Monday Cafe

ICYMI: Border collie is going to train this baby to play fetch one day.

A Belgian Malinois being cute but also showing his chompers.

Dad Law, penguin style.

A nice secluded beach in Greece.

Stacked buildings in Singapor.

Vertical forest.

Hong Kong is a bit crowded.

Baby falcons, gawking.

A rescue tiger has his first dip in a pool.

Saving a sea turtle who went too far inland.

Why you should have an owl.

Steve Inman:

Purse snatcher gets paid in pain.

Would-be church robber enters the Valley of the Shadow of Beat-Downs.

Carjacker tries to stop a car, but the driver decides he'd rather drive straight on through the carjacker.

Spree carjacker gets the Ludacris treatment and then gets shot.

Drunk Karens can't stop laying hands on people who are tired of their shit.

Drunk dude knocks himself out.

A TikTok stunt goes ~~wrong~~ right.

TikToker should really mind her surroundings rather than always posing for the camera.

Pigs agree: bears are out of control.

A disabled dog was gifted a custom-made wheelchair crafted by Mercedes-Benz. pic.twitter.com/coVk8TpCmS
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Why I pay for internet 🧵

1. Bro just wanted to help his mother ..😂 pic.twitter.com/zQ6y7FMTir
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Dragon orbiting across Europe into Asia. pic.twitter.com/Piisa188Pn
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Helping a rescued cockatoo heal from grief pic.twitter.com/U4LBQsuDER
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Posted by: Ace at 07:42 PM

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1 Meep meep!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 18, 2025 07:43 PM (7VrcY)

2 Nd

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 18, 2025 07:44 PM (5+Y60)

3 Hey there, ace. I worked my ass off today.

Did anything interesting happen? Only thing I saw was the pine scented Druid philosopher is a swifty. I wonder if he drew a picture of her in the sand.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 18, 2025 07:44 PM (7VrcY)

4 I nood'd

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 18, 2025 07:45 PM (5+Y60)

5 Did anything interesting happen? Only thing I saw was the pine scented Druid philosopher is a swifty. I wonder if he drew a picture of her in the sand.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 18, 2025 07:44 PM (7VrcY)

He dots the "i" in her name with a heart.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 18, 2025 07:46 PM (5+Y60)

6 Dad Law, penguin style.

==

That's right! No bonking!

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2025 07:47 PM (g47mK)

7
Best of Breed for The Big Dummy at today's Greeley KC show. Mr. Zeus picked up a point (via some jiggery-pokery on our part) and now has 10 of the 15 he needs for his championship.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 07:47 PM (kkTda)

8 Good evening everyone
Phone been giving me issues not scrolling down sometimes

Posted by: Skip at August 18, 2025 07:47 PM (+qU29)

9 Even penguins don't like asshoe penguins.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 18, 2025 07:47 PM (0sNs1)

10 Baby falcons, gawking.

==

Maybe a type of kestrel. Those are the coolest. After American bald eagles. And sea eagles.

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2025 07:48 PM (g47mK)

11 I'm listening to an osprey squawking right now as it happens.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 18, 2025 07:49 PM (zmF9y)

12 The penguin's parenting skills are questionable as they will often eat their neighbor's offspring before devouring their own.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at August 18, 2025 07:50 PM (vFG9F)

13 I'm listening to an osprey squawking right now as it happens.

==

Is it in the nest ?

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2025 07:50 PM (g47mK)

14 Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 18, 2025 07:50 PM (zmF9y)

15 Did anything interesting happen?
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 18, 2025 07:44 PM

MS-NOW and Black Cat Appreciation Day, but mostly Black Cat Appreciation Day.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 18, 2025 07:50 PM (0sNs1)

16 The Inman clips make me so happy. I love assholes getting beat to a pulp.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 18, 2025 07:50 PM (dxWFK)

17 Wait until Godzilla discovers the Monster building.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 18, 2025 07:51 PM (63Dwl)

18
Is it in the nest ?
Posted by: runner at August 18, 2025 07:50 PM (g47mK)

I know that's a reference to something. I don't know what. But i at least know that i don't know.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 18, 2025 07:51 PM (zmF9y)

19
Purse snatcher gets paid in pain

__________

James didn't do that for Veronica.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 07:52 PM (kkTda)

20 12 The penguin's parenting skills are questionable as they will often eat their neighbor's offspring before devouring their own.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at August 18, 2025 07:50 PM (vFG9F)

Tough problems require tough solutions.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 18, 2025 07:53 PM (zmF9y)

21 Kittens are adorable
Puppies are endearing
Watching some fuckwad getting their asses kicked is heartwarming.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 18, 2025 07:54 PM (dxWFK)

22 Even penguins don't like asshoe penguins.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Please give me an earworm. SSA hold loop is 60 seconds of Muzak followed by a 45 second notification of what they can do with your private information. 67 minutes down only 53 to go if their estimate is accurate.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 07:55 PM (tyHPG)

23 James didn't do that for Veronica.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Shoulda stuck with Archie.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 18, 2025 07:55 PM (u4Nk5)

24 67 minutes down only 53 to go if their estimate is accurate.
Posted by: Sock Monkey

Narrator: They weren't accurate.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 18, 2025 07:56 PM (u4Nk5)

25 Anybody else having page loading problems?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 18, 2025 07:57 PM (63Dwl)

26 Bertram Cabot, do not try to adjust the horizontal or vertical.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 18, 2025 07:58 PM (dxWFK)

27
I had to call SSA today at their request. No wait because it went to voice mail.

Of course I haven't heard back from them.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 18, 2025 07:58 PM (3ek7K)

28 Narrator: They weren't accurate.
Posted by: She Hobbit

It takes me less than 10 minutes to walk across the road to my range. Shooting my phone is a viable option.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 07:59 PM (tyHPG)

29 I would love to have a owl, or a otter

Posted by: Skip at August 18, 2025 07:59 PM (+qU29)

30 Please give me an earworm. SSA hold loop is 60 seconds of Muzak followed by a 45 second notification of what they can do with your private information. 67 minutes down only 53 to go if their estimate is accurate.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 07:55 PM (tyHPG)

I'm here for you.

Posted by: Rick Astley at August 18, 2025 08:01 PM (PiwSw)

31
Oh well. At least the Mariners are losing too.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 08:01 PM (kkTda)

32 Usually I get out of browser or if that doesn't work restart my phone. I am sure it's my phone.
Have a great evening everyone, long commute again tomorrow.

Posted by: Skip at August 18, 2025 08:01 PM (+qU29)

33 Thanks for the Inman, Ace!

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 18, 2025 08:01 PM (144I4)

34
Do go to Don Pettit's X feed there and scroll. He's posted a bunch of spectacular shots from his last expedition. At his age, I think that was his last trip to space.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2025 08:02 PM (w6EFb)

35 Is a cockatoo's grief assuageable?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 18, 2025 08:02 PM (XV/Pl)

36 Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 07:59 PM (tyHPG)

I assume your issue can't be addressed on line?

Posted by: polynikes at August 18, 2025 08:03 PM (EYmYM)

37 Please give me an earworm. SSA hold loop is 60 seconds of Muzak followed by a 45 second notification of what they can do with your private information. 67 minutes down only 53 to go if their estimate is accurate.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 07:55 PM (tyHPG)

Wait by White Lion.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 18, 2025 08:03 PM (144I4)

38 That wheelbarrow video.... momma rolls out hot as if there were some terrible emergency, then notices it's just her kid being a goober and he's fine so she relaxes.

Parenthood.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 18, 2025 08:04 PM (zmF9y)

39 Please give me an earworm. SSA hold loop is 60 seconds of Muzak followed by a 45 second notification of what they can do with your private information. 67 minutes down only 53 to go if their estimate is accurate.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 07:55 PM (tyHPG)

Wait by White Lion.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 18, 2025 08:03 PM (144I4)

Karma Chameleon.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 18, 2025 08:04 PM (i24o9)

40 I'm here for you.
Posted by: Rick Astley

Not familiar, I ignored the 80's.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 08:05 PM (tyHPG)

41
Please give me an earworm. SSA hold loop is 60 seconds of Muzak followed by a 45 second notification of what they can do with your private information.

_________

It could be worse. They could play Mahler. Nine symphonies of "Oh my God, I'm dying!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 08:05 PM (kkTda)

42 I assume your issue can't be addressed on line?
Posted by: polynikes

No. It's regarding my deceased brother.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 08:05 PM (tyHPG)

43 22. Summer Wine duets.

Have had an earworm since they were posted one evening fairly recently. (Luckily, I really like the song.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 18, 2025 08:06 PM (NFX2v)

44 Karma Chameleon.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder,

You bastard @%^&!

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 08:06 PM (tyHPG)

45 I like the companies that give you the option of a call back instead of waiting on hold.

Posted by: polynikes at August 18, 2025 08:06 PM (EYmYM)

46 I have a 7am meeting in NYC tomorrow, which means I have to be out of the house no later than 3:30am to be early/on-time.

ughh.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 18, 2025 08:06 PM (XV/Pl)

47 awwwww ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 18, 2025 08:07 PM (ppG5b)

48 how many days in a row can the Astros totally take it up the ass?

Posted by: gKWVE at August 18, 2025 08:07 PM (gKWVE)

49 12 The penguin's parenting skills are questionable as they will often eat their neighbor's offspring before devouring their own.

This is a filthy lie, a blatant piece of communist propaganda circulated by the rojos.

Abajo con la izquierda! Arriba Antarctica!

El Penguinissimo

Posted by: Paco at August 18, 2025 08:07 PM (mADJX)

50 Not familiar, I ignored the 80's

at your peril

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 18, 2025 08:07 PM (YlWIZ)

51 'Carjacker tries to stop a car, but the driver decides he'd rather drive straight on through the carjacker.'

Why do all carjackers look so similar?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 18, 2025 08:08 PM (3wi/L)

52 Please give me an earworm. SSA hold loop is 60 seconds of Muzak followed by a 45 second notification of what they can do with your private information. 67 minutes down only 53 to go if their estimate is accurate.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 07:55 PM (tyHPG)

Wait by White Lion.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 18, 2025 08:03 PM (144I4)

Karma Chameleon.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 18, 2025 08:04 PM (

Smooth Operator.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 18, 2025 08:09 PM (5+Y60)

53 That Hong Kong tower (if real) is as inhumane as those crowded chicken farms PETA goes on about.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2025 08:09 PM (kpS4V)

54
how many days in a row can the Astros totally take it up the ass?
Posted by: gKWVE at August 18, 2025 08:07 PM (gKWVE)

__________

They played better when they had a procession of mooks rotating up from Sugar Land. Now they're getting the injured guys back and stinking up the joint.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 08:10 PM (kkTda)

55 The beat-down of the would-be church robber made me lol!

Posted by: Paco at August 18, 2025 08:10 PM (mADJX)

56 Sawthe'Belgian Malinois being cute...' and remembered the meme from before the strikes where Trump had given Iran the two weeks thing. 'Feeling cute, might bomb Iran later, might not.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 18, 2025 08:11 PM (zZu0s)

57 Summer teeth always makes me laugh

Posted by: jsg at August 18, 2025 08:11 PM (p4wT3)

58 Macarena

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 18, 2025 08:11 PM (NFX2v)

59 I would never want anyone to be subjected to a car jacking but I would find savage amusement in them hijacking a car with a stick shift.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 18, 2025 08:12 PM (dxWFK)

60 Please give me an earworm. SSA hold loop is 60 seconds of Muzak followed by a 45 second notification of what they can do with your private information. 67 minutes down only 53 to go if their estimate is accurate.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 07:55 PM (tyHPG)

Wait by White Lion.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 18, 2025 08:03 PM (144I4)

Karma Chameleon.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 18, 2025 08:04 PM (

Smooth Operator.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 18, 2025 08:09 PM (5+Y60)

Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler.

I choose violence.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 18, 2025 08:12 PM (zZu0s)

61 Mambo No. 5

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 18, 2025 08:12 PM (u4Nk5)

62 29 I would love to have a owl, or a otter
Posted by: Skip at August 18, 2025 07:59 PM (+qU29)
Embrace the power of AND.

Posted by: Eromero at August 18, 2025 08:12 PM (LHPAg)

63 >>I like the companies that give you the option of a call back instead of waiting on hold.

My refrigerator died on Saturday. I called the repair company and after about 20 minutes on hold I finally broke down and hit 9 to leave my number for a call back.

Got a message the mailbox was full and to call back later and then the machine hung up on me. I said some bad words.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 08:12 PM (viF8m)

64 Come a little bit closer by Jay and the Americans

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 18, 2025 08:14 PM (zZu0s)

65 Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse" video had serious shotacon vibes.
The 1980s, man.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 18, 2025 08:15 PM (gKWVE)

66 Got a message the mailbox was full and to call back later and then the machine hung up on me. I said some bad words.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 08:12 PM (viF8m)

The worst ever ? AT&T

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 18, 2025 08:15 PM (NtVYv)

67 Keep feeling fascination
Passion burning
Love so strong
Keep feeling fascination
Looking, learning
Moving on

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 18, 2025 08:15 PM (i24o9)

68 53 That Hong Kong tower (if real) is as inhumane as those crowded chicken farms PETA goes on about.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2025 08:09 PM
Imagine all of those folk flushing at the same time.

Posted by: Eromero at August 18, 2025 08:16 PM (LHPAg)

69 Please give me an earworm.

You asked for it - youtu.be/0R6WIbx8ysE

Posted by: gKWVE at August 18, 2025 08:16 PM (gKWVE)

70 Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse" video had serious shotacon vibes.
The 1980s, man.
Posted by: gKWVE at August 18, 2025 08:15 PM (gKWVE)

I thought: Gayer than ace and Garrett on a tandem bike.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 18, 2025 08:16 PM (zZu0s)

71
My refrigerator died on Saturday. I called the repair company and after about 20 minutes on hold I finally broke down and hit 9 to leave my number for a call back.

Got a message the mailbox was full and to call back later and then the machine hung up on me. I said some bad words.
Posted by: JackStraw

===

Your fridge is not going to get fixed unless you do it yourself.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 18, 2025 08:16 PM (/lPRQ)

72 Come a little bit closer by Jay and the Americans
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 18, 2025 08:14 PM

Always el choico bueno.

Posted by: Jose at August 18, 2025 08:16 PM (0sNs1)

73 You morons don't disappoint. I'm going to wake up at 3am with all those songs playing in my bad dream. I will curse each and every one of you.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 08:16 PM (tyHPG)

74 Imagine all of those folk flushing at the same time.

Posted by: Eromero at August 18, 2025 08:16 PM (LHPAg)

The earth's rotation speeds up ever so slightly.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 18, 2025 08:17 PM (i24o9)

75 Earworm ? Tubthumping Chumbawumba

I get knocked down, but I get up again
No they're never gonna keep me down

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 18, 2025 08:17 PM (NtVYv)

76 Good Inman selection tonight. Mucho ass beatings

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 18, 2025 08:17 PM (5+Y60)

77 Come on Eileen
Oh, I swear what he means
At this moment you mean everything
You in that dress
My thoughts I confess
Verge on dirty

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 18, 2025 08:17 PM (i24o9)

78 61 Mambo No. 5 - She Hobbit

Love that tune!

Posted by: Paco at August 18, 2025 08:17 PM (mADJX)

79 Dancing Queen, ABBA

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 18, 2025 08:18 PM (zZu0s)

80 Carjacking? Shooting? CA EXEMPT. curtain roll credits

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 18, 2025 08:18 PM (YlWIZ)

81
I always take a moment and imagine what today would be like if kalama harris was...president.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2025 08:18 PM (dO7us)

82 Thank you for calling. Your estimated wait time is 138 hours

Posted by: Ben Had at August 18, 2025 08:19 PM (dxWFK)

83 Your Love, by the Outfield

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 18, 2025 08:19 PM (zZu0s)

84 How much AI go in to that HK apartment? Caption says 18 but rough count looks well over 20. Close but why add?

Posted by: Guarded by Smith&Wesson Oil at August 18, 2025 08:19 PM (kjy5M)

85 By the time they get back to you all of your food is spoiled.

Get a new one.

Posted by: jsg at August 18, 2025 08:19 PM (p4wT3)

86 Thank you for calling. Your estimated wait time is 138 hours
Posted by: Ben Had at August 18, 2025 08:19 PM (dxWFK)

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2025 08:19 PM (g47mK)

87 Thank you for calling. Your estimated wait time is 138 hours
Posted by: Ben Had at August 18, 2025 08:19 PM (dxWFK)

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2025 08:19 PM (g47mK)

"Your call is important to us."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 18, 2025 08:20 PM (i24o9)

88 I like Come A Little Bit Closer. How can you not like Bad Man Jose?

It's the precursor to Give Me 3 Steps.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 08:20 PM (viF8m)

89 I now what your problem is, people. You keep calling places that have bad customer service. Call the ones that have good customer service !

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2025 08:20 PM (g47mK)

90 My Love, by the Infield. (Self service version)

Posted by: Guarded by Smith&Wesson Oil at August 18, 2025 08:20 PM (kjy5M)

91 Don't Stop Believin'

Posted by: jsg at August 18, 2025 08:20 PM (p4wT3)

92 runner, longest song is 138 hours, 28 minutes and some seconds.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 18, 2025 08:21 PM (dxWFK)

93 79 Dancing Queen, ABBA
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I'm a gonna invent a new curse word just for you.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 08:21 PM (tyHPG)

94 77 Come on Eileen
Oh, I swear what he means
At this moment you mean everything
You in that dress
My thoughts I confess
Verge on dirty
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 18, 2025 08:17 PM (i24o9)
But the music is killer.

Posted by: Eromero at August 18, 2025 08:21 PM (LHPAg)

95 Badfinger, No Matter What

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 18, 2025 08:21 PM (XvL8K)

96 Alan Parsons Project, Eye in the Sky is an earworm for me

Days long

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 18, 2025 08:21 PM (NtVYv)

97 Father wears his Sunday best
Mother's tired, she needs a rest
The kids are playing up downstairs
Sister's sighing in her sleep (Ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh)
Brother's got a date to keep, he can't hang around

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 18, 2025 08:21 PM (i24o9)

98 63
'My refrigerator died on Saturday. '

What's wrong with it?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 18, 2025 08:22 PM (3wi/L)

99 Thank you for calling. Your estimated wait time is 138 hours
Posted by: Ben Had

That's pretty close to correct. Ask me how I know.

Posted by: Tuna at August 18, 2025 08:22 PM (lJ0H4)

100 The man delivering the beat down to that purse snatched showed admirable restraint.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 18, 2025 08:23 PM (uHCmv)

101
People often say it makes no difference who the president is. And maybe that was kinda true before.

I mean, did it really matter if Tyler was president instead of the other guy? Tippecanoe? Whoever? Clinton being president in 1993 instead of Bush. Did it make a huge difference in Your life? Probably not.

But today there is a huge difference. EVERYTHING would be significantly different if Donald Trump was not President. He changed the World. Our lives are certainly different today because of him.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2025 08:24 PM (dO7us)

102 Me, I want a HOOLA HOOP

We can hardly stand the wait

Please Christmas don't be late!

Posted by: Alvin at August 18, 2025 08:24 PM (rdVOm)

103
We live in very rural Wyoming. We love it, but trying to get any service calls here is a joke.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 18, 2025 08:24 PM (3ek7K)

104 96
'I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you-ooo
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fo-o-ols
I can cheat you blind

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 18, 2025 08:25 PM (3wi/L)

105 There has to be some place in Trump's cabinet for Steve Inman.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 18, 2025 08:25 PM (uHCmv)

106 We live in very rural Wyoming. We love it, but trying to get any service calls here is a joke.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 18, 2025 08:24 PM (3ek7K)

Same here. One company just sent me all the parts under warranty for a DIY instead of trying to get someone out in vain.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 18, 2025 08:25 PM (i24o9)

107 105 There has to be some place in Trump's cabinet for Steve Inman.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 18, 2025 08:25 PM (uHCmv)

ICE Spokesman

Posted by: jsg at August 18, 2025 08:25 PM (p4wT3)

108 'My refrigerator died on Saturday. '

What's wrong with it?
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Is it plugged in?
Is it getting power? check circuit breaker
Does your house have power?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 18, 2025 08:26 PM (/lPRQ)

109 See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

Posted by: Lord Comey at August 18, 2025 08:26 PM (/vPt3)

110 The man delivering the beat down to that purse snatched showed admirable restraint.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 18, 2025 08:23 PM (uHCmv)

Points for multiple knees to the face. Makes me think that was in Brazil.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 18, 2025 08:26 PM (144I4)

111 Alan Parsons Project, Eye in the Sky is an earworm for me

Days long
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway

That one works. Beats all the suggestions from the 80's kids.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 08:26 PM (tyHPG)

112 We love it, but trying to get any service calls here is a joke.
Posted by: fourseasons

There's a song for that too, by Public Enemy

Posted by: one of the best hip hop songs actually at August 18, 2025 08:27 PM (gKWVE)

113 63
'My refrigerator died on Saturday. '

It's just resting.

Posted by: Michael Palin at August 18, 2025 08:27 PM (PiwSw)

114
We need a handyman, lots of stuff to be replaced or fixed.

Ha, that isn't happening.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 18, 2025 08:27 PM (3ek7K)

115 That one works. Beats all the suggestions from the 80's kids.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 08:26 PM (tyHPG)

Now you've got the eye of the tiger.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 18, 2025 08:28 PM (i24o9)

116 'Free Kisses Puppy' needs me to hug him and take him home. What a cutie!

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2025 08:28 PM (rdVOm)

117 Is your refrigerator running?

No, and I don't have Prince Albert in a can either!

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 18, 2025 08:28 PM (144I4)

118 "Your call is important to us."
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 18, 2025 08:20 PM (i24o9)

F'n hell. Called LabCorp today. They sent me the second of two collection notices on a bill I paid two months ago. The first time I called, a month ago, it took about 45 minutes to determine that they paid a bill I HAD ALREADY PAID with the money for this bill. The service person, English-challenged, naturally, said she would move the money onto the correct invoice. So, opened the mail, and here I have the second past due notice, threatening to move it to collections, end their service to us, etc. So, called today. On hold for 10 minutes, then the call itself took over an hour, to determine that they did NOT use the money to pay the current invoice, but they are "in the process" of refunding that money through the mail. IOW, they hadn't done shit.

I told them I was NOT going to pay this bill twice, so her solution was to put this one on hold until I get the check in the mail and then I can pay it.

What odds do I get for if she does or doesn't take care of it?

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 18, 2025 08:28 PM (1Gsou)

119 No, and I don't have Prince Albert in a can either!
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 18, 2025 08:28 PM (144I4)

To be fair, he would probably fit in one by now.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 18, 2025 08:29 PM (1Gsou)

120 The way Meloni looked at Trump!
That's a woman in love.
Hit it, Barbara...

Life is a moment in space
When the dream is gone, it's a lonelier place
I kissed the morning goodbye
But down inside, you know we never know why
The road is narrow and long
When eyes meet eyes and the feeling is strong
I turn away from the wall
I stumble and fall but I give you it all...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 18, 2025 08:29 PM (TGPs7)

121 113 63
'My refrigerator died on Saturday. '

It's just resting.
Posted by: Michael Palin at August 18, 2025 08:27 PM (PiwSw)

Pinin' for the fjords?

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 18, 2025 08:30 PM (1Gsou)

122 68 53 That Hong Kong tower (if real) is as inhumane as those crowded chicken farms PETA goes on about.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2025 08:09 PM
Imagine all of those folk flushing at the same time.
Posted by: Eromero at August 18, 2025 08:16 PM (LHPAg)

All of the residents of one block should get on the lowest floor of their elevated block and crowd into the middle between the outer support blocks. Then start jumping up and down.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 18, 2025 08:30 PM (144I4)

123 Soon.

Posted by: Jackstraw's Refrigerator at August 18, 2025 08:31 PM (i24o9)

124 120
'That's a woman in love.'

Now. that is an earworm.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 18, 2025 08:31 PM (3wi/L)

125 >>What's wrong with it?

It stopped refrigerating.

I'll find out why tomorrow. In theory.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 08:31 PM (viF8m)

126 What odds do I get for if she does or doesn't take care of it?
Posted by: tcn in AK

100%. I had a weird problem like this with a different company and it took 2 years to solve.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 18, 2025 08:32 PM (9vYpt)

127 Vertical forest. Bosco means wood or wooded?

St. John Bosco?
Bosco chocolate syrup?

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 18, 2025 08:32 PM (144I4)

128 But today there is a huge difference. EVERYTHING would be significantly different if Donald Trump was not President. He changed the World. Our lives are certainly different today because of him.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2025 08:24 PM
Aye, laddie.

Posted by: Eromero at August 18, 2025 08:32 PM (LHPAg)

129 tcn, I feel for you.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 18, 2025 08:32 PM (dxWFK)

130 What odds do I get for if she does or doesn't take care of it?
Posted by: tcn in AK

My bookie says you get the same odds I do on getting resolution, 42 to 1.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 08:32 PM (tyHPG)

131 News blurb -
TodayShelby Hurd, 36, died last Tuesday after being blasted in the head with a bullet while entering the unidentified mother's home in Joliet, Illinois.

"blasted"

It was a home invasion. She hid in closet with baby and blasted Shelby in the head when he entered the room DRT.

Shelby ws an aspiring rapper and soon to be astronaut.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 18, 2025 08:32 PM (/lPRQ)

132 And in the same vein, we dropped DH's car off at Meineke to get a new exhaust system installed, work on the brakes. Dropped it off Sunday, appointment was for Tuesday, we went camping, came back Friday. They hadn't touched the car, hadn't called, hadn't done shit.

So, after DH read them the riot act, they fixed his brakes early Saturday and we picked up the car. As he was picking it up, they finally got the muffler and pipes from Anchorage. Said he would call them for a SPECIFIC APPOINTMENT AT A SPECIFIC TIME of his convenience. Manager didn't charge him a dime for the brakes, at least.

WTF? How do these places stay in business?

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 18, 2025 08:33 PM (1Gsou)

133 It stopped refrigerating.
I'll find out why tomorrow. In theory.
Posted by: JackStraw
--------

But the freezer still freezes? If so-- fan died.

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2025 08:33 PM (rdVOm)

134 Very disturbing news out of Wyoming this weekend. Hundreds of people who paid out the wazoo to stay in 8 cabins at Grand Teton National Park have been notified that the cabins are infested with rabid bats and to get checked immediately. Even a scratch can transmit disease. Yet there are bat fanciers here. Doy you also juggle chainsaws and gargle with old razor blades?

Posted by: Penguin Defense Fund 501c3 at August 18, 2025 08:33 PM (G5+As)

135 102 Me, I want a HOOLA HOOP

We can hardly stand the wait

Please Christmas don't be late!
Posted by: Alvin at August 18, 2025 08:24 PM (rdVOm)

Christmas carols are not appropriate during the summer months. Please refrain from singing/playing Christmas themed music until after the Thanksgiving meal.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 18, 2025 08:34 PM (uHCmv)

136 Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
(That She Wore For The First Time)

Posted by: Common Tater at August 18, 2025 08:34 PM (lyX7Q)

137
I keep getting letters from a debt collection company saying I owe 200.00 to Wayfair. I think its a scam.

I haven't bought anything from Wayfair in six years and used my credit card when I made the purchase.

It's suspicious that they have waited six years to try and collect the money.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 18, 2025 08:34 PM (3ek7K)

138 It's a Small World After All.

Posted by: bluebell at August 18, 2025 08:35 PM (79pEw)

139
My bookie says you get the same odds I do on getting resolution, 42 to 1.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 08:32 PM (tyHPG)

I almost lost my temper. I did, at one point, suggest their accountants purchase a calculator.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 18, 2025 08:35 PM (1Gsou)

140 It's a Small World After All.

Posted by: bluebell at August 18, 2025 08:35 PM (79pEw)

The MOAB of ear worms.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 18, 2025 08:35 PM (i24o9)

141 'My refrigerator died on Saturday. '

What's wrong with it?
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Is it plugged in?
Is it getting power? check circuit breaker
Does your house have power?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

What version is it?
Have you read the manual?
Would be post a couple screen shots?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 18, 2025 08:35 PM (9vYpt)

142 It's suspicious that they have waited six years to try and collect the money.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 18, 2025 08:34 PM (3ek7K)

Forward it to the FBI.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 18, 2025 08:36 PM (1Gsou)

143 Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
(That She Wore For The First Time)
Posted by: Common Tater

Let's leave Dylan Mulvaney out of this.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 18, 2025 08:36 PM (ftFVW)

144 Let's hear it for evil women.

https://tinyurl.com/56akz9tb

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 08:36 PM (viF8m)

145 >>>The way Meloni looked at Trump!
That's a woman in love.

>The only times Mitch Obama had that look was when a platter of Wagyu beef steaks and lobster was being delivered.

Posted by: Lord Comey at August 18, 2025 08:36 PM (/vPt3)

146 tcn, I feel for you.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 18, 2025 08:32 PM (dxWFK)

Aha! Another earworm, clever! Chaka Khan baby.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 18, 2025 08:37 PM (144I4)

147 I suggest " you talk to my fucking lawyer:.#

Posted by: Ben Had at August 18, 2025 08:37 PM (dxWFK)

148 I replaced the fan on my 18 year old refrigerator 6 months ago and it's as good as new. All the action happens in the freezer part.

Posted by: Whirlpool Willie at August 18, 2025 08:37 PM (G5+As)

149 It's a Small World After All.

Posted by: bluebell at August 18, 2025 08:35 PM (79pEw)

The MOAB of ear worms.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

How about The Song that Doesn't End from Lamb Chop's Play Along?

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 18, 2025 08:37 PM (ftFVW)

150 Hundreds of people who paid out the wazoo to stay in 8 cabins at Grand Teton National Park have been notified that the cabins are infested with rabid bats and to get checked immediately.

I'd do anything for love, but

Posted by: gKWVE at August 18, 2025 08:38 PM (gKWVE)

151 It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater

Posted by: Tuna at August 18, 2025 08:38 PM (lJ0H4)

152 134 In re: Rabid Bats of the Grand Teton, as Posted by: Penguin Defense Fund 501c3 at August 18, 2025 08:33 PM (G5+As)

I shared this anecdote this morning, but it might bear repeating:

I had just parked and took a little stroll around. When I glanced at the front grill, I saw something where there is normally just empty space. I thought to myself "That is an unusually large moth."

I was mistaken.

It was actually a rather small bat. Sorry about that, little chiroptera.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 18, 2025 08:38 PM (uHCmv)

153 I almost lost my temper. I did, at one point, suggest their accountants purchase a calculator.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Most of our societal collapse cn be blamed on accountants.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 08:38 PM (tyHPG)

154 runner, longest song is 138 hours, 28 minutes and some seconds. Posted by: Ben Had

From Wikipedia: The longest composition is "ORGAN/ASLSP" or "As Slow As Possible". It began playing in the St. Burchardi Church on September 5, 2001, and is designed to last for 639 years, or until 2640. The composition was created by John Cage, who died in New York in 1992. The piece is being performed in Halberstadt, Germany.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 18, 2025 08:39 PM (9vYpt)

155 Aha! Another earworm, clever! Chaka Khan baby.

Posted by: haffhowershower
______

She was the choir of Reverend Cleophus James.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 18, 2025 08:39 PM (XvL8K)

156 147 I suggest " you talk to my fucking lawyer:.#
Posted by: Ben Had at August 18, 2025 08:37 PM (dxWFK)

I used to keep my uncle's card in my wallet. Same last name, and he was indeed, a lawyer. He never practiced, but the slimy landlords I had in college did not know that. Very handy when getting the deposit back.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 18, 2025 08:39 PM (1Gsou)

157 Owls are incredible predators. Don’t fuck with owls.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 18, 2025 08:40 PM (mPBuU)

158 I had just parked and took a little stroll around. When I glanced at the front grill, I saw something where there is normally just empty space. I thought to myself "That is an unusually large moth."

I was mistaken.

It was actually a rather small bat. Sorry about that, little chiroptera.
Posted by: tankdemon

Ewwww. Weirdest critter I've had in my car grill was a parakeet.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 18, 2025 08:40 PM (ftFVW)

159 I posted “War is over if you want it” and a video of “give peace a chance” on a Ukraine war thread on a left leaning board the other day. I think it has probably percolated long enough to check and see how well that was received.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 18, 2025 08:41 PM (lyX7Q)

160 I have a 1999 subzero refrigerator. I live in a small MT town, and was lucky enough to come across a refrigerator repairman who not only loved subzeros but has the exact model! At one point when a big repair loomed, I said, "Is it time to think of a new fridge?" Refrigerator Bob said, "I'm going to keep this sucker going forever!" When I need a new part, he orders 2 bcse he knows he'll need it for his soon. When his needs a new part, same same.

Yes, I know how lucky I am.

Posted by: Wenda at August 18, 2025 08:41 PM (rGi39)

161 It was actually a rather small bat. Sorry about that, little chiroptera.
Posted by: tankdemon

Either steam clean or sell that vehicle, pronto. The life you save may be your own.

Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at August 18, 2025 08:41 PM (G5+As)

162 Had a quail in the car grill once. Plucked , gutted and grilled that bird. Roadkill ain't all bad.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 18, 2025 08:42 PM (dxWFK)

163 Yet there are bat fanciers here. Doy you also juggle chainsaws and gargle with old razor blades?
Posted by: Penguin Defense Fund 501c3 at August 18, 2025 08:33 PM (G5+As)

I think the article stated that they found bats in the attics, which is not odd, and two dead bats, neither of which had rabies. I think their lawyers probably told them to CYA right damn now.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 18, 2025 08:43 PM (1Gsou)

164 wenda, I know exactly what you mean.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 18, 2025 08:43 PM (ppG5b)

165 Yes, I know how lucky I am.
Posted by: Wenda at August 18, 2025 08:41 PM (rGi39)

Kismet.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 18, 2025 08:44 PM (1Gsou)

166
Judge Jeanine announces the arrest of a 50 yr old Indiana woman for threatening the life of the President:

https://tinyurl.com/24tzt3aa

She threated to disembowel and cut the trachea of the president. She seems nice.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2025 08:45 PM (w6EFb)

167 >>What's wrong with it?

It stopped refrigerating.

I'll find out why tomorrow. In theory.
Posted by: JackStraw

If that is the only thing wrong with it then it may be
Start capacitor for the compressor.
You can get a 'universal start capacitor' from the 'Zon for $15 bucks.

Had on fail in a fairly new fridge 10 years ago. Direct replacement (that failed) was $60. Went with the $15 fix. Works ever since.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 18, 2025 08:45 PM (/lPRQ)

168
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbQCbV2EiaQ

eh, sorry for inflicting old Dead on everyone

I was there

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 18, 2025 08:46 PM (ppG5b)

169 >>I have a 1999 subzero refrigerator.

My ex got custody of our 2000 subzero. Never even had a service call. Meanwhile, I've had 3 refrigerators in the same time.

They really are great machines.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 08:46 PM (viF8m)

170 Mitch Obama once had a moose in her grill.

She swallowed it whole.

Posted by: Lord Comey at August 18, 2025 08:46 PM (/vPt3)

171 My mom's dishwasher won't run. I found the pdf manual and it says most likely the heating element. I can get one for 60$. If that doesn't work, new DW.

Posted by: Accomack at August 18, 2025 08:47 PM (oERdd)

172 Watcha gonna do when she says goodbye?

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at August 18, 2025 08:48 PM (bMlVe)

173 She threated to disembowel and cut the trachea of the president. She seems nice.
Posted by: publius,

I can fix her.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 18, 2025 08:48 PM (gKWVE)

174 I replaced the fan on my 18 year old refrigerator 6 months ago and it's as good as new. All the action happens in the freezer part.
Posted by: Whirlpool Willie at August 18, 2025 08:37 PM (G5+As)

The new ones blow out control modules that have to be replaced by the identical module that the techs never have on hand.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 18, 2025 08:49 PM (rbvCR)

175 Is it a Westinghouse?

I'm westing.

Posted by: Mouse with Just The Punchline at August 18, 2025 08:50 PM (wVcYX)

176 After the Army I briefly had a job as a security guy at a huge apartment complex. Apart from parking tix, my most common call was to get bats out of an apartment. You stand in the middle of the unit, with a bath towel in hand, and wait for it to appear. Whip the towel at the bat, nail it, it is wrapped up, you bring it outside. The shrieking of the Shanequas's still echoes in my ears.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 18, 2025 08:52 PM (vV6n9)

177
Ordered some hog paneling at Tractor Supply on Saturday and asked to have them delivered. The delivery would have to be done by a nearby TSC. They said maybe that day.

It wasn't that day. Or Sunday. Today I called the TSC that would be doing the delivery. They knew nothing about the order. Called the TSC I bought the panels from. No answer.

So I had to get in the car and drive 12 miles to get it straightened out. The panels are set to be delivered tomorrow. Maybe.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 08:52 PM (kkTda)

178 you go, accomack.

that's how its done

spare everyone the numerous anecdotes taken from life

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 18, 2025 08:52 PM (ppG5b)

179 You got your green alligators and your longnecked geese, your humpyback camels and your chimpanzees. Some cats and rats and elephants but sure as you're born you just ain't seen no unicorn.

But you're hear about him all night long.

Posted by: Eromero at August 18, 2025 08:53 PM (LHPAg)

180 Watcha gonna do when she says goodbye?
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at August 18, 2025 08:48 PM (bMlVe)

But me, I'm already gone
And I'm feelin' strong
I will sing (I will sing) this vict'ry song

Posted by: Pablo Cruise at August 18, 2025 08:53 PM (wVcYX)

181
It stopped refrigerating.

_______

*strokes chin thoughtfully*

That's not good.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 08:54 PM (kkTda)

182 Now if only I could find a Maytag repairman with the same machine!

Posted by: Wenda at August 18, 2025 08:54 PM (rGi39)

183 Jackstraw, did you say freezer compartment was staying cold, but frig compartment was not?

As others have mentioned, yes it could be the fan. Could also be a bad damper. Both are relatively easy fixes other than the rube Goldberg inspired way that shelves and drawers get mounted.

Posted by: Drones in Corporate HR at August 18, 2025 08:55 PM (8AONa)

184 >>eh, sorry for inflicting old Dead on everyone

I was there

Fist bump

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 08:55 PM (viF8m)

185
John Cage was a charlatan.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 08:56 PM (kkTda)

186 The shrieking of the Shanequas's still echoes in my ears.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 18, 2025 08:52 PM (vV6n9)

Discarded title in favor of Silence of the Lambs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 18, 2025 08:56 PM (i24o9)

187
An update on the wildfire my son is fighting. I
The fire is just beyond the Wyoming line in Utah.

The fire is contained but it's going to burn until we get a heavy snowfall. Lots of luck, we are having a severe drought and are on strict water restrictions. Of course our neighbors must have a lawn that looks like a golf course so they keep watering their lawns.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 18, 2025 08:57 PM (3ek7K)

188 Visual history (dated maps) of NATO violating 1990 agreement with Gorbachev on non-expansion of NATO in exchange for Germany's reunification.
_Newsmax

is quick and very clear

@ 3:53 with brief intro
https://tinyurl.com/27a5hzz6

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2025 08:58 PM (Cm8rh)

189 It stopped refrigerating today
They placed a wreath upon its door
And soon they'll carry it away
It stopped refrigerating today

Posted by: George Jones at August 18, 2025 08:58 PM (wVcYX)

190 Most of our societal collapse cn be blamed on accountants.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 08:38 PM (tyHPG)

I think you're wrong.

MBAs can be blamed for societal collapse. Accountants just give them the numbers they want, but the MBAs are the "idea men."

Posted by: RickZ at August 18, 2025 08:59 PM (gKDq2)

191 >>As others have mentioned, yes it could be the fan. Could also be a bad damper. Both are relatively easy fixes other than the rube Goldberg inspired way that shelves and drawers get mounted.

Thanks to all for the suggestions. I decided to let them rip me off on this one. It's probably something as you suggested but after years of playing Mr. Fixit on boats I'm going to pretend to live like a rich person and let someone else fix this one for me.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 08:59 PM (viF8m)

192 fourseasons

Beulah fire?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 09:00 PM (tyHPG)

193 Red Sox are managing to lose to the orioles

Posted by: Accomack at August 18, 2025 09:00 PM (Bbhox)

194 "174 I replaced the fan on my 18 year old refrigerator 6 months ago and it's as good as new. All the action happens in the freezer part.
Posted by: Whirlpool Willie at August 18, 2025 08:37 PM (G5+As)

The new ones blow out control modules that have to be replaced by the identical module that the techs never have on hand.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 18, 2025 08:49 PM (rbvCR) "

cut away at the bs wiring harness until you got CSR; common, start, run. the three terminals on the compressor. okay to keep stubs of wire, makes it easy to hook up.
get a start module as appropriate
simple Arduino program can do the rest.

PID control, just pesky to change the setpoint, lol.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 18, 2025 09:01 PM (ppG5b)

195 My dad once during the winter started up his car and heard a loud thump. The car stopped running. He called a garage. Sadly, a poor cat had climbed up into the engine area for warmth. When my dad started the car, the cat got torn apart in the fan blades and belts and its entrails stopped the engine from running. (This was ages ago when cars still had open engine compartments and belts.) Garage refused to remove the cat. My dad was in a suit and had to pull dead pieces of cat out of the engine compartment. He got home covered in blood and guts and my mom freaked out. Was a brand new Cadillac too,

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 18, 2025 09:03 PM (mPBuU)

196 "190 Most of our societal collapse cn be blamed on accountants.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 08:38 PM (tyHPG)

I think you're wrong.

MBAs can be blamed for societal collapse. Accountants just give them the numbers they want, but the MBAs are the "idea men."

Posted by: RickZ at August 18, 2025 08:59 PM (gKDq2)"

Admiral Grace Murray Hopper blamed it on "the growth of Management theory"

jus'sayin'

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 18, 2025 09:03 PM (ppG5b)

197 @Accomack. Baseball is hard. Have you ever played? Losing is part and parcel of a season.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 18, 2025 09:04 PM (vV6n9)

198 That's the only song I ever heard that uses wreath in the lyrics.

Posted by: Accomack at August 18, 2025 09:04 PM (4qMiv)

199 but the MBAs are the "idea men."
Posted by: RickZ

Accountants create and maintain the spreadsheets of destruction. Most MBAs I was unfortunate to work with were idiots.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 09:05 PM (tyHPG)

200
Sock, yes, it's around the Bear River area.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 18, 2025 09:05 PM (3ek7K)

201
PID control, just pesky to change the setpoint, lol.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez

======

Some manufactures have a 'limp' mode. If the brain detects something has gone wrong, it'll go into a mode of fixed times for frig cool, freezer cool, defrost . . . and keep on repeating.

Most consumers don't notice the difference.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 18, 2025 09:05 PM (8AONa)

202 He got home covered in blood and guts and my mom freaked out. Was a brand new Cadillac too,
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

Wait - so the Caddy ate the Catty?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 18, 2025 09:07 PM (cYBz/)

203 I got bit by a bat as a little kid. At the time, a bat bite meant you were rushed to the emergency room and given a rabies shot. The needle looked like a fucking caulking gun. Right in the gut. Painful as fuck but I didn’t cry. My dad was very impressed and beamed with pride.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 18, 2025 09:07 PM (mPBuU)

204 Some manufactures have a 'limp' mode.
Posted by: 2009Refugee

The Paolo, how you say, has no limp mode.

Posted by: The Paolo at August 18, 2025 09:08 PM (cYBz/)

205 Was a brand new Cadillac too,
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

You meant Catillac, amirite?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 18, 2025 09:08 PM (9vYpt)

206 I was a LL catcher for 3 years until the Osgood Slatters ended my career.

Posted by: Accomack at August 18, 2025 09:08 PM (4qMiv)

207 He got home covered in blood and guts and my mom freaked out. Was a brand new Cadillac too,
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

Wait - so the Caddy ate the Catty?
Posted by: Tonypete at August 18, 2025 09:07 PM (cYBz/)
—-

[golf clap]

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 18, 2025 09:08 PM (mPBuU)

208 205 Was a brand new Cadillac too,
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

You meant Catillac, amirite?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 18, 2025 09:08 PM (9vYpt)

———

[golf clap]

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 18, 2025 09:09 PM (mPBuU)

209 The SSA's 2 hour waiting estimate is seriously f'd up.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 09:10 PM (tyHPG)

210 He got home covered in blood and guts and my mom freaked out. Was a brand new Cadillac too,
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

Wait - so the Caddy ate the Catty?
Posted by: Tonypete
_____
This is sounding a lot like Billy Batts.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 18, 2025 09:10 PM (XvL8K)

211 I was a LL catcher for 3 years until the Osgood Slatters ended my career.
Posted by: Accomack at August 18, 2025 09:08 PM (4qMiv)

Golly! I had that crap in grade school, in one leg. Had to wear a cast for six months or more. Seems to have worked; have never been an athlete, but I can walk OK.

Evening, Ace, and Cafe patrons! Voted for Pierre Poilievre today in the by-election.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2025 09:11 PM (F6+9F)

212 He got home covered in blood and guts and my mom freaked out. Was a brand new Cadillac too,
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

And that was the inspiration for the kitty caddy.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 18, 2025 09:11 PM (snZF9)

213 ... Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 18, 2025 09:07 PM (mPBuU)

"there is no part of the human body that cannot be reached by a long 12 gauge needle and a strong arm"

ancient med school wisdom

innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 18, 2025 09:13 PM (ppG5b)

214 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping)@mercoglianos

MV W Sapphire, outbound from Baltimore near the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, suffered an explosion in its forward hold.

The ship has been escorted off Fort Howard and fire and
@USCG vessels are on scene.

W Sapphire is a fully loaded bulk carrier sailing to Mauritius.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2025 09:14 PM (Cm8rh)

215 good for you AOP!

(innit?)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 18, 2025 09:14 PM (ppG5b)

216 >>W Sapphire is a fully loaded bulk carrier sailing to Mauritius.

Not anymore it isn't. That was an impressive fireball.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 09:15 PM (viF8m)

217 I like the companies that give you the option of a call back instead of waiting on hold.
Posted by: polynikes at August 18, 2025 08:06 PM (EYmYM)

That is the civilized way to do it. Trump should EO the FCC to mandate that change for all companies with over 100 employees, or that do business in more than one State.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2025 09:16 PM (F6+9F)

218 Mauritius, then, innit?

uhuh. lol.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 18, 2025 09:16 PM (ppG5b)

219 g'night then innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 18, 2025 09:18 PM (ppG5b)

220 This is sounding a lot like Billy Batts.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Vinnie, what happened? Ah, we had a problem. We tried to do everything we could. Whadda mean? You know what I mean - he's gone. And we couldn't do nothing about it. Wadda mean? He's gone.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 18, 2025 09:18 PM (cYBz/)

221 She threated to disembowel and cut the trachea of the president. She seems nice.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2025 08:45 PM (w6EFb)

I think I dated her...once.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 18, 2025 09:18 PM (2WIwB)

222 210 He got home covered in blood and guts and my mom freaked out. Was a brand new Cadillac too,
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

Wait - so the Caddy ate the Catty?
Posted by: Tonypete
_____
This is sounding a lot like Billy Batts.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 18, 2025 09:10 PM (XvL8K)
——

Somewhat related, my mom thought it was my dad’s blood at first. He was a lawyer representing some mob clients at the time of the NYC mob wars. She assumed the worst. Early 1980s.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 18, 2025 09:19 PM (mPBuU)

223 I would never want anyone to be subjected to a car jacking but I would find savage amusement in them hijacking a car with a stick shift.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 18, 2025 08:12 PM (dxWFK)

Bait cars, with a cylinder of carbon monoxide programmed to spew out into the passenger cabin once the carjackers make their getaway. Once they are found dead..."Oh, must have been an exhaust leak. Too bad, so sad."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2025 09:19 PM (F6+9F)

224 I worked with an Irishman named Hughie Gallagher who lived in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The renovation company we worked for did work in Manhattan. The drill the day before Thanksgiving was to work the morning and go home with pay at noon. Also gave us a frozen turkey. Hughie brought his home on the subway and went to the bar with it until 2 or 3 AM. Don't know how many times he dropped the bird. He eventually stumbled home and was standing on the front stoop too drunk to work the lock, so he started banging on the door yelling. His wife wakes up, comes downstairs, opens the door and Hughie is standing there, kinda incoherent and covered with liquid/blood from the turkey. She almost fainted thinking he had been stabbed.

Posted by: They Don't Fly Too Good, Either at August 18, 2025 09:19 PM (G5+As)

225 The Caddy with the kitty
something something

Posted by: The Court Jester at August 18, 2025 09:19 PM (wVcYX)

226 I thought you were supposed to queue up patiently to receive communion. They were rather unruly.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 18, 2025 09:22 PM (RIvkX)

227 I would never want anyone to be subjected to a car jacking but I would find savage amusement in them hijacking a car with a stick shift.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 18, 2025 08:12 PM (dxWFK)
——

I drive a stick today. I’m fairly certain that nobody can steal it.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 18, 2025 09:22 PM (mPBuU)

228 Somewhat related, my mom thought it was my dad’s blood at first. He was a lawyer representing some mob clients at the time of the NYC mob wars. She assumed the worst. Early 1980s.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 18, 2025 09:19 PM (mPBuU)

dad was a small town lawyer and had other interesting things. He once got called out because a client thought he had an oil seep in his property and didn't know who else to call.

(Oil seep was in the truck a friend of the guy who had parked at the back edge of the property for a while)

Posted by: Kindltot at August 18, 2025 09:23 PM (rbvCR)

229 Read an interesting opinion on Trump's federalizing the DC LE the other day. His take was that taking over the infrastructure control and putting NG and other federal officers on the streets is a precursor to making some high level arrests. Any protests that will come will be shut down before they get any traction. Makes me go hmmm. I can hope can't I?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 09:24 PM (tyHPG)

230 The way Meloni looked at Trump!
That's a woman in love.
Hit it, Barbara...

Life is a moment in space
When the dream is gone, it's a lonelier place
I kissed the morning goodbye
But down inside, you know we never know why
The road is narrow and long
When eyes meet eyes and the feeling is strong
I turn away from the wall
I stumble and fall but I give you it all...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 18, 2025 08:29 PM (TGPs7)

Donald Trump is already taken. I'm available, and I have an M29 Weasel. No other Moron can make that claim, I think. Call me, Georgia!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2025 09:25 PM (F6+9F)

231 I would never want anyone to be subjected to a car jacking but I would find savage amusement in them hijacking a car with a stick shift.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 18, 2025 08:12 PM (dxWFK)
——

I drive a stick today. I’m fairly certain that nobody can steal it.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 18, 2025 09:22 PM (mPBuU)

Other than a work van I had years back every car I ever owned to this day was a stick.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 18, 2025 09:25 PM (snZF9)

232 The shrieking of the Shanequas's still echoes in my ears.
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 18, 2025 08:52 PM (vV6n9)
====
I'm standing right here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 18, 2025 09:26 PM (RIvkX)

233 I would never want anyone to be subjected to a car jacking but I would find savage amusement in them hijacking a car with a stick shift.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 18, 2025 08:12 PM (dxWFK)
——

I drive a stick today. I’m fairly certain that nobody can steal it.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 18, 2025 09:22 PM (mPBuU)

Other than a work van I had years back every car I ever owned to this day was a stick.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 18, 2025 09:25 PM (snZF9)
——

In 5 years, I don’t think any new car will be available with a stick. Sadly.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 18, 2025 09:27 PM (mPBuU)

234 Sock_rat, remember when BSG ended every post with 'And God Bless poor Bingo.'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 18, 2025 09:27 PM (zZu0s)

235 I can hope can't I?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 09:24 PM (tyHPG)

also all the really heavy hitters in the administration were in Alaska for a day leaving a lot of offices sort of empty.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 18, 2025 09:27 PM (rbvCR)

236 Ole Red my truck would be hard to start much less drive for most young people.

Posted by: Eromero at August 18, 2025 09:27 PM (LHPAg)

237 I thought I knew a lot about building and materials, but I had to look up hog panels.

Posted by: Lumpy Rutherford at August 18, 2025 09:27 PM (G5+As)

238 I was reading about movie production in Honk Kong.It was impossible to film with sound there is so much noise and people around, all dialogue and sound had to be added later.

Posted by: steevy at August 18, 2025 09:28 PM (YwEeS)

239 Belgian Malinois - Hahaha. Our Daisy does that snap-snap-snap thing when she's anticipating going out to play fetch. Alternating with twirling in circles.

We've thought about getting one of those automatic ball-throwing things. Wonder if Daisy would stand over it and not really let the ball fly like the dog in the video‽

Posted by: mindful webworker - it's a wonderful life at August 18, 2025 09:28 PM (Ks5VZ)

240 Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
(That She Wore For The First Time)
Posted by: Common Tater

Let's leave Dylan Mulvaney out of this.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 18, 2025 08:36 PM (ftFVW)

I remember that song well. I was maybe ten years old, and working for my Dad in his lawnmower shop for the summer. It was one the radio in heavy rotation. Brian Hyland, and no, I did not have to look it up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2025 09:29 PM (F6+9F)

241 >>Other than a work van I had years back every car I ever owned to this day was a stick.

I'm thinking about another toy. One requirement is a stick.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 09:29 PM (viF8m)

242
Any early-risers and or star-gazing enthusiasts, early tomorrow morning (and over a several day window) there will be a mini-planetary parade on the morning side. Mercury's max western elongation is the 19th, so if you got a flat horizon to the ENE, you can see Mercury, Venus, Jupiter in the eastern sky, with the thin waning crescent Moon close by, and then Saturn will be up there as well, past transit a little to the west.

I've never yet been able to see Mercury on the morning side, but I think I'll try again tomorrow morning.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2025 09:29 PM (w6EFb)

243 sounds like a bad thermistor

Posted by: sofasaver at August 18, 2025 09:29 PM (us2H3)

244 Seems to me I saw something g where one of the halo sportscars were going to go back to offering a manual transmission option. Evidently a lot of people who want to spend ridiculous amounts of money for a fricking sports car want a 6 speed, dammit!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 18, 2025 09:29 PM (zZu0s)

245 I like the companies that give you the option of a call back instead of waiting on hold.

That is yesterday's low-tech, today we use Google Assistant to initiate the call with customer service and then either do the deal or notify once an agent is actually on line.

It will be even better when your AI assistant works out the problem with the company's AI agent.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 18, 2025 09:30 PM (a4flb)

246 Replaced a 1990 Sub-Zero fridge about 5 years ago.

Tech who came explained that everything was working fine, but that the unavoidable kill factor (insulation absorbing moisture, gradually losing its insulation ability) was the culprit.

He said that SubZero will do new runs of old model spare parts when the requests from the field reach a certain number.

If I were to run a consumer products company, it would be much like this. Probably lower-cost/lower-end than SubZero, but higher cost than the cheap crap of today - with the guarantee that it's simpler, better made, and will last much longer. Gotta think there's an enormous market for that.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 18, 2025 09:31 PM (U/Byj)

247 Other than a work van I had years back every car I ever owned to this day was a stick.

I'm thinking about another toy. One requirement is a stick.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 09:29 PM (viF8m)
——

How about the T.50? Only $4 million!

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 18, 2025 09:31 PM (mPBuU)

248 In 5 years, I don’t think any new car will be available with a stick. Sadly.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 18, 2025 09:27 PM (mPBuU)

You're probably right. The car I have now isn't available with a stick anymore. I don't trust these newer automatics. They all seem like time bombs.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 18, 2025 09:32 PM (snZF9)

249 Seems to me I saw something g where one of the halo sportscars were going to go back to offering a manual transmission option. Evidently a lot of people who want to spend ridiculous amounts of money for a fricking sports car want a 6 speed, dammit!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 18, 2025 09:29 PM (zZu0s)
——

T.50 and Utopia. $4 million each.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 18, 2025 09:32 PM (mPBuU)

250 On our way to Fresno today, had to wait for a train loaded with lots of military vehicles and equipment. Something may be going on somewhere.

Posted by: KT at August 18, 2025 09:33 PM (7vIsy)

251 No... was it Porsche?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 18, 2025 09:33 PM (zZu0s)

252 I'm fairly certain that everyone at SSA has gone home. If I stay on the line will I be the first call answered tomorrow morning?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 09:33 PM (tyHPG)

253
131

It was a home invasion. She hid in closet with baby and blasted Shelby in the head when he entered the room DRT.

Shelby ws an aspiring rapper and soon to be astronaut.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 18, 2025 08:32

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"DRT?"

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 18, 2025 09:34 PM (qsezt)

254 Iianm, mx-5/miata are still offered with manuals.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 18, 2025 09:34 PM (zZu0s)

255 "DRT?"
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

Dead Right There

Posted by: rickb223 at August 18, 2025 09:34 PM (X98Jy)

256 188 Visual history (dated maps) of NATO violating 1990 agreement with Gorbachev on non-expansion of NATO in exchange for Germany's reunification.
_Newsmax

is quick and very clear

@ 3:53 with brief intro
https://tinyurl.com/27a5hzz6

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2025 08:58 PM (Cm8rh)

Bush and Baker knew they were lying with the "NATO not one inch to the east" BS

but they were trying to get Gorby to agree to the screwing

Posted by: sofasaver at August 18, 2025 09:35 PM (us2H3)

257
Bush and Baker knew they were lying with the "NATO not one inch to the east" BS

but they were trying to get Gorby to agree to the screwing
Posted by: sofasaver
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James Baker is a son-of-a-bitch

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2025 09:36 PM (Cm8rh)

258 No... was it Porsche?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 18, 2025 09:33 PM (zZu0s)
—-

You can get a stick in the 718 (production ends this year) and certain 911 models including the GT3. For now. Inspect the new 994 designation 911 (to be launched in 3-4 years) to be PDK only (no stick).

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 18, 2025 09:36 PM (mPBuU)

259 It was a home invasion. She hid in closet with baby and blasted Shelby in the head when he entered the room DRT.

Shelby ws an aspiring rapper and soon to be astronaut.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 18, 2025 08:32

Sounds like part of his head went orbital.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 18, 2025 09:36 PM (snZF9)

260 KT it's pretty hard to connect movement of military equipment with impending operations. Lots of stuff moves around at various times for various reasons.

Miramar has been very busy and noisy (F-35s much louder than F-18s) for about 2 weeks. Most likely possibility is squadron about to deploy to Oki or on a carrier. Or nothing like that at all - just training.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 18, 2025 09:37 PM (U/Byj)

261 brb, gotta drop a Shelby Hurd

Posted by: gKWVE at August 18, 2025 09:38 PM (gKWVE)

262 Black Cat Appreciation Day.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

I thought someone said that was yesterday.

Our old Ony cat says it's okay, every day is Black Cat Appreciation Day around here.

Posted by: mindful webworker - it's a wonderful life at August 18, 2025 09:38 PM (Ks5VZ)

263 You can still buy a stick in a frigging Cadillac. Paddle shifters are ok but they aren't nearly as engaging as driving a car with 3 pedals.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 09:39 PM (viF8m)

264 I don't understand them phasing out manual transmissions. Frigging stupid.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 18, 2025 09:40 PM (snZF9)

265 In places with weather, or for off-road, I damn sure would prefer a stick. Always liked them anyway. As is common for some time now, was shocked when I heard they had become rare (such is my isolation from all kinds of things, self-imposed of course). Where I am now, meh. But still.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 18, 2025 09:42 PM (U/Byj)

266 I've been emailing back and forth with Proton help.
Belatedly it has become apparent that their help desk is AI.
Obvious when asked for the business relationship to be terminated and it relayed that it did not understand.
It's either AI or Indians, either way it sucks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2025 09:42 PM (Cm8rh)

267 Anybody else having page loading problems?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Comments pages have been slow loading all day. Main page not so much.

Posted by: mindful webworker - it's a wonderful life at August 18, 2025 09:44 PM (Ks5VZ)

268 I don't understand them phasing out manual transmissions. Frigging stupid.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 18, 2025 09:40 PM (snZF9)

The kids aren't learning as a matter of course. So, as people die off who unde re stand and love the mysterious ways of a clutch...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 18, 2025 09:46 PM (zZu0s)

269 Itinerant Alley Butcher -- What's DRT?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 18, 2025 09:46 PM (XMwZJ)

270 I don't mind driving manuals, but when you are are at a stoplight, going uphill, in snow, nobody is on the same page. Automatics, they pretty much fail at the same rate on those slopes, people can make way. Our Mustang was barely able to stay stable, never mind climb from a full stop.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 18, 2025 09:47 PM (vV6n9)

271 I don't understand them phasing out manual transmissions. Frigging stupid.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 18, 2025 09:40 PM (snZF9)

The kids aren't learning as a matter of course. So, as people die off who unde re stand and love the mysterious ways of a clutch...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 18, 2025 09:46 PM (zZu0s)

Mindless frigging zombies.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 18, 2025 09:48 PM (snZF9)

272
They can't shift gears and text at the same time.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 18, 2025 09:49 PM (3ek7K)

273 I don't understand them phasing out manual transmissions. Frigging stupid.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads

Reduces assembly line infrastructure and labor costs. See my post above regarding accountants and societal collapse.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 09:49 PM (tyHPG)

274 Itinerant Alley Butcher -- What's DRT?
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

Dead Right There

Posted by: rickb223 at August 18, 2025 09:50 PM (X98Jy)

275 It's more that when my buds and me were driving our first cars, they were beat-up manuals, so every automatic was more efficient than ours. Couldn't afford the "Next-Gen" transmission for starter cars in New England.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 18, 2025 09:51 PM (vV6n9)

276 Oh, another earworm:

18 and Life by Skid Row

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 18, 2025 09:51 PM (zZu0s)

277 I love my manual transmission Nissan Frontier. My wife hates it, even though she knows how to drive it. She simply does not like the effort.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 18, 2025 09:51 PM (0aYVJ)

278 I actually prefer an automatic for heavy duty off-roading. It can be hard to modulate the torque level between "no move" and "spin the wheels" with a clutch, and if you do manage it, you do so at the expense of clutch life.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2025 09:52 PM (F6+9F)

279 I had a bumper to bumper start and stop last week that lasted for about an hour. Not pleasant with a clutch.

Otoh, not going to buy my car based on that outlier.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 18, 2025 09:54 PM (zZu0s)

280 I learned to drive a stick driving to Alaska with my buddy, who had a Mazda B2000, 4-speed manual. Also, it had a dying battery, so every morning we had to push-start it.

It's amazing how dumb 20 year old guys are. But, we made it.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 18, 2025 09:55 PM (0aYVJ)

281 Dumb? That's the stuff of epic stories.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 18, 2025 09:55 PM (zZu0s)

282 When I drove a stick on long trips, I always liked my left leg having something to do.

Posted by: RickZ at August 18, 2025 09:56 PM (gKDq2)

283 So, MSNBC goes all in on feminism.
I mean MS and NOW

Posted by: SMOD at August 18, 2025 10:00 PM (GITLP)

284 We made a point of teaching our sons to drive a stick. I had an Elantra with manual. Both sons have cars with manual.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 18, 2025 10:02 PM (0aYVJ)

285 NOOD DOOFY ONT awaits you at
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=416134

Posted by: mindful webworker - not first, just next at August 18, 2025 10:04 PM (Ks5VZ)

286 Had a 100cc dirt bike when I was kid. Never drove a stick in a car though. A couple years out of high school I had to make a parts run for the boss. He gave me the keys for a crappy little Isuzu pick-up (or whatever it was). Told him never drove a stick before, he told told me clutch is that peddle and the shot pattern...

Took off running it through the gears like it was a 100cc dirt bike.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 18, 2025 10:06 PM (/lPRQ)

287 My Jetta has a 5 speed manual. I could leave it running in downtown DC and I am sure no one would take it.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at August 18, 2025 10:08 PM (ycs3a)

288 You make my day, every day, with awesome animals and criminal beat downs. Thank you!!

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