First World Problems...

Today is the last day of The Tour de France, and it is routed right around the corner from my apartment! If you haven't seen professional cyclists ride, it is an absolutely amazing thing. They ride really, really, fast! And because there is a climb just a mile and a half or so up the street around Sacré-Cœur, they will probably be bunched up, which makes it even more exciting.

Of course there are hundreds of pedestrian barriers all over the neighborhood, and where they have been placed is quintessentially French. Not neatly along the curb. Not stacked at the corners ready for deployment on Sunday morning. No...they are lined up in no particular plan, in no particular place! Like...blocking off 75% of the walkway across the main road. Or splitting the sidewalk neatly in two.

They do similar things around street construction, but the best is at the airport. 7:00am, and the barriers leading to immigration are fully deployed, as if they are expecting 5,000 people instead of a few hundred. So back and forth and back and forth and back and forth, about 30 times. It takes far longer to walk the maze than to clear customs.

And we wonder why we had to bail them out twice in 25 years?

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM

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Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 02:01 PM (+qU29)

2
Looks like Our Favorite President(tm) reached a deal with the Idiots of EU. It's a big deal.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 02:03 PM (3TbF6)

3 Could I guess good socialist central planning ? And make sure your government workers have a job spreading barriers if needed of not.

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 02:03 PM (+qU29)

4 first post problems

Posted by: DaveA at July 27, 2025 02:03 PM (FhXTo)

5 no e-bikes allowed ...

it must be on YouTube, have to check.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 27, 2025 02:04 PM (vbXSk)

6 And we wonder why we had to bail them out twice in 25 years?
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I have never wondered once I learned sone French history.

Cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
/there I said it

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025 02:04 PM (JvZF+)

7 Krauts are regimented and orderly, at least.

Posted by: Goose Step Is The New Step... at July 27, 2025 02:04 PM (G5+As)

8 So if you can't do a Fourierre transform they tow your car?

Posted by: Rob Crawford at July 27, 2025 02:06 PM (+c1W2)

9 CBD fart in the riders general direction

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 02:06 PM (hIY2p)

10 Fwance, ey?

I fart in your general direction.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 02:06 PM (sTuNG)

11 Willowed:

One of my firm beliefs is that the most important job of any gov't is protecting the lives of their populace. And wreaking vengeance upon anyone/any country/any organization that decides to murder American citizens esp en masse.

It still chaps my rear that Saudi and Emirate royalty involved in the 9/11 massacre of American citizens are still above ground enjoying life and laughing.

The Israelis have the right idea of hunting down and killing all responsible for Munich and Oct 7.

And it whether or not the Saudis are allies or not. You don't get a free murder of American citizens.

They should be kidnapped, shot in the head and dropped in the Marianas Trench to rot.

Same for any other a-holes like them.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2025 02:06 PM (iJfKG)

12 Great morons think alike!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 02:06 PM (sTuNG)

13 OT NY Post is reporting that the US has reached a massive trade deal with the EU . They are going to buy a lot of our oil and LNG, amongst other things

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 02:08 PM (hIY2p)

14 So, who is in the lead?

C'est Joxe!
Non. C'est Marchand!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 02:09 PM (4STJb)

15 Hooray for Greg Le Mond , former several time American winner of the Tour de France, and unlike Lance Armstrong, had no doping scandals associated with his wins.

Hope everybody stays safe. Don't know when they end today, but maybe they already have.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 02:09 PM (2GCMq)

16
If only the Maginot Line was arranged like the French immigration line barriers.

Hitler would still be trying to reach Paris.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2025 02:09 PM (iJfKG)

17 My FWP - I had two biscuits for breakfast and they were so big, I couldn't finish them.

Pro tip: Stop by Bad Biscuits when visiting Hilton Head. Not to be missed.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2025 02:10 PM (6WCwE)

18 I don't understand anything in that sign. It's like the French have a different word for everything.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 27, 2025 02:10 PM (2UnvF)

19 RAGBRAI (Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa) ended last night. This year, it went across the northern third of the state. Because there are no towns that can handle RAGBRAI along the Big Sioux River, the ride had to start far "inland." And to make up for the decreased mileage of the first day, the route went through Minnesota.

That's right. The Iowa bike ride had to borrow some Minnesota road.

Posted by: pookysgirl, rolling her eyes at July 27, 2025 02:11 PM (Wt5PA)

20 A few years ago there were stories about the number of professional riders who were dying because of the effects of blood doping. Too much and your blood starts having the consistency of jelly, leading to strokes and heart attacks

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 02:13 PM (hIY2p)

21 13 OT NY Post is reporting that the US has reached a massive trade deal with the EU . They are going to buy a lot of our oil and LNG, amongst other things
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 02:08 PM (hIY2p)

A serious LNG export capacity from PA to the coast could supply the Euros whatever they need. Make Pittsburgh into Dubai.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 27, 2025 02:13 PM (pIfcn)

22 Duke not to mention it's July 2025 not 2025 July

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 02:14 PM (+qU29)

23 14 So, who is in the lead?

C'est Joxe!
Non. C'est Marchand!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 02:09 PM (4STJb)

Mellow Johnny.

Posted by: That's what I remember from Lance Armstrong's book at July 27, 2025 02:14 PM (PiwSw)

24 Laissez-faire signage placement.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2025 02:15 PM (Q4IgG)

25 "So back and forth and back and forth and back and forth, about 30 times. It takes far longer to walk the maze than to clear customs."

I walk with a cane and get routed around all that waiting in Europe. Strangely not so much in the U.S.

We flew into to Paris one time and there was an enormous line for immigration. An airport employee guided me around it and said, "Sorry for all the Chinese".

Posted by: javems at July 27, 2025 02:15 PM (8I4hW)

26 It still chaps my rear that Saudi and Emirate royalty involved in the 9/11 massacre of American citizens are still above ground enjoying life and laughing.
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We know, right?

Posted by: Angela Davis snd Joanne Chesimard at July 27, 2025 02:16 PM (JvZF+)

27 CBD, did you see Ofer Caleron ride by?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 02:16 PM (HFcKg)

28
Eurofaggot fake news asks a very, very stupid fake "question" about epstein:

https://is.gd/R8JBZv

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 02:16 PM (3TbF6)

29 @13

>>OT NY Post is reporting that the US has reached a massive trade deal with the EU . They are going to buy a lot of our oil and LNG, amongst other things

Well, the US is the number one country for energy production of both LNG and Petroleum products, it also f**ks Russia, so, it's a two-fer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 27, 2025 02:17 PM (XV/Pl)

30 Duke not to mention it's July 2025 not 2025 July
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 02:14 PM (+qU29)
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They can't even denote time normally.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025 02:18 PM (JvZF+)

31 I just read an article about Greg LeMond in "Cycling" Magazine. Sounds like he's a good, quite determined guy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 02:19 PM (2GCMq)

32 Trump: no more federal funding for windmills.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2025 02:20 PM (qpyNK)

33 > Eurofaggot

Either "Euro" or "faggot" should be sufficient.

"Eurofaggot" is redundant.

Posted by: AoSHQ Grammar and Usage Police at July 27, 2025 02:21 PM (qpyNK)

34 Touch this wire.
Does it make you tingle?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 02:23 PM (WAasH)

35
Speaking of stupid windmills...

Did You People see this recent blunder?

https://is.gd/LYUfn3

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 02:24 PM (3TbF6)

36 They're Frogs.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 02:24 PM (0sNs1)

37 Pas de cuisson sous vide autorisée

Posted by: The sign CBD really doesn't want to see at July 27, 2025 02:25 PM (PiwSw)

38
Wait, there's more Windmill Menace!

This happened a month ago in Maryland:

https://is.gd/vBBnrq

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 02:26 PM (3TbF6)

39
Q: Why are the streets of Paris lined with trees?

A: So the Germans can march in the shade.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2025 02:26 PM (XQo4F)

40 Australia has jailed a man for holding up a blank protest sign outside the Chinese embassy (the blankness was to make a point about censorship).

Posted by: AoSHQ Grammar and Usage Police at July 27, 2025 02:29 PM (qpyNK)

41 "Trump no more federal funding for windmills.

We can't afford them.

Posted by: Case at July 27, 2025 02:30 PM (ilX37)

42 32 Trump: no more federal funding for windmills.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2025 02:20 PM (qpyNK)

+++++

President Trump bestows us with gifts, even on a Sunday.

Posted by: washrivergal at July 27, 2025 02:31 PM (bIius)

43 End funding for Ethanol while you are at it

Posted by: A dude in MI at July 27, 2025 02:32 PM (/6GbT)

44 I still contend WW1 ended France

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 02:32 PM (+qU29)

45 Australia has jailed a man for holding up a blank protest sign outside the Chinese embassy (the blankness was to make a point about censorship).

Posted by: AoSHQ Grammar and Usage Police

We want ________ and we want it now! If we don't get some _________ we're going to start busting heads!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 27, 2025 02:32 PM (L/fGl)

46 Eaglekiller windmill don’t transport themselves.

Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2025 02:33 PM (jgmnb)

47 Speaking of stupid windmills...

Did You People see this recent blunder?

https://is.gd/LYUfn3
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 02:24 PM (3TbF6)

Ten bucks says AI was the major planner of the route, not someone from PennDOT who knew the area or that there was a low clearance bridge.

Oh, and note that the driver was never interviewed. Another ten bucks says he doesn't sepak English.

Posted by: pookysgirl will take quatloos as well at July 27, 2025 02:33 PM (Wt5PA)

48 So a blank sign in front of the Australian government building has no chance, or Australia just in the pocket of China like many of our government officials

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 02:34 PM (+qU29)

49 @40

>>Australia has jailed a man for holding up a blank protest sign outside the Chinese embassy (the blankness was to make a point about censorship).

That's fascism at a meta level.

The Anglosphere is dying and I don't think anything can prevent it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 27, 2025 02:35 PM (XV/Pl)

50
Again, the most important quote of the day:

President Trump today on fake "wind" "energy": "You need subsidy for wind. And Energy should not need subsidy: with Energy you make money, you don't lose money."

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 02:36 PM (3TbF6)

51 Love Sacré-Cœur. One of my favorite spots in Paris.
Sadly last time I was there I almost had a heart attack climbing the steps. (The same steps at the end of John Wick 4).

Fantastic view of Paris up there. Was blessed to have a bright sunny day.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 27, 2025 02:40 PM (Jm6kM)

52 So a blank sign in front of the Australian government building has no chance, or Australia just in the pocket of China like many of our government officials
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 02:34 PM (+qU29)
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There is this moment in the movie Colossus where they start to comply with the computer's demands and begin executing people.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025 02:40 PM (JvZF+)

53 Touch this wire.
Does it make you tingle?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 02:23 PM (WAasH)

Yes!

Posted by: Chuck at July 27, 2025 02:41 PM (0eaVi)

54 Willowed, but it's "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead", not "Raisuni".

Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 02:42 PM (mADJX)

55 Now, this is a first world problem.

A transgender father induced puberty in his three-year-old daughter after she was exposed to his synthetic estrogen

https://is.gd/9AxkB7⁷

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 27, 2025 02:42 PM (L/fGl)

56 You just don't understand the Latin/Gallic mind, CBD. Beauty and chaos trumps order any day.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 02:44 PM (3L6ac)

57 C'est la vie!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day. at July 27, 2025 02:45 PM (NFX2v)

58 Hi friends! My first world problem is my cat has a sore on his chin but he won’t let me look at it closely. He is acting fine, and it’s probably from one of their WWE wrestling matches, but I would like to be sure. Taking Savannahs to the vet is a lot, they are really, really bad. The little helmet things they have for cats are too small for them, so we avoid the vet if we can help it. I don’t think the vet cares, either because they sound exactly like the monster under the bed when there and it scares everyone!

Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2025 02:46 PM (pZEOD)

59
A serious LNG export capacity from PA to the coast could supply the Euros whatever they need. Make Pittsburgh into Dubai.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here

_________

Not benefiting: upstate New York.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 02:46 PM (HZi96)

60 Need to stop funding this crap like windmills and high speed railroads. It's all just a waste of tax dollars going into some political pockets.

Posted by: Case at July 27, 2025 02:47 PM (ilX37)

61 So a blank sign in front of the Australian government building has no chance, or Australia just in the pocket of China like many of our government officials
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 02:34 PM

And who is China in the pocket of?

Posted by: Big Penguin at July 27, 2025 02:47 PM (0sNs1)

62
Australia has jailed a man for holding up a blank protest sign outside the Chinese embassy (the blankness was to make a point about censorship).

___________

Remember: it's America that's threatened with an authoritarian government.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 02:49 PM (HZi96)

63 WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!

EPA Expected to Declare Greenhouse Gases Not Harmful

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 27, 2025 02:49 PM (L/fGl)

64 13 OT NY Post is reporting that the US has reached a massive trade deal with the EU . They are going to buy a lot of our oil and LNG, amongst other things
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Not the same deal as his prior administration, the very same that the Podesta crowd haulted when the Potato rolled in?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day. at July 27, 2025 02:50 PM (NFX2v)

65 Pull the wind farms waivers for killing eagles and other birds. Hit them with the exact same fines as other industries get if they inadvertently kill a protected species.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2025 02:51 PM (4rENN)

66 >>>President Trump today on fake "wind" "energy": "You need subsidy for wind. And Energy should not need subsidy: with Energy you make money, you don't lose money."
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Profound thought simply said but they don't understand.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 02:51 PM (I7b3/)

67

lol @ "greenhouse" gasses

The idea that we created a "greenhouse" effect around the planet is hilarious. Yeah, it's called The Atmosphere, and we had nothing to do with its creation.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 02:52 PM (3TbF6)

68 53 Touch this wire.
Does it make you tingle?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 02:23 PM (WAasH)

Yes!
Posted by: Chuck at July 27, 2025 02:41 PM (0eaVi)
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😆 Bravo on the callback.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 02:52 PM (3L6ac)

69
I deleted my Substack account. Someone whose writing I enjoy posts there, but otherwise the people there are long-form wacky.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 02:53 PM (HZi96)

70 My latest first world problem came about because of a fit of OCDness. I have made it a point to have nearly all my monthly bills come due on the 1st of the month.

The exception that bugs me to no end is the Youtube TV bill that hits my credit card on the 27th. I ended up with this date when I miscalculated when the free trial ended when I first signed up. I know, I can see you mentally nodding in agreement: calendars are complicated.

With resolve steeled I canceled YTTV on 6/27 and gutted it out until 7/1 when I would resubscribe. Welp, when I went to do that I got hit over the head with a 21 free trial with no option to just sign up.

With much grumbling I resolved to gut it until 7/11 which would cause all this to work out perfectly. Welp, when I went subscribe on 7/11 I got hit over the head with 10 free trial with no option to just sign up. I had no words.

With clenched jaw I resolved to gut it until 7/22 which would cause all this to work out perfectly. Remarkably it finally did but at the cost me missing several NASCAR and F1 races, UFC fights, the British Open, and MLB games. I know, I can see you mentally nodding in agreement: such scars will take time to heal.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 27, 2025 02:53 PM (NXz8h)

71 >>> 63 WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!

EPA Expected to Declare Greenhouse Gases Not Harmful
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 27, 2025 02:49 PM (L/fGl)

Gotta love how the commies Persist in their framing.

I wonder how many greentards are aware of the minimum level of CO2 in the atmosphere required to sustain plant life (they *are* all good little vegans, right?), let alone the approximate current level.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 27, 2025 02:54 PM (ULPxl)

72 I've been inside a couple greenhouses. They stink. Is that the gas they're talking about? Ass gas?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2025 02:54 PM (Q4IgG)

73 More of a Second World Problem, given that this is Mexico, but one of a set of two female Siamese twins has gotten married. They share a set of lady parts, but apparently only the one who just married gets any sensation from them -- the other one is essentially asexual. She's okay with the marriage, though.

Thoughts?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2025 02:54 PM (qpyNK)

74 >>> 65 Pull the wind farms waivers for killing eagles and other birds. Hit them with the exact same fines as other industries get if they inadvertently kill a protected species.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2025 02:51 PM (4rENN)

Excellent!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 27, 2025 02:55 PM (ULPxl)

75 59
A serious LNG export capacity from PA to the coast could supply the Euros whatever they need. Make Pittsburgh into Dubai.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here
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Give the men a job instead of extra-time to bich, things might straighten up enough to toss out the Dems.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 02:55 PM (I7b3/)

76
Thoughts?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2025 02:54 PM (qpyNK)

________

So it's a two-and-a-halfsome?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 02:55 PM (HZi96)

77 For that matter, keep a publically available count to be updated no less than every week, and charge more punitive fines if they try to fudge the numbers.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 27, 2025 02:56 PM (ULPxl)

78 Ok who thought that should be in a carnival sideshow?

Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2025 02:57 PM (jgmnb)

79 >>> 48 So a blank sign in front of the Australian government building has no chance, or Australia just in the pocket of China like many of our government officials
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 02:34 PM (+qU29)

Is this disinformation, misinformation, or malinformation???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 27, 2025 02:57 PM (ULPxl)

80 Much of the world is covered with hundreds to thousands of feet of coal and carbonate rocks (limestone, among others).

Every gram of coal, oil, or carbonate rock represents carbon that was once in the atmosphere.

Yet when it was all in the atmosphere, the world somehow didn't end. Weird, huh, given that the current argument is that putting even a small fraction of it back in is going to mean the End of All Life On The Planet (&trade

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2025 02:58 PM (qpyNK)

81 73 More of a Second World Problem, given that this is Mexico, but one of a set of two female Siamese twins has gotten married. They share a set of lady parts, but apparently only the one who just married gets any sensation from them -- the other one is essentially asexual. She's okay with the marriage, though.

Thoughts?

40 pesos same as in town

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at July 27, 2025 02:59 PM (zs2tC)

82 >>>I wonder how many greentards are aware of the minimum level of CO2 in the atmosphere required to sustain plant life (they *are* all good little vegans, right?), let alone the approximate current level.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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Bastardi has a cogent one on western Pacific volcanic activity, warm ocean temps, and extra humidity effecting temps and weather patterns.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 02:59 PM (I7b3/)

83
Chinese carbon dioxide is fragrant and makes plants grow.

US carbon dioxide is stinky and makes sea levels rise.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 03:00 PM (HZi96)

84 55 A transgender father induced puberty in his three-year-old daughter after she was exposed to his synthetic estrogen - Anonosaurus Wrecks

Good God, are there no walls that a guy(?) like this can be stood up in front of?

Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 03:00 PM (mADJX)

85 So it's a two-and-a-halfsome?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 02:55 PM (HZi96)

Very disappointed that you didn't use a Charlie Sheen sock.

Posted by: pookysgirl #winning at July 27, 2025 03:01 PM (Wt5PA)

86
RIP Tom Lehrer

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 03:01 PM (HZi96)

87 Sydney Sweeney is a Nazi!

https://is.gd/yxd0EC

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 27, 2025 03:02 PM (L/fGl)

88 55 I would loan my 1911 and 1 45acp round to solve that problem

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 03:02 PM (+qU29)

89 Yet when it was all in the atmosphere, the world somehow didn't end. Weird, huh, given that the current argument is that putting even a small fraction of it back in is going to mean the End of All Life On The Planet Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

As I recall things we had dinosaurs at that time. The correlation is obvious: atmospheric carbon caused dinosaurs. We are messing around with forces we can't control here.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 27, 2025 03:02 PM (NXz8h)

90 The warm-mongers and cli-fi fans are losing ground in the U.S., but they still seem exceptionally strong in Europe.

Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 03:02 PM (mADJX)

91 Woman on utube doing keyhole compost gardens says mix as much cardboard as possible with the dirt because Plants Love Carbon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 03:03 PM (I7b3/)

92 @73 Thoughts? " Attach a penis ! " - your average leftard

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 03:05 PM (hIY2p)

93 RIP Tom Lehrer
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 03:01 PM

Really? I didn't know he was still alive.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 03:05 PM (Q9ezC)

94 RIP Tom Lehrer
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 03:01 PM (HZi96)

Damn. And at the cusp of "National Brotherhood Week".

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 27, 2025 03:05 PM (5xuJ/)

95 91 Woman on utube doing keyhole compost gardens says mix as much cardboard as possible with the dirt because Plants Love Carbon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 03:03 PM (I7b3/)

Cardboard for carbon?

Wouldn't charcoal be better?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 03:05 PM (bss/y)

96 93 RIP Tom Lehrer
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 03:01 PM

Really? I didn't know he was still alive.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 03:05 PM (Q9ezC)

That is exactly what I thought when I just read it.

https://tinyurl.com/2jma9za2

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 03:06 PM (bss/y)

97 Woman on Youtube doing keyhole compost gardens says mix as much cardboard as possible with the dirt because Plants Love Carbon.

Earthworms supposedly love the stuff, so that's a plus.

Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 03:07 PM (mADJX)

98 Hooray for Greg Le Mond , former several time American winner of the Tour de France, and unlike Lance Armstrong, had no doping scandals associated with his wins.

Le Mond has bicycles named after him. Armstrong, despite winning several Turd In France bike competitions, didn't. He just got to date a washed up singer who is best known for being a toilet paper minimalist

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 03:08 PM (a4flb)

99 87 Sydney Sweeney is a Nazi!

https://is.gd/yxd0EC
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 27, 2025 03:02 PM (L/fGl)

...

These people really need to get laid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 03:09 PM (bss/y)

100 Woman on Youtube doing keyhole compost gardens says mix as much cardboard as possible with the dirt because Plants Love Carbon.

Earthworms supposedly love the stuff, so that's a plus.
Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 03:07 PM

I have seen people recommend adding some shredded paper to compost, so that's not sounding too far afield.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 03:09 PM (Q9ezC)

101 I like the deal but something has been bothering me for the last couple of years. Biden and his minions stopped US LNG exports at the same time that Russia was selling, and still is, large amounts of LNG to Western Europe. I wouldn't put it past Biden and his minions to have shut it down to get $ from Putin or some middle man.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 03:09 PM (hIY2p)

102 Cardboard for carbon?

Wouldn't charcoal be better?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Used cardboard boxes is free.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 03:09 PM (I7b3/)

103 Tom Lehrer died, and the earth uttered a shattering Meh.

Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 03:09 PM (mADJX)

104 McNeil/Lehrer were more conservative than gOPe is today.

Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2025 03:10 PM (jgmnb)

105 Today is also the last day of the AirVenture show at Oshkosh. Missed it again this year.

Posted by: Halfhand at July 27, 2025 03:10 PM (g/KP8)

106 104 McNeil/Lehrer were more conservative than gOPe is today.
Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2025 03:10 PM (jgmnb)

Probably valid. Adlai Stevenson would probably have more testosterone than the entire Dem convention.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 03:11 PM (bss/y)

107
Any crashes at Oshkosh, this year?

Those dopes love flying into each other, there.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 03:11 PM (3TbF6)

108 >>> Today is the last day of The Tour de France, and it is routed right around the corner from my apartment!

So, did they stop selling beer (and wine) in glass bottles a week out before they event to cut down on the mayhem. That's what they did with CedarFest.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 03:11 PM (/lPRQ)

109 >>> 89 Yet when it was all in the atmosphere, the world somehow didn't end. Weird, huh, given that the current argument is that putting even a small fraction of it back in is going to mean the End of All Life On The Planet Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

As I recall things we had dinosaurs at that time. The correlation is obvious: atmospheric carbon caused dinosaurs. We are messing around with forces we can't control here.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 27, 2025 03:02 PM (NXz8h)

I *told* them it was a bad idea.

Posted by: Dr. Ian Malcom at July 27, 2025 03:12 PM (ULPxl)

110
"gumption"

People don't use that word anymore, do they?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 03:12 PM (3TbF6)

111 >>>I have seen people recommend adding some shredded paper to compost, so that's not sounding too far afield.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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She was composting in the keyhole garden. It should work just as well in regular composting.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 03:13 PM (I7b3/)

112
A little old-timey TV trivia:

Where does this come from:

"No brag, just facts."

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 03:13 PM (3TbF6)

113 Any crashes at Oshkosh, this year?

Not that I've heard. Bad incident with a gyro and helicopter last year though.

Posted by: Halfhand at July 27, 2025 03:13 PM (g/KP8)

114 "gumption"

People don't use that word anymore, do they?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 03:12 PM (3TbF6)

Sand.

Grit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 03:13 PM (bss/y)

115 It may work as the bottom or mixed in a raised bed garden.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 03:14 PM (I7b3/)

116 Elbow grease

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 03:14 PM (hIY2p)

117 My 1st WP is I have to go to work in a couple hours.
It shouldn't be all week I hope

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 03:14 PM (+qU29)

118
gumption = determination
sand = toughness

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 03:15 PM (3TbF6)

119 Piper,

I have a Savannah cat, as well. They can be a handful. The vet techs are scared of mine, so I get to hold him during the exams. He knows better than to mess with DAD!

Ask your vet for some gabapentin (oral from a syringe). I give it to mine about a hour before the vet visit. Seems to work.

Posted by: FloridaBill at July 27, 2025 03:16 PM (opNj9)

120 EPA Expected to Declare Greenhouse Gases Not Harmful

Since when has water vapor, between 0.2% and 4% of the atmosphere ever been considered harmful.

I know if sucks to be working outside when the humidity is at higher concentrations in the summer, but CO2, 0.042% of the atmosphere, as plant food never should have been classified as "harmful" either.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 03:16 PM (a4flb)

121 gumption = determination
sand = toughness
Posted by: Soothsayer

balls = Evel Knievel

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 27, 2025 03:17 PM (NXz8h)

122 😆 Bravo on the callback.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 02:52 PM (3L6ac)

Then I read who Chuck Tingle is.

Ewwww.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 03:17 PM (0eaVi)

123 Sounds like that could be just another big F-up from Gamesa Energy, USA. (It does have the capability of producing huge Fiberblade Wind Turbine blades in its PA manufacturing facility.)

Drivers are obligated to follow the approved route for delivery. (In that case, going from PA out to Iowa. 🤣

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 27, 2025 03:18 PM (NFX2v)

124 My grandson is sound asleep on his play mat in the middle of my living room. His dad is racked out next to him. His mom is snoozing on the couch. Hubbymayhem is zonked out in his recliner and the girl spawn is in her room asleep on her bed. The cat is snoring under the window.
I am the only person in this house that is awake.

And it's storming while the sun is shining.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 27, 2025 03:19 PM (2J/Lj)

125 I wouldn't put it past Biden and his minions to have shut it down to get $ from Putin or some middle man.

There was significant mark-up from the price India paid to what they laundered it and resold it for.

Make India Billionaires Great Again

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 03:19 PM (a4flb)

126 93 RIP Tom Lehrer
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 03:01 PM

Really? I didn't know he was still alive.
***
He's not.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 27, 2025 03:20 PM (GYt5+)

127 A corridor of atonement. Wolves, mountain lions and grizzly bears also create obstacles and corrals in the woods for weekend hikers, granolas and hippies.

Sometimes bushwhacking is a smarter path. This keeps everybody on alert.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 27, 2025 03:23 PM (ZYql3)

128
How about "tree?"

As in "me an my boys are gonna tree this town."

What's it mean, and why?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 03:23 PM (3TbF6)

129 126 93 RIP Tom Lehrer
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 03:01 PM

Really? I didn't know he was still alive.
***
He's not.
Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 27, 2025 03:20 PM (GYt5+)

Hah!

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 03:23 PM (bss/y)

130 Woman on Youtube doing keyhole compost gardens says mix as much cardboard as possible with the dirt because Plants Love Carbon.

Earthworms supposedly love the stuff, so that's a plus.
Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 03:07 PM

I have seen people recommend adding some shredded paper to compost, so that's not sounding too far afield.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 03:09 PM (Q9ezC)

Any denizen of the Sunday Book Thread would know insects like wood pulp.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 03:23 PM (0eaVi)

131 I just looked up Chuck Tingle. I wish I hadn't

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 03:23 PM (hIY2p)

132 101. I wouldn't put it past Biden and his minions to have shut it down to get $ from Putin or some middle man.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Perhaps to/for Zelensky?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 27, 2025 03:25 PM (NFX2v)

133 Took a horseback mountain tour. At night they put the horses in cages and left the humans to sleep out. Hey, what about us?
Well, you don't smell right but it is a good idea to sleep with a stick next to your sleeping bag.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 03:26 PM (I7b3/)

134 131 I just looked up Chuck Tingle. I wish I hadn't
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 03:23 PM (hIY2p)

*types it in*

Oh, right. That is where I remembered that name. Voxis used to get superchats to read excerpts from his novels.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 03:26 PM (bss/y)

135 Tom Lehrer, the satirical musician and mathematician-- not Jim Lehrer of the PBS news show--has died at 97.

Hard to pick my favorite song, but it's either "The Elements" or, more likely, "Hanukkah in Santa Monica."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LslsgH3-UFU&t=2s

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at July 27, 2025 03:26 PM (FEVMW)

136 Cardboard is carbon dense regular paper, less.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 03:27 PM (I7b3/)

137 Woman on utube doing keyhole compost gardens says mix as much cardboard as possible with the dirt because Plants Love Carbon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 03:03 PM (I7b3/)

Well, there goes my membership paperwork.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2025 03:27 PM (W/lyH)

138 124 My grandson is sound asleep on his play mat in the middle of my living room. His dad is racked out next to him. His mom is snoozing on the couch. Hubbymayhem is zonked out in his recliner and the girl spawn is in her room asleep on her bed. The cat is snoring under the window.
I am the only person in this house that is awake.

And it's storming while the sun is shining.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)

That’s pretty amazing. Snapshot that picture in your brain. Remember HARD the sounds and the smells and the peace.

You can go back to that picture whenever you need to.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2025 03:28 PM (mT+6a)

139 84 55 A transgender father induced puberty in his three-year-old daughter after she was exposed to his synthetic estrogen - Anonosaurus Wrecks

Good God, are there no walls that a guy(?) like this can be stood up in front of?
Posted by: Paco

Defenestration works every time it is tried. It's not only for Russians.

Posted by: Millstones Work, Too at July 27, 2025 03:29 PM (G5+As)

140 124 My grandson is sound asleep on his play mat in the middle of my living room. His dad is racked out next to him. His mom is snoozing on the couch. Hubbymayhem is zonked out in his recliner and the girl spawn is in her room asleep on her bed. The cat is snoring under the window.
I am the only person in this house that is awake.

And it's storming while the sun is shining.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)

A less than once in a decade, family "mental" picture. It sounds so sweet. Enjoy it.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 27, 2025 03:34 PM (NFX2v)

141 Q: Why are the streets of Paris lined with trees?

A: So the Germans can march in the shade.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

I thought it was to keep the dog turds from drying out too fast in the sun.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 03:34 PM (/lPRQ)

142 My grandson is sound asleep on his play mat in the middle of my living room. His dad is racked out next to him. His mom is snoozing on the couch. Hubbymayhem is zonked out in his recliner and the girl spawn is in her room asleep on her bed. The cat is snoring under the window.
I am the only person in this house that is awake.

And it's storming while the sun is shining.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 27, 2025 03:19 PM (2J/Lj)

Sunday afternoon naps were a tradition growing up. Getting four kids cleaned up and not looking like fashion disasters out the door every Sunday morning was exhausting for my parents. And we kids needed a rest from whatever fight we'd lost (clothing choices, not wanting to go to church, lunchtime theological discussions). Then we'd start it all over again with the Sunday afternoon board game.....

Posted by: pookysgirl learned to not play Monopoly with her sister at July 27, 2025 03:35 PM (Wt5PA)

143 Where does this come from:

"No brag, just facts."
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 03:13 PM (3TbF6)

Walter Brennan, who would have been 134 yesterday, "The Guns of Will Sonnet"

TV Western

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2025 03:36 PM (4rENN)

144 It still chaps my rear that Saudi and Emirate royalty involved in the 9/11 massacre of American citizens are still above ground enjoying life and laughing.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2025 02:06 PM

Didn't a handful of princes die under mysterious circumstances after 9/11? I seem to remember one dying out in the desert.

Posted by: toby928 at July 27, 2025 03:36 PM (jc0TO)

145 This is the cardboard utube:

youtube.com/watch?v=kNT9-6RggNE

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 03:39 PM (I7b3/)

146 EPA Expected to Declare Greenhouse Gases Not Harmful

I shall practice my The Science Is Settled retorts for the watermelons.

Posted by: toby928 at July 27, 2025 03:39 PM (jc0TO)

147 No brag

https://youtu.be/9j1qkorFszY

Posted by: toby928 at July 27, 2025 03:41 PM (jc0TO)

148 Excuse me. Walter Brennan would have been only 131 on the 25th of July.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2025 03:42 PM (4rENN)

149 94
'Damn. And at the cusp of "National Brotherhood Week".'

That's one of my favorites. There's nothing funnier than when people who hate each other pretend to like each other.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 27, 2025 03:43 PM (3wi/L)

150 Sad no one said (in first 100 comments) "Carthage delenda est" in post below.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 27, 2025 03:43 PM (hlNLQ)

151 If I understand correctly CBD just rode in the Toure de France, which means his ass will be sore, which could make him touchy.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 27, 2025 03:44 PM (kTd/k)

152 Ooops! Naptime just ended when the baby started to screech! He's okay now that he has Dad's attention. Laughing baby is much gooder than screeching baby.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 27, 2025 03:44 PM (2J/Lj)

153 As in "me an my boys are gonna tree this town."

What's it mean, and why?

Posted by: Soothsayer

If you're after a raccoon and he climbs a tree, he is treed. So the idiom literally means to pursue the town until the whole town climbs up a tree.

Posted by: Bombadil at July 27, 2025 03:45 PM (MX0bI)

154 If you're after a raccoon and he climbs a tree, he is treed. So the idiom literally means to pursue the town until the whole town climbs up a tree.
Posted by: Bombadil at July 27, 2025 03:45 PM

Then you grin at them until they fall over dead.

Posted by: Daniel Boone at July 27, 2025 03:46 PM (jc0TO)

155 Basically it means paralyzing the town by terrorising everbody.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 27, 2025 03:48 PM (2J/Lj)

156 The watermelons will start screeching the EPA is full of sh*t!
And blame Trump and corporate America. Because they can't be wrong, it's impossible for them to be wrong!

Posted by: Case at July 27, 2025 03:49 PM (ilX37)

157 My FWP, we took our carpet cleaner to my MiL's house to try and get the dog piss smell out of the carpets, her dog having died but previously lost control as she declined, the dog, not the MiL.

Anyway, the Hoover was unbelievably nasty afterwards but, you have to use a screwdriver to take some of it apart to clean it. This seems like poor engineering for something you should clean after each use. It should have quick release somethings.

Posted by: toby928 at July 27, 2025 03:52 PM (jc0TO)

158 Oh, someone's in the Phantom Zone.

Posted by: toby928 at July 27, 2025 03:53 PM (jc0TO)

159 A touchy CBD means some nasty art tomorrow

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at July 27, 2025 03:55 PM (KaHlS)

160 I'll believe we are serious about exporting LNG when the US Navy starts escorting convoys of tankers to Europe.

Of course, the unthinkable might happen. Peace breaks out, and the Euroweenies could safely buy Russian gas again, thus benefiting the entire world.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2025 03:55 PM (4rENN)

161 Watching a professional cycling race in person
is fun. But you sure don't see much.
If you're not up on a mountain side, the riders will just be a blur when they zip by. And even on a mountain, they go by pretty quick.
And you wait for a long time for them to get to your spot. And then they're gone and it's over.
It's like going to a football game and only seeing one play from the entire game.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 27, 2025 03:56 PM (Lo97M)

162 >And we wonder why we had to bail them out twice in 25 years?
----
Their Latinate voluptuousness combines with their Gallic laziness, and as a result, they'd rather eat and make love with their faces than fight.

Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2025 03:57 PM (AOsQT)

163 And you wait for a long time for them to get to your spot. And then they're gone and it's over.
It's like going to a football game and only seeing one play from the entire game.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 27, 2025 03:56 PM

So I presume the crowd does a lot of tailgating.

Posted by: toby928 at July 27, 2025 03:58 PM (jc0TO)

164 It's 4:02pm
FOOD NOOD

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 04:02 PM (+qU29)

165 So I presume the crowd does a lot of tailgating.
Posted by: toby928
++
Yeah. It's all about the atmosphere and the party. If you're not into that, there's not much reason to go.
Some people don't even watch the bikes go by. They just want to take selfies with the riders in the background.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 27, 2025 04:03 PM (Lo97M)

166 >>> Sen. Scott Flies Banner Over NYC Beaches Urging Anti-Socialist New Yorkers to Flee to Florida if Zohran Mamdani Wins Mayoral Race (VIDEO)

Florida is too hot and humid.
Try Virginia or Pennsylvania.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 04:03 PM (/lPRQ)

167 A lot of people in NYC ride bikes. They run red lights, jump up on sidewalks and go the wrong way on one way streets. Laugh at any laws or rules. Until the day a city bus says no.

Posted by: Case at July 27, 2025 04:05 PM (ilX37)

168 Florida is too hot and humid.
Try Virginia or Pennsylvania.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
+++
Agreed. Florida is way too hot. And it's full.
Don't move here.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 27, 2025 04:06 PM (Lo97M)

169 Agreed. Florida is way too hot. And it's full.
Don't move here.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 27, 2025 04:06 PM

Ditto Alabama.

Posted by: toby928 at July 27, 2025 04:07 PM (jc0TO)

170 'Damn. And at the cusp of "National Brotherhood Week".'

That's one of my favorites. There's nothing funnier than when people who hate each other pretend to like each other.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 27, 2025 03:43 PM (3wi/L)

Tom was a lefty, but he made fun of everyone. And a brilliant mathematician as well. Imagine having him as your math professor?

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 27, 2025 04:08 PM (5xuJ/)

171 We're full up!

Posted by: The Old North State. at July 27, 2025 04:09 PM (G5+As)

172 Oh, someone's in the Phantom Zone.
Posted by: toby928 at July 27, 2025 03:53 PM (jc0TO)

That's me. CBD has been pretty vigilant in zapping me whenever I appear.

I've been commenting here since I think 2008.

I will always love this place.

I don't think there is anything else like it.

There is certainly nothing like it on the Left.

Posted by: Long time guy at July 27, 2025 04:14 PM (vzCvX)

173 Trump: no more federal funding for windmills.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2025 02:20 PM (qpyNK)

Excellent!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 05:03 PM (0sq2f)

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