THE MORNING RANT: Buck Shots

THE MORNING RANT: Buck Shots – 7/12/2024

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Tracking “Recycled” Plastic to the Landfill

Little if any plastic that goes through “recycling theater” actually gets recycled. Most ends up in landfills, even if it was placed in a recycle bin by a conscientious recycler. There is nothing surprising about this story to those of us who have long understood the farce about plastic bottles being recycled:

“This man put a GPS tracker in his recycling. Here’s where it ended up. A Del Mar man bought a GPS device, taped it to a plastic bottle and within a few hours, watched its journey to a landfill.” [CBS 8 – San Diego – 6/06/2024]

Every Monday [Kevin Grold] brings his bins to the curb, recycling all that he can to help the environment. "I always make sure my recycling bin is just the way it should be, I follow all the rules. I put the things in the right place," he said. To make sure his recyclables were indeed being recycled, he got the idea to track his trash.
He told us he bought a plastic GPS tracking device for only $8 online, taped it to a bottle and within a few hours, watched it go from Del Mar to a Recycling Center in Escondido. "I'm like ok cool, it's where it should be. And then I keep watching it, and a few hours later, it keeps moving - farther and farther north and ends up in a landfill, in Riverside," Grold said.

It would be more cost efficient and energy efficient if we stopped pretending that plastic is recyclable and just put it directly into the trash headed for the landfill.

I can’t recall if I’ve told this story before about my suburban town’s effort to stop residents from bringing glass to its recycle center. If so, here it is again, but it’s still funny. The processor who purchases the towns recyclables announced that it would refuse to accept any more glass, because there was no market for it. But residents kept bringing glass anyway, and dumping it in with the other items such as aluminum and steel cans which have actual raw material value. The most religiously devout recyclers seem to think that simply putting glass into the recycle container magically causes it to get repurposed. Anyhow, the town’s recycle center finally gave up and got another dumpster for glass only, and announced that it was accepting glass again! Residents dutifully come and dump their bags full of wine and liquor bottles into the “Glass Only” dumpster, unaware that it all heads to the landfill. But at least the aluminum and steel isn’t getting contaminated any longer with broken glass, and the people bringing in all their empty bottles can feel good that they have engaged in the virtuous sacrament of recycling.

(For what it’s worth, I do recycle my aluminum and steel cans, since they have value as a raw material. Giving those cans to the recycle center is the least I can do since they somehow get rid of all my cardboard boxes that I can’t put in my trashcan.)

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The Philadelphia Vote is Crucial to Winning in Delaware

Last week at a campaign event in Philadelphia, President Biden stated that during his campaigns for US Senate from the state of Delaware, “Philadelphia in particular got me across the line.” While Philadelphia is very near Delaware, it is in the state of Pennsylvania.

“Biden says Philadelphia voters helped him win Delaware Senate seat” [Washington Times – 07/07/2024]

“Even when I was running for Senate, each time I ran, quite frankly, not a joke, Philadelphia, in particular, got me across the line,” he said during a campaign event. He then doubled down on his statement. “No, I’m not joking,” he said as people cheered and applauded. “No, I mean it, seriously, organizationally, and in terms of fundraising — the whole deal.”

Yes, Mr. Biden, I have no doubt that you “mean it,” and we all understand “the whole deal.” The Philadelphia political machine has an outstanding reputation for ”organizationally” finding enough extra, last-minute ballots to ensure Democrats always win statewide races in Pennsylvania. Offering a little mutual aid to Democrats next door in Delaware seems right neighborly of the Philadelphia machine.

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America’s Classrooms Are Not in the Best of Hands

The President of the American Federation of Teachers cannot spell the word “tonight.” This is a powerful reflection on what has happened to education, and why there are so many classrooms where no actual education occurs.

To be fair, Randi Weingarten proved her hostility toward education during the Covid era with her passionate opposition to having teachers even show up to their classrooms, much less engage in the act of teaching children.

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Record Hurricane Inactivity

As Hurricane Beryl headed west across the Caribbean, you probably saw headlines like this one from Salon magazine, for which I’m not going to provide a link because it is such ridiculous propaganda: “Record-breaking Category 5 Hurricane Beryl wouldn't be possible without climate change; The first hurricane of the 2024 season is already making huge waves — and burning fossil fuels made it possible” [Salon – 7/02/2024]

The ability to measure the intensity of hurricanes out in open waters does not have a lengthy history, but there was nothing “record breaking” about Hurricane Beryl other than the hyperbole surrounding it. By the time it made landfall in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, it was just a Category 2 hurricane, and then it proceeded to make final landfall in Texas as a Category 1. While being in the bullseye of a hurricane of any strength is an awful experience, a Cat 1 or 2 storm making landfall in July is just not remarkable. It’s called “hurricane season” for a reason.

Meanwhile, despite the climate cult constantly promising more and worse hurricane activity, the North Pacific has just recorded an historic stretch without any tropical cyclones.

“Unseen Calm: The North Pacific's Historic Storm-Free Period” [Dr. Matthew Wielicki – Irrational Fear – 7/07/2024]

For the first time in the satellite era, which began in 1966, the entire North Pacific has experienced an extraordinary meteorological anomaly. From June 1 to July 3, 2024, there was no named storm activity in the western, central, or eastern North Pacific. This period of calm is highly unusual given the historical storm activity in the region during these months. The absence of named storms during this time has significant implications for meteorology and climate science while the silence about this event in the MSM is clear evidence of the bias surrounding climate change.

The calm in the North Pacific doesn’t mean there will be fewer hurricanes, nor that they will be any less intense. There are so many inputs and cycles involved in weather activity that are still not understood. But it certainly does negate all the hype from the climatistas about “record” hurricanes.

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Peachy News out of Georgia

On a similar subject, Georgia peach farmers had a devastating year back in 2023, when a late freeze wiped out the peach crop. The climate apocalysts blamed it on a warming climate, of course.

From the Washington Post in June of 2023: “Wild weather swings have devastated Georgia’s peaches”

Lawton Pearson has seen bad years. So has his father. And his father before him. As a fifth-generation peach farmer at the core of Georgia’s peach-growing region, he knows how fickle growing the state’s signature fruit can be. Yet after Georgia endured record-breaking warmth this winter, Pearson’s peach harvest was wiped out in a way not seen in decades. His 1,700 acres of peach trees are yielding only about a tenth to a twentieth of what they should have.

This piece was epically dishonest and misleading. The WaPo immediately blamed “record breaking warmth” for the crop failure, but it’s not until the 14th paragraph that this piece even mentions that the crop was actually lost to a late freeze!

No regime media propaganda can talk about climate without the awful predictions from “scientists” and “experts,” so this was naturally part of the WaPo’s Georgia peach storyline in 2023:

But across the state this year, growers are struggling to produce its quintessential crop, with experts projecting losses of 95 percent. As Georgia’s winters get warmer due to human-induced climate change, scientists fear it may get harder to grow peaches in the Peach State.

Well, a year has passed since then. Let’s check in on the climate-induced peach apocalypse…

“Georgia farmers report best-ever peach season after devastating losses last year” [Atlanta News First – 5/13/2024]

Jake Carter, a third-generation farmer and owner of Southern Belle Farm, began picking peaches on Monday. He said this crop is the best crop he’s ever seen. “No matter where you go, whatever corner of the state that you enjoy getting your peaches from, they should have a great crop,” said Carter.
He said this year could be life-changing for some farmers who lost everything during a late deep freeze that destroyed the majority of the peach crop last year. “It’s really a shot in the arm. There are lots of great farms in the state of Georgia and everyone I know of has a tremendous crop,” said Carter.

Bad harvests happen, and they are awful. It is a blessing that this year’s crop will help offset some of the damage from 2023’s loss. But it is also despicable how the climate communists seized on a bad harvest that was due to a cold snap to advance their wicked agenda.

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The President Goes “Moo”

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~~Former Senator from Oklahoma~~ Prominent Climate Change Denier Dead at 89

Former Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe died last week at age 89. He was one of the few politicians I genuinely admired, because he dared to defend freedom and stand up to the climate hoax long before there was a large “climate denier” movement.

Legacy left-wing media outlets handled his death with the class and dignity you’d expect.

I’ll just put it out there right now – when my earthly race is over, nothing would please me more than to have my obituary refer to me as a “Prominent Climate Change Denier.” Heck, put it on my tombstone!

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Throckmorton’s First Law of Live Music: “If There’s an Upright Bass in the Band, It’s Probably Going to be Good”

Country musicians Kelly Willis, Brennen Leigh, and Melissa Carper have teamed up to form a supergroup named “Wonder Women of Country.” They are indeed super, with some really beautiful harmonies. Here is “Fly Ya to Hawaii.”

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Have great weekend.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

Comments

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1 1st?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 11:00 AM (v6JzV)

2 Yo

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 12, 2024 11:01 AM (Q4IgG)

3 Have great weekend.

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YOU'RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!!!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 12, 2024 11:02 AM (GBKbO)

4 Every Monday [Kevin Grold] brings his bins to the curb, recycling all that he can to help the environment. "I always make sure my recycling bin is just the way it should be, I follow all the rules. I put the things in the right place," he said. To make sure his recyclables were indeed being recycled, he got the idea to track his trash.

I just throw it in the burn barrel.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2024 11:02 AM (NzK/m)

5
While being in the bullseye of a hurricane of any strength is an awful experience

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Tell me about it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2024 11:03 AM (KKnQx)

6 Worked in the suites of a MLB stadium for a few years, not long ago. They had designated recycling bins. And uh….. um……. Anyways…….

I’m sure you know where this is going.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at July 12, 2024 11:04 AM (Y8lzz)

7 -- It would be more cost efficient and energy efficient if we stopped pretending that plastic is recyclable and just put it directly into the trash headed for the landfill. --

The hell of it is, plastic IS recyclable -- but it WON'T be recycled by governments, because they have too many ways to cut corners without being taken to task for it. They skip the segregation of immiscible types; they don't perform the pre-meltdown steps that are required; and of course measures against contamination are utterly beyond them. Besides, the taxpayers foot the bill, and they know they'll never be taken to task, so why work hard?

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at July 12, 2024 11:04 AM (Nmmyc)

8 Reminds me... I need to go down to the road and fetch the trash bin. The garbage man frequently leaves it halfway in the road.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 12, 2024 11:04 AM (Q4IgG)

9 Why...it seems as if everything....is one giant scam.

Posted by: BignJames at July 12, 2024 11:05 AM (AwYPR)

10 Willowed:
I don't think you gave me crap about Billy Barr. I keep a list.
Posted by: ... at July 12, 2024 11:03 AM (zxnA4)

Are you a woman?

I am trying to remember the saying... 'A Woman will forgive, but never forget. A Man will forget, but never forgive.'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2024 11:05 AM (y31cs)

11 My suspicion is that many teachers despise being in the classroom because their students are mostly smarter than they are.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2024 11:05 AM (d9fT1)

12 Top 17?!?

Posted by: GMan-27 at July 12, 2024 11:06 AM (pgwxJ)

13 (For what it’s worth, I do recycle my aluminum and steel cans, since they have value as a raw material. Giving those cans to the recycle center is the least I can do since they somehow get rid of all my cardboard boxes that I can’t put in my trashcan.)

ah. well, the plastic has value, too. not as a raw material, mind you, but the state extorts money from me (crv) when i buy a plastic container and the only way to get it back is to take it to a "recycling" "center".

Posted by: anachronda at July 12, 2024 11:06 AM (oY6Yp)

14 It can be lunch time

I never bought that crap for a second, ice ages come and ice ages go but will come again

Posted by: Skip at July 12, 2024 11:07 AM (rvUJB)

15 I love North Pacific!

I'm gonna wash that Ewok outta my hair
And send him on his way!

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 11:07 AM (Jh5b+)

16 Eh. I don't mind the recycling scam. I don't care if it ends up in a landfill or not. It makes dealing with the regular trash easier.

We go through so many damned plastic water bottles in our house that if we didn't have the recycle bin to put them in we wouldn't have any room in the trash bin for the regular trash.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 11:08 AM (v6JzV)

17 11 My suspicion is that many teachers despise being in the classroom because their students are mostly smarter than they are.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2024 11:05 AM (d9fT1)

Mental rigidity kills problem solving. You can no longer step back and try to approach it from a different angle- because there is no other angle for you. Children are much more flexible mentally than adults.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2024 11:08 AM (y31cs)

18 The President of the American Federation of Teachers cannot spell the word “tonight.”

i suspect she also goes through the drive thru to get donuts.

Posted by: anachronda at July 12, 2024 11:08 AM (oY6Yp)

19 Record-breaking Category 5 Hurricane Beryl wouldn't be possible without climate change

We've had records of hurricanes making landfall in the continental United States since the 1850s. There has been no change in either the number or intensity of storms making landfall during that time.

What has changed is that where hurricanes used to hit mangrove swamps in Florida, they now hit condo developments, so the damage from hurricanes has escalated.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 12, 2024 11:08 AM (uxCna)

20 The hell of it is, plastic IS recyclable -- but it WON'T be recycled by governments, because they have too many ways to cut corners without being taken to task for it.

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30 or so years ago, when I worked in the plastics industry, I suggested that we just toss it into a refinery and get something back from it. Plastics are cleaner than petroleum bottoms and we have ways of dealing with those.

Of course, the big boys scoffed at the idea. Now it's all the research rage.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2024 11:08 AM (KKnQx)

21 16 We go through so many damned plastic water bottles in our house that if we didn't have the recycle bin to put them in we wouldn't have any room in the trash bin for the regular trash.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 11:08 AM (v6JzV)

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Thought of using something like a Brita filter instead?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 12, 2024 11:08 AM (GBKbO)

22 Thought of using something like a Brita filter instead?

Zero Water filters / dispensers are also good.

Posted by: GMan-27 at July 12, 2024 11:10 AM (pgwxJ)

23 Beryl pissed 8.375" on me here in N. Indiana in only seventeen hours. 2 straight days of su shine and the water is out of the yard and the garden is looking good.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboo.! Kid at July 12, 2024 11:10 AM (hirWM)

24 Look,, just last, last week I was asked about uh, last week about President Harris,, but guess what, guess what Nancy wanted to know. Well anyway,, President Schumer said, now get this, vice president Trump said miunuiopnthy, and I agree, not a joke, true story! Look, the idea, the idea that-that, well anyway...

Posted by: I'm joe biden and I approve this message! at July 12, 2024 11:11 AM (5hfjS)

25 But what about all the presentations kids see about how plastics get rebuilt into new and useful things? Was that all a lie?

Posted by: NR Pax at July 12, 2024 11:11 AM (OPGS/)

26 When I signed up for garbage collection at my new house in rural Texas, I didn't get instructions about the recycling rules. Instead, they asked me if I wanted an optional recycling bin along with the normal trash bin. I said no and I see that none of my neighbors bought in to the recycling hoax either.

Posted by: Isheen at July 12, 2024 11:11 AM (dk/NU)

27 Howdy, Buck! Fellow "climate change denier" here.
Thanks for keeping these pieces coming!

Posted by: Doof at July 12, 2024 11:11 AM (RhGG0)

28 (For what it’s worth, I do recycle my aluminum and steel cans, since they have value as a raw material. Giving those cans to the recycle center is the least I can do since they somehow get rid of all my cardboard boxes that I can’t put in my trashcan.)

There's also the point that even with plastic, you gotta throw it away anyway, and "recycle bin" is just as convenient as "trash can."

And I end up using fewer bags, since empty cans and bottles (which are light and don't take up much space) don't need to go into the actual trash.

So it's all a wash, is what I'm saying.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at July 12, 2024 11:12 AM (1Idb6)

29 The best synonym for green is naif.

Posted by: Jim at July 12, 2024 11:12 AM (zhWvq)

30 Ok, time to try to hit the sack. You guys (and gals) have a good one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2024 11:12 AM (y31cs)

31 The ladies are outstanding! Thanks Buck.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 12, 2024 11:12 AM (bJv7B)

32 We go through so many damned plastic water bottles in our house that if we didn't have the recycle bin to put them in we wouldn't have any room in the trash bin for the regular trash.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 11:08 AM (v6JzV)

There are a few "environmentalists" who say not to recycle those flimsy water bottles, because they end up getting shipped to Asia and then dumped into the ocean.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2024 11:13 AM (d9fT1)

33 The late freeze was caused by global warming.
#TrustTheScience

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 12, 2024 11:13 AM (t56FM)

34 Thought of using something like a Brita filter instead?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

My wife put a Pur filter on the kitchen faucet, but I've never used it. I'm technologically challenged, so it takes me awhile to figure things like that out. Really.

Besides, I like water that is ice cold. I can take a water bottle and put it in the freezer until it's almost frozen solid and then enjoy all the little pieces of ice in it as a drink from it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 11:13 AM (v6JzV)

35 The President of the American Federation of Teachers cannot spell the word “tonight.”

it's "2nite"....rite?

Posted by: BignJames at July 12, 2024 11:13 AM (AwYPR)

36 >>>eing in the bullseye of a hurricane of any strength is an awful experience...

Can confirm.

Hurricane Sally in 2020 came ashore just west of us as barely a Cat 2. We lived in our RV on our front lawn for 15 months while our house was rebuilt.

That kind of sucked for awhile, but we got used to it.

Posted by: bed head at July 12, 2024 11:13 AM (Y1sOo)

37 How many Republican ballots find their way to landfills?

Posted by: Eeyore at July 12, 2024 11:14 AM (1bNHn)

38 I used the recycling bin because it’s basically a second, free garbage can the city gives me.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 12, 2024 11:14 AM (t56FM)

39 >>> 16 Eh. I don't mind the recycling scam. I don't care if it ends up in a landfill or not. It makes dealing with the regular trash easier.

We go through so many damned plastic water bottles in our house that if we didn't have the recycle bin to put them in we wouldn't have any room in the trash bin for the regular trash.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 11:08 AM (v6JzV)

Get a Berkey, probably the biggest one they have, and it will pay for itself in no time.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 12, 2024 11:14 AM (VavZF)

40 There are scrap metal dealers everywhere. Collect enough copper aluminum or even iron and you get paid. Nobody will buy your plastic, glass or paper. So in a way, every plumber always knew that recycling bins was bs.

Posted by: Fozzy at July 12, 2024 11:14 AM (YGrwu)

41 I think it's even changed now but the only thing that used to make [some] money in recycling was paper [pre-1990??] when all the governments involved starting it claimed it would be self-funding because they'd be selling the material back to manufacturers.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 11:14 AM (Jh5b+)

42 Watch me,, watch me...

Posted by: I'm joe biden and I approve this message! at July 12, 2024 11:14 AM (5hfjS)

43 In the early days of curbside recyclables pickup in my ex-berg, each address was given three crates (one for paper, one for cans and plastics and one for glass) to be set out next to the trash can. One trash night, I forgot to set it out, so had to rush out to get everything to the curb as the truck was rumbling closer. The truck had one huge bin on the righthand side for the recyclables, and the worker grabbed all three crates and dumped them into the same bin. So sorting did absolutely nothing.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 12, 2024 11:14 AM (fQmeC)

44 I now use my recycle bin as a second trash container. Thanks!

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2024 11:14 AM (ewjUl)

45 >>> 9 Why...it seems as if everything....is one giant scam.
Posted by: BignJames at July 12, 2024 11:05 AM (AwYPR)

Don't forget the money laundering!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 12, 2024 11:14 AM (VavZF)

46 We crush our cans and donate them to the local animal rescue group. They have a trailer at a grocery store parking load and we just toss them in there. Last time I checked they were getting 35 cents a pound.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 12, 2024 11:15 AM (QNSds)

47 35 it's "2nite"....rite?
Posted by: BignJames at July 12, 2024 11:13 AM (AwYPR)

Close.

2nyt.

Posted by: XTC at July 12, 2024 11:15 AM (UnA8+)

48 What has changed is that where hurricanes used to hit mangrove swamps in Florida, they now hit condo developments, so the damage from hurricanes has escalated.

We're also better at tracking and categorizing them (and other storms).

We get much better data-- and more of it-- now than 50 years ago. Now there's not a storm bigger than a certain size anywhere on the planet we don't see. In the Old Days, storms could hit uninhabited areas and no one would know.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at July 12, 2024 11:15 AM (1Idb6)

49 And where do these dipshits think our alleged 10 year (bullshit) LED bulbs go? Earf!

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2024 11:16 AM (ewjUl)

50 My bodybuilder friend passed away recently and left me all of his protein.

Where there's a will, there's a whey.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2024 11:16 AM (NzK/m)

51 Look at the bright side, nobody is burning climate change deniers at the stake yet.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 12, 2024 11:17 AM (lTGtQ)

52 The cruelty on display here by Buck Throckmorton and his stockyard co-conspirators is part of the reason why the HQ keeps rocking.

Kamala: Oink! Hyuk, hyuk!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 12, 2024 11:17 AM (2UBPP)

53 My bodybuilder friend passed away recently and left me all of his protein.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2024 11:16 AM

Mine too!

Posted by: P Bootyjuice at July 12, 2024 11:17 AM (ewjUl)

54 26 When I signed up for garbage collection at my new house in rural Texas, I didn't get instructions about the recycling rules. Instead, they asked me if I wanted an optional recycling bin along with the normal trash bin. I said no and I see that none of my neighbors bought in to the recycling hoax either.

yeah, well, 'round here we have recycling mandated by the state. before it happened, the state did a study and couldn't prove we needed the recycling idiocy, but mandated it anyway.

the latest outrage (city-mandated this time) is that they've given us compost bins. we're supposed to put our compostables in them for collection. as part of that, they've dropped collection of normal trash to once every other week. the compostable bin gets picked up weekly. nevertheless, every week the neighborhood fills up with full trash bins, which won't get collected half the time.

the crows enjoy celebrating the extended feast days, as the full bins sit around for a week. i suspect city management may be in the pocket of big crow.

Posted by: anachronda at July 12, 2024 11:17 AM (oY6Yp)

55 41 I think it's even changed now but the only thing that used to make [some] money in recycling was paper [pre-1990??] when all the governments involved starting it claimed it would be self-funding because they'd be selling the material back to manufacturers.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 11:14 AM (Jh5b+)

I used to work for a family owned paper mill that used recycled fiber going back to early 1900s. When I was there in the 1980s, bales of waste would come in. Cardboard, paper, magazines, paper files from who knew where. If warehouse workers were missing, they'd be down on the loading docks scouring through the bales for the skin magazines. Getting autopsy files wasn't unheard of either.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - Abandon Brandon at July 12, 2024 11:18 AM (N39Ws)

56
I am trying to remember the saying... 'A Woman will forgive, but never forget. A Man will forget, but never forgive.'?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2024 11:05 AM (y31cs)

"So, woman = elephant? Are YOU calling me FAT!?!?!?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

57 For the new Casa de Doof, I purchased a rectangular tank-style water pitcher from Pur. Fill it up with water from the tap and keep it in the fridge. So far I'm a fan. I can top it off easily so it never gets empty and I always have cold water available.

Posted by: Doof at July 12, 2024 11:18 AM (RhGG0)

58 >>> 26 When I signed up for garbage collection at my new house in rural Texas, I didn't get instructions about the recycling rules. Instead, they asked me if I wanted an optional recycling bin along with the normal trash bin. I said no and I see that none of my neighbors bought in to the recycling hoax either.
Posted by: Isheen at July 12, 2024 11:11 AM (dk/NU)

Congratulations on the new place!

I don't even have that option. However I do have enough room to burn things whenever or wherever I like (ok, unless there's a burn ban, which surprised me since I didn't realize *summer* is our time for the least rain).

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 12, 2024 11:18 AM (VavZF)

59 Beryl's "record" was earliest in the season EVAH!!! on July 1st IIRC. [Because of all of that accurate hurricane tracking from 1492 to 1960.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 11:18 AM (Jh5b+)

60 Speaking of crazy recycling stories…

Remember the Newman Kramer idea of taking bottles to Michigan for the 10 cent deposit? Someone did that in California. Brought over tens of millions of bottles and cans from Arizona and made something like $1M profit.

But they were so successful they got arrested.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 12, 2024 11:18 AM (t56FM)

61 What has changed is that where hurricanes used to hit mangrove swamps in Florida, they now hit condo developments, so the damage from hurricanes has escalated.

And those condos used to cost $75 per sf, but now are $200 sf

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 12, 2024 11:18 AM (lTGtQ)

62 ‘ Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe died last week at age 89’

And Lankford is still alive. Thank you, God.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 12, 2024 11:18 AM (jbnUc)

63 Beryl pissed 8.375" on me here in N. Indiana in only seventeen hours. 2 straight days of su shine and the water is out of the yard and the garden is looking good.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboo.! Kid at July 12, 2024 11:10 AM (hirWM)

The grass IS looking a lot better. And the corn is WAY higher than knee high.

And, no, officer. I have not been driving around your road closed signs (and then carefully through the half-inch of water flowing over the roead) for the last two days. Wasn't me.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at July 12, 2024 11:18 AM (JCLJi)

64 51 Look at the bright side, nobody is burning climate change deniers at the stake yet.

gotta develop sustainable wind-powered pyres, first.

Posted by: anachronda at July 12, 2024 11:19 AM (oY6Yp)

65 Inhofe was a great Senator, it would have been very easy for him to be like all the other Red State Senators that seem to "grow" in office, but he kept fighting the environmental nuts till the end.

Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2024 11:19 AM (WQx87)

66 FYI the peach capital of the world is Johnston SC.

Great year for peaches - last year a box cost $20 and this year it's $12.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 12, 2024 11:19 AM (w6EFb)

67 Plastics burned in a modern garbage to energy plant is the way to go. Get something back from the waste and save all the precious turtles!

Posted by: Mutant Ninja at July 12, 2024 11:20 AM (V5BDR)

68 >>> 60 Speaking of crazy recycling stories…

Remember the Newman Kramer idea of taking bottles to Michigan for the 10 cent deposit? Someone did that in California. Brought over tens of millions of bottles and cans from Arizona and made something like $1M profit.

But they were so successful they got arrested.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 12, 2024 11:18 AM (t56FM)

The hell were they charged with?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 12, 2024 11:20 AM (VavZF)

69 To be fair, the waters of the south atlantic and gulf are unseasonably warm and likely will contribute to more severe hurricanes should they come this way.

Beryl may've only been a cat 1 when reaching land, but MAN was it big and did a lot of damage.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)

70 I have a reverse osmosis system that I love.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2024 11:20 AM (ewjUl)

71 The only things I recycle are metals and cardboard. Not glass and certainly not plastic.

You know what is totally and naturally recyclable? Food garbage, that's what!

Posted by: The Paolo at July 12, 2024 11:20 AM (WXNFJ)

72 60 Speaking of crazy recycling stories…

Remember the Newman Kramer idea of taking bottles to Michigan for the 10 cent deposit? Someone did that in California. Brought over tens of millions of bottles and cans from Arizona and made something like $1M profit.

mrs. chronda usually brings home a big bag or two full of bottles and cans whenever we visit utah. thankfully, she forgot over the 4th.

Posted by: anachronda at July 12, 2024 11:20 AM (oY6Yp)

73 Philadelphia controls Delaware's politics, it's basically a suburban area. I have seen what Sundowner has been doing In the last 40 years because of this.

Posted by: Skip at July 12, 2024 11:21 AM (rvUJB)

74 67 Plastics burned in a modern garbage to energy plant is the way to go. Get something back from the waste and save all the precious turtles!
Posted by: Mutant Ninja at July 12, 2024 11:20 AM (V5BDR)

The turtles are now choking on all of the masks we discarded.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - Abandon Brandon at July 12, 2024 11:21 AM (N39Ws)

75 For what it’s worth, I do recycle my aluminum and steel cans, since they have value as a raw material.

I believe that in most places, aluminum cans are separated out of the waste stream whether they are "recycled" or not - they are actually valuable.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 12, 2024 11:21 AM (uxCna)

76 ... President Biden stated ...

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[Just an aside:] Two words I've never and never will utter ... and always feel like needles are being poked into my eyes and ears each time I see or hear them.

[Had to get that off of my chest ... carry on my wayward friends!]

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at July 12, 2024 11:21 AM (zNpJf)

77 The hell were they charged with?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 12, 2024 11:20 AM (VavZF)

It’s illegal to do that. It’s essentially theft since the deposit wasn’t paid for in California. So getting back 10 cents on a deposit that wasn’t paid is illegal.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 12, 2024 11:21 AM (t56FM)

78 Plastic is never more compressible than you can make by burning it.
I wonder how cost prohibitive it would be to capture the gasses and other by products if you just burnt all of it.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 12, 2024 11:22 AM (jbnUc)

79 FYI the peach capital of the world is Johnston SC.

Great year for peaches - last year a box cost $20 and this year it's $12.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 12, 2024 11:19 AM (w6EFb)

What?!?! The best peaches don't come from Georgia?? Next you'll tell me the best cheeseteaks don't come from Filthadelphia

Posted by: Doof at July 12, 2024 11:22 AM (RhGG0)

80 And, my garbage collection folks allow paint in the normal garbage. They do ask that you throw some oil absorbing materials in it though.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2024 11:22 AM (WXNFJ)

81 the peach capital of the world is Johnston SC.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 12, 2024 11:19 AM (w6EFb)

Is that the place with the peach water tower that actually looks like a giant butt?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 11:23 AM (v6JzV)

82 >>> 69
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Beryl may've only been a cat 1 when reaching land, but MAN was it big and did a lot of damage.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)

I pay closer attention to the weather now that I have more critters. It was fascinating to watch the radar of the GIANT SPINNING THING slowly pass over us, while dumping almost a half foot of rain, and trying to spawn smaller spinning things...

I hope the power is restored soon for anyone still without!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 12, 2024 11:23 AM (VavZF)

83 I burned 4 greasy pizza boxes the other day, along with some plywood scraps, pine straw and pine cones. Doin' my part!

Posted by: Huge Manatee! at July 12, 2024 11:24 AM (V5BDR)

84 The truck had one huge bin on the righthand side for the recyclables, and the worker grabbed all three crates and dumped them into the same bin. So sorting did absolutely nothing.

Posted by: Stu Podaso

I recall that Houston had specific recycling trucks, but they went to drop their loads at the dump with the regular trash. It became public, and they sent their 'expert' to a radio interview to discuss it. He admitted that all recycling went to the dump, but that it was a good program to 'train everyone in proper behavior'.

Thanks for the honesty.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 12, 2024 11:24 AM (lTGtQ)

85 I am trying to remember the saying... 'A Woman will forgive, but never forget. A Man will forget, but never forgive.'?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2024 11:05 AM (y31cs)

Women neither forgive nor forget, and will start fights so they can scream at you about some alleged transgression that occurred exactly four years, 8 months, 14 days, 6 hours, 22 minutes and 17 seconds ago.

Posted by: You used a tone a voice I didn't like on November 3, 2018 at 6:47PM! at July 12, 2024 11:24 AM (mIzto)

86 Great year for peaches - last year a box cost $20 and this year it's $12.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 12, 2024 11:19 AM (w6EFb)

Bidenomics is working!

Posted by: spindrift at July 12, 2024 11:24 AM (OguvZ)

87 I now use my recycle bin as a second trash container. Thanks!
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2024 11:14 AM (ewjUl)

For the 2nd week in a row, the automatic lift for the recycle bin failed to empty the can completely, so as the trash truck was approaching, I emptied the recycle contents into the trash bin and they managed to empty THAT can completely.

I'm reaching more and more toward the 'f*ck it' stage with the recycling shit.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

88 38 I used the recycling bin because it’s basically a second, free garbage can the city gives me.

'round here, the waste guys have gopros mounted on their trucks and keep records; if you complain that your trash wasn't picked up, they'll show you a video of the truck picking up someone else's trash to appease you. neighbors have had notes zip-tied to their recycling bin reminding them of the rules and warning them to knock it off.

Posted by: anachronda at July 12, 2024 11:25 AM (oY6Yp)

89 67 Plastics burned in a modern garbage to energy plant is the way to go. Get something back from the waste and save all the precious turtles!

I saw the plant in Singapore that does that. It was quite impressive. All that was left was ash that was getting poured into the ocean.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 12, 2024 11:25 AM (OPGS/)

90 ... some alleged transgression that occurred exactly four years, 8 months, 14 days, 6 hours, 22 minutes and 17 seconds ago.
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You know what you did!

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 11:25 AM (Jh5b+)

91 >>> 71 The only things I recycle are metals and cardboard. Not glass and certainly not plastic.
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You know what is totally and naturally recyclable? Food garbage, that's what!
Posted by: The Paolo at July 12, 2024 11:20 AM (WXNFJ)

How to make your chickens, goat, hogs and other critters happy, and/or improve your soil.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 12, 2024 11:25 AM (VavZF)

92 81 the peach capital of the world is Johnston SC.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 12, 2024 11:19 AM (w6EFb)

Is that the place with the peach water tower that actually looks like a giant butt?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 11:23 AM (v6JzV)

Gaffney

Posted by: Just peachy at July 12, 2024 11:25 AM (mIzto)

93 Beryl pissed 8.375" on me here in N. Indiana in only seventeen hours. 2 straight days of su shine and the water is out of the yard and the garden is looking good.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboo.! Kid

Just how big is Texas? Beryl hits Houston.
350 miles north and it misses us.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2024 11:25 AM (NzK/m)

94 First they outlawed burning leaves in the backyard. Turned what was a nice relaxing fall ritual into one big huge fucking pain in the ass. Yard waste receptacles. Whole fleets of trucks and containers and drivers and a yard waste facility. Plastic bags. Driving trucks to the yard waste facility. Half of it now probably ends up in the street, ultimately clogging storm sewers. Assholes.

If recycling penciled out, you wouldn't need to pay for it. People would come around and pick it up. For free. Yet another fleet of municipal trucks, and drivers, and insurance and the rest of it.

Burning garbage makes the most sense, along with the non-recyclables.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 12, 2024 11:25 AM (b9oRn)

95 Is that the place with the peach water tower that actually looks like a giant butt?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Hey!!

Posted by: Lizzo at July 12, 2024 11:26 AM (WXNFJ)

96 Is that the place with the peach water tower that actually looks like a giant butt?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 11:23 AM (v6JzV)

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There is one in Clanton, Alabama along I65.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 12, 2024 11:26 AM (2fIO4)

97 Women neither forgive nor forget, and will start fights so they can scream at you about some alleged transgression that occurred exactly four years, 8 months, 14 days, 6 hours, 22 minutes and 17 seconds ago.
Posted by: You used a tone a voice I didn't like on November 3, 2018 at 6:47PM! at July 12, 2024 11:24 AM (mIzto)

Ha!
My wife brought up something I supposedly did over 10 years ago. I have no recollection of it and she goes how can you not remember? 🤷‍♂️

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 12, 2024 11:26 AM (t56FM)

98 I believe that in most places, aluminum cans are separated out of the waste stream whether they are "recycled" or not - they are actually valuable.

Posted by: The ARC of History

Aluminum is outrageously expensive to make, so recycling makes sense. Virtually no other item can be recycled more cheaply than making new.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 12, 2024 11:26 AM (lTGtQ)

99 ' I purchased a rectangular tank-style water pitcher from Pur."

That's a fantastic idea!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 11:26 AM (a1415)

100 Reduce, reuse, recycle...

There's a reason it's in that order...recycle should always be the last resort, never the 1st.

And not used a lot...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 12, 2024 11:27 AM (exHjb)

101 77 The hell were they charged with?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 12, 2024 11:20 AM (VavZF)

It’s illegal to do that. It’s essentially theft since the deposit wasn’t paid for in California.

of course, the state keeping deposits on bottles and cans that are never returned is totes legit.

Posted by: anachronda at July 12, 2024 11:27 AM (oY6Yp)

102 >>> 77
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It's illegal to do that. It's essentially theft since the deposit wasn't paid for in California. So getting back 10 cents on a deposit that wasn't paid is illegal.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 12, 2024 11:21 AM (t56FM)

Oh, I guess that makes *some* sense... so they should have limited their trips to make only what is it, $750 a pop.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 12, 2024 11:27 AM (VavZF)

103 Great year for peaches - last year a box cost $20 and this year it's $12.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 12, 2024 11:19 AM (w6EFb)

Bidenomics is working!
Posted by: spindrift at July 12, 2024 11:24 AM (OguvZ)

Big Peach > Big Penguin

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)

104 The Elberta peach was first cultivated in Elberta GA, but I don't think they even grow peaches there anymore.

Posted by: fd at July 12, 2024 11:28 AM (vFG9F)

105 Ha!
My wife brought up something I supposedly did over 10 years ago. I have no recollection of it and she goes how can you not remember? 🤷‍♂️
Posted by: Biden is Finished

My beloved did that once also. I reminded her, "Ummm, that was Jim." (Previous husband)

The lovely Mrs. doesn't do that anymore.

Posted by: Lizzo at July 12, 2024 11:28 AM (WXNFJ)

106 Just how big is Texas? Beryl hits Houston.
350 miles north and it misses us.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2024 11:25 AM (NzK/m)

I did get about 1/16" of rain out of it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)

107 Recycling is for chumps.

Whenever I hit the bottom of a whisky bottle, that sucker is immediately tossed out the window onto the side of the highway to create jobs for the jamokes serving a community service sentence.

A broken window policy from the Democrat socialists I can support without question.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 12, 2024 11:28 AM (2UBPP)

108 I purchased a rectangular tank-style water pitcher

Does it look like a Merkava, or an Abrams?

Posted by: spindrift at July 12, 2024 11:28 AM (OguvZ)

109 Growing up we brought bottles back to the store and got a nickel for them. They were then shipped back to the bottler, washed and refilled. They still do in other countries and I think it must be cost effective.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 12, 2024 11:28 AM (17s+e)

110 My town like most others requires all trash haulers to provide separate containers and separate curbside pickup for *recyclables.". So everyone pays a big premium for trash service even though almost none of the "recyclables" are actually recycled. The trash companies laugh all the way to the bank. And of course nearly everyone thinks this is a highly righteous arrangement.

Posted by: Bigsmith at July 12, 2024 11:29 AM (pxQyX)

111 I'm reaching more and more toward the 'f*ck it' stage with the recycling shit.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 11:25 AM

Yea, I am there. I tried to do my part. Then I realized it was all theatre. I do keep cans out and give them to the Lions club. At least they are getting something out of it. The rest, meh, out it goes.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2024 11:29 AM (ewjUl)

112 Thx Buck. When I put my plastic soda bottles out in my recycle bin they're gone before the truck comes. Somebody is making money

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 12, 2024 11:29 AM (aLzBS)

113 The President of the American Federation of Teachers cannot spell the word “tonight.”

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OTOH, I guarantee that she can spell "cisheteropatriarchy," "pedophilia," "redactadicktome," and "addadicktome."

So she's got that going for her ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at July 12, 2024 11:29 AM (9MzMt)

114 Tonite's sunset

To be fair, I couldn't find the '2' key!

Posted by: Randi Weingarten at July 12, 2024 11:29 AM (l5F6b)

115 [fall leaves] Plastic bags.
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They banned the use of plastic bags for leaves here [including Halloween pumpkin ones that looked cute!] and until companies began making suitable paper bags at a large enough scale, they were like $3 a bag!

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 11:29 AM (Jh5b+)

116 "My beloved did that once also. I reminded her, "Ummm, that was Jim." (Previous husband)

The lovely Mrs. doesn't do that anymore.
Posted by: Lizzo at July 12, 2024 11:28 AM (WXNFJ)"

well, that seems to be a sock fail.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 11:29 AM (a1415)

117 I had an industrial size shredder built to shred the paper feed sacks into bedding for the stalls. It was great. The paper was better for the soil than the wood shavings. It all fell apart when they couldn't keep my machine running

Posted by: Ben Had at July 12, 2024 11:29 AM (5MvGY)

118 I use to have great fun on the automotive forums. A question would come up "What to do with ethylene glycol antifreeze?"

I'd say "Flush it down the toilet" and they would all start screeching like wounded eagles. LOL.

Turns out, those on city water - with a sewage treatment plant - that is the environmentally conscious way to dispose of engine coolant.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 12, 2024 11:30 AM (b9oRn)

119 There's no forced recycling here. All the trash goes into the bin, bagged. The outfit that picks it up originally claimed they'd only take what fit in their bins, but after much bitching about it, they relented but won't take furniture, appliances or shit like that.

But everything I've put at the end of the driveway near the road, that I no longer have use for has been scarfed up. My old gas grill is going down there sometime this fall/winter. It probably won't last a day.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 12, 2024 11:30 AM (Q4IgG)

120 78 Plastic is never more compressible than you can make by burning it.
I wonder how cost prohibitive it would be to capture the gasses and other by products if you just burnt all of it.

There's been an idea going back to IIRC the 60's or 70's that with sufficient containment, super-heating trash and collecting the elements and simple compounds would be a fantastic recycling/reclamation system.

Even if you get large amounts of, say, carbon monoxide, if you collect that, you can store or process that. If you get O2 and H2O, even better. And think of the carbon, iron, etc. that-- in theory-- could be sorted out.

The big questions are cost, containment, and I'm not sure what you'd actually *get* in the first pass, but it's a neat idea.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at July 12, 2024 11:30 AM (1Idb6)

121 Record-breaking Category 5 Hurricane Beryl wouldn't be possible without climate change

Same as every other facet of climate hysteria, they structure their data to achieve their ends. For example, in 2022 Time wrote an article titled "Here’s Where All The Strongest Hurricanes Have Hit the U.S. in the Past 50 Years". Why 50 years? So they could include Andrew while ignoring Camille and the unnamed hurricane which struck the Keys in 1935 and the fact that there were Cat 3/4 storms hitting the US before the Civil War.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 12, 2024 11:30 AM (nR2nR)

122 Recycling is like EV's. It's about having control and optics. Look I am recycling and drive an EV! I care and you don't! I am better than you!

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2024 11:31 AM (ewjUl)

123 Big Peach > Big Penguin
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)

Did someone actually explain "big penguin" to you, or are you just fronting?? I still don't get it

Posted by: Doof at July 12, 2024 11:31 AM (RhGG0)

124 If recycling penciled out, you wouldn't need to pay for it. People would come around and pick it up. For free. Yet another fleet of municipal trucks, and drivers, and insurance and the rest of it.

Pickers do that with any scrap metal left on the curb, even before the "special trash pickup" or whatever comes. My parents had a metal yard waste bin they'd use, and they took that once.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at July 12, 2024 11:32 AM (1Idb6)

125 Off fat assed sock!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2024 11:32 AM (WXNFJ)

126 Resident Biden schedule today

10 AM breakfast briefing
*disappears upstairs*
2 PM departs for Detroit
Nap begins
6 PM appears at rally
6:30 Leaves rally
7 PM AF1 departs for Rehoboth Beach
9 PM Bedtime for Bonzo

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 12, 2024 11:33 AM (pH3In)

127 Growing up we brought bottles back to the store and got a nickel for them. They were then shipped back to the bottler, washed and refilled. They still do in other countries and I think it must be cost effective.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable

We used to walk the alleys digging thru the trash cans looking for bottles. Felt blessed to find a 32 oz bottle. Those paid a dime.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2024 11:33 AM (NzK/m)

128 Can someone please explain to me how the climate change cultists square “human-caused “ climate devastation here in the US with open borders?

We keep hearing about record temps in Las Vegas - well, the city keeps growing and building. Same with Arizona cities. More streets, more buildings, causing increased temps. So stop the dang growth from millions upon millions of newcomers, via the open by, visa overstays, H1b visas, etc.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 12, 2024 11:33 AM (Hkcdp)

129 The hell of it is, plastic IS recyclable

See? We're not lying when we call them 'recyclables' and tax you to build additional facilities and programs and organizations.

Posted by: Municipalities at July 12, 2024 11:34 AM (l5F6b)

130 I have a trailer where I collect old car parts, computers, printers, plotters, and other assorted metal stuff. Every few months I'll haul it to the scrapyard and get a check for $100-$150. The only other alternatives are to take it to a landfill and pay to dump it, or let it stack up into a massive scrap pile at the back of the yard.

Posted by: fd at July 12, 2024 11:34 AM (vFG9F)

131 I still don't get it
Posted by: Doof

Well, no offense, Doof, but you are kinda obtuse.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 11:34 AM (v6JzV)

132 Aluminum is outrageously expensive to make, so recycling makes sense. Virtually no other item can be recycled more cheaply than making new.

Lots and lots of electricity to refine it. The power involved is not cheap. So, yes.

IIRC aluminum was super expensive in the 1800's. Napoleon had a gold dish, a silver dish, and an aluminum in some set.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at July 12, 2024 11:34 AM (1Idb6)

133 Somebody was arguing that one of the reasons for eliminating glass deposit bottles for soda was that the extra weight of the glass wore out tires faster, and created more wear and tear on roadways. So therefore, plastic soda bottles was the way to go.

So I'm thinking EV's...........

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 11:34 AM (a1415)

134 If recycling penciled out, you wouldn't need to pay for it. People would come around and pick it up. For free. Yet another fleet of municipal trucks, and drivers, and insurance and the rest of it.

Pickers do that with any scrap metal left on the curb, even before the "special trash pickup" or whatever comes. My parents had a metal yard waste bin they'd use, and they took that once.
Posted by: Lance McCormick

Never put a sign on it that says "Free" it'll sit there for days.

Put a sign on it that says "$15" and it'll be gone in twenty minutes.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2024 11:35 AM (NzK/m)

135 "Turns out, those on city water - with a sewage treatment plant - that is the environmentally conscious way to dispose of engine coolant.
Posted by: Common Tater "

I checked with the county here and they say bottle it up and put it in the trash. It's not going to stay bottled long once it hits the landfill.

Posted by: fd at July 12, 2024 11:35 AM (vFG9F)

136 I work at a city owned sports complex. We have those recycle bins for pop and water bottles throughout the complex. Each morning we empty them straight into the trash bins.

Posted by: Turn 2 at July 12, 2024 11:35 AM (JfxgE)

137 Buck, I very much enjoy your posts here. And I too would like to be remembered as a "climate denier". But I have one quibble. Climate change is not a hoax, but a fraud. A hoax can be benign, for example, creating a false story just to see how many will believe it to prove their gullability. Climate change (formerly Global Warming - name changed as there was no reliable proof of any warming) is a crime designed to take our freedom and our wealth; essentially the agenda of the WEF and the other Western "elites". I post this wherever I see the hoax rather than fraud.

Please keep up the good work, especially your take down of the ridiculous EV/Industrial Complex.

Posted by: Felix L at July 12, 2024 11:35 AM (bh4Au)

138 Dow Jones tops 40k again this morning. Pumping for the election is in full swing.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 12, 2024 11:35 AM (t56FM)

139 1700 miles from the nearest ocean so I have never experienced the thrill of hurricane.

We were, however, evacuated for 9 days once for a forest fire. That was highly annoying.

Posted by: Just Lily at July 12, 2024 11:35 AM (77M4k)

140 Somebody was arguing that one of the reasons for eliminating glass deposit bottles for soda was that the extra weight of the glass wore out tires faster, and created more wear and tear on roadways. So therefore, plastic soda bottles was the way to go.

So I'm thinking EV's...........

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

It was weight, cost, and breakage that eliminated glass bottles.

Which also applies to EVs.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 12, 2024 11:36 AM (lTGtQ)

141 Somebody was arguing that one of the reasons for eliminating glass deposit bottles for soda was that the extra weight of the glass wore out tires faster, and created more wear and tear on roadways. So therefore, plastic soda bottles was the way to go.

So I'm thinking EV's...........
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

What's the return on those?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2024 11:36 AM (NzK/m)

142 Living just north of the NC/SC line, our 'recyclables' get shipped down to SC. With profound apologies to my much-beloved SC Morons, I always think to myself, 'Better their landfill than mine'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 12, 2024 11:36 AM (XeU6L)

143 123 Big Peach > Big Penguin
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)

Did someone actually explain "big penguin" to you, or are you just fronting?? I still don't get it.

I miss Big Arrow. Remember Big Arrow? Those were the days.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at July 12, 2024 11:37 AM (1Idb6)

144 Don't, don't

Posted by: I'm joe biden and I approve this message! at July 12, 2024 11:37 AM (5hfjS)

145 Is that the place with the peach water tower that actually looks like a giant butt?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

I'm there!!!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at July 12, 2024 11:37 AM (JCZqz)

146 "For the first time in the satellite era, which began in 1966, the entire North Pacific has experienced an extraordinary meteorological anomaly. From June 1 to July 3, 2024, there was no named storm activity in the western, central, or eastern North Pacific. This period of calm is highly unusual given the historical storm activity in the region during these months."
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'This period of calm is highly unusual given the historical storm activity in the region during these months.'

The Klimate Evil Klowns ALWAYS add a BS historical qualifier to make climate news that goes against the Holy Narrative of "The World Dies In 15 Years If We Don't Immediately (fill-in-the-blank)" sound impossibly rare to all the technical, statistical, and historical illiterates.

It sickens me.

Posted by: Gref at July 12, 2024 11:37 AM (5fDan)

147 One of the few chemistry bits of knowledge that stuck with me was that burning most plastics produces cyanide and cyanide bonds permanently with the iron in your blood and you die. That's why I yell at people throwing plastic in the campfire.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 12, 2024 11:38 AM (17s+e)

148 Resident Biden schedule today

10 AM breakfast briefing
*disappears upstairs*
2 PM departs for Detroit
Nap begins
6 PM appears at rally
6:30 Leaves rally
7 PM AF1 departs for Rehoboth Beach
9 PM Bedtime for Bonzo
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 12, 2024 11:33 AM (pH3In)

AF1 can't go to Rehoboth. It goes to Dover AFB. Then the motorcade drives down Delaware Route 1, shutting down a heavily used highway which takes a lot of people to the beaches of lower Delaware and Ocean City, MD.
At least it's not a Friday during peak beach season that this is happening.

Posted by: Doof at July 12, 2024 11:38 AM (RhGG0)

149 Lizzy, you're not Supposed To Notice!

The Sierra Club was famously against illegal migration in the 1960s, because millions of extra people place epic demands on water, sewage, road building, timber, mining, pollution the whole nine yards. It makes perfect sense. But their large donors didn't like that.

Sierra Club doesn't talk about illegal migration and the degradation of "the environment" by all these millions of people who don't belong here. None of the "environmental" orgs mention this. Ever.

That's how you know everything is a scam. Fake, and ghey.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 12, 2024 11:38 AM (b9oRn)

150 1700 miles from the nearest ocean so I have never experienced the thrill of hurricane.

First year on Galveston Island, get hit by Hurricane Alicia and could not evacuate per orders of the governor. All leaves and vacations were canceled.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2024 11:38 AM (NzK/m)

151 IIRC aluminum was super expensive in the 1800's. Napoleon had a gold dish, a silver dish, and an aluminum in some set.
Posted by: Lance McCormick

The very top of the Washington Monument is an 18"pyramid made of aluminum, or aluminium, if you are British.

Posted by: Alcoa Man at July 12, 2024 11:38 AM (V5BDR)

152 138 Dow Jones tops 40k again this morning. Pumping for the election is in full swing.
Posted by: Biden is Finished
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Amusing. It is more related to what Powell at the Fed noted I think after reviewing weak job market revisions.

Probably a quarter point interest reduction at next Fed meeting is what the market expects.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2024 11:39 AM (mIs2x)

153 I had to dispose of about 20 gallons of caustic soda. The county said to bottle it and put it in the trash. Every week a couple of gallon milk jugs got filled up and went in the trash.

Posted by: fd at July 12, 2024 11:39 AM (vFG9F)

154 Never put a sign on it that says "Free" it'll sit there for days.

Put a sign on it that says "$15" and it'll be gone in twenty minutes.

LOL. A variant of that is the Reddit advice hack-- post a question on an online forum, then log out and log in with a different username, and post a wrong answer. You'll (supposedly) get more, and better, responses than without the self-troll.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at July 12, 2024 11:39 AM (1Idb6)

155 ... refer to me as a "Prominent Climate Change Denier" ...

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"Prominent Climate Change Denier, EV H8R, and Upright Bass Solo Aficionado" Buck Throckmorton ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at July 12, 2024 11:39 AM (9MzMt)

156 Did someone actually explain "big penguin" to you, or are you just fronting?? I still don't get it
Posted by: Doof at July 12, 2024 11:31 AM (RhGG0)

No, I'm just trying to fit in.

https://youtu.be/SSCzDykng4g?t=10

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

157 So in a way, every plumber always knew that recycling bins was bs.
Posted by: Fozzy at July 12, 2024 11:14 AM (YGrwu)

Recycling exists so that a certain segment of the population can tell each other how good and enlightened they are. Most other people have known it was BS from the start. One of the great benefits of the "Biden" Presidency is that the US is no longer wealthy enough to engage in every single stupid idea which that certain segment masturbates to. Hopefully, recycling will fall of the list.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 12, 2024 11:40 AM (nR2nR)

158 The very top of the Washington Monument is an 18"pyramid made of aluminum, or aluminium, if you are British.

Posted by: Alcoa Man

They speak so well; one would think that they would learn how to spell.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 12, 2024 11:40 AM (lTGtQ)

159 So I'm thinking EV's...........
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

What's the return on those?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2024 11:36 AM (NzK/m)

EVs drop 50% in value as soon as you sign on the dotted line.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 11:40 AM (Zz0t1)

160

Wow.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 11:41 AM (Zz0t1)

161 So sorting did absolutely nothing.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 12, 2024 11:14 AM (fQmeC)

Not true. It demonstrates compliance and trainability.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 12, 2024 11:41 AM (nR2nR)

162 Women neither forgive nor forget, and will start fights so they can scream at you about some alleged transgression that occurred exactly four years, 8 months, 14 days, 6 hours, 22 minutes and 17 seconds ago.
Posted by: You used a tone a voice I didn't like
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I've only recently learned that this is apparently a chromosome-related personality trait. It apparently is very, very, common, if not universal, to X-X folk.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 12, 2024 11:41 AM (XeU6L)

163 JT UPDATE. JT is in a rehab facility. They do not consider Grey box friends family so I have been unable to speak to him directly. I will talk to the people at his place of employment to see if they have been to see him.
Please continue to keep him in your thoughts and prayers. When I know something more I will pass it along.

A thank you to all the people that helped find him

Posted by: Ben Had at July 12, 2024 11:41 AM (5MvGY)

164 Well, no offense, Doof, but you are kinda obtuse.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 11:34 AM (v6JzV)

I am increasingly becoming aware of that

Posted by: Doof at July 12, 2024 11:41 AM (RhGG0)

165 Exactly, Common Tater.
Add to it: the illegal immigration routes across our Southern border are absolutely trashed. Trash piles line the paths, some going through state/federal parks. What a great way to enter - trashing the place you plan to call “home.”

Posted by: Lizzy at July 12, 2024 11:41 AM (Hkcdp)

166 Garbage probably shouldn't be thrown in a campfire unless it can be completely burned to ash. Even then, who wants to cook food over garbage? It ultimately leads to multiple fire rings and trashy camp sites because the next folks who come along are not too keen on using a fire ring full of diapers, socks, and melted soda bottles. Keep the fire rings clean!

Posted by: Common Tater at July 12, 2024 11:41 AM (b9oRn)

167 "They speak so well;"

I believe we can attribute that to their mastery of dentistry.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 11:42 AM (a1415)

168 Sierra Club doesn't talk about illegal migration and the degradation of "the environment" by all these millions of people who don't belong here. None of the "environmental" orgs mention this. Ever.

That's how you know everything is a scam. Fake, and ghey.
Posted by: Common Tater
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Foreign money invaded a lot of environmental groups to hinder US development of its own energy sources plus you have nasty grasping oligarchs looking for the next thing to turn a buck on. Easiest to do that if you have your buddy politicians 'create' new markets by regulation and shutdown of what is existing at the time.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2024 11:42 AM (mIs2x)

169 >>> That's why I yell at people throwing plastic in the campfire.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger

>You're good as long as you're upwind of the campfire. Yogi and Booboo don't care if you don't bearproof your bacon.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 12, 2024 11:42 AM (2UBPP)

170 In the late-2000s I was at a big NYC law firm. They spend a lot of time and money implementing a "Going Green" program. Everything that could be "green" was made green (the plastic pens were replaced with pens made of cardboard, etc).

The firm also started meticulously sorting all its garbage into various recycling categories. There were like 5 categories. What that meant was every individual person working there had to sort all their garbage. The firm was in love with itself over this.

The problem was the building itself -- it was a huge office tower -- had no recycle program at all. So all the carefully separated garbage from the firm all went down to the building's garbage disposal. And all of it was then dumped into one big garbage bin.

The firm's program was a total waste of time and money. The real kicker? The firm knew. It was all a stupid virtue-signaling maneuver that the powers-that-be knew was a total waste of time.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 12, 2024 11:42 AM (iFTx/)

171 EVs drop 50% in value as soon as you sign on the dotted line.
Posted by: Sponge
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Is that in Charged, or Uncharged state?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 12, 2024 11:42 AM (XeU6L)

172 Posted by: Ben Had

Thank you, Ben Had.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 11:42 AM (v6JzV)

173 Thank you for the update, Ben Had!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 11:43 AM (a1415)

174 After several months of "unusually active sunspot activity" that provided many with their first view of an aurora, followed by "an extraordinary meteorological anomaly" you would think someone, somewhere would think; "hey, maybe the sun plays a part in our weather."

You would think...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 12, 2024 11:43 AM (Q4IgG)

175 It’s funny, because my husband is the one who remembers every slight, every careless comment. Oh well…*sigh*

Posted by: Lizzy at July 12, 2024 11:43 AM (Hkcdp)

176 Probably a quarter point interest reduction at next Fed meeting is what the market expects.

Posted by: whig

Yes, it is driven by rumors of a fed cut, instead of fundamentals. The problem is that the fed is in a pickle. Inflation is ticking back up as of the latest report. I think the fed doesn't want to cut in September because of election interference claims. If they would admit that the recession is already underway (which it is) they could start cutting.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 12, 2024 11:43 AM (lTGtQ)

177 Randi is a vile little wererat, prove me wrong.

Posted by: acethepug at July 12, 2024 11:43 AM (aYyMD)

178 Growing up we brought bottles back to the store and got a nickel for them. They were then shipped back to the bottler, washed and refilled. They still do in other countries and I think it must be cost effective.
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That's what Canada's brewers did -- thus the standardized stubby beer bottle -- but one brewery got the rights to produce Miller Beer and used American-style tall-necked bottles for it; it was popular for a year as people tried out the U.S. beer out of curiosity but the brewers thought its long-necked bottle was a purchasing factor and began coming out with their own long-necked bottles.

Effed-up a great system -- the bottles were engineered for strength so reduced chippage; size so more would fit into bar/restaurant refrigerators; and they could be randomly returned to the brewers for reuse because they were literally the same bottles [after cleaning and replacing the brewer's brands new labels on them].
https://stubby.ca/

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 11:44 AM (Jh5b+)

179 Thanks for the update Ben Had.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 12, 2024 11:44 AM (17s+e)

180 JT UPDATE. JT is in a rehab facility. They do not consider Grey box friends family so I have been unable to speak to him directly. I will talk to the people at his place of employment to see if they have been to see him.
Please continue to keep him in your thoughts and prayers. When I know something more I will pass it along.

A thank you to all the people that helped find him

Posted by: Ben Had at July 12, 2024 11:41 AM (5MvGY)

The road to recovery, regardless the issue, is a rough one, but heading in the right direction and a very good thing.

Godspeed, JT. We miss you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

181 " you would think someone, somewhere would think; "hey, maybe the sun plays a part in our weather."

You would think..."

That's just crazy talk.

Follow THE science.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 11:44 AM (a1415)

182 It all fell apart when they couldn't keep my machine running.
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Was the shredder made by McDonald's, Ben??

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 11:44 AM (Jh5b+)

183 Good news about JT. Thanks, Ben Had!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 12, 2024 11:45 AM (Hkcdp)

184 There is a market for recycling aluminum and paper/cardboard depending on your location. That's about it

Posted by: SamIam at July 12, 2024 11:45 AM (oasF3)

185 Yes, it is driven by rumors of a fed cut, instead of fundamentals. The problem is that the fed is in a pickle. Inflation is ticking back up as of the latest report. I think the fed doesn't want to cut in September because of election interference claims. If they would admit that the recession is already underway (which it is) they could start cutting.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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I agree.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2024 11:45 AM (mIs2x)

186 Ben Had, thank you so much for the update!

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 12, 2024 11:46 AM (iZbyp)

187 Even the Harvard Business Review knew that recycling was a "waste of time" all the way back in 1993:

https://tinyurl.com/5fas95s8

Posted by: Boswell at July 12, 2024 11:46 AM (K+UlC)

188 "Was the shredder made by McDonald's, Ben??"

Did it have a spout on the side to dispense McFluries?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 11:46 AM (a1415)

189 Hi, SiD!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 11:46 AM (v6JzV)

190

‘Win all the things!’ Teachers’ union president speech is all about activism, not education

https://tinyurl.com/fcr2avnb

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 12, 2024 11:46 AM (63Dwl)

191 Here in California, the cartels suck up all the water and trash the environment growing weed on public lands.

*When they get raided more often than not there's nobody there.*

So much weed they remove it with helicopters. Can't burn it because of fire hazard.
So fiction that it's a victimless crime.

Posted by: torabora at July 12, 2024 11:46 AM (eknO2)

192 I had a girlfriend get mad at me, she had a dream where I was unfaithful to me. She complained about it, and I pointed out I would never do that, besides, it was a dream and those aren't real.

Secure in the knowledge that this was behind me, I forgot about it. She didn't. Less than a week later she brought it up again. I more forcefully protested. This went on for a while, apparently the "correct" answer or position is to apologize for something I'm not guilty of, and it's my fault.

One of my earlier lessons in the Weird Stuff women are prone to. She was a whack job as it turned out, and cheated me. Further lesson on the Weird Stuff women do.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 12, 2024 11:47 AM (b9oRn)

193 Penn and Teller did a Bullshit episode on the fallacy that is recycling.

It was eye opening to say the least.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

194 Hi, SiD!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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Yo, B.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 12, 2024 11:47 AM (iZbyp)

195 We can throw out used motor oil in the household garbage as long as you put some kitty litter in the container. Used motor oil.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 12, 2024 11:47 AM (/U5Yz)

196 174 After several months of "unusually active sunspot activity" that provided many with their first view of an aurora, followed by "an extraordinary meteorological anomaly" you would think someone, somewhere would think; "hey, maybe the sun plays a part in our weather."

You would think...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 12, 2024 11:43 AM (Q4IgG)

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But the sun is so far away and the garbage is In the House!

Posted by: Just Lily at July 12, 2024 11:48 AM (77M4k)

197 175 It’s funny, because my husband is the one who remembers every slight, every careless comment. Oh well…*sigh*
Posted by: Lizzy
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Depends more on the person than the sex.
I am fortunate that I can let bygones be bygones for the most part and it helps that I don't remember what other people do or say that well. I remember in excruciating detail when I screw up--others, not so much.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2024 11:48 AM (mIs2x)

198 where I was unfaithful to me

Um...OK...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 11:48 AM (v6JzV)

199 Unfaithful to *her* obviously. To Thine Own Self, Be True

Posted by: Common Tater at July 12, 2024 11:48 AM (b9oRn)

200 I'm reaching more and more toward the 'f*ck it' stage with the recycling shit.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

The only thing holding me back is the person with boobs who lives at my house.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 12, 2024 11:48 AM (nR2nR)

201 Is that the place with the peach water tower that actually looks like a giant butt?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 11:23 AM (v6JzV)

No, that's in Gaffney.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 12, 2024 11:48 AM (w6EFb)

202 andycanuck, a local fabricating place.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 12, 2024 11:48 AM (5MvGY)

203 or let it stack up into a massive scrap pile at the back of the yard.
Posted by: fd

You mean some folks don't do that?

Wow.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2024 11:48 AM (WXNFJ)

204 193 Penn and Teller did a Bullshit episode on the fallacy that is recycling.

It was eye opening to say the least.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Especially because, at the end, after showing how it was all BS, they admitted they still kind of believed. They wanted to because of all the brainwashing and being primed to feel virtuous.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 12, 2024 11:49 AM (JCZqz)

205 109 Growing up we brought bottles back to the store and got a nickel for them. They were then shipped back to the bottler, washed and refilled. They still do in other countries and I think it must be cost effective.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 12, 2024 11:28 AM (17s+e)

I'm not so sure. The money the bottler and the store make from un-claimed deposits may have been, and continue to be, more than what the bottler saves by re-using returned bottles. I don't know but I would expect the unclaimed deposits are split between the bottler and store at ??? ratio.

Posted by: Gref at July 12, 2024 11:49 AM (5fDan)

206 One of my earlier lessons in the Weird Stuff women are prone to. She was a whack job as it turned out, and cheated me. Further lesson on the Weird Stuff women do.
Posted by: Common Tater

Inversion is one of the symptoms of a particular mental condition but I can't remember what it was offhand. Common also among those of the Democrat persuasion.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2024 11:49 AM (mIs2x)

207 >>>It’s funny, because my husband is the one who remembers every slight, every careless comment. Oh well…*sigh*

Posted by: Lizzy

>My brother, hands waving animatedly, still recalls a confrontation from over 29 years ago in an encounter with a man who is now dead, working for a company that disappeared 10 years ago.

Sometimes you just got to let that shit go.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 12, 2024 11:50 AM (2UBPP)

208 The only thing holding me back is the person with boobs who lives at my house.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 12, 2024 11:48 AM (nR2nR)

"The person with boobs"??
Sounds suspiciously akin to "vulva owner".

Posted by: Doof at July 12, 2024 11:50 AM (RhGG0)

209 Worse than a waste of time - fleets of extremely expensive trucks, special cans, a division of drivers. It is literally insane.

And then they will want to convert all the trucks over to rechargeables at some point, costing yet more millions. Get the fuck out of the cities while it is still possible, and before the country folks just start shooting everyone headed that way on general principles.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 12, 2024 11:51 AM (b9oRn)

210 Just how big is Texas?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2024 11:25 AM (NzK/m)

The western edge of Texas is closer to the Pacific Ocean than to the eastern edge of Texas.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 12, 2024 11:51 AM (nR2nR)

211 Steel can be and is recycled at a profit, but that is at an industrial scale - they aren't looking for a few thousand soup cans, but want 15 truckloads of railroad ties and steel framing from demolished buildings.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 12, 2024 11:51 AM (lTGtQ)

212 "person experiencing boobedness"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 11:51 AM (v6JzV)

213 Especially because, at the end, after showing how it was all BS, they admitted they still kind of believed. They wanted to because of all the brainwashing and being primed to feel virtuous.
Posted by: Moron Analyst
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I found them a drag in the first place and never really cared what they did or said. Ditto for the Mythbusters types--enjoyed the show for what it was but did not give one shit about either one of the protagonists and their personal ass kissing of Obammy.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2024 11:51 AM (mIs2x)

214 Nice rant. Thanks!

The Brussel Times, Heavier electric cars wear out roads faster' Monday 29 July 2019
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The Washington Times, Feb 24, 2024

“The American Society of Civil Engineers warns that an increase in EVs could substantially reduce the lifespan of roads and bridges, necessitating further investment in infrastructure.”
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LendingTree did note that Pennsylvania has the most expensive toll per mile in the U.S. on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. And the bridge connecting the Pennsylvania Turnpike to the New Jersey Turnpike has an average maximum fee of $8.20, which is the highest fee across interstate road tolls that LendingTree analyzed. May 16, 2024
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The PA Turnpike, new green jobs! Forever.

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at July 12, 2024 11:51 AM (NFX2v)

215 whig, did you see the comment that had my email address?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 12, 2024 11:52 AM (5MvGY)

216 173 Thank you for the update, Ben Had!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 11:43 AM (a1415)

Ditto.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - Abandon Brandon at July 12, 2024 11:52 AM (N39Ws)

217 "I had a girlfriend get mad at me, she had a dream where I was unfaithful to me. She complained about it, and I pointed out I would never do that, besides, it was a dream and those aren't real."

This happened to me once. Dreamt that he screwed around and when we woke up I was so pissed I wanted to hit him. Took me about an hour to calm down, even though I knew it was stupid.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at July 12, 2024 11:52 AM (JCLJi)

218 The western edge of Texas is closer to the Pacific Ocean than to the eastern edge of Texas.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I seem to recall that Beaumont, TX is closer to Chicago than to El Paso.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 12, 2024 11:52 AM (lTGtQ)

219 If they're having trouble finding storms in the Pacific, just name some. Nobody is going to check. Nobody cares.

Posted by: torabora at July 12, 2024 11:52 AM (eknO2)

220 "The person with boobs"??
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Brian Stelter??

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 11:52 AM (Jh5b+)

221 Here lies Red Speck. Devoted husband and father. Climate change denier, Jan 6 denier, covid vax denier, secure southern border denier, 81M votes denier, Lia Thomas denier. God, grant him peace at last.

Posted by: red speck at July 12, 2024 11:52 AM (0Id0S)

222 Randi Weingarten is a dangerous leftwing nazi, terror-supporting self-gassing Jew, and man-hating rug muncher. But she is not stupid. Either some stooge spelled "tonight" wrote, or she wrote it in social media shorthand to appear cool and down with the kids.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 12, 2024 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

223 My MiL can recount every slight/perceived slight or wrong ever done to her during her entire life.

The location to the foot.

The time down to the day and time of the week.

What the person was wearing....etc.

Her motto seems to be: Never forgive...never forget.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 11:53 AM (a1415)

224 Plastic has high energy content since it is made from oil. We should burn it as fuel.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at July 12, 2024 11:54 AM (P7Iz+)

225 215 whig, did you see the comment that had my email address?

Posted by: Ben Had a
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Yes, I sent an email to that address but no reply as yet. Did not get a bounceback. Headnote was Contact Test for TX MoMeet.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2024 11:54 AM (mIs2x)

226 My MiL can recount every slight/perceived slight or wrong ever done to her during her entire life.

The location to the foot.

The time down to the day and time of the week.

What the person was wearing....etc.

Her motto seems to be: Never forgive...never forget.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Wow. What a waste of mental capacity and emotional energy.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 11:55 AM (v6JzV)

227 https://stubby.ca/
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 11:44 AM (Jh5b+)

No Elsinore beer?

Posted by: spindrift at July 12, 2024 11:55 AM (OguvZ)

228 208 The only thing holding me back is the person with boobs who lives at my house.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 12, 2024 11:48 AM (nR2nR)

"The person with boobs"??
Sounds suspiciously akin to "vulva owner".
Posted by: Doof at July 12, 2024 11:50 AM (RhGG0)

If you're married to her she also owns your balls.

Posted by: Can't even lease them back. Sad! at July 12, 2024 11:55 AM (mIzto)

229 Her motto seems to be: Never forgive...never forget.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Isn't that from Galaxy Quest?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 12, 2024 11:55 AM (lTGtQ)

230 "The western edge of Texas is closer to the Pacific Ocean than to the eastern edge of Texas. "

California is the same way...

Wut?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 11:55 AM (a1415)

231 I had experience with government unions, and government management, and quickly came to the conclusion both were a pox on anybody who just wants to get shit done and go home at the end of the day, didn't have much use for either.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 12, 2024 11:56 AM (b9oRn)

232 220 "The person with boobs"??
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Brian Stelter??
Posted by: andycanuck

Mmmm. Talk dirty to me, Tater-boy...

Posted by: Mrs. Potato Head at July 12, 2024 11:56 AM (JCZqz)

233 Tonite, Tonight, let it be Lowenbrau.

Posted by: Rum Dum at July 12, 2024 11:56 AM (V5BDR)

234 ""The person with boobs"??
Sounds suspiciously akin to "vulva owner".

We have two of those.

One is the wagon.

I really like it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 11:56 AM (a1415)

235 I have not received it yet.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 12, 2024 11:56 AM (5MvGY)

236 The Brussel Times, Heavier electric cars wear out roads faster' Monday 29 July 2019
[etc.]
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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval
From friends - videos of #DelhiFloods - Sri Aurobindo Marg; Arjun Nagar; Green Park & roads cracked under electric busses

https://tinyurl.com/dbz4e9em
Photo #4

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 11:57 AM (Jh5b+)

237 "The person with boobs"??
Sounds suspiciously akin to "vulva owner".
Posted by: Doof

I loved my vulva! Owned a 745 wagon for years. Got almost 300K miles out of it.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2024 11:57 AM (WXNFJ)

238 We had can recycling in the Big City.
I looked at the DP cans in the bin once and thought
"You know, if these were beer, someone would have a problem".

Posted by: sal at July 12, 2024 11:57 AM (y7DxH)

239 Back in 2018 the Chinese stopped allowing imports of "recyclable material" because all they were doing with it was dumping it in landfills in China. So we started dumping in our local landfill and didn't of course that didn't count as recycling. There went a large part of the factory's recyclable poundage that got reported as part of our EHS program.

Eventually we got some company in Wisconsin to take the material. They were incinerating it but as the energy was used for some other process we got credit for recycling.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 12, 2024 11:57 AM (2fIO4)

240 224 Plastic has high energy content since it is made from oil. We should burn it as fuel.
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz

Reeeeeee!!!! That's releasing CO2 that will kill us all! It's just burning inefficiently processed fossil fuel!!!

Posted by: Unhinged Radical Greenies at July 12, 2024 11:58 AM (JCZqz)

241 "We can throw out used motor oil in the household garbage as long as you put some kitty litter in the container. Used motor oil.
Posted by: Maj. Healey"

It will eventually make it back underground to be harvested again.

Posted by: fd at July 12, 2024 11:58 AM (vFG9F)

242 >>>What the person was wearing....etc.

Her motto seems to be: Never forgive...never forget.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

>Are you sure this isn't just intimately about you? It appears you made quite an impression.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 12, 2024 11:58 AM (2UBPP)

243 No Elsinore beer?
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The brewery burned down!

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 11:58 AM (Jh5b+)

244 Posted by: Mrs. Potato Head at July 12, 2024 11:56 AM (JCZqz)
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She's only got eyes for me!

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 11:59 AM (Jh5b+)

245 Somebody was arguing that one of the reasons for eliminating glass deposit bottles for soda was that the extra weight of the glass wore out tires faster, and created more wear and tear on roadways.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 11:34 AM (a1415)

Glass bottles explode when being filled... OSHA.
Glass bottles can chip causing customer injury... lawsuits.
Glass bottles, once empty, when broken cause hazards.

Lots of reasons to move away from glass. Especially if you're not permitted to consider the ramifications of plastic.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 12, 2024 11:59 AM (nR2nR)

246 I loved my vulva! Owned a 745 wagon for years. Got almost 300K miles out of it.
____

Who else loves their high mileage vulva?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 12, 2024 11:59 AM (fs1hN)

247 LendingTree did note that Pennsylvania has the most expensive toll per mile in the U.S. on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. And the bridge connecting the Pennsylvania Turnpike to the New Jersey Turnpike has an average maximum fee of $8.20, which is the highest fee across interstate road tolls that LendingTree analyzed. May 16, 2024
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The PA Turnpike, new green jobs! Forever.
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at July 12, 2024 11
*****
That's pretty lame. I'm charging $11 for two axles by the time Trump leaves office again.

More axles pay more. Pay alot more.

Posted by: Golden Gate Bridge at July 12, 2024 11:59 AM (eknO2)

248 "You mean some folks don't do that?

Wow.
Posted by: Tonypete"

I only keep good scrap on the pile.

Posted by: fd at July 12, 2024 12:00 PM (vFG9F)

249 219 If they're having trouble finding storms in the Pacific, just name some. Nobody is going to check. Nobody cares.

Posted by: torabora at July 12, 2024 11:52 AM (eknO2)

Yup. There is pretty-much zero commercial shipping in the North Pacific. Some fishing ships and whalers are there. The Japanese Navy was highly-confident the Pearl Harbor attack force would not be spotted to or from Hawaii.

Posted by: Gref at July 12, 2024 12:00 PM (5fDan)

250 Thanks, Buck, for your excellent rant regarding a number of issues.

Randi Weingartner should have stuck to posting sunsets and not opining ( sp) on education. Which she is not an expert on- merely another overpaid shill for progressive policies and politics. She may have taught for about six years-maybe . Some of these go into union work with even less teaching behind them because they loathed teaching and/or
Kids, weren't very good at it and wanted to make more money in protecting teachers ovet students.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 12, 2024 12:01 PM (Rbr1h)

251 Will resend.

I put the email address that I sent the mail to in the url line minus the space, at, and dot.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2024 12:01 PM (mIs2x)

252 There is a company that builds heating systems that run off of straw that has been used for livestock bedding

Posted by: Ben Had at July 12, 2024 12:01 PM (5MvGY)

253 "The western edge of Texas is closer to the Pacific Ocean than to the eastern edge of Texas. "

California is the same way...

Wut?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 11:55 AM (a1415)

That seems the case for every state........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)

254 Oft evil will shall evil mar:

Daily Mail -

Jill Biden’s grudge against Kamala Harris REVEALED: Power-hungry first lady’s grudge is so deep that the only thing worse than Joe stepping down is the VP replacing him.

Now, political insiders have told DailyMail.com that Democratic advisors are struggling to push past the powerful role that Jill Biden’s loathing of Harris, 59, is playing in Joe’s resistance to pass the mantle to his VP as pressure ratchets up for him to step down as presidential candidate and allow another Democrat tackle Donald Trump.

According to one former Democrat operative in Jill’s circle, the women’s long-seated animosity is ‘one hundred per cent’ part of Jill’s resistance to having her 81-year-old husband step aside.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 12, 2024 12:01 PM (fs1hN)

255 lastic has high energy content since it is made from oil. We should burn it as fuel.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz

We do. Cargo ships have a low emissions fuel requirement when within x miles of shore, and plastic is used to make that fuel. It is more expensive than number 2 diesel, so they switch back after leaving port.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 12, 2024 12:01 PM (lTGtQ)

256 Never have seen so much garbage and waste as when I work on a commercial site. 30 yards of everything dumped in and hauled away.

Posted by: Jamaica at July 12, 2024 12:01 PM (HLXyK)

257 Inhofe was my senator, and I was glad to vote for him -- until his last two elections.

Nothing against his politics, I just thought he'd been in D.C. long enough. I considered him a Swamp dweller.

I saw the NYT headline online and just rolled my eyes. For that matter, the Tulsa World attacked him at every opportunity.

(I met him once outside the Tulsa Press Club. Wow, he was short.)

Posted by: Weak Geek at July 12, 2024 12:01 PM (Z5dLP)

258 "Are you sure this isn't just intimately about you? It appears you made quite an impression."

No no, you misunderstood what I was saying.

For over thirty years I have been regaled with the rich family history, failed marriages, bad jobs and unpleasant interactions with people that occur in her day to day life.

I sometimes ask her....So you're telling me that everyone you met today was a jerk?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 12:01 PM (a1415)

259 I saw High Mileage Vulva open for The Flaming Lips at Boston Garden in 1993

Posted by: Doof at July 12, 2024 12:02 PM (RhGG0)

260 254 According to one former Democrat operative in Jill’s circle, the women’s long-seated animosity is ‘one hundred per cent’ part of Jill’s resistance to having her 81-year-old husband step aside.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 12, 2024 12:01 PM (fs1hN)

=======

I choose to believe these anonymous sources.

There was another anonymous sourced thing I saw yesterday from a CEO who said he knew Biden saying that Biden hated everyone in the Democrat Party because they all think he's dumb, and that he's going to tear the party down rather than let them win.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 12, 2024 12:02 PM (GBKbO)

261 Other than Hawaii, that is.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

262 258 I sometimes ask her....So you're telling me that everyone you met today was a jerk?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 12:01 PM (a1415)

======

Probably the day she met me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 12, 2024 12:02 PM (GBKbO)

263 I saw High Mileage Vulva

This is about me, isn't it........

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at July 12, 2024 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)

264 "That seems the case for every state........

Except maybe Delaware.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 12:03 PM (a1415)

265 253 "The western edge of Texas is closer to the Pacific Ocean than to the eastern edge of Texas. "

California is the same way...

Wut?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 11:55 AM (a1415)

That seems the case for every state........

*rhode island has entered the chat*

Posted by: anachronda at July 12, 2024 12:03 PM (oY6Yp)

266 Anchor-Hocking used to have radio ads in the 1950s touting their "single use" glass jars and bottles. No return! Just throw it away. I'm sure they thought it was a good idea.

They employed 10,000 people at one time in Ohio. Made Fire King and other good stuff. Pyrex is no longer Pyrex, by the way. But they have Meth, and Bingo, and Fentanyl to pick up the slack.

It breaks under the heat of an oven. I'm not making this up. They changed the formula for the glass for Pyrex, so all the savvy cooks have to scour the yard sales and eBay to find the Good Stuff.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 12, 2024 12:04 PM (b9oRn)

267 I have a sister-in-law who asked when we were approaching a toll bridge-"How many axles do we have"?

Posted by: Sharpest Knife at July 12, 2024 12:04 PM (V5BDR)

268 >> Just how big is Texas?

I once drove I-10 from Pensacola to San Diego. When I crossed from Louisiana into Texas, the first mile-marker I came to said 880.

I was like, ho-lee-shit.

Posted by: bed head at July 12, 2024 12:04 PM (Y1sOo)

269
The Big Boy says ... (pulls string) ...

"I have poopy in my pants!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 12, 2024 12:05 PM (R/49a)

270 Biden hated everyone in the Democrat Party because they all think he's dumb
____

I'm not dumb, like everybody says, I'm smart and I want respect!

Posted by: Scranton Joe at July 12, 2024 12:05 PM (fs1hN)

271 "Probably the day she met me."

Nah, she was at her favorite food place that day.

So everything was good.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 12:05 PM (a1415)

272 271 "Probably the day she met me."

Nah, she was at her favorite food place that day.

So everything was good.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 12:05 PM (a1415)

=======

But I did inform her that she had ordered a hot dog on a Friday during Lent.

It's the action of an asshole.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 12, 2024 12:05 PM (GBKbO)

273 The western edge of Texas is closer to the Pacific Ocean than to the eastern edge of Texas. "

California is the same way...

Wut?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

What they are saying is that the distance from El Paso to the Pacific is less than the distance from El Paso to the eastern edge of the state.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 12, 2024 12:06 PM (lTGtQ)

274 Dr. Jill vs. Kamala.

I can't think of two more useless cunts in American politics.

Okay, I can. But they're not in such close proximity to executive power.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 12, 2024 12:06 PM (2UBPP)

275 The best use of recycled plastic was at a small airport. They had hangers but the floors were not paved inside, just smoothed out dirt and gravel. Dusty in the summer, a bit sloppy in the winter. A pilot hired some kids to run a bunch of plastic through a grinder and took the minced up plastic and laid a couple of inches over the hanger floor. Problem solved.
Clean floor, no dust or mud, and easy to roll the airplane in and out.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2024 12:06 PM (W/lyH)

276
*rhode island has entered the chat*
Posted by: anachronda at July 12, 2024 12:03 PM (oY6Yp)

Well, I've had to read the line 9 or 10 times to understand what it actually said, for some reason.

I rescind my previous statement.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 12:06 PM (Zz0t1)

277
For over thirty years I have been regaled with the rich family history, failed marriages, bad jobs and unpleasant interactions with people that occur in her day to day life.

________

My hubby's family is like that. It's weird, all the family gatherings involve a Recitation of Grievances.

It's always about non family members. They, themselves, are above reproach. Obviously.

Posted by: Just Lily at July 12, 2024 12:07 PM (77M4k)

278 I think they should dump EVERYTHING into landfills so it can be harvested in the future by nanobots that go thru the trash and separate it into it its constituent components. You would end up with great plies of various type of metal, glass, plastic, gold, silver, whatever is in there gets sorted out by the nanobot swarm, like little ants taking apart a grasshoper.

Posted by: fd at July 12, 2024 12:07 PM (vFG9F)

279 hopper

Posted by: fd at July 12, 2024 12:07 PM (vFG9F)

280 Funny thing here in East Texas - the regional recycling center burned down, and apparently nobody is gonna build it back. So all recycling plans are scrapped, even though they had a nice scam going.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 12, 2024 12:07 PM (pgG81)

281 to find the Good Stuff.
Posted by: Common Tater

The B 52's could help you with that.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2024 12:07 PM (WXNFJ)

282 "It's the action of an asshole."

That might have been why she was saying that every driver on the Don Holt bridge was a jerk!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 12:07 PM (a1415)

283 “Biden says Philadelphia voters helped him win Delaware Senate seat” [Washington Times – 07/07/2024]

STATE POLS DO

NY Post, POLITICS, Biden’s dad worked for corrupt union group that got federal funds, book claims By Social Links for Steven Nelson, Published Sep 16, '21

The Untold History of the Biden Family
Relatively little has been known about the President’s father, whose story reveals a family’s fraught relationship with money, class, and alcohol. By Adam Entous, August 15, '22

Tiny excerpt: Earlier, Biden, Sr., didn’t have nearly as much money as the Sheenes or Briscoe did. But, as Valerie Biden wrote in her recent memoir, the family “had more money than ever before.” In Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, they bought a Dutch Colonial house—the grandest home they’d ever own. They also splurged on fur coats and fine china. Biden, Sr.,’s status as a war contractor gave him clout with the nation’s airlines, and, according to Cramer, “that meant he could bump a general, if Jean fancied a weekend in Scranton”—assuming the Bidens were flying commercial. Biden wrote in his memoir about the joyrides that his father and Sheene, Jr., would take in the Sheenes’ planes..."

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at July 12, 2024 12:07 PM (NFX2v)

284

read it again

(how close is the western edge to the eastern edge? How far is the western edge to the pacific? which of those two measurements is shorter?)

Posted by: Don Black at July 12, 2024 12:08 PM (/7KEl)

285 Climate change killed Beau.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 12:08 PM (v6JzV)

286 I’m sure the Jill hating Kamala, and the angry Joe wanting to spite his party will comfort the remaining residents when Iran nukes Israel, or when China invades Taiwan, or when Russia decides to annex Ukraine in its entirety.

Can someone in DC please act like a freaking adult?!?!?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 12, 2024 12:09 PM (Hkcdp)

287 "The person with boobs"??
Sounds suspiciously akin to "vulva owner".
Posted by: Doof at July 12, 2024 11:50 AM (RhGG0)

Could be. Could be. Not gonna say though, I remember all the trouble Trump got into mentioning that body part.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 12, 2024 12:09 PM (nR2nR)

288 "My hubby's family is like that. It's weird, all the family gatherings involve a Recitation of Grievances.

It's always about non family members. They, themselves, are above reproach. Obviously."

We may be related.

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

289 hopper
Posted by: fd

Grace or Dennis?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2024 12:09 PM (WXNFJ)

290 225 215 whig, did you see the comment that had my email address?

Posted by: Ben Had a
------
Just sent another one via proton email instead of outlook. Either email is fine.

Used the Comment 403 on yesterday's Art Thread for the address and hopefully did not screw it up.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2024 12:09 PM (mIs2x)

291 Could be. Could be. Not gonna say though, I remember all the trouble Trump got into mentioning that body part.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 12, 2024 12:09 PM (nR2nR)

It's pronounced 'pushay.'

Posted by: Sean Connery at July 12, 2024 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

292 254 Oft evil will shall evil mar:

Daily Mail -

Jill Biden’s grudge against Kamala Harris REVEALED: Power-hungry first lady’s grudge is so deep that the only thing worse than Joe stepping down is the VP replacing him.

Now, political insiders have told DailyMail.com that Democratic advisors are struggling to push past the powerful role that Jill Biden’s loathing of Harris, 59, is playing in Joe’s resistance to pass the mantle to his VP as pressure ratchets up for him to step down as presidential candidate and allow another Democrat tackle Donald Trump.

According to one former Democrat operative in Jill’s circle, the women’s long-seated animosity is ‘one hundred per cent’ part of Jill’s resistance to having her 81-year-old husband step aside.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 12, 2024 12:01 PM (fs1hN)

Are 73 year-old women at high risk of fatal strokes, heart attacks, and being killed by meteorites or falling trees? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Gref at July 12, 2024 12:10 PM (5fDan)

293 apparently there is bad blood between DR Dr Jill and Kamala Hairis

Political insiders have exclusively told DailyMail.com that advisors are struggling to get past the role that Jill's loathing of Kamala is playing in Biden's reluctance to step down. The bad blood between the First Lady and the Vice President, a feeling so strong that one source described it as, 'hatred,' dates to 2019, when Kamala was running against Biden and condemned him on stage for opposing aspects of mandatory busing for school desegregation .

Posted by: Don Black at July 12, 2024 12:10 PM (/7KEl)

294 I seem to recall that Beaumont, TX is closer to Chicago than to El Paso.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 12, 2024 11:52 AM (lTGtQ)

It is not, quite, the case that the northern point of Texas is closer to Canada than to the southern point of Texas... I think it only makes it to the southern border of North Dakota.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 12, 2024 12:11 PM (nR2nR)

295 Recycle bins get used over and over again, so that's good.

Posted by: t-bird at July 12, 2024 12:11 PM (NCclz)

296 "It's pronounced 'pushay.'"

Just like your mother, Trebek!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 12:11 PM (a1415)

297 no, it's more like 'poocy'

Posted by: Don Black at July 12, 2024 12:11 PM (/7KEl)

298 whig, received!

Posted by: Ben Had at July 12, 2024 12:11 PM (5MvGY)

299 Could be. Could be. Not gonna say though, I remember all the trouble Trump got into mentioning that body part.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 12, 2024 12:09 PM (nR2nR)

It's just a hand in the bush.

Posted by: Grab all you can at July 12, 2024 12:11 PM (mIzto)

300 293 Political insiders have exclusively told DailyMail.com that advisors are struggling to get past the role that Jill's loathing of Kamala is playing in Biden's reluctance to step down. The bad blood between the First Lady and the Vice President, a feeling so strong that one source described it as, 'hatred,' dates to 2019, when Kamala was running against Biden and condemned him on stage for opposing aspects of mandatory busing for school desegregation .
Posted by: Don Black at July 12, 2024 12:10 PM (/7KEl)

=======

Kamala outright called Biden a racist.

It was supposed to be a killshot against Biden. Instead, Tulsi made Kamala look like an idiot and Kamala faded from the third tier of candidates. Seriously, she was never higher than third tier.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 12, 2024 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

301 Your taxpayer dollars at work: Companies arbitraging plastic recycling. They get paid X taxpayer dollars, costs Y to ship to landfill, X-Y = profit.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 12, 2024 12:11 PM (tT6L1)

302 It's pronounced 'pushay.'
Posted by: Sean Connery

Can your pushay do the dog?

Posted by: The Cramps at July 12, 2024 12:12 PM (V5BDR)

303 My wife brought up something I supposedly did over 10 years ago. I have no recollection of it and she goes how can you not remember? 🤷‍♂️
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 12, 2024 11:26 AM (t56FM)

If you really want to twist her wig, the answer to that is "Love keeps no record of wrongs".

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 12, 2024 12:12 PM (hB7mE)

304 We may be related.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 12:09 PM (a1415)

Certainly possible. I suspect it is a rather common family trait.

Posted by: Just Lily at July 12, 2024 12:12 PM (77M4k)

305 Why isn't Mayor Pete ever mentioned as a replacement for Joe?

Posted by: BignJames at July 12, 2024 12:12 PM (AwYPR)

306 every place in TX is really far from other places

Posted by: Don Black at July 12, 2024 12:12 PM (/7KEl)

307 305 Why isn't Mayor Pete ever mentioned as a replacement for Joe?
Posted by: BignJames at July 12, 2024 12:12 PM (AwYPR)

======

My sister and her husband are progressives.

They laugh at the idea of taking Buttigieg seriously.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 12, 2024 12:13 PM (GBKbO)

308
It's just a hand in the bush.
Posted by: Grab all you can at July 12, 2024 12:11 PM (mIzto)

You asked for it..........

https://youtu.be/CprfjfN5PRs

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 12:13 PM (Zz0t1)

309 Le NOOD

It be here!!!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 12:13 PM (a1415)

310 265 253 "The western edge of Texas is closer to the Pacific Ocean than to the eastern edge of Texas. "

California is the same way...

Wut?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 11:55 AM (a1415)

That seems the case for every state........

*rhode island has entered the chat*

Posted by: anachronda at July 12, 2024 12:03 PM (oY6Yp)

We don't get it.

Posted by: Hawaiians at July 12, 2024 12:13 PM (5fDan)

311
That plastic that ends up in the ocean and harms the wildlife?

Yeah. That got there because Gang Green insisted on recycling.
Gang Green got laws passed forcing people to recycle and the plastic was shipped to Communist China.
(yes, I know that that has now stopped)

The ChiComs received payment for supposedly recycling plastics that were sent there from all of the western world(750 thousand tons from the U.S. annually), and the ChiComs dumped that plastic into the Pacific ocean.

So now Gang Green is insisting that we no longer get to use plastic because of the problem that Gang Green created in the first place.

Posted by: Speller at July 12, 2024 12:13 PM (pSotA)

312 305 Why isn't Mayor Pete ever mentioned as a replacement for Joe?
Posted by: BignJames at July 12, 2024 12:12 PM (AwYPR)

He works less than Biden, if you can imagine that.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - Abandon Brandon at July 12, 2024 12:14 PM (N39Ws)

313 "If you really want to twist her wig, the answer to that is "Love keeps no record of wrongs". "

And that's when the fight started, Officer.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 12:14 PM (a1415)

314 - Globull warming/climate change

I sometimes wonder if those at the top of the hierarchy of this pyramid, influenced by you know who, think they're going to be able to lessen the effects of some of those trumpets and bowls. Even if some of them don't know them, you can bet your mortgage their "boss" does.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 12, 2024 12:14 PM (xZpzx)

315 >>>no, it's more like 'poocy'

Posted by: Don Black

>In 'Kill Bill' wasn't it 'de poocy'?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 12, 2024 12:14 PM (2UBPP)

316 Grace or Dennis?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2024 12:09 PM (WXNFJ)

Hedda.

Posted by: BignJames at July 12, 2024 12:15 PM (AwYPR)

317 Not that recycling isn't largely a scam, but I worked in plastic bottle recycling plant, and that moron's test means exactly nothing. In the sorting operation, his tracker would be detected and removed, because it is not a freaking bottle, not entirely plastic, and not the same kind of plastic even if it was. It's not worth the labor cost to remove the tracker, so the bottle attached to it also goes to the landfill with the other debris removed at sorting.

Posted by: Gundo at July 12, 2024 12:16 PM (n6zcR)

318 298 whig, received!
Posted by: Ben Had
=====
Great. My outlook account dates from the 90's and I sometimes neither receive nor can send emails on occasion.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2024 12:17 PM (mIs2x)

319
I think they should dump EVERYTHING into landfills so it can be harvested in the future by nanobots that go thru the trash and separate it into it its constituent components. You would end up with great plies of various type of metal, glass, plastic, gold, silver, whatever is in there gets sorted out by the nanobot swarm, like little ants taking apart a grasshoper.
Posted by: fd

Great idea, but it does not dump kilotons of consumerism guilt on the current occupants of the planet.

Therefore, it is a non-starter.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 12, 2024 12:17 PM (R/49a)

320 247. That's pretty lame. I'm charging $11 for two axles by the time Trump leaves office again.

More axles pay more. Pay alot more.
Posted by: Golden Gate Bridge

No, not so lame.
Turnpike tolls are wicked. Bridges between PA-NJ as follows:

Delaware River Port Authority Vehicle Classification
Toll - Bridges
Passenger vehicles, including motorcycles & small trucks 7,000 lbs. and less gross vehicle weight (Class 1 & 2) $5.00
Trucks, mobile homes and recreation vehicles- gross vehicle weight 7,001 lbs. and up per axle $7.50
2 axles $15.00
And so on through 6 axles at $45.00
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July 11, 2024, It could soon cost you an extra $1 to cross DRPA bridges from NJ into Pa.
'The need for the new toll schedule is driven by the challenges of maintaining aging infrastructure and enhancing safety and security,' DRPA spokesman Mike Williams said."

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at July 12, 2024 12:20 PM (NFX2v)

321 We recycle paper and cardboard at work, we get paid a little for it because we use a bailer and make 200 pound bails.

Posted by: TC at July 12, 2024 12:22 PM (FjlUt)

322 The western edge of Texas is closer to the Pacific Ocean than to the eastern edge of Texas. "

Heck, that western tip is closer to the Pacific than it is to Dallas. (I'm using Baja down by Guerrero Negro for this)

Posted by: t-bird at July 12, 2024 12:22 PM (HYrf+)

323 Plastic recycling story circa 1998
I was doing some in a landfill in Houston and I'm standing up on the rim and see these huge cubes about the size of a 40 cy roll-off box, say 20' long, 8' wide, 8' high. I had to go see what they were.
Compressed gallon plastic milk bottles.
They've been doing this the beginning of municipal recycling. When the price doesn't justify the effort, toss it in the landfill.
Metals and sometimes cardboard are about the only thing recycled.

Posted by: DanMan at July 12, 2024 12:22 PM (8uzBS)

324 163 Thanks for the update.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 12, 2024 12:23 PM (VSht7)

325 "we get paid a little for it because we use a bailer and make 200 pound bails."

Call the NYT, and tell them that those bails are all Trump's tax returns and receipts.

They'll pay you good coin.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 12:25 PM (a1415)

326 Friends just posted that the regular food giveaway in their city was cancelled because the charity has no food. One particularly droll response blamed "rich people" who don't care enough to buy food for the poor.

But there was an interesting explanation of why the food isn't coming in, besides the obvious: inflation. Normally, the local groceries donate expiring food, dented cans, etc. Customers wouldn't buy less-than-perfect goods. But now they are.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 12, 2024 12:25 PM (LWWI4)

327 I seem to recall that Beaumont, TX is closer to Chicago than to El Paso.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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Yes, El Paso closer to Pacific than Gulf of Mexico.
No, Beaumont is not closer to Chicago, 800+ vs 600+

Posted by: From about That Time at July 12, 2024 12:33 PM (4780s)

328 nood

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 12, 2024 12:37 PM (LWWI4)

329 I miss LauraW. Does anybody know what happened to her?

Is she alright?

Thank you.

Posted by: EFG

She's still kicking. The Moronosphere encompasses several blogs, she hangs at The Hostages these-a-days (as do I).

Posted by: Brother Tim sez fuck cancer at July 12, 2024 12:43 PM (OUMaO)

330 One type of plastic is easily recycled: plastic one-use grocery bags. They are used in our wastebaskets, saving the use of new bags. They also are used by a local group that makes the plastic bags into mattresses for homeless people.

Posted by: Roland Felix Hirsch at July 12, 2024 12:50 PM (rTr4c)

331 "One type of plastic is easily recycled: plastic one-use grocery bags. They are used in our wastebaskets, saving the use of new bags. They also are used by a local group that makes the plastic bags into mattresses for homeless people."

These are now banned in Baltimore.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 12, 2024 12:58 PM (a1415)

332 Maxine Waters, pro-baby killer, dies.

Posted by: bretzydude at July 12, 2024 01:17 PM (OGsvs)

333 Elton John, pedophilia advocate, dies

Posted by: bretzydude at July 12, 2024 01:18 PM (OGsvs)

334 Rupaul, child groomer, dies

Posted by: bretzydude at July 12, 2024 01:19 PM (OGsvs)

335 Joe Biden, asshole, dies

Posted by: bretzydude at July 12, 2024 01:19 PM (OGsvs)

336 Bill Gates, pro-depopulation advocate, dies

Posted by: bretzydude at July 12, 2024 01:21 PM (OGsvs)

337 Jo Behar, mule-faced woman, dies

Posted by: bretzydude at July 12, 2024 01:25 PM (OGsvs)

338 There are so many inputs and cycles involved in weather activity that are still not understood. But it certainly does negate all the hype from the climatistas about “record” hurricanes.

Even Bohdi knew about the climate cycles back in 1991.

https://bit.ly/3XZmwO2

"Everything moves in cycles. So twice a century, the ocean lets us know just how small we really are. A winter storm comes out of Antarctica tearing up the Pacific. And it sends a huge swell north 2000 miles. And when it hits Bell's Beach, it will turn into the biggest surf this earth has ever seen, and I will be there."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 12, 2024 02:14 PM (P5BPp)

339 Wind Turbines and Solar Panels are Not Enviromentally Friendly

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 12, 2024 04:29 PM (wGqjj)

340 No one denies climate changes. Climate will ALWAYS change.

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