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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - July 1, 2025 [scampydog]
-Commentary on the content (lightly skimmed/ignored is expected). We know about the content reading/lack thereof
-Anything random, weird, or questionably relevant (weird is very on-brand) Members of the 50 Cent Army, Internet Research Agency, and other state-sponsored propaganda squads: you're excused. Sit this one out.
Watch this vid before you take your kids with you to work 😂🤣 pic.twitter.com/63fDs3KAKW
— 🔥⭐️Edwin⭐️🔥 (@Nuked4Every1) June 24, 2025
Operation Midnight Hammer is officially in the books. Let's see what else is tucked away in the archives. Some amusing military operation names. Operation Frequent Wind. And more.
Operation Frequent Wind was the 1975 evacuation of Americans and Vietnamese citizens from Saigon before it fell. So we’ve established this was a pretty big deal and our side comes up with “Operation Frequent Wind” for a name. Leave it to a bunch of military guys to make a fart joke around one of the most visible missions in history.
There are a fair amount of thoughts around: What the hell is the DOJ spending their time doing? The Tuesday ONT is here for you. Here is the link to their press release page. Searchable by date and keyword. Some interesting reading.
Life Skills - Rites of Passage: Polishing shoes - dead art? Walk in heels (only those that can define what a woman is). Properly pressing a shirt? Dressing appropriately for any occasion? Change a tire? Apply nail polish? How to tie a tie? Share some life skills - rites of passage in the comments. Had the opportunity to have an incidental learning session with a young man recently on how to properly tie a tie. I prefer the 1/2 Windsor but the military knot and full Windsor have their time and place. My mother actually taught me how to tie a tie. Pretty much every imaginable knot at this link. Never learned how to tie the bow tie - they do make it looks sexy in the movies when a woman ties it on a man. High heels seem like a torture device. I suspect there is value - on those occasions when they must be worn, in knowing how to operate those creatures. Is there a song or something? Heal, toe, short step, short step.
Don't take long strides in your heels. As tempting as it can be to strut your stuff, you've got to learn how to walk before you can run. Take small steps by planting your heel firmly on the ground. Roll through the ball of your foot, push off with your toes, and keep your strides controlled and short. Avoid overextending your legs. Focus on maintaining a steady pace and distributing your weight evenly. Take your time to adjust to the height and feel of the heels, gradually increasing your stride length as you gain comfort and support.
Not what you expect it to be.
Such a good boy😂😂. pic.twitter.com/06oj8V6Lh5
— SonnyBoy🇺🇸 (@gotrice2024) June 24, 2025
Large U.S. global banks can expect as much as $6 trillion in additional balance sheet capacity and billions in freed up capital under a Federal Reserve plan to relax leverage rules, Wall Street brokerages estimated Thursday. The U.S. Fed unveiled a proposal on Wednesday that would overhaul how much capital large global banks must hold against relatively low-risk assets, as part of a bid to boost participation in U.S. Treasury markets.Here is a deeper dive.
The relationship between the Treasury market and leverage ratios, and the ESLR in particular, is intuitive: Since a leverage ratio requires the same amount of capital for every asset with the same nominal value, it incentivizes banks to move away from low-risk assets like Treasuries and toward higher-risk, higher-yielding assets. Risk-weighted capital requirements incentivize banks in the opposite direction-toward lower-risk assets. But when the minimum required leverage ratio is high enough, it can dominate bank decisions on how to allocate capital among asset classes and activities. This effect is likely to be especially pronounced for banks with relatively higher amounts of trading activity-both because Treasuries are the most traded asset in the world and because of their use as collateral in repo transactions. Before the ESLR was adopted in 2013, Federal Reserve officials (including me) discussed internally whether the new requirement of a 5% SLR for G-SIBs might interfere with monetary policy implementation or the smooth functioning of the Treasury market. Given expected levels of Treasury debt and reserves, they did not anticipate a problem. But many, both inside and outside the Fed, recognized that the ESLR might in some future circumstances adversely affect the Treasury market, especially during a period in which hedge funds and other institutions holding Treasuries needed to monetize them to obtain liquidity. Banks approaching their minimum leverage ratio would not be able to take more Treasuries onto their balance sheets.
One of those silly songs that has hung in there.
Technically, none below are wrong - all will be consumed. However, let's not pretend there isn't a hierarchy of proper "doneness." Prepare for opinions. Loud ones. Friendships may be tested. Some of you will get this wrong - the correct response is somewhere between 1.5 and 2. Scampywife insists that 6 is the correct carbon state of bacon.
Good Morning Y’all ☕️🥓
— LaylaTexas77🌹 (@LaylaTexas77) April 3, 2025
3-4 perfect bacon pic.twitter.com/e0Mi96XLIB
This ONT is brought to you by: If you're here, you survived Pride Month. Congrats. Also, No Go Zones.
As has been the case since 2011, Bonilla today will receive a $1.19 million annual payment from the Mets, a continuation of a deferral structure created in 2000, and lasting until 2035. Overall, the Mets deal, thanks to the deferrals and compounded interest, has turned an initial $5.9 million contract obligation to Bonilla into nearly $30 million for the six-time All-Star.Trump wins again. UPenn male swimmer cosplaying as a woman has swim records stripped.
The university will also issue formal apologies to every biological female competitor who lost out to a transgender competitor following an investigation by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 01, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: mindful webworker - artificially ignorant at July 01, 2025 10:00 PM (4yKs6)
Posted by: Ciampino - No brrrrrs at July 01, 2025 10:00 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: TRex at July 01, 2025 10:01 PM (IQ6Gq)
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Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at July 01, 2025 10:01 PM (hftn9)
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Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 10:01 PM (1paM0)
Posted by: TRex
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Subtle. I love it.
Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 10:02 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at July 01, 2025 10:02 PM (hftn9)
I'd like to thank Ace for creating the blog, scampydog for posting the ONT that made it all possible, and single minded obsession.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 01, 2025 10:03 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 10:04 PM (1paM0)
Posted by: Paul P at July 01, 2025 10:04 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: huerfano at July 01, 2025 10:04 PM (n2swS)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 10:05 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Ben Had
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Thanks for the update, Ben Had.
Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 10:07 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 01, 2025 10:07 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 10:07 PM (1paM0)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2025 10:07 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: Solutus at July 01, 2025 10:08 PM (KhJWo)
Kill me now.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:08 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Insert New Nic Here at July 01, 2025 10:09 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 10:09 PM (1paM0)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 10:09 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 10:10 PM (jYYer)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 01, 2025 10:10 PM (zyYVb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 10:10 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Ben Had
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Well thank you! It's fun - glad the Horde hasn't run me off. Wait... what's that lamppost doing in the front yard?
Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 10:10 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: browndog doing penance at July 01, 2025 10:11 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Piper at July 01, 2025 10:11 PM (pRpzT)
Yes.
Another crazy woman thing? Not wanting to eat crispy bacon??
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 10:12 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 10:13 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: browndog doing penance at July 01, 2025 10:11 PM (TTAGa)
Yes. Happy New Dominion Day.
~ From someone who grew up in the Old Dominion.
(See, tildes have a use.)
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:13 PM (gKDq2)
I know we should not have favorites of illegal bastids, but he's mine so far.
Still laughing about the Moron comments. Man I love you guys (and 'ettes).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 10:13 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: Piper at July 01, 2025 10:13 PM (pRpzT)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 10:13 PM (RIvkX)
You do not just leave a giant plate of bacon sitting out. I suffer trauma still to this day from that experience.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2025 10:15 PM (cduTK)
*LOLs*
In the early 2000's, large bank leverage was roughly 20 to 1.…
*eyes glaze over*
bacon
*wakes back up*
Posted by: mindful webworker - shallow reader at July 01, 2025 10:15 PM (4yKs6)
Life Skill Rite of Passage: I’ll take either:
1) knowing how to drive a manual transmission (my son learned the shift patterns at the age of 6, back when America was great and kids could ride in the front passenger seat); or
2) knowing how to tie a BOW tie without making a mess of it..
Posted by: pikkumatti at July 01, 2025 10:15 PM (FY8nG)
Operation Nuclear Behemoth
Operation Ouzo Hangover
Posted by: Insert New Nic Here at July 01, 2025 10:15 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2025 10:15 PM (cduTK)
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"It's for company!!!"
- everyone's mom
Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 10:17 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 10:17 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 10:18 PM (aBgBM)
2025 Is Half Over.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 10:18 PM (bymjT)
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 10:18 PM (bymjT)
First World problem. Cox Internet has whigged out so no streaming at the moment. So I wait and watch Grit OTA. It's ok. One of the greatest westerns ever made is on. The Outlaw Josey Wales
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 10:18 PM (6HmqW)
Rubio: USAID is officially, completely, and finally dead. The last dollar has gone out the door. Finito. Muerte. Pinin' for the gulag.
Julie Jaman, the 82-year-old woman who got banned from the Y for objecting to trannies in her locker room just won a $65K settlement. That should keep her in Metamucil for a while.
Andrew Clyde (R-Georgia, and a gun store owner) introduced an amendment to the BBB that removes the NFA requirements for suppressors, SBRs, SBSs, and AOWs. I don't know if this will make it into the final bill, but it's good to see someone thinking about it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 10:19 PM (qpyNK)
The 21st Century Is Half Over.
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at July 01, 2025 10:19 PM (bymjT)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2025 10:19 PM (JkO4W)
Life Skill Rite of Passage: I’ll take either:
1) knowing how to drive a manual transmission (my son learned the shift patterns at the age of 6, back when America was great and kids could ride in the front passenger seat); or
2) knowing how to tie a BOW tie without making a mess of it..
Posted by: pikkumatti
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Manual transmission. Been a while. Four on the floor, three on the tree - a bunch of lines we never hear anymore. Thanks for jumping in, pikkumatti.
Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 10:19 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at July 01, 2025 10:20 PM (1Nv0l)
21st Century being a quarter complete is depressing.
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at July 01, 2025 10:20 PM (bymjT)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 10:17 PM (RIvkX)
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I lurked for a long time because I knew I'd get lit up like never before in these comments if my reasoning showed any flaws. I'm sure it did, but I lived.
To this day I appreciate you guys letting me hang out.
Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 10:20 PM (mNhIh)
Perfect bacon is 3-4. It is known. I want my bacon strip to stand up and salute, not wimp and bend over.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 01, 2025 10:20 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 01, 2025 10:20 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 10:21 PM (jYYer)
After hearing this dozens of times, my 6 y.o. daughter said she wanted to go work on a well, so I actually did "take your daughter to work" day in the oil patch.
I had four different sub-contractors on this location with at least five semi-trucks plus numerous pickup trucks - guys running all over the place setting up equipment, hammering on the wellhead, etc.
I finally crawl into the logging truck with her and shut the door behind us to be able to speak to the engineer. As soon as it was quiet, she says, "I thought you were going to go work on a well, but you are the only person here NOT working!"
The logging engineer fell out of his seat he was laughing so hard. He then told the story at least five more times that day (that I know of). He would still remind me of that observation by my daughter ten years later.
I kind of wish I had the video of the mom referring to the clowns at work to show him on my phone at the time!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 10:21 PM (HlyYF)
Thank you for the ONT scampydog!
Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 10:23 PM (IrYHD)
Posted by: Pug Mahon Needs a New Nic at July 01, 2025 10:23 PM (0aYVJ)
Man, I felt like a grown man that day.
The thrill soon wore off, however (my grandmother, God rest her soul, always bought crap-level recaps, so she got a lot of flats).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 10:23 PM (qpyNK)
Oh, there's value all right.
https://youtu.be/iVaqQe3V498
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 01, 2025 10:23 PM (p4nXC)
With a fried egg and pancakes. Or on a bacon-and-egg sandwich. Or crumbled on a baked potato. Or…
I didn't mean "or." I meant "and."
Posted by: mindful webworker - preferably not raw at July 01, 2025 10:23 PM (4yKs6)
Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 10:23 PM (rdVOm)
I kind of wish I had the video of the mom referring to the clowns at work to show him on my phone at the time!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 10:21 PM (HlyYF)
Hah! Great story!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 10:24 PM (jYYer)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2025 10:25 PM (H7X8V)
2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 -- 5 years
2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029 -- also 5 years
The midpoint of the 2020s was midnight 12/31/2024.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at July 01, 2025 10:26 PM (1Nv0l)
I kind of wish I had the video of the mom referring to the clowns at work to show him on my phone at the time!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
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That is a spectacular story. I LOL'd. Sometimes they just get one over on you.
Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 10:26 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Soothsayer
Um… Does this mean the 21st Century will only last 'til 2050? Yike.
Posted by: mindful webworker - does this involve math? at July 01, 2025 10:26 PM (4yKs6)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 10:27 PM (qpyNK)
To this day I appreciate you guys letting me hang out.
Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 10:20 PM (mNhIh)
I can't remember when I first posted a comment here (2005-ish?), but I was nervous as hell, like I was wearing bloomers on a stage with Curley Bill and the Cowboys shooting at me.
Fortunately, my comment was ignored.
As they often are now.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Needs a New Nic at July 01, 2025 10:28 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 10:28 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: mindful webworker - does this involve math? at July 01, 2025 10:26 PM (4yKs6)
Well, for this 29 y/o … more than likely 🤔🤷♂️💀
Posted by: browndog doing penance at July 01, 2025 10:28 PM (TTAGa)
Life skills: manual transmission - absolutely
polishing shoes - yes
Walk ihn herls - yes but ugh
Pressing a shirt - yes
Dressing appropriately - yes, I think so
Change a tire - needs work
Apply nail polish - yes
Tie a tie - no need, not a trans
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at July 01, 2025 10:28 PM (irahp)
It is a good identifier of religious subversives if they will not eat it.
Posted by: Insider Tricks at July 01, 2025 10:30 PM (cpC+s)
Don't walk on grass.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 01, 2025 10:30 PM (0Htd1)
The cause of the incident remains unclear at this time."
I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times, don't drop the munitions !
Posted by: runner at July 01, 2025 10:30 PM (g47mK)
Over the years, he lost the knack & so Mom would tie it for him when he really needed to look dapper. LOL.
Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 10:31 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 10:18 PM (6HmqW)
F'n Cox. Been losing connectivity out here all day, too. I noticed they've changed their pricing plans. Couldn't be because Google Fiber is coming to town? Nah, that couldn't be it....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 10:31 PM (0eaVi)
2) knowing how to tie a BOW tie without making a mess of it..
Posted by: pikkumatti
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Nobody except a puppy should be wearing a bow tie. Therefore there is no reason to know how to tie one.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 10:32 PM (/HVsR)
I kind of wish I had the video of the mom referring to the clowns at work to show him on my phone at the time!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 10:21 PM (HlyYF)
LOL I spent 10 years as a logging engineer, I can see that scene exactly!
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 10:32 PM (0DdMG)
If you've seen the director's cut, you know of what I speak.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 01, 2025 10:32 PM (CHHv1)
We hardly knew ye...
LOLOLOL!!!!
Kung-Fu fighting...to this day I drive down the road going 'hi-ya' when the satellite radio channel plays it....one of these days there's gonna be a cop next to me at a light.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 10:32 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Texican ette at July 01, 2025 10:33 PM (SNf74)
Overall I like the symmetry of that knot, but somehow I still end up slightly off center.
Independence Day ftw!
Posted by: 3 Angry Irish Inches at July 01, 2025 10:33 PM (H2Hko)
I'm seeing conflicting stories on the internet, which is a network of 'smart tubes'
Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 10:33 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at July 01, 2025 10:34 PM (i8Cgf)
Over the years, he lost the knack & so Mom would tie it for him when he really needed to look dapper. LOL.
Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 10:31 PM (rdVOm)
My Dad worked for NCR back in the day. His work attire was almost a uniform: short sleeve white shirt, black tie, black slacks. They all looked like Michael Douglas in Falling Down.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Needs a Whammy Burger Like on the Menu at July 01, 2025 10:34 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 01, 2025 10:34 PM (17wcv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 10:10 PM (jYYer)
Happy Dominion Day AOP!
And all the rest of the northern friends...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 10:35 PM (QGaXH)
I got to looking the pictures from this fellow, Andrew McCarthy who took a fantastic shot of the ISS transiting the sun.
He recently took this recreating of Hubble's famous "Pillars of Creation" photo:
https://tinyurl.com/25z3tghn
And he's doing that from his backyard in AZ, light pollution and all. It takes some fancy camera equipment and image processing know-how, but this shows how this kind of thing is now accessible to anyone with modern camera tech.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 10:35 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 01, 2025 10:35 PM (17wcv)
Walking in high heels: very difficult. Not worth it. Find pretty flats. I don't know how Melania does it.
Other: Huh. Carl DeMaio says Katie Porter is a formidable threat to any bid Kamala Harris makes for California governor. Right after she lost in November, she was at 47% to win governor. Now she's at 31%.
Porter is another commie, of course. She got mad that Adam Schiff played dirty in the US Senate campaign and pulled the rug out from under her candidacy.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 10:35 PM (egH3D)
What they are not doing 💩 : Every felonious member of the Biden admin is still on the street. Not one has been called in much less arrested or perp walked. _∅_
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 10:35 PM (UFztX)
If it came out of the skillet a little early, I am still giddy to be eating bacon that is a 1.
BTW, anybody know how raw I can eat the bacon and still have no concerns about trichinosis? Because I am pretty sure I would also eat bacon that was only 0.5!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 10:35 PM (HlyYF)
I'd never changed a flat. But knew the theory. Had that car jacked up, spare swapped in, and got to school on time. Felt pretty good. Didn't even muss my attire.
Posted by: mindful webworker - now I just call triple-A at July 01, 2025 10:36 PM (4yKs6)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 01, 2025 10:36 PM (PcTds)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 01, 2025 10:36 PM (bA75n)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2025 10:37 PM (63Dwl)
Lurking: I have lurked for years because a) I'm old enough but not yet Almost 29 and b) I'm not as funny as y'all.
Child embarrassment: I have a teenager, so...everything. Clothes, jokes, teasing her friends. Dancing to her music is an especially fun one- she didn't know what to do when I busted out The Sprinkler.
Posted by: Nerd Herd at July 01, 2025 10:38 PM (6nQni)
I don't have a lot of comprehension on this subject, but the smart guys I read think this policy is dangerous, maybe criminal. But that is the plan ... keep ramping up the markets to infinity, mo' money, mo' money.
Inflation is maybe "hiding" in markets? idk, but so many have trusted their life savings in those stocks that Always Go Up, But Every Dip. Should stocks really be valued at 40PE, or is that like that tulip bulb mania?
Like the housing market crash of 2008, what if stocks don't keep ramping up forever? But how else do we escape our infinite debt debacle? idk ... smart guys think this is dangerous, or maybe criminal. Trump says he will only approve of a next fed chair that will lower rates ... Keep the Easy Money flowing, till it all collapses?
or that is my short, not precise, version of the current debt insanity.
Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2025 10:38 PM (vbXSk)
The European Central banks are talking about forcing banks and investors into taking Euro central bank bills for investments and backing deposits. Which are about as stable as you can guess
The US has several possible futures, one is to issue stablecoions backed by Treasuries, making the main international instrument based on US Treasuries, boosting demand, another is revalue the gold in the gold reserves to a realistic level which will automatically deleverage US Debt quite a bit. That means the dollar will stop being over valued at $42.222 a troy ounce and be overvalued at $3K per troy ounce.
Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 01, 2025 10:40 PM (D7oie)
Better to be overdressed than under for just about any occasion.
Pajamas and crocs should never be worn in public.
Exercise gear should not be worn unless you are actually exercising. Sport shorts at Mass are not ok.
Shoes need to be clean.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 10:40 PM (mT+6a)
I am moving soon and the new place has 5g coverage that is cheaper than the cable company that sucks.
Posted by: pawn at July 01, 2025 10:40 PM (QB+5g)
Trust me on this.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2025 10:40 PM (H7X8V)
1 Yay, International Joke Day ONT!
Also Canada Day. Not sure if that's just coincidence or not.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 01, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)
In honor of the occasion:
I don't live too far from the zoo, which I am only telling you because it is actually germaine to the story, which, at its base, is about an escaped gorilla that showed up in the aspen tree in my back yard, and it would stretch credibility a bit too much if there were no zoo in the proximity.
So, I woke up one morning, and heard on the radio that Kimbu, the lowland gorilla had somehow escaped from the local zoo. I didn't really think much of it, until I happened to glance out my back window to see a large, fur-covered figure sitting a few branches up in the aspen. Immediately worrying about my property values and only a little bit about how my mortgage effects my bank's leverage ratio, I called the zoo to politely request they retrieve their wandering resident.
About fifteen minutes later, a panel truck shows up at my door, and an unexpectedly diminutive fellow chomping on a cigar is knocking on my door. "Is you da guy dat reported a gorilla in your aspen?"
"Yes, I am."
(See next post)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 01, 2025 10:40 PM (zyYVb)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 01, 2025 10:41 PM (ynpvh)
I showed the gentleman where the gorilla had gotten itself, and he he assured me things were all under control. He went back to the panel van, grabbed a ladder, a net, and brought out the biggest, most ferocious looking mastiff I had ever laid eyes on. He also had a shotgun.
"Sir," he explained to me, "Here is what is about to happen- I am going to climate the Lauder, and start shaking the branch Kimbu is sitting on. Kimbu will lose balance and fall to the ground. When thst happens, ol' Squeeky there is going to immediately bite his genitals, rendering him incapacitated until I am able to get the netting around him and subdue him."
"Seems a bit Rube Goldberg to me, but your Certified. I only have one question; what's the shotgun for"
"I want you to keep that shotgun ready," he said. "If something goes wrong and I'm the one who falls out of the tree, you need to shoot that gol-darned dog."
Posted by: tankdemon at July 01, 2025 10:41 PM (zyYVb)
Bacon 6? I think I have some charcoal briquettes out back if you’re still hungry.
Posted by: Kratwurst at July 01, 2025 10:41 PM (fcDpY)
Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 10:42 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Pug Mahon Needs a New Nic at July 01, 2025 10:23 PM (0aYVJ)
I taught myself to drive stick by buying a manual car (on purpose, I wanted to learn). Now it's all I want and I can't find one to save my life.
Posted by: Nerd Herd at July 01, 2025 10:42 PM (6nQni)
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To get to the other side!
what do I win?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 10:42 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 10:43 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Now I am picturing a 5 yr old AOP holding an oxyacetylene torch and receiving instruction from dad.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 01, 2025 10:43 PM (PcTds)
I can't remember where I find things online. Did some Moron link to this?
Will ChatGPT Replace Me? | Don McMillan Comedy
https://youtu.be/Q09zsqfnmpo
Meanwhile, in Florida, this almost funny eight minutes
GATOR GITMO (Alligator Alcatraz)
Wicked AI
https://youtu.be/_jjrkvoMHA8
Posted by: mindful webworker - repost =/= riposte at July 01, 2025 10:43 PM (4yKs6)
We hardly knew ye...
LOLOLOL!!!!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 10:32 PM (QGaXH)
Today's date's right in your hash.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:43 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 01, 2025 10:41 PM (zyYVb)
LOL!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 10:44 PM (jYYer)
Bad girls wear high heels to bed.
https://youtu.be/vV_1gqyaPwQ
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 01, 2025 10:44 PM (lUFok)
As they often are now.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Needs a New Nic at July 01, 2025 10:28 PM (0aYVJ)
Just so you know, I always read your comments, even if I don't respond.
*waves at you and Mrs. Mahon*
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 01, 2025 10:44 PM (NMVj6)
Bacon is 3, of course.
Q3 Lurker obligation fulfilled.
Posted by: CA Token at July 01, 2025 10:44 PM (MPQQd)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 01, 2025 10:43 PM (PcTds)
I think I was about ten.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 10:45 PM (jYYer)
Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2025 10:38 PM (vbXSk)
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They just write it off, Jerry.
/too lazy to put a Kramer sock on
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 10:45 PM (RIvkX)
How to circumcise my boys with a sharp stone. Hey, G-d told me to.
Posted by: Moses at July 01, 2025 10:45 PM (ynpvh)
I'm seeing conflicting stories on the internet, which is a network of 'smart tubes'
Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 10:33 PM
I believe it actually does kick them off.
Apparently, the Republicans did something kind of smart yesterday. The vote we lost yesterday was a "messaging amendment" ... to get the Democrats on the record as voting to provide Medicaid to illegal immigrants.
https://tinyurl.com/399x95wf (link to Breitbart)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 10:45 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Kratwurst at July 01, 2025 10:41 PM (fcDpY)
I would, but then I'd be called an ash-kisser.
Posted by: Nerd Herd at July 01, 2025 10:46 PM (6nQni)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 10:45 PM (jYYer)
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I imagine this like the scene in Animal House with D-Day about to make the parade float.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 10:46 PM (RIvkX)
I read the content, the more fool I.
Sorry Scampy, but bacon should be mostly crisp (but rarely crunchy), so 2-3 is obviously correct.
Posted by: RandomDave at July 01, 2025 10:46 PM (aJQbY)
It is a good identifier of religious subversives if they will not eat it.
Posted by: Insider Tricks at July 01, 2025 10:30 PM (cpC+s)
7th Day Adventists. Follow Kosher rules. The one I once worked with grew up on a farm in Iowa raising, among other animals, pigs. Go figure.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:46 PM (gKDq2)
Ok, I'll play:
The last time I was in London, I queued up for a bus at a bus stop. The wind was rather brisk and the woman next to me was struggling mightily to hold her dress down. A sudden gust surprised her though and blew he dress up to her shoulders exposing her and showing the world she was without panties.
After she fought her dress back down, she noticed I noticed so I felt I needed to say something to diffuse the awkward silence.
"A bit airy, isn't it" I offered.
"Well what did you expect, feathers?"
Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2025 10:47 PM (H7X8V)
As they often are now.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Needs a New Nic at July 01, 2025 10:28 PM (0aYVJ)
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Nonsense. I read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest your comments and only then forget about them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 10:47 PM (/HVsR)
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There will be circumstances where a female swimmer didn't make the cut to compete at a higher level (Nationals) because the disguised male took one of those slots. I would seem to me that this has the potential for a civil liability matter. The difficult part would be to show damages. Well, how about parents time and money supporting these female athletes. One could make the argument that possibly the tuition to a school that behaved as they did could be seen as damages.
Penn isn't out of the woods with their sudden grasp of reality. They might want to keep the check book handy.
Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 10:47 PM (dIske)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 10:48 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Nerd Herd at July 01, 2025 10:42 PM (6nQni)
My 2013 Nissan Frontier 4x4 is a six-speed manual. I love it. Got it for a steal, because nobody wanted a truck with manual, no electric locks, roll-down windows. Dealer was happy to get rid of it.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Needs a Whammy Burger Like on the Menu at July 01, 2025 10:48 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 10:48 PM (/HVsR)
Since I am sadly looking at retirement now, I've decided to get back into astrophotography.
The equipment and results available today are amazing compared to what was available back in the film era.
It's possible to use filters to mitigate the terrestrial light pollution which plagues me where I I live now.
Posted by: pawn at July 01, 2025 10:48 PM (QB+5g)
Trust me on this.
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comments have been turned off
Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 10:48 PM (AOsQT)
I lurked for a long time because I knew I'd get lit up like never before in these comments if my reasoning showed any flaws. I'm sure it did, but I lived.
To this day I appreciate you guys letting me hang out.
Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 10:20 PM (mNhIh)
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Same. I lurked for just over nine years before making a comment. Six years later, still commenting, although sporadically, in fits and starts. Luckily, I recognize and embrace the fact that I'm not smart enough to know if I've been mocked or laughed at, so it's all been ignorantly blissful. Or blissfully ignorant. Whatever. It's all good.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at July 01, 2025 10:49 PM (qUYGJ)
As they often are now.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Needs a New Nic at
*Puts on argumentative mode*
No, it wasn't. No they aren't.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 01, 2025 10:49 PM (PcTds)
That bacon slice must've done something evil in its life; it still burning in hell.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 01, 2025 10:49 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
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Heat it to at least 165F, and hold the temp for 3-5 minutes, is what I was told. This is the recommended temperature for "safe" re-heating of foods.
This is sufficient to kill Trichinella.
Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 10:49 PM (rdVOm)
We hardly knew ye...
LOLOLOL!!!!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 10:32 PM (QGaXH)
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Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:43 PM (gKDq2)
Sorry. I misread you.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:50 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Don Black.
Really - I was able to add one and I can still see it.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2025 10:50 PM (H7X8V)
Posted by: Scarecrow at July 01, 2025 10:50 PM (EdNu8)
Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 10:19 PM
I never learned to drive three on the tree - Big Brother did because he needed to help Dad cut and haul firewood.
I learned to drive stick on an '80s Ford Fairmont aka box on wheels.
Baby Brother drove a Mustang. Spoiled brat!
Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 01, 2025 10:50 PM (yoqKl)
Posted by: Nerd Herd at July 01, 2025 10:42 PM (6nQni)
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The ironic thing is that my favorite car to drive was an old Dodge Dart. Crappy looking car....your typical generic green with the vinyl roof. BUT....THREE ON THE TREE BABY.
Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 10:50 PM (dIske)
Balancing a checkbook by hand...
Tying a tie - wore one every day from 1980 until I changed jobs in 1997 and at the new job no one wore ties. One day I came in wearing one just to stay in practice, my new boss chased me with a pair of scissors threatening to cut it and more off if I ever showed up with one again unless presenting to customers.
I noticed in the factory environment of the 8-'s a definite attire hierarchy. Hourly workers wore tees, work shirts, etc; technicians wore collared shirts, no ties, professionals all wore ties.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 10:51 PM (QGaXH)
I read the content, the more fool I.
Sorry Scampy, but bacon should be mostly crisp (but rarely crunchy), so 2-3 is obviously correct.
Posted by: RandomDave
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Welcome, RandomDave and all de-lurkers.
Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 10:51 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
That's probably a good age at which to learn. I figured you started 5 years earlier because of all you know now.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 01, 2025 10:51 PM (PcTds)
Posted by: Pug Mahon Old Ways are Best at July 01, 2025 10:51 PM (0aYVJ)
Yes, crazy leftists were loud about vaccines, and so you instinctively pushed it away as nutbaggery.
But the curtain is being pulled back and the pernicious individuals that f*cked with American health are being revealed.
If the right is, indeed, the party of rational thinkers that are open to diversity of thought, it's important to embrace this information and adjust your views in light of new information.
Given the obvious failure and openly criminal behavior of the CoVID vaxx, as mentioned by ace in his post on its effect on fertility, it's time to begin to revisit the orthodoxy of vaccines in general and open your minds to the possibility you were likely lied to about their deleterious effects.
It's important for your kids and your kids' kids.
Posted by: Free Thinker at July 01, 2025 10:51 PM (cpC+s)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2025 10:52 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 10:52 PM (6HmqW)
It is a good identifier of religious subversives if they will not eat it.
Posted by: Insider Tricks at July 01, 2025 10:30 PM (cpC+s)
7th Day Adventists. Follow Kosher rules. The one I once worked with grew up on a farm in Iowa raising, among other animals, pigs. Go figure.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:46 PM (gKDq2)
More like push being vegetarian, not kosher per se.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 01, 2025 10:52 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 10:53 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Otto Pen at July 01, 2025 10:53 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 01, 2025 10:49 PM (PcTds)
Yeah, huh! Durr, hey!
Posted by: Pug Mahon Old Ways are Best at July 01, 2025 10:53 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 10:52 PM (6HmqW)
___________________________
Weren't there a couple years in Pittsburgh where Bonilla and Bonds were batting back to back?
Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 10:54 PM (dIske)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 10:48 PM (mT+6a)
Nurse Johnson is right!!!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 01, 2025 10:54 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:55 PM (gKDq2)
Since I no longer go to concerts, I only wear a tie when I'm going to Mass. I'm among the minority of guys who wear one. But I consider myself as wearing one on behalf of those that don't.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 10:55 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 01, 2025 10:55 PM (PcTds)
Vegetarianism is popular within Seventh-day Adventism because we value personal health and believe that a vegetarian diet is a good way to care for our bodies, maintain wellness, and honor God (1 Corinthians 6:20; 10:31; Romans 12:1-2). God originally gave human beings a vegetarian diet, according to Genesis 1:29, and today, research is increasingly showing the benefits of a diet low in animal products and high in fruits, vegetables, grains, and nuts.
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Fascinating.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 10:55 PM (RIvkX)
By next year it might be Pride Week. 2% of the year so about right.
Posted by: torabora at July 01, 2025 10:55 PM (ImJx8)
Used to know how to polish shoes... sorta... carefully avoided ever needing to remember it.
Can change a tire, or an outlet, though! And my smoke detectors do not beep (and they even have batteries in them!)
Posted by: RandomDave at July 01, 2025 10:56 PM (aJQbY)
That bacon slice must've done something evil in its life; it still burning in hell.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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I let the scampywife know that the Horde is not impressed with 6. She said, "Well, there are a lot of idiots in the world." I replied, "The correct term is Morons." She went to bed. Without me!
Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 10:56 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
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Heat it to at least 165F, and hold the temp for 3-5 minutes, is what I was told. This is the recommended temperature for "safe" re-heating of foods.
This is sufficient to kill Trichinella.
Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 10:49 PM
OK, my new bacon answer is 0.5 - 2.0 is excellent.
3 is still very good.
I do eat the 4-5 bacon, because I let Bride of PI choose first ... she is still my better half!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 10:57 PM (HlyYF)
Vegetarianism is popular within Seventh-day Adventism because we value personal health and believe that a vegetarian diet is a good way to care for our bodies, maintain wellness, and honor God (1 Corinthians 6:20; 10:31; Romans 12:1-2). God originally gave human beings a vegetarian diet, according to Genesis 1:29, and today, research is increasingly showing the benefits of a diet low in animal products and high in fruits, vegetables, grains, and nuts.
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Fascinating.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 10:55 PM (RIvkX)
They do live a bit longer than the average. They tend to be a bit low on cyanocobalamin (vitamin B12). You have to eat a shit-ton of mushrooms to get the USRDA.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 01, 2025 10:57 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 10:57 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 10:52 PM (6HmqW)
Yep. For some reason he went relatively cheap in my '91 Rotisserie League bidding. Better to be dumb than intelligent sometimes. Because boy, was I dumb my first time at bidding to get a full team out of a fixed budget. I ended up with some unspent 'draft' money. Very bad. Normally.
Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 10:58 PM (aBgBM)
1. But can you drive a Porsche racing shift?
2. That’s easy! If you can tie your shoelaces, you can tie a bow tie. It’s the same knot!
NB: my old man liked Porsches, and while what I said is true about bow ties, you’ll probably learn how to tie it easier with any of the many online guides: there are even more than one way to tie a bow tie depending on how tight a knot you want!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 10:58 PM (1paM0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 10:17 PM (RIvkX)
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I lurked for a long time because I knew I'd get lit up like never before in these comments if my reasoning showed any flaws. I'm sure it did, but I lived.
To this day I appreciate you guys letting me hang out.
Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 10:20 PM (mNhIh)
Same here. I knew that you 'rons and 'ettes would hang me out to dry if I showed flaws. As it turns out, you folks did...but it wasn't that bad. Glad I'm not a lurker anymore. As I use my real name, I suppose I'm a super-nonlurker.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 10:59 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Nerd Herd at July 01, 2025 10:38 PM (6nQni)
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Great visual.
I think scampydog is building an insurmountable lead in the 3rd quarter recruitment drive tonight.
Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 10:59 PM (SJrOE)
I'm an hour late. I read that everyone needs a comment once a quarter.
I skipped everything else.
Has boobs been taken?
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM (jvJvP)
I remember way back listening to the news about Freddy Mac being on the skids. The media and the gubment quickly swept it under the rug, laughing at any one who believed that BS was a gullible idiot. To this day, I do not believe a single word coming out of the Fed.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM (sZyeE)
That bacon slice must've done something evil in its life; it still burning in hell.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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I let the scampywife know that the Horde is not impressed with 6. She said, "Well, there are a lot of idiots in the world." I replied, "The correct term is Morons." She went to bed. Without me!
Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 10:56 PM (41CYW)
Well, I guess it's better than #0 (no bacon)...
Or raw bacon, although each bacon show (except #6) and raw bacon can be cooked a bit more...
As a matter of fact, you can tell her #6 was in the top 10 Moron choices for bacon...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Pug Mahon Old Ways are Best at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM (0aYVJ)
Bacon is 3, of course.
Q3 Lurker obligation fulfilled.
Posted by: CA Token at July 01, 2025 10:44 PM (MPQQd)
I did a short sortie around my part of town and prices seemed unchanged from yesterday, low 4's or thereabouts.
Perhaps it goes into effect at midnight?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM (QGaXH)
Bacon: 2, maybe 2 1/2.
Life skill: driving a manual transmission (thanks for the reminder, pikkumatti!) with my first car (a Honda Civic) after getting my driver's license at 16. My very patient dad rode with me, having me practice on a quiet country road with a steep grade. I learned pretty fast after that first day of embarrassing fits and starts and kills and miscellany.
Earlier life skill: babysitting for the first time with no adult around. Girl I'd never met was 5 and blind. She had a seizure while in my care -- had not had one since about age 1.5, and the parents hadn't thought to mention that. No 911 in those days, so I called my mom, just up the road. The seizure was over by the time she arrived. Mom or I, can't remember now, then called the restaurant where the girl's parents had gone out to eat. (No cell phones, either, in those days.)
Whew.
Posted by: Official Delurker, adventures in life skills at July 01, 2025 11:01 PM (F73yU)
Kill me now.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:08 PM (gKDq2)
Man, you and me both. My parents had this slight obsession with country in the 70's, and that song drove me frigging crazy. I'm also going to give honorable mention to Tammy Wynette and that miserable stand by your man, and some other female singer with her fucking rose garden, and....holy shit.
Got my revenge though..lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2025 11:01 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 11:01 PM (RIvkX)
As the saying goes:
"Five is right out!"
Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 11:01 PM (rdVOm)
Dad never taught us, so I taught myself, just like I taught myself to drive a stick using Dad's '64 Ford Econoline van...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 01, 2025 11:03 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Pug Mahon Old Ways are Best at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM (0aYVJ)
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Does it involve a counter-clockwise swirl?
Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 11:03 PM (SJrOE)
I read the content, the more fool I.
Sorry Scampy, but bacon should be mostly crisp (but rarely crunchy), so 2-3 is obviously correct.
Posted by: RandomDave at July 01, 2025 10:46 PM (aJQbY)
Welcome, RD. I haven't read the name Steven den Beste (PBUH) for years. Thanks for that.
Re: Bacon. 3.5 Bacon >>>>>>Don Bacon.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:03 PM (0CU3H)
Today's date's right in your hash.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:43 PM (gKDq2)
I'm not seeing it...?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 11:03 PM (QGaXH)
I read the content, the more fool I.
Sorry Scampy, but bacon should be mostly crisp (but rarely crunchy), so 2-3 is obviously correct.
Posted by: RandomDave at July 01, 2025 10:46 PM (aJQbY)
Welcome, RD. I haven't read the name Steven den Beste (PBUH) for years. Thanks for that.
Re: Bacon. 3.5 Bacon >>>>>>Don Bacon.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:03 PM (0CU3H)
Ahem...
Posted by: Sir Francis Bacon at July 01, 2025 11:04 PM (ynpvh)
Bacon is 3, of course.
Q3 Lurker obligation fulfilled.
Posted by: CA Token at July 01, 2025 10:44 PM (MPQQd)
The AAA website has state by state average gas prices for all octanes and blends. Maybe for major cities, too. I've never looked for that.
Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 11:04 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Deborah Hamilton at July 01, 2025 11:04 PM (QrgRG)
It is a good identifier of religious subversives if they will not eat it.
Posted by: Insider Tricks at July 01, 2025 10:30 PM
We would occasionally get BLTs at our dorm cafeteria in college. We would always go back as many times as possible until the lunch ladies would chase us away with a ladle.
One of my Jewish friends that kept kosher always ate the alternative choice, but was amazed at our BLT gluttony.
He finally decided to try one. The look on his face was magical - he couldn't believe his parents (and his faith) had kept him from enjoying such tasty fare.
However, we didn't permanently corrupt him. About 10 years after graduation he became a rabbi!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 11:05 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM (jvJvP)
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*punches ticket*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 11:05 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Sir Francis Bacon at July 01, 2025 11:05 PM (ynpvh)
Not one has been called in much less arrested or perp walked. _∅_
Posted by: Braenyard
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Neera Tanden got called in -- to CLOSED testimony. She basically admitted that she routinely submitted decisions to the autopen without knowing whether Biden had authorized them, or who in fact had.
She didn't seem one bit fazed by her experience, bouncing out and chirping happy answers at the press the same way Huma Abedin did after she got quizzed about Hillary's email practices.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 11:05 PM (egH3D)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:03 PM
Welcome!
I was looking for people as angry as myself. Oh, and we were all so much less angry then. The first post here though, good for you.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:06 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 11:06 PM (6HmqW)
Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 10:19 PM (41CYW)
I learned to drive in a 1964 Ford Falcon Station Wagon, three on a tree which made me feel just like a queen. Lots of chrome, beautiful cream color with bright red vinyl seats with little longhorns imprinted in it. The truck was a 1958 Ford F100, baby blue, lots of chrome, an engine you could climb into to change the oil, but that was a five speed, and shifting was like throwing your back out. I needed a phone book under my ass and behind my back to drive that one.
Driving automatic just feels like cheating.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 11:06 PM (1Gsou)
Isn't the year 2000 "technically" in the 20th Century?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 11:06 PM (uvvqE)
Learning to dress in "business casual," the dress code at the music studio where I teach. It's been an enjoyable experience putting together outfits. But no high heels for me! I'm already 5'8" and don't need more height!
Latest life skill (still a work in progress): going to bed when I'm tired, instead of pushing through it.
Good night, horde. Thanks for the great ONT, scampydog.
Posted by: Official Delurker, why am I so tired on my week off? at July 01, 2025 11:06 PM (F73yU)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 11:03 PM (QGaXH)
I was wrong/misread you. Ignore what I wrote.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 11:07 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Pug Mahon Old Ways are Best at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM (0aYVJ)
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Does it involve a counter-clockwise swirl?
Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 11:03 PM (SJrOE)
To be honest, it's been so long I no longer remember. Heh.
I did not wear a tie for my Dad and sister's funerals. A nice shirt and slacks. Most likely I am done with ties.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Old Ways are Best at July 01, 2025 11:07 PM (0aYVJ)
She didn't seem one bit fazed by her experience, bouncing out and chirping happy answers at the press the same way Huma Abedin did after she got quizzed about Hillary's email practices.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 11:05 PM (egH3D)
Tanden has Get Out Of Jail Free cards in-hand. As does her long-time friend and mentor, Hillzebub.
Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 11:08 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:43 PM (gKDq2)
Sorry. I misread you.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:50 PM (gKDq2)
I thought I was going (more) crazy...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 11:08 PM (QGaXH)
Nobody likes floppy bacon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 11:08 PM (XV/Pl)
-similar journey RandomDave. You're only about 50 posts behind me. I miss USS Clueless.
Posted by: 3 Angry Irish Inches at July 01, 2025 11:08 PM (H2Hko)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 11:09 PM (RIvkX)
Another "all from his backyard in AZ with an 11" scope". See Jupiter's winds, differential rotation, and rotation of the Red Spot:
https://tinyurl.com/28ny9pol
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 11:09 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 11:01 PM (RIvkX)
I helped design a kosher house in Anchorage, of all places. Two dishwashers, two of everything.
Also, my dad helped design the local mikvah.
I had no idea there were so many Jews in Anchorage.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 11:09 PM (1Gsou)
Nobody likes floppy bacon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 11:08 PM (XV/Pl)
Waitaminnit.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 11:10 PM (gKDq2)
VF-1 Wolfpack and VF-2 Bounty Hunters were aboard USS Enterprise for that mission.
Alas Charlie did not come out to play.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 11:10 PM (u4KuU)
Making a bed with "hospital corners" that Granny learned as a candy-striper (not "stripper," ya morons!).
Making columns on a manual typewriter (and I still type about 80 words a minute without mistakes!)
Dialing a rotary phone
Sewing a seam, replacing a button, and darning socks (although even the "wool" socks have polyester in them, which shred easily)
I used to be able to run in high heels. I can tell you right now, you don't put your weight on the heel and roll forward on the ball of your foot like a low heel. You would die. Instead, you're almost stomping your foot and doing a quick rocking motion from heel to ball.
I was an amateur compared to my great-aunt. As a teen, she wore narrow heels nicknamed "carpet punchers" in the 1920s. Even in her old age, she walked around in heels and crossed her legs in a very elegant way.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 01, 2025 11:11 PM (yoqKl)
Posted by: Pug Mahon Old Ways are Best at July 01, 2025 11:07 PM (0aYVJ)
DH moved up here with 6 suits, 12 ties, cuff links, all that jazz. He has worn them exactly zero times since then.
Generally if you see someone in Anchorage wearing a suit and tie, it means they are a California lawyer, best avoided socially and professionally.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 11:11 PM (1Gsou)
I noticed in the factory environment of the 8-'s....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 10:51 PM (QGaXH)
That should read 'factory environment of the 80's...'
Apologies for any corn-fusion this might have caused...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 11:11 PM (QGaXH)
I'm an hour late. I read that everyone needs a comment once a quarter.
I skipped everything else.
Has boobs been taken?
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM
The AOS Style Guide is very clear on that matter ... there is no limit to the number of boobs references in any given thread, nor a daily limit.
Of course, the 'ettes are also free to call us small "m" morons as many times as they want!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 11:12 PM (HlyYF)
Nobody likes floppy bacon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 11:08 PM (XV/Pl)
As Trump would say, 'so true...so true.' I don't like floppy bacon (hence the 3.5), but I don't like bent bacon either. It needs to be as flat as possible. I do that by cooking it relatively low and slow on the griddle, so the cooking fat on the slice doesn't have a chance to curl up off the heating surface. If a restaurant serves up bacon, I don't care how it's made, but if I make it, I get all particular about how it's made.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:12 PM (0CU3H)
I will eat Bacon at any number, but I don't like thick-cut pieces.
Posted by: Berwyn Ken at July 01, 2025 11:12 PM (HcbZb)
Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 1:29 a.m. EDT (0529 UTC) on Wednesday, July 2.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8DMwOgaBFzA
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 01, 2025 11:12 PM (r6SF4)
Ties: Unless you are wearing an abomination like a wide knit tie, a full Windsor is the ONLY knot. Half-Windsor and four-in-hand knots look, and are, lopsided. The only time I wear a bow tie is with a tux, and, being a traditionalist, I tie it by hand... 4 or 5 times to get it right. Those pre-tied things look bad, and besides, at 1 in the morning, you can untie it and look as cool as Sammy Davis, Jr.
At least in my own head.
Posted by: buddhaha at July 01, 2025 11:12 PM (khd/k)
One thing's for sure, we're in the 3rd Quarter, which means the 2Q GDP data will be released soon...and politicized.
If it's good, they'll say it's bad, or credit build back better, or both.
If it's bad, they'll say we're in a depression.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 11:12 PM (uvvqE)
Isn't the year 2000 "technically" in the 20th Century?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 11:06 PM (uvvqE)
Yes. (I think) First year of a century, decade, whatever is not the '0' year but the '1' year. As when you count to ten - you begin with one, not zero. What I cannot recall is if there is a Year 0 BC or AD. Was it 1 BC then 1 AD?
Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 11:12 PM (aBgBM)
Welcome, RandomDave!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 11:13 PM (egH3D)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 11:12 PM (HlyYF)
Little head thinkers.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 11:13 PM (gKDq2)
you don't want to take a bite and have the whole slice come out
Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 11:13 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 10:32 PM (0DdMG)
Just looked up logging engineer / jobs. Dang, they are in demand, all over the world. Especially HAL
Posted by: javems at July 01, 2025 11:13 PM (8I4hW)
https://tinyurl.com/2s46zewr
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 11:14 PM (UFztX)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 01, 2025 11:14 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 01, 2025 11:11 PM (yoqKl)
I still kill keyboards, even though I have lightened up from manual typewriter typing. I usually wear out the F and J first....
The old Underwoods required a half inch throw, and if you do that sort of strike on a sensitive keyboard it dies a horrible death.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 11:14 PM (1Gsou)
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 11:15 PM (uvvqE)
Poor guy. Died alone and undetected for days.
Col. Tom Kratman tried to collect his old posts into book form, but I don't think Steve's brother ever responded to his inquires.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 01, 2025 11:15 PM (EOjZq)
I remember way back listening to the news about Freddy Mac being on the skids. The media and the gubment quickly swept it under the rug, laughing at any one who believed that BS was a gullible idiot. To this day, I do not believe a single word coming out of the Fed.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM (sZyeE)
Accounting parlor tricks are a bad idea. Accounting parlor tricks using $8,000,000,000 of I.O.U.s may bankrupt us yet.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 01, 2025 11:15 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Johnny Lanctot at July 01, 2025 11:15 PM (tVuDA)
Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 11:12 PM (aBgBM)
No year zero. And as it turns out, Jesus was not born then, either. Very confusing.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 11:15 PM (1Gsou)
Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 10:53 PM (aBgBM)
I think I was about the same time, maybe a little earlier. I think my late b-i-l pointed me to it. He would have fit right in here, especially the gun thread. He had amassed quite a collection, even reloading rounds and casting his own bullets...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 11:16 PM (QGaXH)
Tanden has Get Out Of Jail Free cards in-hand. As does her long-time friend and mentor, Hillzebub.
Posted by: Gref
============
They all do -- or they all must, for the lack of interest the DoJ seems to have in summoning them.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 11:16 PM (egH3D)
VF-1 Wolfpack and VF-2 Bounty Hunters were aboard USS Enterprise for that mission.
Alas Charlie did not come out to play.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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This is why I love this place. Thanks, Anna Puma for the knowledge drop.
Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 11:16 PM (41CYW)
Even with the wokeness, the show spoke to me.
There was a lesbian chick ace accurately called ugly hot. Darlene is there. The blonde is pretty cute and in her 40's.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:16 PM (jvJvP)
You have no Papers?
Hey, it's good to be back home again. (John Denver)
Next!
Posted by: Judge Wally Gator at July 01, 2025 11:16 PM (5yGIt)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 01, 2025 11:17 PM (EOjZq)
UPenn rescinds all of Wiiliam Thomas's records??
Bans gay men from girls sports??
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 11:15 PM (uvvqE)
Sure, but he still got to swing his wang in front of all the ladies. Dude should have been jailed for indecent exposure.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 11:17 PM (1Gsou)
"Papa. How do you roll down the window in this thing?"
So I got to explain the root source of "roll down" to him.
Posted by: Reforger at July 01, 2025 11:17 PM (LgDgc)
Which Starbucks or Jack-in-the-Box does he work at nowadays?
Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 11:17 PM (aBgBM)
Bans gay men from girls sports??
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 11:15 PM
However, it was done gently ... they waited until the first day after Pride Month ended!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 11:17 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 11:17 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 11:18 PM (UFztX)
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Flexibility is critical to maintaining the bacon's optimal tensile strength.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2025 11:18 PM (JkO4W)
Kill me now.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 10:08
Working in the same situation while tending bar I heard "Marion Thomas and the Summerwinds" sing their namesake song...and the Summmerwinds kept blowing in...way too many times.
Today it makes me laugh and I'll start singing it to my wife who also worked there.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 01, 2025 11:18 PM (55Qr6)
Posted by: buddhaha at July 01, 2025 11:12 PM (khd/k)
The only time I wore that was with those tab collars. They need really tiny knots.
I couldn't wear certain ties with a tab collar as the knot was too big and it looked ridiculous. Like a striped suit and a plaid shirt.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 11:18 PM (gKDq2)
Tanden has Get Out Of Jail Free cards in-hand. As does her long-time friend and mentor, Hillzebub.
Posted by: Gref
============
They all do -- or they all must, for the lack of interest the DoJ seems to have in summoning them.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 11:16 PM (egH3D)
To me, that's quite alright. This is not a quest for criminal justice - it's a quest for political justice. If Trump & Co can tie the Dems to a culture of corruption (like Pelosi did 20 years ago), we can destroy them in 2026 and get DOGE working with the next Congress, big-time.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:18 PM (0CU3H)
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Flexibility is critical to maintaining the bacon's optimal tensile strength.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2025 11:18 PM (JkO4W)
This is great! The Horde is talking about bacon in the same way Eskimos probably talk about snow.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:19 PM (0CU3H)
https://tinyurl.com/2s46zewr
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
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I've got both my legs in my cranky pants about Powell.
Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 11:21 PM (41CYW)
Even with the wokeness, the show spoke to me.
There was a lesbian chick ace accurately called ugly hot. Darlene is there. The blonde is pretty cute and in her 40's.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:16 PM (jvJvP)
And, in her own way, the term 'ugly hot' defines Lady Gaga.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:21 PM (0CU3H)
In the standard AD/BC convention, there is no Year 0. This is problem for the math (leap year arithmetic, and converting to Julian dates and such). The standard astronomical date convention is thus to make the 1BC be the year zero, and use negative year numbers.
Thus a BC year is - (BC - 1).
The Julian vs Gregorian transition is also a bit of a mess. Standard there is to use the actual adoption of the Gregorian back in Oct 1582. Julian calendar dates before, Gregorian after, so there are 10 days that don't exist. That makes a bit of mess in the arithmetic.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 11:21 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 11:22 PM (UFztX)
Poke her face!
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry
—————
What do you recommend to poke her with?
I know what honest William J Clinton would use!
Posted by: M.L. Car at July 01, 2025 11:22 PM (yRVXt)
Posted by: EastBayLarry at July 01, 2025 11:23 PM (D9EP7)
Bans gay men from girls sports??
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 11:15 PM
However, it was done gently ... they waited until the first day after Pride Month ended!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 11:17 PM (HlyYF
Dude has to go to plan B.
Personalized silicone testicles that can from the back of cars and trucks.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:23 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 11:08 PM (XV/Pl)
That's what she said.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 01, 2025 11:24 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 11:24 PM (AOsQT)
>>Flexibility is critical to maintaining the bacon's optimal tensile strength.
Within a narrow range, say 2-3 degrees, any more and property cooked bacon should break.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 11:24 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Had an awesome history teacher in HS (they weren't always furry, pride, anti-American teachers). He explained is very similarly to the way you did. A lively discussion ensued about the 10 days. He laughed and explained it again.
Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 11:25 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 11:25 PM (u4KuU)
To me, that's quite alright. This is not a quest for criminal justice - it's a quest for political justice. If Trump & Co can tie the Dems to a culture of corruption (like Pelosi did 20 years ago), we can destroy them in 2026 and get DOGE working with the next Congress, big-time.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:18 PM (0CU3H)
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If we can keep Musk from tossing a grenade into it. He's a good guy, but somebody needs to put him in front of some cartoons or something for a while to keep him occupied.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at July 01, 2025 11:26 PM (qUYGJ)
Posted by: Judge Wally Gator at July 01, 2025 11:26 PM (5yGIt)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 10:17
Ditto here. You have to learn the lay of the land. And the characters...boy you better learn the characters.
What's the strangest one you recall? Besides yourself?
That Tickled Pink was a hoot for a while.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 01, 2025 11:27 PM (55Qr6)
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 11:27 PM (gKDq2)
Steven Den Beste’s site is still up! It’s being hosted at
http://chizumatic.mee.nu
The last post is, in hindsight, hard to read.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 11:27 PM (1paM0)
Bacon for bacon and eggs more like a 2
Bacon with pancakes a 2.5.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 11:27 PM (mT+6a)
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-25
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: July 2, 2025
Launch Time: 1:29 a.m. EDT, 0529 UTC, 0729 CEST
https://www.youtube.com/live/Rz152SnpMHU
Posted by: Ciampino - are brrrrrs or bzzzzzzs vibrations? at July 01, 2025 11:28 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:19 PM
Do Eskimos have multiple ways of cooking snow?
Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 01, 2025 11:28 PM (yoqKl)
Posted by: Deborah Hamilton at July 01, 2025 11:04 PM (QrgRG)
I think it all started with Hillary and qualified on day one by virtue of being married to Bill. Anyone else remember when Bill was first inaugurated the two of them saying they were 'co-presidents' until the backlash shut that down hard?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 01, 2025 11:29 PM (QGaXH)
Bacon any number will do, because Bacon.
Miss driving a stick on the floor or on the tree. Nothing like it.
Posted by: morigu at July 01, 2025 11:29 PM (i94X/)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 11:29 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Pug Mahon Old Ways are Best at July 01, 2025 11:00 PM (0aYVJ)
Four-in-hand
I was always told not to wear that to an interview, but I figured anywhere that judged me on a tie and not my abilities can hire a tie cheaper than they could hire me.
Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 01, 2025 11:30 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: EastBayLarry at July 01, 2025 11:23 PM (D9EP7)
A true omnivore.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 11:30 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 11:31 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 11:31 PM (1paM0)
I have a compendium of the USS Clueless posts on my computer somewhere.
Pixy was actually involved in preserving his work back in the day.
Here's a rabbit hole for you:
https://tinyurl.com/5n7z4a7t
Posted by: pawn at July 01, 2025 11:31 PM (QB+5g)
But my living situation is finally resolved. And I have taken care of parents forever.
I'm easing back into real life.
Including dress shirts and ties for some sweet young women.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:31 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Had an awesome history teacher in HS (they weren't always furry, pride, anti-American teachers). He explained is very similarly to the way you did. A lively discussion ensued about the 10 days. He laughed and explained it again.
Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 11:25 PM (41CYW)
The Russian Empire used the Julian Calendar. So they were 10 days behind most all other countries. I think this is why the October Revolution day back in the day (Julian Oct. 25, 1917?) was celebrated since 1918 or 1919 in November. I think - past my bedtime - brain has shut down - good night all.
Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 11:31 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: pookysgirl, warning of the nonsense comments ahead at July 01, 2025 11:33 PM (Wt5PA)
How fun to “meet” you!!
I lurked for a couple years before diving in. And before that, I followed ace and didn’t even KNOW there was a comment section.
I’m not the brightest rock in the nest.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 11:33 PM (mT+6a)
Yay!
And that you have critters to keep you company.
Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 11:33 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 01, 2025 11:27 PM (55Qr6)
i miss Fjordman.
I am happy zombie is back.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:33 PM (jvJvP)
That Tickled Pink was a hoot for a while.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 01, 2025 11:27 PM (55Qr6)
That was a weird one. I tend to remember nics more than the content of said nic.
Purple Avenger
Niedermeyer's Dead Horse
These Fishsticks are Hard as Tits
Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper
And my all-time favorite: Asscheeks of Saturn
Posted by: Pug Mahon Old Ways are Best at July 01, 2025 11:33 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Deborah Hamilton at July 01, 2025 11:04 PM (QrgRG)
Maybe Pastor is something that rubs off in bed, I think?
Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 01, 2025 11:34 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Farmer
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Yep, she/he was a hoot! Had a lot of people going for a while...
Posted by: lin-duh at July 01, 2025 11:34 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 11:34 PM (u4KuU)
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-25
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: July 2, 2025
Launch Time: 1:29 a.m. EDT, 0529 UTC, 0729 CEST
https://www.youtube.com/live/Rz152SnpMHU
Posted by: Ciampino - are brrrrrs or bzzzzzzs vibrations?
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Wish someone would get Musk's attention and teach him some real-politic.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 11:35 PM (UFztX)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 11:36 PM (mT+6a)
Anyone have status on CA gas prices? I'm on vacation out of state.
Bacon is 3, of course.
Q3 Lurker obligation fulfilled.
Posted by: CA Token
Gasbuddy
https://t.ly/Z9vxr
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2025 11:36 PM (63Dwl)
https://ai.mee.nu/life/remembering_steven_den_beste
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 11:25 PM (u4KuU)
This. Was. Awesome. Thank you, Anna Puma.
This brought back memories. The Monopoly board with all those old blogs (and Clueless on Broadway) was amazing. Even moreso were all the commenters giving their tributes. Little did we know then that several of them would do insane over The Orange One.
Anyway, enough of my flurry of commenting for the night. See ya, folks.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:37 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 11:37 PM (rdVOm)
Yay!
And that you have critters to keep you company.
Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 11:33 PM
Thank you for all the support.
The animals and I are still in celebration mode. They are eating well. Snowflake. 9.4 pounds. Sweet.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:37 PM (jvJvP)
While others will be dearly missed as they have graduated to the great blog in Heaven.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 11:37 PM (u4KuU)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 11:38 PM (UFztX)
The transition period from when the Gregorian was first adopted until most all the countries were using it (looking at you, England!) is always going to be a mess. Great Britain didn't adopt the Gregorian (and didn't call it that, just the "New Style" calendar, because Catholic) until 1752. And then, it jumped 11 days. There was a lot of fussing about "stealing 11 days!".
Before then, in the "Old Style", the new year didn't begin until Mar. 25th, "Lady Day". So they went to the Gregorian and then changed New Years day to the now standard Jan 1. Thus the year 1751 has only about 9 months.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 11:39 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: javems at July 01, 2025 11:39 PM (8I4hW)
I guess narcissism is a helluva drug.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 11:41 PM (gKDq2)
Har har.
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - cultural topography at July 01, 2025 11:41 PM (4yKs6)
Unless...this is some SUPREME PSYOPS... (my hope)
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 01, 2025 11:41 PM (25kuG)
When tickled pink appeared it was time to go.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
HA!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2025 11:42 PM (63Dwl)
Many of the Founding Father's birth dates were affected by the "New Style" change. George Washington is the most famous (Ben Franklin affected as well).
At the time he was born on Feb. 11, 1731. In the Gregorian, that's Feb. 21, 1732. If you born between Jan 1 and March 24, the year start change affected you.
It was a matter of preference whether to proleptically change your birth date, or just keep the old one. There were a lot of complaints.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 11:42 PM (w6EFb)
This is how threads turn into Boob Threads
Posted by: kbdabear at July 01, 2025 11:43 PM (zBOzm)
Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 01, 2025 11:43 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 11:43 PM (VofaG)
I am very sad that Trump and Elon are now at each other's throats.
Unless...this is some SUPREME PSYOPS... (my hope)
Posted by: Nightwatch
This is their second nervous breakdown.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2025 11:44 PM (63Dwl)
Taught my sons how to tie a Double Windsor (which my dad taught me). When my older son got married, I was thrilled to see the two of them teaching groomsmen (younger son was best man) how to tie their toes.
We have a tradition that I began when I got married. The morning of the wedding, I went to a local barber and got a straight razor shave. My older son had the three of us meet at the same barber shop to get one the morning before he got married. Younger son is engaged and hope he continues it.
Posted by: ERF at July 01, 2025 11:45 PM (qqD/x)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2025 11:45 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: kbdabear
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Nice to see you in the comments. Been a while. I believe the style guide suggests that kbdabear posts include links. For ummm... science.
Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 11:45 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Pug Mahon Old Ways are Best at July 01, 2025 11:33
Now that you say that, I haven't seen Masturbatin' Pete in a long time.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 01, 2025 11:45 PM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 01, 2025 11:46 PM (25kuG)
I am very sad that Trump and Elon are now at each other's throats.
Unless...this is some SUPREME PSYOPS... (my hope)
Posted by: Nightwatch
This is their second nervous breakdown
Wait till they get to their 19th nervous breakdown.
Posted by: morigu at July 01, 2025 11:46 PM (i94X/)
Posted by: ERF at July 01, 2025 11:46 PM (qqD/x)
Posted by: Deborah Hamilton
In my church the preacher explains that women are not to preach to men, but only to children and younger women, and cites 1 Timothy 2:8-15. He also believes the passages citing deaconesses are actually references to the wives of deacons, not deacons themselves. He explains that women are called by God to other duties that are complementary to the roles of men, and are not fulfillable by men. The issue of calling his wife “pastor” does not come up.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 11:47 PM (1paM0)
Posted by: Cicero
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Oh, yeah... "cat piss" LOL
Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 11:48 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: ERF at July 01, 2025 11:46 PM (qqD/x)
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Try tying boobs. You can do it, but they always come loose.
Posted by: Nanzi Pelosi at July 01, 2025 11:48 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 01, 2025 11:48 PM (25kuG)
Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 11:48 PM (txH+0)
https://tinyurl.com/2s46zewr
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 11:14 PM (UFztX)
The EU and UK are scrambling to fund their economies and are having to borrow USD at OUR rate, and are trying to print their way out of the hole to be in a position to pay it back. Powell is breaking the Bank of England and the European central bank.
Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 01, 2025 11:49 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 11:50 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: 496
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Has anyone seen Akbar?
Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 11:50 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 11:48 PM (txH+0)
Sugar what? Someone said 'boobs' and I got distracted.
Posted by: Nerd Herd at July 01, 2025 11:51 PM (6nQni)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 01, 2025 11:52 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 11:53 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 11:54 PM (VofaG)
Her mom spent most of the rest of her life sponsoring relatives to come over to the US. The Socialist Republic charged a lot of money to leave, and not a few escaped through China.
Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 01, 2025 11:54 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2025 11:54 PM (JkO4W)
Paraphrased...
Summer: "Man, things were so much easier in Grade 4. You just gave them a note. 'If you like me, check box 1. If you don't, check box 2.'"
Breanna Yde. "Yeah, those checkboxes made things REAL clear."
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:55 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Case at July 01, 2025 11:55 PM (ilX37)
This is not a quest for criminal justice - it's a quest for political justice. If Trump & Co can tie the Dems to a culture of corruption (like Pelosi did 20 years ago), we can destroy them in 2026 and get DOGE working with the next Congress, big-time.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Well, grumble grumble, I see your logic. But I still think that anyone who wants to go to bed at night knowing they live in a land where the rule of law prevails and applies equally to all is still a bit screwed.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 11:56 PM (egH3D)
Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 11:50 PM (VofaG
Thank you!
I couldn't remember the name.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 11:56 PM (jvJvP)
Thank for reminding me I need gas just to get home today. $3,10 at Wawa down the block, getting over $3.30 at home
Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 11:57 PM (rKJ4Y)
Posted by: tcn in AK
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Fisher & Paykel, a New Zealand company, makes a dishwasher called a DishDrawer, which, instead of a front that opens out, has two separate drawers, one above the other. The outlet hoses are joined at a "Y" fitting, but, if they are separated and run to the sink outlet separately, the rabbi can certify it as kosher.
The Fisher and Paykel families are Jewish.
I had the DishDrawer and their counter-depth refrigerator in my last house.
Posted by: buddhaha at July 01, 2025 11:58 PM (khd/k)
Unless...this is some SUPREME PSYOPS... (my hope)
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 01, 2025 11:41 PM (25kuG)
Legislator RINOs getting upitty with Trump, knowing that Elon, with all his billions, will have their backs. The day of the first big ad buy, Elon goes, "Psych!" and funds the Trump-endorsed challengers.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 01, 2025 11:59 PM (r6SF4)
By contrast, commenting at Sarah Hoyt’s site, where I post under another alias, is like drinking from a garden hose: nostalgic, and a little warm. I don’t have a lot in common with a lot of the posters there, who are mostly writers, but I am an Odd, and in that way I fit in.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 12:00 AM (1paM0)
Laura San Giacomo
Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2025 11:54 PM (VofaG)
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They were up there (heh heh)
Posted by: 496 at July 02, 2025 12:00 AM (q/UWX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2025 11:54 PM (JkO4W)
IIRC Him and ace had a disagreement. He quit and ace banned him at the same time.
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:00 AM (VofaG)
And it is supplied in those efficiently handy 1 Pound Single Serving packages, so we got that going for us, which is nice.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 02, 2025 12:01 AM (qgiNH)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 02, 2025 12:02 AM (6HmqW)
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:02 AM (VofaG)
Welcome to you and all the other delurkers! You've all made excellent debuts. Please stick around!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at July 02, 2025 12:02 AM (Vvh2V)
Burma Shave.
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 02, 2025 12:02 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 02, 2025 12:04 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 12:04 AM (rKJ4Y)
Posted by: pawn at July 02, 2025 12:04 AM (QB+5g)
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:00 AM (VofaG
Damn I missed a lot.
I bet the jab wars were gloriously ugly.
By the way, this is my first day as homeowner. Dominion Day. I still have 5 beers left.
The animals are happy.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 12:05 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:05 AM (VofaG)
Bacon 1-5. It's all good cause it's bacon!
My life skill was learning to parallel park. That was accomplished by taking one driving lesson. The teacher let me use his car to take the test. In over 50 years of driving, I never parallel parked again.
I love this place.
Posted by: AlmostYuman at July 02, 2025 12:06 AM (bj34f)
"You know how to change a tire, Ray?"
"Nope"
"Well, the tire iron is a good start, but pop the trunk and let's get the rest of the stuff out. You probably noticed the spare in there, grab that too, we'll need it."
My understanding from Ray's mom was that dad was in prison and belonged there. Ray was a good kid, but pinning the quiet and awkward needles due to his age and circumstances. He'd be in his 30's by now, I reckon. Like to imagine him driving a tow truck. Maybe he's got a fleet of them...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 02, 2025 12:07 AM (bA75n)
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:07 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 02, 2025 12:07 AM (lUFok)
Meh.
At least we don't need to "sign up" and that's a BIG plus!
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 12:07 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: 625Boatrider at July 02, 2025 12:08 AM (nN+lv)
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:05 AM (VofaG)
You can bake bacon in the oven if you want.
I buy the "bag o' bits and pieces" and mostly use them for cooking down in the skillet to make potatoes.
Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 02, 2025 12:08 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 12:09 AM (rKJ4Y)
Now, we have the Cafe to lighten the mood.
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 12:09 AM (rdVOm)
Leftists bitching about gasoline prices is a perennial favorite. They always reserve their invective for the people who drill it out of the ground, refine it, transport it, and dispense it, and clear maybe Ten Cents a gallon, reserving their profitability by selling chips and soda.
Not, of course, acknowledging in any way the Assclowns who add $1.75 in various shakedown schemes on top.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 02, 2025 12:09 AM (AC6Bk)
That's why we love bacon. It's the versatile food.
Oh, yeah, and thick-cut.
Posted by: RickZ at July 02, 2025 12:09 AM (gKDq2)
In over 50 years of driving, I never parallel parked again.
I love this place.
Posted by: AlmostYuman
Convenient parking at AoS.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 02, 2025 12:09 AM (63Dwl)
I did read once when I first bought the truck but I’m going to have to refresh my memory.
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:10 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 12:09 AM (rdVOm)
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The Cafe is a damn good touch. Brilliant.
Posted by: 496 at July 02, 2025 12:10 AM (mNhIh)
Bacon 1-5. It's all good cause it's bacon!
My life skill was learning to parallel park. That was accomplished by taking one driving lesson. The teacher let me use his car to take the test. In over 50 years of driving, I never parallel parked again.
I love this place.
Posted by: AlmostYuman
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16 yr old driving test memory flood. Welcome, and thanks for jumping in the comments.
Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 12:10 AM (41CYW)
The animals are happy.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS!
Congratulations! A home, happy animals, and beer on hand. Happy Dominion Day! (If you have some hours left...)
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Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 02, 2025 12:11 AM (yoqKl)
If you really want to be baptised, feel free to tell me to fuck off.
Yeah, I haven't done anything to you, but I am Canadian.
But if you have to build up to 'Fuck Off Asshole", keep posting and I am here.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 12:12 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:12 AM (bss/y)
I buy the "bag o' bits and pieces" and mostly use them for cooking down in the skillet to make potatoes.
Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks
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Just tried baking bacon.
Not bothering to look nothing I just put them on a foil lined cookie, foil on top to stop splatter, 400 until it looked good.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 02, 2025 12:13 AM (/lPRQ)
I think it was as late as the 1920s before "most all countries of significance" were using the Gregorian, at least for official purposes. You know important stuff to align with the rest of the world. Local usage of older systems, like the Chinese calendar still persist.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 02, 2025 12:13 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: polynikes
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I enjoyed the Monty DOOM posts. Keep hoping he'll make a surprise appearance.
Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 12:14 AM (41CYW)
Congrats on that, FWIW.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 02, 2025 12:07 AM (lUFok
Thanks.
Potential homelessness for 6 months was exhausting.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 12:15 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 12:14 AM (41CYW)
He was on... Gab(?) a while back.
Is that even still a thing or has everyone migrated to Twitter?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:17 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 02, 2025 12:18 AM (AC6Bk)
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Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 02, 2025 12:11
Five!
But I rejoin reality and society in August.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 12:18 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 12:10 AM (41CYW)
I went to get my permit at 14 and was devastated that I didn’t leave with one because I didn’t pass the eye test. I was blind as a bat but never told anyone. Went and got glasses and never wore them except to get my license. I don’t know if I call it vanity rather it was just being a teenage boy not wanting to hurt his chances with the ladies. I eventually got soft contacts when they first came out.
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:18 AM (VofaG)
You admitted a couple of nights ago after a nood was called that you were sitting on a quarter of a million in gold.
True?
Posted by: pawn at July 02, 2025 12:18 AM (QB+5g)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 12:20 AM (UFztX)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 02, 2025 12:20 AM (AC6Bk)
Posted by: Common Tater
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LOL! Subway did the same. I used to like their "club" sandwiches. Nope, haven't been back in over a decade.
Bacon was so thin, I could SEE THROUGH the strips! Flavor? What flavor? Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 12:21 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 12:22 AM (LL6Kc)
It is tempting to proleptically extend the Gregorian calendar indefinitely back in time. Some have advocated doing that for astronomical date purposes. It would eliminate the mess about Julian date conversions, no discrete jump to have to worry about.
They didn't do this because, before Oct 15, 1582, nobody was using it, and no historical dates ever used it, so there would be a mess of error and confusion trying to do that. So, if you're tying some historical analysis (was the moon full on the date of some battle, and stuff like that), it would be a mess.
That mess of confusion does exist always between 1582 and really, 1920, but maybe practically until the 19th century, no matter what you do. There have been a lot errors, think two events happened on the same date when they did not, or vice versa. And some errors have propagated, because they didn't retain the original date, but just erroneously converted it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 02, 2025 12:22 AM (w6EFb)
1. The Ukrainians conducted some more drone attacks deep inside Russia. Pretty obvious that they are sneaking into Russia and launching far from the air defense zones at the borders. Hopefully the US military is taking notes and working on defenses for US bases.
2. The Ukrainians also attacked using what might be a homegrown cruise missile. This would be a big deal if there was a safe spot in the country to make them. Expect a missile attack on the factory soon.
3. The Russians continue to advance at multiple locations, forcing the Ukrainians to dash about plugging gaps and struggling to get their people out of cauldrons.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 02, 2025 12:23 AM (r6SF4)
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:23 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 02, 2025 12:26 AM (QSrLX)
He kind of short circuited on that for a second.
Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 02, 2025 12:26 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:27 AM (VofaG)
I've always wondered about the term "proleptic". I would say "retroactive" would be better for applying a calendar backwards in time. But the "pro", forward sense comes from thinking of a date in the past as "now", and thinking in terms of using a future calendar "now". Why they think that way, I don't know.
But note in the astronomical convention they do proleptically/retroactively extend the Julian calendar indefinitely back in time. No one was using an such calendar before 45BC (year -44). But no one even thinks of dates in whatever mish-mash of local calendar systems used before then, so it's proleptic Julian all the way back to the when the earth cooled.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 02, 2025 12:27 AM (w6EFb)
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WTH?
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 12:28 AM (rdVOm)
1. The Ukrainians conducted some more drone attacks deep inside Russia. Pretty obvious that they are sneaking into Russia and launching far from the air defense zones at the borders. Hopefully the US military is taking notes and working on defenses for US bases.
2. The Ukrainians also attacked using what might be a homegrown cruise missile. This would be a big deal if there was a safe spot in the country to make them. Expect a missile attack on the factory soon.
3. The Russians continue to advance at multiple locations, forcing the Ukrainians to dash about plugging gaps and struggling to get their people out of cauldrons.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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I keep going back to Russian attrition. Time as a weapon.
Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 12:29 AM (41CYW)
https://tinyurl.com/4e65rjyj
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at July 02, 2025 12:29 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: RickZ at July 02, 2025 12:29 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 02, 2025 12:26 AM (QSrLX)
And the bartender asks ‘ why didn’t you fly? ‘
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:29 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: pawn at July 02, 2025 12:30 AM (QB+5g)
Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 02, 2025 12:31 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 02, 2025 12:32 AM (r6SF4)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 02, 2025 12:23 AM (r6SF4)
Wait, I thought Ukraine destroyed their entire air force and would be marching on Moscow within the month?
(for like the fifth time.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:32 AM (bss/y)
Bacon!
For me, it has to have crunch and most of the fat near crisp, but not turned to dust with a bite, either. Also, in BLT sandwiches, soggy bacon sucks.
either a 3 or a 4, best is closer to 3.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 02, 2025 12:33 AM (dadcM)
I had enough to pay off the house.
But I was a fulltime caregiver for 14 years. I really thought my brother would give me a year to get life together.
I'm alright now.
I don't have a ton, but I am fine for a few years. Worse after this but the house was remodelled. And it's pretty big. I'm closing off rooms to the cat.
Probably means that I need to start a family.
Oh. Open question. I am in my family home. Now mine.
I'm still sleeping in my childhood twin bed. A tv is here but there are two rooms with large beds. Whatever, this is day 2 of me rejoining society.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 12:33 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:23 AM (VofaG)
I still like Jimmy Johns. To be fair, I have not tried Jersey Mikes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:34 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 02, 2025 12:26 AM (QSrLX)
And the bartender asks ‘ why didn’t you fly? ‘
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:29 AM (VofaG)
Brilliant! Go buy a quick pick!
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 02, 2025 12:34 AM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey
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And walk up to the jukebox and play Free Bird instead of Charlie Rich.
Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 12:36 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:36 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:34 AM (bss/y)
I like Firehouse Subs. I liked Quiznos the best but I think they are down to two stores in the country.
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:36 AM (VofaG)
By the way, this is my first day as homeowner. Dominion Day. I still have 5 beers left.
The animals are happy.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 12:05 AM (jvJvP)
Congratulations if you're still here.
You've inspired me to have a beer in your honor.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 02, 2025 12:36 AM (QGaXH)
Quick question for the horde. I saw this plier designed to remove the membrane on the back of ribs that looks handy. The Sherum Rib Pro or some such. Anybody try anything like that?
Posted by: The Ghost of PugBoo at July 02, 2025 12:37 AM (HueKi)
Worth the extra $ if you can find it. I get mine at Costco.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 02, 2025 12:38 AM (JFVnT)
I’m somewhat your neighbor in the Conroe area. Welcome back.
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:39 AM (VofaG)
Trump Says Israel Agrees To 60-Day Gaza Ceasefire, Urges Hamas To Accept
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Send them to Egypt or Allah.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 12:40 AM (UFztX)
You've inspired me to have a beer in your honor.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 02, 2025 12:36 AM (QGaXH
Dominion Day!
Have 6 beers!
Thank you.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 12:40 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:36 AM (VofaG)
Firehouse is good too. Their steak and cheese without green peppers is great.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:40 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 02, 2025 12:41 AM (JkO4W)
Posted by: The Ghost of PugBoo
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I just use a paper towel to help grip the membrane. Peels off easily once you can get ahold of it.
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 12:43 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:40 AM (bss/y)
Hah. That’s exactly how I order it at both Firehouse and Jersey Mikes.
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:44 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 12:29 AM (41CYW)
One of these days a Ukrainian commander is going to call for reinforcements, and be told that The Last Ukrainian reported for duty two weeks ago, and there won't be any more, ever.
The draft age for males is still 25. There are calls to lower the draft age to 18 and start drafting women, which would probably trigger the collapse of the government.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 02, 2025 12:44 AM (r6SF4)
Hey! Was just up there with the wife a couple of weeks back. We caught 46 catfish (Mostly channel but some blues) and one Bluegill.
Posted by: The Ghost of PugBoo at July 02, 2025 12:45 AM (HueKi)
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:46 AM (VofaG)
When you comment, I always feel so much dumber. Thanks.
Posted by: RickZ
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Have a kid with a brain that thumps like our friend publius. Never want to be in a room that those two jointly occupy - fast, curious, and in need a whiteboard.
Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 12:47 AM (41CYW)
We have an abundance of catfish restaurants. I do love fried catfish.
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:47 AM (VofaG)
He kind of short circuited on that for a second.
Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 02, 2025 12:26 AM (D7oie
When I was in Columbus, I brought stuff to a potluck and "Dave's Insanity Sauce" which is a million Scovilles.
I warned everyone. I brought it because they were all used to hot stuff. Some guy I never saw before comes along, dumps a lot of the Insanity sauce and eats before I noticed and could stop him.
Damn, my coworkers broke out laughing.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 12:49 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:46 AM (VofaG)
Dagwood's in Bloomington.
Oh God, it was so good. Bread - like actual bread. A loaf. Toppings piled high. Roast beef that was amazing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:49 AM (bss/y)
The SCO condemned recent Israeli strikes on Iran and called them a threat to international stability.
India did not sign
Later:
ts Defense Minister refused to sign the joint statement that was supposed to conclude last week’s meeting because the document didn’t condemn late April’s Pahalgam terrorist attack ...
This could be a breakaway. US better get on the stick and rustle up a good ally.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 12:50 AM (UFztX)
New Mexico Is The Most-Dependent State On The Federal Govt, New Jersey The Least
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Don't let CBD see this we'll never hear the end of it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 12:53 AM (UFztX)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 02, 2025 12:53 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 12:53 AM (1paM0)
Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 12:54 AM (41CYW)
The cause of the incident remains unclear at this time."
For once, it probably WAS the Jews to blame...
Posted by: azjaeger at July 02, 2025 12:55 AM (3/XaG)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 12:56 AM (1paM0)
Don't worry, calendar arithmetic is some of the most tedious and error prone calculations to do. Quick, what will be the date 1142 days from now? Or, quick, how many days since June 1, 1981 'till now?
If you try to write a program to do that, your first attempt will be very buggy. :-) And you'll fix them, and eventually reinvent that wheel, but it will be quick tedious.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 02, 2025 12:57 AM (w6EFb)
Oh God, it was so good. Bread - like actual bread. A loaf. Toppings piled high. Roast beef that was amazing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 02, 2025 12:49 AM (bss/y)
That sounded way better than Blimpies. Way better.
Posted by: polynikes at July 02, 2025 12:59 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 12:59 AM (LL6Kc)
How do you (or zerohedge) define “dependent”?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Should have included a link now I have to go back and look at the actual article. work, work, work no secretary either.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 12:59 AM (UFztX)
Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao ranks the states to see who benefits the most from the flows so readers can see the fiscal winners and losers at a glance.
Data for this visualization comes from MoneyGeek, which uses Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis figures.
https://tinyurl.com/4hvj5fa4
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 01:01 AM (UFztX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 01:02 AM (LL6Kc)
"I got my permit at 14"
I was in Belize with my 19-yr-old sons. We got around in tuk-tuks (golf carts, basically) provided by our hotel
The police wouldn't let my kids drive, even though they were 17 or 18 (I forget which), & both of them already had their U.S. DLs.
I've never forgotten that chickenzh*t!
Posted by: mnw at July 02, 2025 01:03 AM (kd60y)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 01:03 AM (UFztX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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*Drooling* The bread - central paver in the road to sammich awesomeness.
Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 01:04 AM (41CYW)
The $88 million satellite, called MethaneSAT, owned by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and backed by Jeff Bezos, was lost ten days ago...
No comment .... (snicker)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 01:07 AM (UFztX)
https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/tools/jday.htm
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 01:08 AM (1paM0)
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:12 AM (rdVOm)
How much you want to bet? Watermelons. Green on the Outside. Red on the Inside.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 02, 2025 01:16 AM (HpBvd)
Palestine Airways 1934
Years before Zionist occupation
https://tinyurl.com/64nxv2nr
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 01:16 AM (UFztX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 02, 2025 01:02 AM (LL6Kc)
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Quiznos was bought by a private equity firm that squeezed every last ounce of profit out of the franchisees. A major class action lawsuit by the franchisees ensued, but something like 90% of the stores were shuttered in the process.
The chain went from 4000+ stores at its height to a couple of hundred today.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 02, 2025 01:17 AM (JkO4W)
And who knows what in the hell their government does with that money.
Posted by: Case at July 02, 2025 01:17 AM (BXeMA)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 02, 2025 01:18 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: pjungwir at July 02, 2025 01:18 AM (q4wrI)
Those that can count and those that can't.
Posted by: Specto at July 02, 2025 01:19 AM (xlZjs)
And who knows what in the hell their government does with that money.
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IIRC, dinner at The French Laundry starts at $300/plate.
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:19 AM (rdVOm)
Not a fucking peep. The only possible conclusion is they are not too concerned about the “Environment”. Not enough to broach the subject. Why would that be, one wonders.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 02, 2025 01:20 AM (HpBvd)
What's up?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 01:03 AM (UFztX)
I am here, caught in a Ewetoob rabbit hole.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2025 01:20 AM (roA1L)
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Fucking Belize.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 02, 2025 01:20 AM (JkO4W)
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 01:21 AM (viF8m)
Thank you for the link! They don’t make it clear what the algorithm is: I would just look at how much they get back from the Feds vs. how much they pay in, on a per capita basis, but then they tie it in to Fed funding as a percent of state revenue! What has that got to do with it?! I remain perplexed.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 01:22 AM (1paM0)
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Simone "Full Of" Biles hardest hit. Hit so hard it went back in time to last Tuesday, blowing away her X account.
Posted by: Another Anon at July 02, 2025 01:23 AM (4h45B)
*A Caesar for you*
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:24 AM (rdVOm)
I've also been known to dip it in catsup.
Feel free to thrown yourselves on the floor and scream about it. I. Don't. Care.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 02, 2025 01:24 AM (un9MU)
The chain went from 4000+ stores at its height to a couple of hundred today.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 02, 2025 01:17 AM (JkO4W)
Friend of mine got into one right around that time. He had it for about a year, and realized he was putting in more hours than his previous 9-5 and making about 60% of the income. He was happy and relieved when he found a buyer for it..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 02, 2025 01:24 AM (bA75n)
Oh, hey! I'm here. I was off in some other tabs toting up expenses.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 01:25 AM (egH3D)
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:25 AM (rdVOm)
Now to catch up on the other comments again....
Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at July 02, 2025 01:26 AM (11+Pf)
I've also been known to dip it in catsup.
Feel free to thrown yourselves on the floor and scream about it. I. Don't. Care.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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No problem! Hell, by the time you cook bacon that much, all the flavor's gone anyway. May as well dip it in catsup.
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:27 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 02, 2025 01:27 AM (QSrLX)
Simone "Full Of" Biles hardest hit. Hit so hard it went back in time to last Tuesday, blowing away her X account.
Posted by: Another Anon
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No, Simone flounced from X? I'm sure she stuck the landing anyway.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 01:28 AM (egH3D)
The cat that isn't mine, Snowflake, is next to him. A foot away grooming herself.
I have 4 beers left.
I think I'm going to try to find out who the hell "Black Adam" was, why I never heard of him and why he was a movie.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 01:28 AM (jvJvP)
Ridiculous. Gen stupid doesn't even know what bathroom to use.
Toughpicks who code all day aren't taking over anything.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 01:32 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Ick. Sounds like work. Ready for a beverage?
*will slide your drink of choice down the bar, upon request*
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:33 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: exhibition stand build at July 02, 2025 01:33 AM (7Mbwa)
Ick. Sounds like work. Ready for a beverage?
*will slide your drink of choice down the bar, upon request*
Posted by: JQ
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Ick is right. It's work. Past ready for a beverage. Boilermaker, please. House bourbon and Adams anything.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 01:35 AM (egH3D)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 02, 2025 01:35 AM (aNeGK)
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Ok. Continence? I'll grant that. Heh.
Chastity?
Purity?
You're talking about... some generation(s) *after* the boomers, right?
Bwahahahaa! *wheeeze* Hahahahaha!!!!!
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:36 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
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JQ, you picking up a Club shift this Saturday?
Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 01:39 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: pjungwir at July 02, 2025 01:40 AM (q4wrI)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 01:41 AM (1paM0)
Bacon #4 looks tasty, I love when the fat gets that little golden crust on it, got a really soggy slice of bacon in a Bloody Mary one time, it was like bacon bubblegum, lots of chewing.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 02, 2025 01:43 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: scampydog
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Dunno, Doggo... Got fambly in town for a week (or more?) and everything is up in the air each day. Ugh, my youngest sibling is SO scatterbrained!
I will be as much virtual tarbender as possible, though. It's my only escape from this personal h3ll.
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:44 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 01:46 AM (1paM0)
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:47 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at July 02, 2025 01:48 AM (FFn+L)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 02, 2025 01:48 AM (1paM0)
If you make your own bacon, curing it with pink salt and smoking it to 150 degrees, then it is already twice done, and you can eat it at 0.
Posted by: pjungwir
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Curious how the cost compares to buying it at the store.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 01:48 AM (egH3D)
Unreal. CNN is now promoting an app which tracks the movement of ICE agents to warn illegals.
ICE agents face a 500% increase in assault and threats.
CNN knows exactly what they’re doing.
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James Woods@RealJamesWoods
To protect our law enforcement personnel, post “sightings” everywhere you can. Overwhelm this website.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 01:49 AM (UFztX)
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:51 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2025 01:53 AM (roA1L)
I will be as much virtual tarbender as possible, though. It's my only escape from this personal h3ll.
Posted by: JQ
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Ha. Similar here. We'll get it covered - we know how this works - the Horde always answers the bell. Enjoy your time with the fambly.
Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 01:53 AM (41CYW)
People need to go to prison
Senator Josh Hawley “What you're telling us is these big insurance companies went to a consulting firm, McKinsey, and asked them to design a program to help rip off policyholders?”
“That is correct, sir”
Josh Hawley “And that has that been successful? I mean, has their program been successful in ripping off policyholders?”
“It's been incredibly successful, sir. It is actually part of this systemic fraud that's occurring every day now.”
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Lot of nasty stuff going on. Goes back that question in the content; 'What the hell is the DOJ spending their time doing?'.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 01:55 AM (UFztX)
Posted by: scampydog
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Thanks, but it's anything *but* enjoyable...
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 01:55 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at July 02, 2025 01:55 AM (XwYdj)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 02, 2025 01:55 AM (WF/xn)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 01:57 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: JQ
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The Horde is here. Enjoyable! And full of vinegar.
Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 02:00 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at July 02, 2025 02:00 AM (XwYdj)
Fambly mean well, but are more hindrance than help, IYKWIM.
Love them. But they keep me from doing what needs to be done.
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 02:04 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: scampydog at July 02, 2025 02:07 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 02:07 AM (viF8m)
Palestine Airways 1934
Years before Zionist occupation
https://tinyurl.com/64nxv2nr
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 01:16 AM (UFztX)
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I'm assuming you know the answer.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 02, 2025 02:09 AM (SLJQR)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
I use this recipe, more or less: https://ruhlman.com/homemade-bacon/
The only material cost is the belly. I guess wood pellets/charcoal. And your time.
I gave away a lot of gallon ziplocks for Christmas last year and people said it was the best bacon they'd ever had.
Posted by: pjungwir at July 02, 2025 02:11 AM (q4wrI)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 02, 2025 02:11 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Kindltot- now with stupid, no longer germane socks at July 01, 2025 11:49 PM (D7oie)
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I'm beginning to wonder whether Trump and Powell are in cahoots with each other and Trump's "idiot Powell" rants are all a coordinated act.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 02, 2025 02:11 AM (SLJQR)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Great song, Jack! One of my favorites from way-back-when. Thank you.
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 02:17 AM (rdVOm)
Lot of nasty stuff going on. Goes back that question in the content; 'What the hell is the DOJ spending their time doing?'.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Which kind of insurance? (As if they're not all doing it, but I'm curious who's copping to it)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 02:19 AM (egH3D)
The answer is no.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 02:20 AM (viF8m)
I gave away a lot of gallon ziplocks for Christmas last year and people said it was the best bacon they'd ever had.
Posted by: pjungwir a
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Whenever I read something like this, I feel like I'm wasting my life.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 02:20 AM (egH3D)
I am a homeowner. And on vacation.
Hey, the dog is outside. Dominion Day. I have a 12 pack. 4 left.
I can tell you who Kraven is, Venom, sure, Madame Web...yes believe it or not. And I like DC!
I have seen plenty of DC.
But who the hell is Black Adam? Like seriously. I've watched a lot of DC over the years. Never, EVER, saw him.
Well back to the movie.
And last beers. Sigh
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 02:20 AM (jvJvP)
"We are only allowed to use the best ingredients." A proud franchisee told me when I first went in one.
I said "where do you get that?"
Proudly... "From blah blah company."
"Never heard of 'em. When did they corner the '"best ingredients" market?"
*confused "what did that asshole just imply" look.
I knew it was doomed from that point on. Probably 6 months later came the sporadic closures and decline in the menu. Then gone.
They were a draw buisness for an ice cream shop next door too and that closed soon after. I miss both.
I at one time toyed with the idea of becoming a franchisee of something and going it on my own.
I think the best deal I came across was a Papa Murphys take and bake pizza shop. The initial investment was high but the long term prospects were good. There did pop up one about where I wanted to go and it's off the hook busy.
Posted by: Reforger at July 02, 2025 02:25 AM (LgDgc)
The answer is no.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 02:20 AM (viF8m)
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Why can't Trump simply fire Powell? So I asked Grok. Good L-ord! They've created a monster!
https://tinyurl.com/2ewfu72h
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 02, 2025 02:25 AM (SLJQR)
This was caught sometime after Augustus took over, and he ordered it fixed. There were 3 extra leap days added, and he ordered 12 years to have no leap days to let it catch up.
Only problem is, historians aren't sure when this was actually done, but it was no later than 8 AD. So, they can't really be sure of any date before 8 AD using the proleptic Julian.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 02, 2025 02:27 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway
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That's my choice. #1 would be the least but I'll not pass.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:29 AM (UFztX)
Posted by: DKM at July 02, 2025 02:30 AM (cFehY)
Posted by: DKM at July 02, 2025 02:30 AM (cFehY)
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To comment again, please insert another quarter into you computer's USB slot.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 02, 2025 02:33 AM (SLJQR)
Ace is preposterously, laughably wrong about Oswald - demonstrably not stupid as he quickly picked up Russian and spoke it well enough to initially convince Marina that he was a native speaker. He supposedly committed the American crime of the century, but had no escape plan - couldn’t even drive a car. Before starting out on his great escape by hitching a ride on a bus, a cop found him coolly sipping a soda in the breakroom moments after the attack on the president. During a brief interview with reporters while in custody, the supposed passionate communist kook chose not to expound on the virtues of communism, but rather declared he was patsy.
Oswald was shot by an imposter. Just look at the pictures - that’s just not the same guy. Also look at all the people in the room who were in on it and contemplate the ramifications.
Posted by: anteatersrule at July 02, 2025 02:34 AM (2/gPo)
For heaven’s sake why has nobody called out Simone Biles for her obvious abuse of steroids? She has used so much that her face has been messed up. Compare her face with the faces of female bodybuilders. Steroid abuse might also explain with her flighty actions at the Olympic competitions and her simmering resentment towards the coaches.
I read “All the President’s Men” just to find out what Nixon did that was so terrible. The big reveal? He used government money to fund the plumbers’ legal defense. Of course, supporting the plumbers’ legal defense was completely legal and certainly not something so egregious that the President of the United States must resign his office. I am working on the theory that Nixon resigned because he was blackmailed - perhaps because of some connections to the JFK assassination.
Posted by: anteatersrule at July 02, 2025 02:36 AM (2/gPo)
Once the "contractor" (who was, evidently, in bed with the adjuster) sucked all the cash out of the job, parents were left with: a barely cleaned-up house & furnishings; valuables missing; shitty carpet that wasn't stretched properly; broken floor joists (from when contractor pried off fireplace brickwork in a huge piece, and refused to admit fault when it crashed down, lowering the floor by 2 inches)...
I'll stop there.
So, then insurance co. cancelled them & they scrambled to find a new carrier. JACKED RATES-- like they practically had to reimburse for what was paid out, regardless of the many thousands in premiums they had already paid over years and years.
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 02:36 AM (rdVOm)
Oswald was shot by an imposter.
Posted by: anteatersrule
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Wait, Oswald was shot by an imposter or the guy who was shot was not Oswald, but an imposter?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 02:37 AM (egH3D)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 02:38 AM (jvJvP)
I haven’t seen any comments on the East LA accent that the vice-mayor of Cudahy was using when she was calling for the LA gangs to confront the ICE agents. I have lived in the LA area near Cudahy and am familiar with that accent, although it doesn’t sound like a Mexican accent or like that of Cheech Marin’s character. To my ear the accent sounded genuine but is overly emphasized as if she was trying to display her bona fides as a East LA resident that had mingled with cholas. The accent did not give off the vibe of a serious, 40-something politician, but rather that of a preteen girl trying to sound like a cutsie Hispanic East Angelina.
Posted by: anteatersrule at July 02, 2025 02:39 AM (2/gPo)
Posted by: anteatersrule at July 02, 2025 02:36 AM (2/gPo)
I think Liddy was involved.
Posted by: Reforger at July 02, 2025 02:39 AM (LgDgc)
Insurance. Sounds great, until you actually file a claim.
Posted by: JQ
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We have a rule in our family. Just fix the damage yourself and don't let the insurance company know. You won't get your stuff fixed, and they'll jack up the rates. Just keep paying in case your entire house burns to the ground. That's the bet you're making.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 02:40 AM (egH3D)
Posted by: anteatersrule at July 02, 2025 02:39 AM (2/gPo)
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That's some pretty nice chaos.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 02:42 AM (egH3D)
Several insurance companies have faced scrutiny or investigations for practices aimed at increasing profitability at the expense of policyholders, often involving strategies like claim denials, delays, or underpayments. Below is a list of companies that have been highlighted in recent reports, legal actions, or public discussions for such practices, based on available information:
_ _ _ It's too long for here
Some of the companies: Allstate, •State Farm:•AIG:•Progressive:•Aetna (owned by CVS Health)•Elevance Health (formerly Anthem) and Humana:•Conseco and WellPoint:•USAA:
Here's the post:
https://tinyurl.com/mr3j8szy
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:42 AM (UFztX)
Ketanji Brown-Jackson (or whatever her name is). I read some commenters quoting excerpts of her dissent - those in which she used “....wait for it….” and “full stop”. Obviously, such sophomoric expressions are more appropriate for a snarky, not-so-imaginative commenter on a blog, not for a Supreme Court justice. I looked at the sentences accompanying those quotes and was struck by the substandard English and the poor, overly complicated sentence structure.
Posted by: anteatersrule at July 02, 2025 02:42 AM (2/gPo)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Yep.
Fk them.
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 02:42 AM (rdVOm)
I sometimes wonder if despite we know about how DC really people still get it.
When they couldn't bankrupt or toss Trump into prison they tried to assassinate. Twice. For you younger morons, this is not normal. It's not normal for us old fucks either but somehow many seem to pretend it is.
Leftists spent decades taking over this country to the point they allowed 20 million illegals at least to flood this country. They teach our kids that transgerism and all kinds of perverted sex shit is cool and nobody has done shit to stop them until Trump.
What is happening right now is much bigger than Powell. In the grand scheme he is a minor problem. He'll be gone soon enough without Trump getting impeached. Again.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 02, 2025 02:45 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mark at July 02, 2025 02:46 AM (gP8ie)
Posted by: anteatersrule at July 02, 2025 02:34 AM (2/gPo
I haven't hit paragraph 2. But I am happy you are here. Keep posting. I wanted to welcome you here.
There are so many better moron welcome members.
But you get me tonight.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 02:46 AM (jvJvP)
Wait, Oswald was shot by an imposter or the guy who was shot was not Oswald, but an imposter?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Brain blank, he went to jail because he wouldn't give up trump.
Behind the scenes operative. Tattoo of Ronald Reagan on his back.
Has a new book out on Who Shot Kennedy.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:47 AM (UFztX)
I found one of the KBJ quotes: “Simply stated, what it means to have a system of government that is bounded by law is that everyone is constrained by the law, no exceptions. And for that to actually happen, the courts must have the power to order everyone (including the Executive) to follow the law - full stop.” In standard English the word “it” should refer to something that the reader can identify, perhaps an action, a concept or an object. She should have used “bound” not “bounded” as flagged by my word processing program. I think “bounded” is used when writing about kangaroos. Sentences should not start with “And”. The overall sentence structure is not simple and elegant, Instead, the reader has to bear down a bit to get her meaning. Finally, she is arguing for something that pretty much everyone already agrees with. The issue is not whether the courts can order around the president. Rather, the issue is whether the courts can arbitrarily assign de facto class action status to a case before that court. Conclusion: midwit KBJ = SCOTUS. Me = bumbling lurker.
Posted by: anteatersrule at July 02, 2025 02:49 AM (2/gPo)
Posted by: JackStraw
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We fix the culture the culture fixes the budget.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:50 AM (UFztX)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 02:50 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 02:04 AM (rdVOm)
No, no they do not. You know what needs to be done, and you have the will to do so.
I found that out the hard way. Just do it. Be done. If there is fallout, it isn't on your head.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 02:54 AM (1Gsou)
Me dumbass bartender, not smarty political wonk.
That's ok. It takes all kinds, to make a community.
*retreats to far table & shuts mouth*
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 02:54 AM (rdVOm)
They are rabble-rousers speaking out against the law and inciting impressionable people break it. Incitement to riot is what they do.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:54 AM (UFztX)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 02, 2025 02:55 AM (hNiAS)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 02, 2025 02:54 AM (UFztX)
As it turns out, even the "progressives" think those two are idiots. Luckily.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 02:57 AM (1Gsou)
Thanks for that. I really need the courage to just f'ing DO IT!
Yeah, there's gonna be fallout. Oh, Lordy, there's gonna be plenty of hard feelings!
So what? I've been the do-er and the scapegoat for so fk'ing long... I've had it. I'm too old for this shit.
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 02:57 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 02:57 AM (rdVOm)
One thing you don't have to be is a victim. If they don't get it now, they will eventually. They WILL get over it. And they will be glad you did it and didn't leave it up to them to do.
Whatever it is.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 03:00 AM (1Gsou)
And on another note, Daniel Greenfield from "FrontPage " magazine is a wonderful writer . He and Ace are gifts to the blogosphere and they manage to be insert scathing humor into their political writing:
https://tinyurl.com/45x2755a
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 03:02 AM (2GCMq)
Some of the companies: Allstate, •State Farm:•AIG:•Progressive:•Aetna (owned by CVS Health)•Elevance Health (formerly Anthem) and Humana:•Conseco and WellPoint:•USAA:
Here's the post:
https://tinyurl.com/mr3j8szy
Posted by: Braenyard -
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Great, I'm in there three times! A former company and two current companies.
And with that, I must go. Phone call at 8:30 in the morning.
See you on the dayside, lurkers-no-more!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 02, 2025 03:04 AM (egH3D)
Thanks for that. I really need the courage to just f'ing DO IT!
Yeah, there's gonna be fallout. Oh, Lordy, there's gonna be plenty of hard feelings!
So what? I've been the do-er and the scapegoat for so fk'ing long... I've had it. I'm too old for this shit.
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 02:57 AM (rdVOm
I don't even know what's going on.
But I am so on your side.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 03:04 AM (jvJvP)
You are an ally in the fight for equity, and you are Boston’s Harriet Tubman,” Councilman Brian Worrell (D), the first second generation Jamaican immigrant, claimed. “Thank you for your service.”
History does not dwell on the time that Harriet Tubman got a kickback in the bathroom. That’s usually something Boston city council members do.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 02, 2025 03:06 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: tcn in AK
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The "it" in question, is the emptying and sale of our Dad's house. Youngest sibling has been guilt-tripping me to keep it, ever since Dad died, saying he 'needs more time' to get his own place so that he can get furniture & stuff that he wants out of there.
Fast forward: here we are, years later, and he *still* hasn't a pot or a window. Right now, he and his kid and dog are staying there for "a visit" -- a vacation, you might say, because ain't shit getting moved out or sorted through-- he's simply fucking off for a week, hiding out from his bitchy wife, and not having to pay for a hotel.
1/?
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 03:07 AM (rdVOm)
State Farm: I had insurance through then for over 30 years. My son, a miscreant, drove my car well over the limit through a stop light and got a hideous ticket for it. They called to cancel my car insurance. I told them to cancel the homeowners as well. Either you insure me or you do not. They still tried to charge me for homeowners and the camper. I told them to piss up a rope.
Trying Allstate. We shall see. They all kind of suck.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 03:08 AM (1Gsou)
Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 03:09 AM (kMh07)
1/?
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 03:07 AM (rdVOm)
List the house. Go in with "Got Junk" and clear it out. Nothing is worth that hassle. If he wants to go, he will. If not, have him removed.
Your folks' stuff is not worth the aggravation. Trust me on this. Did something very similar when my folks passed. Sisters be damned.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 03:11 AM (1Gsou)
Tons of fallout.
So sweet, I can be helpful. I'll figure out extra contact info if you ever want or need it.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 03:13 AM (jvJvP)
This winter and spring, when weather was cool, was when I planned to really get after it-- call for charity pick-up of furniture. Rent a dumpster. Hire movers for the furniture I want... etc etc.
But NOOOO-- hubby blasted into dementia and I tried to care for him at home until I couldn't anymore-- then all the trips to hospital and getting him into nursing home & all the extra dr. appts.
I'm... toast. PTSD?
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 03:14 AM (rdVOm)
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I have a claim in with Progressive. One of their policy holders rear-ended my car. They have refused to settle, say,' Hire a lawyer'.
I am now in the middle of two homeowner claims for post-storm roof repairs. Safeco. We'll see how it goes...still in the works. No insurance company has *any* interest in the well-being of the policy holders. They are profit-driven leeches.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2025 03:19 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 03:19 AM (rdVOm)
1/?
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 03:07 AM (rdVOm)
List the house. Go in with "Got Junk" and clear it out. Nothing is worth that hassle. If he wants to go, he will. If not, have him removed.
Your folks' stuff is not worth the aggravation. Trust me on this. Did something very similar when my folks passed. Sisters be damned.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 02, 2025 03:1
Sorry. Beer day. Dominion Day. My first day in the house that is now mine And the cat that is not mine is sleeping here on the bed by the dog.
I just went through this.
If any moron needs encouragement, contact me. I'm working on t.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 03:23 AM (jvJvP)
The DoJ was a good read. I like the nic that one of the monkey crush video perps chose: Sparkle Fancy Pants. https://tinyurl.com/568f9s9j
Also the church arson case where the perp stole some stuff before lighting church on fire, including 21 apples. For one thing, he had all of those apples stuffed in a backpack with some other things. For another thing, why apples? And why did the DoJ include the number of apples? https://tinyurl.com/5f7a4e8e
Posted by: H at July 02, 2025 03:26 AM (2gjbv)
Posted by: JQ
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[cracks bottle of Old Suntory. Pours off two fingers, slides glass down the chat to JQ]
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2025 03:27 AM (XeU6L)
Tired.
And my friend's cat Snowflake is sleeping on the bed right behind the dog.
Not my cat. That's funny.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 03:28 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 03:28 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2025 03:33 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 03:34 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 03:37 AM (jvJvP)
I'm OK. Just numb. The last few months wiped me out, and I'm certain you, especially, can relate!
Just when I think I can actually DO something on my list, some other shit happens that needs immediate attention instead.
Grr. Ugh.
Just putting out fires, one after the other.
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 03:40 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 03:48 AM (+qU29)
Grr. Ugh.
Just putting out fires, one after the other.
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 03:40 A
I am so going to figure out how to let you contact me when and if I sober up.
Nah. I'm good sober wise ....after checking spelling.
But there's a cat that's not mine in bed with the dog.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 03:54 AM (jvJvP)
I'm ok. Just disappointed in myself, that I didn't push harder and sooner, to get this crap done. Thought I'd give little bro some time to get his shit together. (What's a Big Sister for, right?) But I guess bro has different priorities, which are at odds with what *must* be done.
Hubby had been slipping for a couple years, but went downhill so rapidly this winter-- sudden and shocking to me-- it was a scramble to get him 'placed' and I've been still in a state of immobilizing shock for a while.
Coming up for air, finally, I think...
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 04:03 AM (rdVOm)
That is not to say that overdone bacon isn't worth eating.
Bacon is ALWAYS worth eating!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 04:05 AM (L5An7)
Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 04:06 AM (+qU29)
It really depends on the bacon's ultimate use.
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 04:09 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 04:17 AM (rdVOm)
I have 3.5 beers left.
I'm resting a bit.
When Ralphy became my dog; legally mine; in reality he was always Mom's dog, I would take him to the dog park, conveniently 90 seconds away!
I had Ralphy on a leash. I was a runner
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 04:21 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Ann ExPat at July 02, 2025 04:24 AM (eZywV)
Posted by: Ann ExPat at July 02, 2025 04:24 AM (eZywV)
The lack of tech, or the way in which the commenters interact?
I too am EST +6, in Paris. Where are you?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 04:26 AM (L5An7)
Posted by: Ann ExPat at July 02, 2025 04:24 AM (eZywV)
Being banned for commenting on old threads doesn't happen so quickly!
Posted by: m at July 02, 2025 04:27 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 04:29 AM (+qU29)
With a cat that's not ours next to him.
That's funny.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 02, 2025 04:29 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: m at July 02, 2025 04:29 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: m at July 02, 2025 04:30 AM (CQE5S)
I'm sure you'll find a *special someone* when the time is right.
For now? Let the dust settle. Get comfortable in your new situation. Love your critters. (yes, even the "not mine" cat! LOL)
You're gonna be alright!
Goodnight, greybox friend!
Posted by: JQ at July 02, 2025 04:30 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2025 04:30 AM (+qU29)
The French do wrap their filet mignon in either pork fat or beef fat and it really upgrades the experience.
Posted by: Ann ExPat at July 02, 2025 04:34 AM (eZywV)
Posted by: Ann ExPat at July 02, 2025 04:34 AM (eZywV)
Anduillette is foul.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 02, 2025 04:42 AM (L5An7)
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