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Monday Overnight Open Thread - March 31, 2025 [Doof]
Mondays Can Be Crappy Police Catch India’s Infamous ‘Poop and Run’ Thief
Police in New Delhi have finally been able to capture an elusive thief who would always poop his pants when in danger to keep people away as he made his escape. Do you know how good actors can cry on command? Well, apparently some people have the same level of control of their bowels, allowing them to defecate at any moment. Deepak, a 27-year-old phone thief from Delhi, India, was one such person, and he used his unusual gift to avoid law enforcement whenever they got close to catching him. According to a Delhi police spokesperson, Deepak evaded arrest multiple time by pooping his pants to create a stench so foul that police were repulsed giving the thief enough time to make a run for it. The dirty trick was so effective that police even named it ‘poop and run’. Deepak’s poop-fueled reign of terror finally came to an end when policemen equipped with masks and gloves apprehended him. “Teams gave him a chase and pinned him down,” a police officer proudly told News 18. “As expected, Deepak deployed his infamous ’filth plan’ but the officers, equipped with gloves and masks, thwarted his last-ditch effort and took him into custody.” Deepak was spotted by a police patrol near Eidgah Park, and. knowing his ‘poop and run’ technique, they prepared accordingly to make sure they could endure the stench of his poop.To paraphrase the great Carl Spackler - In order to conquer your foe, you have to learn to think like your foe. ----- Speaking of crappy Woman Lives in Workplace Toilet to Save Money on Rent
A young Chinese woman went viral on social media after showing off her unusual home – a 6-square-foot toilet at her workplace for which she pays just 50 yuan ($7). Everyone tries to save money on rent, but how many of us would be willing to sleep in an actual toilet to do it? One young woman from Hunan, China, recently shocked the world after posting photos of her unconventional living quarters – a small, unused toilet located inside the furniture factory where she works. The 19-year-old woman explained that she comes from a poor family and couldn’t afford to pay upwards of 800 yuan ($110) for a proper home, so she asked her boss if she could live there instead. Her post went viral, but most people commented that she was only sharing photos and videos to attract attention because no one could live in such conditions. However, the woman’s boss took to social media to confirm that she was indeed sleeping in a 6-square-foot toilet at his factory. “She insisted on paying me an extra 50 yuan for water and electricity every month, but I didn’t want to take her money,” the woman’s boss said, adding that the wholesale furniture factory was located in a remote industrial park that didn’t leave her many options for affordable rent. The woman said that her boss tried helping her find more normal accommodations close to the factory, but the rent was between 800 ($110) and 1,000 yuan ($140). She currently earns a monthly salary of under 3,000 yuan ($415), and she is trying to save as much money as possible for a down payment on a home, so she didn’t think it was worth it. He even offered to let her live in an office at the factory, but she decided that the unused toilet offered more privacy.In the words of Ace Ventura - "Do NOT go in there!"
Breaking news here on the ONT! The date for the 2025 NoVa MoMe has been chosen! The annual gathering of Hordelings at a sooper seekrit location in the DMV (DC-MD-VA) area will take place on Saturday, June 21. More details to come soon from Bluebell and/or Weasel, and sign-ups are not yet active. But now at least you know when the NoVa MoMe will take place and you can plan accordingly. Come on out and spend the first day of summer with your gray box friends. If you've never been to a MoMe, please strongly consider doing so! NoVa in June, Pacific Northwest in May, Texas in October. Or build your own! Veteran MoMe folks - please join me in encouraging as wide of attendance as possible at this and all MoMes!
Alabama is the only state with all major natural resources needed to make iron and steel. Connecticut is the only state in the United States where counties have no independent government and are merely geographical regions on a map. Legislation passed in 1959 and 1961 removed the duties and functions of the state’s eight counties. Delaware is the only state without any National Park System units such as a national park, or national monument. Iowa is the only state whose east and west borders are entirely formed by water (the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers). Kansas is the only state to have researchers scientifically prove that it’s “flatter than a pancake”. In a 2003 study by geographers at Texas State University and Arizona State University, a topographical analysis found that the flatness of the state is indeed greater in some areas than that of a pancake. Maine is the only U.S. state with a one-syllable name. Tennessee is the only state that is bordered by eight other states, more than any other in the country.Read about every state at the link.
On the subject of states, this guy discusses why some borders are the way they are.
History Nerd Content Although it wasn't signed into law until 3 days later, on this day in 1948, the US Congress passed the Marshall Plan to rebuild war-torn Europe after World War II.
In a June 5, 1947, speech to the graduating class at Harvard University, Secretary of State George C. Marshall issued a call for a comprehensive program to rebuild Europe. Fanned by the fear of Communist expansion and the rapid deterioration of European economies in the winter of 1946–1947, Congress passed the Economic Cooperation Act in March 1948 and approved funding that would eventually rise to over $12 billion for the rebuilding of Western Europe.
(from thisdayinmusic.com)
1949:RCA Victor introduced the 45rpm single record, which had been in development since 1940. The 7-inch disc was designed to compete with the Long Playing record introduced by Columbia a year earlier. Both formats offered better fidelity and longer playing time than the 78rpm record that was currently in use. Advertisements for new record players boasted that with 45rpm records, the listener could hear up to ten records with speedy, silent, hardly noticeable changes.
Born on this date in 1958: Paul Ferguson, drummer from the British post-punk group Killing Joke
1976: Led Zeppelin released Presence, their seventh studio album, on their own Swan Song Records in the UK. Presence has now been certified 3 times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for US sales in excess of 3 million copies.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2025 09:56 PM (mlg/3)
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Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at March 31, 2025 10:00 PM (Ze08y)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 31, 2025 10:00 PM (Eo96p)
Also, it’s great that Trump nominated House GOPers for cabinet-positions. Nobody but Mike Waltz could have been NSA. And Matt Gaetz was a total loss.
Somewhere, there are Democrats calculating how many GOP Representatives in purple districts need to be knocked off to seize control of the House, but we’ve got people still patting themselves on the back and insisting the Democrat party is, like, totally done for, bro.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 31, 2025 10:00 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Zeera at March 31, 2025 10:01 PM (9AMBT)
Posted by: tankdemon at March 31, 2025 10:01 PM (fqoL0)
Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2025 10:01 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 31, 2025 10:01 PM (SRRAx)
End Wokeness@EndWokeness
ACLU lawyer: "There are no cases of men in women's sports"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 31, 2025 10:02 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 10:02 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: gKWVE at March 31, 2025 10:02 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2025 10:02 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: tankdemon at March 31, 2025 10:01 PM (fqoL0)
You'll have no place to stay.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 31, 2025 10:02 PM (S14V7)
Posted by: Piper at March 31, 2025 10:03 PM (BgmlQ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 31, 2025 10:03 PM (kpS4V)
We arent the biggest or the loudest, and we can’t even manage a sidebar mention.
But we will be there. Gimme a shout out if you still have my email. Or contact MAE.
Cheers!
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 10:03 PM (E/NfX)
Okay, maybe not. But there is no entry. I are disappoint.
🤠
Posted by: mindful webworker - Okie by birth and choice at March 31, 2025 10:03 PM (MsUjn)
Posted by: tankdemon at March 31, 2025 10:01 PM (fqoL0)
You'll have no place to stay.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 31, 2025 10:02 PM (S14V7)
You could go to Chi-ca-go
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2025 10:03 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 10:03 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Otto Pen at March 31, 2025 10:05 PM (sJHOI)
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Mississippi too if you say it really fast.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:05 PM (/tzYP)
True story, when I was working at a ChiCom t.v. news station in Beijing and Hu Jintao got elected as Commie Party Secretary, I tried to sneak in a headline "Hu's on First." Somehow, the Chinese censor caught it and changed it. He wasn't a native English speaker but he must have suspected something.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 31, 2025 10:05 PM (lCaJd)
You know we are going to have to take these people down sooner than later...and I mean TAKE THEM DOWN.
Oh, thanks for the ONT DOOF!
Posted by: Nightwatch at March 31, 2025 10:06 PM (25kuG)
But "Flat As A Pancake" is a good line *and* a good album.
Posted by: KCSteve at March 31, 2025 10:06 PM (bxAlI)
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:06 PM (/tzYP)
Posted by: mindful webworker - i am not a sockpuppet at March 31, 2025 10:06 PM (MsUjn)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 31, 2025 10:05 PM (lCaJd)
Wait, what? That must have been, uhm, interesting. Can't imagine being around commies all day.
Posted by: RickZ at March 31, 2025 10:07 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2025 10:07 PM (u82oZ)
There are a couple of good singles but the overall album is skippable. As is 'Coda'.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at March 31, 2025 10:08 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Otto Pen at March 31, 2025 10:05 PM (sJHOI)
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Having a goal in life gives you motivation to keep living.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 10:08 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Otto Pen at March 31, 2025 10:08 PM (sJHOI)
More proof that everything's an op.
Posted by: mindful webworker - i am not a sockpuppet at March 31, 2025 10:06 PM (MsUjn)
Fixed - thanks!!
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2025 10:08 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Wu at March 31, 2025 10:08 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: KCSteve at March 31, 2025 10:06 PM (bxAlI)
And a good tombstone engraving on ol' Rachel's grave.
Posted by: RickZ at March 31, 2025 10:08 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 31, 2025 10:08 PM (3wi/L)
Normally this is the kind of "triumph of the human spirit" stuff I avoid, but it's unsentimental yet touching, and Jared Harris is always good.
Angel Studios has put out some interesting flicks.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 31, 2025 10:08 PM (kpS4V)
Not a fan.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at March 31, 2025 10:09 PM (xcxpd)
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Is it the shits??
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:06 PM (/tzYP)
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Its duck blinds are untouchable.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 10:09 PM (dDmld)
May the Iranian nuclear program suffer some crippling losses, and the Crown Prince of Iran ask for a revolution to a Constitutional Monarchy.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2025 10:09 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Otto Pen at March 31, 2025 10:09 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: Nightwatch at March 31, 2025 10:09 PM (25kuG)
Here's a little taste, about the French Revolution -- "Why they turned to terror."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSo_rXu8-Fk&t=21s
Dozens of great podcasts on everything from ancient Rome to early modern history. The two presenters are fantastic.
Posted by: Beverly at March 31, 2025 10:09 PM (Epeb0)
It's a modern toilet too. Not just a hole in the ground. It's a hole in the floor tile!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2025 10:11 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 31, 2025 10:08 PM (3wi/L)
The ONT writers guild does not provide fact checkers. We sometimes post stuff that proves that.
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2025 10:11 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:11 PM (/tzYP)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2025 10:09 PM (u82oZ)
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Pahlavi? Pfft.
Bring back the Achaemenids.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 10:11 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 31, 2025 10:11 PM (0eaVi)
One young woman from Hunan, China, recently shocked the world after posting photos of her unconventional living quarters – a small, unused toilet located inside the furniture factory where she works.
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Well, at least the turlet is unused.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 31, 2025 10:11 PM (xPNeT)
Posted by: Piper at March 31, 2025 10:12 PM (BgmlQ)
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It's a squat-house.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:12 PM (/tzYP)
Posted by: Doof
Great. Now my comment looks stupid(er). Like when folks complain about italics or centering and then it's fixed.
IT SAID OP! IT SAID OP!
And there are three lights.
Posted by: mindful webworker - uh, no, four, no, three, no... at March 31, 2025 10:13 PM (MsUjn)
It's a modern toilet too. Not just a hole in the ground. It's a hole in the floor tile!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2025 10:11 PM (/lPRQ)
Might not be so bad. 'Cept when you tryna sleep and someone comes in to have a shit.
Posted by: Otto Pen at March 31, 2025 10:13 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 10:13 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Nightwatch at March 31, 2025 10:13 PM (25kuG)
Well...mostly. In 1877, there was a massive flood, and the Missouri River shifted a bit, leaving the tiny Iowa community of Carter Lake on the Western side of the river.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 31, 2025 10:13 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: Common Tater at March 31, 2025 10:14 PM (8fUId)
Posted by: Long Live the King! at March 31, 2025 10:14 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Beverly at March 31, 2025 10:09 PM (Epeb0)
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I'm a fan of that channel. The one about a hunt for El Dorado launched from Peru ~1650 is WACK.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 31, 2025 10:14 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: tankdemon at March 31, 2025 10:01 PM (fqoL0)
If you see two boats and a helicopter, take one of them.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 31, 2025 10:14 PM (0eaVi)
You don't say?
Posted by: New Jersey and Hawaii at March 31, 2025 10:15 PM (LcAE5)
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It's a squat-house.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:12 PM (/tzYP)
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I had to deal with those things on a jaunt through Tibet in 2011. Literal shitholes, they were. In my frikkin HOTEL.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 10:15 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 31, 2025 10:15 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 31, 2025 10:16 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: mARY cLOGGINSTEIN FROM bRATTLEBORO, vT at March 31, 2025 10:16 PM (FDlb9)
Read about every state at the link.
Missouri is also bordered by eight other states : Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Illinois.
Posted by: BillyD at March 31, 2025 10:16 PM (Yt3ED)
Posted by: Long Live the King! at March 31, 2025 10:14 PM (G5+As)
I can never tell which one is you on these weekly lists
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2025 10:16 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 31, 2025 10:16 PM (0eaVi)
Can't imagine being around commies all day.
Posted by: RickZ
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That's why I used to divert myself by sliding in headlines like that and whatnot.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 31, 2025 10:17 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 31, 2025 10:17 PM (+VovS)
Alabama is the only state with all major natural resources needed to make iron and steel.
So what happened in the Civil War?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2025 10:17 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Nightwatch at March 31, 2025 10:18 PM (25kuG)
It had 30 seconds of good opening riff and then …. It was just weird. They lost a lot of cool points with that album
Posted by: Common Tater at March 31, 2025 10:18 PM (8fUId)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 31, 2025 10:15 PM (0eaVi)
Good stuff. It's well written. I do look forward to maybe seeing the next revision.
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2025 10:19 PM (RFPHU)
Seen apartment prices in Hong Kong lately? Most expensive real estate on Earth by the square foot.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 10:19 PM (dDmld)
While Iowa's east and west borders are rivers, about 40% of the western border is the Big Sioux river, not the Missouri river.
Posted by: BillyD at March 31, 2025 10:19 PM (Yt3ED)
Posted by: Long Live the King! at March 31, 2025 10:20 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 10:20 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 31, 2025 10:16 PM (0eaVi)
She's crazier than a shithouse rat
Posted by: Otto Pen at March 31, 2025 10:20 PM (sJHOI)
Iowa actually has one (1) Runaway Truck Ramp, in the extreme north east part of the state, an area that has some steep grades.
Posted by: Common Tater
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There are runaway truck ramps on the I-5 around the foot of the Tejon Pass here in Cali. I saw a truck on one once. It must be terrifying to have to get onto one of those things.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 31, 2025 10:21 PM (lCaJd)
Massachusetts also eliminated independent government. Hawaii has only county-level government.
>> Iowa is the only state whose east and west borders are entirely formed by water (the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers).
Hawaii’s east and west borders are entirely formed by water.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 31, 2025 10:22 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Akua Makana at March 31, 2025 10:22 PM (whA2+)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 10:20 PM (dDmld)
50 yuan. Rebminbi is the name of the currency, which is denominated in yuan.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 31, 2025 10:24 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Otto Pen
The Northern Marianas is the only territory which rhymes with anas.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2025 10:25 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:25 PM (/tzYP)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 31, 2025 10:24 PM (l3YAf)
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Quid, pound, to-may-toe, to-mah-toe
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 10:26 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 10:26 PM (1xHyf)
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Is it the shits??
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:06 PM (/tzYP)
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Its duck blinds are untouchable.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 10:09 PM (dDmld)
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and the politicians there try to curry favors from everybody.
Posted by: Ciampino - great masala at March 31, 2025 10:26 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: X-Offender at March 31, 2025 10:27 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 31, 2025 10:27 PM (+VovS)
Inasmuch as the PNW stretches from way Northern California to Southeast Alaska and all the way to western Montana could you narrow the geography down a little for those who may be trying to sort the possibility of attending?
Posted by: Pete Bog at March 31, 2025 10:27 PM (X4hXd)
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BREAKING - China warns Taiwan independence ‘means war’ as launches drills around island
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:28 PM (/tzYP)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at March 31, 2025 10:28 PM (ha1wR)
Posted by: tankdemon at March 31, 2025 10:01 PM (fqoL0)
I drove by recently in my Chevy, but the levee was dry.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 10:29 PM (VNX3d)
Seeing as you are a Husky and your wife is a Coug, yall are permitted to attend.
Yakima. May 10. You could do some wine gathering in the valley afterwards.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 10:29 PM (1xHyf)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic
"Lose your spoon....that's a night in the box...."
Posted by: Boss Rat at March 31, 2025 10:29 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 31, 2025 10:30 PM (S14V7)
Posted by: Ciampino - great tetons at March 31, 2025 10:30 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2025 10:31 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: LRob in OK,
I think they meant pubic yards.
Posted by: Give Me a Home at March 31, 2025 10:32 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at March 31, 2025 10:28 PM (ha1wR)
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Easy as pi
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 10:32 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 10:32 PM (fzPQK)
Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2025 10:32 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2025 10:33 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at March 31, 2025 10:28 PM (ha1wR)
They were probably trying to say six foot square, 6x6, or more likely 2 meters by 2 meters.
Posted by: High Priest of Dagon at March 31, 2025 10:33 PM (/MyY+)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 10:33 PM (fzPQK)
Huge fire breaks out at petrol station in Putra Heights, Malaysia; no word on casualties.
https://tinyurl.com/y54r9yt2
57 seconds; LOUD
AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 1h
WATCH: Video shows the explosion and huge fire at petrol station in Putra Heights, Malaysia. Casualties unclear.
https://tinyurl.com/5edsxnxb
23 seconds; no sound; massive mushroom cloud.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:34 PM (/tzYP)
Posted by: Boss Rat at March 31, 2025 10:35 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 31, 2025 10:35 PM (/MyY+)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 31, 2025 10:35 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 10:29 PM (VNX3d)
Where does American Pie rank in American songs? Top 100? I think it probably does.
Posted by: dudley at March 31, 2025 10:35 PM (Jh5XK)
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:28 PM (/tzYP)
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How is this any different than the status for the last fifty years?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 10:35 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 10:26 PM (1xHyf)
Virginia is the only state named after the assumed sexual status of a queen.
Posted by: RickZ at March 31, 2025 10:35 PM (gKDq2)
You bastard!
I better aee you in Yakima!
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 10:32 PM (fzPQK)
At least it isn't in Yakhimov, where women are expected to ride yaks and talk over 120 words per minute at men.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 10:35 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Me no type good at March 31, 2025 10:35 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Corona exile-back_in_exile at March 31, 2025 10:36 PM (4TAOz)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 10:26 PM (1xHyf)
Virginia is the only state named after the assumed sexual status of a queen.
Posted by: RickZ at March 31, 2025 10:35 PM (gKDq2)
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Tennessee is the only state named after a penguin.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 10:37 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 10:37 PM (7hR46)
BREAKING: Another video of the powerful gas pipeline explosion followed by huge fire at petrol station in Putra Heights, Malaysia. Still no word on casualties.
https://tinyurl.com/mrxncex9
38 seconds; LOUD; from the other side of the road from the 22 second video, above.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:37 PM (/tzYP)
Posted by: RickZ at March 31, 2025 10:35 PM (gKDq2)
What about Slutsylvania? Or Idaho?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 31, 2025 10:38 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: dudley
Which would not be right.
Posted by: Some Rat at March 31, 2025 10:38 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at March 31, 2025 10:28 PM (ha1wR)
She’s actually 30 inches tall. That’s .77 meters for those scoring at home. In Europe.
Posted by: Pete Bog at March 31, 2025 10:38 PM (X4hXd)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 10:38 PM (7hR46)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2025 10:38 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 10:37 PM (dDmld)
Mississippi is the only state that is used as a count in children's hide and seek games.
Posted by: RickZ at March 31, 2025 10:39 PM (gKDq2)
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That’s not Math, that’s Arithmetic.
Official AOS Judges say “we’ll allow it”
So there you have it
Posted by: Common Tater at March 31, 2025 10:39 PM (MdA1p)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Me no type good
The panhandle was supposed to be part of Washington.
The state did not want the mines or miners.
Posted by: Some Rat at March 31, 2025 10:39 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 10:29 PM (VNX3d)
Where does American Pie rank in American songs? Top 100? I think it probably does.
Posted by: dudley at March 31, 2025 10:35 PM (Jh5XK)
I'm not sure where different people would rank it. It is one of those songs I can mostly sing acapella, like The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 10:40 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 31, 2025 10:38 PM (l3YAf)
Well, you do have Intercourse, PA.
But honestly, where's the queen? (Besides San Francisco.)
Posted by: RickZ at March 31, 2025 10:40 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2025 10:38 PM (RIvkX)
Hola!
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2025 10:40 PM (RFPHU)
Yakima is about a six hour drive for you.
You should consider meeting some local morons.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 10:37 PM (7hR46)
Definitely could do that. Wife and I would love that.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Me no type good at March 31, 2025 10:41 PM (0aYVJ)
Ummmm, iron is an element. It only requires one thing to make iron: IRON. So, it's not really a long list of resources needed to make iron.
And now I question every other thing said in that 'article'.
Posted by: GWB at March 31, 2025 10:41 PM (XR+2F)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 31, 2025 10:38 PM (l3YAf)
Well, you do have Intercourse, PA.
But honestly, where's the queen? (Besides San Francisco.)
Posted by: RickZ at March 31, 2025 10:40 PM (gKDq2)
The Queens is in New York.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 10:41 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: PaleRider at March 31, 2025 10:41 PM (CKOCg)
Posted by: X-Offender at March 31, 2025 10:27 PM (G5+As)
They have a Reive. Guy’s a dick.
Posted by: Eromero at March 31, 2025 10:42 PM (p4vtc)
Posted by: Cicero
He was best friends with Chumley. How a penguin and a walrus met, I'll never know.
Posted by: Northern Lights at March 31, 2025 10:42 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: PaleRider at March 31, 2025 10:41 PM (CKOCg)
Kraftwerk, ND??
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2025 10:42 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: TRex at March 31, 2025 10:42 PM (GVtCz)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 10:41 PM (VNX3d)
And Greenwich Village.
Posted by: RickZ at March 31, 2025 10:43 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Me no type good
There could be a seafood boil in your future!
Posted by: Some Rat at March 31, 2025 10:43 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: TRex at March 31, 2025 10:42 PM (GVtCz)
Dino!
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2025 10:43 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 10:41 PM (VNX3d)
And Greenwich Village.
Posted by: RickZ at March 31, 2025 10:43 PM (gKDq2)
Quite a few pop their heads into the US Capitol.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 10:44 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Coke Oven Cal at March 31, 2025 10:44 PM (G5+As)
It ain’t transparent Aluminium, but will have to do I guess.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 31, 2025 10:44 PM (MdA1p)
Posted by: Eromero at March 31, 2025 10:45 PM (p4vtc)
Posted by: RickZ at March 31, 2025 10:46 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: scampydog at March 31, 2025 10:46 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Common Tater at March 31, 2025 10:44 PM (MdA1p)
Just think of passenger jets made out of transparent aluminum. Head into the toilet, and everyone nearby can watch!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 10:47 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: RickZ
The Queen City is Cinncinnati.
Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2025 10:47 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 10:40 PM (VNX3d)
Hard to imagine a song like that becoming a hit now. Historical knowledge being basically totally forgotten.
Posted by: dudley at March 31, 2025 10:48 PM (Jh5XK)
Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2025 10:49 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 10:44 PM (VNX3d)
Ah, yes. Those Senate chamber rump-humper love trysts, filmed for all to see.
But the administration of decency.
Posted by: RickZ at March 31, 2025 10:49 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Myron Floren Fan Club at March 31, 2025 10:49 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at March 31, 2025 10:49 PM (IQ6Gq)
No matter where ya is, there ya's at. Not lost. Just chillin'. Right here.
Posted by: BifBewalski at March 31, 2025 10:49 PM (7UGcC)
Posted by: Pete Bog at March 31, 2025 10:50 PM (X4hXd)
Bismarck, the only German name state capitol.
Posted by: PaleRider at March 31, 2025 10:50 PM (CKOCg)
Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete
Seattle was the Queen City, then became the Emerald City.
To which some wag wrote: "If Seattle's the Emerald City, then Toto is a slug."
Posted by: Some Rat at March 31, 2025 10:50 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Ah, yes. Those Senate chamber rump-humper love trysts, filmed for all to see.
But the administration of decency.
Posted by: RickZ
The Greatest Deliberative Booty in the world.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2025 10:52 PM (cYBz/)
Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2025 10:47 PM (cYBz/)
Only when the Reds were winning in the '70s with Johnny Bench, et. al.
Other than that, what's it got? That shitty Cincinnati Chili (over spaghetti)?
Posted by: RickZ at March 31, 2025 10:52 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2025 10:42 PM (RFPHU)
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Strength Through Joy Burg, Wyoming?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 10:53 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Aren't They All? at March 31, 2025 10:53 PM (G5+As)
That's so cute.
Posted by: Texas (254) at March 31, 2025 10:53 PM (f+FmA)
As they say in that area: "Just sayin'!"
Posted by: Publius Redux at March 31, 2025 10:53 PM (Gu66x)
Posted by: RickZ
That stuff really is garbage. Hideous use of both pasta and chili.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2025 10:53 PM (cYBz/)
🧈
🧈🧈
🧈🧈🧈
Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 10h
CDU politicians are calling on the gov. to bring back Germany's gold reserves from USA or conduct more checks on the gold.
🇩🇪 holds the world’s 2nd-largest reserve & keeps 37% of it (€113B) in the Federal Reserve.
MP Wanderwitz & MEP Ferber are 2 of the most vocal politicians.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:54 PM (/tzYP)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at March 31, 2025 10:49 PM (IQ6Gq)
This!!!
Glad you listened to me (and GWB) about Texas!!
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2025 10:54 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Pete Bog at March 31, 2025 10:50 PM (X4hXd)
There are a lot of those.
Some of these colleges and universities would be more effective if they replaced semesters with 3-4 month cruises on luxury liners. The students would still get the "college experience" and chances to form connections, without the nasty classes and tests.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 10:54 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Caughman's Meatin' Place near Lexington SC at March 31, 2025 10:54 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2025 10:55 PM (yol/s)
Posted by: RickZ
WKRP and flying pigs.
That's about it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2025 10:55 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 10:26 PM (1xHyf)
The assholes in Olympia probably want to change it o Marx.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 31, 2025 10:55 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Done
Cost moneys though
Posted by: Semester at Sea at March 31, 2025 10:56 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at March 31, 2025 10:56 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:56 PM (/tzYP)
Posted by: The Mad Pooper at March 31, 2025 10:56 PM (foeLA)
The Fine Arts Theater on Wilshire Blvd in Beverly Hills is showing a remastered Forbidden Planet on April 22. Tickets are $10.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 31, 2025 10:57 PM (0eaVi)
History will be the judge.
Posted by: Pete Bog at March 31, 2025 10:57 PM (X4hXd)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 10:26 PM (1xHyf)
Idaho would have been the second had the 2024 election turned out differently
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2025 10:57 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 10:54 PM (VNX3d)
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The Jew-hate festivals could be held on the Lido Deck in between the Hairiest Chest Contest and the ice-sculpting demo.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 10:58 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 10:26 PM (1xHyf)
The assholes in Olympia probably want to change it o Marx.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 31, 2025 10:55 PM (W/lyH)
Washington to Democratic Athens
Olympia to Olympus
Governor to Zeus
Legislator to God
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 10:58 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Doof
WOW!! Well fricking played!
Posted by: Some Rat at March 31, 2025 10:58 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: Doof
Listening to Doof v. Listening to the Musical Stylings of karaoke Doof.
Discuss
Posted by: road trip thumb drive with TV theme songs at March 31, 2025 10:58 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 10:59 PM (s3LZV)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 31, 2025 10:59 PM (W/lyH)
That's about it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2025 10:55 PM (/lPRQ)
But no flying turkeys.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 31, 2025 11:00 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 11:00 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Pete Bog
BREAKING
District Judge orders all historical records to be changed
Posted by: so ordered at March 31, 2025 11:00 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Doof
WOW!! Well fricking played!
Posted by: Some Rat at March 31, 2025 10:58 PM (+VovS)
Thanks - I did kinda crack myself up with that one
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2025 11:00 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Doof
Listening to Doof v. Listening to the Musical Stylings of karaoke Doof.
Discuss
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Sold me with "where else can you shoot a machine gun?"
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at March 31, 2025 11:01 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Pete Bog at March 31, 2025 10:38 PM (X4hXd)
I’m in rehab and my roomate was talking about the biggest town near Lake Murray. I told them it was Irmo. They got real quiet then.
Posted by: Eromero at March 31, 2025 11:02 PM (p4vtc)
That's about it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2025 10:55 PM (/lPRQ)
Okay, I'll buy that. Funny show that had its moments.
The actor who played DJ Venus Flytrap (I forget his name and I'm too lazy to look it up) was from Norfolk, VA. We were always proud of that. He'd come back to help with a local theater. Seemed like a good guy.
That cast clicked. That's when a show can be worth the price of admission. Book that time slot every week. Did that for quite a few shows back in the day. 'Nope, sorry, not Monday, gotta watch 'Alien Nation'.'
Posted by: RickZ at March 31, 2025 11:03 PM (gKDq2)
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Joe Maracic @GrafixJoker 22h
The NY Yankees have updated their logo
https://tinyurl.com/2mak4x7x
IMAGE
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 11:03 PM (/tzYP)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at March 31, 2025 11:01 PM (IQ6Gq)
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Saigon.
No wait. Ho Chi Minh City.
That's where I lost my hearing.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 11:03 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at March 31, 2025 10:56 PM (IQ6Gq)
I was encouraging her earlier today to try to make that happen. She asked about you and Dino so I think she's gonna try.
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2025 11:03 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Potty Monster at March 31, 2025 11:04 PM (foeLA)
Fram2 is just about over the Siberian coast headed for the North Pole. It hasn't completed one orbit yet.
When it whips over the pole, its track looks to split the continental US in the middle, going south over Mexico back to the South Pole.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 31, 2025 11:04 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady
See also: The Knob Creek (Kentucky) Machine Gun Shoot and Military Gun Show.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2025 11:04 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at March 31, 2025 11:04 PM (IQ6Gq)
You'll have to get in line behind the Chinese tourists who have never held a gun in their entire life.
The waving around of the weapon for Instagram likes is something to stand away from.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 11:05 PM (dDmld)
well, unless you're counting the Silicon Burning Process
Posted by: boom at March 31, 2025 11:06 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Done
Cost moneys though
Posted by: Semester at Sea at March 31, 2025 10:56 PM (RgW1J)
There is a way.
Posted by: Commodore L. Ron Hubbard at March 31, 2025 11:06 PM (gKDq2)
Looks like they are about over the pole right now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 31, 2025 11:06 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2025 11:04 PM (cYBz/)
I've seen Knob Creek plenty of times. Seen it slowly drain from my glass.
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2025 11:06 PM (RFPHU)
Weekend nightcap. Boardwalk band plays Fleetwood Mac. [dri]
https://tinyurl.com/ysjchfje
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How cool is that?
She's much better than coke nose.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2025 11:07 PM (yol/s)
Posted by: would like to visit 'Nam at March 31, 2025 11:08 PM (RgW1J)
well, unless you're counting the Silicon Burning Process
Posted by: boom at March 31, 2025 11:06 PM (gKWVE)
You need iron ore to make iron, as there really is no metallic iron to be found on this planet, save for a tiny amount from meteorites.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2025 11:08 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: dudley at March 31, 2025 11:08 PM (Jh5XK)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 11:08 PM (Co42T)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at March 31, 2025
Trying to give them twice what they ask. They ask 40 reps I deliver 80. I want out of here.
Posted by: Eromero at March 31, 2025 11:09 PM (p4vtc)
Posted by: Tonypete
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Adding this to our list of things to do....thanks!
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at March 31, 2025 11:09 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Eromero
******
You are a very wise man, my friend. And I am going to use this to motivate Hrothgar!
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at March 31, 2025 11:10 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 11:08 PM (Co42T)
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They broke the Ottoman Siege of Vienna in 1529, so there's that.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 11:11 PM (dDmld)
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We made modern European socialism possible, which led socialists here to think it could work here, too.
I'm not sure what positive we ever got from it since the Europeans have proven to be worthless wartime allies who want to see us destroyed in a war with Russia, so they can submit to islam in peace.
Posted by: Methos at March 31, 2025 11:11 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: Grug Banghard, Belligerent Drunk at March 31, 2025 11:12 PM (Ob4MM)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at March 31, 2025 11:12 PM (IQ6Gq)
At least 18 people suffered minor injuries in gas pipeline explosion, fire in Putra Heights, Malaysia.
(Clarification: New information now suggests it didn’t occur at the petrol station.)
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 11:14 PM (/tzYP)
Posted by: Cicero
Hope you got your per Diem
Posted by: would like to visit 'Nam at March 31, 2025 11:08 PM (RgW1J)
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Diem. Hah!
I do get occasional enjoyment from telling people that I suffered a hearing loss from running a Ma Deuce back in 'Nam.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 11:15 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2025 11:17 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 10:59 PM (s3LZV)
The stunts we pulled entirely independently would have had each of us expelled today. Well maybe not you.
Posted by: Pete Bog at March 31, 2025 11:17 PM (X4hXd)
Posted by: dudley at March 31, 2025 11:08 PM (Jh5XK)
I started to lose interest with the baseball strike in 1994.
Way back when, I had Monday Night Football tickets at Shea, Jets vs. Bills, 1982. Game cancelled because of a football players strike. I held on to football until the early '90s. The 'look at me' showboating really took over. When I'm bored, I'll put a baseball game on. It's getting close to watching playoff hockey time, though. Football may be bigger, but the seven or eights weeks or so of playoff hockey is the best yearly sports tournament on the planet.
Posted by: RickZ at March 31, 2025 11:18 PM (gKDq2)
“If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing and it will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before,” Trump said in a comment aired Sunday by NBC News.
Anyone got a link?
Posted by: mindful webworker - the likes of which? at March 31, 2025 11:18 PM (MsUjn)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
"I cannot live from vague memories of tiny stalactites"
Posted by: Miley the Duchess is hereby quoted at March 31, 2025 11:19 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2025 11:04 PM (cYBz/)
And Bourbon Tasting
Posted by: What could go wrong? at March 31, 2025 11:19 PM (mYVyx)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 31, 2025 11:20 PM (Aqu9a)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJA6QW1kFjopace
Posted by: Lirio100 at March 31, 2025 11:20 PM (zS4/f)
I'm pretty sure that China isn't using SAE units. I could almost go with 6 square meters
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 31, 2025 11:20 PM (a4flb)
https://www.knobcreekrange.com
/machine-gun-shoot
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 31, 2025 11:21 PM (/MyY+)
Posted by: Pete Bog at March 31, 2025 11:22 PM (X4hXd)
Posted by: Cicero
My instructor in Project Management was hard of hearing due to his Navy job as a 5 inch gunner.
My own hearing loss in one ear is due to time in close proximity to the speaker stack of certain noisy bands
Posted by: Youth well wasted at March 31, 2025 11:23 PM (RgW1J)
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker has taken over the Senate floor Monday night with a marathon speech to protest President Donald Trump administration's "reckless" actions
"I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis," the Democrat posted on X.
Booker began speaking at 7 p.m. and was still going after 11 p.m.
In a transcript provided by the senator, Booker began his speech: "I rise tonight with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able."
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2025 11:24 PM (63Dwl)
For those of you that are anime fans...
Finishing up Danmachi, season 4 episode 12.
Dayum. Solid writing and suspense.
Next on my list is Log Horizon, if season 6 isn't viewable without a suscription.
Posted by: BifBewalski at March 31, 2025 11:24 PM (7UGcC)
Posted by: teenage boys at March 31, 2025 11:24 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Pete Bog
Only if the feds shoot first.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 11:25 PM (9qEvZ)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 31, 2025 11:25 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
The Machine Gun Shoot is now but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2025 11:25 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Count de Monet
Do Florida
Posted by: teenage boys at March 31, 2025 11:24 PM (RgW1J)
Hehehehe!
Posted by: Beavis and Butthead at March 31, 2025 11:26 PM (Aqu9a)
"I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis," the Democrat posted on X.
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Whine, baby whine. BOOO HOO fucking HOOO
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 11:26 PM (dDmld)
Truck driver around?
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 11:26 PM (9qEvZ)
Posted by: Javems at March 31, 2025 11:26 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2025 11:24 PM (63Dwl)
Time to bring in the desktop waterfall features onto the desk behind him.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 11:26 PM (VNX3d)
1. Is it still beneficial to US interests?
2. Are the funds being applied as outlined?
3. Should the program be extended another year?
4. Is the recipient(s) making progress in self-sufficiency, and to what extent?
Inability to answer any of the four automatically puts the program on hiatus.
Posted by: Orson at March 31, 2025 11:28 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Cicero
I would buy this man a beer or several at the local VFW Hall, unless somebody does it first.
Posted by: The VHW Hall has the cheapest beer and best people at March 31, 2025 11:28 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Quentin! at March 31, 2025 11:29 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2025 11:29 PM (L5An7)
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July is right around the corner!
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 11:29 PM (/tzYP)
Interesting, Fram2 is going to splashdown off the coast of Commiefornia. Three possible targets there, off LA, Oceanside, and San Diego.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 31, 2025 11:29 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2025 11:30 PM (cYBz/)
Most reporters are innumerate.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2025 11:29 PM (L5An7)
And many are illiterate.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 11:30 PM (VNX3d)
Hey, fellow Morons. I'm looking for, not finding, video of this:
“If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing and it will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before,” Trump said in a comment aired Sunday by NBC News.
Anyone got a link?
Posted by: mindful webworker
Apparently there's no vid. It was a telephone interview which NBC weirdly didn't record, just reported:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4sfbCt4WBIA
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 31, 2025 11:31 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 10:33 PM (fzPQK)
I was talking with my wife about possibly bringing the pickup and camping, sleeping under the tonneau cover.
Apparently this is not going to happen.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2025 11:31 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Knew an iron ore.
She was tough.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2025 11:31 PM (yol/s)
Most reporters are innumerate.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2025 11:29 PM (L5An7)
And many are illiterate.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 11:30 PM (VNX3d)
They're innumerate, illiterate, and illegitimate!
Posted by: Jackie Chiles, Esq at March 31, 2025 11:31 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Cicero
I would buy this man a beer or several at the local VFW Hall, unless somebody does it first.
Posted by: The VHW Hall has the cheapest beer and best people at March 31, 2025 11:28 PM (RgW1J)
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Not so fast. This was in 2008.i paid a buck a round.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 11:32 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2025 11:32 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 11:33 PM (SCmha)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2025 11:30 PM (cYBz/)
If you participate, be sure to wet down your front iron sight. It cuts down on the haze.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Alvin York fan at March 31, 2025 11:33 PM (Aqu9a)
Apparently this is not going to happen.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Ex and I toured CO mts. slept in the bed of a pickup.
You can do that when your under 29.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2025 11:34 PM (yol/s)
Posted by: JQ at March 31, 2025 11:34 PM (rdVOm)
Truck driver around?
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 11:26 PM (9qEvZ)
I have also wondered why we haven't heard from him. Did he give us up for Lent?
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at March 31, 2025 11:35 PM (Sf2cq)
If you have contact info for arc of history, beartooth and pablo d, can you poke them for me? Am I missing any oregoonians?
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 11:36 PM (WVdLT)
Posted by: Cicero
The local now charges $1.30
Inflation shit be happnin'
Posted by: Fort Happnin' Jackson ( the Class 6 is right there on the left) at March 31, 2025 11:37 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Ripley at March 31, 2025 11:41 PM (PTDkx)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 31, 2025 11:43 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 11:44 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Ripley at March 31, 2025 11:41 PM (PTDkx)
Ohio (Cleveland) did have a burning Cuyahoga River at one point. I'd say that was pretty unique.
Posted by: RickZ at March 31, 2025 11:44 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 31, 2025 11:44 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Tonypete
Alvin York>>>>>Dick York
Posted by: Samantha was pretty hot, though at March 31, 2025 11:44 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 11:45 PM (dDmld)
Watt's on second
Iduno's on third
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
The Senators had a player named Allie Watt, for 1 game in 1920. He did play second base.
That was before A&C did their famous comedy bit.
Watt also got a hit in his only at-bat, giving him a career MLB batting average of 1.000
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allie_Watt
Posted by: mikeski at March 31, 2025 11:46 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Samantha was pretty hot, though at March 31, 2025 11:44 PM (RgW1J)
Alvin York >>> York Peppermint Patties >> Dick York
Posted by: Count de Monet, Get The Sensation! at March 31, 2025 11:46 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 31, 2025 11:46 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 31, 2025 11:44 PM (Aqu9a)
At one point in time, Texans would have taken on any damn intergalactic aliens, too.
Posted by: RickZ at March 31, 2025 11:47 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 31, 2025 11:47 PM (Vvh2V)
@cb_doge 1h
🚨 ELON MUSK: "Someone is going to be arrested tomorrow. He actually stole 400,000 social security numbers & personal information from the Social Security database and was selling social security numbers in order for people to basically steal money from Social Security."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2025 11:48 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: York Peppermint Patty at March 31, 2025 11:48 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2025 11:30 PM (cYBz/)
Alvin York > M247 Sergeant York SPAA
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 11:49 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Miss Dixie is a cute girl her own self at March 31, 2025 11:49 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Javems at March 31, 2025 11:49 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 31, 2025 11:47 PM (Vvh2V)
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We've sent Tauntauns out to look for him.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 11:50 PM (dDmld)
Named in honor of Fram, the first exploration ship to complete voyages to the Arctic and Antarctica in the late 1800s, the @framonauts are carrying a small piece of that ship with them to orbit
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2025 11:52 PM (yol/s)
Fram makes shitty oil filters.
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 31, 2025 11:53 PM (7KXYN)
Posted by: Ripley
AFAIK, the only bridge shaped like a 'Y' is in Zanesville, OH. Commonly heard directions there are: "Go to the middle of the bridge and turn left."
No kidding.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2025 11:53 PM (cYBz/)
Hey, Jim SND! (sips lemonade)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 31, 2025 11:53 PM (lCaJd)
Named in honor of Fram, the first exploration ship to complete voyages to the Arctic and Antarctica in the late 1800s, the @framonauts are carrying a small piece of that ship with them to orbit
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2025 11:52 PM (yol/s)
That makes more sense than naming it after Fram air filters.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2025 11:54 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
Umm...yes
First, I would like to thank everyone who were kind last night. I was more concerned than I needed to be.
The Bone marrow extraction was less bothersome than I was told to expect.
Pleasant? No.
Painful? Kinda
Now wait for lab results.
Best to All
Posted by: Miklos at March 31, 2025 11:55 PM (RgW1J)
Nobody names their kids Frances/Francis, anymore.
When I was a kid, there was a lot of "Frans" and "Frannys." Well, not a lot, but a couple.
And Evelyns.
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 31, 2025 11:57 PM (7KXYN)
Posted by: Miklos McMiklos, of the Auld and Ancient Clan McMiklos at March 31, 2025 11:57 PM (RgW1J)
Best to All
Posted by: Miklos at March 31, 2025 11:55 PM (RgW1J)
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Is it too late to slip a 20 to the lab technician?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2025 11:57 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 31, 2025 11:58 PM (Vvh2V)
Lt. Spiers, Dog Company, 506 PIR, 101st Airborne, WW2 on D-Day: Take German prisoners? Hold my beer. I also shot my own Sergeant in self-defense.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 31, 2025 11:59 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Soothsayer
FUN FACT
The English writer Evelyn Waugh ( in my opinion the best stylist in the English language in the 20th Century) had a wife named Evelyn.
Posted by: Miklos so recalls at April 01, 2025 12:00 AM (RgW1J)
When I was a kid, there was a lot of "Frans" and "Frannys." Well, not a lot, but a couple.
And Evelyns.
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 31, 2025 11:57 PM (7KXYN)
Isn’t Francis usually abbreviated as Frank?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 01, 2025 12:01 AM (l3YAf)
Ummmm, iron is an element. It only requires one thing to make iron: IRON. So, it's not really a long list of resources needed to make iron.
And now I question every other thing said in that 'article'.
Posted by: GWB at March 31, 2025 10:41 PM (XR+2F)
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Iron is mined as the oxide (rust) so needs coal in a blast furnace. Steel needs that resulting pig iron and coke (the black one) plus small amounts of other metals - tungsten, vanadium, etc.
Posted by: Ciampino - great tetons at April 01, 2025 12:01 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Ripley
AFAIK, the only bridge shaped like a 'Y' is in Zanesville, OH. Commonly heard directions there are: "Go to the middle of the bridge and turn left."
No kidding.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2025 11:53 PM (cYBz/)
_______________________
Dublin, OH has Cornhenge. It's places like that which really make me laugh, because after the apocalypse, some space alien is going to set down right where Dublin used to be and try to figure out why there are giant cement cobs of corn all over the hillside.
Posted by: Orson at April 01, 2025 12:02 AM (dIske)
I guess it's time to vamanos past the border with your kid.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 01, 2025 12:03 AM (Aqu9a)
https://youtu.be/4sfbCt4WBIA
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Well, that's disappointing. And a little weird. I had a meme in mind.
Posted by: mindful webworker - the dislikes of which? at April 01, 2025 12:04 AM (MsUjn)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 01, 2025 12:04 AM (dDmld)
Posted by: Cicero
In Hungary, that would be expected and basically required.
It is called "Halapenz" or Thanks money
The State system theoretically pays, but you get shit or nothing without the "Halapenz" envelopes.
Posted by: Miklos now again in Trump's America at April 01, 2025 12:05 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Orson
And then, after finding some video of Beavis & Butthead, it'll all make sense:
"This must be a shrine to The Great Cornholio!"
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 12:05 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Don Black at April 01, 2025 12:06 AM (AOsQT)
That's a wrap for March here. Average temp was 55.8F, High was 80.1, low 25. 3.80" rain. Pressure swing for 30.50" to 29.45".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2025 12:07 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Archer at April 01, 2025 12:08 AM (IDphi)
Posted by: Miklos agin offers free lesson in Hungarian, which a pretty good Sekrit Language at April 01, 2025 12:08 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Orson
And then, after finding some video of Beavis & Butthead, it'll all make sense:
"This must be a shrine to The Great Cornholio!"
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 12:05 AM (rdVOm)
My people called it The Great Maizeholio!
Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at April 01, 2025 12:08 AM (Aqu9a)
Cracked me up in 1982, when the Courts said they had to release Federal Prisoners because they did not have enough living space, when we had LESS on a Fucking Ship.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 12:08 AM (QAkQ3)
"Hope, danger's comforter!"
Thucydides
Posted by: mnw at April 01, 2025 12:08 AM (kd60y)
Posted by: the Actual Cherokee at April 01, 2025 12:09 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 01, 2025 12:09 AM (sAmhv)
Also, leukemiaa are very responsive to the Ivermectin, Fenbendazole/Mebendazole protocols. Can be taken with chemo if need be.
Please keep me, all of us, updated.
And forgive my paranoia. My beautiful, darling, expecting her first baby, vaxxed and triple boosted 24 year old niece just got diagnosed with leukemia, so I'm very touchy on the subject.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 01, 2025 12:11 AM (Vvh2V)
Hate it when Walmart doesn't have what I need
and I have to go home, change out of my pajamas
and brush my hair so I can go to Target.
Posted by: Ciampino - great jammies at April 01, 2025 12:11 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Romeo13
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I remember hearing about sailors what got Mast for getting their ear pierced:
"Willful Destruction of Government Property"
Usually just a small fine, but still... active duty means you are Property. Not a Citizen anymore.
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 12:12 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 01, 2025 12:12 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Archer at April 01, 2025 12:14 AM (IDphi)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2025 12:15 AM (yol/s)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 01, 2025 12:17 AM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 12:17 AM (7KXYN)
Posted by: Braenyard
Mrs Knob Blocker or Mrs Knob Locker? Either way, it sounds like her hubby isn't getting any.
Posted by: mikeski at April 01, 2025 12:17 AM (DgGvY)
Pete Hegseth Is Ordering Equal Standards for Men and Women in Combat Roles
No more "Women have to lift 80 pounds while men have to lift 150" crap, and women don't get more chances at passing Army Ranger training.
https://x.com/SecDef/status/1906677003400442284
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 01, 2025 12:18 AM (lCaJd)
Please keep me, all of us, updated.
And forgive my paranoia. My beautiful, darling, expecting her first baby, vaxxed and triple boosted 24 year old niece just got diagnosed with leukemia, so I'm very touchy on the subject.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
Thank you, I am aware of this, and wish the best for your Little One.
The vaxx and various cancer spikes are more than suspicious.
Getting a prescription for Human Ivermectin at a reasonable price is not easy, but doable.
Posted by: the Miklos Dude Abides at April 01, 2025 12:18 AM (RgW1J)
1960
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 01, 2025 12:20 AM (sAmhv)
I had no idea squaw valley was in California
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
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Just barely. It's almost in Nevada. But anyway, it's nowhere now. It was changed to Palisades Tahoe for fairly obvious reasons.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 01, 2025 12:20 AM (lCaJd)
"Willful Destruction of Government Property"
Usually just a small fine, but still... active duty means you are Property. Not a Citizen anymore.
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 12:12 AM (rdVOm)
Yeah, but only because they did not know how to play the game... they would get nailed right after getting it pierced, and leaving the earing in while it healed.
You get it pierced... then when ready to go onboard the ship you have to live on, get a small piece of straw, soak it in alcohol, and put that in the hole. Rinse, repeat, until the hole heals...
Yeah... pierced ear my second year in the Navy...
And the reg was actually very strange, because there is ONE earing that by tradition, you can wear in Uniform... if you are on a ship that gets sunk, you can wear gold ring... and also by tradition once you've both crossed the equator, AND sailed seven seas, you could wear an earing as well.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 12:20 AM (QAkQ3)
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Heavy fishing line. That's what XH used. Practically invisible.
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 12:22 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: the Miklos Dude Abides at April 01, 2025 12:18 AM (RgW1J)
there are overseas companies that will do an online questionnaire, and fill that prescription.
Yes... overseas so of course you are both paying out of pocket and taking the chance of getting crap... but... some sites are reliable.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 12:22 AM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Romeo13
And it's not gay if you're underway...
Posted by: Old stories retold at April 01, 2025 12:23 AM (RgW1J)
I had no idea squaw valley was in California
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
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Just barely. It's almost in Nevada. But anyway, it's nowhere now. It was changed to Palisades Tahoe for fairly obvious reasons.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 01, 2025 12:20 AM (lCaJd)
And all the Locals, and all us Skiers who ski there? Yeah... still call it Squaw.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 12:23 AM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Don Black
Don't tell the Governor that. He'll outlaw the state.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 01, 2025 12:24 AM (sAmhv)
https://mol.im/a/14556731
Posted by: Ciampino - St Elsewhere at April 01, 2025 12:25 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: raimondo at April 01, 2025 12:25 AM (owEVq)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 01, 2025 12:25 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Old stories retold at April 01, 2025 12:23 AM (RgW1J)
So, just out of curiosity? do you get your jollies by denigrating those of us who served our country at Sea?
do you ever get tired, of the same crap jokes?
And on that note... I don't need this shit... good night all.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 12:26 AM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 01, 2025 12:11 AM (Vvh2V)
I'm so sorry about your niece, Tammy. I'll pray for a miracle.
I reached out with jab information to some nieces and a nephew that I trusted to receive guidance from me in the spirit intended. All nieces thanked me for my concern and got their shots. My poor niece who has borne a child since 2020 was sick with Covid (again!), influenza, and RSV all during her pregnancy. I'm surprised about having that many fairly significant respiratory illnesses over a span of a few months. I'm guessing she got a bunch of shots so she would be healthy for her pregnancy.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 01, 2025 12:28 AM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 12:29 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 01, 2025 12:29 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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It may be modern, but it isn't a modern, fancy, toilet. They have foot shaped depressions molded into the porcelain to show where to plant your feet for best aim.
Posted by: buddhaha at April 01, 2025 12:30 AM (9G9/y)
Posted by: the Miklos Dude Abides at April 01, 2025 12:18 AM (RgW1J)
Got any jet setting friends? Ivermectin is OTC in many countries. Maybe they would bring you a supply.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 01, 2025 12:32 AM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 01, 2025 12:35 AM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: raimondo on tap at April 01, 2025 12:35 AM (RgW1J)
Done with March. Ready for April.
https://youtu.be/puI-6rTZ_kY
G'nite, y'all. Don't let the bedbugs bite.
Posted by: mindful webworker - ah, the fresh new month smell! at April 01, 2025 12:35 AM (MsUjn)
Speaking of that, Alex Berenson latest post:
https://tinyurl.com/2af9h5rc
Some German researchers published a paper: "We were able to demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination establishes extensive and persistent H3K27ac at promoters [a specific region on the chromosome that encourages DNA transcription] of short-lived macrophages..."
The H3K27ac thing is a cancer promoter. This would explain leukemia. Japan has seen a 10% increase in leukemia.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2025 12:35 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
Now see?
The things one learns here.
Posted by: Miklos on tap at April 01, 2025 12:37 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: buddhaha at April 01, 2025 12:30 AM (9G9/y)
Anyone who thinks progress is inevitable or irresistible need look no further than the continued existence of the squat toilet.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 01, 2025 12:37 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: RickZ at April 01, 2025 12:40 AM (gKDq2)
Ummmm, iron is an element. It only requires one thing to make iron: IRON. So, it's not really a long list of resources needed to make iron.
And now I question every other thing said in that 'article'.
Posted by: GWB at March 31, 2025 10:41 PM (XR+2F)
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Iron is mined as the oxide (rust) so needs coal in a blast furnace. Steel needs that resulting pig iron and coke (the black one) plus small amounts of other metals - tungsten, vanadium, etc.
Posted by: Ciampino - great tetons at April 01, 2025 12:01 AM (sPQoU)
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Yeah - I am calling BS on that one, too. As far as I am aware, Pennsylvania has all the natural resources to make steel, which is why it was the seat of the iron and steel industry for 100 years or so.
Posted by: Publius Redux at April 01, 2025 12:41 AM (Gu66x)
Rarely seen screen legend who survived WWII celebrates 98th birthday -- William Daniels
https://mol.im/a/14556731
Posted by: Ciampino
Captain Nice
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 01, 2025 12:41 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: mindful webworker
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licóur
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
Posted by: Miklos on the road make penance at April 01, 2025 12:42 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2025 12:42 AM (yol/s)
Posted by: Publius Redux at April 01, 2025 12:41 AM (Gu66x)
Nope. Pennsylvania’s dirty secret is they were just repackaging steel they imported from Alabama all this time.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 01, 2025 12:43 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Ciampino - April in Paree -- CBD at April 01, 2025 12:43 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: RickZ at April 01, 2025 12:43 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Thorn at April 01, 2025 12:44 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Publius Redux
First oil well gusher too.
Posted by: Miklos knows why Pennzoil is called Pennzoil at April 01, 2025 12:45 AM (RgW1J)
And the Big Sioux! It forms the border all the way from the very northwest corner by Larchwood down to Sioux City where it flows into the Missouri.
Posted by: pookysgirl is, in fact, a geo-nerd at April 01, 2025 12:45 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Geoff at April 01, 2025 12:46 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Ciampino - April in Paree -- CBD at April 01, 2025 12:43 AM (sPQoU)
What is an ambulance fee?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 01, 2025 12:47 AM (l3YAf)
Got more mugs than I'll ever use, really. But they're all special to me in some way.
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 12:47 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Pokemon geo-nerds at April 01, 2025 12:48 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: RickZ at April 01, 2025 12:40 AM (gKDq2)
I think the initial wave could be dangerous, but after hospitals were required to administer Remdesivir if they didn't want their funding cut off, a lot of patients died needlessly. We lost a friend to Remdesivir and his wife was seriously injured from the drug.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 01, 2025 12:48 AM (Sf2cq)
Got more mugs than I'll ever use, really. But they're all special to me in some way.
Posted by: JQ
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Heh. I have an OS-9 mug. Think I picked it up at a CES show.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 01, 2025 12:50 AM (XeU6L)
I'm looking forward to FIGHT by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes. It's about the 2024 election but more significantly it's one of the tell-all books about Biden's presidency.
They wrote that "Shattered" book about Hillary's campaign that revealed the hatching of the Russia hoax.
"To cover up the physical signs of Biden’s aging, a makeup artist met with him in the morning when he traveled. The artist also covered up aging signs before Zoom calls with his aides.
Biden consistently made these makeup appointments, but he sometimes canceled the briefings that were to follow. "
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 01, 2025 12:50 AM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 01, 2025 12:47 AM (l3YAf)
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We have or had 2 private ambulance services, no gov. one. Insurance pays for most of the cost but I have to cough up a copay.
Posted by: Ciampino - April in Paree at April 01, 2025 12:52 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Pokemon geo-nerds at April 01, 2025 12:48 AM (RgW1J)
Ah, get back in your white-and-red balls where you belong!
Posted by: pookysgirl, chasing after a four-star ball at April 01, 2025 12:53 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
If you have an OS-9 and a P 38, you're basically OK
Posted by: Minimalist Prepper Miklos at April 01, 2025 12:53 AM (RgW1J)
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There's a trap door in my office, right in front of my desk, with a dungeon below designed especially for him.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2025 12:53 AM (yol/s)
Posted by: Don Black at April 01, 2025 12:54 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 01, 2025 12:47 AM (l3YAf)
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Twenty dollars, same as in town.
Posted by: Beating AoSHQ Memes to Death at April 01, 2025 12:54 AM (JkO4W)
And the Big Sioux! It forms the border all the way from the very northwest corner by Larchwood down to Sioux City where it flows into the Missouri.
Posted by: pookysgirl is, in fact, a geo-nerd at April 01, 2025 12:45 AM (Wt5PA).
As per my earlier post - New Jersey's East and West borders are also all water. FYI
Posted by: Publius Redux at April 01, 2025 12:55 AM (Gu66x)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 01, 2025 12:47 AM (l3YAf)
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We have or had 2 private ambulance services, no gov. one. Insurance pays for most of the cost but I have to cough up a copay.
Posted by: Ciampino - April in Paree at April 01, 2025 12:52 AM (sPQoU)
I used an ambulance in 2011. I had Medicare insurance and my payment cost was $200. I think the total ambulance bill was somewhere around $1,200. NYC EMTs BTW.
Posted by: RickZ at April 01, 2025 12:57 AM (gKDq2)
As per my earlier post - New Jersey's East and West borders are also all water. FYI
Posted by: Publius Redux at April 01, 2025 12:55 AM (Gu66x)
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Arizona "What's water?"
Posted by: Ciampino - Hail is hard water at April 01, 2025 12:58 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: pookysgirl tries hard to keep her microwave clean at April 01, 2025 12:59 AM (Wt5PA)
Because if you arrive by ambulance, you normally go right into the ER.
If someone drives you, first come, first served.
So Old Mama had to wait hours because Jose and Miguel had shot themselves with the nail gun while doing some roofing.
Therefore ambulance. Financially crazy, but made practical sense.
Posted by: Miklos knows how much an ambulance call costs at April 01, 2025 12:59 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2025 11:08 PM"
Ah ha! Greenland, and you've been there.
Such a bizarre thing. Mother Natures own little foundry.
Posted by: pawn at April 01, 2025 01:02 AM (QB+5g)
Come to think of it, I bet illegals and other minorities probably pay nothing. We have Porgy Pig, Pritzker as gov.
Posted by: Ciampino - Hail is very hard water at April 01, 2025 01:03 AM (sPQoU)
Worth every penny, considering his health issues that cropped up later!
Wish *I* could get that kind of coverage, for the same price! But I'm not 65 yet.
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 01:03 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: pookysgirl
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it works
this is why I don't buy maple syrup- it has to be refrigerated
Posted by: Don Black at April 01, 2025 01:04 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Miklos likes the mustard based sauce at April 01, 2025 01:08 AM (RgW1J)
So Old Mama had to wait hours because Jose and Miguel had shot themselves with the nail gun while doing some roofing.
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Mine is like that. But they have an EmergiCare place about 20min. further in Uptown. All new, shiny, first class and if you need more they truck you to the hospital but that's OK 'cause they've already settled things.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2025 01:08 AM (yol/s)
Posted by: pookysgirl tries hard to keep her microwave clean at April 01, 2025 12:59 AM (Wt5PA)
I put the syrup in the mug and heat it on 25% power, stirring often and checking the temp. I don't want it to boil, I want it warm to help melt the butter.
Posted by: RickZ at April 01, 2025 01:09 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 01, 2025 12:50 AM (XeU6L)
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OS/9 is an Microware OS for the Motorola 6809, ca 1980s. Still around in embedded systems. Used driver modules that were chained so easily loaded and unloaded on demand.
Posted by: Ciampino - chaining at April 01, 2025 01:09 AM (sPQoU)
Full disclosure: He had prostate cancer and required many regular, expensive tests and treatments.
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 01:10 AM (rdVOm)
So there. Nyah nyah nyah.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 01, 2025 01:10 AM (LweC0)
Posted by: Ciampino - Never heard of a G plan at April 01, 2025 01:13 AM (sPQoU)
Wow, that microware stuff really rocked. We built a number of systems at KSC on that platform.
That and the SFF "VME lite" Gespac boards from Switzerland.
There at least one system out there still running at the old Shuttle Landing Facility. Been running for 40 years.
Posted by: pawn at April 01, 2025 01:14 AM (QB+5g)
Thank you, Emmie! 😘 I screamed and hollered and yelled at the top of my lungs at everyonevI knew. Including my own husband. Very few believed me, or were too scared to tell their employers to get...forked.
Thor had his prostate removed last summer. Niece in California just had her 1st round of chemo today for Stage 2, triple negative breast cancer. 33 years old. Multiple family members dead within months, sometimes weeks, of pancreatic and lung cancer. Neighbor across the street died this winter of pancreatic cancer. His neighbor to the west, who is related to me by marriage, dying of some strange leukemia. Mail lady, died last year, pancreatic cancer. 3 cousins who are like sisters to me, all have breast cancer. Thankfully all Stage zero, in situ milk duct cancer, but all had double mastectomies, because their doctor or surgeons are pretty sure it's vax related and thought it was better to be sure. I could go on with more stories of friends, formers colleagues, etc.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 01, 2025 01:14 AM (Vvh2V)
Pete Hegseth Is Ordering Equal Standards for Men and Women in Combat Roles
No more "Women have to lift 80 pounds while men have to lift 150" crap, and women don't get more chances at passing Army Ranger training.
https://x.com/SecDef/status/1906677003400442284
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 01, 2025 12:18 AM (lCaJd)
I'm more or less underwhelmed.
They don't have the balls to apply this military-wide, because it would practically eliminate women in the military. But they'll apply it to combat MOSes so that men can continue to bear the brunt of war, while women get equal say about when we go to war. Pick a uniform standard and apply it across the board.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 01, 2025 01:15 AM (YVuAl)
Posted by: Ciampino
It is a Medicare Supplement Plan. Covers the 20% that Regular Medicare Part B doesn't, except for the annual ($200ish) "hospital copay".
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 01:16 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ciampino - Never heard of a G plan at April 01, 2025 01:16 AM (sPQoU)
Now the house smells like Clorox, which is definite improvement. So glad there is no carpet in this house, and there won't be, ever.
She had the surgery, all went well, and she should be on the mend by tomorrow. 124 miles round trip, and we get to drive it all over again tomorrow to collect her sorry ass.
The way we love these dogs....
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 01, 2025 01:16 AM (LweC0)
This is crazy. SpaceX's Fram2 Dragon tracker will crank 100% CPU on Chrome. Firefox hardly any at all. Edge uses a little more, but not as much as Chrome.
https://tinyurl.com/24asyy5e
What the hell Chrome is doing, I don't know
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2025 01:16 AM (w6EFb)
So there. Nyah nyah nyah.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 01, 2025 01:10 AM (LweC0)
When I flew to Japan, we refueled for the last leg on Adak. We didn't get out. Saw the cute little railroad they had running around the runway, though. I can only imagine that place in the winter.
We left Dulles at 11:00 p.m. We arrived in Tokyo the same day at 1:00 p.m.
Posted by: RickZ at April 01, 2025 01:17 AM (gKDq2)
Pole to pole in about 46 minutes.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2025 01:17 AM (w6EFb)
maple syrup- it has to be refrigerated
Posted by: Don Black
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omg. I just checked my maple syrup. Opened, unrefrigerated. It didn't smell funny or look funny. Can I use it?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 01, 2025 01:18 AM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 01, 2025 01:14 AM (Vvh2V)
Fuckers murdered my father. That's all I needed to know. When do they hang them? Needs to happen. And that little fucker Fouci needs to be strung up by his tiny little balls and scourged until dead.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 01, 2025 01:18 AM (LweC0)
Not quite as bad as it sounds, since half (or more) of the sailors were on watch at any given time, but even 28 inches isn't exactly what you'd call spacious.
Pity the poor swabbie who got stuck between two fat guys. He'd be like the middle ball in one of those desk toys with suspended ball bearings that smack into each other.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2025 01:19 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 01:20 AM (rdVOm)
We left Dulles at 11:00 p.m. We arrived in Tokyo the same day at 1:00 p.m.
Posted by: RickZ at April 01, 2025 01:17 AM (gKDq2)
Adak has now been mostly abandoned, although the Navy still has right of return. You can get a nice house there for mostly nothing. I can't speak to the quality of the Wifi.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 01, 2025 01:20 AM (LweC0)
Why? Because their doctors are skeptical. Oh, your doctor is skeptical, really?!
The doctor that merrily pumped you full of that shit is suddenly questioning things?!
Questioning Ivermectin, of all things, which has literally been around for decades?!
It is unbelievable to me that people are this fucking stupid. Or maybe stupid isn't the right word. But what other professional would you still trust after they did the equivalent thing?!
I cannot fathom this, I really cannot.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 01, 2025 01:20 AM (Vvh2V)
Full disclosure: He had prostate cancer and required many regular, expensive tests and treatments.
Posted by: JQ at April
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Advantage Plans are rip offs, "free" glasses and "free dental" doesn't compensate for the things they don't pay for, like the hospital of your choice or the doctor of your choice. And the amount you have to come up with is minuscule relative to the charges.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2025 01:20 AM (yol/s)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2025 01:19 AM (W5ArC)
I can't imagine too many fat guys on a sailing ship, particularly a ship of war. They weren't eating high cuisine.
Posted by: RickZ at April 01, 2025 01:21 AM (gKDq2)
About four (4) percent of cancer cases are Pancreatic.
Both of my parents had that (Old Mama vaxxed to the maxx).
My parents were not cousins, despite being from the South.
What are the odds?
Posted by: Miklos wants heads on pikes, and will bring pikes at April 01, 2025 01:22 AM (RgW1J)
They don't have the balls to apply this military-wide, because it would practically eliminate women in the military. But they'll apply it to combat MOSes so that men can continue to bear the brunt of war, while women get equal say about when we go to war.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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But without combat experience, women in the military won't advance into "equal say" positions afaik.
Anyway, I'm relieved that this ridiculously necessary reform is finally made.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 01, 2025 01:22 AM (lCaJd)
The Aleutians are actually pretty temperate by Alaska standards. The record low for Adak is 3 above.
Chilly, misty, and windy as hell, yes, but you don't see the -60 temps you get in the interior.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2025 01:23 AM (W5ArC)
What are the odds?
Posted by: Miklos wants heads on pikes, and will bring pikes at April 01, 2025 01:22 AM (RgW1J)
A few years after my divorce, had a woman ask me if I ever ran into her. In New York City. She was from a small town. I just laughed.
Posted by: RickZ at April 01, 2025 01:25 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
FUN FACT
The developers of Ivermectin got the Nobel Prize for medicine as long ago as 2015
Posted by: Miklos pays attention sometimesg pikes at April 01, 2025 01:25 AM (RgW1J)
Amen!
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 01, 2025 01:18 AM (LweC0)
Murdered is exactly right. And Fauci had blood on his hands long before this, going back to AIDS. Never-ending the beagles.
And I'm so glad your girl is all fixed up! 🤗
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 01, 2025 01:25 AM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: RickZ at April 01, 2025 01:21 AM (gKDq2)
It wasn't luxury food, by any means, but a lot of guys back then joined the Royal Navy just to get reliable chow. The grog, beer, and tobacco rations didn't hurt, either.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2025 01:26 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Someone Else at April 01, 2025 01:27 AM (IrqeV)
It is unbelievable to me that people are this fucking stupid. Or maybe stupid isn't the right word. But what other professional would you still trust after they did the equivalent thing?!
I cannot fathom this, I really cannot.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
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Mary Tally Bowden M.D. lost her privileges at the Texas Medical Center, was denied access to Monoclonal Antibodies, restricted access to ivermectin and is still in lawsuit with the TMC and the state of Texas.
Doctors must toe the line or the punitive reaction is severe.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2025 01:27 AM (yol/s)
Posted by: RickZ
In Budapest, the prostitute's opening line is "Don't I know you?"
Posted by: Miklos has lived and learned at April 01, 2025 01:28 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Nine year old Miklos trying to finish the 50 State puzzle at April 01, 2025 01:30 AM (RgW1J)
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There's a trap door in my office, right in front of my desk, with a dungeon below designed especially for him.
Posted by: Braenyard
The Deep State's favorite beltway bandit says stuff.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 01, 2025 01:31 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: RickZ at April 01, 2025 01:25 AM (gKDq2)
I've had that happen on a smaller scale. An Alaska Native woman asked me if I knew her son, because "He lives in Anchorage, too."
It's hard for someone from a place with 100 people, all of whom are related and have known each other their whole lives, to understand that kind of thing.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2025 01:32 AM (W5ArC)
Astronomical odds! Pancreatic is one of the more prevalent ones post covid, along with prostate, ovarian and breast. All hormonal, which is interesting to me. The other post covid ones are small cell lung, lip/oral/pharyngeal, and leukemias.
Yes, waaaayv back in Ye Olden Times of 2015!!! 😂
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 01, 2025 01:33 AM (Vvh2V)
Then they needed to retire, or pursue another career. My doctor took a sabbatical after someone ratted him out for shaking his head no when people asked about the vax.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 01, 2025 01:37 AM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
I read that as the Golden Times when I was young and Reagan was President.
Posted by: Nineteen year old Miklos at April 01, 2025 01:39 AM (RgW1J)
When I was getting married, I was taking the train from Manhattan to Queens and the tuxedo rental place. When I walked into the car, there was a man I worked with three years previous.
Another time, I was walking around Rockefeller Center on my lunch hour. Ran into another guy from that same job -- seven years later.
You never know.
Posted by: RickZ at April 01, 2025 01:39 AM (gKDq2)
Chilly, misty, and windy as hell, yes, but you don't see the -60 temps you get in the interior.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2025 01:23 AM (W5ArC)
Plus, a woman behind every tree!
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 01, 2025 01:40 AM (LweC0)
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 01, 2025 01:40 AM (LweC0)
Heh.... a classic.
Probably a few more now that the Native corporation is running the place.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2025 01:41 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2025 01:32 AM (W5ArC)
On the other hand, I frequently find that Alaska really is just a small town. I'm forever running into people who knew my dad, or my sisters, or some connection. There's less than a million of us, anyway. And most of us know someone who knows someone.....
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 01, 2025 01:41 AM (LweC0)
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 01, 2025 01:41 AM (LweC0)
Three frozen degrees of separation.
Posted by: RickZ at April 01, 2025 01:43 AM (gKDq2)
That, too! Reagan's second term was my first time voting. Missed his first term by a week or two, iirc. 18th birthday was Nov 17th, and I think Election Day was the 3rd that year.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 01, 2025 01:43 AM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 01, 2025 01:41 AM (LweC0)
Oh, sure... but it's sort of a weird distribution. People who've been here for a long time very often encounter people they know, but the turnover is so high that there aren't all that many by proportion.
When my niece got married a while back, it turned out that her spouse's father was a good customer of mine when I was working retail as a young punk, 40-some years ago.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2025 01:44 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 01, 2025 01:45 AM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: RickZ
I met a colleague from Budapest on the Yucatan coast near Tulum.
It is truly a small world.
Posted by: Miklos "Sam" Cooke does much about History, or the French I took at April 01, 2025 01:46 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: RickZ at April 01, 2025 01:47 AM (gKDq2)
Speaking of AK, Fram2 will pass right over the middle of Alaska next pass over the north pole.
Looking at the terminator, I see some western parts of AK are still in daylight. Nome, for instance. Length of daylight up there has been increasing about 6:40 per day. Started out march at just over 10 hours of daylight, and now ends with 13:30. Wow.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2025 01:48 AM (w6EFb)
Goodnight all.
Posted by: Ciampino - Never go plaid at April 01, 2025 01:49 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump!
SO RIGHT!
I was in the local Medical Center and while not heart related, it was clear that 80% was not about medicine, but Legal Liability.
Posted by: Miklos is impatient at April 01, 2025 01:49 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Miklos the Trappist at April 01, 2025 01:51 AM (RgW1J)
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And the other 20% was about funding the Nurse's Union Pension Plan...?
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 01:51 AM (rdVOm)
Huh, today was the Trans Day of Visibility. I don't know who's behind it, but there you go. I'm looking at someone on X who calls it the Trans Day of Risibility haha.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 01, 2025 01:53 AM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 01, 2025 01:54 AM (Sf2cq)
It is truly a small world.
Posted by: Miklos "Sam" Cooke does much about History, or the French I took at April 01, 2025 01:46 AM (RgW1J)
I was on vacation with the ex visiting my parents in Norfolk. We booked an extended couple of nights stay in Williamsburg. While looking at a Mexican restaurant menu at a little eatery, of all places, we ran into an older cousin of mine and his wife who lived in Silver Spring, MD. We only really met at Thanksgiving, funerals and weddings and never talked on the phone. That one still gets me.
Posted by: RickZ at April 01, 2025 01:54 AM (gKDq2)
Yes, Ma'am! It's so sadly true. And it's partly laziness; they don't keep up on research. I've always been extraordinarily lucky with my doctors, thankfully. Our doctor here is awesome. He's Family Practice, so he sees me, Thor and mama. Very open to the info I bring him, and very kindly prints out things from NIH, Pub Med, etc, that I ask about but can't access. But he will also tell me when he disagrees with me about something, and why, so I trust him implicitly.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 01, 2025 01:54 AM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Rev Wishbone at April 01, 2025 01:55 AM (fY84s)
Posted by: Rev Wishbone at April 01, 2025 01:56 AM (fY84s)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 01, 2025 01:54 AM (Vvh2V)
That's a treasure!
I go to the office of a doctor who was in the news during Covid for being one of those quacks prescribing ivermectin. He and his partners geek out on medical and health studies.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 01, 2025 01:58 AM (Sf2cq)
Come June, the sun will technically set where I am, but it doesn't actually get dark. It sets in the north-north-west, rolls along just under the northern horizon, and comes back up in the north-north-east.
Farther north, of course, it does not set at all.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2025 01:59 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2025 02:00 AM (W5ArC)
Guess I better put my phone down.
Y'all keep the faith!
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 01, 2025 02:00 AM (Sf2cq)
Otherwise, we'd broil!
(Don't know how people can stand places like Phoenix)
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 02:04 AM (rdVOm)
I was looking at Timeanddate's sun tables for Nome, and noticed something. The greatest change in daylight occurs well after the equinox, in early May (a few days into May).
Then it hit me what was going on. I asked Grok to 'splain it, and it did an pretty impressive job.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2025 02:07 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Carolina Coastal Miklos at April 01, 2025 02:08 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 02:10 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Grok is actually Publius, but I am not supposed to say that
Posted by: MiklosBot300.56.99.47b at April 01, 2025 02:10 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Carolina Coastal Miklos
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On the upside, you dont have to wear bolo ties.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 01, 2025 02:11 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: JQ
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Ask him about the chiggers.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 01, 2025 02:13 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2025 02:13 AM (yol/s)
Posted by: JQ
In the Central part we get 100 x three on Special Days
Temperature
Humidity
Pollen
Posted by: Miklos manages somehow (does not appear to bother the dog) at April 01, 2025 02:13 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
No. No no no, I don't want to know! I spent ~6 months in Pensacola (long time ago) and saw BUGS like I'd never seen before or since! Yeeeesh! No, thank you very much.
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 02:15 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: RickZ
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Had Blue Cross before Medicare. What a relief to be off their pay plan. No complaints about Medicare.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2025 02:16 AM (yol/s)
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
Just because I don't Have To, doesn't mean I don't.
Posted by: Stylish Miklos at April 01, 2025 02:17 AM (RgW1J)
More Nome fun. Astronomical night ceases on April 9. By April 26, astronomical twilight ceases, and by May 18, nautical ceases.
And then my mind was blown looking at the times. Sunset and twilight endings occur before sunrises. Then it hit me, with one time zone and stupid DST. AK is well to the east of where it should be, local mean time wise.
On May 10, there is no sunset. It happens at midnight, May 11. And thereafter until it flips back, sunset occurs after midnight, and before sunrise.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2025 02:17 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2025 02:19 AM (yol/s)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 01, 2025 02:20 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 02:21 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
The State Bird of Louisiana is the Mosquito.
In South Carolina it is the Palmetto Bug, a large and terrifying flying cockroach.
Yankees be ware
You would not like it here
Also many alligators
Posted by: Miklos is a man of fixed opinions at April 01, 2025 02:21 AM (RgW1J)
Hat is off to you, that you are able to make it your home!
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 02:24 AM (rdVOm)
A giant, flying cockroach that scared the living daylights outta me one (otherwise peaceful) morning....
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 02:26 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Miklos
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Diamond back rattlers that make timber rattlers, and those weeny snakes out west, look like earthworms.
"The eastern diamondback rattlesnake is the largest of its species in the world and the most venomous snake in North America."
Oh, did I mention Coral snakes?
"The Eastern coral snake (Micrurus fulvius) is a highly venomous snake native to the southeastern United States. "
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 01, 2025 02:26 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 02:27 AM (rdVOm)
You all are wonderful people, but I could never enjoy living where you do!
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 02:29 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
*Looks around for hat*
*got a hat around here somewhere dammit*
*finds hat on top of head, dammit*
Doffs hat as a a Gentleman should do
Posted by: Miklos is short on Moustache Wax, otherwise fine at April 01, 2025 02:29 AM (RgW1J)
Luckily, he was wearing heavy leather steel toed boots, and stomped the crap outta the snakes before anyone was injured.
Gate guard was a snake-hunter, and would capture any in the parking lot on summer nights. Nice of him to warn us when he found them-- saying "be careful out there tonight, they're liking the blacktop right now"
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 02:36 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
I rejoice on the banks of the Saluda River.
This is great trout for fishing, and a great place for canoe, kayak, or tubing. Lotta tubing.
Sometimes I have to point out to the Youngs that the best places to put in or put out are not where the rocks are, which attract venomous snakes of different
varieties because they like the warmth of rocks and the sun.
Biology-Who knows?
Posted by: Miklos at the waterside at April 01, 2025 02:38 AM (RgW1J)
When they took a sample of bone marrow, for reasons I did not get the mild IV anesthesia.
The local lidocaine will be fine. Said me.
Apparently some people need chemical comfort for any damn thing.
So while They did it (there was pain, and yeah so what) I was thinking this:
“Work hard, rock hard, eat hard, sleep hard, grow big, wear glasses if you need 'em”
― Webb Wilder
Posted by: Full Grown Miklos who smokes 'em if he got 'em at April 01, 2025 02:47 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Now do the Arkansas Clintonius Deathiensis Mysteriosus
Posted by: Miklos Linnaeus at April 01, 2025 02:51 AM (RgW1J)
Former job often involved pinched fingers. (Think: blood blisters, not crushed hands.) And other minor but painful... inconveniences... and wusses got laughed at.
We joked:
"No puddle, no pity!"
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 02:52 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Miss Dixie sez Hi at April 01, 2025 02:55 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 02:56 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2025 03:00 AM (rdVOm)
You got a boo-boo? Oh. No puddle? Haw haw haw!
Posted by: JQ
They did an additional blood take.
But I was not required to piss in a jar, so allowed to retain as much Personal Dignity as is possible in hospital gown.
Posted by: Miklos is infrequently affronted at April 01, 2025 03:01 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: RickZ at April 01, 2025 03:01 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: RickZ at April 01, 2025 03:02 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Miklos like his comfy bed and Special bankie at April 01, 2025 03:04 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Miklos hopes the Ladies pays you your damn moneys at April 01, 2025 03:07 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Miklos hopes the Ladies pays you your damn moneys at April 01, 2025 03:07 AM (RgW1J)
If you're in the hospital enough, you learn. Not fashionable, but it works.
Posted by: RickZ at April 01, 2025 03:11 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Skip at April 01, 2025 03:22 AM (ypFCm)
said bedtime
Posted by: Miklos like his comfy bed and Special bankie
0728Z, currently.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 01, 2025 03:27 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 01, 2025 03:39 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 01, 2025 03:40 AM (SRRAx)
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