Saturday ONT (11/16/24) Submitted by Robert

Greetings!

It's been over a week since the election. I went to bed fully prepared for disappointment. I woke up to some great news. I felt this song best defined the moment.Pantera - Rise

Many thanks go to Mis Hum for letting me throw this together for you all. I hadn't realized how hard it would actually be! But our dear Mis Hum did it day in and day out for nine years. On behalf of the Horde you have our deepest thanks and gratitude. God bless you, sir! - Robert

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I'm not a parent, but this is infuriating. Encouraging a kid to be independent isn't a crime. As an aside a buddy comments that the chick is hot as balls.

Mom Jailed for Letting 10-Year-Old Walk Alone to Town
"I was not panicking as I know the roads and know he is mature enough to walk there without incident," says Brittany Patterson.

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Nerds. The internet is full of nerds.

Experts Confirm 'Batman: The Animated Series' Was Pinnacle Of Human Civilization

And Weebs. Weebs are everywhere.

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Meet ‘Luce’: The Vatican’s cartoon mascot for Jubilee 2025

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I read this and choked. Then I imagined people picking up their orders off the conveyor belt like you used to do at Service Merchandise.

Japan Has a Trucker Shortage. Its Solution Is Novel
Nation plans to build a giant 'conveyor belt road' connecting Tokyo and Osaka

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Extended Metal Interlude

Iron Maiden - Hell On Earth (live)

Do you like Rush? Because holy scheisse, this is the best album Rush never made. Paradigm Blue - Bravo Sierra

Like 80s style hard rock? Here's a banger for you. H.E.A.T. - One By One

And now combining two of my favorite things. Heavy metal and cute girls.
BabyMetal - Headbangeeeeerrrr!!!!!!!

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This was featured on the cover of Heavy Metal. I like the mythological feel. That unicorn has a gleam in its eye like Zeus. Angel Of The Gods by Greg Hildebrandt.

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This ONT sponsored by Low Clearances

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 09:47 PM

Comments

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1 Well, at least there is a unicorn.

Posted by: Piper at November 16, 2024 09:50 PM (p4NUW)

2 Japan Has a Trucker Shortage. Its Solution Is Novel
Nation plans to build a giant 'conveyor belt road' connecting Tokyo and Osaka

Someone's been playing too much Satisfactory.

Posted by: Flyguy at November 16, 2024 09:51 PM (HA1lM)

3 Hey look. It's Robert!

WTF, man?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 16, 2024 09:51 PM (JkO4W)

4 Happy Saturday, and go Bucky!

Posted by: Pete Seria at November 16, 2024 09:52 PM (7ZQe3)

5 Howdy

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at November 16, 2024 09:52 PM (+HzbQ)

6 I could be wrong, but I don't think unicorns figure in Greek mythology.

Winged horses? Yes. Man-horses? Yes.

But unicorns?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 16, 2024 09:53 PM (JkO4W)

7 'conveyor belt road'

Robert A Heinlein - The Roads Must Roll

Posted by: Next2Nothing at November 16, 2024 09:53 PM (tA1/w)

8 I’d forgotten Hildebrandt! I used to get LoTR calendars by him in the 70’s, his art was great.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 16, 2024 09:53 PM (W6hoT)

9 Yay, International Check Your Wipers Day ONT!

Thanks for making this ONT, Robert!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 16, 2024 09:53 PM (lUFok)

10 Looks great Robert! Welcome to COB hood

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at November 16, 2024 09:53 PM (+HzbQ)

11 Jump Around!

Posted by: Pete Seria at November 16, 2024 09:53 PM (7ZQe3)

12 6 I could be wrong, but I don't think unicorns figure in Greek mythology.

Winged horses? Yes. Man-horses? Yes.

But unicorns?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 16, 2024 09:53 PM (JkO4W)

It's Saturday night. What could go wrong?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at November 16, 2024 09:54 PM (QXQ4l)

13 Hey look. It's Robert!

WTF, man?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 16, 2024 09:51 PM (JkO4W)

I just...asked. Politely. And here we are. :B

Posted by: Robert at November 16, 2024 09:54 PM (1Yy3c)

14 Yo Robert!
S'up???

Posted by: Diogenes at November 16, 2024 09:54 PM (W/lyH)

15 Unicorn? So Robert is a Replicant?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2024 09:54 PM (+O65L)

16 Well done, Robert!

Posted by: Doof at November 16, 2024 09:55 PM (RFPHU)

17 The Vatican is a very broken institution.

The Church has outlasted bad Popes, Cardinals and bad theology. But sometimes, it really pisses me off.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 16, 2024 09:55 PM (WXNFJ)

18 Unicorn? So Robert is a Replicant?

We all die too young, so aren't we all?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 16, 2024 09:55 PM (lUFok)

19 I like the mythological feel. That unicorn has a gleam in its eye like Zeus.

Well, I guess you could say they were both horny.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 16, 2024 09:55 PM (0eaVi)

20 Thanks for a cromulent ONT, Robert. I played "Tomcat Prowl" on the Ewetoob, and it segued into "Tits Up On The Pavement", so I had to play that, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2024 09:56 PM (EOLxR)

21 "Do you like Rush?"

Never heard of them

Posted by: Doof at November 16, 2024 09:56 PM (RFPHU)

22 Thank you, Robert.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 16, 2024 09:56 PM (u82oZ)

23 Jailed mom is BS. At ten I and my friends were everywhere all damn day. I bet the Sheriff's kids are wimps.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 16, 2024 09:56 PM (W/lyH)

24 Mom Jailed for Letting 10-Year-Old Walk Alone to Town
"I was not panicking as I know the roads and know he is mature enough to walk there without incident," says Brittany Patterson.

It still amazes me that six year-old me and my seven year-old sister made the two-mile journey to grammar school on foot and unsupervised, crossing a major boulevard in the process. Every weekday.

Times have changed, and not for the better.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 16, 2024 09:56 PM (JkO4W)

25 Many thanks go to Mis Hum for letting me throw this together for you all. I hadn't realized how hard it would actually be!

I would think any of the long term Morons could do it. Once.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 16, 2024 09:57 PM (0eaVi)

26

I remember those LOTR calendars. Some were outstanding.

Just watched Polar Express on the big screen. Still a fine movie.

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at November 16, 2024 09:58 PM (4SjnF)

27 Helicopter parents have created a Bubblewrap Generation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2024 09:58 PM (+O65L)

28 I just saw something hilarious on X. We’ve talked about how all the progs have been jumping to BlueSky from twitter - to day Bluesky put out an emergency warning that their staff is now getting 3,000 content complaints an hour, a level they never imagined possible, and their staff is overwhelmed.
Looks like all the leftists who went there immediately started to complain about all the other posters there! And the place is overwhelmed by the bullshit.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 16, 2024 07:33 PM (W6hoT)

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 16, 2024 09:59 PM (W6hoT)

29 Baby metal lends credence to the theory that there is no God.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 16, 2024 09:59 PM (elaR+)

30 Just watched Polar Express on the big screen. Still a fine movie.
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at November 16, 2024 09:58 PM (4SjnF)

Blecch. It was like watching a 90-minute proof of concept. No heart at all.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 16, 2024 09:59 PM (JkO4W)

31 Looks like all the leftists who went there immediately started to complain about all the other posters there! And the place is overwhelmed by the bullshit.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 16, 2024 07:33 PM (W6hoT)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 16, 2024 09:59 PM (W6hoT)

Elon should buy Bluesky, and put Alex Jones in charge of it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2024 10:00 PM (EOLxR)

32 Baby metal lends credence to the theory that there is no God.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 16, 2024 09:59 PM (elaR+)

Wanna have a beer?

Posted by: Richard Dawkins at November 16, 2024 10:00 PM (JkO4W)

33 Hey

Posted by: Ciampino - array boundaries at November 16, 2024 10:01 PM (i0xsb)

34 I have a neighbor that on occasion will invite a billion people over and start playing music at concert sound levels until 4-5 am. This is one of those nights.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 16, 2024 10:01 PM (Y6IkP)

35 Welcome to COB hood
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at November 16, 2024 09:53 PM (+HzbQ)

Oh, no, nothing like that. I don't have "the keys" like some others do. I pretty regularly forward memes to Mis Hum and WeirdDave. Sometimes they even get used. Just this once I asked if I could submit an entire ONT.

Posted by: Robert at November 16, 2024 10:01 PM (1Yy3c)

36
Mom Jailed for Letting 10-Year-Old Walk Alone to Town

_________

60 years ago: "I don't want to see you back here until dinnertime!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 16, 2024 10:02 PM (yvmL0)

37 Oh kami, this is free on YouTube and it is really bad. Message from Space. Stars Vic Morrow and Sonny Chiba. Calling this a cheap Japanese knock-off of Star Wars is an insult to the George Lucas film.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2024 10:02 PM (+O65L)

38 Hey

Ho
Let's go!

Oh, wait, that was last thread. Sorry.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 16, 2024 10:03 PM (lUFok)

39 In 1978–1979, 11 babies in Tennessee died within 8 days following DPT vaccination [43]. Five of the babies died suddenly within 24 h of vaccination. Nine of the 11 babies had received their vaccine from the same lot. A subsequent investigation confirmed a greater than expected relationship between Lot #64201 of the DPT vaccine and SIDS. Initially, health authorities "did not feel that a causal relationship could be totally excluded." Later, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a revised statement that "experts…did not find evidence of a cause-effect relationship." Finally, the CDC claimed that the SIDS cases in Tennessee that occurred shortly after DPT vaccination were all a "coincidence." (After this incident, internal memos by the vaccine manufacturer revealed a new policy of limiting shipments of DPT vaccine so that no geographical location would receive all of the product from a single lot, confounding the ability to trace hot lots that might cause clusters of SIDS cases post-vaccination.)

https://t.ly/HOmeV

You can't hate them enought.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 16, 2024 10:03 PM (WXNFJ)

40 weird....

Posted by: runner at November 16, 2024 10:03 PM (V13WU)

41 Just this once I asked if I could submit an entire ONT.
Posted by: Robert at November 16, 2024 10:01 PM (1Yy3c)

You should make it a habit, you're good at it!

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at November 16, 2024 10:03 PM (+HzbQ)

42 Someone I follow on X for hockey stuff tweeted about following her on Bluesky. I think I'm gonna Comment on her tweet and say "no thanks, and as a matter of fact, since you're on BS, I'll unfollow you on X"

Posted by: Doof at November 16, 2024 10:04 PM (RFPHU)

43 Experts Confirm 'Batman: The Animated Series' Was Pinnacle Of Human Civilization
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Human civilization? No. The best interpretation of Batman? Absolutely.

I also applaud "Gotham" for its dedication to the Spats 'n' Gats aesthetic.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 16, 2024 10:04 PM (kpS4V)

44 Elon should buy Bluesky, and put Alex Jones in charge of it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2024 10:00 PM (EOLxR)

And then he should buy MSNBC and make Tucker the programming director.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 16, 2024 10:04 PM (W6hoT)

45 12 6 I could be wrong, but I don't think unicorns figure in Greek mythology.

Winged horses? Yes. Man-horses? Yes.

But unicorns?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 16, 2024 09:53 PM (JkO4W)

It's Saturday night. What could go wrong?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at November 16, 2024 09:54 PM (QXQ4l)

That woman is a redhead. The unicorn doesn't stand a chance.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 16, 2024 10:05 PM (5AU0H)

46 Elon is the magic weapon for all the ills of society.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at November 16, 2024 10:05 PM (+HzbQ)

47 I thought Robert had a bad hangover. Irregardless, the ONT is quite round, firm, and fully packed. Also has no discernible globohomo content.

Two Thumbs Up!!

Posted by: Arbiter of Good Taste at November 16, 2024 10:05 PM (nS6qG)

48 I am amazed Robert has time for such things...working, cleaning up dead cats...

Posted by: runner at November 16, 2024 10:05 PM (V13WU)

49 So while the BS with rhe mom is going on, the Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) case manager sends the kid a birthday card.
Can you say grooming?

Posted by: Diogenes at November 16, 2024 10:06 PM (W/lyH)

50 Evenin'

A Robert ONT? Pictures of nekid redheads about to be ravaged by a unicorn and Heavy Metal links.

Acceptable.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 16, 2024 10:06 PM (byWhc)

51 Like 80s style hard rock?

Did you see the music thread just before this one? We went full on 80's.

So... Carrying on!

Def Leppard - Lady Strange (1981)
https://youtu.be/QYt0w8ZRXYA

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 16, 2024 10:06 PM (O7YUW)

52 Well done, Robert. Thanks.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 16, 2024 10:06 PM (mH6SG)

53 I think the absolutely best of Batman:TAS was when Harley tried to have a normal day, with her pet hyenas.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2024 10:07 PM (+O65L)

54 Cool ont!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 16, 2024 10:07 PM (WL2lA)

55 41 Just this once I asked if I could submit an entire ONT.
Posted by: Robert at November 16, 2024 10:01 PM (1Yy3c)

You took the bait. They set the hook. Next they reel you in.

Posted by: davidt at November 16, 2024 10:07 PM (i0F8b)

56 Saw this on Andy Ngo's x

"The Secret Service is investigating an agent who has been accused of having Antifa and anarchist ties and who allegedly lashed out at Trump as someone with "Nazi-ass policies" and called his supporters "chodes" and "neo-Nazis" in several social media posts. "

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 16, 2024 10:07 PM (WL2lA)

57 I am amazed Robert has time for such things...working, cleaning up dead cats...

He's a Renaissance man.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 16, 2024 10:07 PM (lUFok)

58 Meet ‘Luce’: The Vatican’s cartoon mascot for Jubilee 2025

Ya know how the Japs are into Lolicon anime...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 16, 2024 10:08 PM (ynpvh)

59 I was looking forward to Zappa month, but unicorns are a good substitute.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at November 16, 2024 10:08 PM (+HzbQ)

60 Luce is so cringe

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 16, 2024 10:08 PM (WL2lA)

61 SJSU volleyball team turn on own coach as they sue college over trans teammate amid forfeit controversy

https://mol.im/a/14090811

Posted by: Ciampino - array boundaries 0 1 at November 16, 2024 10:09 PM (i0xsb)

62 Luce is so cringe
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 16, 2024 10:08 PM (WL2lA)

Funny, it doesn't look like Obama.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 16, 2024 10:09 PM (0eaVi)

63 Great White, "Rock Me" (1987)
https://youtu.be/6_9e_SVqI8g

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 16, 2024 10:10 PM (O7YUW)

64 "The Secret Service is investigating an agent who has been accused of having Antifa and anarchist ties and who allegedly lashed out at Trump as someone with "Nazi-ass policies" and called his supporters "chodes" and "neo-Nazis" in several social media posts. "
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

Fire him......with actual fire

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 16, 2024 10:10 PM (elaR+)

65 Ya know how the Japs are into Lolicon anime...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 16, 2024 10:08 PM

"Your Holiness, we have a problem. It's called Rule 34."

Posted by: Flyguy at November 16, 2024 10:10 PM (HA1lM)

66 A Robert ONT? Pictures of nekid redheads about to be ravaged by a unicorn and Heavy Metal links.

Acceptable.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 16, 2024 10:06 PM (byWhc)

Is the unicorn about to receive the souls she stole? Is that how it works?

Posted by: Doof at November 16, 2024 10:10 PM (RFPHU)

67 How about 80s era punk.

The Replacements - Bastards of Young

youtu.be/fl9KQ1Mub6Q

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 16, 2024 10:11 PM (byWhc)

68 Jim

way to go, painting a whole country with a stinky broad brush.

Might as well say all Americans are stupid and rude. And they smell funny.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2024 10:11 PM (+O65L)

69 Biden refers to U.S. 'alliance' with China before quickly backtracking

https://mol.im/a/14090695

Posted by: Ciampino - array boundaries 0 at November 16, 2024 10:11 PM (i0xsb)

70 60 Luce is so cringe
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 16, 2024 10:08 PM (WL2lA)

Say, isn't Luce short for...

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 16, 2024 10:12 PM (5AU0H)

71 Great White, "Rock Me" (1987)
https://youtu.be/6_9e_SVqI8g

I know it was with the best of intentions that you posted that, but I can't click on a Great White link. Got RickRolled by someone once and, well, Once Bitten Twice Shy.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 16, 2024 10:12 PM (lUFok)

72
The unwisest words anyone can say: "Hey, maybe I could do an ONT!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 16, 2024 10:12 PM (yvmL0)

73 Don Felder, "Heavy Metal - Takin' a Ride" from the "Heavy Metal" soundtrack, 1981:

https://youtu.be/UCxqZDAb1Ds

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 16, 2024 10:12 PM (O7YUW)

74 all Americans are stupid and rude. And they smell funny.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2024 10:11 PM (+O65L)

They call us the great unwashed.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at November 16, 2024 10:12 PM (+HzbQ)

75 @71/Blanco Basura - Z28.310: "... and, well, Once Bitten Twice Shy.

Well played!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 16, 2024 10:13 PM (O7YUW)

76 I started Christmas music today. It always makes me happy.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at November 16, 2024 10:13 PM (+HzbQ)

77 I particularly enjoyed the sewage pumper hitting the 11'8" bridge. Beautiful.

Posted by: Eromero at November 16, 2024 10:13 PM (LHPAg)

78 Might as well say all Americans are stupid and rude. And they smell funny.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2024 10:11 PM (+O65L)

(looks at gov of Il and Whoopie)

Uh....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 16, 2024 10:14 PM (0eaVi)

79 It's looking like the Vatican is going to excommunicate Bishop Strickland, so he's now in the "nailing theses to the door" stage. Which sucks because I like the guy and I don't think he's nuts (Vigano is nuts).

Posted by: gKWVE at November 16, 2024 10:14 PM (gKWVE)

80 It would be teh Awsome! if Trump were to appoint Bongino as head of Secret Service.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 16, 2024 10:14 PM (W6hoT)

81 68 Jim

way to go, painting a whole country with a stinky broad brush.

Might as well say all Americans are stupid and rude. And they smell funny.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2024 10:11 PM (+O65L)

I'm not Harry Reid.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 16, 2024 10:14 PM (ynpvh)

82 Humiliation for Biden as he's shoved to back of 'family photo' with world leaders while China's Xi gets front-row spot

https://mol.im/a/14090965

Posted by: Ciampino - array boundaries 1 at November 16, 2024 10:14 PM (i0xsb)

83 Many thanks go to Mis Hum for letting me throw this together for you all. I hadn't realized how hard it would actually be! But our dear Mis Hum did it day in and day out for nine years. On behalf of the Horde you have our deepest thanks and gratitude. God bless you, sir! - Robert
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+1. Nicely done ONT, Robert. Thanks. Go Wazzu.

Posted by: scampydog at November 16, 2024 10:14 PM (LVaYG)

84 I noticed something interesting with the conveyor road. It looks like the containers would be on wheels - at least in the artist's rendition. That would seem to reduce efficiency a bit, unless the brakes are locked. It could also increase rollovers in an earthquake.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 16, 2024 10:15 PM (VNX3d)

85 Thanks for the Saturday ONT, Robert!

Nice of you to contribute to the Horde's entertainment. And nice shout out to Mis Hum for his years of service!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 16, 2024 10:15 PM (rxCpr)

86 Well played!

Thanks! Good tune, BTW.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 16, 2024 10:15 PM (lUFok)

87 ALH

More succinct in the original Russian: nekulturny

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2024 10:15 PM (+O65L)

88 What are the odds that a high percentage of complainers on BlueSky are right wing wreckers having fun?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 16, 2024 10:15 PM (63Dwl)

89 "Your Holiness, we have a problem. It's called Rule 34."
Posted by: Flyguy

"With the rainbow rosary and the Wiccan-style forked staff? We are shocked--shocked!--that Rule 34 is going on in here."

Posted by: mikeski at November 16, 2024 10:15 PM (DgGvY)

90 60 Luce is so cringe
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 16, 2024 10:08 PM (WL2lA)
You should read what Anne Barnhardt has to say about Luce.

Posted by: Eromero at November 16, 2024 10:16 PM (LHPAg)

91 Humiliation for Biden as he's shoved to back of 'family photo' with world leaders while China's Xi gets front-row spot

https://mol.im/a/14090965
Posted by: Ciampino - array boundaries 1 at November 16, 2024 10:14 PM (i0xsb)

I saw that. Serves him right. He's been working hard to turn America into a 3rd world toilet for the last almost 4 years.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at November 16, 2024 10:16 PM (+HzbQ)

92 I read this and choked. Then I imagined people picking up their orders off the conveyor belt like you used to do at Service Merchandise.

Then I thought of all the criminals doing it because it's outside, not in a confined facility where they check your receipts at the door.

Posted by: GWB at November 16, 2024 10:16 PM (M+Nrs)

93 Zelensky says war 'will end sooner' now Donald Trump is US President

https://mol.im/a/14090359

Posted by: Ciampino - Zee On The Run at November 16, 2024 10:16 PM (i0xsb)

94 What are the odds that a high percentage of complainers on BlueSky are right wing wreckers having fun?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 16, 2024 10:15 PM (63Dwl)

El Rushbo "Operation Chaos" lives!!

Posted by: Doof at November 16, 2024 10:17 PM (RFPHU)

95 Jim

way to go, painting a whole country with a stinky broad brush.

Might as well say all Americans are stupid and rude. And they smell funny.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Just for that I'm going to fart twice as much.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 16, 2024 10:17 PM (elaR+)

96 Haywire's "Dance Desire" (1987)
https://youtu.be/M_MxNYILk3I

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 16, 2024 10:17 PM (O7YUW)

97 Amazing how all the punks are starting to straighten up their act now that there's a new sheriff in town.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at November 16, 2024 10:18 PM (+HzbQ)

98 Robert

Just larking around on Tensor, let me know.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2024 10:18 PM (+O65L)

99 That would be funny if there are many on Bluesky LARPing like hell being AWFL Karens.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2024 10:19 PM (+O65L)

100 Nice ONT, Robert!

Very nice assist, Mis Hum!

The ONTs march on . . . . . . . . . .

Posted by: LRob in OK at November 16, 2024 10:19 PM (TSQkU)

101 So continuing the saga of the dead cat, the details of which can be found in the morning thread and KT's subsequent thread. Long story short while I was on the road for the last couple of weeks a cat crawled into my car's engine compartment and proceeded to die. I found its remains late yesterday afternoon. Because I am a big weenie I made a few calls and found a place that would remove the remains at substantial cost. It was, I'm told, quite decomposed.

But now I'm not sure if I'm winning the battle of the stench. I changed both air filters and sprayed an odor eliminator in the cabin. I've kept the hood popped open all day (when not going here and there). I feel I may have to take it to another detailer to do a second engine detail. I really really really do not want to try to sell this thing. It's going to be a Seinfeldian comedy trying to do that. Also I don't want a car note.

TL;DR Cat died, shit stinks.

Posted by: Robert at November 16, 2024 10:19 PM (1Yy3c)

102 I just saw something hilarious on X. We’ve talked about how all the progs have been jumping to BlueSky from twitter - to day Bluesky put out an emergency warning that their staff is now getting 3,000 content complaints an hour, a level they never imagined possible, and their staff is overwhelmed.
Looks like all the leftists who went there immediately started to complain about all the other posters there! And the place is overwhelmed by the bullshit.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Bluesky II: The Karening

Posted by: mikeski at November 16, 2024 10:19 PM (DgGvY)

103 Might as well say all Americans are stupid and rude. And they smell funny.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2024 10:11 PM (+O65L)

Only the (fill in the blank)s.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 16, 2024 10:19 PM (GZDmk)

104 Erebus

Going to fart in their general direction?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2024 10:19 PM (+O65L)

105 81 68 Jim

way to go, painting a whole country with a stinky broad brush.

Might as well say all Americans are stupid and rude. And they smell funny.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2024 10:11 PM (+O65L)

I'm not Harry Reid.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 16, 2024 10:14 PM (ynpvh)

Okay. Not all Japanese are into Lolicon. Just a disturbing high percentage of Anime is, which one could infer indicates a high interest in Japan and other markets served by Japanese Anime.
Some are also into Futanari.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 16, 2024 10:19 PM (ynpvh)

106 Eye-watering sum Kamala Harris spent on private jets in final weeks

https://mol.im/a/14090587

Posted by: Ciampino - Leaving on a jet plane at November 16, 2024 10:20 PM (i0xsb)

107 Bishop Strickland is one of the most spiritual men I know of. Not being Catholic I wasn’t a member of his congregation, but he lived a normal life and it would amaze me when I’d recognize him in the grocery store. (We lived in the same neighborhood, near his cathedral). He fights Evil, and Evil hates him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 16, 2024 10:20 PM (W6hoT)

108 bishopjosephstrickland.substack.com/p/what-will-it-take

Posted by: gKWVE at November 16, 2024 10:22 PM (gKWVE)

109 Loved the low bridge video. We have one in my hometown. Peels off truck roofs and ac units all the time. Often trucks wedged under it so much it takes a herculean effort to yank them out. This was a live action version of what happens here weekly. On video it is hilarious dumbassery.

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at November 16, 2024 10:22 PM (hftn9)

110 Well done, my son!!!! 🥰🥰🥰

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at November 16, 2024 10:23 PM (Vvh2V)

111 Not one that ever got any radio play, but was always one of my favourites of theirs:

Huey Lewis & The News, "Whole Lotta Lovin'" from their 1986 album, "Fore!"

https://youtu.be/Qn_bTX7xG2I

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 16, 2024 10:24 PM (O7YUW)

112 Dead cat car: You might try an ozone generator. Small ones are available on Amazon for little money.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 16, 2024 10:24 PM (GZDmk)

113 Going to fart in their general direction?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Yes, but only because their mothers were hamsters and their fathers smelled of elderberries.

I'm required too under such circumstances.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 16, 2024 10:24 PM (elaR+)

114 Always know your height.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at November 16, 2024 10:24 PM (dR6yv)

115 This one's for you, Robert:

youtube.com/watch?v=ctZ7hJBSrpM

Thanks for the ONT!

Posted by: JQ at November 16, 2024 10:24 PM (njWTi)

116 UFC at MSG with DJT, Musk and Kid Rock @ front.

Posted by: runner at November 16, 2024 10:25 PM (V13WU)

117 94 What are the odds that a high percentage of complainers on BlueSky are right wing wreckers having fun?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 16, 2024 10:15 PM (63Dwl)

The funniest part is that there don’t need to be any, because the progs can’t resist being progs. I saw that a lot of newcomers are getting banned for saying Trump stole the election, since BlueSky had put in a blanket rule that anyone who complains that an election was stolen gets banned.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 16, 2024 10:27 PM (W6hoT)

118 This one's for you, Robert:

youtube.com/watch?v=ctZ7hJBSrpM

Thanks for the ONT!
Posted by: JQ at November 16, 2024 10:24 PM (njWTi)

Looks way too much like me learning how to back up my new travel trailer camper the day I brought it home this summer!

Posted by: Doof at November 16, 2024 10:27 PM (RFPHU)

119 Jailed mom is BS. At ten I and my friends were everywhere all damn day. I bet the Sheriff's kids are wimps.

Posted by: Diogenes

In September, '73, I walked about five miles through the woods to look at Jim Croce's plan crash site. Me, Smokey the GSD, and two other kids from our neighborhood in Natchitoches. Look at Chester Lane, the zoom out a bit to see where the endorsement the airport runway was.

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 16, 2024 10:28 PM (WdmJl)

120 I saw that a lot of newcomers are getting banned for saying Trump stole the election, since BlueSky had put in a blanket rule that anyone who complains that an election was stolen gets banned.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 16, 2024 10:27 PM (W6hoT)

So it's pretty much the Korean meme
"DO NOT DUMB HERE
NOT DUMB AREA HERE"

Posted by: gKWVE at November 16, 2024 10:29 PM (gKWVE)

121 Okay. Not all Japanese are into Lolicon. Just a disturbing high percentage of Anime is, which one could infer indicates a high interest in Japan and other markets served by Japanese Anime.
Some are also into Futanari.
Posted by: jim

Waaaaayyyyy too much lolicon and more futanari than I care for.
They even have games where a 9 year old girl can sun tan nude FFS.
Makes me think they need Rocko with the cue ball from Boondock Saints.
Sick fuck! Sick fuck!

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 16, 2024 10:29 PM (elaR+)

122 Great American cinema

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk1vbwb6vS8

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2024 10:29 PM (+O65L)

123 Biden refers to U.S. 'alliance' with China before quickly backtracking

So a side effect of dementia is inadvertently telling the truth.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 16, 2024 10:30 PM (0Htd1)

124 ***the chick is hot as balls.
---

That may be a literal truth.

Posted by: Braenyard still wondering about Vic at November 16, 2024 10:30 PM (eL84x)

125 66 Is the unicorn about to receive the souls she stole? Is that how it works?
Posted by: Doof at November

As if all of us Auburn /red heads go around stealing souls all day. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at November 16, 2024 10:31 PM (pZEOD)

126 Robert, look up fire and water restoration services. Ozone chamber running for a day or two might kill the stench. Had to do it with MIL car we inherited as she was a smoker. Got rid of the odor and took 2 days or so.

Posted by: whig's phone at November 16, 2024 10:32 PM (ctrM5)

127 Converging 80s music and BlueSky...

Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine
https://youtu.be/Ofrqm6-LCqs

OK it's from 1990. Close enough!

Posted by: Doof at November 16, 2024 10:32 PM (RFPHU)

128 125 66 Is the unicorn about to receive the souls she stole? Is that how it works?
Posted by: Doof at November

As if all of us Auburn /red heads go around stealing souls all day. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at November 16, 2024 10:31 PM (pZEOD)

Nope, just while you're awake!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 16, 2024 10:32 PM (VNX3d)

129 109 Loved the low bridge video. We have one in my hometown. Peels off truck roofs and ac units all the time.”

I was next to a truck hauling a road grader when we went on under a low bridge. Looked over and saw that bridge shear the cab clean off the road grader, in a shower of glass. Funniest part was that I know the truck driver saw it, since he slowed down for a second - then he just said “fuck it”, caught a gear, and kept on trucking.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 16, 2024 10:32 PM (W6hoT)

130 Latest conspiracy you will hear about.
Polymarket posted election results weeks in advance.
Therefore proving the election was rigged/stolen.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 16, 2024 10:32 PM (elaR+)

131 Thanks for the ONT, Robert/MisHum-whomever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 16, 2024 10:33 PM (bss/y)

132 Biden should have stayed home.

Posted by: runner at November 16, 2024 10:33 PM (V13WU)

133 130 Latest conspiracy you will hear about.
Polymarket posted election results weeks in advance.
Therefore proving the election was rigged/stolen.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 16, 2024 10:32 PM (elaR+)

How about 2020 when Biden said they had the biggest fraud machine ever?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 16, 2024 10:33 PM (bss/y)

134 As if all of us Auburn /red heads go around stealing souls all day. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at November 16, 2024 10:31 PM (pZEOD)

It's science. Don't try to deny it!

Posted by: Doof at November 16, 2024 10:34 PM (RFPHU)

135 I see Germany has arrested a man for calling a government minister an idiot on social media.

No threats or anything - just called him stupid.

But remember the Krauts need to stop AfD members from running for office or else Germany might become authoritarian or something

Posted by: 18-1 at November 16, 2024 10:34 PM (oZhjI)

136 Latest conspiracy you will hear about.
Polymarket posted election results weeks in advance.
Therefore proving the election was rigged/stolen.

The feds raided them. Which I hope Trump will have every agent involved fired and prosecuted.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 16, 2024 10:34 PM (oZhjI)

137 124 ***the chick is hot as balls.
---

That may be a literal truth.
Posted by: Braenyard still wondering about Vic at November 16, 2024 10:30 PM (eL84x)

Square Jawed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 16, 2024 10:35 PM (bss/y)

138
How about 2020 when Biden said they had the biggest fraud machine ever?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

The loony leftists claimed the GOP was cheating then too, just not enough.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 16, 2024 10:35 PM (elaR+)

139 While not technically from the 80's, this 1996 computer game's soundtrack had that 80's guitar feel that worked oh so well:

Crusader - No Regret (Main Theme)
https://is.gd/16LyoH

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 16, 2024 10:35 PM (O7YUW)

140 125 66 Is the unicorn about to receive the souls she stole? Is that how it works?
Posted by: Doof at November

As if all of us Auburn /red heads go around stealing souls all day. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at November 16, 2024 10:31 PM (pZEOD)
‘And in the end the souls you keep are equal to the souls you reap…’
-something some Beatles might have said

Posted by: Eromero at November 16, 2024 10:35 PM (LHPAg)

141 As if all of us Auburn /red heads go around stealing souls all day. 🤣
***
Since my hair has gone silver now, do i have to give back all those souls. I have them color coded and everything...

Posted by: Megthered at November 16, 2024 10:35 PM (Mtips)

142 Biden refers to U.S. 'alliance' with China before quickly backtracking

So a side effect of dementia is inadvertently telling the truth.

I've seen some Indian news sites calling the Democrats the China party in the US.

And...it is pretty accurate. Which I guess would explain some of the shift of Indians to the Republicans.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 16, 2024 10:35 PM (oZhjI)

143 Robert ,
I feel for you. I once ran over a dead skunk. Eventually the smell will go away. Skunk smell is insidious. It was awhile before I would park my car in the garage.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 16, 2024 10:37 PM (0Htd1)

144 141 Since my hair has gone silver now, do i have to give back all those souls. I have them color coded and everything...
Posted by: Megthered at November 16, 2024 10:35 PM (Mtips)

Do not share the code of the colors. We aren’t supposed to let others know.

Posted by: Piper at November 16, 2024 10:37 PM (pZEOD)

145 82
'Humiliation for Biden as he's shoved to back of 'family photo' with world leaders while China's Xi gets front-row spot'

I don't know about that. It's common to put taller people in the back of group photos. There are some short folks there with FJB.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 16, 2024 10:37 PM (3wi/L)

146 Parent Jailed - 10-Year-Old Son Walks to Town.

Mother claims “He is mature enough to walk there without incident," ; but, we all know that is bullshit.

Now if he wanted to cut off his dick or wear wear a dress and work the glory hole at the Library, whom is we to argue? That’s different.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 16, 2024 10:37 PM (lPSbt)

147 Thanks for the ONT, Robert!

Since you linked to Pantera... I feel like their song "Hellbound" never got any love despite it being pretty damned good with lots of nice work from Vinnie Paul:

https://youtu.be/h03k5UX5RlY

And, I'll just throw out a couple more links to not-particularly-popular songs.

Dead Soul Tribe - PowerTrip:
https://youtu.be/Zw_jQn7lF8I

The Butterfly Effect - One Second of Insanity:
https://youtu.be/Pz0fBiCMq_I

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at November 16, 2024 10:38 PM (DTX3h)

148 In September, '73, I walked about five miles through the woods to look at Jim Croce's plan crash site. Me, Smokey the GSD, and two other kids from our neighborhood in Natchitoches. Look at Chester Lane, the zoom out a bit to see where the endorsement the airport runway was.
Posted by: BifBewalski at November 16, 2024 10:28 PM (WdmJl)
***

I had a complete Huck Finn childhood in a little town in Washington. I bet the Sheriff's kid has his nose in a cell phone and doesn't know his way around the back yard.

I have real heartburn with CPS agencies. A good idea gone bad. A white rural kid and mom being bullied by the cop. And yippee! The child protective guys get a new case. And those folks don't get promotions unless they have a good caseload.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 16, 2024 10:38 PM (W/lyH)

149 >>> Always know your height.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at November 16, 2024 10:24 PM (dR6yv)

Six foot. I actually had a max headroom moment at a party when I was younger. I was running indoors [stupid] at some dudes house that had multilevels, a midcentury modern sort of design, and went flying off one level [stupid] and smashed my forehead into the corner of the next room's ceiling.

Had a sit down on the steps and thought about things for awhile until some girl sat down with me and gave me a beer.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 16, 2024 10:38 PM (Y6IkP)

150 Loved the low bridge video. Centre Street Bridge in Calgary has a lower level with very low clearance. Over-height vehicles got jammed in it all the time.

You know, it would be useful if highway truck scales had a height measuring device. Just an array of low power lasers beamed across the scale platform, each with its own sensor.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2024 10:39 PM (EOLxR)

151 I can't believe I watched the whole low clearance video!

Posted by: BonniebBue at November 16, 2024 10:39 PM (o2T9x)

152 107 Bishop Strickland is one of the most spiritual men I know of. Not being Catholic I wasn’t a member of his congregation, but he lived a normal life and it would amaze me when I’d recognize him in the grocery store. (We lived in the same neighborhood, near his cathedral). He fights Evil, and Evil hates him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 16, 2024 10:20 PM (W6hoT)
I know you hear the same slanders on him that I hear each week. He’s a good guy, maybe close to being a Martin Luther kind of guy. Who knows?

Posted by: Eromero at November 16, 2024 10:40 PM (LHPAg)

153 Mom Jailed for Letting 10-Year-Old Walk Alone to Town
"I was not panicking as I know the roads and know he is mature enough to walk there without incident," says Brittany Patterson.

This should get the female sheriff (?) responsible for this fired. I wonder if Sheriff Dane Kirby has made a comment yet?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 16, 2024 10:40 PM (oZhjI)

154 Good evening!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 16, 2024 10:41 PM (Z25uN)

155 It might be fun to get arrested, if I was 10.

Start shopping for Legos. At the Mall. With your own fucking money. Tell ‘em to get bent. Kids have rights too, place of public accommodation. Make a federal case out of it. That’s what the left does all the time.

When I was stationed in South Korea there would be scores of little kids walking to school, with their book bag backpacks on the downtown big city sidewalks of Seoul. Maybe between ages 5 or 10.

Expected to be at school on time ready to to to work.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 16, 2024 10:43 PM (lPSbt)

156 Good evening!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 16, 2024 10:41 PM (Z25uN)

Howdy COMM!!

Posted by: Doof at November 16, 2024 10:44 PM (RFPHU)

157 I absolutely love the bromance between Elon and Trump.

Posted by: jmel at November 16, 2024 10:45 PM (bVhJi)

158 I think all of our parents would have been jailed.
My friends and I walked so many places it wasn't funny.
I'm talking places many miles away.
3 hours walking there. A couple hours exploring, then 4 hours walking back before it got too dark.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 16, 2024 10:45 PM (elaR+)

159 "The Secret Service is investigating an agent who has been accused of having Antifa and anarchist ties and who allegedly lashed out at Trump as someone with "Nazi-ass policies" and called his supporters "chodes" and "neo-Nazis" in several social media posts. "

I suspect things will get interesting when Trump demands to know who actually planned the security layout on the day of the first assassination attempt. The FNM hinted it was the since fired head of the Secret Cervix but that was almost certainly not true.

Because that person intentionally left a gap in the security.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 16, 2024 10:45 PM (oZhjI)

160 I get the schlubs renting a box truck and ripping the top off. Shouldn't happen, but does. The commercial drivers? Yeah, no.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at November 16, 2024 10:45 PM (dR6yv)

161 Scorpions, "The Zoo" (1980)
https://youtu.be/X27IfAgzhTY

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 16, 2024 10:45 PM (O7YUW)

162 I get the schlubs renting a box truck and ripping the top off. Shouldn't happen, but does. The commercial drivers? Yeah, no.

People don't pay enough attention to the road around them in general. They are really not expecting danger from above.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 16, 2024 10:46 PM (oZhjI)

163 Robert

You did good. Loved the low clearance vid... altho I feel a little ashamed for having watched all of it.

Unrelated topic:

Trump/UFC as Taylor Swift/K.C. Chiefs (symbiotic relationships)

Posted by: mnw at November 16, 2024 10:47 PM (NLIak)

164 Well...Batman, the Animated Series is the best Batman thing ever. So there's that. And "Mask of the Phantasm" is the best Batman film ever. So there's that as well.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 16, 2024 10:47 PM (CHHv1)

165 Thanks to videos like the low bridge I worry about that sort of thing in UHaul rentals

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 16, 2024 10:48 PM (elaR+)

166
Long story short while I was on the road for the last couple of weeks a cat crawled into my car's engine compartment and proceeded to die.
Posted by: Robert

Sorry. Try to think of it as he died doing what he loved.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 16, 2024 10:48 PM (5uekx)

167 I get the schlubs renting a box truck and ripping the top off. Shouldn't happen, but does. The commercial drivers? Yeah, no.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at November 16, 2024 10:45 PM (dR6yv)

I daresay many of those rental trucks are being operated by "professional" drivers. Rentals to sub for a truck in the shop, or because the company's own fleet is used to capacity, and more loads are coming.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2024 10:49 PM (EOLxR)

168 Hello, Horde! ❤❤❤

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, Plucky Comic Relief, Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade at November 16, 2024 10:49 PM (SRRAx)

169 >>> 53 I think the absolutely best of Batman:TAS was when Harley tried to have a normal day, with her pet hyenas.

Anna, The tiger tiger burning bright episode, with the cat people and Selina Kyle, was my fave. Trying to throw a little classic poetry at the kiddos, plus a few complex character developments. Reminded me of the best cowboy bebop eps.

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 16, 2024 10:50 PM (C9rGl)

170 Hi, TiFW

Posted by: mnw at November 16, 2024 10:50 PM (NLIak)

171 Congrats Robert on a great ONT! Love that picture with the unicorn, the layout is superb.

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 16, 2024 10:51 PM (C9rGl)

172 White Lion's cover of "Radar Love" from 1989:
https://youtu.be/w6pZHLb2R8g

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 16, 2024 10:52 PM (O7YUW)

173 I daresay many of those rental trucks are being operated by "professional" drivers. Rentals to sub for a truck in the shop, or because the company's own fleet is used to capacity, and more loads are coming.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Probably so. There are some real dumbasses on the road.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at November 16, 2024 10:52 PM (dR6yv)

174 143 Robert ,
I feel for you. I once ran over a dead skunk. Eventually the smell will go away. Skunk smell is insidious. It was awhile before I would park my car in the garage.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 16, 2024 10:37 PM (0Htd1)

Worst smell in the car? When I had the Miata I was going to get some food one night on lunch. The RV in front of me dropped it's septic system I think and I experienced the worst smell I think I have ever smelled personally. It spattered all over the underside of the car and I had to immediately go to a coin operated wash and powerwash the undercarriage.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 16, 2024 10:53 PM (bss/y)

175 Hildebrandt was pretty good. Rowena and Frazetta were the king and queen of fantasy art in the 70s and 80s, though.

Posted by: GWB at November 16, 2024 10:53 PM (M+Nrs)

176
You probably heard, but a judge nixed the rigged auction, and Infowars is back in Alex Jones' hands.

Not over yet, though.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 16, 2024 10:54 PM (5uekx)

177 Crowd roars as Trump enters scene of historic rally to take in fight night with RFK Jr, Musk

Posted by: Don Black at November 16, 2024 10:54 PM (/7KEl)

178 156

Howdy Doof❤

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 16, 2024 10:55 PM (Z25uN)

179 Probably so. There are some real dumbasses on the road.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at November 16, 2024 10:52 PM (dR6yv)

One thing I noticed watching that video: the flashing "Over Height, Must Turn" sign was not flashing for all the wrecks. If drivers came to rely upon the sign, and it fails to alert, they might have a case against the city.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2024 10:55 PM (EOLxR)

180 As if all of us Auburn /red heads go around stealing souls all day. 🤣

No, you girls do spend some time sleeping.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 16, 2024 10:55 PM (lUFok)

181 AOP, I found this video about Jerker Line oil well pumps - using linkages to run multiple pumps off one engine

youtu.be/lcSMDiRBl1E

Posted by: Kindltot at November 16, 2024 10:55 PM (D7oie)

182 Had to drive UHaul trucks a lot lately.
Just a little bit of care in how you drive goes a long way.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 16, 2024 10:55 PM (elaR+)

183
What should tonight's movie be for me?

Kelly's Heroes
or
The Guns of Navarone

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 16, 2024 10:56 PM (5uekx)

184 You probably heard, but a judge nixed the rigged auction, and Infowars is back in Alex Jones' hands.

I do wish conservatives would use the same sort of lawfare back against the left.

If Jones defamed the families of the Sandy Hook shooting isn't the same true of every "news outlet" that claimed that 9/11 was an inside job, that illegals don't commit crimes, or that the clot shot was harmless?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 16, 2024 10:56 PM (oZhjI)

185 11'8" clearance. At the parking garage they have an apron that lets one know whether the vehicle can clear or not. Railroad calls it Cash Cow.

Posted by: Braenyard still wondering about Vic at November 16, 2024 10:56 PM (eL84x)

186 White Lion's cover of "Radar Love" from 1989:
https://youtu.be/w6pZHLb2R8g
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 16, 2024 10:52 PM (O7YUW)

Outstanding! I featured that a few months ago in a monthly classic rock trivia event I host. I always have an audio category, and alternating months it's "classic rock covers". I tell the contestants who they're hearing and play 15-20 seconds - then they have to tell me the song title and original artist.
You'd probably do well at my events!

Posted by: Doof at November 16, 2024 10:57 PM (RFPHU)

187 People don't pay enough attention to the road around them in general. They are really not expecting danger from above.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 16, 2024 10:46 PM (oZhjI)

Except all the schmucks in passenger cars who slow down going into tunnels because "ZOMG! There's a roof on my road!"

Posted by: GWB at November 16, 2024 10:57 PM (M+Nrs)

188 Oregon squeaked one out.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at November 16, 2024 10:58 PM (dR6yv)

189 Not over. But it sounds like Alex had some bidders lined up that never were considered because it was a rigged auction. Judge sounds ticked. Hope the ringleaders get charges thrown at them. They schemed too close to the sun.

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 16, 2024 10:58 PM (dqr3p)

190 Except all the schmucks in passenger cars who slow down going into tunnels because "ZOMG! There's a roof on my road!"

My favorite...people that come to a stop on highway onramps.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 16, 2024 10:58 PM (oZhjI)

191 Howdy Doof❤
Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 16, 2024 10:55 PM (Z25uN)

Hope you are doing well!!

Posted by: Doof at November 16, 2024 10:58 PM (RFPHU)

192 Hello, Horde! ❤❤❤
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, Plucky Comic Relief, Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade at November 16, 2024 10:49 PM (SRRAx)

Hugs to you Teresa!

Posted by: Doof at November 16, 2024 10:59 PM (RFPHU)

193 You know, it would be useful if highway truck scales had a height measuring device. Just an array of low power lasers beamed across the scale platform, each with its own sensor.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2024 10:39 PM (EOLxR)

We have those on interstates around here. They will start flashing if you're over height.

Posted by: GWB at November 16, 2024 11:01 PM (M+Nrs)

194 Beautiful Jerry Mathers moon out there.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 16, 2024 11:02 PM (dg+HA)

195
My favorite...people that come to a stop on highway onramps.
Posted by: 18-1

Ramp Metering

https://t.ly/PVjzh

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 16, 2024 11:02 PM (63Dwl)

196 AOP, I found this video about Jerker Line oil well pumps - using linkages to run multiple pumps off one engine

youtu.be/lcSMDiRBl1E

Posted by: Kindltot at November 16, 2024 10:55 PM (D7oie)

Heh. Interesting. Must be real shallow wells.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2024 11:03 PM (EOLxR)

197 I grew up in Eastern WA. I worked in Cherry, and Pear orchards during the summer. Parents just let me go to work all day in the summer.
We used to ride our bikes to the mall, be gone all day.
Our gang was not afraid of much.

We are raising pussies.

Posted by: DAN at November 16, 2024 11:03 PM (CwGN+)

198 So this happened earlier tonight. Attempted to cook a frozen lasagna and notice it was smelling a little smoky. Open the oven to pull it out and sure enough, lasagna is blackened. Which isn't typical as I like lasagna and won't burn it to have an excuse to go get a burger. Well, feces.

So I hit the button to turn off the oven, and it doesn't turn off. I play with the controls, and still it's on. Fine. Hit the breaker, go to Culver's.

Come back an hour later and flip the breaker back on. Within a minute or two the oven's element is back on full blast. Which means the controls are fornicated. And since this range came with the house, it's definitely out of warranty.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 16, 2024 11:05 PM (lUFok)

199 Trump is the Energizer bunny.

If I were he, I'd lock myself in a room, hang out the Do Not Disturb sign, and sleep 12 hours a day for a month.

Posted by: mnw at November 16, 2024 11:05 PM (NLIak)

200 We just turned on Thor:Love and Thunder because no reason.

It is so bad it is weirdly, cringey-ly funny.

And, Natalie Portman??!?

To her credit, she looks hotter than in her younger days. She aged well.
Still a crap actress.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 16, 2024 11:05 PM (ufFY8)

201 My favorite...people that come to a stop on highway onramps.
Posted by: 18-1

Ramp Metering
https://t.ly/PVjzh
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Those help a bit when the freeway is a parking lot.

When the freeway is moving at 75mph, making all the cars stop 90% of the way down the on-ramp is reeeeeeetarded.

Posted by: mikeski at November 16, 2024 11:06 PM (DgGvY)

202 Robert and LizLem

Elf and unicorn
https://tinyurl.com/y4yep5ac

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2024 11:07 PM (+O65L)

203 I am off to bed. Night y’all!

Posted by: Piper at November 16, 2024 11:07 PM (p4NUW)

204 When I've got a slow poke merger in front of me (assuming a long on ramp) I'll slow to a crawl. Let slow schmuck get way ahead and then start accelerating at a serious rate.

Makes the eventual urge much easier...unless of course the schmuck does actually come to a full stop which I've seen too.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 16, 2024 11:07 PM (oZhjI)

205 When the freeway is moving at 75mph, making all the cars stop 90% of the way down the on-ramp is reeeeeeetarded.
Posted by: mikeski at November 16, 2024 11:06 PM (DgGvY)

They have metered on-ramps on many freeways in Phoenix metro area. Metering is turned on only for rush hour traffic.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2024 11:08 PM (EOLxR)

206 Robert and LizLem
Elf and unicorn
https://tinyurl.com/y4yep5ac
Posted by: Anna Puma

Thicc elf, not waify elf.

Posted by: mikeski at November 16, 2024 11:08 PM (DgGvY)

207 My own bad driver peeve:

People who cheerfully wave other drivers exiting malls to cross 2 lanes of traffic & turn left-- thereby pissing off the 7 drivers BEHIND them who're just trying to get up to the stoplight.

Posted by: mnw at November 16, 2024 11:09 PM (NLIak)

208 https://tinyurl.com/Mammabonitainoregon

Seattle woman killed father with an ice ax on election night due to her distress over Trump victory. And -- surprise! -- she's married to a trans woman.

Posted by: MammaB at November 16, 2024 11:09 PM (F0szY)

209 Well crap.
Finally get a fridge for the garage and it croaks.
Had to use an extension cord, but I went with a 10ga one.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 16, 2024 11:09 PM (elaR+)

210 GA puttin' it on Tenn 31-17 under 3 min 4th

Posted by: Don Black at November 16, 2024 11:10 PM (/7KEl)

211 MILO
@Nero

In the history of our species, there has never once existed a woman who was right about what would make her happy

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 16, 2024 11:11 PM (TGPs7)

212 Seattle woman killed father with an ice ax on election night due to her distress over Trump victory. And -- surprise! -- she's married to a trans woman.

So you are telling me a woman that will marry a dude in a dress and claim he is her wife might be cray cray?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 16, 2024 11:11 PM (oZhjI)

213 Come back an hour later and flip the breaker back on. Within a minute or two the oven's element is back on full blast. Which means the controls are fornicated.
--------

Not necessarily. I have had this happen, as has my BIL. The outside of the heating element is like tied to neutral. The heating control turns ONE of the two 240 legs on/off to control the heat. If the internal ceramic of the heating element fails, then the unswitched side of the 240v may short to the neutral sheath, which means it cannot be turned off with the control.

It sounds like this is what has happened. A new heating element (cheap) will likely fix things.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 16, 2024 11:11 PM (XeU6L)

214 * is ~~like~~ tied to neutral.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 16, 2024 11:12 PM (XeU6L)

215 In the history of our species, there has never once existed a woman who was right about what would make her happy

Milo is not the person I'd turn to about women - though last I heard he had given up on being gay.

That being said it does look like all the changes that have come with 2nd generation and on has made women less happy overall.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 16, 2024 11:12 PM (oZhjI)

216
"It Is So Loud In Here!"

Watch:

The Entire Presidential Entourage return to Madison Sq Garden for a UFC event:

https://is.gd/K75zdP

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 16, 2024 11:13 PM (5uekx)

217 https://tinyurl.com/Mammabonitainoregon

Seattle woman killed father with an ice ax on election night due to her distress over Trump victory. And -- surprise! -- she's married to a trans woman.
Posted by: MammaB at November 16, 2024 11:09 PM (F0szY)

Fry her ass. And the tranny's ass, too, for good measure. Two-seater electric chair FTW.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2024 11:14 PM (EOLxR)

218 Watched a clip of a sports channel coverage of Trump's entrance to the UFC thing at MSG. RFKJr, Bongino, Don Jr, and - not even mentioned by the sportscasters, which I find amusing - Speaker Johnson. He looked a bit out of place, though relaxed and smiling. With that line-up the Secret Service and other security folks have to be pretty amped up.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 16, 2024 11:14 PM (1m82a)

219
Aidan Kearney
@DoctorTurtleboy

Donald Trump’s new press secretary is a turtle rider, who supports what we are doing to expose corruption. She sent this amazing message of support on the day I was arrested. Congratulations to Karoline. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving woman. I look forward to watching you keep the mainstream media in line for the next 4 years. We need federal intervention in Norfolk County because it’s corruption central, and I’m counting on the new DOJ to help make that happen.

https://tinyurl.com/mryxys9d

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 16, 2024 11:14 PM (TGPs7)

220 I grew up in Eastern WA. I worked in Cherry, and Pear orchards during the summer. Parents just let me go to work all day in the summer.
We used to ride our bikes to the mall, be gone all day.
Our gang was not afraid of much.

We are raising pussies.
Posted by: DAN at November 16, 2024 11:03 PM (CwGN+)
***

Western Washington for me. Wandered down to the river when I was little to fish. Then when I was old enough, it was picking beans, strawberries and raspberries.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 16, 2024 11:15 PM (W/lyH)

221 It sounds like this is what has happened. A new heating element (cheap) will likely fix things.

Off to look up heating element prices...

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 16, 2024 11:15 PM (lUFok)

222 Thicc elf, not waify elf.
Posted by: mikeski

So that's a like?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2024 11:16 PM (+O65L)

223 After I became 7-8 years old, the only rule was 'Be home for dinner time.'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 16, 2024 11:16 PM (XeU6L)

224 So that's a like?
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2024 11:16 PM (+O65L)

Why are elves always depicted with those stupid pointy ears?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2024 11:17 PM (EOLxR)

225
Speakah Mike Johnson was there!

This guy might be alright.

He might be alright.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 16, 2024 11:17 PM (5uekx)

226 In Commiefornia, this last election shows that there is a chance that we could grind control of the state from the despot democraps. I hope we can make even more sizable inroads during the mid-terms but it will take a concerted effort coming out of DC with Trump and his advisors to loosen the grip of these Lefty Losers.

"ALL PAIN TO NEWSCUM!!!"

Destroy the coastal Leftists!

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 16, 2024 11:18 PM (TDvv2)

227 Merissa Hansen⚡️
@merissahansen17

This is hands down the best Christmas decorations I’ve ever seen.

https://tinyurl.com/57ewpxfn

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 16, 2024 11:18 PM (TGPs7)

228 Donald Trump’s new press secretary is a turtle rider, who supports what we are doing to expose corruption

MA might just be the most corrupt state in the Union. Yeah IL is more in your face, NJ is more tawdry, and DE is a joke but...Whitey Bulger ran both MA and the FBI as his personal fiefdoms for decades.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 16, 2024 11:18 PM (oZhjI)

229 RE: Trump back at MSG tonight:

Wonder if MSNBC broke out their chyron "85 years since 1939 Nazi rally at MSG," as Trump entered.

I'm still wicked pissed about that.

Posted by: mnw at November 16, 2024 11:18 PM (NLIak)

230 I grew up in Eastern WA. I worked in Cherry, and Pear orchards during the summer. Parents just let me go to work all day in the summer.
We used to ride our bikes to the mall, be gone all day.
Our gang was not afraid of much.

We are raising pussies.
Posted by: DAN
----------
Grew up there too. Well described.

Posted by: scampydog at November 16, 2024 11:19 PM (LVaYG)

231 Come home when the street lights come on.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 16, 2024 11:22 PM (TY4Nf)

232 And it will start with Prez. Trump "Jerking" the choke chain of Federal subsidies that Commiefornia currently abuses.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 16, 2024 11:22 PM (TDvv2)

233 It sounds like this is what has happened. A new heating element (cheap) will likely fix things.

Off to look up heating element prices...

Mr. Hammer, your diagnosis of shorted heating element is most likely correct as I can buy every part for that range except the oven heating elements. No longer made by the manufacturer and not available for purchase.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 16, 2024 11:23 PM (lUFok)

234 Dave Rubin
@RubinReport

Not sure what’s happening over Miami right now but I for one welcome our new alien leaders…

https://tinyurl.com/3unsrept

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 16, 2024 11:24 PM (TGPs7)

235 Dawgs win 31-17

Posted by: Don Black at November 16, 2024 11:24 PM (/7KEl)

236
Not sure what’s happening over Miami right now but I for one welcome our new alien leaders…

Wait until they find out Biden is still nominally the leader and get sniffed...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 16, 2024 11:27 PM (oZhjI)

237 Home at last.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 16, 2024 11:27 PM (LkLld)

238 When I was his age, I had complete roam status around my city of La Crescenta.

But I can see the LEO concern since the democraps let all of these child molesting sub-human POS's across our southern boarder over the last 3 years.

It's not like my childhood anymore...

But MAYBE, we can make it so again...we just have to have the will.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 16, 2024 11:29 PM (TDvv2)

239
Thinkwert
@Thinkwert

How does an inanimate object named “Cony Hawk” skate better than I can

https://tinyurl.com/455ckxaz

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 16, 2024 11:29 PM (TGPs7)

240 Mr. Hammer, your diagnosis of shorted heating element is most likely correct as I can buy every part for that range except the oven heating elements. No longer made by the manufacturer and not available for purchase.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 16, 2024 11:23 PM (lUFok)

Make and model of the range? Maybe we can Horde-source it. Or perhaps an element for another brand would fit in there with some judicious tweaking.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2024 11:30 PM (EOLxR)

241 Why are elves always depicted with those stupid pointy ears?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

So you can tell them from the humans?

Posted by: mikeski at November 16, 2024 11:30 PM (DgGvY)

242 Okay, I'm here. Let the festooneries begin.

I would been here sooner, but I already got my Saturday night joke this morning.

Just kidding. We just finished watching "Dave." A remarkable movie, and completely un-remake-able. Sure, it leaned left politically, but in a kind-of old-fashioned liberal way. The pols and media folk playing themselves was the perfect touch.

Oh, look, I see there's content in the post by somebody not MisHum. And a couple hundred comments, too. That's a lot. Maybe I'll go watch another movie.... Casablanca? Ferris Bueller? The Martian....? Hmmm....

Posted by: mindful webworker - so many choices at November 16, 2024 11:30 PM (LRgL5)

243 Mr. Hammer, your diagnosis of shorted heating element is most likely correct as I can buy every part for that range except the oven heating elements. No longer made by the manufacturer and not available for purchase.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
------

Of course. I know the syndrome. But, I wouldn't give up until I had a part number, and searched for the part number itself.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 16, 2024 11:30 PM (XeU6L)

244 Thicc elf, not waify elf.
Posted by: mikeski

So that's a like?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Sure. It makes sense. If you're going to ride a unicorn, you'll probably have good lower body strength. I don't think unicorns are supposed to like saddles and stirrups.

Posted by: mikeski at November 16, 2024 11:31 PM (DgGvY)

245 231 Come home when the street lights come on.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 16, 2024 11:22 PM (TY4Nf)

We had to "get home before dark"... only thing that (slightly) scared us was the Wednesday at noon emergency alarm down the street on a telephone pole

Posted by: Rex B at November 16, 2024 11:33 PM (Qs9lt)

246 Nightwatch, did you go to CV High School?

Posted by: CA Token at November 16, 2024 11:33 PM (2+yws)

247 AoP

Going to make me reread Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2024 11:34 PM (+O65L)

248 230 I grew up in Eastern WA. I worked in Cherry, and Pear orchards during the summer. Parents just let me go to work all day in the summer.
We used to ride our bikes to the mall, be gone all day.
Our gang was not afraid of much.

We are raising pussies.
Posted by: DAN
----------
Grew up there too. Well described.

Posted by: scampydog at November 16, 2024 11:19 PM (LVaYG)

WENATCHEE!

Posted by: DAN at November 16, 2024 11:35 PM (CwGN+)

249 Alright, since AOP and Mike Hammer have asked, it's an LG LRE3091ST /00. Sheath element is part #5513 on the drawings.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 16, 2024 11:36 PM (lUFok)

250 Search eBay for the unobtanium oven element.

Amazing how much can be found in eBay, vs. "parts house" listings.

*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 16, 2024 11:36 PM (Xo+UM)

251 Here you go, Blanco:

https://tinyurl.com/5tuvbfe8

Universal oven element, can be used in many 30" ranges. There are others, too.

There are a couple of big appliance parts dealers in Phx/Mesa, who sell multiple brands and generic parts.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2024 11:36 PM (EOLxR)

252 Seen on restaurant sign:
Bring in GF 5% off
Bring in Wife 10% off
Bring in Both, Free meal

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 16, 2024 11:37 PM (VNX3d)

253 I had the same experience with a very expensive refrigerator/side-by-side freezer. It WAS old.

However, all it needed was a new wiring console-- which should've cost about $285. Except that it was unobtanium.

I tore my remaining hair out trying to find one.

Posted by: mnw at November 16, 2024 11:38 PM (NLIak)

254 WENATCHEE!
Posted by: DAN
---------
Spokane Valley here.

CA Token, CV.

Posted by: scampydog at November 16, 2024 11:38 PM (LVaYG)

255 Sometimes I forget how fucking incredible Pantera was. RIP Dimebag. Pantera is unsurpassed.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at November 16, 2024 11:38 PM (ltevi)

256 WENATCHEE!
Posted by: DAN
---------
Spokane Valley here.

CA Token, CV.
Posted by: scampydog at November 16, 2024 11:38 PM (LVaYG)
***

Sultan!
Then Vancouver.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 16, 2024 11:41 PM (W/lyH)

257 Spent a few days in Miami recently en route to somewhere else. Enjoyed it, but the traffic. Unbelievable. Probably worst I've seen, taking everything into account (relatively short distances involved).

Posted by: rhomboid at November 16, 2024 11:42 PM (1m82a)

258 When you drive for a commercial drivers license, one of the BIG fails is... passing under a bridge, and the inspector asks you what the clearance on the that bridge was.
They're ALL marked, and most trucks have a clearance sticker right in front of your nose.
No excuse.

Posted by: MkY at November 16, 2024 11:43 PM (cPGH3)

259 >>> I just saw something hilarious on X. We’ve talked about how all the progs have been jumping to BlueSky from twitter - to day Bluesky put out an emergency warning that their staff is now getting 3,000 content complaints an hour, a level they never imagined possible, and their staff is overwhelmed.

Huh, that’s surprisingly few reports. Like, shockingly few. I used to work for a social media company and we did much higher numbers than that.

They’re claiming 18m users, with 72k reports every 24h. Sounds like a lot of those 18m are not active or are not real users.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 16, 2024 11:43 PM (FC8SQ)

260 246

Yes....Briefly...I was a troublemaker during the Dean Addison reign of terror. There was a morning that I remember well when it seemed like the entire of the Crescenta Valley Sherrif's station descended down upon all of use hanging out on "Tobacco Row" and began handcuffing kids and throwing us into the back of patrol cars. Our parents had to pick us up from the station.

No good reason was ever given other than there was "POT" dealings and smoking going on.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 16, 2024 11:44 PM (TDvv2)

261 Also... there's a bridge under I-70 in KCMo... Truman Rd.
Has flashing lights, warning signs, the works.
Trucks routinely hit that damned bridge.

Posted by: MkY at November 16, 2024 11:45 PM (cPGH3)

262 Blanco-

Does it look like this. Pricey, but better than new oven.

t.ly/S9ZrF

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 16, 2024 11:45 PM (XeU6L)

263 Service Merchandise!!! Robert, we both are definitely 29 years old! Thank you for a great ONT!

Posted by: SuperMayorSuperRonNirenberg-Super, Yes...But Buff As Hell, Too at November 16, 2024 11:45 PM (bsOEn)

264 Does it look like this. Pricey, but better than new oven.

t.ly/S9ZrF

Sorry, no. It looks a lot more like the one that AOP found. And dang did he find that thing fast.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 16, 2024 11:47 PM (lUFok)

265 Why are elves always depicted with those stupid pointy ears?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

So you can tell them from the humans?
Posted by: mikeski

If you meant "really looooong pointy ears," that's an anime thing. It might have started with Record of Lodoss War, and the elf Deedlit. I'm not sure if there are earlier examples.

This comment fulfills Robert's expectation of nerdery and weebing on the Internet.

Posted by: mikeski at November 16, 2024 11:48 PM (DgGvY)

266 Alright, since AOP and Mike Hammer have asked, it's an LG LRE3091ST /00. Sheath element is part #5513 on the drawings.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 16, 2024 11:36 PM (lUFok)

After much searching, found a picture of the "sheath element". Looks like the universal one I posted is very close in design. You might have to dick around with the connections, but you are a handy guy, and I know you could do it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2024 11:49 PM (EOLxR)

267
Have you heard about this? Anna Puma probably knows all about this.

There's been a recent trend of a certain demographic going to places like Japan and making, or trying to make, viral videos of tormenting the locals, usually on the subway.

The whole idea is to make the Japs feel uncomfortable around the antics of this certain demographic, and that's supposedly amusing ang gets clicks on tik-tok and instagram. Dancing, and acting like monkeys, etc. That type of dumb, unsettling behavior.

Incidentally, shame on these platforms for not banning these accounts, and therefore encouraging it.

Well, the Japanese had enough and eventually made an example out of one member of a certain demographic. But that certain demographic moved his "show" to Korea and began to torment the nice Koreans on the streets.

Koreans, however, had less patience than the docile Japs. Concerned and fed up Koreans began communicating with each other and tracking down the location of the member of a certain demographic and chasing him off under the threat of violence. Police are on the Koreans side, which is nice, for a change. And now that member of a certain demographic is being prosecuted.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 16, 2024 11:50 PM (5uekx)

268 Sorry, no. It looks a lot more like the one that AOP found. And dang did he find that thing fast.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
-

Looks like a winner, price is right too! Keep us informed

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 16, 2024 11:50 PM (XeU6L)

269 Looks like a winner, price is right too! Keep us informed
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
---------
...unless, of course, the house burns down. In which case, I've heard of you.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 16, 2024 11:52 PM (XeU6L)

270 *never heard...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 16, 2024 11:52 PM (XeU6L)

271 Service Merchandise. OMG. Those were the days.

Posted by: KungPow at November 16, 2024 11:52 PM (Rw2Dy)

272 Sorry, no. It looks a lot more like the one that AOP found. And dang did he find that thing fast.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
-----

I'm only surprised that he didn't have one out in the shop.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 16, 2024 11:54 PM (XeU6L)

273
btw, people are calling the Presidential Entourage "The Squad."

The real squad, not those nasty commie bitches, they're saying.

*Historic and Awesome Presidential Entourage video posted above

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 16, 2024 11:54 PM (5uekx)

274 Well.

Robert. You have come a very long way here as I do remember our times from a decade + ago or so.
yet in spite of earlier strife...here you are.

Welcome Friend and Thank You for the ONT.

Good Night Horde.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 16, 2024 11:57 PM (TDvv2)

275 I am embarking on a new minor project. I have 8 LED modules out of one of those big "corncob" LED high-bay lamps, which had a failed power supply. Each module lights up brightly with about 17 volts applied, and pulls 200-220 mA. I am going to mount all these modules on the tin cover of a 3-foot fluorescent lamp fixture, and run them with a 24 volt transformer and bridge rectifier. Will put a resistor in series with each module to limit short-circuit current to maybe 500 mA. Will this work? I might even have an 18 volt transformer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2024 11:58 PM (EOLxR)

276 I'm only surprised that he didn't have one out in the shop.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 16, 2024 11:54 PM (XeU6L)

I am really shy on appliance parts.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2024 11:59 PM (EOLxR)

277 YOU GO!!!

Light up the night Al!!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 17, 2024 12:00 AM (TDvv2)

278 >>> If Jones defamed the families of the Sandy Hook shooting isn't the same true of every "news outlet" that claimed that 9/11 was an inside job.

I think it was even worse. They didn't go after him for his comments, they went after him for his FAN'S comments. Can you imagine if the right tried to pull that kind of lawfare on the fan comments of lefty celebs?

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 17, 2024 12:00 AM (w0a6k)

279
Historic and Awesome Presidential Entourage video posted above
Posted by: Soothsayer

=========================

Where? Want to see.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 17, 2024 12:02 AM (lCaJd)

280 Might as well say all Americans are stupid and rude. And they smell funny.
Posted by: Anna Puma

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE for at least 50 years, that's exactly what the Japanese did say about westerners, and they weren't all wrong. Fleming mentions it in You Only Live Twice.

Just this once I asked if I could submit an entire ONT.
Posted by: Robert

And someday that will appear in your obituary, unless you figure out who to pay off.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 17, 2024 12:03 AM (zdLoL)

281
Behold the glory!

https://is.gd/K75zdP

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2024 12:03 AM (5uekx)

282
^
The President at Madison Sq Garden

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2024 12:04 AM (5uekx)

283
Just this once I asked if I could submit an entire ONT.
Posted by: Robert

And you did a swell job.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 17, 2024 12:08 AM (63Dwl)

284 And you did a swell job.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 17, 2024 12:08 AM (63Dwl)

Indeed! One might say Robert gave the ONT a dead cat bounce.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 17, 2024 12:09 AM (EOLxR)

285 OK, new element is ordered and should be here next week. Not crazy about the wait, but it's cheaper than burning the gas to go to the Valley of the Sunstroke to pick one up.

If it doesn't work, well, it's not the first time I've spent 40 bucks and had nothing to show for it. If it does work then I can put off buying a new range for a while.

Either way, the lasagna is a total loss.

Thanks!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 17, 2024 12:10 AM (lUFok)

286
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a coma?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 17, 2024 12:10 AM (lCaJd)

287 Either way, the lasagna is a total loss.

Thanks!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 17, 2024 12:10 AM (lUFok)

Good luck!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 17, 2024 12:11 AM (EOLxR)

288
Soothsayer, thanks! Every time I see videos like that I play this in another tab:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTZgxW_3LIQ

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 17, 2024 12:11 AM (lCaJd)

289
Low bridge! Everybody down!
Low bridge! 'Cause we're going through a town.
And you'll always know your neighbor,
You'll always know your pal,
If you've ever navigated on the Erie Canal!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 17, 2024 12:12 AM (h29sz)

290 You thought its been unhinged so far? Trump is systematically putting everyone with an honest grudge against a part of the establishment in charge of that part of the establishment. No telling what happens next, cause the establishment surely doesn't want to retire.

Posted by: azjaeger at November 17, 2024 12:13 AM (3/XaG)

291
holy shit

Those pieces of shit at SNL reached a new low tonight.

They brought back woman-killer alexander baldwin, this time to do a terrible impression of RFK. It went even worse than you can imagine.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2024 12:14 AM (5uekx)

292 run them with a 24 volt transformer and bridge rectifier. Will put a resistor in series with each module to limit short-circuit current to maybe 500 mA. Will this work? I might even have an 18 volt transformer.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Should work, I would certainly go with the 18V if you have it. I would also be inclined to filter the output with a goodly cap(s). Do you have a Variac? Would be nice to monitor currents/voltage while picking resistors, to get the resistor(s) and current right. Remember P=IR*2, so the resistors might have to have a higher power rating than one might expect.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 17, 2024 12:16 AM (XeU6L)

293 Those pieces of shit at SNL reached a new low tonight.

They brought back woman-killer alexander baldwin, this time to do a terrible impression of RFK. It went even worse than you can imagine.
Posted by: Soothsayer

I don't know, I can imagine quite a bit.

Posted by: mikeski solo at November 17, 2024 12:16 AM (DgGvY)

294 Ayatollah Ali Comameni

Does have a certain...charm.. to the ear.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 17, 2024 12:16 AM (Xo+UM)

295 I am embarking on a new minor project. I have 8 LED modules out of one of those big "corncob" LED high-bay lamps, which had a failed power supply. Each module lights up brightly with about 17 volts applied, and pulls 200-220 mA. I am going to mount all these modules on the tin cover of a 3-foot fluorescent lamp fixture, and run them with a 24 volt transformer and bridge rectifier. Will put a resistor in series with each module to limit short-circuit current to maybe 500 mA. Will this work? I might even have an 18 volt transformer.

If you take into account that the voltage out of the rectifier should be an average of 0.637 of the input voltage, a 24V transformer should land you at about 15.3 V or so. Of course, you'll want to check that for yourself. I'd recommend a filter capacitor as well, but then I normally deal in stuff that produces audio and that 60 cycle hum can be annoying.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 17, 2024 12:17 AM (lUFok)

296 If it doesn't work, well, it's not the first time I've spent 40 bucks and had nothing to show for it.
-------

A spare 1000W space heater.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 17, 2024 12:18 AM (XeU6L)

297 Thank you Robert.

I was amazed when I was in South Korea and walked into a restaurant that had a conveyor belt with colored plates indicating prices, containing food.

Thanks to Mis. Hum, WeirdDave and everyone else who puts these together. Even the cafe must take at least an hour or two.

Pretty impressive.

Posted by: Stateless at November 17, 2024 12:18 AM (jvJvP)

298 >>No telling what happens next, cause the establishment surely doesn't want to retire.

It's going to be amazing. They can't stop what's coming.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 17, 2024 12:19 AM (LkLld)

299 You thought its been unhinged so far? Trump is systematically putting everyone with an honest grudge against a part of the establishment in charge of that part of the establishment. No telling what happens next, cause the establishment surely doesn't want to retire.
Posted by: azjaeger at November 17, 2024 12:13 AM (3/XaG)

It ain't no fun when the rabbit's got the gun.

https://youtu.be/2rIdKwCdBbo

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 17, 2024 12:20 AM (EOLxR)

300 They brought back woman-killer alexander baldwin, this time to do a terrible impression of RFK. It went even worse than you can imagine.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2024 12:14 AM (5uekx)

Wait unti RFK reveals the truth of the jabs. SNL reaction will be hilarious....heart-stopping.

Posted by: Stateless at November 17, 2024 12:20 AM (jvJvP)

301 298 >>No telling what happens next, cause the establishment surely doesn't want to retire

I'm watching a ton of horror slasher flicks right now. Just finished 'Saw 3.' And the 'August Underground' series.

I have ideas.

Teacher!
Me, please!!

Posted by: Stateless at November 17, 2024 12:23 AM (jvJvP)

302 It just occured to me that an opportunity was missed for someone to photoshop the famous picture of Truman holding up the newspaper with 'Dewey Wins!' with Trump shopped onto Truman's body, and alter the Headline to 'Harris Wins!'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 17, 2024 12:23 AM (XeU6L)

303 >Posted by: Soothsayer at November 16, 2024 11:50 PM (5uekx)

Johnny Somali. He's learning that Koreans aren't as passive and agreeable in the face of obvious cultural denigration as the Japanese. Oiling up and twerking on a Korean comfort woman memorial statue probably did the trick to push them over the edge.

I like that hunting little Johnny in Seoul is now a game for the Korean streamers, and the ones who beat some manners into Johnny are well rewarded by their viewers.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at November 17, 2024 12:24 AM (aNM30)

304 Sorry for the link to the Coprophage News Network, but the wokepocalypse continues apace. A straight, white, biological woman has won the Miss Universe pageant.

https://t.ly/qq_Ws

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 17, 2024 12:26 AM (lUFok)

305 Should work, I would certainly go with the 18V if you have it. I would also be inclined to filter the output with a goodly cap(s). Do you have a Variac? Would be nice to monitor currents/voltage while picking resistors, to get the resistor(s) and current right. Remember P=IR*2, so the resistors might have to have a higher power rating than one might expect.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 17, 2024 12:16 AM (XeU6L)

Yes, I do have a Variac. Very handy gadget. And I will use filter caps, of course. Pretty sure I have an 18 volt transformer. Would be nice not to have use a voltage-dropping resistor. Might use low-watt resistors as current limiters; with a dead short, they would burn out like a fuse, inside a metal box where they could do little damage.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 17, 2024 12:26 AM (EOLxR)

306
It just occured to me that an opportunity was missed for someone to photoshop the famous picture of Truman holding up the newspaper with 'Dewey Wins!' with Trump shopped onto Truman's body, and alter the Headline to 'Harris Wins!'
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Along the lines of this:

https://t.ly/dkCwg

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 17, 2024 12:27 AM (63Dwl)

307 inside a metal box where they could do little damage

If the oven repair doesn't work out I may have something along those lines. Might be a bit larger than you need, though.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 17, 2024 12:28 AM (lUFok)

308 It just occured to me that an opportunity was missed for someone to photoshop the famous picture of Truman holding up the newspaper with 'Dewey Wins!' with Trump shopped onto Truman's body, and alter the Headline to 'Harris Wins!'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

Powerline's current "week in pictures" has a political-cartoon version.

The headline says "Harris, Biden, DOJ, Media, FBI, and Assassins Defeat Trump"

Posted by: mikeski at November 17, 2024 12:28 AM (DgGvY)

309
Here's one from 2016:

https://t.ly/f4wXh

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 17, 2024 12:29 AM (63Dwl)

310 I like that hunting little Johnny in Seoul is now a game for the Korean streamers, and the ones who beat some manners into Johnny are well rewarded by their viewers.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at November 17, 2024 12:24 AM (aNM30)

What a truly stunned-looking individual. IQ, maybe 65?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 17, 2024 12:29 AM (EOLxR)

311 https://t.ly/qq_Ws

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 17, 2024 12:26 AM (lUFok

I expected 500 pounds, disfigured, humps...just to teach us a lesson.

It was so much worse.

Aspiring lawyer........

Posted by: Stateless at November 17, 2024 12:30 AM (jvJvP)

312 It was so much worse.

Aspiring lawyer........
Posted by: Stateless at November 17, 2024 12:30 AM (jvJvP)

I would let her milk my trust.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 17, 2024 12:32 AM (EOLxR)

313 Wait until the truth about what has been going on in Ukraine for the last couple of decades gets exposed.

Boy howdy is that going to be fun.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 17, 2024 12:33 AM (LkLld)

314 >Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 17, 2024 12:29 AM (EOLxR)

Sounds about right. I'm not sure if he's really so stupid that he doesn't understand the end of this path, or he's deluded about his ability to punch out when it gets too hairy. That's worked in every other country that he's terrorized, but the Koreans confiscated his passport, so he may be truly scrood this time.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at November 17, 2024 12:35 AM (aNM30)

315 That's worked in every other country that he's terrorized, but the Koreans confiscated his passport, so he may be truly scrood this time.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen

That's a shame.

Anyway.....

Posted by: mikeski at November 17, 2024 12:37 AM (DgGvY)

316 It's going to be amazing. They can't stop what's coming.

If Trump can get all the evidence, on everything, and they can disseminate it thru X and Rogan et al, all the lies, scams and deals will be there to see. The establishment will be completely discredited in the public view, and the political lackey military leaders will be removed. Thing is, the establishment HAS to know this. Are they just going to "flee" as best they can, or do they still have something up their sleeve?

Posted by: azjaeger at November 17, 2024 12:38 AM (3/XaG)

317 That's a shame.

Anyway.....
Posted by: mikeski at November 17, 2024 12:37 AM (DgGvY)

Koreans should wrap him in a strait jacket made of raw pig skin, and drop him off in Somalia, sans passport.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 17, 2024 12:38 AM (EOLxR)

318
SNL brought in a woman killer to do a bad impression of RFK doing an abortion joke. Really.

And the impression was just mean, he wasn't even trying to be accurate, just mocking.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2024 12:39 AM (5uekx)

319 If it doesn't work, well, it's not the first time I've spent 40 bucks and had nothing to show for it.

Thats.like.a.Friday and Saturday night in town.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 17, 2024 12:39 AM (W/lyH)

320 Are they just going to "flee" as best they can, or do they still have something up their sleeve?
Posted by: azjaeger at November 17, 2024 12:38 AM (3/XaG)

AOP rates Iron Mountain as a strong "buy".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 17, 2024 12:39 AM (EOLxR)

321 I want to say I went to full day Kindergarden, and walked home for lunch. Maybe that was 1st Grade. Elementary suburban school. We lived maybe 7 or 8 houses, maybe 10.

Mom worked at home then. She would be rockin’ Tomato Soup and Grilled Cheese, ready to go as I walked in the door, I remember that. And soon, nagging me to go back to school or you’ll be late..

Posted by: Common Tater at November 17, 2024 12:40 AM (lPSbt)

322 Sounds about right. I'm not sure if he's really so stupid that he doesn't understand the end of this path, or he's deluded about his ability to punch out when it gets too hairy. That's worked in every other country that he's terrorized, but the Koreans confiscated his passport, so he may be truly scrood this time.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at November 17, 2024 12:35 AM (aNM30

The South Koreans don't fuck around.

I taught English there. To even get the job you had to get government police records. After getting there, urine and blood tests. After that, your government ID arrived and you could get cable tv, telephones, etc.

I was impressed then.

Posted by: Stateless at November 17, 2024 12:41 AM (jvJvP)

323
Johnny Somali.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen

And this asshole in Japan:

https://is.gd/w55zYp

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2024 12:42 AM (5uekx)

324 Damn, at 11 years old in Boy Scouts, we were camping out by ourselves in the woods. Dads WERE in the area, but had no idea what we were doing... hell starting our own fires, cooking our own food... 3 mile hikes without any adults was the norm.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 17, 2024 12:42 AM (QAkQ3)

325
lol, I just spent a few minutes in the chat of the SNL livestream

oh brother, the SNL fans are so sad and angry.

And I did my best to lift their spirits. You all know I'm good at that, right?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2024 12:44 AM (5uekx)

326
btw, that's the most I've watched SNL in decades.

And it is way, way worse than you or I had thought.

Not even close to being funny.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2024 12:45 AM (5uekx)

327 There is a standard interstate concrete bridge in western Oklahoma, I meant to mark it on the map, because it was obviously pranged at some point in the past. I about pissed myself laughing when I noticed it. They patched it up nicely, and apparently it didn’t total the overpass. I bet an 18 wheeler hitting a bridge overpass at Interstate speed would wake a feller up pretty quick. Yeesh

Posted by: Common Tater at November 17, 2024 12:46 AM (lPSbt)

328 I want to say I went to full day Kindergarden, and walked home for lunch. Maybe that was 1st Grade. Elementary suburban school. We lived maybe 7 or 8 houses, maybe 10.

Kindergarten, and grades 1-3. Walked out the back pasture, climb thru the fence, up the street, took a right, up that street, left. Two more blocks and there was school.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 17, 2024 12:48 AM (W/lyH)

329 If Trump can get all the evidence, on everything, and they can disseminate it thru X and Rogan et al, all the lies, scams and deals will be there to see. The establishment will be completely discredited in the public view, and the political lackey military leaders will be removed. Thing is, the establishment HAS to know this. Are they just going to "flee" as best they can, or do they still have something up their sleeve?

Posted by: azjaeger at November 17, 2024 12:38 AM (3/XaG

Sadly, I think about 40% won't care or even be supportive.

I forget the percentages, but 30% of people you meet will never like you, 20% can be modified but still have a negative view, 20% can be modified and actually like you like the last 30% already did.

We'd think they'd run but they have been giving free shit to about 50% of the population. Those people will forgive anything. And I'm watching the most screwed up horror slasher flicks lately.

Posted by: Stateless at November 17, 2024 12:49 AM (jvJvP)

330 btw, that's the most I've watched SNL in decades.

And it is way, way worse than you or I had thought.

Not even close to being funny.

Angry progressives are no longer capable of that.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 17, 2024 12:50 AM (mH6SG)

331
lulz, I'd like to mention in the video I posted above, it shows the Japanese govt are making public signs and posting them in subways, streets, etc. to warn people of behaving badly in public.

The funny part is, get this, the illustrations they are using to make their point are rather, um, colorful and descriptive, if you get my drift. They make it clear which, um, certain demographic they are addressing.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2024 12:50 AM (5uekx)

332
And I did my best to lift their spirits. You all know I'm good at that, right?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2024 12:44 AM (5uekx)

Did you tell them Trump's vaccine will probably kill him any day now, like so many others?

Soothsayer, we have to spread hope....

Posted by: Stateless at November 17, 2024 12:51 AM (jvJvP)

333 >>Thing is, the establishment HAS to know this. Are they just going to "flee" as best they can, or do they still have something up their sleeve?

They've tried to imprison Trump, bankrupt and even murder him. They absolutely know. They have known since the Russia collusion documents weren't recovered at Mar A Lago. I have no doubt they will try more shit.

Despite all of the election corruption we all know, and probably way more we don't, Trump won the popular vote. Trump is a once in a lifetime figure. I don't know anyone else who could have organized something like this movement. But he didn't create this movement, he just brought it all together. Tens of millions of us have been waiting for this for years and no matter what there is no putting this genie back in the bottle.

Normal people want their country back and it's not just us crazy white supremacist, Nazi, rightwing conspiracy theorists any longer. It's everyone. Even the WaPo is telling Democrats to knock off their election bullshit in the PA Senate race.

We are overdue for a reckoning and now it's coming.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 17, 2024 12:53 AM (LkLld)

334 Damn, at 11 years old in Boy Scouts, we were camping out by ourselves in the woods. Dads WERE in the area, but had no idea what we were doing... hell starting our own fires, cooking our own food... 3 mile hikes without any adults was the norm.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 17, 2024 12:42 AM (QAkQ3)

Important lesson from camping: Bring a wet stone to keep one's axes and knives sharp. It's a lifelong lesson easily transferred to the pew-pew weaponry. Like a dull blade is useless, so is an empty rifle. Be prepared. Buy more ammo.

Posted by: RickZ at November 17, 2024 12:53 AM (gKDq2)

335 I’ve an ancient Adjust-A-Volt variac. Weighs a ton.

What I use it for, is a trick I picked up from someone on an RV forum board.

Charging batteries is temperature based, the old school Schumacher 2/6 amp car chargers are among the best chargers ever made. But they are unregulated, if temperatures are warm and the charger is left connected it will boil the battery dry.

Running the old school chargers via a Variac gives you a large variable DC bench supply. I can look at the chart and see that 15.3 volts for about 4 hours is needed at 32° F, say. With a Variac you can do that. Boost or cut as necessary and give a battery exactly what it needs.

The modern smart chargers and blinking lights don’t always work right, and sometimes choke for some reason.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 17, 2024 12:56 AM (lPSbt)

336 I don't care for Baby Metal. But if you want cute girls and heavy metal, listen to Lovebites.

Sample 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99zsH6iG_6c

Sample 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3uGjp-P7DI

Sample 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30yWisiRBuM

Posted by: Jim S. at November 17, 2024 12:57 AM (NOve5)

337 G'nite, everybody. See y'all tomorrow.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 17, 2024 12:57 AM (mH6SG)

338
Did you tell them Trump's vaccine will probably kill him any day now, like so many others?

Posted by: Stateless

I allayed their fears by telling them Rachel Maddow will save the country with a bombshell news story.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2024 12:57 AM (5uekx)

339 WAZZU......... just cannot have nice things.

Posted by: scampydog at November 17, 2024 12:58 AM (LVaYG)

340 Normal people want their country back and it's not just us crazy white supremacist, Nazi, rightwing conspiracy theorists any longer. It's everyone. Even the WaPo is telling Democrats to knock off their election bullshit in the PA Senate race.

We are overdue for a reckoning and now it's coming.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 17, 2024 12:53 AM (LkLld)

It's also world-wide. Normal people all want their countries back. Everyone seems to want to make their countries great again and the first order of business is to have politicians be actually for the country not the globalist new world order.

In this case, the US is the disease to the NWO types, and we are quite infectious.

Posted by: RickZ at November 17, 2024 12:59 AM (gKDq2)

341 Okay, everything's kicking in.

The cats, Snowflake and Trumpy, not ours...we're cat sharing...are asleep resting for their 2am tag session. But then they rest, come into my room at 6am to be let out and come into eat 2 hours or so later.

Everyone have a happy Sunday.

Posted by: Stateless at November 17, 2024 01:00 AM (jvJvP)

342 Running the old school chargers via a Variac gives you a large variable DC bench supply. I can look at the chart and see that 15.3 volts for about 4 hours is needed at 32° F, say. With a Variac you can do that. Boost or cut as necessary and give a battery exactly what it needs.

The modern smart chargers and blinking lights don’t always work right, and sometimes choke for some reason.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 17, 2024 12:56 AM (lPSbt)

I have one Variac dedicated to that job in the shop.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 17, 2024 01:02 AM (EOLxR)

343 I allayed their fears by telling them Rachel Maddow will save the country with a bombshell news story.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2024 12:57 AM (5uekx)

They should suffer everyday like we did watching every government, court, Supreme Court fail us over the election cheat of 2020.

Of course, they have to untuck the balls or remove the strapons and realize government is the enemy.

Posted by: Stateless at November 17, 2024 01:04 AM (jvJvP)

344 >>It's also world-wide. Normal people all want their countries back. Everyone seems to want to make their countries great again and the first order of business is to have politicians be actually for the country not the globalist new world order.

It's great, isn't it?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 17, 2024 01:04 AM (LkLld)

345 What is really genius, Schumacher engineers obviously “sized” the automobile battery charger to plus up 50 to 100 amp hour batteries. The transformer size.

With two settings, 2 or 6 amps. It is unregulated, but a battery will increase internal resistance as the temperature decreases. If it gets real cold - like Saskatoon 40 below cold for a week, you could connect it for that week at the 6 amp setting, it would maybe top out at 16 volts, which is barely a float charge at 40 below, but the Schumacher would keep the battery charged up, not frozen up. Amazing device, gets about 5 bucks at a garage sale.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 17, 2024 01:05 AM (lPSbt)

346 Well, sleepiness is kicking in. Going to hit the sack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 17, 2024 01:06 AM (EOLxR)

347 AOP
Let's see....
200 mA , 17V, bridge rectifier.
Allow a volt and a half for the (2 diode) drop across the bridge rectifier, that's 18.5V you need to light it up. You want to limit the current to around 200 mA to keep from burning out the Leds, so...
24V -18.5V =5.5V. 5.5V/0.2 = 27.5 ohms Use a 26.7 ohm.
It would be dissipating around 1.1 W. Either use a 2W resistor or it may be cheaper to go with two 13.7 ohm, 1 watt.

With the bridge rectifier, you're going to have a small dead spot as the voltage crosses zero, and at 60Hz may produce some flicker. Most people won't be bothered.

Posted by: buddhaha at November 17, 2024 01:06 AM (tcoNa)

348 Allow a volt and a half for the (2 diode) drop across the bridge rectifier, that's 18.5V you need to light it up. You want to limit the current to around 200 mA to keep from burning out the Leds, so...
24V -18.5V =5.5V. 5.5V/0.2 = 27.5 ohms Use a 26.7 ohm.
It would be dissipating around 1.1 W. Either use a 2W resistor or it may be cheaper to go with two 13.7 ohm, 1 watt.

With the bridge rectifier, you're going to have a small dead spot as the voltage crosses zero, and at 60Hz may produce some flicker. Most people won't be bothered.
Posted by: buddhaha at November 17, 2024 01:06 AM (tcoNa)

Well, I will try it with the 18 volt transformer, if I can find it. Or maybe a 12 and a 6 in series. Will be a lamp for my workshop, so "pretty" is low on the scale. Will use some fat filter caps, too. And maybe a series resistor so inrush current to the filter cap doesn't blow the rectifier bridge.

Job #1 is mount the LED modules to the metal lid; then I can play with circuitry to my heart's content. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 17, 2024 01:13 AM (EOLxR)

349 WAZZU......... just cannot have nice things.
Posted by: scampydog at November 17, 2024 12:58 AM (LVaYG)

November is always full of heartbreak.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 17, 2024 01:15 AM (W/lyH)

350 The “converter” in the RV does not seem to so a particularly good job of taking care of a battery.

It appears to be a fixed voltsge of 13.7 volts DC. They take the (smart) step of shipping the units with a blown or missing fuse. Has 5 or 6 DC and AC branches.

Sez 35 amps, but that’s probably distribution capability. Not 35 amps charging DC at the terminals. I wish.

I noticed anything above about 15 amps DC is accompanied by a roll away cart, and engine start capability. I don’t need that. But about 25 real, honest to goodness DC amperes is just what the doctor ordered. I “piggyback” the Schumacher on top of the RV charger, and get good results this way.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 17, 2024 01:16 AM (lPSbt)

351 Awesome Robert. Mrs. Sock and I especially enjoyed the low clearance vid. Spokane has an 11' 10" viaduct downtown. I witnessed several stuck rigs. In my brief year plus driving career I always knew how tall my trailers where because of that.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Peanut at November 17, 2024 01:20 AM (F3SmE)

352 November is always full of heartbreak.
Posted by: Diogenes
---------
They are consistent.

Posted by: scampydog at November 17, 2024 01:21 AM (LVaYG)

353 Those $5 chargers can save money on batteries, but also alternators and other spendy electrical parts.

Defective batteries can hork an alternator over time. And, the reverse is also true. I like to baby electrical systems, and batteries are also getting damnably expensive.

The RV manufacturers went to 12V DC refrigerators, and it will nuke a battery pretty good in hot weather fast. Beats buying ice. I can make it work for me, but I’m going to get two 6 volt golf cart batteries, big ones, and run them in series for 12 volts. Lots of weight on the trailer tongue where it kind of never hurts anyway.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 17, 2024 01:23 AM (lPSbt)

354 After a long drought, 20 Tweets from Bad Blue
tinyurl.com/nhkuc96r

And as you can imagine it's pretty good

Posted by: Skip at November 17, 2024 01:25 AM (fwDg9)

355 In urban neighborhoods, not just a few 10 year olds are stealing cars and selling drugs and hanging out on downtown corners at all hours .

Reminded myself of the Dave Chappell bit ‘Baby in a corner’ . One of the funniest bits ever.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 17, 2024 01:28 AM (D6PGr)

356 Oddibe Young Again McDowell

https://tinyurl.com/26je8vua

Posted by: JackStraw at November 17, 2024 01:29 AM (LkLld)

357
November is always full of heartbreak.
Posted by: Diogenes
---------
They are consistent.
Posted by: scampydog at November 17, 2024 01:21 AM (LVaYG)

No sun — no moon!
No morn — no noon —
No dawn — no dusk — no proper time of day.

No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member —
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! —
November!——-Thomas Hood

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 17, 2024 01:31 AM (D6PGr)

358 'School principal of the year' is suspended over Trump remarks

https://mol.im/a/14090525

Needs firing. Suspension is a vacation until everyone forgets then she can move to another district.

Posted by: Ciampino - Paid vacations! at November 17, 2024 01:32 AM (i0xsb)

359 Yea, we are going to win.

https://tinyurl.com/3ywvrrv5

Posted by: JackStraw at November 17, 2024 01:32 AM (LkLld)

360 I am not happy when I search for technical information on the intertoobs. Which I was doing for far too long tonight. Humbug.

By strange chance, saw these guys' original show in NY.
https://youtu.be/uHUXAcKdeaQ

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - troubleshooter? Surrrre at November 17, 2024 01:38 AM (LRgL5)

361 > 286
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a coma?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 17, 2024 12:10 AM (lCaJd)

That's the rumor, or possibly he's even taking a well-deserved dirt nap.

I won't be sending any flowers to his funeral, that's for sure.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 17, 2024 01:45 AM (W5ArC)

362 ...I won't be sending any flowers to his funeral, that's for sure. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 17, 2024 01:45 AM (W5ArC)

The proper bouquet would be a New Zealand Corpse Flower.

In full, malodorous bloom.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 17, 2024 01:52 AM (Xo+UM)

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