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Hello everybody! Welcome to Thursday! Let's jump start this thing and get going!
Everybody Is Sick Of You
Just Stop Oil’s Stonehenge stunt is the last straw
These stunts are not common-garden civil disobedience. This is not disruption in an attempt to ‘raise awareness’ or get some politician’s attention. These are attacks on human civilisation itself – on some of humanity’s most significant artistic, architectural and political achievements. And there is a very good reason why the cult of Just Stop Oil thinks nothing of vandalising them. After all, these eco-irritants are not merely ‘concerned’ about climate change – they are gripped with apocalyptic terror by climate change. The group’s mastermind, Roger Hallam, likes to tell his acolytes that in the coming decades, climate change is going to kill as many as six billion people – the vast majority of human beings, in other words. In the eyes of this millenarian eco-cult, climate change is not a problem to be managed or overcome, but a near inevitable catastrophe that will bring destruction on the scale of a global nuclear Holocaust. (There is, needless to say, absolutely zero scientific evidence that climate change could possibly lead to such an outcome.)These stupid leftist attacks will stop when the “protesters” start getting punched in the face.
Defacing The Classics ‘The Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim’ To Introduce Long-Lost Tribe Of Female Warriors Led By Helm Hammerhand’s Daughter
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, writer Philippa Boyens confirmed that the unnamed daughter of Helm would be the main protagonist of the film. She said, “When they suggested anime, that’s when my brain really started whirring. Immediately, the idea of telling this story came to me. They had a number of different ones they were going to pitch me, but I was quite bossy, and I was like, ‘No, I know exactly what this needs.’” She continued, “I immediately felt that it would work for anime because it’s so character-based and also contained within its own world. It speaks to certain things that work really well with Japanese storytelling.”Does she know the kind of things that happen to female characters in Japanese anime?
Legalize It California Legalized Drugs. Cartels Took It Over.
Drug legalization has failed on every level. The legal drug business is collapsing. MedMen, which once promised to be the Apple of weed, fell from a $3 billion valuation to a bankruptcy with $411 million in liabilities. Despite the green crosses and online apps, 80% of Californian’s pot is still the old-fashioned illegal kind. Politicians may be boasting about hundreds of millions in revenue, but the cartels are making tens of billions and they’re taking over entire forests. The future isn’t pot shops, weed apps or MedMen: it’s Mexican and Chinese organized crime compounds that are spreading across the West and parts of New England like a plague. Legalization advocates still argue that if the government lowered the high taxes on legal pot, the business model could turn around again, but even without a single penny in taxes, no amount of legal labor is going to be able to compete with illegal aliens smuggled across the border and forced to work for free by gunmen. Legal businesses can’t compete with organized crime. Drug legalization increased homelessness and drug abuse. It boosted illegal migration and organized crime. It made life worse in every state and city where it’s been tried without delivering tangible benefits to anyone (including weed users who still get theirs the old-fashioned way) except for a few politicians who temporarily have a few million more to pass around to special interests, donors and lobbyists. And all they had to do was hand over half the country to organized crime.
“Unexpectedly”, no doubt.
A Long Slide Down A Slippery Slope
Hypocrisy exposed: Jillian Michaels’ rant on 'crazy California'
The reality is that the state of California took the decadent and revisionist premise that Jillian Michaels lives her own life by and followed it to its natural, damnable conclusion. Yes, folks, the woke mob is more consistent than she is! Did she think she could only slide halfway down the slope to Gomorrah and just get comfortable in her own private Idaho? Of course, that can never work, no matter how well-intentioned her partial awakening is now. She moved out of California. So what? The real question is how much of California did she take with her and won’t let go of? The only thing that beats bad religion is the right one. The idols must be smashed.
I remember when Kurt Schlicter's Kelly Turnbull novels first came out. Some of the stuff that he intended to seem outrageous has already happened.
On COIN What America Can Learn From Israel on the Battlefield
After Oct 7, Israel is applying a crude realpolitik to the problem. It's insufficient as a solution, but it's a whole lot more pragmatic than the nation building and counterinsurgency rabbit hole that swallowed up a generation of our finest fighting men with nothing to show for it except despair. Israel is trying to limit its casualties while maximizing its results. Our politicians and generals could learn a thing or two from that. The IDF is not being tasked with digging wells, winning hearts and minds or having three cups of tea with the terrorists. Its soldiers are tasked with pushing out and engaging enemy forces to expose their leaders and command structure. In Afghanistan and Iraq, we used military force to achieve political and diplomatic aims, while Israel is using military force to achieve military aims. What a shockingly sensible notion. Perhaps our politicians and generals ought to consider it next time we get involved in a war.You don't win a war until you destroy the enemy's (both civilian and military) will to resist. The fact that we've forgotten this simple fact explains every conflict since WWII.
Just Tinkering Around
A belt fed 12 gauge full auto upper for an AR, because you didn’t know you needed it till now. pic.twitter.com/3OZ1eQq4EQ
— Doc Strangelove (@DocStrangelove2) May 18, 2024
Armor Bizarre armor from Mycenaean Greece turns out to have been effective
The Dendra armor, one of the oldest suits of bronze armor ever found, had been considered a purely ceremonial piece. It seemed impossible to use in battle due to its cumbersome design. It took over a decade of research, elaborate numerical models, and 13 Greek marines fighting in it from dawn till dusk to prove it was surprisingly good at its job, despite its odd appearance. “This made the Mycenaean warriors some of the best equipped in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Bronze Age,” says professor Andreas Flouris, a researcher at the University of Thessaly, who led the study.I need to pick up a set. Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Versatility:
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) June 21, 2024
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at June 20, 2024 10:00 PM (n3DL0)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 20, 2024 10:00 PM (Vp81v)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 20, 2024 10:00 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 20, 2024 10:00 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 20, 2024 10:01 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2024 10:01 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: mindful webworker - supposedly at June 20, 2024 10:02 PM (6c/I7)
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Posted by: Robert at June 20, 2024 10:03 PM (X7fDU)
Top 50 without even tryin'.
Posted by: TeeJ at June 20, 2024 10:03 PM (aDAOz)
I clicked on the link because I couldn't believe this wasn't a Bee headline.
Sadly, it is not.
Posted by: Dr. T at June 20, 2024 10:03 PM (jGGMD)
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If you are an older lady from Portugal who lied to your husband about a membership with me, then brought your flaming red mad husband to my studio screaming they are going to call the police on me for credit card fraud in front of other clients, then yes. Totally about you.
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2024 09:45 PM (pZEOD)
The prophet Kevin Smith spake unto us about the sins of the clients.
https://youtu.be/HSS8tiy9Y3U
Posted by: Robert at June 20, 2024 10:03 PM (X7fDU)
You know how "martial arts" weapons are just peasant farm tools applied to humans instead of wheat?
That there is some Moron's trebuchet.
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2024 10:04 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2024 10:04 PM (pZEOD)
Jillian Michaels voted for this sh*t until she got her policy outcomes right in the kisser.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 20, 2024 10:04 PM (RIvkX)
242 My work is done here. Up at 0400, cookies for breakfast!
Posted by: Eromero at June 20, 2024 10:02 PM (LHPAg
Posted by: Eromero at June 20, 2024 10:04 PM (LHPAg)
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Girlbossery. Who came up with that clever idea?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2024 10:05 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 20, 2024 10:05 PM (v6JzV)
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That doesn't sound very inclusive.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 20, 2024 10:05 PM (RIvkX)
Put a chick in it, make her gay.
Posted by: Eric at June 20, 2024 10:06 PM (SYTee)
The group’s mastermind, Roger Hallam, likes to tell his acolytes that in the coming decades, climate change is going to kill as many as six billion people – the vast majority of human beings, in other words.
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They want to commit suicide to avoid getting killed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2024 10:06 PM (MoZTd)
https://youtu.be/HSS8tiy9Y3U
Posted by: Robert at June
I will watch this, and probably laugh, tomorrow. J is watching some dumb movie in Italian and I got a dirty look playing it. Today is not my day. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2024 10:06 PM (pZEOD)
Make the helmet solid bronze, too, and you've got a heck of a Halloween costume. "I'm an AR round!"
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2024 10:06 PM (DgGvY)
Let me guess what your whirring brain came up with: Put a chick in it, make it lame, and gay.
How'd I do?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 20, 2024 10:07 PM (xCA6C)
If you are an older lady from Portugal who lied to your husband about a membership with me, then brought your flaming red mad husband to my studio screaming they are going to call the police on me for credit card fraud in front of other clients, then yes. Totally about you.
Posted by: Piper
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I... the... what?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2024 10:07 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2024 10:07 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 20, 2024 10:08 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2024 10:07 PM (pZEOD)
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Birdbath Status: OFFLINE
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2024 10:09 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 20, 2024 10:10 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2024 10:10 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: Robert at June 20, 2024 10:11 PM (X7fDU)
I dunno, these "protesters" are probably seeking violence so they can then be victims.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 20, 2024 10:11 PM (hzmX4)
Slasher
Egotist
The Evil One
Harridan
Knife Master
Spoiled
Chew You Fat
The Hatemonger
Soft Blade
King Worst
Queen Worst
Pretender Worst
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 20, 2024 10:11 PM (CHHv1)
Got a couple of plug-in light sockets with switches installed in the kennel. This lets us have enough illumination to see everyone with the remote cameras, but not have 10 ceiling lights burning.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2024 10:12 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 10:12 PM (QXE1M)
I blame the Tolkien Foundation. They sold the IP out to the highest bidder before Christopher Tolkien's body was cold in his grave. What did they expect when they did this?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 20, 2024 10:12 PM (Vp81v)
I wonder if this Tolkien spinoff will have an elf girl who shoots deadly bubbles out of her hoo-ha.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2024 10:12 PM (S6gqv)
Now, where does this part go and what does it do?
Posted by: mindful webworker - simplistically at June 20, 2024 10:12 PM (6c/I7)
https://youtu.be/HSS8tiy9Y3U
Posted by: Robert at June
I will watch this, and probably laugh, tomorrow. J is watching some dumb movie in Italian and I got a dirty look playing it. Today is not my day. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2024 10:06 PM (pZEOD)
It's a three second clip from Clerks with Randall stating, "This job would be great if it wasn't for the fucking customers."
Posted by: Robert at June 20, 2024 10:12 PM (X7fDU)
Posted by: Piper
None that I heard. It's funny - I think I can go out on a limb here and claim that all here do not want to pry into anyone else's bidness but, at the same time, worry when we don't hear from them so we try to find out.
It is a conundrum.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2024 10:12 PM (WXNFJ)
Oh, that reminds me. I should watch my security cameras for awhile. She is obviously not right and not happy I could pull all that stuff up.
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2024 10:13 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 10:12 PM (QXE1M
Just a tad. But I still want one.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 20, 2024 10:14 PM (aPY1X)
I dunno, these "protesters" are probably seeking violence so they can then be victims.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 20, 2024 10:11 PM (hzmX4)
I would suggest they want a threat, or at most a show, of violence, to give them that precious "victimhood" status.
They don't want actual violence, which they would be powerless to defend against.
Posted by: Dr. T at June 20, 2024 10:14 PM (jGGMD)
I wonder if this Tolkien spinoff will have an elf girl who shoots deadly bubbles out of her hoo-ha.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2024 10:12 PM (S6gqv)
The Balrog, now reimagined with, um..."roots of lust."
Posted by: Robert at June 20, 2024 10:14 PM (X7fDU)
Posted by: Piper
If you'd like, I could camp out on your roof with a rifle for a week or so.
I'm a giver.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2024 10:14 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 20, 2024 10:14 PM (hOUT3)
A whole box of 25 rounds of 00 buck going downrange at what, about four rounds per second or so?
WANT!
*Pours Bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June 20, 2024 10:15 PM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 20, 2024 10:15 PM (jrKun)
No, WeirdDave, not punched in the face. They'll stop when people start treating them like the illegal alien rapist of the 13yo. Punching, kicking, scratching, grabbing a nearby hickory stick and cracking their skull, then tying them somewhere in the open for the police to find.
THEN it will stop. Tout suite.
Posted by: GWB at June 20, 2024 10:15 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2024 10:04 PM (pZEOD)
Does not look to be constructed stoutly enough to stand up to that sort of use.. And did you notice the firewood was just the right size to span the tub? Load it carelessly, and one end of a piece drops into the tub, and the whole load topples.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 10:15 PM (QXE1M)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 20, 2024 10:16 PM (aPY1X)
Posted by: Ungoliant at June 20, 2024 10:16 PM (Dnobf)
It is a conundrum.
Posted by: Tonypete
Ain't no spring chickens around here.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 20, 2024 10:16 PM (qZEuM)
Posted by: huerfano at June 20, 2024 10:16 PM (VGOMa)
It is a conundrum.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2024 10
Can we all agree to post an out of office note if we drop off the planet for awhile? We don’t have to say why.
Except Sid and Paul and whoever that other guy was today. We don’t really care if they disappear.
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2024 10:17 PM (pZEOD)
No, WeirdDave, not punched in the face. They'll stop when people start treating them like the illegal alien rapist of the 13yo. Punching, kicking, scratching, grabbing a nearby hickory stick and cracking their skull, then tying them somewhere in the open for the police to find.
THEN it will stop. Tout suite.
Posted by: GWB at June 20, 2024 10:15 PM (AWrpC)
Agree. No more special handling. They need to be arrested and convicted like the ordinary criminals they are.
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at June 20, 2024 10:17 PM (n3DL0)
** Slams Back Gimlet **
** Picks up soldering iron and waves it menacingly at terminal connectors. **
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 20, 2024 10:17 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Robert
A flat chest is a status symbol!
Posted by: Konata Izumi at June 20, 2024 10:18 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 10:12 PM (QXE1M
Just a tad. But I still want one.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
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[recollects Cobray Street Sweeper]
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2024 10:18 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: GWB at June 20, 2024 10:15 PM (AWrpC)
I was amazed at how civilized those citizen vigilantes were.
But still maybe a teachable moment.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 20, 2024 10:18 PM (hOUT3)
Now, where does this part go and what does it do?
Posted by: mindful webworker - simplistically at June 20, 2024 10:12 PM (6c/I7)
You have to buy the Multi-Cart accessory storage module; optional at extra cost.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 10:18 PM (QXE1M)
Does not look to be constructed stoutly enough to stand up to that sort of use.. And did you notice the firewood was just the right size to span the tub? Load it carelessly, and one end of a piece drops into the tub, and the whole load topples.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
To be honest, I don’t do a lot of firewood hauling. Or manual labor of any sort.
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2024 10:18 PM (pZEOD)
We have an appointment next Friday to drive George, Phoenix and Puff up to Texas A&M to have their hearts tested. As they have been accepted as part of a study, there's no cost to us. I hope something positive comes from poor Spark's death.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2024 10:18 PM (MoZTd)
The wheelbarrow, the wheelbarrow, not that thing you're thinking.
Posted by: davidt at June 20, 2024 10:18 PM (SYTee)
Posted by: Dr. T at June 20, 2024 10:19 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 20, 2024 10:20 PM (xG4kz)
The Balrog, now reimagined with, um..."roots of lust."
Posted by: Robert
There's oliphaunts in the screenshots right there in the article. I bet the anime ones have extra-prehensile trunks.
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2024 10:20 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 20, 2024 10:20 PM (roH4R)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 20, 2024 10:17 PM (XV/Pl)
Keep your thumb off Pin 3 of the live 6L6.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 10:20 PM (QXE1M)
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2024 10:20 PM (pZEOD)
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Look up! The Strawberry Moon on June 21 is the lowest full Moon in many years. What does this mean? Expect a beautiful full Moon that appears larger and more colorful than usual. Will it be strawberry red?
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What does that mean?
It means the moon will rise but appear to be lower in the sky than usual.
Since we’re in daylight time, the middle of the night is now 1 AM, so check out the full moon when it’s at its loftiest position of the night. It’s barely up at all! From places like Fairbanks and Rekyavik, this Full Moon won’t even clear their horizon. It won’t rise at all. For them, June will simply have no full Moon.
So we’ve got a paradox coming. The Full Moon usually is our brightest night. But this month, it ascends so little that the thick horizon air will give it an orange-red hue and subdue its light. Moreover, its extreme southerly position will keep it aloft for a few short hours, leaving that night mostly black. Don’t miss this extra-low, extra-big, colorful full Moon for a few precious hours.
- From Almanac dot com
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2024 10:20 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Dr. T
Maybe they stop without jail time if they get the Goldinger treatment. Just paint their entire body in gold paint.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 20, 2024 10:21 PM (VNX3d)
Guess where I went to school!
Posted by: Piper
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They have one of the top vet schools in the country.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2024 10:21 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at
Prayers up for the lot of you! This sounds like a positive thing since more knowledge is far better than just a little knowledge!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 20, 2024 10:21 PM (hOUT3)
1. For the first time, the Russians used the FAB3000, a 3 ton guided glide bomb, in combat. It made quite an impressive explosion.
2. NATO is reportedly pouring armor, ammo, and medical personnel into Ukraine for another Great Counter Offensive in July. The last one in June 2023 turned into an epic disaster for the Ukrainians, with huge losses for minimal gains.
3. Putin made a visit to North Korea, and probably bought more artillery shells than the US and NATO will be able to produce in the next five years.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 20, 2024 10:22 PM (4bXjl)
Do my eyes deceive me, or is ol' "versatility" made mostly of plastic?
If "yes", it'll be in the dust bin inside of six months.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 20, 2024 10:22 PM (xG4kz)
Who is going to fight a vanity war for the USG? America has nothing left to defend, we are all Baddies now.
America is a failed state. Depleted treasury, lawlessness, rigged elections, corrupt courts, no borders, low-trust society, atheistic nihilistic hedonism as our Elite's mentality, high unemployment and wide-spread mental illness and drug addiction.
Our military is only good at losing, blowing up allied infrastructure, toppling weak governments and making an American tourist universally hated.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 20, 2024 10:22 PM (hzmX4)
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2024 10:18 PM (pZEOD)
My point is that the demos in the video used ideal model loads. The real world tends to be messier than that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 10:22 PM (QXE1M)
Glad someone else is seeing it. It's been driving me nuts as everyone talks like she's suddenly a conservative now.
Posted by: GWB at June 20, 2024 10:22 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2024 10:23 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: tankdemon at June 20, 2024 10:23 PM (RDcc+)
>>Keep your thumb off Pin 3 of the live 6L6.
Or alternatively, don't be all willy near a CRT flyback transformer.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 20, 2024 10:24 PM (XV/Pl)
No, WeirdDave, not punched in the face. They'll stop when people start treating them like the illegal alien rapist of the 13yo. Punching, kicking, scratching, grabbing a nearby hickory stick and cracking their skull, then tying them somewhere in the open for the police to find.
THEN it will stop. Tout suite.
Posted by: GWB
Sometimes the old ways are the best ways.
Posted by: a druid with a cartload of wicker at June 20, 2024 10:24 PM (DgGvY)
- From Almanac dot com
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2024 10:20 PM (Q4IgG)
I noticed last night that the Moon was pretty low in the sky.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 10:24 PM (QXE1M)
My point is that the demos in the video used ideal model loads. The real world tends to be messier than that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I know. I was kidding. I mean I don’t do manual labor, so I just liked the gadgets. I wasn’t viewing it through a lens of actual usefulness.
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2024 10:24 PM (pZEOD)
Maybe they stop without jail time if they get the Goldinger treatment. Just paint their entire body in gold paint.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Outfit them all with cement overshoes and invite them to walk around Doggerland.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 20, 2024 10:24 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2024 10:25 PM (QGaXH)
It was a gift.
Posted by: lin-duh at June 20, 2024 10:26 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 20, 2024 10:21 PM (VNX3d)
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I thought you were going to say, "suck them out an aircraft window," but OK.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 20, 2024 10:26 PM (3Fz6p)
Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 10:26 PM (bQ/08)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 20, 2024 10:26 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 20, 2024 10:24 PM (xG4kz)
Doggerland was high and dry during the last ice age. Global warming drowned it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 10:26 PM (QXE1M)
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2024 10:26 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2024 10:27 PM (pZEOD)
Daddy will bail them out and provide silk stocking lawyers to make it all go away (again).
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 20, 2024 10:27 PM (hzmX4)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 20, 2024 10:27 PM (v6JzV)
There's plenty of fucktards ripe for a punch in the dick. Or throat. Or face. Or...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2024 10:27 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Cicero
I'll bet it's nort frozen.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Hopefully JT wasn't a witch that melted when the birdbath broke open.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 20, 2024 10:28 PM (VNX3d)
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Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 20, 2024 10:22 PM (4bXjl)
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*furiously consults translator for "It blowed up good, real good" in Russian*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 20, 2024 10:28 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 20, 2024 10:27 PM (hzmX4)
Snipers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 10:28 PM (QXE1M)
- From Almanac dot com
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Damn. That got me looking up the stargazer guy, Jack Horkheimer. Unfortunately, he passed in 2010...many moons ago. RIP
Posted by: Rex B at June 20, 2024 10:28 PM (5h/8D)
Daddy will bail them out and provide silk stocking lawyers to make it all go away (again).
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 20, 2024 10:27 PM (
After all, who are we to judge their ways and cultures!
/s
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 20, 2024 10:29 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Rex B at June 20, 2024 10:28 PM (5h/8D)
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The Star Hustler. He was a kick.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 20, 2024 10:30 PM (3Fz6p)
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 20, 2024 10:30 PM (ftFVW)
Daddy will bail them out and provide silk stocking lawyers to make it all go away (again).
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Barristers. King's Counsel. Also known as "taking silk".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2024 10:30 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: lin-duh at June 20, 2024 10:30 PM (PZo5T)
Driving in Spokane last month I saw a homemade banner referencing the "Israeli genocide in Palestine " hanging from a Centennial Trail footbridge on the edge of the Gonzaga campus. I pulled into a parking lot, walked up on the bridge and ripped it down. I took my time. I seriously wanted some brain dead punk to give me crap because I wanted to physically hurt someone at that moment. Got one comment from a guy walking his dog but it was very supportive. I haven't thrown it in the burn barrel yet.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * levitating above the madness at June 20, 2024 10:31 PM (BZZru)
Posted by: mindful webworker - one thing leads to another, and another... at June 20, 2024 10:31 PM (6c/I7)
A whole box of 25 rounds of 00 buck going downrange at what, about four rounds per second or so?
WANT!
*Pours Bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June 20, 2024 10:15 PM (e6UQI)
Probably be more effective as a hand cranked gatling gun.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2024 10:31 PM (0eaVi)
I've been listening to this hysterical BS since Paul Ehrlich was going on JohnnyCarson around 1971. We are all supposed to have died back in the eighties, and yet, here we are being fed similar lies.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 20, 2024 10:31 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Robert at June 20, 2024 10:31 PM (X7fDU)
Now, where does this part go and what does it do?
Posted by: mindful webworker - simplistically at June 20, 2024 10:12 PM (6c/I7)
Sounds like Nadler's penis.
Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2024 10:32 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: lin-duh at June 20, 2024 10:32 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: AlaBAMA
Sorry, it's hanging there right over the plate....
"It works poorly."
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 20, 2024 10:32 PM (UC3nL)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight
Yes he was.
Posted by: Rex B at June 20, 2024 10:32 PM (5h/8D)
So what was the cause of Sparks death? I missed it
Posted by: lin-duh
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Dilated cardiomyopathy. His heart was enlarged and the heart walls were thin. He lay down on his bed to sleep and didn't wake up.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2024 10:33 PM (MoZTd)
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*pours bourbon*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 20, 2024 10:33 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Erebus- ex-Killer Whale at June 20, 2024 10:34 PM (elaR+)
Livestream of sunrise at Stonehenge starting at 11PM EDT:
https://tinyurl.com/27zmmhs6
I would not have know about this, save for those idiots who defaced it. This is the Monolithic Streisand Effect, one might call it.
You may wonder why sunrise "tomorrow", the 21s instead of today. This is the sunrise closest to the moment of solstice, where the alignment is best.
In fact, since the solstice was just before sunrise there, the 21st is the longest daylight day by less a second. Anyway, sunrise there will be 11:42 EDT. That's 4:42 AM local time (BST).
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 10:34 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 20, 2024 10:34 PM (5pK0y)
And what is with the top picture???
Posted by: lin-duh
Someone intended to enjoy a little electrical stimulation.
"Intended" is the operative phrase.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 20, 2024 10:34 PM (xG4kz)
Before I sat down this evening, I noticed the full moon but it didn't appear any lower than usual.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 20, 2024 10:34 PM (hzmX4)
'There's plenty of fucktards ripe for a punch in the dick. Or throat. Or face.'
I'm thinking more and more that if I want this done, I'll have to do it myself.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 20, 2024 10:34 PM (roH4R)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 20, 2024 10:34 PM (4bXjl)
England is a hell of lot farther north than I tend to think. Daylength at Stonehenge today is 16 hours and 38 minutes.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 10:34 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 20, 2024 10:31 PM (0Htd1)
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My first episode of cynicism was when the JW's convinced me the world was coming to an end in 1975.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 20, 2024 10:34 PM (RIvkX)
Guess where I went to school!
Posted by: Piper
I'm pretty sure Teresa in Fort Worth is an Aggie, too.
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at June 20, 2024 10:35 PM (y7DxH)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 20, 2024 10:31 PM (0Htd1)
on this site and on X, we have all been having great fun pointing out the concerted campaign, both in the UK and the US, to claim that there is a "Terrible Heat Dome!" or something that is The WORST EVER! But when you look at the actual data, it's just an average summer, not remarkable at all. The real tell was when, buried in the British scare article, was the note that high temperatures were going so soar all the way to - 78 degrees Fahrenheit! Oh the humanity!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2024 10:35 PM (S6gqv)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 20, 2024 10:36 PM (v6JzV)
I was flying solo at the time looking for an old, long lost Indian trail leading up a rugged ravine. I happened to be carrying a daypack, black scary rifle and a holstered pistol.
Posted by: 13times at June 20, 2024 10:37 PM (ljAqb)
She might have won this one, but that's cold comfort when you're retiring in a regular old house, instead of an ostentatious pyramid built with the wealth of thousands of credulous fools.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 20, 2024 10:37 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 10:34 PM (w6EFb)
In northern England and Scotland it never gets completely dark at this time of year. Pretty cool to see.
Of course, you have to compensate with only 6-7 hours of daylight come December.
Posted by: Dr. T at June 20, 2024 10:37 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at June 20, 2024 10:37 PM (Z8Yh2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 20, 2024 10:37 PM (RIvkX)
'I seriously wanted some brain dead punk to give me crap because I wanted to physically hurt someone at that moment.'
Right on.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 20, 2024 10:37 PM (roH4R)
Isn't it obvious? They are charging the truck's dead battery by plugging in to the cigarette lighter.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 20, 2024 10:38 PM (hzmX4)
I've noted as part of the proganda effort, they're quoting heat index/"real feel" values rather than temperature now. Makes the numbers higher.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 10:38 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Erebus- ex-Killer Whale at June 20, 2024 10:38 PM (elaR+)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Is it genetic? I remember when I had Cavaliers that MVD was in pretty much100% of the breed even though no one would admit to it. I miss Cavaliers but I know what is wrong with them and why they die so young.
Posted by: lin-duh at June 20, 2024 10:38 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 20, 2024 10:34 PM (4bXjl)
What's kind of funny about some feminist-ish comic art is how the remove the focus from the female's chest and instead give her wider hips and a thick yet shapely behind.
Priorities!
Posted by: Robert at June 20, 2024 10:39 PM (X7fDU)
England is a hell of lot farther north than I tend to think. Daylength at Stonehenge today is 16 hours and 38 minutes.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 10:34 PM (w6EFb)
Yes, I find the Universal Movies' logo a good reminder of where things are. Always taken aback at how far out in the Atlantic South America is. I tend to think of it as being directly under Central America. Not hardly.
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at June 20, 2024 10:39 PM (y7DxH)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2024 10:35 PM (S6gqv)
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My history professor told us when he was living in England and the temperature got up to 80 degrees. Englishmen were keeling over in the streets and the Americans were all, "Ah! Brisk!"
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 20, 2024 10:40 PM (3Fz6p)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
"Boomski"?
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2024 10:40 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 20, 2024 10:26 PM (3Fz6p)
I'll give it a try.
Posted by: Kamala at June 20, 2024 10:40 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 20, 2024 10:41 PM (v6JzV)
Hermione blows up the newest Death Star in this one?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 20, 2024 10:41 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 10:12 PM (QXE1M)
Yeah. I'll stick with my 870.
Posted by: Reforger at June 20, 2024 10:42 PM (xcIvR)
Is it genetic?
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It is. Delilah's heart was fine when it was tested and his half-sister Diana's heart is fine as well. But Spark had aspiration pneumonia when he was just a few days old and I wonder whether his heart may have been damaged by it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2024 10:42 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2024 10:42 PM (W/lyH)
After the debates gas is still $5/gallon, inflation is still high, Groceries are still expensive, etc.....
Posted by: Buster Hymandd at June 20, 2024 10:42 PM (Mig/N)
All of June there, there is no true astronomical night (sun below 18 degrees below the horizon), I was just noticing. It doesn't start again until about July 21st, and then only for a little bit until much later.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 10:42 PM (w6EFb)
'England is a hell of lot farther north than I tend to think. Daylength at Stonehenge today is 16 hours and 38 minutes.'
I remember being on my honeymoon in July in Scotland. It was a quarter until 11 and still light out. We have to cover the windows just to get some damn sleep.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 20, 2024 10:42 PM (roH4R)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 20, 2024 10:40 PM (3Fz6p)
Exactly. My first summer there, I was wearing a jacket in July.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 20, 2024 10:42 PM (qZEuM)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2024 10:42 PM (W/lyH)
Wheel barrel?
Like a barrel for tires who forget their close tags?
Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2024 10:44 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2024 10:06 PM (DgGvY)
the boar-tooth helmet is light, resistant to blows and well documented both in works like the odyssey and the archaeological record.
the Mycenaean were known for their armor, but everyone thought it was like early classical armor, with greaves and chestplates, not that barrel-like set up. Think what sort of resources it took to gather the bronze and cast and shape it in the 17th century BC. It wasn't just from raiding, they also were traders and shippers in the bronze trade out of the Hittite lands, and they took that trade away from the Minoans.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2024 10:45 PM (D7oie)
They went after Tay Tay's jet too. Assholes.
I don't begrudge anyone who owns a jet. If they own one, chances are they employ a lot of people. And I like airplanes. Time to start busting heads.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2024 10:45 PM (W/lyH)
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying, "I've forgotten which part goes where!"
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 20, 2024 10:45 PM (3Fz6p)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 20, 2024 10:46 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Buster Hymandd at June 20, 2024 10:42 PM (Mig/N)
Yes. The DNC. Dementia Joe will be shuffled out of the way,
over Dr. Dr. Jill's shrill screams.
Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2024 10:46 PM (gKDq2)
Just saw a commercial for, so help me, "a bra meant to fit small boobs." And this after a Lume deodorant commercial. I guess soon we'll have people in commercials talking to us while sitting on a toilet.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2024 10:47 PM (MoZTd)
This is why I want my own terrifying cult.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 20, 2024 10:47 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 20, 2024 10:42 PM (roH4R)
It wasn't because of all the Jocko's lookin' in and shouting "wha-hey!" then? How disappointing.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2024 10:48 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 20, 2024 10:48 PM (Aoykm)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 20, 2024 10:48 PM (qZEuM)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 20, 2024 10:40 PM (3Fz6p)
Exactly. My first summer there, I was wearing a jacket in July.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 20, 2024 10:42 PM (qZEuM)
I once went camping on an island on Germany's northern coast, right next to the Danish border, because I wanted to see the late sunsets on the summer solstice. About froze to death.
Posted by: Dr. T at June 20, 2024 10:48 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
So uh, what was the brand? Asking for a friend...
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 20, 2024 10:48 PM (ftFVW)
https://tinyurl.com/2bpezf53
IJ.org: VICTORY: Supreme Court Rules Government Officials Cannot Arrest their Political Opponents Without Consequences
Posted by: Robert at June 20, 2024 10:49 PM (X7fDU)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2024 10:49 PM (D7oie)
'soon'
Soon, hell. I've seen that already. Some red headed chick with a British accent selling spray that makes the toilet area not smell as bad after a poop.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 20, 2024 10:49 PM (roH4R)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
So the party starts early?
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 20, 2024 10:49 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 20, 2024 10:47 PM (0FoWg)
If it's free and I don't have to do any weird sex shit? I'll join.
Posted by: Robert at June 20, 2024 10:50 PM (X7fDU)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 20, 2024 10:50 PM (0FoWg)
I remember being on my honeymoon in July in Scotland. It was a quarter until 11 and still light out. We have to cover the windows just to get some damn sleep.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 20, 2024 10:42 PM (roH4R)
I was lucky enough to visit Edinburgh once and looking out from the harbor casually asked someone "so I guess that's Holland on the other side out there?" and they replied "no, that'd be Norway."
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2024 10:50 PM (S6gqv)
'England is a hell of lot farther north than I tend to think. Daylength at Stonehenge today is 16 hours and 38 minutes.'
Stationed in the UK for three years and had delightful summers all three years. Used to hit the pubs in Oxford and when they closed, go to the clubs. Seems like it never got dark. It did, briefly. By the time the clubs closed, it was 0300 and it was starting to get light again. Went back to the base, started drinking again. Ah, youth. Amazing my liver survived over there.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 20, 2024 10:50 PM (jrKun)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2024 10:47 PM (MoZTd)
There already are. Women on the john selling I forget which product.
Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2024 10:50 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Buster Hymandd at June 20, 2024 10:42 PM (Mig/N)
Yes. The DNC. Dementia Joe will be shuffled out of the way,
over Dr. Dr. Jill's shrill screams.
Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2024 10:46 PM (gKDq2)
I know it's a long shot - but I'm hoping mush-head does something truly campaign-ending - like make emphatic statements that show he doesn't remember Trump already was president once, or just totally loses his cool and has to be physically restrained from attacking Trump, or tries to have his gestapo arrest Trump then and there.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2024 10:51 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2024 10:45 PM (D7oie)
You can't just gather bronze. You have to make it, by alloying copper and tin. Copper is found around the world, and often in the native state. But workable tin resources are few and far between.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 10:51 PM (masDJ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
You're like Nostradamus.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 20, 2024 10:51 PM (qZEuM)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2024 10:51 PM (fwDg9)
Blue Tip matches FTW.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 20, 2024 10:51 PM (mH6SG)
Yep, that's another one, same thing with me. The east coast of Brazil goes out to 40W or less. The west coast of Chile is way to the east of the US east coast.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 10:52 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 10:51 PM (masDJ)
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It's why the Phoenicians were trading with the tribes in Cornwall.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 20, 2024 10:52 PM (3Fz6p)
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at June 20, 2024 10:53 PM (Z8Yh2)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2024 10:49 PM (D7oie)
Looks like a primitive version of The Human Bullet.
https://youtu.be/kqekn0scORI
Posted by: Robert at June 20, 2024 10:53 PM (X7fDU)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
There already are. Women on the john selling I forget which product.
Posted by: RickZ
poo-porri
https://youtu.be/oaQ1CdISw8o?si=kgfq078gWsP98nsc
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2024 10:54 PM (WXNFJ)
** Slams Back Gimlet **
** Picks up soldering iron and waves it menacingly at terminal connectors. **
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Just bought the last PC keyboard I'll ever need.
Das Keyboard 6 Professional. 200 bucks, haven't used a keyboard this solid since the 1980s.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 20, 2024 10:54 PM (iRX3h)
It needs bigger wheels and longer handles or some other kinetic modification allowing the user to stand up straight.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 10:55 PM (bQ/08)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 10:55 PM (masDJ)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2024 10:55 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 20, 2024 10:47 PM (0FoWg)
I'm totally on board.
Who should we terrorize first?
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2024 10:57 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: RickZ
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poo-porri
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2024 10:54 PM (WXNFJ)
Thank you.
Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2024 10:57 PM (gKDq2)
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I remember years ago some lady was selling some kind of oil you dump in public commodes when you drop a lady-deuce, to cover up the smell.
It seemed like a good scam at the time, and I guess some other lady is bringing it back
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 20, 2024 10:57 PM (0FoWg)
Yep, that's another one, same thing with me. The east coast of Brazil goes out to 40W or less. The west coast of Chile is way to the east of the US east coast.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 10:52 PM (w6EFb)
Reno, Nv further west than Los Angeles....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2024 10:57 PM (QGaXH)
Michigan panhandle or west central Indiana?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 10:58 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
I just came back from a couple of weeks in Western PA. It stays light there longer than in Babylon DC.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 20, 2024 10:58 PM (jrKun)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Going through the women's section at Wally's one would think women were either huge or gigantic.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 10:58 PM (bQ/08)
Posted by: Robert
And tentacles?
Posted by: She Hobbit
They'll be found in the pond at the Moria entrance, I believe.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 20, 2024 10:58 PM (iRX3h)
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at June 20, 2024 10:53 PM (Z8Yh2)
when I was a yute, every restaurant still had cigarette machines in the lobby/entryway, and they always had a button on the end you could push to get free matches. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world to punch that button behind my parents backs and get free matches. I don't know why, "why" wasn't a word that meant a lot to me in those days.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2024 10:58 PM (S6gqv)
Posted by: RickZ
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poo-porri
Posted by: Tonypete
Ha! Women don't poop. Have you ever been in a ladies' room?
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 20, 2024 10:58 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
You don't have the Gulf Stream to keep you warm like the Isles do.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 20, 2024 10:59 PM (UC3nL)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 11:00 PM (masDJ)
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2024 11:00 PM (WXNFJ)
This.
We have forgotten. The sword has become dull.
We will pay for this in the future.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2024 11:00 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 11:00 PM (masDJ)
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It was trickier to work than bronze.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 20, 2024 11:01 PM (3Fz6p)
Anyway. How 'bout them Killer Whales.
I wouldn't want to swim with them.
Probably stink too.
Posted by: Some guy sitting on the shitter at June 20, 2024 11:01 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2024 10:49 PM (D7oie)
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You wouldn't say that right to Agamemnon's face.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2024 11:01 PM (jdHxK)
Yep, that's another one, same thing with me. The east coast of Brazil goes out to 40W or less. The west coast of Chile is way to the east of the US east coast.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 10:52 PM (w6EFb)
And don't get me started about Point Roberts, Wa - unless you go by boat you have to drive thru Canada to get there. See also Angle Inlet, Minn...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2024 11:01 PM (QGaXH)
Time zone boundaries get political and thus crazy. See "time.gov" for the boundaries.
Now, Alaska has really fucked up time zone. It's Zulu - 9(8 DST), but it should be UTC-10.
When DST is in effect, it's thus close to two hours ahead of local solar mean time.
In Fairbanks, sunset occurs *after* midnight. It's just a smidge below the arctic circle and the sun just barely gets below the horizon, but does get below.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 11:02 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Oh, are you watching Cops Reloaded on Reelz Channel, too?
Posted by: Dr. T at June 20, 2024 11:02 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 20, 2024 11:02 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Tonypete
I've heard that from numerous sources.
But when there's more than one woman in there... they're all just waiting each other out to avoid admission that natural bodily functions happen.
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 20, 2024 11:02 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 20, 2024 11:01 PM (3Fz6p)
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Heat. The technology to generate the temps needed was long in coming.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2024 11:03 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * levitating above the madness
Are you saving it so that you can shove it down someone's throat? Just an idea.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 20, 2024 11:03 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 20, 2024 11:05 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: RickZ
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poo-porri
Posted by: Tonypete
Ha! Women don't poop. Have you ever been in a ladies' room?
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 20, 2024 10:58 PM (ftFVW)
I briefly worked as a janitor at Walmart. The ladies' room was freakin' vile. I saw a turd so enormous I'm amazed it came out of a dainty female body. Goddamn thing didn't want to flush.
Posted by: Robert at June 20, 2024 11:05 PM (X7fDU)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2024 11:03 PM (jdHxK)
Charcoal and bellows. Not hard at all.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 11:05 PM (masDJ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 20, 2024 11:05 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:06 PM (bQ/08)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at June 20, 2024 11:06 PM (hKoQL)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 20, 2024 11:06 PM (mH6SG)
The original idea was time zones were to be 15 degrees wide, which is one hour, and centered about the corresponding meridian. EST meridian is 75W, CST = 90W, MST = 105W, PST= 120W.
Boundaries were thus 30 minutes plus or minus, 7.5 degrees east or west. Local mean time would be no more than 30 minutes different from the standard time zone time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 11:07 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 11:02 PM (w6EFb)
Neat factoid: Because of atmospheric refraction, the Arctic Circle isn't the southernmost limit for the "midnight sun" in summer; you can actually see it 20-30 miles further south on the solstice. I assume the opposite is also true for Antarctica.
Posted by: Dr. T at June 20, 2024 11:07 PM (jGGMD)
I know Schlichter has gone out of his way to say his writing is not a prediction, particularly in The Attack, but...he's a smart guy (for an infantryman) and draws some pretty good conclusions.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2024 11:07 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
Apocryphal, but there were supposedly advertisements to get people to settle in Minnesota, pointing out that the state was at the same latitudes as cities like Venice (45N) and Paris (49N).
I guess only the Norwegians and Swedes fell for it.
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2024 11:07 PM (DgGvY)
All downhill to the Winter Solstice now. Feeling chilly already. (As if! July & August still ahead.)
https://youtu.be/ZEcqHA7dbwM
No giving up. No surrendering. Except to the arms of Morpheus. G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - blue moooon at June 20, 2024 11:07 PM (6c/I7)
Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:06 PM (bQ/0
When you are sailing, the shortest route is not necessarily the fastest. More than anything, you want reliable winds.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 11:08 PM (masDJ)
Posted by: Robert at June 20, 2024 11:05 PM (X7fDU)
Every service-sector job I've worked, the women's restroom was invariably worse than the men's. Sometimes by an order of magnitude.
Posted by: Dr. T at June 20, 2024 11:09 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:09 PM (bQ/08)
Posted by: Robert
You worked at Walmart, and thought the female customers were dainty? Are you related to Andre the Giant?
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2024 11:10 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 20, 2024 11:11 PM (Ka3bZ)
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I read "The Attack" over this past winter. The situation with the pro-terror protests on college campuses is particularly disturbing. Those "kids" are a serious threat.
They may not actively participate in terror attacks but they're more than willing to aid and abet those that will.
That's a problem.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2024 11:12 PM (Q4IgG)
Full Moon is tomorrow night, and being opposite the sun just a day after solstice, it will thus be very low on the horizon at transit. It's just 26.1 degrees altitude here. Very low Full Moon.
And while it's called the Strawberry Moon per the calendar month naming convention (which is simple, but not exactly right).
It's really the Buck Moon, first moon of astronomical summer. That usually occurs in July, well 2/3 of the time.
Summer here is a true Blue Moon season. We have four full moons this time. The 3rd, occurring in August is the real, seasonal Blue Moon. After that, it resets for two years, with the monthly moons being the same as the seasonal.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 11:12 PM (w6EFb)
The original idea was time zones were to be 15 degrees wide, which is one hour, and centered about the corresponding meridian. EST meridian is 75W, CST = 90W, MST = 105W, PST= 120W.
Boundaries were thus 30 minutes plus or minus, 7.5 degrees east or west. Local mean time would be no more than 30 minutes different from the standard time zone time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 11:07 PM (w6EFb)
Then there's NW Indiana where you can drive North and go from Eastern to Central time.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2024 11:12 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 11:00 PM (masDJ)
While there are vast amounts of iron ore, almost all of it is in relatively low grade deposits than cannot be taken advantage of without advanced smelting methods. Much of the iron used in ancient times came from "bog iron", which no one in the new world ever figured out.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2024 11:12 PM (S6gqv)
Posted by: Dr. T
We had a large number of female H1(b)s in our office. The woman that was in charge of Housekeeping would come out of the Ladies Room screaming - "Animals!!"
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2024 11:12 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 11:08 PM (masDJ)
Ahhhh.
Pull my finger.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2024 11:13 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2024 11:12 PM (QGaXH)
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I told in Kentucky they have "slow time" and "fast time."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 20, 2024 11:13 PM (3Fz6p)
Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:13 PM (bQ/08)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Annnnnnnd we're back to bathroom anecdotes.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2024 11:14 PM (WXNFJ)
Boundaries were thus 30 minutes plus or minus, 7.5 degrees east or west. Local mean time would be no more than 30 minutes different from the standard time zone time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 11:07 PM (w6EFb)
The world-wide adoption of Standard Time is the work of Sir Sandford Fleming, a Canadian railway construction engineer of Scottish birth. He spearheaded an international conference that adopted Standard Time.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 11:15 PM (masDJ)
Posted by: Dr. T at June 20, 2024 11:15 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Captain Obvious
Some of us in TN call it 'Knoxvull time' or 'Nashvull time'.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2024 11:15 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 20, 2024 11:15 PM (0FoWg)
Anyone have an idea?
Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:13 PM (bQ/0
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Imperial or metric?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2024 11:16 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 11:15 PM (masDJ)
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Is that also the conference where the Greewich meridian was adopted as Prime?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 20, 2024 11:16 PM (3Fz6p)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 20, 2024 11:11 PM (Ka3bZ)
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Is she trying to get in touch with him? I emailed him earlier this afternoon but haven't heard anything back.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 20, 2024 11:17 PM (FzDG4)
Look at the time zone boundaries in Oregon and Idaho. Kansas has the sliver in the middle as well.
That is local politics, mostly. In those slivers, they're liked economically, "culturally" with the other zone and want to be the same or something.
That MST area in Oregon is less than one big county, IIRC. But other parts close by unofficially use MST as well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 11:17 PM (w6EFb)
That's a problem.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2024 11:12 PM (Q4IgG)
The influx across the border, thousands of military aged men from a variety of nations, is also a problem.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2024 11:18 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 20, 2024 11:16 PM (3Fz6p)
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The Zulus had something to do with it, I think.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2024 11:18 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2024 11:12 PM (S6gqv)
Bog iron can be found almost anywhere. I know of two sites in Alberta where you could gather literally tons of it. And it is quite possible to make useful iron from it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 11:18 PM (masDJ)
The two of them would bitch about the appointment time being EST or CST and never get it right.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2024 11:18 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2024 10:35 PM (S6gqv)
Little known fact: Large sea mammals are surprisingly sensitive to warm temperatures. When the temperature exceeds five degrees above the mean, the largest ones become extremely aggressive, and have been known to attack humans without provocation. Oh, the huge manatees!
Sorry, I couldn't resist it, and of course made it all up.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 20, 2024 11:19 PM (4bXjl)
Posted by: Jordan61
I emailed him 2 days ago, no response.
I think Ben Had asked LEOs to do a wellness check and is waiting to hear back
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 20, 2024 11:20 PM (Ka3bZ)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 11:07 PM (w6EFb)
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Clements, on a cross ocean cruise, bemused himself at the professionals who would get up every morning not understanding why their watches were incorrect.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:20 PM (bQ/08)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Annnnnnnd we're back to bathroom anecdotes.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2024 11:14 PM (WXNFJ)
We are nothing if not consistent.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2024 11:20 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 20, 2024 11:16 PM (3Fz6p)
I would presume so, although I think it was already used as such in the UK. You have to have some zero point, and Greenwich already had an observatory, so it made sense.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 11:21 PM (masDJ)
Anyone have an idea?
Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:13 PM (bQ/0
In the Pacific Northwest, it occurs on July 14 from 1 - 5PM.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2024 11:21 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2024 11:21 PM (W/lyH)
Bastille Day!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 11:22 PM (masDJ)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 20, 2024 11:20 PM (Ka3bZ)
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Damn. Thank you. Praying it turns out okay.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 20, 2024 11:22 PM (FzDG4)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 20, 2024 11:23 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 11:23 PM (masDJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 11:23 PM (masDJ)
The owner could always ask a Ford F150 owner to help him out.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2024 11:25 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
It isn't just Lume any more. There are quite a few "body parts stink" commercials now, including for men, and they get pretty specific. There needs to be a backlash.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 20, 2024 11:25 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2024 11:12 PM (QGaXH)
Alaska is all one time zone. Doesn't matter, since it is either light all the time or dark all the time. They really need to abolish DST. All it does is make everyone tired.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 20, 2024 11:26 PM (sRfrW)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 20, 2024 11:26 PM (mH6SG)
*Does your home look like this?
*You do this shit at yo mama's house?
*There must be some sort of surgery for what is wrong with some of you.
*For chisake FLUSH!..
NOT TWICE!!
Just once.
Posted by: Guy sitting on the shitter after cleaning shitters at June 20, 2024 11:26 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 20, 2024 11:23 PM (0FoWg)
Getting any iron at all is a huge win. Iron blades hold an edge much better than bronze could hope to do, and iron ore is plentiful.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 11:26 PM (masDJ)
Drop South a bit, and you're sailing in the Roaring Forties.
Where you can "circumnavigate" the planet, 360 degrees, without ever touching land.
IF you survive, that is. Those waters are the land of REGULAR 90 ft. waves and 100mph winds, even without a Cyclone to be seen.
The old Slave/Sugar/Rum "Triangle Route" of 300 years ago, was reliable, relatively safe, and reasonably swift. For sailing ship days, that is.
Beats rowing, anyway. Escpecially when the Captain wants to go water skiing.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June 20, 2024 11:26 PM (e6UQI)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 20, 2024 11:25 PM (0Htd1)
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Don't these people - you know - bathe?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 20, 2024 11:26 PM (3Fz6p)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 20, 2024 11:25 PM (0Htd1)
No sex drive unless people smell like people. CLEAN people, not slobs, but like people.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 20, 2024 11:27 PM (sRfrW)
Anyone have an idea?
Astronomical summer began today at 20:21 Zulu, and will run until the Fall Equinox.
Meteorological Summer is June, July, August.
Solar Summer starts at the cross-quarter point, ecliptic longitude 45 degrees and ends at 135 degrees. The solstice is thus the middle of Solar summer.
Astronomical seasons are the usual definitions, although meteorological is used a lot as well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 11:27 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 20, 2024 11:27 PM (sRfrW)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 20, 2024 11:26 PM (mH6SG)
Likewise. I hope he is sitting on some tropic island, being served Mai-Tais by scantily-clad maidens.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 11:28 PM (masDJ)
This is why I want my own terrifying cult.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Yeah, but her cult is made up mainly of 12 and 13 year old white girls. Oh. Wait. That is pretty scary.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 20, 2024 11:28 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: nerdygirl
I've seen ads for men's 'freshness' spray. It's called Umpire.
It's for foul balls.
"HeyOhhhhhh!!"
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2024 11:28 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 20, 2024 11:28 PM (sRfrW)
Posted by: Erebus- ex-Killer Whale at June 20, 2024 10:38 PM (elaR+)
inflation.
I bought mine 10 years ago when Worx brought them out for $99.
Still think it's mostly useful although I don't use it much after moving out to the farm. Of course I don't use the bigger cement wheelbarrow at all ...
Posted by: Wingnutt at June 20, 2024 11:29 PM (g0Yzd)
My thought, exactly. My recent encounters in the public forum indicate that most of them do not.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 20, 2024 11:29 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 20, 2024 11:26 PM (3Fz6p)
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Non!
Posted by: The French at June 20, 2024 11:29 PM (jdHxK)
https://tinyurl.com/3ca2nxxv
But now 6,000% more metal.
Posted by: Robert at June 20, 2024 11:30 PM (X7fDU)
Posted by: nerdygirl
Backlash! Got it!
I fart in their general direction!
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2024 11:30 PM (DgGvY)
See George Biddell Airy, 7th Astronomer Royal and thus head of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, from 1835 to 1881, during the height of the British Empire.
He was instrumental in setting up the precision of GMT and observations necessary to support that.
The prime meridian on Mars is named after him. "Airy Crater", and "Airy Mean Time" is Mars mean solar time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 11:30 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Dr. Claw
But the British accent makes it all sound so classy.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 20, 2024 11:30 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Wingnutt at June 20, 2024 11:29 PM (g0Yzd)
Well, it would, of necessity, be heavy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 11:31 PM (masDJ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2024 11:31 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2024 11:30 PM (DgGvY)
That's not backlash, that's blowback.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 20, 2024 11:32 PM (sRfrW)
Posted by: sinalco at June 20, 2024 11:32 PM (yODqO)
Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:33 PM (bQ/08)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
too true, when loaded with concrete
Posted by: Wingnutt at June 20, 2024 11:33 PM (g0Yzd)
They went woke.
Now I just scrub with a 3M scotch brite and rinse rinse off.
Posted by: Reforger at June 20, 2024 11:34 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: publius
That reminds me - the last time I was in London in queue waiting for a bus, a strong wind blew up and forced the dress up over the head of the woman standing next to me. She didn't have any underwear on and was quite flustered. Once she smoothed her dress back down I thought I'd say something to put her more at ease - "A bit 'airy, isn't it?"
She said - "What did you expect? Feathers?!"
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2024 11:34 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 20, 2024 11:25 PM (0Htd1)
If I hear one more fucking commercial for Manscape...
Posted by: Robert at June 20, 2024 11:34 PM (X7fDU)
Interesting fact. There was a smidge of an error in the original Prime Meridian running through the observatory. The "true" prime is about 100m to the east.
The error was due to the local vertical deflection, the deviation in "plumb" from passing exactly through the center of the Erf due to local gravitational anomalies.
When you sighted the sun (well a proxy, don't look directly at the sun :-) ), you were off by the slightest smidge.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 11:34 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:35 PM (bQ/08)
Anyone have an idea?
Laden, or Unladen? Moving East/West, or North/South?
There is an entire sphere of variables to consider, you know.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June 20, 2024 11:35 PM (e6UQI)
Shit, I hope that doesn't blow the margins, it somehow seemed appropriate.
Hey Horde.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2024 11:37 PM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 20, 2024 11:27 PM (sRfrW)
Neither does my gunt.
Posted by: 'Waddles' Nadler at June 20, 2024 11:37 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:37 PM (bQ/08)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2024 11:37 PM (QGaXH)
Back in the day, you would harvest the fourth stomach of a suckling calf, and clean it out, and hang it to dry, and then chop it to bits, and then rehydrate them in a solution of saltwater and wine. The rennet you strained out was less than a hundredth as effective at curdling milk than the modern version.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 20, 2024 11:38 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: 'Waddles' Nadler at June 20, 2024 11:37 PM (gKDq2)
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You got exotic lichens growing under there, Nads. Like Stonehenge.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2024 11:40 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz, try again, the link leads to the home page.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:40 PM (bQ/08)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 11:00 PM (masDJ)
Bronze can be smelted in a firepit and the ore can be reduced in a hole in the ground covered with turf, but iron requires higher temperatures and specific oxygen and carbon to make anything useful.
The Hittites were playing with iron, they had some meteorite iron and they had things like the prills you get when you fire iron rich clay, but they didn't quite get to Iron.
I am fascinated with the bog-iron process, but from all indications it is really hard. That Aussie in Primitive Technology channel is still trying to get a decent smelting, and the pros are having trouble enough getting an Archimedes furnace to run right
Here are some Norwegians running a bloomery furnace
https://youtu.be/80omf7bM3Ek
Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2024 11:41 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: publius
Didn't they double-check their math with the guys who built Stonehenge?
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2024 11:41 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: raimondo at June 20, 2024 11:42 PM (Bqgdp)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2024 11:42 PM (jdHxK)
Try to be faithful to the books instead. look what it did for Sir Peter Jackson.
Women in anime... oh you talking those types like Legend of the Overfiend. *bleech*
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2024 11:43 PM (Kc0bc)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 20, 2024 11:27 PM (sRfrW)
You're not new here, so...
Posted by: That guy who's always saying 'you know the rules'. at June 20, 2024 11:43 PM (Vp81v)
Well, I've done my best to make this ONT a pestilential wasteland. Good night, Hordians. May or may not see you tomorrow. I haven't decided yet.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2024 11:43 PM (MoZTd)
Agree. No more special handling. They need to be arrested and convicted like the ordinary criminals they are.
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at June 20, 2024 10:17 PM (n3DL0)
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What they need is to be taken behind the shed and shot.
Posted by: Ciampino - Thur Update #07 at June 20, 2024 11:44 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 20, 2024 11:44 PM (0FoWg)
Sun rising at Stonehenge now on that live feed. In a little bit, they'll get a shot of the sun being framed by some of the uprights right next to the "Hell Stone" over the "Slaughter Stone".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 11:44 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius
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Didn't they double-check their math with the guys who built Stonehenge?
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2024 11:41 PM (DgGvY)
They couldn't access the facility to work because of the 'Just Stop Steam' people. Fuckers shut everything down.
Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2024 11:46 PM (gKDq2)
Hey Horde.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
Hey DDS!
For youtu.be links, you can cut off the "?si=" and everything after it. That's just a unique tracking ID, as far as I can tell. The stuff before the "?" identifies the video.
But tracker-enabled youtu.be links don't blow the margins. They're just short enough. At least I've never seen a CoB come down on anyone for posting them, and the Music Threads wind up full of them.
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2024 11:47 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2024 11:42 PM (jdHxK)
Break out the poo-pourri.
Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2024 11:48 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Ciampino - You're not really family #07 at June 20, 2024 11:49 PM (qfLjt)
Doesn't a suckling calf need it's fourth stomach to become a cow?
And who the hell came up with this shit?
Did not the third stomach work?
How many calves died to figure out something like this?
"Well fuck. I got all these extra calves. Lets cut them open and see which stomach curdles milk better."
Veil is on the menu tonight.
And tomorrow.
Maybe we don't live in such crazy times. Maybe the past was worse.
Posted by: Reforger at June 20, 2024 11:49 PM (xcIvR)
How about I My Me Strawberry Eggs?
Seems nice don't it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEPlZ7Y6DgE&t=2s
Except you got this guy who is a gym teacher and screws up royally by trying to get a job at a school run my notorious man haters. Being on the hook for rent from landlord lady, she packs a pistol ya dig, he agrees to crossdress to get hired at the school and pay rent. Then it becomes hijinks and awkwardness. With a cringe ending.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2024 11:49 PM (Kc0bc)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 20, 2024 11:38 PM (0FoWg)
I always wondered why Ben Gunn wasn't able to make cheese, even though he had plenty of goats.
"Treasure Island. Ben Gunn is an ex-crewman of Captain Flint 's who has been marooned for three years on Treasure Island by his crewmates, after his failure to find the treasure without the map. During his time alone on the island, Gunn develops an obsessional craving for cheese."
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 20, 2024 11:50 PM (4bXjl)
The just stop oil trust fund kids are playing their games for a few reasons.
1) they only attack western civ, do note the little fucktards do not go and try to destroy the Big Black Rock in Durka Durkastan...why>? They'd get killed.
2) the western authorities will NEVER punish the little fuckers because largely they are their spawn doing these things.
3) the IO/NGO community is replete with Marxist fuckweasels who hate the society that created the largesse that gave rise to them.
Posted by: sven at June 20, 2024 11:51 PM (X0I7i)
That's "Heel Stone", not Hell Stone, although the latter works as well, I guess.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 11:51 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2024 11:51 PM (Kc0bc)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight
According to the commercials washing with soap and water doesn't get rid of the hideous smell. Maybe people should wash with Irish Spring soap, that scent will cover up anything.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 20, 2024 11:52 PM (0Htd1)
The RSO is as powerful as an O-6, want that to change you have to elect a President who will do so.
Posted by: sven at June 20, 2024 11:52 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Marooned at June 20, 2024 11:52 PM (kt8QE)
I'd just settle for fractured orbital bones and amputations in lieu of solvent use to get the glue off when needed.
They are SINCERE in their desire to take your stuff away.
Posted by: sven at June 20, 2024 11:53 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2024 11:53 PM (Kc0bc)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 11:17 PM (w6EFb)
aside from no self service gas, and minimum wage laws, Ontario, Treasure Valley, and all of Harney county have more to do with Idaho than Oregon. (I lived there one summer, it is hot, humid and the well water has sulfur in it so it tends to smell like someone farted. and the winters are fierce. Lovely country though, and I blew a number of opportunities to make something of myself there)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2024 11:53 PM (D7oie)
Bezos evidently has money to set on fire....We Wuz Rangz was born woke, the Boys just committed suicide this year.
Posted by: sven at June 20, 2024 11:55 PM (X0I7i)
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Not if you're turning it into veal. Until the twentieth century, rennet was a byproduct of veal manufacturing. Nothing went to waste.
Ast to why it had to be the fourth stomach, for some reason the enzyme isn't present in enough concentration in the other ones.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 20, 2024 11:55 PM (0FoWg)
The precision, at the time, with which Airy calibrated plumb for the transit circle at the Observatory was amazing. You can look like up.
It was only until recently that high precision gravimetric metrics of the earth's true field were made (via satellites) that this vertical deflection of the prime meridian could be determined.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 11:55 PM (w6EFb)
Aw dangit, they discovered Haleth. She's very loosely the basis the main character of a story I've been working on for a long time. Oh well, it was bound to happen eventually.
Posted by: pookysgirl is terrible at writing discipline at June 20, 2024 11:55 PM (dtlDP)
Perhaps, I am FINALLY done role-playing as a media personality for a living.
I am hoping to go back to the IO-NGO or source roles.
Posted by: sven at June 20, 2024 11:55 PM (X0I7i)
Lets just wall off a continent and dump both factions on it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2024 11:55 PM (Kc0bc)
On a sub-FJB level. Guess that's better than no brain activity whatsoever?
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 20, 2024 11:57 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2024 11:57 PM (Kc0bc)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2024 11:55 PM (Kc0bc)
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Antarctica? Distance-wise, it's perfect. Temps may take some getting used to.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2024 11:57 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2024 11:58 PM (Kc0bc)
https://mol.im/a/13551089
Posted by: Ciampino - Far Left grifter #08 at June 20, 2024 11:58 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2024 11:55 PM (Kc0bc)
Only if that continent is Antarctica.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 20, 2024 11:58 PM (4bXjl)
If the only choices I have are between the woke and the Durkas I may start banging my head five times a day.
The leftoids have been a thorn in the west's side since the Magna Carta, essentially arguing the only real freedom is YOU being free from things.
The Durkas get sleepy on their evangelism about every 100 years unlike the progtards.
Posted by: sven at June 20, 2024 11:58 PM (X0I7i)
Astronomical time can now be measured to a precision of 10 microseconds. Transit circles can't achieve that, and very long baseline interferometry radio telescope sightings of distant quasars establish the "earth rotation angle" relative to a true fixed, inertial direction.
This direction is called the CIO, Celestial Intermediate Origin.
Now, it gets really complicated. The modern equivalent of the Prime Meridian is the TIO, Terrestrial Intermediate Origin. This is not an actually fixed meridian on the surface of the earth.....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2024 11:59 PM (w6EFb)
It is important the actual top 1.75% get the other 98.25% to foot their bills....
//Bidenomics
Posted by: sven at June 20, 2024 11:59 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Robert at June 21, 2024 12:00 AM (X7fDU)
Existence of lost temple dedicated to the Greek goddess of war is discovered in 2,500-year-old graffiti
https://mol.im/a/13551413
Posted by: Ciampino - Ancient #09 at June 21, 2024 12:01 AM (qfLjt)
My overclocked 7900GRE buries the needle on the damned thing.
Posted by: sven at June 21, 2024 12:01 AM (X0I7i)
Posted by: 'Waddles' Nadler
Eew. Be right back. Gotta go buy some brain bleach.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 21, 2024 12:01 AM (0Htd1)
Hiya, JT, wherever you are.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 21, 2024 12:01 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 21, 2024 12:02 AM (Kc0bc)
Eh I have worked with them, they make more sense on more things than Trigglypuff et al.
I really did switch roles on the contract, I think being Ace Reporter was killing me if not literally then metaphorically.
Posted by: sven at June 21, 2024 12:03 AM (X0I7i)
https://mol.im/a/13552355
Posted by: Ciampino - Graft #10 at June 21, 2024 12:04 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 20, 2024 11:52 PM (0Htd1)
Chases off bug too.
Posted by: Reforger at June 21, 2024 12:04 AM (xcIvR)
The TIO: Imagine a reference geoid. This geoid is firmly fixed to the instantaneous rotational axis of the earth.
The problem is the actual surface of the earth, the crust, wig woggles relative to that axis. This is polar wander, or the Chandler wobble. To get microsecond precision, that must be accounted for.
The latitude and longitude, relative to the axis of any point on earth is constantly wig-woggling due to this wobble.
Actual measurements are made on that wobbling surface and must be corrected to the TIO.
UT0 is the raw measurement of astronomical time relative to the prime meridian. UT1 corrects that to the TIO, and thus cancels out the Chandler Wobble.
Another one, UT2, cancles out the seasonal nutation of the axis over the course of the years. This used to be the important one, until Atomic time and UTC hybrid of that took over.
UT1 is the current "natural" definition of astronomical time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2024 12:05 AM (w6EFb)
I'll bet twenty internets the FIB does not do sh*t to SOOPA MAYA unless Trump wins.
Posted by: sven at June 21, 2024 12:06 AM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 21, 2024 12:06 AM (Kc0bc)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 20, 2024 10:16 PM (aPY1X)
Looks to me like it doesn't, ackshually.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 21, 2024 12:06 AM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2024 12:07 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2024 11:57 PM (Kc0bc)
It's the first thing I did. I drew a different map and the world's magic system is a completely different one than Tolkien's (as much as I respect his, it didn't work for what I was doing). The beginning of the story has similiar elements to Haleth's, and that's it. I even forced myself to write romance because that's what the story required. I'll get it done.... someday.
But thank you for the vote of confidence!
Posted by: pookysgirl is terrible at writing discipline at June 21, 2024 12:07 AM (dtlDP)
She's a fuckin' angel compared to the rest.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2024 12:08 AM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 21, 2024 12:09 AM (Kc0bc)
https://tinyurl.com/d87mhjjf
Posted by: Robert at June 21, 2024 12:00 AM (X7fDU)
RIP Sgt Oddball.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 21, 2024 12:09 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 21, 2024 12:10 AM (Kc0bc)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Three months' worth.
.....but the lamp won't be very bright. Heyooo!
Posted by: mikeski at June 21, 2024 12:10 AM (DgGvY)
She is definitely the living embodiment of the Obama movement....
The #1 thing the electorate was looking for in her words was a "Blatt woman in powah!"
They got her in spades.
Posted by: sven at June 21, 2024 12:11 AM (X0I7i)
https://mol.im/a/13550405
Posted by: Ciampino - Idiots #11 at June 21, 2024 12:11 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: mikeski at June 21, 2024 12:11 AM (DgGvY)
Yeah, there's stoppages.
Which is why GENIUS designers like John Moses Browning were GENUSES. They could "see" and intuit the geometries, feed angles, interferences and stoppage points, like none before them, and frankly, none since.
Making a square nose object like a shotgun shell feed into a belt fed, ain't gonna be easy. Plus, plastic hulls "gall" on sharp edges, where brass casings, don't.
Looks to me, like he's well on the way to sorting things out. Not there yet, but not terribly far, either.
I think the system shows promise. And once ironed-out, it'd really benefit from an M-249 style "drum" for the belt, too.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June 21, 2024 12:12 AM (e6UQI)
THEN it will stop. Tout suite.
Posted by: GWB at June 20, 2024 10:15 PM (AWrpC)
Agree. No more special handling. They need to be arrested and convicted like the ordinary criminals they are.
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at June 20, 2024 10:17 PM (n3DL0)
One of those things is not like the other, even a little.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 21, 2024 12:12 AM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2024 12:13 AM (w6EFb)
Good night and pleasant dreams to all.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 21, 2024 12:14 AM (bQ/08)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 21, 2024 12:14 AM (Sgq8y)
I've seen ads for men's 'freshness' spray. It's called Umpire.
It's for foul balls.
That goes with the ball hammock underwear.
https://www.shinesty.com
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 21, 2024 12:15 AM (63Dwl)
The Calico shotgun was (in theory) going to use Helical mags....
it has been "in development" for 22 years, by comparison Browning went from the 1885 to the prototypes of the 1911 in the same timeline.
Dude was a genius.
Posted by: sven at June 21, 2024 12:16 AM (X0I7i)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 20, 2024 10:31 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: No, soon you will be fed bugs at June 21, 2024 12:20 AM (w+Slc)
And yet it's the Brits who got a reputation for going out at times of day when sensible men were taking a siesta...
"Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun"
Posted by: FeatherBlade at June 21, 2024 12:21 AM (4vAwW)
She's just a greedy bitch. Not bottomlessly evil. She never coulda been a contendah.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2024 12:22 AM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2024 12:24 AM (0FoWg)
We all ready know Biden is going to be on Massive Uppers. Why does he need a week to memorize lies because he will not remember the answers. Check his ear for a earphone....
Posted by: Franklin Stein at June 21, 2024 12:24 AM (Qfk4E)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 21, 2024 12:10 AM (Kc0bc)
She's a one-woman Tiffany Hall.
I've been occasionally following this story. It is absolutely wild what that crazy cunning stunt has done. What I find to be so crazy is that nobody can seem to stop her from raping that township blind. No one. The thing with the cop cars, her trips, that fake charity, the local business shakedowns, the police corruption, the salaries and, apparently, a drive by hit that didn't succeed. The absurdity is beyond any Monty Python sketch or Babylon Bee article. Now that the FIBs are involved, expect nothing until, as said above, Trump wins. But I just find it hard to believe that no one, no government dept or agency stepped in, the county DA, the guv, the state AG, nobody. With it all out in the open. If she got away with this open thievery for so long, and she kept doing it ever after being caught, even playing the 'church' card (a la Fani), one can only imagine how our permanent Congress/government (bureaucrats) are. No wonder they fear Trump. Should Trump win, I honestly believe he just might be the chairman of the unwoke leaders of the world.
Posted by: RickZ at June 21, 2024 12:26 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 21, 2024 12:26 AM (jrKun)
No digital, 5 axis mills, NOTHING.
Not just brilliant designers. But ABSOLUTE MASTERS of machining, and combining that and designs, to be amenable to MANUFACTURING, too.
Most all of that mastery was in their HUGE BRAINS.
Every shooters NEEDS to own at least one 1911. It's a part of our Shooty DNA.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June 21, 2024 12:26 AM (e6UQI)
WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING 40 YEARS AGO TOP SAVE THE WORLD ..............
Posted by: Mike Hunt at June 21, 2024 12:27 AM (PYJJG)
Posted by: Mike Hunt at June 21, 2024 12:28 AM (PYJJG)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at June 21, 2024 12:21 AM (4vAwW)
Gin. Gotta get that quinine (kwi-neen) into you somehow.
Posted by: RickZ at June 21, 2024 12:30 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: raimondo at June 20, 2024 11:42 PM (Bqgdp)
But you aren't prohibited from molesting goats, rairai, so now you can be happy. Heck, now you can even marry one in California...!
Posted by: That Old Testament God Dude at June 21, 2024 12:30 AM (w+Slc)
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at June 21, 2024 12:32 AM (Z8Yh2)
The altitude scale on Airy's Transit circle was such fine graduations that it had to be read with a microscope.
They established plumb with a basin of mercury under the thing via complex procedure of the transit telescope seeing its own reflections of its crosshairs in the basin of mercury.
It was a tedious procedure, but yielded at the time unprecedented accuracy in the position of stellar objects.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2024 12:33 AM (w6EFb)
it has been "in development" for 22 years, by comparison Browning went from the 1885 to the prototypes of the 1911 in the same timeline.
Dude was a genius.
Posted by: sven at June 21, 2024 12:16 AM (X0I7i)
If one were going to design an auto-firing shotgun, why not also design a shotgun cartridge that is more amenable to automatic feed?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2024 12:37 AM (masDJ)
Posted by: That Old Testament God Dude at June 21, 2024 12:30 AM (w+Slc)
But if he "divorces" it, he can only sell it to folks in the next town over, or beyond.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June 21, 2024 12:37 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2024 12:37 AM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 21, 2024 12:38 AM (Sgq8y)
https://mol.im/a/13551061
Three questions on this idiotic scheme:
1. Is it a lump sum or a monthly/yearly installment?
2. Do these payments go on to every future Black generation?
3. What's the cutoff (a) individual or family? (b)minimum age to be eligible.
Posted by: Ciampino - Idiots #12 at June 21, 2024 12:39 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Ciampino - DIE #13 at June 21, 2024 12:40 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2024 12:44 AM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Ciampino - Disgusting #14 at June 21, 2024 12:44 AM (qfLjt)
Pattern, and Shot String Profile.
Pattern, being the static impact(s) as measured on a (IIRC) 40 in circle at 40 yards. The numbers and percentages of which, translate to "cylinder", "modified", "full" and several intermediate Choke Designations.
Shot string though, gets really esoteric. Your basic load of shot sits as a cylinder, Coke-Can like, in the shell. Fire it at a flying bird or clay disc, and if you've got the lead JUST RIGHT, the object will intercept the shot string, so that it's forward motion coincides with the majority of the shot, which has become a 2 ft. to 3 ft. long "string" of pellets, which describe a longitudinal path in the direction of the bird or clay disc's flight.
THIS is what causes a Clay Pigeon to "disappear" in a puff of dust. It got hit by a huge percentage of the pellets. A "chip"? Got hit by one maybe two pellets.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
1/2
Posted by: Jim at June 21, 2024 12:45 AM (e6UQI)
https://tinyurl.com/ywsn5k4j
Posted by: Ciampino - DIE #13 at June 21, 2024 12:40 AM (qfLjt)
I can't boycott $14 blue jeans and khakis.
Posted by: Reforger at June 21, 2024 12:46 AM (xcIvR)
https://mol.im/a/13548303
Does JD check his bed before getting in?
Posted by: Ciampino - Shitter or Crapper #15 at June 21, 2024 12:47 AM (qfLjt)
https://mol.im/a/13552381
Posted by: Ciampino - Thur Update #15 at June 21, 2024 12:49 AM (qfLjt)
It'll feed better. But now, how to design the wad, the shot cup, the powder buffer system?
Belt fed IS better than any "magazine" for shotty shells in an auto, though. No long term compression of the plastic hulls.
Dude is on the right track. I think, in time, he'll Get it RIGHT.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
2/2
Posted by: Jim at June 21, 2024 12:49 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: sven at June 21, 2024 12:01 AM (X0I7i)
******************************************
My condolences.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at June 21, 2024 12:49 AM (lgAeW)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at June 21, 2024 12:51 AM (o+rB0)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
1/2
Posted by: Jim at June 21, 2024 12:45 AM (e6UQI)
Well, your auto-firing shotgun is not going to be used for upland bird hunting. I expect Moose and Goose would frown on that. It's going to be a military market item. Use for area denial, or clearing away rioters. Ballistic properties of the shot load probably less of an issue than getting a huge storm of lead downrange.
Possibly a standard plastic hull with a discarding sabot to give it a round nose would do the trick?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2024 12:51 AM (masDJ)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at June 21, 2024 12:53 AM (o+rB0)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2024 12:58 AM (masDJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2024 12:58 AM (masDJ)
Posted by: Sea World at June 21, 2024 12:59 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Sea World at June 21, 2024 01:00 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2024 01:00 AM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 21, 2024 01:01 AM (w6EFb)
https://mol.im/a/13551803
No no, those were not employees (implying team members) but management, whether low level or upper.
Posted by: Ciampino - Thur Update #16 at June 21, 2024 01:01 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 21, 2024 01:02 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2024 12:51 AM (masDJ)
Your 405 is right on the larger scale, but not a Man Portable solution.
Your discarding sabot WOULD work, but would need to be based on the Mini-Shell format, with the sabot extending out to the 2-3/4 or 3 in Mag, maximum OAL of a duty riot gun shell.
Make the Dude's deisgn to work and flow well with a mini-shell w/sabot. Spin an effective Brake onto that Short Barrel.
Room Clearing Drills would never be the same, again.
Home defense? Arrange the walls and furniture, design a Kill Funnel.
Ooops. OOOPSIE!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June 21, 2024 01:04 AM (e6UQI)
https://tinyurl.com/2rvbddkz
Posted by: Ciampino - Bring back hard labor #17 at June 21, 2024 01:05 AM (qfLjt)
Terrifying terror links, of illegal aliens coming over the border, revealed
https://mol.im/a/13551467
Posted by: Ciampino - Bring back hard labor #18 at June 21, 2024 01:07 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Ciampino
We're well past the need for "removal"...
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at June 21, 2024 01:08 AM (Yy1oM)
https://mol.im/a/13549375
Posted by: Ciampino - Bring back hard labor #19 at June 21, 2024 01:09 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: DaveA at June 21, 2024 01:12 AM (FhXTo)
https://tinyurl.com/yckfaww5
Posted by: Ciampino - Bring back hard labor #20 at June 21, 2024 01:13 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Ciampino - Bring back hard labor #21 at June 21, 2024 01:14 AM (qfLjt)
https://mol.im/a/13551285
Somehow I'm not horrified. Firstly they are a cruel people and secondly they live in very hot climes and thus should know what to do/not do in very hot weather.
Posted by: Ciampino - No shade and water? #22 at June 21, 2024 01:19 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Ciampino - 91 is a pretty good run #23 at June 21, 2024 01:20 AM (qfLjt)
https://mol.im/a/13551913
Posted by: Ciampino - Must have badly rubbed someone important #24 at June 21, 2024 01:22 AM (qfLjt)
https://mol.im/a/13552099
Posted by: Ciampino - $2500 is minimum for a funeral #25 at June 21, 2024 01:25 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 21, 2024 01:32 AM (4bXjl)
Donald Sutherland dead at 88: Star of M*A*S*H and The Hunger Games passing announced by son Kiefer
https://mol.im/a/13552035
Kelly's Heroes
Posted by: Ciampino - Good actor but Leftist #25 at June 21, 2024 01:35 AM (qfLjt)
https://tinyurl.com/4jxytsjh
So typical of plagiarists to copy.
Posted by: Ciampino - Fri Update #01 at June 21, 2024 01:40 AM (qfLjt)
https://tinyurl.com/bdem2cbm
Posted by: Ciampino - Fri Update #02 at June 21, 2024 01:44 AM (qfLjt)
https://tinyurl.com/5t2n9svz
Are the Chinese running the show now?
Posted by: Ciampino - Fri Update #03 at June 21, 2024 01:46 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Ciampino - Fri Update #03 at June 21, 2024 01:46 AM (qfLjt)
Russians. There are plenty of Russian troops "assisting" the locals kick the French and Americans out.
The French are shook up, as they run France on nuclear power, and they were getting African uranium at well below market prices.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 21, 2024 02:02 AM (4bXjl)
Posted by: Tonypete
Have this idea I would like to hear our esteemed Italian moron speaking with a Tennessee accent. Someone says they're Italian, I default to New York Italian.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * levitating above the madness at June 21, 2024 02:04 AM (BZZru)
No need to worry everyone. I'll bite the bullet and conduct all of the research on this.
Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at June 21, 2024 02:06 AM (aqZN1)
https://mol.im/a/13551467
Posted by: Ciampino
Saw Schlicter's book Attack mentioned in a couple posts above. If you haven't read it, you should. Very plausible and very sobering. Schlicter isn't the only one sounding the alarm bells. The Taliban and Al Queda are essentially merging into a terrorist organization with the goal of establishing a caliphate. To add insult to that, the US government is sending them a plane load of cash. $ 40 to $80 million, every week. If there is a large scale terrorist attack it will have been funded, at least in part, by us.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * levitating above the madness at June 21, 2024 02:18 AM (BZZru)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 21, 2024 02:31 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 21, 2024 02:31 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 21, 2024 02:32 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Libertarians at June 21, 2024 02:40 AM (JKPiI)
Posted by: There Is Nothing More Important Than Being Gay at June 21, 2024 02:42 AM (JKPiI)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 21, 2024 01:32 AM (4bXjl)
But is it a steaming 45 degrees?
Posted by: Midnight Oil at June 21, 2024 02:43 AM (JKPiI)
America is a failed state. Depleted treasury, lawlessness, rigged elections, corrupt courts, no borders, low-trust society, atheistic nihilistic hedonism as our Elite's mentality, high unemployment and wide-spread mental illness and drug addiction.
Our military is only good at losing, blowing up allied infrastructure, toppling weak governments and making an American tourist universally hated.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 20, 2024 10:22 PM (hzmX4)
Way to blast and badmouth your country there. You may as well be a Leftist for all this vitriol.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 21, 2024 02:48 AM (JKPiI)
Posted by: There Is Nothing More Important Than Being Gay at June 21, 2024 02:42 AM
Well, then, fine.
Go complete the entire circle, loop the loop, fuck yourself in your ass, and exist in your own individual orbit of self importance hence, evermore.
Oh, and if youze gonna BE Impotentze, youze gotta LOOK Impotenze. Go fuck yourself in the ass while dropping the trou of your Tux.
Meanwhile, you're of NO FURTHER USE to these here comments.
Begone, troll. Begone.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June 21, 2024 02:48 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 21, 2024 02:53 AM (jrKun)
Posted by: Robert at June 20, 2024 11:05 PM (X7fDU)
Every service-sector job I've worked, the women's restroom was invariably worse than the men's. Sometimes by an order of magnitude.
Posted by: Dr. T at June 20, 2024 11:09 PM (jGGMD)
I learned this on my first job. I cleaned both bathrooms but invariably an hour later I would get complaints about the women’s bathroom. The women had zero problems or compunction about dropping used diapers or bloody rags on the floor.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 21, 2024 02:54 AM (JKPiI)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 21, 2024 02:53 AM (jrKun)
Of course it was a sock. Catch Thirty-Thr33.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 21, 2024 02:56 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 20, 2024 11:23 PM (0FoWg)
Rightist devionationary.
Posted by: Mao at June 21, 2024 03:03 AM (JKPiI)
Of course it was a sock. Catch Thirty-Thr33.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 21, 2024 02:56 AM (w6EFb)
Doing my level best to flip the bird to Pride Month.
Especially now that we have Pride Month Star Wars.
What really pushed me over the edge was going to Dallas ISD’s website and they have a big frickin rainbow flag. “Celebrating Pride Month”.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 21, 2024 03:06 AM (JKPiI)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 21, 2024 03:06 AM (JKPiI)
I just don't understand why they don't call it 'Celebrating Men Ass Fucking Month'. They can even hang the banner in the friggin' elementary school libraries.
Posted by: RickZ at June 21, 2024 03:18 AM (gKDq2)
Strange dream about participating in a new kind of dating arrangement, where you sign up, then wait at the bar running it, and they bring little balls of paper and put them into a kind of drawer. Then you open the drawer and take out the paper, uncrumple it, and read the message from the woman who's been interested enough to write to you. The woman writing to me was named "Denise," and she wanted to meet at this same bar on Saturday night -- where I knew a band I hated would be playing.
Shades of the Eighties.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2024 03:32 AM (omVj0)
I've gone to System Preferences -> Menu Bar and Dock, and unchecked the boxes saying to "automatically hide and show" those two things, but no good. Any ideas?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2024 03:35 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2024 03:50 AM (fwDg9)
Someone failed to tell them that the free street market will undercut their inflated price. No taxes on the street, so Kathy H. can again realize that not everything comes up roses.
Posted by: Colin at June 21, 2024 03:52 AM (/z/eU)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * levitating above the madness at June 21, 2024 03:53 AM (BZZru)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2024 03:57 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * levitating above the madness at June 21, 2024 03:59 AM (BZZru)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2024 04:04 AM (omVj0)
Been up since 1:00 CDT. My internal time clock is way out of whack. Doggie continues to be confused as to Mom getting up so early. Accepts treats with enthusiasm but goes back to sleep fairly quickly and starts gradually inching over in bed until mom has one leg in the bed and one leg on the floor. I think he's telling me that if I want to be up then get up but he's getting the rest of his shut eye.
Posted by: Tuna at June 21, 2024 04:05 AM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 21, 2024 02:56 AM (w6EFb)
Doing my level best to flip the bird to Pride Month.
Especially now that we have Pride Month Star Wars.
What really pushed me over the edge was going to Dallas ISD’s website and they have a big frickin rainbow flag. “Celebrating Pride Month”.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 21, 2024 03:06 AM (JKPiI)
On each and every thread. Wearisome.
Okay, I get the response to "Pride" month, but still....wearisome.
And that's my cuppa covfefe Good Morning to last night's ONT.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June 21, 2024 10:20 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Candidus at June 21, 2024 10:20 AM (xhS4o)
But is it the truth?
Posted by: Ju at June 21, 2024 01:52 PM (aTmM/)
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