everyone else has left for the day so someone on Monday will have to deal with my bloated corpse.
Posted by: PabloD at May 31, 2024 08:57 PM (euahq)

I handled a Workers Comp case at IBM with that exact scenario.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 08:58 PM (SHMXB)

286 It was the same with Pappaw. He just could not find enough to do. Started going stir crazy. Picked up smoking coffin nails again (he had been quit for about 15 years.)

Grandpa did better, but instead of work, Grandma was always his motive force and she set the pace. Kept him going.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 31, 2024 08:58 PM (nr7mR)

287 Tim Burton's Batman has to be the biggest letdown vs. the trailer in cinematic history. I was counting the days until opening after seeing that trailer. And all I got was hammy Jack Nicholson, stilted action scenes and C-level Prince.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 31, 2024 08:59 PM (IGKzA)

288 To be fair, Dad has done pretty well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 31, 2024 08:59 PM (nr7mR)

289 I retired at 60 and haven't regretted it one bit. I've got plenty to do and the energy to do it at this point. One of the main reasons I did early retirement.

Like I said ... not pissing on ANYONE that can do it, and enjoy it. Generally interested in those that can. Why I ask questions. They are not leading.

And I also get, some people just don't need to "fill the time". Some enjoy being home with the wife. I, although hating my job my entire life, learned that I really do need the job - in some form or fashion - because I just have to leave the house.

So - again, and for all early retirees - how do you fill the time ? Genuinely curious.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 08:59 PM (LdXFl)

290 >>I handled a Workers Comp case at IBM with that exact scenario.

How much do they pay for a corpse?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 31, 2024 09:01 PM (LkLld)

291 My voice can't take the strain either. We had to deal with an outage last week and it started to go.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 09:01 PM (xjTDL)

292 I'm not happy about the conviction, but I have wonderful news about me. I get to retire! I am going to give two weeks notice on Monday. It's like a weight off my shoulders.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Well, if they give you time served and/or community service, it’ll be the icing on the cake.

Posted by: Adriane the Oblivious Critic . . . at May 31, 2024 09:02 PM (TX4bP)

293 "assume that I will die at desk"

That was my plan, but the company folded, and job hunting proved to be more humiliating, dehumanizing, and infuriating than it was worth. I can stay retired until SS goes bankrupt. Any day now.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 09:02 PM (MvF+J)

294 So - again, and for all early retirees - how do you fill the time ? Genuinely curious.
Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 08:59 PM (LdXFl)

Paint, Tennis, Golf , Gym, Pets , Friends and Sleep.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 09:03 PM (SHMXB)

295 Yes, I think the meme dog did die
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Yes. Poor thing. Her mom couldn't bear to let her go so, from what I gathered from reading the news articles, she was kept alive until her little body just gave out. I hope I don't feel the need to that when my little guy gets old and sick.

Posted by: Tuna at May 31, 2024 09:04 PM (oaGWv)

296 See, I don't leave the house which is part of the reason I can still work. And I check in on Teams during the weekend and after hours in case I need to deal with something. That got old fast.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 09:04 PM (xjTDL)

297 So - again, and for all early retirees - how do you fill the time ? Genuinely curious.
Posted by: Its Always Been This Way

30% volunteering at various orgs. Mostly regarding the poor and for children.
20% of time at church - Safety team, Leadership team, Physical Plant, and Ministry to the lost and the lonely
20% of time with my dear wife hiking, sightseeing and finding hole in the wall diners.
25% of time working on home projects - redoing the kitchen, new lighting, new deck - that sort of thing.
5% - napping

Posted by: Tonypete at May 31, 2024 09:04 PM (WXNFJ)

298 I would have no trouble keeping busy if I retired today. I would have trouble keeping myself fed and sheltered. I have enough hobbies and interests to occupy me for years, but this whole "work" nonsense keeps getting in the way.

Posted by: PabloD at May 31, 2024 09:04 PM (euahq)

299 June is fag and groomer month? Super. Don't they have the entire fucking year anyway?

Posted by: Packing more fudge than Russell Stover at May 31, 2024 09:04 PM (k3d8O)

300 Jewish Insider: ‘Opposite of inclusive’: A look inside the increasingly hostile environment for Jewish therapists
Jewish therapists say they’ve been subject to doxing, litmus tests, exclusion and harassment by fellow mental health professionals since Oct. 7

https://tinyurl.com/yx3ryrss

Via HotAir.

Posted by: Robert at May 31, 2024 09:04 PM (4ehmK)

301 "how do you fill the time?"

Hang out at AoSHQ.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 09:04 PM (MvF+J)

302 Tim Burton's Batman has to be the biggest letdown vs. the trailer in cinematic history. I was counting the days until opening after seeing that trailer. And all I got was hammy Jack Nicholson, stilted action scenes and C-level Prince.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell

Lightyears better than the 60's TV shit-show. I loved it. Danny Elfman in his prime.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 31, 2024 09:04 PM (IG4Id)

303 I handled a Workers Comp case at IBM with that exact scenario.

How much do they pay for a corpse?
Posted by: JackStraw at May 31, 2024 09:01 PM (LkLld)

Hah. Actually in that case the claim was denied. He just had a stroke and it was ruled that it did not arise out of or in the course of his job.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 09:05 PM (SHMXB)

304 281 and
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 31, 2024

My decoder ring came up with nothing. Are you okay? Do you need help? Blink 10 times if we need to send Tonypete in to rescue you.

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 09:05 PM (p4NUW)

305 I stand ready and await your orders Ms. Piper.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 31, 2024 09:07 PM (WXNFJ)

306 Paint, Tennis, Golf , Gym, Pets , Friends and Sleep.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 09:03 PM (SHMXB)

OK ... active. I get that too. I really WANT to be able to like Golf. Its so convenient. But the only stick and ball sport I'm good at is billiards.

I think, if I ever slow down for real, I'll be a hiker. Because the shit I'm good at doesn't seem like retirement material. Cards of all sort, for money. Billiards, at least I don't lose money.

A very small social circle. Can't freehand anything - so painting is right out. I'm a good draftsman though, and good framer and such as long as I ... again ... don't have to freehand anything.

And I can shoot. Bow and gun. But I can't set there and pull a bow more than an hour before I get bored ... and 30 minutes for a gun.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 09:07 PM (LdXFl)

307 I will never be able to afford to retire. I was raising my boys during my peak earning years and spent every dime I made on them and their education. I'm so far behind on my retirement plan it's not even funny.

But. I don't have any debt, so there's that. And I'm good at what I do. I do hate people though.

*sigh*

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 31, 2024 09:08 PM (HXGNm)

308 Posted by: Tonypete at May 31, 2024 09:04 PM (WXNFJ)

Church guy. I know a few folks that are ... they seem to enjoy it. Good for you.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 09:09 PM (LdXFl)

309 But. I don't have any debt, so there's that. And I'm good at what I do. I do hate people though.

*sigh*
Posted by: nurse ratched

Bull. Shit. I've met you. You hate asshoe people. Sadly, there does seem to be an increasing number of those.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 31, 2024 09:09 PM (WXNFJ)

310 A new poll out tonight by Forbes/HarrisX. Conducted 5/30-5/31. So at least partially after verdict. Trump is winning 51-49. Previous poll from same pollster had it tied 50-50.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 31, 2024 09:10 PM (xPl2J)

311 house.

So - again, and for all early retirees - how do you fill the time ? Genuinely curious.
Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 08:59 PM (LdXFl
I don’t know yet, retired at 46, been working ever since except for that one year off for cancer.

Posted by: Eromero at May 31, 2024 09:10 PM (NxC5+)

312 300 Jewish Insider: ‘Opposite of inclusive’: A look inside the increasingly hostile environment for Jewish therapists
Jewish therapists say they’ve been subject to doxing, litmus tests, exclusion and harassment by fellow mental health professionals since Oct. 7

https://tinyurl.com/yx3ryrss

Via HotAir.
Posted by: Robert at May 31, 2024 09:04 PM (4ehmK)

Yeah, this is like being discriminated against because you are a Lesbian.... how the hell would anyone KNOW you are Jewish, unless you told them?

Even Jewish names, are not JUST Jewish anymore.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 31, 2024 09:10 PM (xaFKb)

313 "Happy Pride"

Posted by: exdem13 at May 31, 2024 09:11 PM (W+kMI)

314 So this was pride month or is next month pride month.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 31, 2024 09:11 PM (K/os/)

315 Just creepy. https://tinyurl.com/mr3wrn34

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 09:11 PM (p4NUW)

316 Proud of what? Feces?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 31, 2024 09:12 PM (K/os/)

317 "But. I don't have any debt"

I have a visceral dread of debt. So far, by the grace of God, I've avoided it.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 09:12 PM (MvF+J)

318 According to Justin Trudeau it's not Pride Month. It's Pride Season.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 31, 2024 09:13 PM (xPl2J)

319 So this was pride month or is next month pride month.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey

June

Posted by: Tuna at May 31, 2024 09:13 PM (oaGWv)

320 Retirement plan? Starvation, probably.

Posted by: Kinda funny when you think about it at May 31, 2024 09:13 PM (k3d8O)

321 289- So - again, and for all early retirees - how do you fill the time ? Genuinely curious.
Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 08:59 PM

To be honest, filling the time is, at least in part, a function of how much money you’ve been able to save for retirement. If you don’t feel it’s enough, there are lots of part-time jobs that can be interesting. I have several retired friends who have jobs you wouldn’t even think were available. You can travel, even if it’s just day trips. We have a fantastic state magazine here and I always get interesting ideas from it. I also felt that I had to have a job but, after several months, I started ignoring those Indeed postings.

Posted by: Moonbeam at May 31, 2024 09:14 PM (rbKZ6)

322 Marian Shields Robinson, Michelle Obama's mother, has died at age 86.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 31, 2024 09:14 PM (ZdexC)

323 June is damn lengthy. Why not February? I know why not February.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 31, 2024 09:14 PM (K/os/)

324 I have a visceral dread of debt. So far, by the grace of God, I've avoided it.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 09:12 PM (MvF+J)

If it was good for you, the banks wouldn't push it so hard. Like somebody on your doorstep trying to sell you meat from the cooler in the back of the truck.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 09:14 PM (LdXFl)

325 Hah. Actually in that case the claim was denied. He just had a stroke and it was ruled that it did not arise out of or in the course of his job.
Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 09:05 PM (SHMXB)
~~~~~

A guy at the refinery I worked at had a heart attack just before he got to the gate. Security rushed over and ripped off his jacket to start CPR and found he had wrapped copper tubing around his torso from his armpits to his waist. Needless to say, wifey didn't get the big bucks.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 31, 2024 09:14 PM (3ImbR)

326 I'm not opposed to working part time somewhere that interests me. The museum , golf course , giving tennis lessons . I even thought of working at Lowe's or Home Depot if I ever got bored. I love just walking through them .

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 09:15 PM (SHMXB)

327 No reason to get up tomorrow but will anyway
Hope everyone has a great evening

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2024 09:15 PM (fwDg9)

328 Every month is pride month. I’m so tired of fags having over half the year because they bred to be recognized.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at May 31, 2024 09:16 PM (17s+e)

329 According to Justin Trudeau it's not Pride Month. It's Pride Season.
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 31, 2024 09:13 PM (xPl2J)

Is that more like Duck season, Wabbit season, or baseball season?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 31, 2024 09:16 PM (VNX3d)

330 all good, piper!

was in response to an and/or in a post above ... if I had been quick enough it would have been right below ...

but, like I told someone years ago who *stopped* *paused* *asked "are you okay there"* as I was laying on my back, on the floor, halfway inside a big horky piece of equipment I was working on ...
"yes; but thank you for stopping and asking!"

as a ham radio operator, if i ever star in a hostage video watch for Morse code blinking like the Pueblo guys

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 31, 2024 09:16 PM (tQtDb)

331 Take pictures of the car from all four corners when first getting it.

Posted by: Reforger at May 31, 2024 09:16 PM (xcIvR)

332 New term for felon:
https://tinyurl.com/9pkjb424

BTW isn't Convicted Felon an oxymoron?

Posted by: Ciampino - Classifieds: Have backhoe - will travel.... at May 31, 2024 09:16 PM (qfLjt)

333 Posted by: IrishEi at May 31, 2024 09:14 PM (3ImbR)

Classic. I have dozens of similar stories of claims I've handled.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 09:17 PM (SHMXB)

334 I paid off debt but didn't have enough to retire. I figured I would build up a cushion and maybe work part time. Bit I got a small, unexpected inheritance and I think it will do. I kept stocking up on food, projects and tools for when I was retired. Will be nice to start using it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 09:17 PM (xjTDL)

335 June is damn lengthy. Why not February? I know why not February.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 31, 2024 09:14 PM (K/os/)

We can call it “down low” month.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at May 31, 2024 09:17 PM (17s+e)

336 EVERY month is pride month!

Posted by: Teh Ghey Mafia at May 31, 2024 09:18 PM (mH6SG)

337 A guy at the refinery I worked at had a heart attack just before he got to the gate. Security rushed over and ripped off his jacket to start CPR and found he had wrapped copper tubing around his torso from his armpits to his waist. Needless to say, wifey didn't get the big bucks.
Posted by: IrishEi

I guess it wasn't caused by a copper deficiency, then.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 31, 2024 09:18 PM (VNX3d)

338 I also felt that I had to have a job but, after several months, I started ignoring those Indeed postings.

Very cool. You found your spot. Excellent.

I also used to "wargame" ... where you see the nerds hovering over the boards with the hexes using tweezers to move the counters. But I just don't have the patience anymore. Couldn't do that if I had all day.

If I had unlimited time ? I'd probably lock myself in the basement for 30 days ... make myself sharpen up on the guitar again ... and see if I could join a band for free. But that's probably a very unrealistic goal.

Yet ... when I dream ... that's often the dream. Playing in a band.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 09:18 PM (LdXFl)

339 I even thought of working at Lowe's or Home Depot if I ever got bored. I love just walking through them .
Posted by: polynikes

I do too. I think it's the smell. Fresh cut lumber.

Posted by: Tuna at May 31, 2024 09:18 PM (oaGWv)

340 g'night Skip!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 31, 2024 09:19 PM (tQtDb)

341 >>Hah. Actually in that case the claim was denied. He just had a stroke and it was ruled that it did not arise out of or in the course of his job.

He definitely didn't have my job.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 31, 2024 09:19 PM (LkLld)

342 240 Agreed.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2024 09:19 PM (v6JzV)

343 I would like to retire, but afraid I'm to be without the employer provided health insurance. I don't trust the death panels at Medicare/Medicaid.

Posted by: davidt at May 31, 2024 09:19 PM (SYTee)

344 "he had wrapped copper tubing around his torso from his armpits to his waist."

One genius tip to improve cellphone reception (do it today!)

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 09:20 PM (MvF+J)

345 G'nite, Skip.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 31, 2024 09:20 PM (mH6SG)

346 The museum , golf course , giving tennis lessons . I even thought of working at Lowe's or Home Depot if I ever got bored. I love just walking through them .
Posted by: polynikes

Lots of guys around here work short hours at the golf courses. Bennies include free golf and a break at the restaurants. Tennis and pickleball opportunities too.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 31, 2024 09:21 PM (WXNFJ)

347 No Friday, No Monday, every day is a fun day. I love my job

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at May 31, 2024 09:21 PM (G/eSj)

348 I even thought of working at Lowe's or Home Depot if I ever got bored. I love just walking through them .
Posted by: polynikes

Maybe teaching this automation shit at community college. I'd be good at it ... but I'd probably hate the little 18-22 year old smart asses. So maybe geezer guitar player is a better plan.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 09:22 PM (LdXFl)

349 My stepson is getting married in August. ( about time since their son is in kindergarten). I'm trying to decide if I can travel to the Oregon coast and back for it. I can't do air travel so would have to drive.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 09:22 PM (xjTDL)

350 316 Proud of what? Feces?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 31, 2024 09:12 PM (K/os/)
----
Good comment. We need to ask just that anytime we get told the phrase 'pride month', or 'pride anything queer'.

Posted by: Ciampino - Classifieds: Have backhoe - will travel... at May 31, 2024 09:23 PM (qfLjt)

351 see if I could join a band for free. But that's probably a very unrealistic goal.

Yet ... when I dream ... that's often the dream. Playing in a band.
Posted by: Its Always Been This Way

In an area like Apache Junction AZ there are bars that have bands playing every night. Most of them have backup music and they sing and play guitar or drums. They do NOT sound great but, they get to play and spend their tip money on drinks. The music does not get better near quitting time.
It doesn't matter the bars are full of retirees.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2024 09:23 PM (ISYdD)

352 Posted by: Tonypete at May 31, 2024 09:21 PM (WXNFJ

This summer I'll probably give some tennis lessons since a lot of kid clinics need teachers.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 09:24 PM (SHMXB)

353 You could tutor at community college. My husband used to tutor machinist's math.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2024 09:24 PM (xjTDL)

354 I can travel to the Oregon coast and back for it. I can't do air travel so would have to drive.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Great tour with a tear drop!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2024 09:24 PM (ISYdD)

355 it just me or is the left kinda quiet about the Trump persecution? Where are the usual suspects in orgasmic glee?
--------

They are still terrified of another 2016. They don't want their stupid shit played back on them to operatics for the next four years. It hurt them.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 09:25 PM (lX8VI)

356 I do hate people though.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 31, 2024 09:08 PM (HXGNm)

*Fist bump*

Posted by: Robert at May 31, 2024 09:25 PM (b6hl8)

357 306- I think, if I ever slow down for real, I'll be a hiker. Because the shit I'm good at doesn't seem like retirement material.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 09:07 PM

Most towns have hiking clubs so that could help expand your social circle. But if you’re like me and prefer the solitude of hiring, you can probably find some guides to nearby trails. Before I got laid off in Minneapolis, I was working on a hiking project based on a guide called “60 Hikes Within 60 Miles”. It took me about 3 years due to the short Spring-Fall season but I did about 54 of them before I moved away. It was awesome. I know there are similar guides for other major metro areas.

Posted by: Moonbeam at May 31, 2024 09:26 PM (rbKZ6)

358 Timcast just got nuked by YT. I wasn't paying attention, so don't know why.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 09:26 PM (MvF+J)

359 I have been to that canyon in Kauai, not as deep and wide as the Grand Canyon though still spectacular.

Posted by: Decaf at May 31, 2024 09:26 PM (unUNN)

360 You could tutor at community college. My husband used to tutor machinist's math.

I could see that. Troubleshooting, design, programming ... and you would, presumably, have the kids that cared enough to show up. That might be good.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 09:26 PM (LdXFl)

361 nurse!!! I know you will have a great time a at PNWMoMe.

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at May 31, 2024 09:27 PM (G/eSj)

362 If anyone is interested in my paintings you can see them on Stuppleart.com

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 09:27 PM (SHMXB)

363 Just listened to Matt Walsh. He nailed it. We don't want to hear from GOP pols how appalled they are, how shocked.

All we want is to see corrupt Democrats frog marched into prison.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 31, 2024 09:28 PM (1bNHn)

364 This summer I'll probably give some tennis lessons since a lot of kid clinics need teachers.
Posted by: polynikes

Nice!

Sucking up a bunch of my time right now is a project to set up a kid/senior day care facility. We have more older folks than you can shake a cane at and some of the locals can't afford normal day care when they work. The state is very interested so we're getting a ton of support from them.

Grandmas and Grandpas are all over the place and just love to take care of the kidlings. Free daycare for the little ones, companionship and a sense of well-being (and hugs!) for the elders.

Good for everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 31, 2024 09:29 PM (WXNFJ)

365 ham radio is perhaps the ultimate Boring Old White Guy hobby;
I really enjoy combining hiking with Parks On The Air / Summits On The Air activity.

radio experimental DIY, a shmatte part-time job, and the honey-do list occupy my time otherwise.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 31, 2024 09:30 PM (tQtDb)

366 Posted by: Tonypete at May 31, 2024 09:29 PM (WXNFJ)

That's a win /win !!

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 09:30 PM (SHMXB)

367 I thought about being a substitute school nurse or a Summer Camp nurse.
After a bit I thought about the lies I'd have to put up with at both places and decided nope.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2024 09:30 PM (ISYdD)

368 For cryin' out loud ... I just clicked it. That's your stuff ?

Look ... I'm no art guy. So the abstracts are right out. But the landscapes are really good.

You yanking my chain ?

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 09:30 PM (LdXFl)

369 I don't want to hear what any Pol has to say or what they are going to do. I want to hear what they have done.

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at May 31, 2024 09:30 PM (G/eSj)

370 >>Grandmas and Grandpas are all over the place and just love to take care of the kidlings. Free daycare for the little ones, companionship and a sense of well-being (and hugs!) for the elders.

Now that sounds like a great project. Nice to hear good things happening with all the garbage we are living through.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 31, 2024 09:32 PM (LkLld)

371 Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 09:30 PM (LdXFl)

That's part of my retirement activities .

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 09:32 PM (SHMXB)

372 338- Yet ... when I dream ... that's often the dream. Playing in a band.
Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 09:18 PM

Only you can make it come true! The husband of one of my bosses played in a band with a group of friends well into his 60s!

Posted by: Moonbeam at May 31, 2024 09:32 PM (rbKZ6)

373 wow, that so rocks, Tonypete!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 31, 2024 09:33 PM (tQtDb)

374 The only thing I want to hear politicians say or do is that, in striking Trump down, they've made him more powerful. As soon as they can arrange it, they and their deep state supporters are leaving the US for a safe haven, like Canada or Ukraine.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 31, 2024 09:33 PM (VNX3d)

375 That's part of my retirement activities .

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 09:32 PM (SHMXB)

Now I really don't like ya'.

I can build and skin you a deck, with Trex or whatever rail you want, as nice as you'd like it. Frame and pour you concrete pretty as you please, with edging and whatever finish you think you'd like to see.

But I can't draw flies, and never will. That's pretty cool. How long did it take you to get that good ?

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 09:34 PM (LdXFl)

376 sock_rat_eez - I'm trying my first SOTA activation tomorrow. It's the first time using this antenna, tuner, and radio as well, so it could easily be a disaster. I'll probably be on 20m or 30m, on CW (QRP). At least the hike to the top will be easy, assuming I don't have to contend with rattlesnakes trying to get early morning sun on the path up.

Posted by: PabloD at May 31, 2024 09:35 PM (euahq)

377 I like "The Colors of Fall" and "Algiers Point" the best.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 09:36 PM (LdXFl)

378 Dead, "Playin' in the Band", 1972:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz4W4YThKOc&t=241s

& g'night everyone, lotta hikin' to do tomorrow ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 31, 2024 09:37 PM (tQtDb)

379 Whew.
Back.from bier call.
Hic!
Hey! Those damned octopi are sentient mofos! And they taste like crap.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2024 09:39 PM (W/lyH)

380 what radio, PabloD?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 31, 2024 09:39 PM (tQtDb)

381 TonyPete, my parents' assisted living place backed up to a primary school. Don't know any details, but many of the kids came over to the place after school and working parents picked them up there.

They also volunteered in classrooms. (Not my parents. Not the volunteering type. But others.)

Posted by: Wenda at May 31, 2024 09:39 PM (6oyA/)

382 Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 09:34 PM (LdXFl)

Don't sell yourself short. Your skills are necessary. Painting and tennis /sports skills could disappear from the world and it would survive with no problem. Barely a bump in the road.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 09:39 PM (SHMXB)

383 taking on a lot of "known unknowns" there ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 31, 2024 09:40 PM (tQtDb)

384 but I gotta applaud your initiative all the same!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 31, 2024 09:41 PM (tQtDb)

385 Sock - it's an SW-3B.

Posted by: PabloD at May 31, 2024 09:41 PM (euahq)

386 sock_rat, Happy hiking. I will be thinking of you in the am

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at May 31, 2024 09:42 PM (G/eSj)

387 348 I even thought of working at Lowe's or Home Depot if I ever got bored. I love just walking through them .
Posted by: polynikes

---------

I love looking at the hammers.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 31, 2024 09:42 PM (bo7UB)

388 taking on a lot of "known unknowns" there ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

It's always the unknown unknowns that will bite you in the ass.

-- Paraphrasing Donald Rumsfeld

Posted by: Tonypete at May 31, 2024 09:43 PM (WXNFJ)

389 I haven't been able to set up my home shack yet (this will involve drilling holes in the garage roof, and Lord only knows what else), so I thought I'd go portable for the moment. Never know till you try.

Posted by: PabloD at May 31, 2024 09:43 PM (euahq)

390 'Mostly peaceful shovel'

I usually watch with the sound down but I had to hear whether Steve added a metallic clunk for the shovel. He didn't disappoint.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 31, 2024 09:44 PM (roH4R)

391 Coincidentally enough, I'm just half-watching a Midsomer Murders that's taking place with a hiking group!

"Death and Dust"

And it includes Aunt Joan from Doc Martin!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 31, 2024 09:44 PM (ZdexC)

392 NY thug...
Had to sit through three friggin ads but worth it.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2024 09:45 PM (W/lyH)

393 "I love looking at the hammers."

I don't ...

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at May 31, 2024 09:45 PM (euahq)

394 I love your paintings, polynikes!

Posted by: Moonbeam at May 31, 2024 09:45 PM (rbKZ6)

395 I love looking at the hammers.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 31, 2024 09:42 PM (bo7UB)
----
You're the guy!

Posted by: Lawrence O'Donnell at May 31, 2024 09:46 PM (OaZlZ)

396 that's a goodie, PabloD ... good luck with that!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 31, 2024 09:46 PM (tQtDb)

397 thank you {{{Ben Had}}} !

I'll send a thought your way too

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 31, 2024 09:48 PM (tQtDb)

398 Thanks, sock. I'll try to post an update on the Hobby thread tomorrow. I'm also a member of LICW, so I may post something there.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at May 31, 2024 09:48 PM (euahq)

399 I am not above a little gloating. I have a polynikes Original and it is glorious.

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at May 31, 2024 09:50 PM (G/eSj)

400 Posted by: Moonbeam at May 31, 2024 09:45 PM (rbKZ

Thanks 😊

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 09:50 PM (SHMXB)

401 Off, filthy corrupt sock (not you, sock_rat_eez).

Posted by: PabloD at May 31, 2024 09:52 PM (euahq)

402 lookin forward to it, PabloD!

for anyone actually trying my Grateful Dead link above, skip to about 29:00 for the nub or crux of the matter ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 31, 2024 09:53 PM (tQtDb)

403 >>I love looking at the hammers.

How do you feel about lamps?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 31, 2024 09:54 PM (LkLld)

404 That's good shit poly.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 09:54 PM (lX8VI)

405 Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at May 31, 2024 09:50 PM (G/eSj)

Too kind. It’s where it’s supposed to be.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 09:54 PM (SHMXB)

406 387 348 I even thought of working at Lowe's or Home Depot if I ever got bored. I love just walking through them .
Posted by: polynikes

---------

I love looking at the hammers.
Posted by: Cicero

(perks up)

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at May 31, 2024 09:55 PM (gcUgZ)

407 Edmonton stuffing the Stars so far. 3-0 halfway through.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 31, 2024 09:55 PM (Ea0YS)

408 400 Posted by: Moonbeam at May 31, 2024 09:45 PM (rbKZ

Thanks 😊
Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 09:50 PM

I didn’t see any price list. Are they for sale? I especially love “Study of Leaves, Flowers and Marble”.

Posted by: Moonbeam at May 31, 2024 09:56 PM (rbKZ6)

409 Ben Had if I still have a thing I might send you a thing.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 09:57 PM (lX8VI)

410 I think Pride Month is kinda over. Nobody in my little burg Liked the parade notice at all.

Posted by: PJ at May 31, 2024 09:57 PM (G1dq6)

411 I am not above a little gloating. I have a polynikes Original and it is glorious.

A car dealership in Louisville still has some of my first remodeling work ... as a not yet 18 year old in high school. And also a furniture store in a ritzier part of town. I wonder if they know they have the original, more raw, not yet refined early expressions of the artist that I would become in the sphere of interior taking shit down to build shit back up medium that was my expression in that era.

I consider it my "have to fucking work to get cash to put gas in the tank and beer in the cooler to pick up girls on dates" phase. It was also my "Dad finally thinks I'm not useless and is slightly off my ass" era. The two phases intertwined.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 31, 2024 09:58 PM (LdXFl)

412 Old guys in bands?

Tony Levin is about to go on tour with some other former King Crimson guys this fall.

He'll be 78.

Posted by: mikeski at May 31, 2024 09:58 PM (DgGvY)

413 I think Pride Month is kinda over. Nobody in my little burg Liked the parade notice at all.
Posted by: PJ at May 31, 2024 09:57 PM (G1dq6)

*looks at calendar*
Whew. Missed it!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2024 10:02 PM (W/lyH)

414 lol!

& now rly g'night all!

parbly check in on my way out pre-dawn tomorrow ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 31, 2024 10:03 PM (tQtDb)

415 There is a four hour utube video by Jenny Nicholson, about her trip to the now defunct DEIsney Galactic Starcruiser hotel. She paid $6066 for a two night stay for the experience, and explains the incredible suck of it.

She has a slightly annoying high pitched voice. The bullshittiness of it is interesting. As a small bonus, her average looking friend appears to have a nice rack, but sadly, I have seen little of her in the first hour.

This video is making the rounds right now, and has over six million views. At least she can get some of her money back via Google ads.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 31, 2024 10:03 PM (Ea0YS)

416 Posted by: Moonbeam at May 31, 2024 09:56 PM (rbKZ6)

I have only been doing word of mouth commissions . I’ve been considering doing work on spec for sale but have been procrastinating listing those available.

Unfortunately The Study was one of those commissions and I no longer have it.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 10:04 PM (SHMXB)

417 Has anyone heard from WeirdDave since he lost power just before last night's ONT?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 31, 2024 10:05 PM (VNX3d)

418 415 There is a four hour utube video by Jenny Nicholson, about her trip to the now defunct DEIsney Galactic Starcruiser hotel.

That's very interesting, Ian! How come Ace hasn't done a post about it yet??

Posted by: that guy who only reads the comments at May 31, 2024 10:05 PM (gKWVE)

419 Has anyone heard from WeirdDave since he lost power just before last night's ONT?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 31, 2024 10:05 PM (VNX3d)

I'm not saying it's aliens...but...

Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2024 10:06 PM (W/lyH)

420 zzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted by: Braenyard at May 31, 2024 10:09 PM (gMabG)

421 Just doing my bit to immanentize the ONT!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 31, 2024 10:09 PM (FkUwd)

422 I am hitting refresh like a monkey on crack, but no ONT yet.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 31, 2024 10:10 PM (Ea0YS)

423 zzz zzzz zzzzz

Posted by: Braenyard at May 31, 2024 10:10 PM (gMabG)

424 And I figured my long post was going to be instantly willowed.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 31, 2024 10:10 PM (Ea0YS)

425 WHAT ONT ?

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2024 10:11 PM (T4tVD)

426 *drums fingers on the desk*

Posted by: GWB at May 31, 2024 10:11 PM (AWrpC)

427 Hiya, JT

Posted by: Braenyard at May 31, 2024 10:12 PM (gMabG)

428 Mmmyeah, I'm afraid we're going to have to wait for that ONT tomorrow.

Posted by: lumbergh at May 31, 2024 10:12 PM (gKWVE)

429 Where iss it, Precious?

Posted by: Gollum at May 31, 2024 10:12 PM (SYTee)

430
*rolls by*

Posted by: tumbleweed at May 31, 2024 10:13 PM (8CgXU)

431 Hiya, JT
Posted by: Braenyard

Hiya Brain !

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2024 10:13 PM (T4tVD)

432 It's on

Posted by: Braenyard at May 31, 2024 10:13 PM (gMabG)

433 I don’t need one but my local Home Depot had a display of air coolers on wheels of various sizes . I almost bought one just like I bought an indoor portable propane heater . As a temp back up if my ( 4 year old HVAC breaks) . That’s why I have to avoid just walking around the store.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 10:16 PM (SHMXB)

434 That's very interesting, Ian! How come Ace hasn't done a post about it yet??
Posted by: that guy who only reads the comments at May 31, 2024 10:05 PM (gKWVE)

I just heard about it tonight when Valiant Renegade mentioned it. It came out a week ago or so, and it is causing a stir in the financial news, because these financial reporters are imbeciles and are finally starting to wake up to the shittiness that has been DEIsney for the last number of years.

It takes a youtoober, be it something niche, like this, to an investigative type guy, like turtleboy, to shake things up and deliver real news.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 31, 2024 10:16 PM (Ea0YS)

435 Hinderaker at Powerline has gone full Sefton, calling for national divorce. First, he called for mass arrests of Democrat politicians. Now he says "ignore all Executive Orders, rules, court decisions", and still wants to arrest Democrats.

This Trump trial has red-pilled the center.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2024 10:43 PM (s5zoC)

436 ONT is up!

Posted by: PabloD at May 31, 2024 10:47 PM (euahq)

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