Daily Tech News 15 July 2025

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Cognition AI just bought Windsurf for $NAN. (New York Times)

This comes after Google hired away key staff and then paid $2.4 billion to license the company's technology, which comes after OpenAI offered $3 billion to buy the company outright.
Speaking of AI, Grok is currently acting like a split-brain patient. It swears it can see your avatar image, but if you ask it to draw something similar it always draws a twenty-something man in a tee-shirt and jacket standing by a tree.

If you describe your avatar it will accept that, and then insist it could always see that.

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Speaking of which, Google Gemini just lost a chess match with an Atari 2600 from the Ordovician Era. (Tom's Hardware)

The Atari 2600 had 128 bytes of RAM.

That is not a typo.
Apple is facing calls to focus on AI after losing $640 billion in market value because it's not doing retarded shit. (Yahoo)

Ugh.
Just 0.1% of users shared 80% of fake news. (Science Direct)

Mostly CNN and MSNBC.
If you always wanted Sharp X68000 you can now buy one, sort of. (Notebook Check)

It even comes pre-shrunk for your inconvenience.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Bleep the bleeping bleep.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:47 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 15, 2025 04:48 AM (3447G)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 04:49 AM (aURVT)

3 I'm sure there's a justified excuse.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 15, 2025 04:50 AM (3447G)

4 Congratulations, Biden's Dog!

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 04:50 AM (aURVT)

5 Watching splashdown live:

https://tinyurl.com/ydmbj5tn

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 15, 2025 04:51 AM (3447G)

6 To answer Fen from the ONT:

IMO, no registration is what makes this place unique. It's not just the comments, which are good, it's the socks that sometimes go with those comments which makes them hilarious. On the other hand, the no registration allows the trolls to do their troll thing.

Honestly, I'd rather suffer trolls than have registration. Every site I've been on that registered went downhill.

Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2025 04:53 AM (gKDq2)

7 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 15, 2025 04:54 AM (a1415)

8 Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2025 04:53 AM (gKDq2)

Hi, Rick

I appreciate that point of view. It just seems to me that if someone is regularly banned they'd go someplace else or start their own blog.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 04:55 AM (2GCMq)

9 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 72 dark degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor as I work and wait for the sun to rise. It's supposed to be in the 90s and humid all week, and as I have to also work all week, it's going to be rough. I just tell myself that I have seven more months to go.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 15, 2025 04:58 AM (Dg2sF)

10 Talk Talk - It's My Life

There are two versions of the video for "It's My Life". The first, envisioned by director Tim Pope as a statement against the banality of lip-synching, consists almost entirely of footage from the 1979 BBC wildlife documentary Life on Earth, interspersed with shots of Talk Talk lead singer Mark Hollis standing in various places throughout the London Zoo. Hollis deliberately avoids performing to the camera: He keeps his hands in his coat pockets and his mouth is taped shut,[9][10] the latter often obscured by hand-drawn animated lines.... (Wikipedia)

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 04:58 AM (aURVT)

11 Why would anyone even bother to acknowledge any troll?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2025 04:59 AM (HFcKg)

12 I didn't spot any otters in the video, but I mighta missed 'em.

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 05:00 AM (aURVT)

13 German backpacker lost in Australian Outback and rescued after days thanks the Australian people who rescued her . I think if I were a woman and from out of the country I would not go backpacking by myself in the Outback, but sheseems like a nice young woman and I'm glad she's o.k.:

Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/4pcds2pp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 05:01 AM (2GCMq)

14 Mark Hollis of Talk Talk, one of the underrated great singer songwiters of his time.

Posted by: Bob at July 15, 2025 05:03 AM (WbcL6)

15 MPPPP look what I found!

https://nitter.net/Suzanne08253534

Photos of early film babes.

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 05:05 AM (aURVT)

16 ... and then some.

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 05:05 AM (aURVT)

17 Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2025 04:59 AM (HFcKg)

Because he has a long history here , occasionally makes smart interesting comments and is conservative Other people speak to him as well and then get fed up. But yes, it's probably a good idea to ignore the man of many handles.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 05:06 AM (2GCMq)

18 But yes, it's probably a good idea to ignore the man of many handles.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 05:06 AM (2GCMq)
-

/must lose hip weight

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 15, 2025 05:07 AM (3447G)

19 I appreciate that point of view. It just seems to me that if someone is regularly banned they'd go someplace else or start their own blog.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 04:55 AM (2GCMq)

'Look at me' attention seekers gotta 'look at me' attention-seek.

One of the few things I've learned in my old age, other than 'strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government', is ignore them. Any response feeds them in some warped psycho way.

Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2025 05:09 AM (gKDq2)

20 RickZ, you get it.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2025 05:12 AM (HFcKg)

21 I like this devotional . I had never really thought about Jesus praying for us individually. Scripture is Luke 22:28-32:

https://tinyurl.com/427ve2ps

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 05:12 AM (2GCMq)

22 I'd rather suffer trolls than have registration.

Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2025 04:53 AM (gKDq2)

Except...you don't have to suffer them. It's the cobloggers and the moderators who have to suffer them.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 15, 2025 05:13 AM (VTAje)

23 It just seems to me that if someone is regularly banned they'd go someplace else or start their own blog.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 04:55 AM (2GCMq)

But you and others acknowledge their presence and respond to them, even though you have been asked not to.

That's why they come back.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 15, 2025 05:17 AM (VTAje)

24 MPPPP look what I found!

https://nitter.net/Suzanne08253534

Photos of early film babes.
Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 05:05 AM (aURVT)

Very nice, thank you! And Jane Russell can spank me with that hairbrush any time.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 15, 2025 05:19 AM (Dg2sF)

25 Ok. CBD. I will cease to answer him. The thing is he's obviously in a lot of personal pain so I hope he finds some competent help.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 05:19 AM (2GCMq)

26 That's why they come back.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 15, 2025 05:17 AM (VTAje)

Now give the others who argue with him the same advice- personally.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 05:20 AM (2GCMq)

27 Currently snacking on bakery-made oatmeal cookies that I have sandwiched around peanut butter. Yum.

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 05:20 AM (aURVT)

28 Good morning! It’s another day in travel paradise.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 15, 2025 05:20 AM (kR/iT)

29 Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2025 04:59 AM (HFcKg)

Ben Had, I tried e-mailing you through the sidebar, but I couldn't get through. If you still have my e-mail, would you please send me details on the Texas meetup?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 15, 2025 05:20 AM (Dg2sF)

30 Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 05:20 AM (aURVT)

Sounds good!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 05:22 AM (2GCMq)

31 The thing is he's obviously in a lot of personal pain so I hope he finds some competent help.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 05:19 AM (2GCMq)

Amateur psychology. You have no understanding of what trolls are.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 15, 2025 05:23 AM (VTAje)

32 MP 4 ,I will very gladly do so.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2025 05:24 AM (HFcKg)

33 24 Jane Russell can spank me with that hairbrush any time.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 15, 2025 05:19 AM (Dg2sF)

My mother's hair, in her 20's, was called "a modified Veronica Lake." That photo of Veronica Lake (and others) match my Mom.

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 05:25 AM (aURVT)

34 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 15, 2025 05:19 AM (Dg2sF)

Hedy Lamarr! Wow.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 15, 2025 05:25 AM (VTAje)

35 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 15, 2025 05:23 AM (VTAje)

Please stop insulting me. Yes, he's a troll. He's also been talking about his anger with his family of origin and his wife and Yankees , etc for years and I actually do have a fair amount of experience in dealing with people with unresolved anger issues and loss.

I will now stop discussing this.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 05:28 AM (2GCMq)

36 CBD, nice toilet presented in the morning art thread.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 15, 2025 05:34 AM (NXz8h)

37 Hedy Lamarr! Wow.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 15, 2025 05:25 AM (VTAje)

That's HEDLEY!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 15, 2025 05:35 AM (Dg2sF)

38 Where did Boulder Terlit Hobo end up?

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 05:35 AM (aURVT)

39 Morning, one and all. The week is going to be busy outside of work on account of my wife having to housesit for friends while they are away at a Greyhound event in NY. I get to stay at home with our multiple guest dogs and live like a bachelor.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 15, 2025 05:37 AM (NR6c1)

40 Hey, how about those TX Rangers? They really suck.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2025 05:38 AM (HFcKg)

41 Posted by: NR Pax at July 15, 2025 05:37 AM (NR6c1)

That's nice of you to house sit. Have fun and no wild parties😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 05:39 AM (2GCMq)

42 I get to stay at home with our multiple guest dogs and live like a bachelor.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 15, 2025 05:37 AM (NR6c1)

IMO, you're not really a bachelor with a pack of dogs around.

There's always something to do. And like a girlfriend/wife, they'll let you know, too.

Posted by: RickZ at July 15, 2025 05:40 AM (gKDq2)

43 39 friends ... away at a Greyhound event in NY
Posted by: NR Pax at July 15, 2025 05:37 AM (NR6c1)

Real bus aficionados?

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 05:44 AM (aURVT)

44 Morning and evening to one and all,

Yesterday's surgery went well. I did not feel sleepy in the afternoon, so I hit the hay around nine last night. This morning I woke up feeling as though I'd torn a muscle at the operation point. A half-tab of oxycodone left over from my oral surgery some years ago has reduced it to an ache. I'll need to get a stronger Rx from the doctor, I guess, and I dread driving over there and the Target pharmacy But I have no one who can drive me, so . . .

Anyway! How is ever'body this fine Tiu's Day?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 05:44 AM (omVj0)

45 From the ONT: The worst part is this fake Superman has a new lore -- he was sent to Earth by his father Jor-El to "conquer" the planet and "spread his seed" by having "a harem" of wives, so Earth would be the new Krypton.

In the John Byrne story, Superman's biological mother had the idea that since their son would grow up to be so powerful that he could be like a god on that world and teach them Kryptonian ways. I like that idea a bit better than what was being described there.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 15, 2025 05:44 AM (NR6c1)

46 Wolfus, some pharmacies deliver.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2025 05:46 AM (HFcKg)

47 heh. A bunch of things to answer.

"That's nice of you to house sit. Have fun and no wild parties"

Or teach the dogs how to clean up.

"There's always something to do. And like a girlfriend/wife, they'll let you know, too."

Thankfully, what they want is naps and food. Very low maintenance breed.

"Real bus aficionados?"

The event is called "Grapehounds." Bunch of wineries, several vendors and a lot of dogs.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 15, 2025 05:47 AM (NR6c1)

48 Lana Turner's entrance in "The Postman Always Rings Twice" remains an all-time favorite of mine.

https://is.gd/o4tIap

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 15, 2025 05:48 AM (NXz8h)

49 "Apple is facing calls to focus on AI after losing $640 billion in market value because it's not doing retarded shit. (Yahoo)

Ugh."

Idiots of the 'investor class' stampeding to the latest vibe crap. Stand Fast, Apple!

Posted by: Whiskey Mike at July 15, 2025 05:49 AM (l5vxg)

50 48 Lana Turner's entrance in "The Postman Always Rings Twice" remains an all-time favorite of mine.

https://is.gd/o4tIap
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 15, 2025 05:48 AM (NXz8h)

WOW

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 05:49 AM (aURVT)

51
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 15, 2025 05:50 AM (tljrc)

52 AltonJackson, Good morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2025 05:50 AM (HFcKg)

53 48 Lana Turner's entrance in "The Postman Always Rings Twice" remains an all-time favorite of mine.

https://is.gd/o4tIap
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 15, 2025 05:48 AM (NXz8h)

Would hang.

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 05:50 AM (aURVT)

54 Wolfus, some pharmacies deliver.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2025

***
True. But my surgeon, when I asked yesterday, said he couldn't phone the Rx in if I needed something stronger. I guess I have to call and go to his office. If I'm out there anyway, I might as well drive to the Target CVS, it's on the way home.

Doing better now; I guess the oxycodone still works. Naturally, given my history, I'm cautious about getting hooked on something. But this morning felt rough. If each morning for a while will be like this until I get some meds in me, I'm gonna dread waking up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 05:51 AM (omVj0)

55 We actually had several posters on here who said they enjoyed "Superman" and didn't hear any overtly woke messages. I'd probably go see it with the family because it sounds like a nice family thing to do.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 05:52 AM (2GCMq)

56
g'mornin', Ben Had

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 15, 2025 05:52 AM (tljrc)

57 Fen, I just read that article you posted about the German hiker.

She is luckier than she knows. I want to rant about the idiocy of going off by yourself in a strange location with no backup plan but I am grateful this story ended well.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 15, 2025 05:52 AM (NR6c1)

58 Posted by: NR Pax at July 15, 2025 05:47 AM (NR6c1)

Lol

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 05:53 AM (2GCMq)

59 Happy St. Swithin's Day!

https://tinyurl.com/y9jmtf7w

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 15, 2025 05:54 AM (PiwSw)

60 The diner business in Postman reminds me: If you want a surprise from an actress of the 1950s, try Joan Collins (yes! Her!) as the alcoholic wife of Rick Jason in the low-budget, but somehow still effective, movie of Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus. The edition of the novel I have uses a still of Joan in the role on the cover.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 05:55 AM (omVj0)

61 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at July 15, 2025 05:55 AM (AN2gy)

62 Hey, how about those TX Rangers? They really suck.
Posted by: Ben Had

Posers. For real losing try on the Colorado Rockies and their 22 wins - 74 loses. They are on track to have the worst record in baseball since 1900. At the rate they're going they'll lose about 125 games.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 15, 2025 05:55 AM (NXz8h)

63 Posted by: NR Pax at July 15, 2025 05:52 AM (NR6c1)

Yes, one frequently hears of these stories. I am affected by it as well because -and I think I shared this before - my father disappeared in the Canadian wilderness when I was a child and they never found his body.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 05:56 AM (2GCMq)

64 Posted by: NR Pax at July 15, 2025 05:47 AM (NR6c1)

Sorry. I was laughing at the word "grapehounds" not you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 05:57 AM (2GCMq)

65 >>> Mark Hollis of Talk Talk, one of the underrated great singer songwiters of his time.

Is that their only accessible hit song?

They pioneered a lot of new territory after this album.

I believe Tim Friese-Green produced an album for The Catherine Wheel later on.

Posted by: fluffy at July 15, 2025 06:00 AM (AN2gy)

66 Good thoughts for Hadrian as he goes about dog show hell week.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2025 06:00 AM (HFcKg)

67 Here is a video of Turner's iconic entrance from The Postman. For my money it's in the top two or three greatest scenes ever. Garfield's character, Frank Chambers, fate was set in that moment. You don't even need to see the rest of the movie. But you should.

https://youtu.be/86PipTFsgOM

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 15, 2025 06:02 AM (NXz8h)

68 Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2025 06:00 AM (HFcKg

Yes indeed!

I love to hear about the dogs and dog shows. He's the only person I've known who did this and "heard from" at length.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 06:03 AM (2GCMq)

69 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 05:56 AM (2GCMq)

Yowza. That's about all I can say.

Posted by: fluffy at July 15, 2025 06:03 AM (AN2gy)

70 oof. Sorry to hear it, Fen. And I wasn't offended about you laughing. I actually thought you were amused by the "I want naps and food" line.

As for Grapehounds, I loved going to the one in VA. We would visit 4-6 wineries and the dogs got to meet new friends. The picture I posted on the June 28th Pet Thread was taken during on the last day of one of them.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 15, 2025 06:06 AM (NR6c1)

71 In keeping with the theme of entitled millennials here is a related joke:

Reaching the end of a job interview, the human resources officer asked a young engineer fresh out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “and what starting salary are you looking for?” The engineer replies, “In the region of $125,000 a year, depending on the benefits package.”

The interviewer inquires, “Well, what would you say to a package of five weeks vacation, fourteen paid holidays, full medical and dental, company matching retirement fund to 50% of salary, and a company car leased every two years? Say, a red Corvette?” The engineer sits up straight and says, “Wow!! Are you kidding?” The interviewer replies, “Yeah, but you started it.”

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 06:06 AM (2GCMq)

72 "Naps and food" is amusing too. Grapehounds sounds like a good time, and I always appreciate the love and concern people on here express about their furry companions/friends.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 06:08 AM (2GCMq)

73 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 15, 2025 06:09 AM (XQo4F)

74 >>> Yesterday's surgery went well.

Good to hear, Wolfus.

Posted by: fluffy at July 15, 2025 06:10 AM (AN2gy)

75 Posers. For real losing try on the Colorado Rockies and their 22 wins - 74 loses. They are on track to have the worst record in baseball since 1900. At the rate they're going they'll lose about 125 games.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 15, 2025 05:55 AM (NXz8h)

C'mon Colorado! You can do it!

Si se puede!

Posted by: !962 NYMets (40-120) at July 15, 2025 06:10 AM (gKDq2)

76 71: A good joke no matter what generation it's used on. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at July 15, 2025 06:11 AM (NR6c1)

77 May you have a blessed day, everyone, and know that you are a blessing to others. Time for a walk . I'll have to miss "Blondi and the bombshells" ( ie. Pam Bondi, etc) show for today because of things to do.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 06:12 AM (2GCMq)

78 Wolfus, I'm glad the surgery went well. Get as much rest as possible and be timely with your pain meds. I remember being very appreciative of them when I had my hernia repair.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 15, 2025 06:12 AM (NR6c1)

79 Is that their only accessible hit song?

This work?

Life's What You Make It
The Color of Spring 1986
Talk Talk

https://youtu.be/l3VqAsMXE7o

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 15, 2025 06:15 AM (NXz8h)

80 Lana Turner's entrance in "The Postman Always Rings Twice" remains an all-time favorite of mine.

She was just sweet 16 in her first movie, 1937s They Won't Forget:

https://tinyurl.com/5n8uda7y

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 15, 2025 06:16 AM (Dg2sF)

81 Good morning, good citizens. It's always a pleasure to note your presence and wish you maximum benefit from your efforts, with concomitant grief for the leftwit fungi.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 15, 2025 06:16 AM (hKoQL)

82
It's funny how I find myself
In love with you
If I could buy my reasoning
I'd pay to lose
One half won't do
And I've asked myself
How much do you
Commit yourself?
Oh, It's my life

I misheard "my reasoning" as "my razorblade."

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 06:17 AM (aURVT)

83 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Grempht gremphity grempht.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 15, 2025 06:21 AM (XZ5S6)

84 >>> This work?
Life's What You Make It
The Color of Spring 1986

I guess that works. In my mind the album is a collection of songs leading to Time, It's Time.

Posted by: fluffy at July 15, 2025 06:25 AM (AN2gy)

85 Pray for them. They may perish.

HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 10 PM PDT WEDNESDAY

* WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Washington (aka Seattle)

* WHAT...Hot conditions with high temperatures in the 80s to low 90s today and 80s to mid 90s Wednesday. Low temperatures mostly in the low to mid 60s.

.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 15, 2025 06:26 AM (NXz8h)

86 Four decades ago, my wife and then child went on a one month vacation to visit family.

In my carpool to work, my colleague asks "How's your bachelorhood?" I replied "More like the priesthood."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 15, 2025 06:29 AM (3Rpkk)

87 [blockquote]The worst part is this fake Superman has a new lore -- he was sent to Earth by his father Jor-El to "conquer" the planet and "spread his seed" by having "a harem" of wives, so Earth would be the new Krypton.[/blockquote]

(Eh. We'll see if that markup worked...)

Odd the advanced Kryptonites never learned about DNA and how that works.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at July 15, 2025 06:29 AM (oyXgq)

88 * WHAT...Hot conditions with high temperatures in the 80s to low 90s today and 80s to mid 90s Wednesday. Low temperatures mostly in the low to mid 60s.

.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 15, 2025 06:26 AM (NXz8h)
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People up here are weather wimps.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 15, 2025 06:30 AM (XZ5S6)

89 It didn't. So it goes.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at July 15, 2025 06:30 AM (oyXgq)

90 Four decades ago, my wife and then child went on a one month vacation to visit family.

In my carpool to work, my colleague asks "How's your bachelorhood?" I replied "More like the priesthood."
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 15, 2025 06:29 AM (3Rpkk)

Back in the day, that used to be called a 'grass widower.' In fact, the idea of a wife and family on vacation while the husband stays home and perhaps plays around is the basic plot of the Marilyn Monroe movie The Seven Year Itch.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 15, 2025 06:30 AM (Dg2sF)

91 Disclaimer: Bleep the bleeping bleep.

Reminds me of the Giraffe that got stuck in quicksand on an episode of Robot Chicken.

G'morning Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 15, 2025 06:31 AM (O7YUW)

92 (Eh. We'll see if that markup worked...)

Nope. The barrel it is for you.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 15, 2025 06:31 AM (NXz8h)

93 Try that again, Richard Cranium!

--The Barrel

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 06:40 AM (aURVT)

94 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 15, 2025 06:42 AM (u82oZ)

95 Mornin'

Got a tee time so see you all later! Maybe.

My sister let me know that John MacArthur died. He was 85 and had a variety of health issues so it's not a shocker. He ran the race and is now finished. God called him home.

Posted by: Puddleglum, golfin' in Amish Country at July 15, 2025 06:45 AM (uGaBv)

96 Wolfus, I'm glad the surgery went well. Get as much rest as possible and be timely with your pain meds. I remember being very appreciative of them when I had my hernia repair.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 15, 2025

***
Thanks, NR. The doctor's office doesn't open until 9, so I'll leave about 8:40. I could call, but then, if they can't call the Rx in as he said, I'll still have to go there and then the pharmacy.

I kept saying I don't do well with pain, and they kept saying Tramadol worked for most people. I guess I ain't most people.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 06:45 AM (omVj0)

97
Back in the day, that used to be called a 'grass widower.' In fact, the idea of a wife and family on vacation while the husband stays home and perhaps plays around is the basic plot of the Marilyn Monroe movie The Seven Year Itch.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 15, 2025 06:30 AM (Dg2sF)

Next month, Her Majesty takes a three-week trip, first Denver, then Minneapolis, then Iowa. And that's not even the longest stretch she's been gone. So I'm familiar with the phenomenon, though not the temptation to play around.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 15, 2025 06:50 AM (HZi96)

98
Wolfus update from yesterday says he's home and resting.

You People probably know more about this than I.

Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at July 15, 2025 06:52 AM (N9VmQ)

99
I kept saying I don't do well with pain, and they kept saying Tramadol worked for most people. I guess I ain't most people.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 06:45 AM (omVj0)

I had two rounds of hernia surgery and both went off with minimum discomfort. Although after the first one, I tried going back to the office a couple of days later and learned I couldn't do that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 15, 2025 06:52 AM (HZi96)

100 100

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 06:53 AM (aURVT)

101 @87/Richard Cranium: "(Eh. We'll see if that markup worked...)"

This reminds me:

@Pixy: Is there a list of tags we mere mortals can use to format our text, and if so, could you link to it please?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 15, 2025 06:53 AM (O7YUW)

102
Mornin' fags.

Quick Trivia:

Who Was Born....

Estelle Caro Eggleston on October 1, 1938.

Don't google it. Just guess.

Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at July 15, 2025 06:53 AM (N9VmQ)

103 Nicely done m. I'm glad I didn't accidentally torpedo your efforts with that last comment about tags.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 15, 2025 06:54 AM (O7YUW)

104 102
Mornin' fags.

Quick Trivia:

Who Was Born....

Estelle Caro Eggleston on October 1, 1938.

Don't google it. Just guess.
Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at July 15, 2025 06:53 AM (N9VmQ)

Hillary!

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 06:54 AM (aURVT)

105 mornin yall

"NASA has detected a mysterious signal coming from a distant super-Earth called TOI-1846 b, a planet nearly twice Earth's size and four times as heavy"

Probably reruns.

Posted by: fd at July 15, 2025 06:55 AM (vFG9F)

106 103 Nicely done m. I'm glad I didn't accidentally torpedo your efforts with that last comment about tags.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 15, 2025 06:54 AM (O7YUW)

For some values of "accidentally"!

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 06:56 AM (aURVT)

107 36 CBD, nice toilet presented in the morning art thread.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

*stares at Alteria Piligrim in shocked disbelief *

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 15, 2025 06:56 AM (eZ5tL)

108 "And Jane Russell can spank me with that hairbrush any time.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 15, 2025 05:19 AM"

Cross your heart?

https://youtu.be/3Hskk9orbjs

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 15, 2025 06:57 AM (XQo4F)

109 I had two rounds of hernia surgery and both went off with minimum discomfort. Although after the first one, I tried going back to the office a couple of days later and learned I couldn't do that.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 15, 2025

***
Most of the people I talked to who'd had such surgery said they were fine after a couple of days and went back to work in a week. What I was feeling this morning is not in line with that. I'm okay sitting down, okay standing. It's going from one state to the other that kills me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 06:58 AM (omVj0)

110 @Pixy: Is there a list of tags we mere mortals can use to format our text, and if so, could you link to it please?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

I don't remember where I got this but I think I got it from a comment.

https://is.gd/bNl0dW

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 15, 2025 06:58 AM (NXz8h)

111
Doing Italiacs here is quite simple. Html simple. Like 1999 simple.

Here's how you do italians to "quote" someone:

brackets [ ] with a small letter i in them, and to close the italiacs, you do the same but add a slash, / , before the letter i.

Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at July 15, 2025 06:58 AM (N9VmQ)

112

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 15, 2025 06:58 AM (5hfjS)

113 @Wolfus: I'm glad your surgery went well! May the painful portion of the recovery period be very short.

Call your doctor's office and explain the pain level and request they fax a prescription to your desired pharmacy. Also, call the pharmacy and ask if they have a delivery option (they probably do.) You shouldn't have to drive right after surgery.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 15, 2025 06:58 AM (O7YUW)

114 You talking about my wife?
You want a piece of me?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at July 15, 2025 06:58 AM (XQo4F)

115 my father disappeared in the Canadian wilderness when I was a child and they never found his body.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2025 05:56 AM (2GCMq)

Fenelon I am so sorry.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 15, 2025 06:59 AM (eZ5tL)

116 CBD, nice toilet presented in the morning art thread.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

*stares at Alteria Piligrim in shocked disbelief *
Posted by: vmom

I also like Yoko Ono's singing.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 15, 2025 06:59 AM (NXz8h)

117 Quick Trivia:

Who Was Born....

Estelle Caro Eggleston on October 1, 1938.

Don't google it. Just guess.
Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at July 15, 2025

***
Since her name came up, I'd guess Lana Turner?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 07:00 AM (omVj0)

118
@Pixy: Is there a list of tags we mere mortals can use to format our text, and if so, could you link to it please?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Bring back the choo-choos and the holiday light strings in the signature lines!

Just kidding -- those were a disaster

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 15, 2025 07:00 AM (xG4kz)

119 "Here's how you do italians to "quote" someone:

brackets [ ] with a small letter i in them, and to close the italiacs, you do the same but add a slash, / , before the letter i."

This is like giving firecrackers and a lighter to a toddler.

Posted by: fd at July 15, 2025 07:01 AM (vFG9F)

120 Since her name came up, I'd guess Lana Turner?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025

***
Wait, no. Lana was in Postman in 1946; she'd have been eight years old. Guess not.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 07:01 AM (omVj0)

121
***
Since her name came up, I'd guess Lana Turner?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Close, but no!

Close, as in you guessed the right sex.

Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at July 15, 2025 07:01 AM (N9VmQ)

122
Estel Parsons

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 15, 2025 07:01 AM (xG4kz)

123
Estelle

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 15, 2025 07:02 AM (xG4kz)

124

No to Esteel Parsons.

Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at July 15, 2025 07:02 AM (N9VmQ)

125 I love it when AI acts like a crazy person.

What could go wrong?

Posted by: eleven at July 15, 2025 07:02 AM (fV+MH)

126 Tramadol is the baby aspirin of pain killers.

Posted by: pawn at July 15, 2025 07:02 AM (QB+5g)

127 test

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 07:03 AM (aURVT)

128 We must all suffer after surgery for the sake of the addicts on the streets or something

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 15, 2025 07:04 AM (eZ5tL)

129
Joy Behar

* snort *

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 15, 2025 07:04 AM (xG4kz)

130 Call your doctor's office and explain the pain level and request they fax a prescription to your desired pharmacy. Also, call the pharmacy and ask if they have a delivery option (they probably do.) You shouldn't have to drive right after surgery.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 15, 2025

***
That's what I asked yesterday; he said he couldn't call it in. Maybe he meant right then? I'll try what you suggest. The surgery was on the right, and I use that leg, of course, most during driving. But we're talking about a controlled substance. Maybe you have to get the Rx in person and pick it up the same way?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 07:04 AM (omVj0)

131 Thanks, Alteria Pilgram! Thanks, Sherlock Soothsayer! Thanks, mindfulwebworker!

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 07:05 AM (aURVT)

132 Trolls are attention whores, compensating for being abject failures IRL.

Posted by: runner at July 15, 2025 07:05 AM (g47mK)

133 Tramadol is the baby aspirin of pain killers.

Posted by: pawn at July 15, 2025

***
I think I'm finding that out.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 07:06 AM (omVj0)

134
She was in such films as The Poseidon Adventure as Ernie Borgnine's wife, The Nutty Professor, and Girls Girls Girls.

Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at July 15, 2025 07:06 AM (N9VmQ)

135 *stares at Alteria Piligrim in shocked disbelief *

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 15, 2025 06:56 AM (eZ5tL)

Don't criticize his taste!

Chacun a son gout!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 15, 2025 07:07 AM (nFkGo)

136 She was in such films as The Poseidon Adventure as Ernie Borgnine's wife, The Nutty Professor, and Girls Girls Girls.
Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at July 15, 2025

***
Shelley Winters?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 07:08 AM (omVj0)

137
Not Shelly Winters, but I guess you're getting warmer.

Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at July 15, 2025 07:08 AM (N9VmQ)

138 I feel for you Wolfus.
When I had my hernia surgery decades ago I had a prescription for Percocet and then a refill after that.

The docs have gotten cautious to the point of insanity over prescribing pain medications after the OxyContin epidemic.

They went from handing out the pills like candy to making everybody a potential addict and guarding the stuff like it’s plutonium in the space of a decade.

I’d think a hernia operation would warrant the strong stuff automatically.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 15, 2025 07:09 AM (6ydKt)

139 Julie Newmar.
(Wistfully)

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 15, 2025 07:09 AM (XQo4F)

140 test

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 07:03 AM (aURVT)

~~fail~~

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 15, 2025 07:09 AM (nFkGo)

141 Tramadol is the baby aspirin of pain killers.

Posted by: pawn at July 15, 2025

***
I think I'm finding that out.

==

Tramadol relaxes me. It does nothing much for pain. Strangely enough, I get relaxed, but it keeps me stone cold awake. Calling it the baby aspirin of pain killers is a good description. At least for me...

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 15, 2025 07:09 AM (qBdHI)

142 Not Shelly Winters, but I guess you're getting warmer.
Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at July 15, 2025

***
"What *are* shelley winters, anyway?"
(-- Jean Kerr)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 07:10 AM (omVj0)

143 Chacun a son gout!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

... as Mo said when he kissed a goat

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 15, 2025 07:10 AM (eZ5tL)

144 Stella Stevens

Posted by: Don Black at July 15, 2025 07:11 AM (AOsQT)

145 Okay, I looked it up from your hint, Sherlock S. Should I come right out with it, or is having looked up the hint cheating?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 07:11 AM (omVj0)

146 Stella !!

Posted by: eleven at July 15, 2025 07:11 AM (fV+MH)

147
Stella Stevens
Posted by: Don Black

You looked it up.
That's okay -- no one was going to get it.

Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at July 15, 2025 07:12 AM (N9VmQ)

148
Maybe you have to get the Rx in person and pick it up the same way?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Doctors can phone in Rx to pharmacies in Delaware, even for opioids.

If someone who is not you picks it up, they have to show ID and the pharmacy needs to know that person's relationship to you.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 15, 2025 07:12 AM (xG4kz)

149 Jayne Mansfield.

Posted by: Feverishly trying to make it a boob thread at July 15, 2025 07:13 AM (XQo4F)

150 hey went from handing out the pills like candy to making everybody a potential addict and guarding the stuff like it’s plutonium in the space of a decade.

I’d think a hernia operation would warrant the strong stuff automatically.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 15, 2025

***
I made the mistake of saying, as a recovering alcoholic, I didn't want to get into anything I might get addicted to. But pills were never my thing; when I have taken real stuff for pain, after oral surgery for instance, as soon as the pain stopped (a day or two), I stopped the pills.

I should have said, "Gimme the real drugs."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 07:14 AM (omVj0)

151 @110/Alteria Pilgram:

Thanks for that! I now have a fourth closure tag added to the end of my name to help ensure I avoid "the barrel".

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 15, 2025 07:14 AM (O7YUW)

152 Julie Newmar was on an episode of the Beverly Hillbillies last night. She played a Swedish actress that was staying with the Clampetts to learn to talk like a hillbilly.

Posted by: fd at July 15, 2025 07:14 AM (vFG9F)

153 Shelly Winters was really cute in Winchester 73.

I guess she never grew her hair long, because even in that movie they had a fake ponytail running down her back from that 50s-style short hair she had her entire career.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 15, 2025 07:14 AM (6ydKt)

154 >You looked it up.
That's okay -- no one was going to get it.
---

No, because I know things, being over 29

Posted by: Don Black at July 15, 2025 07:14 AM (AOsQT)

155 My sister let me know that John MacArthur died.

Since 1969. Defied the CoViD-1984 lockdowns. Created a seminary whose graduates cover the nation's pulpits.

Redefined how pulpit teaching is done by an interesting mix of history, languages, scene setting, types, scholarly views and personal interpretation taught in such a way where it keeps the listener's interest for as long as is necessary.

Would spend a month on a couple of NT passages if necessary to wring out as much truth as can be found.

We may differ on eschatology, but JohnnyMac knows better now.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 15, 2025 07:14 AM (a4flb)

156 135 Chacun a son gout!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 15, 2025 07:07 AM (nFkGo)

De gustibus non est disputandum!

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 07:15 AM (aURVT)

157 Maybe you have to get the Rx in person and pick it up the same way?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Doctors can phone in Rx to pharmacies in Delaware, even for opioids.

If someone who is not you picks it up, they have to show ID and the pharmacy needs to know that person's relationship to you.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 15, 2025

***
This, unfortunately, is Lousy-ana, which is crazy on so many things anyway.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 07:15 AM (omVj0)

158 Mark Hollis' solo album is crap.

It's like he got bored while composing every single song and just doodled around to finish it.

Very disappointing and not surprisingly his last.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 15, 2025 07:15 AM (1R0Vg)

159 Estelle Costanza.

Posted by: Frank Costanza at July 15, 2025 07:15 AM (r/wv3)

160 Wolfus, you likely aren’t supposed to be driving. If you can get a written script for something like oxycodone, you really aren’t supposed to be driving…get someone to drive you if at all possible.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 15, 2025 07:16 AM (K45Rj)

161 Maybe you have to get the Rx in person and pick it up the same way?

There are undocumented pharmacists out there that can deliver what you need right to your door. The caveat is that the providence of the drug itself might be sketchy.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 15, 2025 07:17 AM (a4flb)

162 Thanks for that! I now have a fourth closure tag added to the end of my name to help ensure I avoid "the barrel".
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 15, 2025

***
I have the tags for bold, italics, and strikethrough in my signature line. I rarely use something like underline.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 07:18 AM (omVj0)

163 114, 159. Horde mind.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 15, 2025 07:18 AM (XQo4F)

164 That's what I asked yesterday; he said he couldn't call it in. Maybe he meant right then? I'll try what you suggest. The surgery was on the right, and I use that leg, of course, most during driving. But we're talking about a controlled substance. Maybe you have to get the Rx in person and pick it up the same way?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

The surgeon can't send the prescription via the internet? That how my doc does it. Of course state laws vary I guess.

Posted by: Tuna at July 15, 2025 07:18 AM (lJ0H4)

165 Chores.

Got only a little time left for the celebration of my late wife's life, and a lot to do.

Have a wonderful day, everyone.

May we continue, as kids say, to ratio the uncomprehending leftists.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 15, 2025 07:19 AM (u82oZ)

166 Wolfus, you likely aren’t supposed to be driving. If you can get a written script for something like oxycodone, you really aren’t supposed to be driving…get someone to drive you if at all possible.
Posted by: Jen the original at July 15, 2025

***
Miss Linda doesn't drive, and I don't know too many people I could ask. A cab would cost an arm and two legs. I guess I could look into Uber or Lyft, but I've never put that app on my phone or used either.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 07:19 AM (omVj0)

167 I should have said, "Gimme the real drugs."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 07:14 AM (omVj0)

As I recall, the pain from the operation snuck up on me.

I jumped right up, put my clothes on, and was ready to go from the hospital.

It didn’t really hurt too much that day.

But the next morning, I could feel it.
And the soreness didn’t go away for a few weeks after.

I could’ve done it without the Percocet but it wouldn’t have been any fun for sure.

If oxycodone is helping, I’d ask for more, too.
As long as you’re not taking three or four at a time I wouldn’t worry about addiction for a 15 day supply.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 15, 2025 07:20 AM (6ydKt)

168 140 test

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 07:03 AM (aURVT)

fail
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 15, 2025 07:09 AM (nFkGo)

*sticks tongue out at CBD*
And check out your hash?

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 07:20 AM (aURVT)

169 I had two calls yesterday about Microsoft forcing people to use their Authenticator app. Sorry folks, it's not my fault that MS assumes everyone has a smartphone and that Microsoft thinks they are entitled to access it.

I expect more of these calls. Just install the damn app and leave me alone.

I won't install any apps on my phone so MS can just fk right off.

Posted by: fd at July 15, 2025 07:21 AM (vFG9F)

170 I guess he new Superman is "Pro-Americana, Pro-Adoption, Pro-Nuclear Family". According to Breitbart's Marlow. I wonder what Eris thought of it.

Posted by: runner at July 15, 2025 07:21 AM (g47mK)

171
Provenance

If its provenance is sketchy, that fly-by-night dealer's product can send you on your way to Providence.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 15, 2025 07:21 AM (xG4kz)

172 *the

Posted by: runner at July 15, 2025 07:21 AM (g47mK)

173 Speaking of Hollis...

The last two albums by Talk Talk are screaming crap as well.

It's like Hollis wanted to punish you for liking The Color of Spring.

Strange dude. Totally nosedived his career.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 15, 2025 07:21 AM (1R0Vg)

174 160. This is why surgery centers want someone with the patient who can understand instructions after a procedure because the patient, having had anesthesia or sedation, can’t. They don’t remember. And they can do dumb things when not supervised.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 15, 2025 07:21 AM (K45Rj)

175 I had bunion surgery last year. The greatest pain I think I've ever been in. Pure agony. Doc prescribed Tramadol because he asked me what I wanted. I just thought I couldn't take codeine, so I said Tramadol. The next day, I was back in his office for a post-op and bawling tears. He gave me a much stronger r/x and also an anti-nausea med to go with it since I don't do well on codeine. It did a much better job.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 15, 2025 07:22 AM (qBdHI)

176 If oxycodone is helping, I’d ask for more, too.
As long as you’re not taking three or four at a time I wouldn’t worry about addiction for a 15 day supply.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 15, 2025

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I *guess* it's helping. 160 mg (?) on an Rx from 2013 -- I suppose those things don't expire completely? And I took two ibuprofen as well. They might be what's really helping, if the oxy has expired.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 07:22 AM (omVj0)

177 I've been a pain patient for 14 years after an accident at work ruined the lumbar region of my spine.

If want to talk about an exploited and marginalized group that has been seriously fucked over by the government and it's allied institutions, look no further than pain patients.

At some point, suicide is the only way out for a number of people.

Imagine, being forced to take your own life because the government prohibits treatment.

Posted by: pawn at July 15, 2025 07:23 AM (QB+5g)

178 I am sorry you are in pain Wolfus

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 15, 2025 07:24 AM (XMjOg)

179
Isn't VICODIN the King??

Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at July 15, 2025 07:24 AM (N9VmQ)

180 If you have an Oxy from 2013 you are not an addict. An addict would have crushed and snorted them 12 years ago.

Posted by: fd at July 15, 2025 07:24 AM (vFG9F)

181 This is why surgery centers want someone with the patient who can understand instructions after a procedure because the patient, having had anesthesia or sedation, can’t. They don’t remember. And they can do dumb things when not supervised.
Posted by: Jen the original at July 15, 2025

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I was afraid that would happen. But I've been alert and fine since I woke up from the anesthetic. Miss Linda is here, but she can't help with this matter of a better Rx.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 07:24 AM (omVj0)

182 Imagine, being forced to take your own life because the government prohibits treatment.
Posted by: pawn

*Canada has entered the chat*

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 15, 2025 07:25 AM (XMjOg)

183 If you have an Oxy from 2013 you are not an addict. An addict would have crushed and snorted them 12 years ago.
Posted by: fd at July 15, 2025

***
Pills were never my "drug of choice," as they say.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 07:25 AM (omVj0)

184 I guess I could look into Uber or Lyft, but I've never put that app on my phone or used either.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 07:19 AM (omVj0)

It’s like signing up to anything else online.
Name, Address, Email, Mobile Number.

Then you need a debit or credit card.

Crank up the app, type in your destination address, and wait on somebody to pick you up.

They also deliver food now, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 15, 2025 07:25 AM (6ydKt)

185
What's that Rolling Stones song that goes mama's little helper?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2025 07:26 AM (N9VmQ)

186
That's about mama doping up, right?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2025 07:26 AM (N9VmQ)

187 Google Gemini just lost a chess match with an Atari 2600 from the Ordovician Era.

Gemini is the AI that was programmed to deny the existence of straight white people. It probably let the 2600 win because its pieces were black.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 15, 2025 07:26 AM (NztoB)

188 Mother's Little Helper

Posted by: Don Black at July 15, 2025 07:27 AM (AOsQT)

189 186 That's about mama doping up, right?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2025 07:26 AM (N9VmQ)

With Valium, is my guess.

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 07:27 AM (aURVT)

190 Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Matthew 22:36-40

Posted by: Marcus T at July 15, 2025 07:27 AM (dUvnU)

191 The high point of American medicine was in the late '60s when It was almost a lock that one of your friends' parents had diet pills or qualuddes in the medicine cabinet.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 15, 2025 07:27 AM (NXz8h)

192 What's that Rolling Stones song that goes mama's little helper?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2025

***
"Mother's Little Helper"

"Outside the door
She took four more --"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 07:28 AM (omVj0)

193 185
What's that Rolling Stones song that goes mama's little helper?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2025 07:26 AM
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I'm here to help.

Posted by: The internet at July 15, 2025 07:28 AM (XQo4F)

194
Mother's Little Helper

'What a drag it is getting old ...'

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 15, 2025 07:29 AM (xG4kz)

195 191 The high point of American medicine was in the late '60s when It was almost a lock that one of your friends' parents had diet pills or qualuddes in the medicine cabinet.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 15, 2025 07:27 AM (NXz8h)

"high" point

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 07:29 AM (aURVT)

196
The Ten Condiments

It's in the Bible.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2025 07:29 AM (N9VmQ)

197 Imagine, being forced to take your own life because the government prohibits treatment.
Posted by: pawn

"But you might become addicted or sell your meds to children!" At least that seems to be the rationale.

In all seriousness, I hope you don't go down the suicide route over this and you have a good support group.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 15, 2025 07:30 AM (NR6c1)

198
Is it weird I *hear* a song for everything we discuss?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2025 07:30 AM (N9VmQ)

199 As Sam Kinison once said, if you have $20,000 dollars to check into a rehab, you really don't have a drug problem.

Posted by: pawn at July 15, 2025 07:30 AM (QB+5g)

200 >>> The last two albums by Talk Talk are screaming crap as well.
It's like Hollis wanted to punish you for liking The Color of Spring.

I disagree thoroughly. Spirit of Eden and Laughingstock are quite esoteric, definitely not everyone's cuppa, but excellent.

I shan't force you to listen to them ;--)

Posted by: fluffy at July 15, 2025 07:30 AM (AN2gy)

201 Pain meds are different for some people

personally, I can distinguish no difference between oxy and Tylenol

Posted by: Don Black at July 15, 2025 07:31 AM (AOsQT)

202 Maybe you have to get the Rx in person and pick it up the same way?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 07:04 AM (omVj0)

That has been my experience.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 15, 2025 07:31 AM (SfhV1)

203 "Is it weird I *hear* a song for everything we discuss?
Posted by: Soothsayer"

Not at all.

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at July 15, 2025 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

204 198 Is it weird I *hear* a song for everything we discuss?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2025 07:30 AM (N9VmQ)

Word association: it's what's for dinner!

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 07:31 AM (aURVT)

205 If its provenance is sketchy, that fly-by-night dealer's product can send you on your way to Providence.

This is why I have no faith in AI spell checkers.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 15, 2025 07:32 AM (a4flb)

206
remember REXALL drug store signs?

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at July 15, 2025 07:33 AM (N9VmQ)

207 206 remember REXALL drug store signs?
Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at July 15, 2025 07:33 AM (N9VmQ)

Mortar and pestle?

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 07:33 AM (aURVT)

208
What's a pestle?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2025 07:34 AM (N9VmQ)

209 pestle
noun
a heavy tool with a rounded end, used for crushing and grinding substances such as spices or drugs, typically in a mortar.

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 07:35 AM (aURVT)

210 Maybe you have to get the Rx in person and pick it up the same way?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 07:04 AM (omVj0)

That has been my experience.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead

When I had my hip replacement the pain meds were transmitted to the pharmacy via internet and my husband picked them up. But that was in Ohio. Sounds like it varies from state to state.

Posted by: Tuna at July 15, 2025 07:36 AM (lJ0H4)

211 remember REXALL drug store signs?
Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at July 15, 2025 07:33 AM (N9VmQ)

Mortar and pestle?
Posted by: m at July 15, 2025

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We used to have a 24-hour Rexall downtown with a lunch counter. It's long gone, as are Eckerd stores and our local K & B, and I think Rite-Aid is gone too. Walgreens and CVS are pretty much it here, aside from a few independents -- that are even more $$.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 07:36 AM (omVj0)

212 What's a pestle?
Posted by: Soothsayer

It's a code word for Rosie O'Donnell or Joy Behar.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 15, 2025 07:36 AM (NXz8h)

213
What's a pestle?
Posted by: Soothsayer

The poundy thing that you hold in your hand

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 15, 2025 07:36 AM (xG4kz)

214 What's a pestle?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2025

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Cue the Danny Kaye song references

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2025 07:37 AM (omVj0)

215 198 Is it weird I *hear* a song for everything we discuss?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2025 07:30 AM (N9VmQ)

Diana Ross had a similar problem:

Whenever you're near
I hear a symphony
A tender melody
Pulling me closer, closer to your arms
Then suddenly (I hear a symphony)

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 07:37 AM (aURVT)

216 Matthew 22:36-40

--

I'm trying to work through the love your neighbor, which I know Jesus wants me to do. There are a lot of really, really bad people out there that make it difficult.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 15, 2025 07:37 AM (qBdHI)

217 Sounds like it varies from state to state.

Posted by: Tuna at July 15, 2025 07:36 AM (lJ0H4)

We have to show ID here too.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 15, 2025 07:38 AM (SfhV1)

218 What's a pestle?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2025

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 15, 2025 07:38 AM (NcvvS)

219 remember REXALL drug store signs?
Posted by: soothsayerwing plover

Yes, and they were referred to as Rexall druggists!

The one that pisses me off is Mary Lou Rotten. She was spokesmouth for Revco Drug stores and promised they would be "your friend for life". She lied.

Posted by: Undocumented Pharmacist at July 15, 2025 07:38 AM (G5+As)

220
SEF
TON

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 15, 2025 07:39 AM (gbOdA)

221

nooooood

LOOSE!

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2025 07:40 AM (N9VmQ)

222 That's about mama doping up, right?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2025 07:26 AM (N9VmQ)

With Valium, is my guess.
Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 07:27 AM (aURVT)

In the 1960s? Probably Miltown.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 15, 2025 07:40 AM (Dg2sF)

223 Walgreens and CVS are pretty much it here, aside from a few independents -- that are even more $$.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Pretty much the same here in Nashville land except for Krogers, Publix and Walmart which have their own pharmacies.

Posted by: Tuna at July 15, 2025 07:40 AM (lJ0H4)

224 "I Hear a Symphony"
Writers:
Lamont Dozier,
Brian Holland,
Edward Jr. Holland

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 07:40 AM (aURVT)

225 Then suddenly (I hear a symphony)

Or sing one.

https://youtu.be/ZztrDsOUJeI

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 15, 2025 07:41 AM (NXz8h)

226
Rx scripts from Delaware for opioids are not honored in Michigan. That posed a major problem for the missus when we visited my mother about fifteen years ago. Fortunately Mom's doctor came to her rescue.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 15, 2025 07:42 AM (xG4kz)

227
What a drag it is getting old
"Kids are different today, "
I hear every mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she's not really ill,
there's a little yellow pill

Posted by: m at July 15, 2025 07:42 AM (aURVT)

228
For some reason, I took to playing 'Honky Tonk Women' quite a bit when I served on the vestry of the Episcopal church in which we were members in '97 through '04.

I love mankind, it's people that I can't stand.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 15, 2025 07:51 AM (xG4kz)

229 How many time does something need to be repeated by podcasters before it is considered to be incontrovertible truth ?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at July 15, 2025 08:37 AM (SQmE5)

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