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Hey Horde. Sorry I haven't been around, I've been in the hospital. Boy, THAT was one hell of a night, let me tell you.
Shall Not Be Infringed
This is from a few years ago, but it's a great response to all those people who claim the 2A is obsolite because the governemnt has armies with high tech weapons. It's by Larry Correia, who wrote the Monster Hunter International series of books (quite good, can recommend. Think Supernatural but without the angst and aimed at adults) The 2nd Amendment is Obsolete, Says Congressman Who Wants To Nuke OmahaThis is a deeply ironic argument to make, considering that the most technologically advanced military coalition in history has spent the better part of the last two decades fighting goat herders with AKs in Afghanistan and Iraq. Seriously, it’s like you guys only pay attention to American casualties when there’s a republican in office and an election coming up. Nobel Peace Prize Winner Barack Obama launched over five hundred drone strikes during his eight years in office. We’ve used Apaches (that’s the scary looking helicopter in the picture for my peacenik liberal friends), smart bombs, tanks, I don’t know how many thousand s of raids on houses and compounds, all the stuff that the lefty memes say they’re willing to do to crush the gun nut right, and we’ve spent something like 6 trillion dollars on the global war on terror so far. And yet they’re still fighting. So yes, groups of irregular locals can be a real pain in the ass to a technologically superior military force. That’s pretty obvious. Now here is the interesting part. Best estimates are that any given time in Iraq we’ve been fighting about 20,000 insurgents at most. Keep that number in mind, because now we’re going to talk about the scope of this hypothetical fight over gun control.
This Is The Oddest Story I've Seen In A While
Coast Guard vet lured her accused rapist to woods, executed him and then went to get a tattoo
A U.S. Coast Guard vet turned OnlyFans model is facing a decades-long prison sentence for luring a man she claimed raped her into the woods of a national park in Ohio and executing him. Chelsea Perkins pleaded guilty on Tuesday to second-degree murder in the 2021 death of 31-year-old Matthew Dunmire at Cuyahoga Valley National Park near Cleveland, court records say. Hikers in the Terra Vista Natural Study Area of the park found Dunmire’s body around 11 a.m. March 9, 2021, according to a probable cause arrest affidavit. He had a single gunshot wound to the back of the head and an Aquafina water bottle next to him. FBI agents later learned Dunmire had gone out with friends and co-workers to a bar four days before the discovery of his body. Dunmire told them he was going to meet a woman who was in town for the weekend. The woman showed up in a white car and his boss watched him get inside and leave.If you don't want to click the link, here's the gist. Highlight to read, 'cuz spoilers: In 2017, she accuses this guy of rape. Police can't find enough evidence to make the case. Several years later, she lures him to a hookup at an Airbnb she rents with her own credit card (Boy, I tell you, that “sorry I raped you/sorry I accused you of rape” sex is just the BEST, innit?) The next morning she takes him into the woods and executes him. But wait, there's more. His mom decides to kill her in revenge, shoots the wrong woman (who survives), then kills herself. Her dad get charges as an accessory, and now everybody's in jail.
Assassins Arrested: Guess Who's Threatened to Assassinate President Trump Now
Ramon Morales Reyes, a 54-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, doesn't seem like the brightest bulb in the box, and he's got quite a lengthy criminal record to boot. In addition to entering the United States illegally at least nine times between 1998 and 2005, he's been arrested for crimes like "felony hit and run, criminal damage to property, and disorderly conduct with a domestic abuse modifier." On May 21, he apparently sent a handwritten letter to an ICE field intelligence officer, in which he laid out how he's going to shoot the president in the head at one of his rallies. (DHS released a picture of the letter, which you can view here. Honestly, if it had come from any other source, I'd wonder if it was even real.) It reads:Probably not the sharpest crayon in the shed. Brutal Fight
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) May 30, 2025
Danger! Will Robinson!
Yellow Fever Resurgence Could Make COVID Look 'Pale' by Comparison
Stop me if you've heard this one before.
The development of a highly effective yellow fever vaccine in the 1930s changed everything. Yellow fever mosquitoes were also almost completely eradicated in the Western Hemisphere, and the two factors stopped urban spread in the Americas. In the decades since, yellow fever mosquitoes have re-infested much of the neotropics, and while Africa continues to experience intermittent epidemics in urban centers, the Americas have been free of a yellow fever epidemic for 80-plus years, only experiencing small and infrequent outbreaks. Scientists are concerned that reprieve won't last for much longer. In recent years, there's been a worrisome resurgence in yellow fever outbreaks in Africa and the Americas, possibly because of poor vaccine coverage (Bolding mine)It Followed Me Home, Can I Keep It? Man wakes up to find a giant cargo ship in his yard
It certainly was a rude awakening.Oops
Johan Helberg was fast asleep in the early hours of Thursday when a huge container ship crashed into his garden, narrowly missing his home on the bank of Norway’s Trondheim Fjord. “I went to the window and was quite astonished to see a big ship,” Helberg told the Norwegian broadcaster TV2, adding, “I had to bend my neck to see the top of it. It was so unreal.” The 442-foot-long NCL Salten was sailing to the western city of Orkanger when it went off course and ran aground in Helberg’s yard at around 5 a.m. local time (11 p.m. ET). Just a few feet “further south, and it would have entered the bedroom,” Helberg said in a separate interview with NRK, Norway’s public broadcaster.
Pain In The Ass Using Your Phone on The Toilet May Dramatically Increase Risk of Hemorrhoids
Reading on the toilet is something many people do, but the time-sucking powers of smartphones may have us sitting on the ceramic stool for an unhealthy amount of time. A new survey has found that those who use their phones on the toilet face a 46 percent increased risk for hemorrhoids – swollen veins in the lower rectum, thought to be caused by too much pressure. A participant's age, sex, body mass, exercise, or fiber intake did not have an impact on the results. The survey – presented recently at the Digestive Diseases Week (DDW) conference in San Diego, CA – considered 125 participants who were receiving a colonoscopy. More than 40 percent had a hemorrhoid, and 93 percent said they used their phone on the toilet at least once a week.The effect was not noted if you're reading Ace of Spades on the can. Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by tough choices:
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 10:01 PM (JkO4W)
Hello
Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2025 10:01 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at May 29, 2025 10:01 PM (8cPKb)
If that's how you spend your Tuesdays, God help you on the weekends.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 29, 2025 10:01 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 29, 2025 10:01 PM (FPGXM)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2025 10:02 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 10:02 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Weirddave at May 29, 2025 10:03 PM (df/te)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at May 29, 2025 10:03 PM (hftn9)
Posted by: HAL 9000 at May 29, 2025 10:04 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2025 10:04 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Dr. T at May 29, 2025 10:04 PM (jGGMD)
Always keep in mind that HR works for Mangement, not you.
Their sole mission is to make Problems Go Away for Management, not to provide employees with justice, and they don't much care what they do to make the Problem Go Away, as long as they think they can get away with it.
Making Management wade through a mob of screeching gays with picket signs counts as a Problem for Management, while (e.g.) forcing out a straight white person does not.
"I've never met one of you people who didn't suck." -- Steve Jobs to a prospective head of HR, when Apple first got large enough to need an HR department.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 10:05 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2025 10:06 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2025 10:06 PM (dIske)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2025 10:06 PM (0eaVi)
Just remember that the same people who scream about American war crimes are the same people willing to commit war crimes against Americans.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2025 10:06 PM (QnmlO)
Huh. Sounds like a Florida Man/Florida Woman story.
I don't suppose she's an immigrant from Florida?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 10:06 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 10:06 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Adriane the Lack of Vacuum Critic. . . at May 29, 2025 10:07 PM (OLqcY)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 10:01 PM (JkO4W)
Phooey!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2025 10:07 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at May 29, 2025 10:07 PM (hftn9)
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And a whole lotta guns...In MHI, if it's worth shooting once, it's worth shooting a thousand times, just to be sure it STAYS dead.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2025 10:07 PM (GlyvH)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 29, 2025 10:08 PM (TCkN3)
"I've never met one of you people who didn't suck." -- Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs may have been correct, but Steve Jobs thought anyone who wasn't Steve Jobs sucked.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2025 10:08 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Cicero
But make sure you take the right size. You don't want it to fall out.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2025 10:08 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 10:01 PM (JkO4W)
Phooey!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2025 10:07 PM (0eaVi)
I'm 29 enough to see what you did there.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 29, 2025 10:08 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Fastly Strokewater - Backstroking. Barely. at May 29, 2025 10:09 PM (H/u99)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 10:06 PM (dDmld)
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Johnny Fever (Turkeys can't fly) > Saturday Night Fever > Dengue fever > Yellow fever
Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2025 10:09 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 29, 2025 10:09 PM (c3B7E)
Posted by: jimmymcnulty at May 29, 2025 10:10 PM (vvIbr)
Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2025 10:10 PM (AOsQT)
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Hello my honey, how ya ma' baby, let's get some DDT
I'll put some on ya, you put some on me, we'll Flit the air wit DDT.
You get the Flit pump, I'll get the Gulf Spay n we'll kill 'em all today.
It's D D Teeeeee.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2025 10:10 PM (nwgUR)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at May 29, 2025 10:10 PM (hftn9)
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Just what the hell were they doing with their phones whilst on the toilet?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2025 10:10 PM (s8j++)
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Doing the a$$a$$inations that Americans wont do.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 29, 2025 10:11 PM (oNeeU)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2025 10:11 PM (gKWVE)
Yellow pill. The rest will follow.
Posted by: Some Rat at May 29, 2025 10:11 PM (TfUTr)
Go to the Intercontinental Hong Kong at sunset. Lobby bar. Order way overpriced drinks and watch the city lights come on across Victoria Harbor.
One of the most spectacular vistas in the world, hands down.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 10:11 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at May 29, 2025 10:11 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2025 10:11 PM (s8j++)
Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2025 10:11 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 29, 2025 10:11 PM (c3B7E)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
The smartest man alive refused modern medical treatment for his pancreatic cancer until it was to far advanced to help.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2025 10:12 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at May 29, 2025 10:12 PM (hftn9)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2025 10:13 PM (gKWVE)
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I knew that you like to abuse us but never thought that you would abuse yourself. Glad you're better.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2025 10:13 PM (nwgUR)
Posted by: Some Rat at May 29, 2025 10:13 PM (TfUTr)
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'rhoids
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 29, 2025 10:13 PM (TCkN3)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at May 29, 2025 10:14 PM (TdCYS)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 29, 2025 10:11 PM (c3B7E)
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Correia's rants are always a hoot. VDH-levels of cruelty.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2025 10:14 PM (GlyvH)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 29, 2025 10:14 PM (c3B7E)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2025 10:14 PM (TMuiw)
Posted by: Official Delurker, tagline unknown at May 29, 2025 10:15 PM (XSWN5)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2025 10:07 PM (GlyvH)
One of my favorite bits: "Just how many gun laws does this thing break?" He started to count on his fingers and then gave up. "All of them."
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 10:15 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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He may have been a liberal but he was a man.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2025 10:15 PM (nwgUR)
Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2025 10:15 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: T.R. at May 29, 2025 10:15 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Archimedes
Can't speak for others, but if I figure if I'm going to be on death hold...multitask!
Posted by: Some Rat at May 29, 2025 10:16 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2025 10:16 PM (MWf2b)
Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2025 10:16 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 29, 2025 10:16 PM (rF2iL)
Yellow Fever making a comeback?
Bully!
Posted by: T.R. at May 29, 2025 10:15 PM (63Dwl)
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Roundworms can't be far behind.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 10:16 PM (dDmld)
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Blue.
The others all solve problems which tend to kill you after you've grown and had some kind of a chance.
Posted by: Methos at May 29, 2025 10:17 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: runner at May 29, 2025 10:17 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2025 10:17 PM (nwgUR)
That's gonna be tough to beat. Out of curiosity, does the lightning have to be naturally occurring?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 29, 2025 10:17 PM (pIfcn)
Coast Guard vet lured her accused rapist to woods, executed him and then went to get a tattoo
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I Spit on Your Grave 2.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2025 10:17 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2025 10:17 PM (3/Qxt)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2025 10:12 PM (cYBz/)
Eh... you don't basically don't survive pancreatic cancer, modern medical treatment or not.
The five year survival rate is only about 12%.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 10:18 PM (qpyNK)
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Probably because of illegals coming here
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 29, 2025 10:18 PM (oNeeU)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 29, 2025 10:18 PM (rF2iL)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 29, 2025 10:18 PM (QRFVs)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2025 10:19 PM (3/Qxt)
That's gonna be tough to beat. Out of curiosity, does the lightning have to be naturally occurring?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 29, 2025 10:17 PM (pIfcn)
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All those drugs plus a massive shot of electricity sounds like a superhero/supervillain origin story.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2025 10:20 PM (GlyvH)
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Pity.
A penis-enhancement pill would have won hands down.
Posted by: Cicero
No need to fret, friend! The little blue pill is the next best thing for your penis...and whoever you plan to stick it in.
Posted by: Viagra at May 29, 2025 10:21 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at May 29, 2025 10:21 PM (hrqLe)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2025 10:21 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2025 10:22 PM (3/Qxt)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 10:22 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 29, 2025 10:22 PM (Tv15w)
>>>The smartest man alive refused modern medical treatment for his pancreatic cancer until it was to far advanced to help.
Posted by: Tonypete
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Later he said, forget the hokum modern medicine is the best.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2025 10:22 PM (nwgUR)
This is how to deal with the leftists that are terrorizing our social well being ... but Comey would spring all the traps, till now, I hope.
Posted by: illiniwek at May 29, 2025 10:23 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2025 10:15 PM (nwgUR)
The thing is, I'm not even sure that he was one. He played his cards pretty close to the vest there. He used a facade of liberalism as protective coloration, but I don't recall him doing too many overtly woke things.
As Michael Jordan supposedly said about sneakers, Republicans buy computers too.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 10:23 PM (qpyNK)
Hey scampydog! (If you're here.) :-)
My vacation is a staycation; a couple weeks off from piano teaching before summer lessons start. I'm enjoying relaxing at home. Putzing and prettying around the house.
Reading (I have time to read the comment sections of more than the ONT!).
And more reading. (I finished Gone With the Wind this week -- my first time reading the book.)
Took a little nap after supper...
Seeing the local grandchildren more.
A refreshing time so far!
Posted by: Official Delurker, tagline unknown at May 29, 2025 10:23 PM (XSWN5)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2025 10:02 PM (QnmlO)
The red pill, if effective, would eventually lead to the other desirable outcomes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2025 10:24 PM (g2krG)
I would take the blue pill. It seems like if we stopped killing and abusing our kids, some of those other issues would improve just because we would be less-bad in general.
Posted by: Emmie
+1
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 29, 2025 10:24 PM (Tv15w)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
What've you got?
Posted by: Johnny Strabler at May 29, 2025 10:25 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: illiniwek
What flavor of vermin did you send satans way?
Posted by: Some Rat at May 29, 2025 10:25 PM (TfUTr)
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Reading (I have time to read the comment sections of more than the ONT!).
And more reading. (I finished Gone With the Wind this week -- my first time reading the book.)
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Posted by: Official Delurker, tagline unknown at May 29, 2025 10:23 PM (XSWN5)
Hate and Racism! Hate and Racism!! REEEEEEE!!!!!
Posted by: leftists at May 29, 2025 10:25 PM (QRFVs)
Cocaine abuse
Alcohol abuse
Marijuana abuse
Struck by lightning
Ladies and Gentlemen, put your hands together for Keith Richards!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2025 10:25 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 10:25 PM (/jwyF)
Posted by: Teddy Brewster. at May 29, 2025 10:25 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2025 10:25 PM (3/Qxt)
Later he said, forget the hokum modern medicine is the best.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2025 10:22 PM (nwgUR)
I'm not sure I'd go with modern medicine myself, if I got pancreatic cancer or glioblastoma or one of the other really nasty ones.
MAYBE you'd live a little longer, but you're going to be miserable the whole time.
It'd awfully tempting to just say "Keep the pain away, doc. Don't do anything else."
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 10:25 PM (qpyNK)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYY8vA-g8-k
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 10:26 PM (/f9sa)
Posted by: Archer at May 29, 2025 10:26 PM (IDphi)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
I'm Rick James, bitch.
Posted by: Rick James at May 29, 2025 10:27 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 29, 2025 10:27 PM (25kuG)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
Give Keith some credit. He put down the heroin in 1978 and has never gone back to it. That's pretty awesome.
Posted by: Gimme Shelter at May 29, 2025 10:28 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Some Rat
I can't say ... but this one was demon possessed, so not subject to normal law. heh
Posted by: illiniwek at May 29, 2025 10:28 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2025 10:28 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Archer at May 29, 2025 10:28 PM (IDphi)
Think of how long one of those would last a normal person.
They could give it a lifetime guarantee.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 10:28 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2025 10:12 PM (cYBz/)
Steve Jobs was not even close to being the smartest man alive. He wasn’t even very good at tech stuff; he had to rely on Woz, whom he cheated out of money, because he was a scumbag.
Still, Tim Cook is even worse.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 10:30 PM (/jwyF)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 29, 2025 10:30 PM (Eo96p)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 10:01 PM (JkO4W)
Phooey!
Posted by: OrangeEnt
#1 super guy!
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2025 10:30 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at May 29, 2025 10:21 PM (hrqLe)
And here I thought they ended about 600 years ago.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2025 10:30 PM (MWf2b)
Posted by: illiniwek
You don't live in New Jersey do you?
Posted by: Some Rat at May 29, 2025 10:31 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Archer at May 29, 2025 10:31 PM (IDphi)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 10:30 PM (/jwyF)
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Tim Cook has inaugurated a new era for gay dudes everywhere.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 10:31 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 10:31 PM (/jwyF)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 10:32 PM (/f9sa)
Posted by: Archimedes
I didn't click on that. Was it those two secret service chicks from the Obama detail?
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 29, 2025 10:32 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 29, 2025 10:32 PM (L/fGl)
"You chose poorly" is not what you want to hear from the judge.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2025 10:33 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 10:33 PM (/f9sa)
And here I thought they ended about 600 years ago.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2025 10:30 PM (MWf2b)
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They're trying to bring it back in Europe. Feudalism, subsistence farming, no electricity and death from once easily treated diseases. Can't beat it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2025 10:33 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Archer at May 29, 2025 10:28 PM (IDphi)
Bah, mostly foreigners.
The IRS has cost me a lot of money. A lot of money.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 10:33 PM (/jwyF)
Posted by: Archer at May 29, 2025 10:33 PM (IDphi)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 29, 2025 10:34 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Archer at May 29, 2025 10:28 PM (IDphi)
Bah, mostly foreigners.
The IRS has cost me a lot of money. A lot of money.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 10:33 PM (/jwyF)
You don't think they paid for their escapades out of their *own* pockets, do you?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 29, 2025 10:34 PM (QRFVs)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2025 10:33 PM (QnmlO)
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I'd like it if castles made a comeback.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 10:34 PM (dDmld)
They still have the noble/peasant dichotomy indoctrinated into them from birth.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 10:35 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 10:35 PM (/f9sa)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Not horribly difficult if you gulp Them all at Once.
Think of what the US could become!!!
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2025 10:35 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Archimedes
I didn't click on that. Was it those two secret service chicks from the Obama detail?
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 29, 2025 10:32 PM (0Htd1)
No, regular dudes.
It could have used Yakity Sax if it was longer.
Posted by: Methos at May 29, 2025 10:36 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: Official Delurker, tagline unknown
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I saw the movie and loved it. I then pulled the book from the library and learned books are far superior to movies.
What a classic!
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at May 29, 2025 10:36 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Archimedes
I hope they are checking their email or playing a game, because according to Miss Manners, talking on the phone while taking a dump is just rude.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 29, 2025 10:36 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 29, 2025 10:34 PM (QRFVs)
Of course not. But end the taxes on Americans, and the deep state would have to go back to the “exploit the foreigners” model of funding.
What kind of empire doesn’t even make money for its citizens? The whole point is to loot the rest of the world, not your own people.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 10:36 PM (/jwyF)
Posted by: Methos at May 29, 2025 10:37 PM (Dnobf)
One of the most spectacular vistas in the world, hands down.
Posted by: Cicero
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Ozone bar at the top of the Ritz-Carlton. Now, THAT'S a view. Hong Kong and Singapore both have some spectacular rooftop venues with amazing views.
Oh, and bring money.
Posted by: buddhaha at May 29, 2025 10:37 PM (qBa1y)
No, Illinois These pests are overpopulated and need to be reduced they kill lots of birds and other friendlies
Posted by: illiniwek at May 29, 2025 10:38 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2025 10:38 PM (AOsQT)
- I'd take the red pill, but sneak the black one in when they weren't looking
- the coast guard vet with the neck tattoo... there's probably no shortage of guys out there that think they can change her.
Posted by: 496 at May 29, 2025 10:38 PM (t+VLa)
What a classic!
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at May 29, 2025 10:36 PM (cCn4/)
The only movie I prefer to the book is Jaws.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2025 10:38 PM (MWf2b)
Posted by: Cicero
You go running to the shelter of your daddy's little helper
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 29, 2025 10:39 PM (L/fGl)
Close to the truth. In the last year, there has been a resurgence in Orange Fever among Democrats.
Posted by: mikeski at May 29, 2025 10:39 PM (DgGvY)
A serious right wing insurgency, even assuming 100% of the military sides with the deep state/left wins easily. Why? Because the people in our leftwing elites depend way more on the norms and safety of American life then Bubba and Jethro do.
Sure they can nuke Omaha or massacre people in the 'burbs but I don't think that helps them much. One similiar run in an elite neighborhood and the rest flee the country over night.
And if the military splits or sides primarily with the right? Well, let's just say their are plenty of guns in the hood, but why would they fight to make someone that uses Zer Pronouns continue to get fat and rich?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2025 10:39 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 29, 2025 10:36 PM (0Htd1)
Just remember to mute before flushes or very loud flatulence!
Posted by: Miss Manners 2025 at May 29, 2025 10:39 PM (/jwyF)
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What kind of empire doesn't even make money for its citizens? The whole point is to loot the rest of the world, not your own people.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 10:36 PM (/jwyF)
I'd call them slackers, except they're looting *everyone* to make money for *themselves*.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 29, 2025 10:40 PM (QRFVs)
That's because he put it ALL down. There's none left for anyone else!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2025 10:40 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2025 10:38 PM (MWf2b)
Fight Club
2001
Posted by: Miss Manners 2025 at May 29, 2025 10:40 PM (/jwyF)
Posted by: Iris at May 29, 2025 10:40 PM (bOJ2I)
Posted by: Archimedes
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You're the only one that took home scars from that fight. They should use that footage to sell eye glasses.
Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2025 10:40 PM (dIske)
Posted by: illiniwek at May 29, 2025 10:38 PM (vbXSk)
Sounds like a feral cat to me. This is why Bob Barker tells you to spay and nutter your pets.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2025 10:41 PM (MWf2b)
Where do you think all that money went?
It wasn't an accident that the first thing Trump went after was USAID.
This country needs a a very large red pill to understand what's really been going on and how we ended up here.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2025 10:41 PM (viF8m)
Notice the vehicle passenger side window has metal bars and no door panel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoOZP04Zku0
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 10:41 PM (/f9sa)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2025 10:41 PM (O7YUW)
I can make her worse. I’ve done it before.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 10:42 PM (/jwyF)
Posted by: Archer at May 29, 2025 10:42 PM (IDphi)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2025 10:38 PM (MWf2b)
Fight Club
2001
Posted by: Miss Manners
Forrest Gump
Posted by: Some Rat at May 29, 2025 10:42 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2025 10:42 PM (g2krG)
Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2025 10:43 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2025 10:43 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: 496 at May 29, 2025 10:38 PM (t+VLa)
I believe he owned, or at least worked at, a gun store before his writing career took off, which is why he is so well-versed on firearms.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2025 10:43 PM (MWf2b)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at May 29, 2025 10:43 PM (cCn4/)
Think of how long one of those would last a normal person.
They could give it a lifetime guarantee.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
With that level of filtration, a normal person would never get drunk, or even buzzed.
They'd force-transplant them into repeat DUI offenders.
Posted by: mikeski at May 29, 2025 10:44 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2025 10:44 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Some Rat at May 29, 2025 10:42 PM (TfUTr)
Hmm. I like the movie, but the book was absurd. You’re probably right, though.
The Jurassic Park movie was better than the book, too. Crichton was a great writer, but the movie was near-perfect in execution. Made the book look less focused.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 10:45 PM (/jwyF)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady
Yes, and the only thing in common is the title.
Posted by: Some Rat at May 29, 2025 10:45 PM (TfUTr)
Howdy lady! How are the critters?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2025 10:43 PM (mT+6a)
Hey nurse!
Critters are doing well, although the goats weren't happy with the rain earlier this week. Naughty laying hens, led by Bluebell, decided to run amok at about 8pm a couple days ago when I was trying to finish up critter care - took about 15 minutes to get them rounded up.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 29, 2025 10:45 PM (QRFVs)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at May 29, 2025 10:43 PM (cCn4/)
Yes, and a sequel book.
The book was very different than the movie.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 10:46 PM (/jwyF)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 10:45 PM (/jwyF)
they should make a "Cretaceous Park". Set it in Canada, and everyone drives around in Meteors.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2025 10:46 PM (g2krG)
Posted by: Puddleglum
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Lots of companies restrict company connections to the internet to business related uses.
But when your company wants to restrict some uses and not others depending on content they don't like, it's time to clean up the resume and GTFO.
Posted by: buddhaha at May 29, 2025 10:47 PM (qBa1y)
At least you didn't pull a David Carridene.
And RED PILL. Then you can take care of the blue pill problem.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2025 10:48 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 29, 2025 10:48 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2025 10:38 PM (MWf2b)
Fight Club
2001
Posted by: Miss Manners
Forrest Gump
Posted by: Some Rat
Gone With the Wind.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2025 10:48 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 29, 2025 10:49 PM (CHHv1)
Not so far.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2025 10:49 PM (viF8m)
Tonight this year's high school grads are gearing up for their wild drive down Main Street. It's awesome to hear them hooting and hollering. Everyone clears off the street and lets the kids have it.
It's been a tradition here for years.
I love small town America.
Posted by: fourseasons at May 29, 2025 10:49 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2025 10:49 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Robert at May 29, 2025 10:50 PM (JH7Vt)
What'd they show ya, sport?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 29, 2025 10:50 PM (TCkN3)
Posted by: Puddleglum
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Lots of companies restrict company connections to the internet to business related uses.
But when your company wants to restrict some uses and not others depending on content they don't like, it's time to clean up the resume and GTFO.
And some companies contract out their content filtering and no have no clue what's actually being blocked. Which is also a clue to GTFO.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 29, 2025 10:50 PM (lUFok)
Indeed a classic, GWTW! I hadn't really thought about reading the book until I saw it on a display rack at the library. It whispered, "Read me." ;-)
Now I want to see the movie, though I know it won't be as detailed as the book.
tankdemon --
I read Jaws and was too scared after that to go see the movie!
Posted by: Official Delurker, tagline unknown at May 29, 2025 10:50 PM (XSWN5)
They'd force-transplant them into repeat DUI offenders.
Posted by: mikeski at May 29, 2025 10:44 PM (DgGvY)
There's a story about that. Supposedly a bunch of people went in on a group heroin buy.
Everyone who injected it went into an instant coma.
One guy who hadn't used it yet calls up Keith and says "That's bad stuff! Don't use it! Jim and Dave and Sam are all in comas!"
"Nonsense!", says Keith. "It's great stuff! Do you have any left? Don't throw it away! I'll buy it from you!"
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 10:50 PM (qpyNK)
Axeshully, that Congressman is specifically who the 2nd was written for.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2025 10:50 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2025 10:48 PM (mT+6a)
See comment 128, which got this discussion rolling.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2025 10:50 PM (MWf2b)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2025 10:43 PM (MWf2b)
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I liked his use of Benfords Law after the 2020 election to show the vote tallies weren't legit
Posted by: 496 at May 29, 2025 10:51 PM (t+VLa)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 10:51 PM (/f9sa)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2025 10:38 PM (MWf2b)
Fight Club
2001
Posted by: Miss Manners
Forrest Gump
Posted by: Some Rat
Gone With the Wind.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2025 10:48 PM (mT+6a)
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With Six You Get Anal
Wait. I don't think there was a book for that one.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 10:51 PM (dDmld)
Forgetting rule #1, worst case scenario, right there.
Gentlemen, do NOT stick your dick in crazy.
Posted by: mikeski at May 29, 2025 10:51 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 29, 2025 10:52 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2025 10:49 PM (viF8m)
Well, the FBI, CIA, ATF, and NSA still exist, right? The red pill has not yet taken effect.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2025 10:52 PM (g2krG)
It's been a tradition here for years.
I love small town America.
Posted by: fourseasons
I really enjoy those types of things one can only find in real America.
Posted by: Some Rat at May 29, 2025 10:52 PM (TfUTr)
Not so far.
The pill not taken. Don't see any significant action there yet. Just window dressing. The bad actors can ride out four years easily, restart after that - or rename or hide things in the meantime.
"Men, we are going to reform this agency!"
"Harumph!"
"Harumph!"
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 29, 2025 10:53 PM (TCkN3)
https://shorturl.at/fpH70
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 29, 2025 10:53 PM (QRFVs)
The book was just your standard Stephen King crapola that we'd all seen a dozen times before.
Kubrick had the courage to throw out everything that wouldn't work on film (i.e., almost all of it) and make a masterpiece..
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 10:53 PM (qpyNK)
The five year survival rate is only about 12%.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Anecdotally (I've known three people who had pancreatic cancer), the six month survival rate must be about 13%.
Posted by: buddhaha at May 29, 2025 10:53 PM (qBa1y)
Max: Who wrote Little Women?
Agent: The book or the screenplay?
Max: There was a book?
Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2025 10:54 PM (VofaG)
The book was just your standard Stephen King crapola that we'd all seen a dozen times before.
Kubrick had the courage to throw out everything that wouldn't work on film (i.e., almost all of it) and make a masterpiece..
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 10:53 PM (qpyNK)
King was not a fan of that movie adaptation.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2025 10:55 PM (MWf2b)
The guest wifi at M D Anderson blocks AOS or at least did some years ago.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2025 10:56 PM (/y8xj)
Assistant: "But Mr. Goldwyn, that play is about a couple of lesbians."
Goldwyn: "So? We'll make them Italians."
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 10:57 PM (qpyNK)
cat like, but I feed the feral (not domesticated) cats, for mice control. I have one of those on occasion, they come and go, but are not "terrorists" like these other pests.
Posted by: illiniwek at May 29, 2025 10:57 PM (vbXSk)
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This is where the VPN comes in.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 10:57 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2025 10:57 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: PaleRider has a long memory at May 29, 2025 10:58 PM (CKOCg)
Posted by: Oddbob
They'll never see a penny of my money. Now, what the hell is an M D Anderson?
Posted by: Some Rat at May 29, 2025 10:58 PM (TfUTr)
1. Relatively quiet on the political front. Germany's Chancellor Merz quickly backed down on sending Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine when the Russians hinted that this would make German assembly plants legitimate targets.
2. In the northeast, the Russians continue advancing as they begin to build their "buffer zone" along the border.
3. In the southeast, the Russians are slowly encircling strategic cities while using drones to choke off supplies to Ukrainian strong points. One can only imagine how it must feel to be a Ukrainian soldier watching a map on the internet and seeing yourself being surrounded.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 29, 2025 10:59 PM (GM4rl)
Posted by: illiniwek at May 29, 2025 10:57 PM (vbXSk)
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*ahem*
'freedom fighters'
Posted by: 496 at May 29, 2025 10:59 PM (t+VLa)
Posted by: Archimedes
The same thing they were doing before phones replaced books.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at May 29, 2025 10:59 PM (KAi1n)
They exist because they are all funded and in service of the Military Industrial Complex and "foreign aid" that has been running this country for many decades. The traditional rules we were all taught about what these agencies do and where they could operate were lies. Toss in the State Dept and the DOJ and you have the reason for virtually every other problem.
All of the other problems are downstream and made possible because they were done to make sure that power structure stayed in power. Politicians come and go, the permanent government never does.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2025 10:59 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2025 10:55 PM (MWf2b)
Yep.
Then he tried to do his own version the "right way" some years later.
It sucked ass.
Turns out that Stanley Kubrick was a better judge of what would work in a film than Stephen King. Surprising, but true.
King always has been an arrogant fuck. He's basically a jumped-up high school teacher who spent his best years in a drug and alcohol drenched stupor, but now thinks he's an expert on foreign policy, the economy, and blah-de-blah..
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 11:00 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2025 11:01 PM (VofaG)
One of, possibly the, leading cancer hospitals in the country.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2025 11:01 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 29, 2025 11:02 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 11:02 PM (/f9sa)
_-_-_
That sentence right there. Got that right for certain.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 29, 2025 11:02 PM (TCkN3)
Posted by: polynikes
Good for him!
I ONLY did cancer “treatment” because my boys were so young. NOW? I’d waste my savings, take out credit cards and have a BLAST.
You couldn’t pay me to go through that shit again.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2025 11:02 PM (qOTNR)
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Brave Sir Robin ran away,
Bravely ran away, away.
When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
And gallantly, he chickened out. Bravely taking to his feet,
He beat a very brave retreat,
Bravest of the brave, Sir Robin.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 11:02 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 11:00 PM (qpyNK)
“I’m a lazy researcher.” - Stephen King
And it shows.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 29, 2025 11:02 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2025 11:03 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Oddbob
Now I REALLY hope they never see a penny of my money.
Posted by: Some Rat at May 29, 2025 11:03 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2025 11:03 PM (3/Qxt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 11:02 PM (/f9sa)
I read a few of them, but it soon became clear that he was writing the same book over and over.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 11:03 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 11:04 PM (/f9sa)
One of, possibly the, leading cancer hospitals in the country.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2025 11:01 PM (/y8xj)
With a larger medical research budget than Canada.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 29, 2025 11:04 PM (vm8sq)
One of, possibly the, leading cancer hospitals in the country.
_-_-_
Houston, right?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 29, 2025 11:05 PM (TCkN3)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 11:02 PM (/f9sa)
Mine is The Running Man.
King though has by far the most movies made based on his books and short stories.
Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2025 11:05 PM (VofaG)
To be fair, you don't need a large research budget when your first offered option is euthanasia.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 29, 2025 11:06 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 29, 2025 11:06 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: a dude in MI at May 29, 2025 11:06 PM (+I6Y/)
That is like saying McDonalds is great food because of 'over a billion served.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 11:06 PM (/f9sa)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 11:04 PM (/f9sa)
Heh. Not horror. Probably one of King's Lefty fantasy stories based on the previews. Or it could be another Green Mile.
Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2025 11:07 PM (VofaG)
It’s been awhile since Russia has blown up Kraut munition plants. They’re getting a bit lippy.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 11:08 PM (/jwyF)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2025 11:08 PM (nwgUR)
Not that I've read anything of his - I don't have the time to read good books by good authors - but King is one of those of whom it was said, "That's not writing, that's typing."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2025 11:08 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 11:06 PM (/f9s
I don't personally care for King or his books but those movies are more Outback Steakhouse than McDonalds.
Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2025 11:09 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 11:08 PM (/jwyF)
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Last time the Russians visited Berlin it didn't work out well for the ladies.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 11:09 PM (dDmld)
Tim Cook has inaugurated a new era for gay dudes everywhere.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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And he's making ipad & iphone as gay as possible.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2025 11:09 PM (nwgUR)
Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2025 11:09 PM (VofaG)
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Wow. Damned by faint praise.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 11:10 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 11:10 PM (/f9sa)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2025 11:11 PM (3/Qxt)
It's been a tradition here for years.
I love small town America.
Posted by: fourseasons
I really enjoy those types of things one can only find in real America.
Posted by: Some Rat at May 29, 2025 10:52 PM (TfUTr)
People really need to remember that a HS graduation is a release from prison (h/t, Rush Limbaugh). I was at an HS graduation and on the back of the program was a paragraph reminding everyone that it is a dignified ceremony and that people cannot and should not have fun at them, blah blah blah…
Administrators and some educators really need to remove the 2x4 shoved up their asses.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 29, 2025 11:11 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 29, 2025 11:11 PM (BI5O2)
Kubrick the perfectionist said "yeah, that's going to look like ass, even with the best special effects people in the world"
When King wrote his own screenplay, he put the animated hedge back in. And, yep, it looked like ass.
Now, maybe with today's special effects wizardry it could be made to not look like ass, but not in 1980.
By comparison, the space sequences in Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" still look great 60 years later.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 11:11 PM (qpyNK)
Step 1: Read the first chapter.
Step 2. Read the last chapter.
Step 3. Decide if you want to bother reading the 500 pages of filler between the two.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 29, 2025 11:11 PM (GM4rl)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 11:11 PM (dDmld)
Yes. Place a dome over MDA, my wife's family, and Collector's Firearms and you can nuke the rest of the city for all I care.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2025 11:12 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 11:09 PM (dDmld)
A good reason for them to shut up. The Euros mouths are writing checks they expect us to cash because their militaries are jokes. Screw ‘em.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 11:12 PM (/jwyF)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 11:10 PM (/f9sa)
The Dead Zone is the Outback's 8oz filet . There are a number of Blooming Onions though.
Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2025 11:12 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 29, 2025 11:13 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2025 11:13 PM (3/Qxt)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 11:08 PM (/jwyF)
"Ask a Russian engineer to design a pair of shoes, and you'll get something that looks like the box the shoes came in.
Ask him to design something that will kill Germans, and he turns into Thomas Fucking Edison."
-- Neal Stephenson
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 11:13 PM (qpyNK)
It's certainly arguable the black pill would end a lot of death and destruction, but I definitely think the body count is much higher from abortion.
In the end, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, God incarnate, has a special affinity for the little ones and his warning to those who harm them is especially a dire one.
Honestly, I think if the Lord said to me at this point in my life "if you allow yourself to be brutally murdered, I'll spare ten children", I'd take the offer.
But our God is a good God, and He doesn't ask us to do such things. How good is He? Well he took that deal Himself, for those kids and for me and you, too. And all those little ones taken by abortion are the ones gathered around the throne, ten thousand times ten thousand, praising the Lord while the court is seated and the books are opened.
Praise His holy name!
Posted by: He is Risen at May 29, 2025 11:13 PM (EM+Hk)
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2025 10:06 PM (77rzZ)
Yes, but they're jumbo suppositories.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2025 11:13 PM (V9cMX)
Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2025 11:12 PM (/
Hey now, make room for Top Gun Range.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 29, 2025 11:13 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 11:11 PM (dDmld)
Five Guys > Culver’s > Whataburger > Wendy’s > Burger King > In N Out
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 11:14 PM (/jwyF)
Hey now, make room for Top Gun Range.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 29, 2025 11:13 PM (vm8sq)
__________
And my parish.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2025 11:15 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: PabloD at May 29, 2025 11:15 PM (WIjG1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 11:15 PM (x2fg+)
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2025 10:06 PM (77rzZ)
Yes, but they're jumbo suppositories.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
Figures. Someone comes up with a solution but no one wants to do it because it'll be a pain in the ass.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 29, 2025 11:16 PM (lUFok)
Which King book had your favorite ending?
Trick question. All his endings sucked. It was uncanny. You'd be sucked into this story about a space clown living in the sewers of a small town in Maine terrorizing the population and then ..
he got bored and said fuck it. The end.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2025 11:16 PM (viF8m)
“Oh look, it’s a secret menu!”
That must have been a real hoot before the Internet made everyone aware of the existence of it. What’s on it?
“The same crap, but drenched in Russian dressing.”
Wonderful.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 11:16 PM (/jwyF)
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 29, 2025 11:13 PM (vm8sq
Althena Gun Range has taken over that spot.
Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2025 11:16 PM (VofaG)
I suppose one could say the same for (oh-so-evil) Dick Cheney....🧐...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 29, 2025 11:17 PM (FPGXM)
Some guys in my local area tried to do a POTA today and the conditions on 20 meters were so crappy that they could hardly be heard in town just a few miles away.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 29, 2025 11:17 PM (lUFok)
I remember an online tourist review complaining that the Roadrunner "didn't have a vegan option".
I would have dearly loved to be present when the touroid asked for that.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 11:17 PM (qpyNK)
I didn't read Dead Zone but the movie's ending was great.
Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2025 11:18 PM (VofaG)
he got bored and said fuck it. The end.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2025 11:16 PM (viF8m)
His short stories were ok, but novels.. nah.
Oh, they’re engaging. I could read 4,000 pages of King talking about lawn maintenance, but by the end you realize it’s all fluff.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 11:18 PM (/jwyF)
Which King book had your favorite ending?
Trick question. All his endings sucked. It was uncanny. You'd be sucked into this story about a space clown living in the sewers of a small town in Maine terrorizing the population and then ..
he got bored and said fuck it. The end.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2025 11:16 PM (viF8m)
Yeah, but not before there was a life affirming child sewer gangbang.
Some of you really are glass is half empty people.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2025 11:18 PM (V9cMX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2025 11:18 PM (nwgUR)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2025 11:16 PM (viF8m)
Or, possibly, reached his body's limit of cocaine consumption and had to go into a snake-like torpor for a few months.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 11:19 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 11:08 PM (/jwyF)
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Last time the Russians visited Berlin it didn't work out well for the ladies.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 11:09 PM (dDmld)
The current OMG Russians would probably be far less annoying than the "refugees" their government has been importing.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 29, 2025 11:19 PM (QRFVs)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 11:20 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 29, 2025 11:20 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2025 10:12 PM (cYBz/)
Pancreatic cancer has a survival rate measured in months, pretty much no matter what the treatment. CAR-T therapy is promising, but there is not much to do about it.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2025 11:21 PM (D7oie)
As long as they cart the current German government and bureaucracy off to the Rodina to build new dachas for at least 10 years. I'm good.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 11:22 PM (x2fg+)
Posted by: PabloD at May 29, 2025 11:23 PM (WIjG1)
Posted by: javems at May 29, 2025 11:24 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 11:24 PM (x2fg+)
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2025 11:24 PM (cduTK)
Yes. Place a dome over MDA, my wife's family, and Collector's Firearms and you can nuke the rest of the city for all I care.
_-_-_
There is that harp shop over off of 290 where I bought my wife's pedal harp - haven't been back to Houston since.
My father-in-law went to MD Anderson to get cancer treatments. They bought him another five years. He used to ride the bus to Houston from the Texas panhandle - took a little while, but the man was vehemently opposed to wasting money.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 29, 2025 11:25 PM (TCkN3)
Posted by: PabloD at May 29, 2025 11:23 PM (WIjG1)
It's Oregon. You can't pump your own sushi at the gas station.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2025 11:25 PM (g2krG)
I previously mentioned two Saturday's ago she has been diagnosed with dementia. I should also mention she has been bedridden for some time since her knees finally gave out last August
Anyway...Very old, very frail, can't really string sentences together all that well and periodically confabulates events. Good news is she's still recognizes everyone. She's still *there*, if you understand what I mean. But she's unable to take care of herself. She's had rheumatoid arthritis for as long as I've been alive and it's left her body a complete wreck. We don't expect her to live much longer but we're all afraid of the possibility that she just kind of...lingers.
So...shit sucks. She had an episode over the weekend where she became non-responsive. They gave her some antibiotics for a suspected UTI which...may have helped? I'm wondering if she has had a TIA at some point. Dunno.
But right now it's a blessing that she still knows who we are.
Posted by: Robert at May 29, 2025 11:25 PM (C/iXy)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 11:25 PM (qpyNK)
I love the Oregon’ coast. Newport and south especially.
Have a lovely time. Thank you for making the time to meet up with us in Yakima. It was lovely getting to see you and hug you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2025 11:26 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 11:20 PM (dDmld)
Burger King is not that good, but In N Out is very mid. It’s only popular because Californians are so used to sushi, kale and marijuana cigarettes that they’ve forgotten what a real burger tastes like.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 11:26 PM (/jwyF)
Not entirely. I live in a very quiet neighborhood that has no street lights and lots of woods. I still keep an eye open for that space clown when I take the dog for a walk late at night.
Still kind of creeps me out. What happened to that space clown and are there more of them?
I don't want to float.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2025 11:26 PM (viF8m)
No money and the monster starves.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 29, 2025 11:27 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2025 11:27 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 11:27 PM (x2fg+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 11:02 PM (/f9sa)
I read a few of them, but it soon became clear that he was writing the same book over and over.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 11:03 PM (qpyNK)
I've read a number of King's books. IMAO, King does a credible job on plot development and story lines. But he drops the ball with his endings. The climax of his books almost always sucks. It's like he's said to himself, 'Well, there's 400 pages. Let me wrap this up in one paragraph.'
Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2025 11:28 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Some Rat at May 29, 2025 11:28 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 11:28 PM (x2fg+)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2025 11:28 PM (TMuiw)
* Flailing Muppet arms *
Glad I could make it and see friends old and new.
I'm still curious which three letter agency was in the blacked-out Chevrolet sedan....
Posted by: PabloD at May 29, 2025 11:29 PM (WIjG1)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2025 11:29 PM (tAmR8)
He is good at short stories.
His early Bachman books, like The Long Walk, probably have his best endings.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 29, 2025 11:29 PM (xcxpd)
No death by dysentery?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 11:15 PM (x2fg+)
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of all the things I bought my wife for Christmas a few ago, this was her favorite:
https://i.etsystatic.com/29999135/r/il/9587f3/ 3332045864/il_794xN.3332045864_hjbu.jpg
remove the space between the / and the 3
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 29, 2025 11:29 PM (oNeeU)
13 is my count so far at the Mariners game of people wearing masks.
Sheesh.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2025 11:28 PM (TMuiw)
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At my gym we're down to a couple of old Chinese guys and this one youngish white guy who's so bent that he's worn a face diaper for the past five years straight.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2025 11:30 PM (dDmld)
* Flailing Muppet arms *
Glad I could make it and see friends old and new.
I'm still curious which three letter agency was in the blacked-out Chevrolet sedan....
Posted by: PabloD at May 29, 2025 11:29 PM (WIjG1)
Me too.
My money is on FBI because of the proximity to Seattle, but it was one of them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 29, 2025 11:30 PM (xcxpd)
Strangely comforting.
Also, read the first 2 Towers books. Eh, they were ok.
Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 29, 2025 11:30 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Case at May 29, 2025 11:31 PM (a1g6Z)
Save us OB1-USAmilitary, you're our only hope!
Sorry, up your defense budget, as per the NATO agreement. It's your only hope.
Posted by: illiniwek at May 29, 2025 11:31 PM (vbXSk)
Thank you. I never got the chance. I was 24 when my mom died.
Now that I’m a mom, it is such a wonderful thing to think my boys would care for me. Thank you. You mom thanks you. And all the moms in that line of motherhood thank you.
I never got the chance to take care of my mom. Prayers and blessings and STRENGTH to those of you who do.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2025 11:32 PM (mT+6a)
I would have dearly loved to be present when the touroid asked for that.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 11:17 PM (qpyNK)
I was at Chick-fil-A one time when a customer ordered a sausage biscuit and they were out. The nice person behind the counter suggested all these chicken options for a biscuit and the customer went absolutely nuts. It was surreal. I honestly didn't even know they had sausage.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2025 11:32 PM (cduTK)
The Paolo, he is, how do you say, the big bad. Emphasis on "big".
Posted by: The Paolo at May 29, 2025 11:33 PM (wItF4)
_-_-_
Okay, it wasn't me, but I always get that - allergic to chicken(who the hell's allergic to chicken, ?!?!, but oh, yeah, stop eating it and stop vomiting). I only go there 'cause the kids are nuts about it.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 29, 2025 11:35 PM (TCkN3)
Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 29, 2025 11:36 PM (mlg/3)
And welcome back Dave
Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2025 11:36 PM (LrcmQ)
He is good at short stories.
His early Bachman books, like The Long Walk, probably have his best endings.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 29, 2025 11:29 PM (xcxpd)
You know who was good at short stories? Truman Capote. Read one of his short story books, 4 stories, and it was enjoyable. Capote was more than 'In Cold Blood', though he made his fortune with that book/movie.
Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2025 11:36 PM (gKDq2)
Should have killed him where 1) it would be state charges, not federal; 2) someplace not near where she rented a room; 3) swapped out the license plates on the car she used to pick him up
Posted by: Chuck C at May 29, 2025 11:37 PM (D0HYP)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 29, 2025 11:35 PM (TCkN3)
Oh yeah, I can understand it in that case.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2025 11:38 PM (cduTK)
"Do you think anybody ever learns anything?"
"I don't know."
I don't know
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at May 29, 2025 11:38 PM (oOS6z)
Posted by: Anna Puma
It was 2 years prior, plus you know writing and shit.
Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 29, 2025 11:39 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2025 11:39 PM (PqUrB)
~@1:48 Jensen Huang explaining world to Cramer (the whole thing's worth the listen if you want to hear pro Americans.
https://tinyurl.com/5byfsn6d
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2025 11:39 PM (nwgUR)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 29, 2025 11:40 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2025 11:36 PM (gKDq2)
That's good to know, though given Capote's personal life and habits, I'm not in a rush to read him. But glad he had skill at more than cattiness.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 29, 2025 11:41 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Hunter Biden at May 29, 2025 11:41 PM (YJgg/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2025 11:42 PM (nwgUR)
Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 29, 2025 11:36 PM (mlg/3)
It's a fantasy quest story mixed with real world setting. It's King so there's graphic sex and masturbation in it and a vaginal opening in the Talisman itself.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 29, 2025 11:42 PM (xcxpd)
Tough choice.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt
Take the purple one.
* bong rip *
Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 29, 2025 11:43 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2025 11:44 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: polynikes
Thank you for the warning.
Posted by: Chuck C at May 29, 2025 11:44 PM (D0HYP)
Ann Coulter
@AnnCoulter
Looks like Jared's back.
Trump commutes life sentence of Larry Hoover, founder of the notoriously brutal Gangster Disciples, who murdered rivals as well as members.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at May 29, 2025 11:44 PM (TGPs7)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 29, 2025 11:44 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 29, 2025 11:41 PM (xcxpd)
Oh, absolutely. When you read 'In Cold Blood', it's a helluva book. Took him a lot of time to research, something King might learn. But I guess that's the difference between a novel and a 'book based upon real events'.
Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2025 11:44 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 29, 2025 11:42 PM (xcxpd)
The mom smokes Tarry-toons.
Wasn’t Black House a semi-sequel?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 11:45 PM (/jwyF)
What if you were given the choice to live your life without having a clue what was really going on. Happy with your life and completely unaware of what was really going on.
Knowing what you do now, would you still take red pill?
Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2025 11:46 PM (viF8m)
Save us OB1-USAmilitary, you're our only hope!
Sorry, up your defense budget, as per the NATO agreement. It's your only hope.
Posted by: illiniwek at May 29, 2025 11:31 PM (vbXSk)
Swinefurt. Ball bearing factory.
This is the key.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2025 11:47 PM (TMuiw)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 11:48 PM (x2fg+)
Knowing what you do now, would you still take red pill?
Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2025 11:46 PM (viF8m)
No, that’s insane. Knowledge is a curse. Blue pill forever.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 29, 2025 11:50 PM (/jwyF)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2025 11:46 PM (viF8m)
No, that’s insane. Knowledge is a curse. Blue pill forever.
Knowledge is a burden and learning is pain. Best deal out there, though.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 29, 2025 11:51 PM (TCkN3)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 29, 2025 11:53 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2025 11:53 PM (nwgUR)
Untreated UTI can make someone have dementia like symptoms.
Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2025 11:54 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 29, 2025 11:55 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2025 11:55 PM (LrcmQ)
How to read a Stephen King novel:
Step 1: Read the first chapter.
Step 2. Read the last chapter.
Step 3. Decide if you want to bother reading the 500 pages of filler between the two.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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How to read a Stephen King novel:
See the movie.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at May 29, 2025 11:55 PM (n7rxJ)
Plot: Joe Middleton is quite satisfied being Christchurch's only serial killer. Posing as being slightly retarded, his job as the janitor at the police station lets him keep tabs on their investigation of him. Everything is fine, until a murder is committed with his trademark posing. The problem is, he didn't do it...
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 29, 2025 11:55 PM (GM4rl)
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
Posted by: Archer at May 29, 2025 11:56 PM (IDphi)
Posted by: zigggggy at May 29, 2025 11:57 PM (K5Rdg)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 29, 2025 11:55 PM (GM4rl)
Yes, recently watched it.
Entertaining.
Plus, I learned to recognize a kiwi accent from an Aussie accent.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 29, 2025 11:58 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2025 11:59 PM (VofaG)
Knowing what you do now, would you still take red pill?
Posted by: JackStraw
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Red pill.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at May 29, 2025 11:59 PM (n7rxJ)
See the movie.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at May 29, 2025 11:55 PM (n7rxJ)
Even the movies suck. **COUGH** 'The Mist' **COUGH**
Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2025 11:59 PM (gKDq2)
Elon's SpaceX is probably shot full of little leftist saboteurs who post their dirty work on their little Marxist/Socialist chat rooms to shake their little limp fists and shake their little limp wieners or their Blue vaja fur.... around their fake gold piercings because Elon dared go DOGE.
This is the only reason for the last 3 failures. His company in small amounts has turned against him.
FU** THE LEFT!!!
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 30, 2025 12:00 AM (25kuG)
Elon's SpaceX is probably shot full of little leftist saboteurs who post their dirty work on their little Marxist/Socialist chat rooms to shake their little limp fists and shake their little limp wieners or their Blue vaja fur.... around their fake gold piercings because Elon dared go DOGE.
This is the only reason for the last 3 failures. His company in small amounts has turned against him.
FU** THE LEFT!!!
_-_-_
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KgAilTTZnQ
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 30, 2025 12:02 AM (TCkN3)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 29, 2025 11:53 PM (ZVgZ4)
Honestly, the fear that they use MRNA techonology in 'vaccines' has led me to never getting the flu shot again. I've gotten that for the last 30 years. No more. Don't trust the bastards. For the moment I'm a Pureblood, and I'm trying to keep it that way.
Posted by: RickZ at May 30, 2025 12:02 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Only if they ask you to sign the waiver for being a lab rat in a medical experiment first.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 30, 2025 12:03 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2025 11:36 PM (gKDq2)
He spent six years interviewing the killers .
Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 12:03 AM (VofaG)
Hell if Hillary can do it....
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 30, 2025 12:06 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 30, 2025 12:07 AM (mlg/3)
Cocaine abuse
Alcohol abuse
Marijuana abuse
Struck by lightning
Ladies and Gentlemen, put your hands together for Keith Richards!
So that’s how his hair got that way!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 12:07 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 30, 2025 12:06 AM (25kuG)
Rocket fuel can be pretty tricksy stuff...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 12:07 AM (g2krG)
Hell if Hillary can do it....
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 30, 2025 12:06 AM (25kuG)
You don't have to make the bodies disappear. Just say they drowned paddleboarding in 4-foot water.
Posted by: RickZ at May 30, 2025 12:08 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Ciampino - bloody mosquitoes at May 30, 2025 12:08 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 30, 2025 12:09 AM (25kuG)
Compare and contrast with something like the $400 million flop "Captain America: Brave New World."
https://youtu.be/I4BQ0lc0Gl0
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 30, 2025 12:10 AM (GM4rl)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2025 10:55 PM (MWf2b)
My suspicion is because Jack was written as a Marysue.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 30, 2025 12:11 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 12:11 AM (VofaG)
She’s one hot little firecracker, but I don’t think she’s real!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 12:12 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 30, 2025 12:12 AM (bss/y)
King was not a fan of that movie adaptation.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2025 10:55 PM (MWf2b)
King is good at two things: 'starting' a story and being a speed bump.
I honestly could care less if he 'liked' the movie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 30, 2025 12:13 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 12:14 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 12:15 AM (ZVgZ4)
They don’t work against even primitive cannon.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 12:15 AM (ZVgZ4)
Ask Constantinople.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 30, 2025 12:16 AM (bss/y)
They don’t work against even primitive cannon.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Force fields, and then we have our castles back.
Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 30, 2025 12:17 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 12:18 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 12:11 AM (VofaG)
From the stories, they were friends. So I wouldn't be surprised.
But when you think about it, for good or ill, those two wrote two defining books in the mid-20th Century. After that, I guess it's hard to top.
Saw that with other great writers of the past. From the '20s and '30, you have Sinclair Lewis. Early works are great, 'Arrowsmith', 'Elmer Gantry', 'It Can't Happen Here'. After that, everything he wrote was a potboiler, like 'Cass Timberlane'.
Okay, mask's off, I'm a nerd.
Posted by: RickZ at May 30, 2025 12:18 AM (gKDq2)
Way too far down the rabbit hole to change teams at this point.
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at May 30, 2025 12:18 AM (w98qr)
Was enthralled with his early works, the movies, not so much.
I can't remember when the "Dark Towers" series and the "Gunslinger" series came out but that's where he lost me.
Getting almost killed after being run over while out jogging one morning also did not help his future writings.
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 30, 2025 12:20 AM (25kuG)
Good night, Hordelings.
Posted by: PabloD at May 30, 2025 12:21 AM (AGTnj)
Posted by: Crotalus Atrox at May 30, 2025 12:22 AM (I8HuZ)
Posted by: zigggggy at May 30, 2025 12:22 AM (K5Rdg)
Ignorance is bliss.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 30, 2025 12:22 AM (/jwyF)
They don’t work against even primitive cannon.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Force fields, and then we have our castles back.
Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 30, 2025 12:17 AM (mlg/3)
Well, we wouldn't painstakingly build castles out of cut stone blocks. We'd build double walls of poured concrete with rebar, and fill the intervening space, say 20 feet or so, with earth or mud. That ought to soak up the blast of most artillery shells and small missiles.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 12:22 AM (g2krG)
Posted by: Steve at May 30, 2025 12:23 AM (T8bqm)
Is there something equivalent for Podcasts? I’d like to download stuff to play overnight. A unified or clearinghouse type website would be handy, but I don’t know if such a thing exists. Nice long 8 hour stuff. History, interviews, vintage broadcasts, interesting stuff. I’ve heard every vintage Gunsmoke and Dragnet and the rest of ‘em by now.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 30, 2025 12:23 AM (ET441)
{{Robert}}} come here, you need a hug!!!
Hey Horde, how are ya?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 30, 2025 12:23 AM (0nHVk)
sorry, but I dismiss your petty rules... who are you to decide what I can put in my body... ergo...
ALL OF THEM.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 30, 2025 12:24 AM (mP0Kj)
Good night, Hordelings.
Posted by: PabloD at May 30, 2025 12:21 AM (AGTnj)
I glanced at a few pages in the archiv link. Too many of the ships seemed much too fanciful for me. Seems to me that, assuming you had a warp drive, that a sphere would be the optimum shape.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 12:25 AM (g2krG)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 30, 2025 12:26 AM (lUFok)
SK short stories were way better than his novels.
Overall, he just can't overcome the fact he's a horrible person and an overrated author.
The Seattle Mariners are choking in the 10 inning against the Babylon DC Nationals. 4-2 DC.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 30, 2025 12:28 AM (c3B7E)
The only thing needed in you bill was a "Banana Bag"
1000cc .9NS, 2gm Mag Sulfate, 1mg Folis Acid, 100mg Thiamine, 2amps multi-Vits and a large bore I.V. Infused over an hour.
From a former ER nurse.
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 30, 2025 12:29 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 12:22 AM (g2krG)
You really want a Vauban star fort with the whole outerworks, but then you have issues with air attacks and napalm
Posted by: Kindltot at May 30, 2025 12:32 AM (D7oie)
Ativan if your detoxing.... would not want you to have seizures...that would be cruel.
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 30, 2025 12:33 AM (25kuG)
One of my favorite stories about Apollo’s Neil Armstrong, he was being interviewed and asked about exercise. NASA wasn’t too demanding, figuring all of their astronauts were adults. While they were expected to maintain a high level of fitness, nobody was going to check up on them per se, or give them a PT test. As a rule, combat fighter jocks and test pilots are not real hooah hooah about physical training.
Neil said “I believe we only have a finite number of heartbeats, I’m not going to waste mine running around the block”. About a week went by, and NASA public affairs had him “clarify” his statement where he predictably waxed enthusiastic about the wonderful benefits of exercise that he performs regularly, blah blah.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 30, 2025 12:33 AM (JmDaf)
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 30, 2025 12:35 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 30, 2025 12:36 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 30, 2025 12:36 AM (c3B7E)
Posted by: Gen. G. Patton at May 30, 2025 12:37 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Count de Monet
Heh! Yep, it's a fun watch. Killer soundtrack!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 30, 2025 12:37 AM (c3B7E)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 30, 2025 12:38 AM (JmDaf)
.
Just what the hell were they doing with their phones whilst on the toilet?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2025 10:10 PM (s8j++)
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Remember the constipation cures by various professions?
'Mathematicians work it out with a pencil' was the original. No one uses pencils nowadays, everybody uses calculators.
Where is your calculator?
Posted by: Ciampino - senna pods at May 30, 2025 12:38 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 30, 2025 12:40 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 30, 2025 12:41 AM (TCkN3)
Just watching the Drone vids from the Ukraine/Russo conflict gives me pause about how ground warfare with troops will be like in the coming years.
Hell, ground warfare in general!!
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 30, 2025 12:41 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Count de Monet
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Sentient semi's.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 30, 2025 12:42 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Gen. G. Patton at May 30, 2025 12:37 AM (Aqu9a)
A fortification is a fixed point to focus your enemies attention while your mobile forces break his legs.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 30, 2025 12:43 AM (D7oie)
Kinda depressing, really - not that war was ever other than Hell.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 30, 2025 12:43 AM (TCkN3)
Posted by: Gen. G. Patton at May 30, 2025 12:37 AM (Aqu9a)
Go, go, Godzilla!
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 30, 2025 12:44 AM (GM4rl)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 30, 2025 12:46 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 30, 2025 12:43 AM (D7oie)
Yes. The purpose of a castle is to force your opponent to wast time, treasure, and munitions to overcome it. And when they finally succeed, they find you've flown the coop.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 12:47 AM (S2JDa)
Deb, I am so sorry for his pain with this, but you should understand that of all the drugs to detox from, be it Meth, Opiates, Alcohol, or benzodiazepines. benzodiazepines can take up to 24 months to detox from. The longest of any of the aforementioned drugs. (I did some nursing in detox medicine for 3 years.)
You have to embrace the "Suck" with this detox.
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 30, 2025 12:48 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 12:49 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 30, 2025 12:49 AM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 30, 2025 12:49 AM (GM4rl)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 30, 2025 12:43 AM (D7oie)
I was reading up on some of the wars in the Low Countries, the area north of France which was a constant point of contention for all of the Great Powers of the time. In the late 1600’s the Dutch sought to build a barrier line of fortresses to stop the French from staging a fast invasion, but it was noted at the time that even the most well constructed fortress could not hope to survive for more than 14 days against a serious military assault. Hopefully that would be enough time for a counterforce to reach the area.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 30, 2025 12:50 AM (i5oKA)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 30, 2025 12:51 AM (eFKVH)
No booze tonight. I stayed all day in bed and found several good YouTube videos on surrendering yourself to God and trusting Him with your problems.
That helped.
And yellow pill. Starve the beast.
Posted by: Stateless.. 2% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 30, 2025 12:52 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 30, 2025 12:52 AM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 12:54 AM (S2JDa)
nurse, I'll be damned if I know, who were they playing?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 30, 2025 12:54 AM (0nHVk)
That’s a good link, but I admit I was disappointed at the bait and switch.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 30, 2025 12:54 AM (i5oKA)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Still wouldn't stop pressure waves from vaporizing your crew. There has to be some kind of thing that defeats the large missiles. Hence, a field of some kind is necessary to prevent them. Like in Dune. They had orbital vessels that could vaporize entire cities, but no~!
Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 30, 2025 12:54 AM (mlg/3)
Where is your calculator?
Posted by: Ciampino - senna pods at May 30, 2025 12:38 AM (sPQoU)
No, no. Mathemeticians work it out with a slide rule.
Where''s your slide rule?
Posted by: RickZ at May 30, 2025 12:54 AM (gKDq2)
Apple Podcasts and whatever the Google Android equivalent is have many, many free podcasts.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 30, 2025 12:56 AM (/jwyF)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
The gnats.
Fml
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 30, 2025 12:56 AM (mT+6a)
Hell, ground warfare in general!!
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 30, 2025 12:41 AM (25kuG)
With drones, from my non-military perspective, such things as tanks seem doomed on the battlefield. A hundred-drone raid could wipe out a battalion of tanks.
Until motorized vehicles can have some sort of jamming/protection from drones, I think they'll be at risk. And that will change tactics.
Posted by: RickZ at May 30, 2025 12:58 AM (gKDq2)
No, Illinois These pests are overpopulated and need to be reduced they kill lots of birds and other friendlies
Posted by: illiniwek at May 29, 2025 10:38 PM (vbXSk)
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Oops. Someone's PrettyPaws ain't coming home.
Posted by: Ciampino - no burrs ....err purrs at May 30, 2025 12:58 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 12:58 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: InZona at May 30, 2025 12:58 AM (qz1Fg)
AAHhh...that makes total sense.... but keep it simple like big cave openings, or a mega structure on a low plain ringed with artillery units on the upslopes with aerial missiles to defeat aircraft.
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 30, 2025 12:59 AM (25kuG)
https://youtu.be/I4BQ0lc0Gl0
My mistake. Buxom Korean babe goes camping.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 30, 2025 01:00 AM (GM4rl)
Posted by: RickZ at May 30, 2025 12:58 AM (gKDq2)
There are big advances happening in Electronic Warfare and jamming in Ukraine, but many counter-advances, including unjammable drones flown by fiber optic cable and AI drones that can chase a target even if jammed.
Crazy stuff. I think the tank as a platform in peer conflicts is about dead. Probably even in third-world police actions before too long. Soon those drones will be everywhere.
Terrorist attacks are about to get a lot more interesting.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 30, 2025 01:02 AM (/jwyF)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 30, 2025 01:00 AM (GM4rl)
Meh. Easy mistake, They all look alike.
"Things a racist would say."
Posted by: RickZ at May 30, 2025 01:03 AM (gKDq2)
I saw my oncologist today and basically wrote a novel on my Facebook page detailing everything (it's good).
I am including a link to FB, but if you would rather not go there, shoot me an email at teresa.hamilton.koch at gmail.com, and I will forward you the story 😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at May 30, 2025 01:03 AM (SRRAx)
That’s wonderful!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 30, 2025 01:04 AM (/jwyF)
Posted by: Ciampino - if it was a holiday resort ... at May 30, 2025 01:04 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 01:05 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 30, 2025 12:59 AM (25kuG)
If I am building a castle, it will basically be a fortified portal to an underground complex, reached by a spiral decline tunnel. Once you reach bottom of the decline, there will be a number of horizontal bores radiating out in all directions. Some will go to storerooms, living quarters, motor pools, and munitions bunkers. Several more will go to carefully concealed sally ports, so that you can evacuate your entire garrison in the event that the enemy enters the castle. And some tunnels will end a few yards short of breaking surface, and have tunnel-boring machines parked in them. Should the sally ports be compromised, fire up the tunneler, and dig out in a few hours or less.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 01:05 AM (S2JDa)
https://youtu.be/x_xN1VKCcWA?si=AnGS2vy5tHtp2y2W
Hope that I don't blow any margins.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 30, 2025 01:05 AM (0nHVk)
Terrorist attacks are about to get a lot more interesting.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 30, 2025 01:02 AM (/jwyF)
When you get right down to it, drones are the everyman's Molotov cocktail. Just much more deadly. And 'from afar', not hand-throwing distance.
Posted by: RickZ at May 30, 2025 01:05 AM (gKDq2)
I saw my oncologist today and basically wrote a novel on my Facebook page detailing everything (it's good).
I am including a link to FB, but if you would rather not go there, shoot me an email at teresa.hamilton.koch at gmail.com, and I will forward you the story 😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at May 30, 2025 01
Hi Teresa. I am happy you got good news!
Posted by: Stateless.. 2% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 30, 2025 01:07 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Ciampino - if it was new at May 30, 2025 01:08 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at May 30, 2025 01:08 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 30, 2025 01:00 AM (GM4rl)
Vid for something else, though I'm pretty sure I know what set of vids you're talking about.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 30, 2025 01:10 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: RickZ at May 30, 2025 01:05 AM (gKDq2)
One possible defense: cheap balloons carrying strings of contact mines. Fly dense rows of the balloons around you troop concentrations, whatever. If a drone hits a mine, it blows up, destroying the drone. You could also have the mines remotely detonated, by pointing an IR laser at a receiver on the balloon, and sending a coded signal. Pretty much un-jammable.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 01:12 AM (S2JDa)
_-_-_
Or, if your resources are more limited, these are pretty good:
https://www.terra-dome.com/
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 30, 2025 01:14 AM (TCkN3)
Claude 4 Opus AI self-portrait:
https://tinyurl.com/22kghso4
I'm reading about this deception and trickery that is now emerging from AI that Ace wrote about earlier. This is getting scary. It's going to be Skynet, no joke. Shut it down now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 30, 2025 01:16 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Ciampino - what about the DA's budget at May 30, 2025 01:16 AM (sPQoU)
SHHhh....WE have a company here just down the road that has the "DeFacto" deterrent to drones... (at least those little ones) Anduril.
Yep
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 30, 2025 01:17 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 01:17 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 30, 2025 01:18 AM (25kuG)
I do hope that you can fight this off until there's a cure.
Meanwhile, like you've said before: "Buy the yarn. Eat the cheesecake!"
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 01:18 AM (rdVOm)
https://mol.im/a/14762719
Posted by: Ciampino
It was looking for Jack?
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 30, 2025 01:19 AM (c3B7E)
Posted by: Ciampino - haven't seen the whole movie at May 30, 2025 01:21 AM (sPQoU)
https://mol.im/a/14762719
Posted by: Ciampino
Must have been a Leopard Shark. A Tiger Shark would have been striped in the pond, right?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 01:21 AM (S2JDa)
Good night, JQ, sorry that I missed you.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 30, 2025 01:24 AM (0nHVk)
https://tinyurl.com/4wkd7h2c
Posted by: Ciampino - amazing. FBI in 3.2.1 at May 30, 2025 01:25 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 01:21 AM (S2JDa)
Harmless Basking Shark, per the story posted.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 30, 2025 01:26 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 01:21 AM (S2JDa)
Fox says eggspurts are calling it a basking shark. They're also huge, but pretty gentle for a shark as its a plankton-feeder.
Posted by: RickZ at May 30, 2025 01:26 AM (gKDq2)
https://mol.im/a/14762661
Posted by: Ciampino - amazing. FBI in 3.2.1... at May 30, 2025 01:27 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 01:28 AM (S2JDa)
Next will be glyphosate treatment, so that I don't have to do it all *again* in a few weeks.
Need to downsize. I won't be able to handle all this for very many more years...
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 01:28 AM (rdVOm)
https://mol.im/a/14762661
Posted by: Ciampino - amazing. FBI in 3.2.1... at May 30, 2025 01:27 AM (sPQoU)
What was Victoria's secret?
She wore men's underwear.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 30, 2025 01:28 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 01:29 AM (rdVOm)
She wore men's underwear.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 30, 2025 01:28 AM (0eaVi)
Apparently NOT the password...
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 30, 2025 01:29 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: RickZ at May 30, 2025 01:26 AM (gKDq2)
No teef. Couldn't bite you if they wanted to.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 01:29 AM (S2JDa)
Posted by: Ciampino - Philip K Dick at May 30, 2025 01:32 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: nurse ratched
May 6, Giants at Cubs. Tied at 5 after 10. Giants win 14-5 in 11. (Giants hadn't scored in 6 innings.) Happens
Posted by: Dark Litigator at May 30, 2025 01:33 AM (KAi1n)
Nobody was asked to sign a waiver during COVID.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 01:34 AM (ZVgZ4)
I come here almost every night and sometimes it's like I don't even know you people......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 30, 2025 01:42 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 01:34 AM (ZVgZ4)
Big Pharma was given COVID 'vaccine' immunity. Who needs waivers from patients when you get a waiver from the government?
Posted by: RickZ at May 30, 2025 01:45 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 01:46 AM (S2JDa)
_-_-_
Such cleverness expended in an earlier thread. They's tired, Boss.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 30, 2025 01:47 AM (TCkN3)
Current temp here is 66.6F, dew point 66F. It's the Devil's conditions.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 30, 2025 01:50 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 01:57 AM (ZVgZ4)
No teef. Couldn't bite you if they wanted to.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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So it will swallow me whole?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at May 30, 2025 01:58 AM (n7rxJ)
Buxom Korean babe goes camping.
https://youtu.be/WyxmBW7pvdo
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 30, 2025 01:59 AM (GM4rl)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 02:01 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 02:06 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 02:08 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 02:09 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 02:13 AM (ZVgZ4)
went with him, but Peter is beginning his three denials. Also readings in Psalm 119 (the long one), and Proverbs 16.Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 02:22 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 02:09 AM (ZVgZ4)
I just got off work. ( building AI) Popped a beer and read the content.
Tried to get caught up on comments.
The AI self portrait is funny.
Now someone needs to ask Grok to analyze it.
Posted by: Reforger at May 30, 2025 02:23 AM (xcIvR)
Emptied the fridge ice bin this afternoon, hoping to make fresh ice overnight.
Went to check it, and... no ice! Should be at least a few batches by now.
Had a look: Ice tray tries to tip out but stops too early, returns to "fill" position. Again & again.
Guess I should just be happy the kitchen floor isn't flooded?
fml
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 02:24 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 02:28 AM (ZVgZ4)
They aren't coming back without some unObtainium, folks.
Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 30, 2025 02:29 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at May 30, 2025 02:29 AM (y7zkd)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 02:35 AM (ZVgZ4)
All this new electronic sh!t must have timers built-in, set to *self-destruct* as soon as warranty expires.
Grrrr!
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 02:37 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 02:38 AM (rdVOm)
https://youtu.be/WyxmBW7pvdo
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
Gourmet tent cooking, and drinking a pre-mixed Jack and Coke.
Which 'Ette is she?
Posted by: mikeski at May 30, 2025 02:40 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 02:42 AM (ZVgZ4)
Grrrr!
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 02:37 AM (rdVOm)
I think all major appliances are programed that way. Or the electronics are just built like shit. My last washer lasted a whole 3 years.
Posted by: Reforger at May 30, 2025 02:43 AM (xcIvR)
Bah!
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 02:38 AM (rdVOm)
I'm just gonna leave this here: The funniest sign I ever saw was in a Dollar-type store. The sign in the window said, "Ask about our lay-away plans'.
Just think, I'll own this one dollar aluminum foil roasting pan in three easy payments!
Posted by: RickZ at May 30, 2025 02:43 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Consider it a live-action episode of Yuru Camp.
Posted by: mikeski at May 30, 2025 02:45 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 02:46 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 30, 2025 02:47 AM (ZVgZ4)
I went to the website for those inflatable tents (those are long form ads, and there's quite a few of them with other tent models, including two-room and more).
Price $3 - $10K. The $10K one is a little inflatable house.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 30, 2025 02:47 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: RickZ at May 30, 2025 02:43 AM (gKDq2)
Gah. Layaway. I had forgotten about that. Can't take it home until it's paid off though.
I bough a large chunk of my gun collection that way back in the last century.
Posted by: Reforger at May 30, 2025 02:48 AM (xcIvR)
They aren't coming back without some unObtainium, folks.
Posted by: weft-cut loop
Since the advent of nukes, defense is impossible. Even if you do have an unobtanium bunker, what good is it if the enemy turns your whole nation into a sheet of glowing glass above you?
A theory like Mutually Assured Destruction, or some other agreement to "play by the rules," or just being too valuable to destroy, are about the only defenses left.
Posted by: mikeski at May 30, 2025 02:51 AM (DgGvY)
I would have dearly loved to be present when the touroid asked for that.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2025 11:17 PM (qpyNK)
At the Roadrunner? WTF? It's a burger joint with amazing onion rings and hand-dipped milkshakes and floats.
Vegan?
Go the hell back to the East Coast already.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 30, 2025 02:52 AM (a4NoL)
There's probably a simple solution, or repair parts available, as this fridge isn't very old.
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 02:53 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Consider it a live-action episode of Yuru Camp.
Posted by: mikeski at May 30, 2025 02:45 AM (DgGvY)
I don't care how good-looking she is, the idea of open flames in a tent gives me the willies.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 30, 2025 02:59 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 02:59 AM (rdVOm)
Hear is your bun with lettuce and onions.
Posted by: Reforger at May 30, 2025 03:00 AM (xcIvR)
There's probably a simple solution, or repair parts available, as this fridge isn't very old.
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 02:53 AM (rdVOm)
JQ - your post the other night regarding the unsinkable row boat on the lake reminded of my boy-hood on a lake in Florida. We had an aluminum 'jonboat' - a row boat with a square front end and styrofoam under the seats - unsinkable. We'd spend hours swamping it and emptying it and swimming during the hot summer months.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 30, 2025 03:02 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 02:53 AM (rdVOm)
Are there ice cubes in it but it's not dumping them?
Posted by: Reforger at May 30, 2025 03:02 AM (xcIvR)
Brand new 5 star tent starts to fall apart?
Posted by: Bill Gates at May 30, 2025 03:05 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Reforger at May 30, 2025 03:10 AM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Reforger at May 30, 2025 03:11 AM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Reforger at May 30, 2025 03:12 AM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 30, 2025 03:19 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Reforger
Sort of. Evidently, it hasn't dumped for a while. Cubes in the tray are small, like they were fully formed, and then shrunk away. Tray will tilt partway, not dump, and then return to 'fill' position but no fill.
I replaced water filter just now-- it was overdue-- and flushed the water dispenser per instructions.
Shut off ice maker at its switch for 30 minutes or so, while I replaced filter & flushed.
Ice tray is still not filling.
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 03:23 AM (rdVOm)
Thee nasty trash that makes it's way into your house eventually degrades these cheap ass line voltage regulators and one day, no power.
Posted by: pawn at May 30, 2025 03:26 AM (QB+5g)
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 03:27 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 03:28 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 03:29 AM (rdVOm)
Heh. If he oooonnnnllllyyyy knew (how willing I would be, to do that!)
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 03:31 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Reforger at May 30, 2025 03:35 AM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2025 03:35 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Reforger at May 30, 2025 03:36 AM (xcIvR)
I have a motion-light that's fk'd up and just cycles on & off, randomly. Tried cleaning the sensor but no joy. Need to replace it. LOL, fml again...
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 03:38 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2025 03:43 AM (ypFCm)
Guess I better buy a hairdryer and thaw the thing out, see if it's just jammed.
Meanwhile, turned it off and hope the gears are not already toasted.
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 03:44 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2025 03:45 AM (ypFCm)
I'm sooooo tired. I am not Job, ya know?
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 03:47 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 30, 2025 03:51 AM (w6EFb)
So, maybe I should just unplug the damned thing for a few hours?
Great. I need to clean it all out anyway I suppose.
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 03:54 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 03:55 AM (rdVOm)
I look now and realize I can see better in that camera without the light.
But what will alert me if the boogie man is creeping outside my shop?
Posted by: Reforger at May 30, 2025 03:59 AM (xcIvR)
That's what I will do. One day. LOL. Another item on my long list of to-do's.
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 04:06 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 04:08 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2025 04:08 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 04:09 AM (rdVOm)
Y'all need to remember that we're Americans, living in the most exceptional country on the planet, thus that head needs to be held HIGH and PROUD, as befits Americans.
Be safe and sleep well.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at May 30, 2025 04:18 AM (hKoQL)
Posted by: Old Age at May 30, 2025 04:20 AM (QB+5g)
Only in America, would I have learned these things I've learned, that allow me to not be so utterly dependent on others while hubby is disabled.
Posted by: JQ at May 30, 2025 04:21 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Drunken Yoda at May 30, 2025 08:06 AM (hY4ZE)
Hasn't for years. Old system blocked all sorts of stuff, not just this...
Posted by: man at May 30, 2025 08:45 AM (tubbA)
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