Beluga Bestie Open Thread

A guy playing fetch with a beluga whale. pic.twitter.com/NYmKLliNTH
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) June 22, 2025

Nothing special to see, just a beluga whale dancing with a diverpic.twitter.com/jGUQnn2YuU
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 2, 2025

Beluga whale dancing gently with a bubble ring
pic.twitter.com/OyQxvRSoi5
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 16, 2025

Beluga playing with a child

pic.twitter.com/JisdN5JdU3
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) March 1, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 01:20 PM

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1 Firs

Posted by: Texican ette at July 04, 2025 01:21 PM (SNf74)

2 Once

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 04, 2025 01:21 PM (2G3gH)

3 First?

Posted by: Texican ette at July 04, 2025 01:21 PM (SNf74)

4 Drat

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 04, 2025 01:21 PM (2G3gH)

5 My first first !

Posted by: Texican ette at July 04, 2025 01:21 PM (SNf74)

6 Willowed again!

212 Critical Drinker reviews Jurassic World: Rebirth (but calls it Afterbirth). An aging ScarJo appears to be the only positive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMzd9KLbeNI

Posted by: Archimedes at July 04, 2025 01:22 PM (Riz8t)

7 "Oh, the little crunchy kind"

Posted by: man at July 04, 2025 01:23 PM (tubbA)

8 An aging ScarJo appears to be the only positive.

By which I mean her looks, not the role or the acting.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 04, 2025 01:23 PM (Riz8t)

9 >>An aging ScarJo appears to be the only positive.

I guess 40 is older than 29, which everyone around here seems to be.

Posted by: huerfano at July 04, 2025 01:26 PM (n2swS)

10 This is BS. Lizzo doesn't play with children, she eats them.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 04, 2025 01:28 PM (/U5Yz)

11 The first Jurassic Park was great. The second not bad. The third I hoped everyone on screen got eaten including Tea Leone, William Macy and Sam Neill. The first Chris Pratt was good, the rest not so good and the last one flat out sucked

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 04, 2025 01:28 PM (2G3gH)

12 So basically Belugas are whale/dog hybrids.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 04, 2025 01:29 PM (7xrfc)

13 Congratulations, Texican ette!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 04, 2025 01:29 PM (Z5NUn)

14 Belugas are smart critters.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 04, 2025 01:29 PM (2G3gH)

15 This is BS. Lizzo doesn't play with children, she eats them.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

I think you're confused, which is okay since you're not a biologist. Lizzo is a sperm whale. Much larger than a beluga.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 04, 2025 01:30 PM (ftFVW)

16 Happy Independence Day !

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 04, 2025 01:31 PM (6U1c2)

17 Life in the Blue Zones:

City of Boston employees were supposed to be paid today.

They found out at the last minute that they will actually be paid on Monday - maybe.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 04, 2025 01:31 PM (xTIDn)

18 My first first !
Posted by: Texican ette

Hold tight to that thrill of triumph. So fleeting.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 04, 2025 01:32 PM (ftFVW)

19 Beluga whales are very cool. Pods of them swim up Cook Inlet and hang out at the mouths of the rivers where salmon are returning. It's sort of like a conveyor belt of tasty fish. They are fun to watch.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 04, 2025 01:32 PM (1Gsou)

20 I think humans are the only species of mammal that beats play and affection out of their offspring.

Posted by: It's a curious thing at July 04, 2025 01:35 PM (TbWk/)

21 Don't fool yourself, Ace. Given the chance, that Beluga would eat you and everyone you love.

Posted by: toby928 at July 04, 2025 01:35 PM (jc0TO)

22 Baaaaaby beluga! 🎤🎵🎶

Posted by: Piper at July 04, 2025 01:36 PM (QzINz)

23 At first I thought the whale was fetching the head of a tuna or something.

Still cool, just a different tone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 04, 2025 01:37 PM (bss/y)

24 Don't fool yourself, Ace. Given the chance, that Beluga would eat you and everyone you love.
Posted by: toby928

So, belugas up next after we eradicate the penguin menace?

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 04, 2025 01:37 PM (ftFVW)

25 An aging ScarJo appears to be the only positive.

By which I mean her looks, not the role or the acting.

She looks decades older than her 40 years would suggest.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 04, 2025 01:37 PM (a4flb)

26 450-ish miles into a 615 mile trip. got 30.1 mile per gallon and averaged 65 mph since the start this morning at o-dark thirty.

currently providing the restroom at the Monroe, LA Sam's Club some lessons in respect. blocked the auto flush sensor so I can get up and get my pants secured before it has an opportunity to have issues and get my shoes dirty.

next stop will be Longview, TX, then Diana, TX to see Mom.

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 04, 2025 01:37 PM (ORYzJ)

27 183 I have a 200mm Crescent wrench. Curiously, it works fine with English measure bolts/nuts.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Whoa!
That's good for an almost 8 inch nut.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

So is Chasten's anus!

(I'll see myself out now...)

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at July 04, 2025 01:37 PM (ycI94)

28 They found out at the last minute that they will actually be paid on Monday - maybe.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

I feel so...
disinterested somehow.

Posted by: MkY at July 04, 2025 01:37 PM (cPGH3)

29 They always look like they’re smiling.

Posted by: polynikes at July 04, 2025 01:38 PM (VofaG)

30 22 Baaaaaby beluga! 🎤🎵🎶
Posted by: Piper at July 04, 2025 01:36 PM (QzINz)

Baby shark do doo do do do doo

Posted by: I'll see you and raise at July 04, 2025 01:38 PM (TbWk/)

31 No, Texican Ette.
You got a “firs”, not a “first”.
Sorry, but thems the rules.
Try again later.

Posted by: RI Red at July 04, 2025 01:38 PM (9PWXN)

32 A beluga was taught to pilot a boat.

Posted by: polynikes at July 04, 2025 01:39 PM (VofaG)

33 Good on a cracker, that Beluga?

Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 01:39 PM (jgmnb)

34 You got a “firs”, not a “first”.
Sorry, but thems the rules.
Try again later.
Posted by: RI Red

A spong?

Posted by: MkY at July 04, 2025 01:39 PM (cPGH3)

35 Posted by: BifBewalski at July 04, 2025 01:37 PM (ORYzJ)

What are you driving?

Posted by: polynikes at July 04, 2025 01:39 PM (VofaG)

36 33 Good on a cracker, that Beluga?
Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 01:39 PM (jgmnb)

If the first video is any indication, yes.

Posted by: For certain definitions of cracker at July 04, 2025 01:40 PM (TbWk/)

37 Ace said he had several open threads queued up for today.

Odds he posts classics like the guy trying to launch bottle rockets out of his ass?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 04, 2025 01:40 PM (/lPRQ)

38 We had 3 Belugas show up here a few years ago. They put a notice in the town paper asking people to stop playing with them because they were afraid they were going to put them in harm's way.

Very smart and very friendly.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 04, 2025 01:41 PM (viF8m)

39 Women can even make dancing with a Beluga look good.

Posted by: eleven at July 04, 2025 01:41 PM (fV+MH)

40 Polar bear hunts beluga whales

https://youtu.be/lE-RKRNSG_c

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 04, 2025 01:41 PM (CNl8/)

41 Odds he posts classics like the guy trying to launch bottle rockets out of his ass?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Our Independence weekend thang is cutting down a tree with hand-held weaponry.
It's pretty fun.

Posted by: MkY at July 04, 2025 01:41 PM (cPGH3)

42 Baby shark do doo do do do doo
Posted by: I'll see you and raise

What irritated me so much about that recording is that so many thought it was original. I mean, c'mon, we were singing that at girl scout camp in the '90s, and I'm sure it predated us.

*rolls eyes HARD*

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 04, 2025 01:42 PM (ftFVW)

43 37 Ace said he had several open threads queued up for today.

Odds he posts classics like the guy trying to launch bottle rockets out of his ass?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 04, 2025 01:40 PM (/lPRQ)

Probably about the same as we get a porn tab again.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 04, 2025 01:42 PM (bss/y)

44 Beluga Beluga Beluga!

Posted by: polynikes at July 04, 2025 01:42 PM (VofaG)

45 Did they use Kinko's or write the signs by fin?

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 04, 2025 01:43 PM (2cS/G)

46 Did you know a black powder 50 cal does more damage than a 7mm mag at 100 yds?
I didn't.
We're talking tree flesh here...

Posted by: MkY at July 04, 2025 01:43 PM (cPGH3)

47 Ok, found the bit from Lost in Translation I wanted re Scarlett Johansson:

https://tinyurl.com/8r5urj8r

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 04, 2025 01:44 PM (bss/y)

48 Not signs, newspaper ads. I suck at jokes.

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 04, 2025 01:44 PM (2cS/G)

49 Did you know a black powder 50 cal does more damage than a 7mm mag at 100 yds?
I didn't.
We're talking tree flesh here...
Posted by: MkY

Round ball, mini, or maxi out of the 50?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 04, 2025 01:44 PM (/lPRQ)

50 I am having a Big, Beautiful 4th of July!

Posted by: RI Red at July 04, 2025 01:44 PM (9PWXN)

51 I'm just starting to see bits of Trump’s speech at the Iowa State Fairgrounds trickle out. This is a new one:
US President Donald Trump announced plans to host a UFC championship fight on the White House grounds in 2026 as part of the celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of American independence.

I'm not normally a fan of commercial events at the White House, but this will piss all the right people off, so I may have to give it a pass. Maybe it'll be a charity event to get around legal hurdles.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 04, 2025 01:45 PM (ycI94)

52 Did you know a black powder 50 cal does more damage than a 7mm mag at 100 yds?
I didn't.
We're talking tree flesh here...
Posted by: MkY

Hahahaha, I assumed handheld weaponry was blades. What you're doing sounds more fun.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 04, 2025 01:45 PM (ftFVW)

53 Mid South Texas having rain and flooding issues. The Guadalupe is angry.

Posted by: polynikes at July 04, 2025 01:45 PM (VofaG)

54
At first I thought the whale was fetching the head of a tuna or something.

Bring me the head of Charlie the Tuna!

Posted by: Big Billy Beluga at July 04, 2025 01:45 PM (63Dwl)

55 A woman on the beach this morning insisted she saw a seal.

Insisted. In North Carolina.

Sure Karen.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 04, 2025 01:46 PM (H7X8V)

56 What irritated me so much about that recording is that so many thought it was original. I mean, c'mon, we were singing that at girl scout camp in the '90s, and I'm sure it predated us.

*rolls eyes HARD*
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 04, 2025 01:42 PM (ftFVW)

Never having been a girl or a scout I wouldn't know.

Posted by: It was a different time, a different world at July 04, 2025 01:47 PM (TbWk/)

57 Here is a link to a reading of the Declaration of Independence. It's just under ten and a half minutes long.

http://tiny.cc/obno001

Posted by: tankdemon at July 04, 2025 01:47 PM (Z61PD)

58 I've reached the point where I have such a bad opinion of Hollywood in general, that I immediately look for a plot hole that ruins the entire movie.

The big one with Jurassic Park (the entire series) is that fire arms are going to keep you extremely safe when confronting dinosaurs. They wouldn't have a chance. And that doesn't even consider the really "big guns."

Anyone have another movie that you want me to ruin. I'll do it for free.

Posted by: Orson at July 04, 2025 01:47 PM (dIske)

59 Bring me the head of Charlie the Tuna!
Posted by: Big Billy Beluga at July 04, 2025 01:45 PM (63Dwl)

You can tell by the glasses.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 04, 2025 01:47 PM (bss/y)

60 Wait, was that a monocle for charlie?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 04, 2025 01:47 PM (bss/y)

61 I'm not normally a fan of commercial events at the White House, but this will piss all the right people off, so I may have to give it a pass. Maybe it'll be a charity event to get around legal hurdles.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 04, 2025 01:45 PM (ycI94)

Biden had homo parties at the White House lawn where the trans guests brought drugs.

The Left will forget about that though.

Posted by: polynikes at July 04, 2025 01:47 PM (VofaG)

62 Round ball, mini, or maxi out of the 50?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Modern conicals.

Posted by: MkY at July 04, 2025 01:47 PM (cPGH3)

63 55 A woman on the beach this morning insisted she saw a seal.

Insisted. In North Carolina.

Sure Karen.
Posted by: Tonypete

I'm guessing other people on the beach at the time report seeing a whale on the shore. In a swimsuit.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 04, 2025 01:48 PM (ycI94)

64 55 A woman on the beach this morning insisted she saw a seal.

Insisted. In North Carolina.

Sure Karen.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 04, 2025 01:46 PM (H7X8V)

It was just ice cream!

Posted by: It was, in fact, not ice cream at July 04, 2025 01:48 PM (TbWk/)

65 I thought I'd seen everything.

And then I saw dancing beluga whales.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 04, 2025 01:48 PM (6ydKt)

66 Cleaned the gutters and removed all of the curtains and window treatments, getting new windows next week, it's going to be a multi-day affair and I have to go into the city on one of the days, which sucks.

But such is life.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 04, 2025 01:48 PM (XV/Pl)

67 Modern conicals.
Posted by: MkY

Madonna.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 04, 2025 01:49 PM (H7X8V)

68 Did you know a black powder 50 cal does more damage than a 7mm mag at 100 yds?
I didn't.
We're talking tree flesh here...
Posted by: MkY

You should see what .54, .62, .69 & .75 does.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 04, 2025 01:49 PM (SEDrX)

69 5 My first first !

Posted by: Texican ette at July 04, 2025 01:21 PM (SNf74)

Congratulations! Enjoy the endorphin surge.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 04, 2025 01:49 PM (Z61PD)

70 Round ball, mini, or maxi out of the 50?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Modern conicals.
Posted by: MkY

I was thinking old school.
Ws this modern in-line with sabot? Never got one of those.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 04, 2025 01:49 PM (/lPRQ)

71 Sabots, with .45's, so really not .50.
I lied.
Ok. I'm a liar.
I haven't shot round ball out of that thing since I bought it on a whim.
Green Mountain barrel, Knight Long Range Hunter.
One day it was an $800 gun. Next day they went broke. It became a $400 gun. I bought it.
I'm weak that way.

Posted by: MkY at July 04, 2025 01:50 PM (cPGH3)

72 65 I thought I'd seen everything.

And then I saw dancing beluga whales.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 04, 2025 01:48 PM (6ydKt)

Damn. One up on me.

Posted by: zombie Roy Batty at July 04, 2025 01:51 PM (Uxybj)

73 You should see what .54, .62, .69 & .75 does.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 04, 2025 01:49 PM (SEDrX)
Major cause of amputations in TWBTS.

Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 01:51 PM (jgmnb)

74 67 Modern conicals.
Posted by: MkY

Madonna.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 04, 2025 01:49 PM (H7X8V)

Nice deep cut.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 04, 2025 01:52 PM (bss/y)

75 You should see what .54, .62, .69 & .75 does.
Posted by: rickb223

A 8.8 cm Flak 36 has entered the chat.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 04, 2025 01:52 PM (H7X8V)

76 I've reached the point where I have such a bad opinion of Hollywood in general, that I immediately look for a plot hole that ruins the entire movie.

I'm so apathetic I wouldn’t go to see just about anything. Except, oddly enough, a movie from a few years ago that SHOULD be a girl-boss' dream, in a way that actually makes sense, and needs a sequel to complete the story line.

Alita: Battle Angel. Sure, it's not a GREAT film, but it was fun, and one of the better live action adaptations of an anime/manga.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 04, 2025 01:52 PM (ycI94)

77 There are definitely seals off the Outer Banks of NC. They are usually gone by Summer, but they do hang out there in the Winter/Spring.

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 04, 2025 01:52 PM (2cS/G)

78 An aging ScarJo appears to be the only positive.

I guess 40 is older than 29, which everyone around here seems to be.
Posted by: huerfano at July 04, 2025 01:26 PM (n2swS)

I'm still not going to go to the movie. Why give money to assholes that hate us and want us dead?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 04, 2025 01:53 PM (oPkli)

79 #17

Ha! Wife was told they would get paid. Yesterday was told, nah we're gonna make you wait til Monday. Suckas!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 04, 2025 01:53 PM (h48bU)

80 There are definitely seals off the Outer Banks of NC. They are usually gone by Summer, but they do hang out there in the Winter/Spring.
Posted by: Lincolntf

Dayummmmmm. I did not know that.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 04, 2025 01:54 PM (H7X8V)

81 I do not avoid Hollywood, Mandrake. But I do deny them my affluence.

Posted by: toby928 at July 04, 2025 01:54 PM (OP/CY)

82 I'm still not going to go to the movie. Why give money to assholes that hate us and want us dead?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 04, 2025 01:53 PM (oPkli)

If you don't they arrest you for tax evasion and throw you in prison.

Posted by: Different group of assholes at July 04, 2025 01:54 PM (TbWk/)

83 Was wanting to play with the black powder guns today but it's raining.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 04, 2025 01:54 PM (SEDrX)

84 Was wanting to play with the black powder guns today but it's raining.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 04, 2025 01:54 PM

So cold steel then.

Posted by: toby928 at July 04, 2025 01:55 PM (OP/CY)

85 Black powder is odd.
I have a Navy Colt in .44. It shoots a .458 ball ideally... the .452 doesn't leave the good swage I depend on.
So... something north of .45?

Posted by: MkY at July 04, 2025 01:55 PM (cPGH3)

86 When is Trump gonna sign the bill ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 04, 2025 01:56 PM (VE6XX)

87 When is Trump gonna sign the bill ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 04, 2025 01:56 PM

5PM Eastern was what I heard.

Posted by: toby928 at July 04, 2025 01:57 PM (OP/CY)

88 73 You should see what .54, .62, .69 & .75 does.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 04, 2025 01:49 PM (SEDrX)
Major cause of amputations in TWBTS.
Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 01:51 PM (jgmnb)

Pretty amazing to consider that medical advancements in the not-that-distant future would have rendered many of those wounds survivable without amputation.

Posted by: Antiseptic procedures FTW at July 04, 2025 01:57 PM (TbWk/)

89 87 When is Trump gonna sign the bill ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 04, 2025 01:56 PM

5PM Eastern was what I heard.
Posted by: toby928 at July 04, 2025 01:57 PM (OP/CY)

Thanks

Posted by: It's me donna at July 04, 2025 01:57 PM (VE6XX)

90 There are only two movies that I have any interest in seeing in the near term, one is Caught Stealing, it looks like an homage to Snatch, where a bunch of different ethnic gangs are after a Macguffen, and a new film by PTA starring DeCaprio, that looks like a dramedy along the lines of Boogie Nights, not the same material but the same tone.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 04, 2025 01:57 PM (XV/Pl)

91 after the Mariachi band finishes.

Posted by: toby928 at July 04, 2025 01:57 PM (OP/CY)

92 Is this true: Murkowski thought it was impossible for the House to not add amendments to the B3, which meant she could kill it on its return to Senate?

Posted by: EveR at July 04, 2025 01:58 PM (rdF17)

93 >>> Alita: Battle Angel. Sure, it's not a GREAT film, but it was fun, and one of the better live action adaptations of an anime/manga.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 04, 2025 01:52 PM (ycI94)

I agree, it was fun. They had to do a whole lot of compressing to get a cohesive movie out of all the manga sub plots. There's a lot of violence, gonzo characters, and political undertones that would have gunked up the works and they managed to avoid that while conveying the broad feeling of the manga.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 04, 2025 01:58 PM (cduTK)

94 72 Damn. One up on me.
Posted by: zombie Roy Batty at July 04, 2025 01:51 PM (Uxybj)

You made me laugh. I don't mean chortle or chuckle, actually laugh.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 04, 2025 01:58 PM (Z61PD)

95 I saw an interview with Treas Sec Bessent from yesterday. He said next on the agenda (after taxes and regs in the BBB) is the student loan portfolio. He said they don't have a solution, but to just forgive the debt is unacceptable. It was suggested by the interviewer that the schools would need to pay, then changed topic and Bessent didn't respond to that part.

Imagine a thousand bankrupt gender studies departments.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 04, 2025 01:58 PM (pIfcn)

96 Yes, they are Beluga whales.

Beluga.

Just because they are white with huge foreheads is no reason to get cute and call them Begala whales.

Thank you.

Posted by: Paul Begala at July 04, 2025 01:58 PM (Y1sOo)

97 Big Beautiful Belugas!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 04, 2025 01:59 PM (DrWr7)

98 I live 90m up the Hudson and seals hang out on a large rock in the river about a mile south of here. They also go to a cove up near Saugerties 5m north. A baby seal was captured on ice flow in a creek that forms part the border of my city . Unfortunately it died from some form of infection.
Seals see all over the northeast

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 04, 2025 01:59 PM (2G3gH)

99 I do not avoid Hollywood, Mandrake. But I do deny them my affluence.
Posted by: toby928

Ain't gonna look it up. The General in Doctor Strangelove... denying them his essence?

Posted by: MkY at July 04, 2025 01:59 PM (cPGH3)

100 92 Is this true: Murkowski thought it was impossible for the House to not add amendments to the B3, which meant she could kill it on its return to Senate?
Posted by: EveR at July 04, 2025 01:58 PM (rdF17)

If so, does she have egg on her face.

Wait... it's just cocaine.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 04, 2025 01:59 PM (bss/y)

101 Black powder is odd.
I have a Navy Colt in .44. It shoots a .458 ball ideally... the .452 doesn't leave the good swage I depend on.
So... something north of .45?
Posted by: MkY

Yeah. .454 or .457
Everything Black Powder on YouTube.
He makes his own black and has the science down to a "T". Runs a Kibler SMR in .45 and an 1858 Remington New Army.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 04, 2025 02:01 PM (SEDrX)

102 I have a Navy Colt in .44. It shoots a .458 ball ideally... the .452 doesn't leave the good swage I depend on.
So... something north of .45?
Posted by: MkY
-------
You'll have to research balls, if you want off-the-shelf. Hornady makes .375" which is perfect for my Griswold & Gunnison .36

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 04, 2025 02:01 PM (XeU6L)

103 Golfing. Looking for those Big Beautiful Birdies!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 04, 2025 02:01 PM (DrWr7)

104
What are you driving?

Posted by: polynikes

2016 year model Charger R/T with variable valve tining and multiple displacement. it basically kills half the v8, and then tweaks the valve timing. i'm cruising at 71mph with the a/c on too.

love this car. best road car I've ever had.

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 04, 2025 02:02 PM (ORYzJ)

105 103 Golfing. Looking for those Big Beautiful Birdies!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 04, 2025 02:01 PM (DrWr7)

https://tinyurl.com/5n6n3xaj

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 04, 2025 02:03 PM (bss/y)

106 Sterling Hayden

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 02:04 PM (wHp1L)

107 I gots a .36, too.
Everything gets action today.

Posted by: MkY at July 04, 2025 02:05 PM (cPGH3)

108 Deviled eggs are done. Anybody want one?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 04, 2025 02:05 PM (u73oe)

109 The most seals I've ever seen in one place was the Chatham Fish Pier on Cape Cod. Hundreds of them, some weighing 500+ pounds, just flopped on a barrier beach, others swimming around. I think I saw one eat a gull, it happened fast. The gray seals are like manatee-sized.

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 04, 2025 02:05 PM (2cS/G)

110 Black powder is odd.
I have a Navy Colt in .44. It shoots a .458 ball ideally... the .452 doesn't leave the good swage I depend on.
So... something north of .45?
Posted by: MkY

Yeah, it really is. Pistol hoes over and rifle goes under.

A 44 cal pistol runs best at .454 or .457 whereas a .50 cal rifle runs best with a .490 round ball and a .018 pillow ticking patch.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 04, 2025 02:05 PM (SEDrX)

111 MkY -

Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 04, 2025 02:05 PM (SEFV4)

112 When Ace is clowning with Lizzo, the demand for baby oil spikes to unprecedented heights.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 04, 2025 02:05 PM (fY84s)

113
How is beluga both a whale and a type of caviar?

Caviar is the roe from female sturgeon, which is a fish.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 04, 2025 02:06 PM (vBCo2)

114 >>I thought I'd seen everything.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 04, 2025 02:07 PM (viF8m)

115 You got to use an underwater lubricant.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 04, 2025 02:08 PM (Qv+f+)

116 Beluga caviar is caviar consisting of the roe (or eggs) of the beluga sturgeon (Huso huso).

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 04, 2025 02:08 PM (bss/y)

117 Should have been in the 11:00am thread:

@Buck Throckmorton: I have seen your friend Monte and his band play at the Parker Jazz Club and man what a blast. I'm sorry it was his boy at the center of the AISD fiasco -- that acronym needs to be reordered to reflect how diseased of an organization it is.

Posted by: sharksauce at July 04, 2025 02:08 PM (kCN82)

118 The connection lies in the shared etymology of the name, rooted in Russian for "white," applied to both the whale (for its appearance) and the sturgeon (for its caviar or physical traits).

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 04, 2025 02:08 PM (2cS/G)

119 Per grok

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 04, 2025 02:10 PM (2cS/G)

120 I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 04, 2025 02:07 PM (viF8m)

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Blunts on fire off the shoulder of Orion?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 04, 2025 02:10 PM (u73oe)

121 And don’t forget George C. Scott as General Buck Turgidson back in the War Room!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 04, 2025 02:10 PM (SEFV4)

122 Flipped on Everything Black Powder.
I believe it was him who got me trying the .458 for the Remington .44!

Posted by: MkY at July 04, 2025 02:10 PM (cPGH3)

123 >>Blunts on fire off the shoulder of Orion?

And then some.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 04, 2025 02:11 PM (viF8m)

124

The top-paid lifeguard in LA county was compensated more than $500,000 in 2024; and over the past 5 years, a single lifeguard was able to pull down $702,000 – in overtime alone!

https://t.ly/J_lvX

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 04, 2025 02:11 PM (63Dwl)

125
The neighborhood golf cart parade is over -- there were about six dozen carts in it, and all were decorated for Independence Day.

Missus KvC helped our next door neighbor pop popcorn, bag it, and hand it out to folks in the parade. I showed up near the end to fill a few more bags and then I began cleaning out the popping cart and sweeping up items that had fallen to the ground.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 04, 2025 02:12 PM (vBCo2)

126 Belugs is caviar?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 04, 2025 02:12 PM (LL6Kc)

127 It would be hard to collect the roe (eggs) of a beluga whale, given that it’s a mammal!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 04, 2025 02:12 PM (SEFV4)

128
Thanks for putting the beluga knowledge to me!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 04, 2025 02:13 PM (vBCo2)

129 108 Deviled eggs are done. Anybody want one?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 04, 2025 02:05 PM (u73oe)

One?

Posted by: tankdemon at July 04, 2025 02:13 PM (Z61PD)

130 112 112 When Ace is clowning with Lizzo, the demand for baby oil spikes to unprecedented heights.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 04, 2025 02:05 PM (fY84s)

Unprecedented?

Posted by: Diddy at July 04, 2025 02:15 PM (Z61PD)

131 A 44 cal pistol runs best at .454 or .457 whereas a .50 cal rifle runs best with a .490 round ball and a .018 pillow ticking patch.
Posted by: rickb223

That Green Mountain .50 doesn't even like thick sabots.
When I first bought it, I tried all kinds of combos. Some guru on-line had the ultimate test, and I used his.
Guaranteed 200 yd MOA barrel. With his combo I can shoot all day without cleaning.
All day being a relative thing. 20 rounds?

Posted by: MkY at July 04, 2025 02:15 PM (cPGH3)

132 In re the the half million plus salary of a top LA county lifeguard: how many dollars per life saved?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 04, 2025 02:15 PM (SEFV4)

133 116 Beluga caviar is caviar consisting of the roe (or eggs) of the beluga sturgeon (Huso huso).
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 04, 2025 02:08 PM (bss/y
Like a sturgeon. Gutted for the very first time!

Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 02:15 PM (jgmnb)

134 No elevators around here. No need for deviled eggs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 04, 2025 02:16 PM (LL6Kc)

135 I gots a .36, too.
Everything gets action today.
Posted by: MkY
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Pyrodex, or the real thing?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 04, 2025 02:17 PM (XeU6L)

136 Flipped on Everything Black Powder.
I believe it was him who got me trying the .458 for the Remington .44!
Posted by: MkY

Jake & his brother have taken it to the extreme to get the best black powder that can.
From re-distilling their distilled water and filtering it to distilling and filtering their 99.4% pure KNo3.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 04, 2025 02:17 PM (SEDrX)

137 Lizzie has actually lost weight. I do t know if she 's on Ozemoic or not. Sorry , cell is trying typing the letter after o:

https://tinyurl.com/y6s49xpj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 04, 2025 02:17 PM (2GCMq)

138

Bump uglies for freedom!

Posted by: Dual Clitler at July 04, 2025 02:18 PM (0qahv)

139 I shoot Black powder. Cleans easier.
Harder to find, but I don't shoot that much.
I think we had a discussion on FTF with black powder.
I found caps were the limiting factor, you thought not.
I'll find out this afternoon. Found 300 caps about a year ago. Nothing's been fired for about a year.

Posted by: MkY at July 04, 2025 02:20 PM (cPGH3)

140 It's a white whale, thus can be discriminated against

Posted by: Supreme Court Punt at July 04, 2025 02:21 PM (1l+t9)

141 Ace and Lizzo: the barrel of baby oil would have to be delivered by Paul Bunyan’s big blue ox, Babe! Problem is Paul (and Babe) want nothing to do with it!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 04, 2025 02:21 PM (SEFV4)

142 140 It's a white whale, thus can be discriminated against
Posted by: Supreme Court Punt at July 04, 2025 02:21 PM (1l+t9)

Belugas are just lucky Ahab didn't have a Mini-Me.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 04, 2025 02:22 PM (Z61PD)

143 That Green Mountain .50 doesn't even like thick sabots.
When I first bought it, I tried all kinds of combos. Some guru on-line had the ultimate test, and I used his.
Guaranteed 200 yd MOA barrel. With his combo I can shoot all day without cleaning.
All day being a relative thing. 20 rounds?
Posted by: MkY

Very nice.
That's the thing I like about Everything Black Powder. They have tried making BP out of every conceivable carbon source possible to find the cleanest bp. Balsa wood, Alder Buckthorn (Swiss BP), Bois d' Arc & Cottonelle seems to be the cleanest.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 04, 2025 02:24 PM (SEDrX)

144 dancing gently with a bubble ring

You misspelled fart.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 04, 2025 02:25 PM (HTa/G)

145 Belugas are just lucky Ahab didn't have a Mini-Me.

I think that was Starbuck's role.

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 04, 2025 02:26 PM (2cS/G)

146 What do elevators have to do with deviled eggs?
By the way, I had some fine ones (deviled eggs) at the church picnic to view the fireworks last night!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 04, 2025 02:27 PM (SEFV4)

147 I found caps were the limiting factor, you thought not.
I'll find out this afternoon. Found 300 caps about a year ago. Nothing's been fired for about a year.
Posted by: MkY

I went to MidwayUSA and found the out of stock #11 & #10 caps. I signed up for "Let Me Know" when they came back in stock. As soon as they emailed me, I logged on and ordered 1k of each.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 04, 2025 02:28 PM (SEDrX)

148 India DEPORTED 250 illegal Bangladeshi aliens back to Bangladesh
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India's having a bit of a problem with the Bangles at the border areas. Even their border states with them have internal attitude problems. Fancy that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 02:28 PM (wHp1L)

149 Jerry and Nicky banging away.

Tell me this isn't a great 4th. Thank you Donald.

https://tinyurl.com/mv3n3ywp

Posted by: JackStraw at July 04, 2025 02:30 PM (viF8m)

150 Lena is jealous and she's entering the hotdog eating contest later this year to bulk up for Ace.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 04, 2025 02:30 PM (fY84s)

151 146 What do elevators have to do with deviled eggs?
By the way, I had some fine ones (deviled eggs) at the church picnic to view the fireworks last night!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 04, 2025 02:27 PM (SEFV4
‘Excuse me, m’am, I seem to have a digestive problem. Here comes another one!’

Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 02:30 PM (jgmnb)

152 Short AI of John Witherspoon .the clergy signer of the Declaration . I had no idea about the death of his son in a revolutionary war battle:

https://tinyurl.com/y9adpv3t

The WH site seems to have videos various signers.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 04, 2025 02:30 PM (2GCMq)

153 I do believe dolphins and whales blow rings and bubbles with their blowholes which is part of their breathing apparatus.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 04, 2025 02:32 PM (SEFV4)

154 Nood.

Puppies on trampolines, you really ought to check it out.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 04, 2025 02:33 PM (Z61PD)

155 V8 Hemi is coming back.

Related - https://tinyurl.com/3pjrsfer

Posted by: jsg at July 04, 2025 02:34 PM (1l+t9)

156 Eromero -

Surely there are facilities on every floor!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 04, 2025 02:35 PM (SEFV4)

157 Whatever happened with the India/Pakistan thing?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 04, 2025 02:39 PM (63Dwl)

158 It resulted in Pakistan nominating Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 04, 2025 02:43 PM (Z61PD)

159 OBBB Bill signing this afternoon - Start monitoring/watching at 4 PM ET. I'm seeing notices the signing will be "after 4 PM ET."
The Military Picnic start time is officially 5 PM ET.

FYI - White House News page, including preliminary plans for next year's USA 250th Anniversary events

https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/

Posted by: Gref at July 04, 2025 02:51 PM (aBgBM)

160 For the record, if you're ever temped to eat beluga, don't.

Seriously, trust me on this, just don't.

You've been warned.

Posted by: Kevin Canuck at July 04, 2025 04:03 PM (/xmMU)

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