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thefalsekillerwhale.jpg

Above, the false killer whale, which is actually a kind of dolphin. Though it sometimes eats other dolphins.

The false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) is a species of oceanic dolphin that is the only extant representative of the genus Pseudorca. It is found in oceans worldwide but mainly in tropical regions. It was first described in 1846 as a species of porpoise based on a skull, which was revised when the first carcasses were observed in 1861. The name "false killer whale" comes from having a skull similar to the orca (Orcinus orca), or killer whale.

The false killer whale reaches a maximum length of 6 m (20 ft), though size can vary around the world. It is highly sociable, known to form pods of up to 50 members, and can also form pods with other dolphin species, such as the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). It can form close bonds with other species, as well as have sexual interactions with them.

Just like a dolphin.

But the false killer whale has also been known to eat other dolphins, though it typically eats squid and fish. It is a deep-diver; maximum known depth is 927.5 m (3,043 ft); maximum speed is around 29 km/h (18 mph).

An evil river otter being pure evil.

Never. Stop. Herding.


A couple of old friends.

Years ago I linked the story of Pirate, an absolutely adorable senior dog who spent seven years in the shelter -- and that after living for years as a street dog. No one wanted this old dog, despite how beautiful she was. I always wondered what happened to her. I came across an update, noting that Pirate had sadly died, as old dogs do. But she had a wonderful few years after finally being rescued from the kennel.

Bull pushes his drunken owner home from the cantina.

Dog shocks itself on electric fence, and donkey laughs and laughs.

Older basset hound teaches puppy how to use the doggy door.

This sheep is a real wiseacre.

Bear doesn't like his look in the mirror.

Videos of great queues of people climbing Mt. Everest. It's so crowded nobody goes there anymore.

Another cute little kitty-cat. And more kitty-cats.

Rhino and son.

A nice part of Lake Como, because George Fucking Clooney isn't there.


Dog thought the sermon was meh.


When I see blue-footed boobies, they're always waddling around awkwardly.

But they're pretty keen hunters.

Posted by: Ace at 07:30 PM




Comments

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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2025 07:32 PM (+qU29)

2 Elephants!

Posted by: Case at August 22, 2025 07:32 PM (iwlvf)

3 The otter eventually killed the guy, ripped his arm off and he bled to death

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2025 07:35 PM (+qU29)

4 Baby polar bear was laughing

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2025 07:36 PM (+qU29)

5 3 'The otter eventually killed the guy, ripped his arm off and he bled to death'

You should write children's books.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 22, 2025 07:36 PM (3wi/L)

6 Blech. That thing looks like Flipper banged an Alien and Ripley gave it birth.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2025 07:36 PM (4CKeO)

7 An evil river otter being pure evil.

So, when a river otter goes trans, it becomes a penguin?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2025 07:36 PM (0sNs1)

8 We should have sound-off roll call during the cafe, so we can get an accurate account of how many commenters we lose to bat-borne infection per week.

Posted by: Penguin Pool Pete at August 22, 2025 07:38 PM (G5+As)

9 It's well known that Sea Otters are racist bastards.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2025 07:39 PM (4CKeO)

10 We should have sound-off roll call during the cafe, so we can get an accurate account of how many commenters we lose to bat-borne infection per week.
Posted by: Penguin Pool Pete



Here!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2025 07:40 PM (Wokrt)

11 We should have sound-off roll call during the cafe, so we can get an accurate account of how many commenters we lose to bat-borne infection per week.
Posted by: Penguin Pool Pete at August 22, 2025 07:38 PM (G5+As)
----
I'll raise a herring wallbanger cocktail in remembrance of the fallen.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2025 07:40 PM (IBQGV)

12 That lake Como vid felt like a luxury six flags boat ride.

Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2025 07:42 PM (EYmYM)

13 It can form close bonds with other species, as well as have sexual interactions with them.

As far as I know, there isn't a romantasy about this, so your SF/F shelves are safe

Posted by: gKWVE at August 22, 2025 07:43 PM (gKWVE)

14 Videos of great queues of people climbing Mt. Everest. It's so crowded nobody goes there anymore.

Great scene from ST:TNG:

Riker: I once built a model of Earth's Mount Everest.

Picard: Interesting, was it to scale?

Riker: No, it was to look at.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2025 07:43 PM (0sNs1)

15 Good evening, cafe patrons! Tonight’s menu is simple. Open face Turkey, havarti and avocado on focaccia, and chicken noodle soup I found in the freezer. 😀

Note, we have not redecorated.

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2025 07:44 PM (p4NUW)

16 "It can form close bonds with other species, as well as have sexual interactions with them"

Liaisons between the well tongued Pseudorca crassidens and penguins are too graphic to be described in mixed company. Suffice to say that the penguin gets the best end of it.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at August 22, 2025 07:45 PM (vFG9F)

17 ALIEN!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 22, 2025 07:45 PM (63Dwl)

18 We should have sound-off roll call during the cafe, so we can get an accurate account of how many commenters we lose to bat-borne infection per week.
Posted by: Penguin Pool Pete at August 22, 2025 07:38 PM

If the sound is off, how will you hear them?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2025 07:45 PM (0sNs1)

19 We should have sound-off roll call during the cafe, so we can get an accurate account of how many commenters we lose to bat-borne infection per week.
Posted by: Penguin Pool Pete at August 22, 2025 07:38 PM (G5+As)

Here !

-- definitely not a Bat mimicking a regular commenter

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2025 07:45 PM (8avO+)

20 It's well known that Sea Otters are racist bastards.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2025 07:39 PM

You people are just trolling nurse, now.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 22, 2025 07:46 PM (Wnv9h)

21 Meh. I haven’t had any interest in the Dolphins since Marino retired.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at August 22, 2025 07:46 PM (wGNwG)

22 You can blame the Nepalese if it's crowded. They are the ones that give out the permits.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 07:47 PM (kUxzU)

23 Liaisons between the well tongued Pseudorca crassidens and penguins are too graphic to be described in mixed company. Suffice to say that the penguin gets the best end of it.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at August 22, 2025 07:45 PM

Penguins are, perhaps, the most polymorphically perverse genus on the planet.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2025 07:47 PM (0sNs1)

24 Scariest animal on the planet, hands down, a dolphin with a stash of Viagra.

Posted by: Orson at August 22, 2025 07:48 PM (dIske)

25 Blech. That thing looks like Flipper banged an Alien and Ripley gave it birth.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2025 07:36 PM (4CKeO)

Venom. It is the tongue.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 22, 2025 07:48 PM (rbvCR)

26 Mahogany Rush was the Best Rush

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2025 07:48 PM (V9VN1)

27 woo, looks like the Rockies ain't doing so hot

Posted by: gKWVE at August 22, 2025 07:48 PM (gKWVE)

28 I’m not sure about that Everest vid. I think that’s another mountain or a different route to the top of Everest than normal. The reason Everest is so popular and crowded is that it’s a relatively easy route to the top, with built-in defined approaches. You can watch documentaries on it, and it’s doesn’t usually involve getting over crevasses like that.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 22, 2025 07:48 PM (+hjar)

29 'The otter eventually killed the guy, ripped his arm off and he bled to death'

You should write children's books.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 22, 2025 07:36 PM (3wi/L)

You should look more closely at the plots of Beatrix Potter stories. They are pretty intense.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2025 07:48 PM (8avO+)

30 Are we pro Penguin and anti-bat or the other way around?

I always get confused.

Where do we stand on Lemurs?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2025 07:49 PM (4CKeO)

31 The actual killer whale (orca) isn’t a whale. It’s in the dolphin family.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 22, 2025 07:50 PM (+hjar)

32 Squeeeee!


Sea otters!

Did you know they hold hand while they sleep so they don’t float away from each other?

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 22, 2025 07:50 PM (pmFfT)

33 The evil river otter is part of an elite Border Patrol unit, stationed on the Rio Grande. Note how it immobilized the attempted border-crosser, until mounted agents with whips could get to the scene.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 22, 2025 07:50 PM (l8IGe)

34
From last thread, I'm now reading up on the Six Cataracts of the Nile.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 22, 2025 07:50 PM (w6EFb)

35 I’m not sure about that Everest vid. I think that’s another mountain or a different route to the top of Everest than normal. The reason Everest is so popular and crowded is that it’s a relatively easy route to the top, with built-in defined approaches. You can watch documentaries on it, and it’s doesn’t usually involve getting over crevasses like that.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 22, 2025 07:48 PM (+hjar)

The main route has plenty of corpses as landmarks and obstacles. Every so often a group of Sherpas recover a few bodies and bring them down, but more remain up there.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2025 07:50 PM (8avO+)

36 You should look more closely at the plots of Beatrix Potter stories. They are pretty intense.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2025 07:48 PM (8avO+)

Hold our bier.

Posted by: The Brothers Grimm at August 22, 2025 07:50 PM (PiwSw)

37 Where do we stand on Lemurs?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2025 07:49 PM (4CKeO)
________________________

Speaking from personal experience, those bastards are kleptomaniacs.

Posted by: Orson at August 22, 2025 07:51 PM (dIske)

38
45
Mary Ann
Longbow
Bats

Posted by: fd at August 22, 2025 07:51 PM (vFG9F)

39 Liaisons between the well tongued Pseudorca crassidens and penguins are too graphic to be described in mixed company.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at August 22, 2025 07:45 PM

Pseudorca crassidens have their own perversities. They can hybridize with the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) to produce fertile offspring called "wholphins".

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2025 07:51 PM (0sNs1)

40 Where do we stand on Lemurs?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2025 07:49 PM (4CKeO)


NO STEP AYE-AYE!

Posted by: Kindltot at August 22, 2025 07:52 PM (rbvCR)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2025 07:52 PM (0sNs1)

42 Squeeeee!


Sea otters!

Did you know they hold hand while they sleep so they don’t float away from each other?
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 22, 2025 07:50 PM (pmFfT)

with flat rocks on the belly and another one to crack the shells they find to get inside.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2025 07:52 PM (8avO+)

43 20 It's well known that Sea Otters are racist bastards.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2025 07:39 PM

You people are just trolling nurse, now.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState


Nah. BAMA thinks he’s all safe now that he has a girlfriend to protect him.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 22, 2025 07:53 PM (pmFfT)

44 @30 “Where do we stand on lemurs?”

Not the tail! NOT THE TAIL!!!!

- The Lemurs

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at August 22, 2025 07:53 PM (wGNwG)

45 I think true killer whales are also dolphins btw.

Ever since I saw the movie Orca as a wee lad, I've found killer whales to be more horrifying than great whites. Something about those not-terribly-sharp teeth and the fact that they're smarter than chimps, I think.

Posted by: Pastafarian at August 22, 2025 07:53 PM (sifs3)

46 Where do we stand on Lemurs?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2025 07:49 PM (4CKeO)


NO STEP AYE-AYE!
Posted by: Kindltot at August 22, 2025 07:52 PM (rbvCR)

Up in the trees where the Lemurs live. Its the only chance you get.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2025 07:53 PM (8avO+)

47 Speaking from personal experience, those bastards are kleptomaniacs.
Posted by: Orson at August 22, 2025 07:51 PM (dIske)

It was fucking mistake, Orson! Our jackets are the same color!

Posted by: Larry the Lemur at August 22, 2025 07:53 PM (4CKeO)

48 "From last thread, I'm now reading up on the Six Cataracts of the Nile.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley"

You might be interested in Morehead's "The White Nile" and "The Blue Nile".

Posted by: fd at August 22, 2025 07:54 PM (vFG9F)

49 Elric beat me to it -- I don't think I've ever submitted a completely original comment to this blog. DAMMMIT.

Posted by: Pastafarian at August 22, 2025 07:54 PM (sifs3)

50 Where do we stand on Lemurs?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2025 07:49 PM (4CKeO)

Generally, in Madagascar. If you stand on a lemur at your local zoo, people get upset.

Or so I'm told.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 22, 2025 07:54 PM (l8IGe)

51 Are we pro Penguin and anti-bat or the other way around?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2025 07:49 PM

Come to the dark side. You might get a tin of sardines.

Posted by: Big Penguin at August 22, 2025 07:55 PM (0sNs1)

52 Elric beat me to it -- I don't think I've ever submitted a completely original comment to this blog. DAMMMIT.
Posted by: Pastafarian at August 22, 2025 07:54 PM (sifs3)

Elric already submitted this comment

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2025 07:55 PM (8avO+)

53 Where are the kitty cats for the Pet Thread?

Posted by: KT at August 22, 2025 07:56 PM (7vIsy)

54 Nah. BAMA thinks he’s all safe now that he has a girlfriend to protect him.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 22, 2025 07:53 PM (pmFfT

You guys should go shootin together. She's a ten ring queen.

Posted by: Larry the Lemur at August 22, 2025 07:56 PM (4CKeO)

55 Penguins have repeatedly expressed their desire for world domination. Those cute tuxes have most people fooled.

Posted by: fd at August 22, 2025 07:56 PM (vFG9F)

56 Off sock.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2025 07:56 PM (4CKeO)

57 Nah. BAMA thinks he’s all safe now that he has a girlfriend to protect him.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 22, 2025 07:53 PM

Narrator: She packs a 9mm, though.

Posted by: The Narrator at August 22, 2025 07:57 PM (0sNs1)

58
Having watched that Everest video, I'm even less inclined to climb it than I was before.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 22, 2025 07:57 PM (6eO0F)

59 woo, looks like the Rockies ain't doing so hot
Posted by: gKWVE at August 22, 2025 07:48 PM (gKWVE)

Erosion over the last 80 million years takes its toll.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2025 07:57 PM (8avO+)

60 I’m not sure about that Everest vid. I think that’s another mountain or a different route to the top of Everest than normal. The reason Everest is so popular and crowded is that it’s a relatively easy route to the top, with built-in defined approaches. You can watch documentaries on it, and it’s doesn’t usually involve getting over crevasses like that.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 22, 2025 07:48 PM (+hjar)

The main route has plenty of corpses as landmarks and obstacles. Every so often a group of Sherpas recover a few bodies and bring them down, but more remain up there.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2025 07:50 PM (8avO+)
——-

Yes, they froze due to getting caught in bad storms. It’s definitely dangerous. But the actual approach is relatively easy. They have built-in ropes and handrails. Anyone in good shape can do it. Which is why Everest tourism exploded in the 1990s. I looked into it myself.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 22, 2025 07:58 PM (+hjar)

61 Having watched that Everest video, I'm even less inclined to climb it than I was before.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 22, 2025 07:57 PM (6eO0F)

Will the planned trebuchet station change your mind?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2025 07:58 PM (8avO+)

62
David Livingstone, of "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" fame, was searching for the source of the Nile. He never found it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 22, 2025 08:00 PM (w6EFb)

63 31 The actual killer whale (orca) isn’t a whale. It’s in the dolphin family.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 22, 2025 07:50 P
I tend to mistrust killer whales, they're dangerous. I mean they even have the name killer whale.

Posted by: Eromero at August 22, 2025 08:00 PM (LHPAg)

64 From a Demotivator poster:

"Remember, every dead body on Mount Everest was once a highly motivated individual. "

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 22, 2025 08:00 PM (l8IGe)

65 The crevasses are the Khumbu Icefall. It's the first hazard above Base Camp

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 08:01 PM (kUxzU)

66 I'd prefer to be remembered as something other than a frozen mile marker. Bury me somewhere it's warm please.

Not too warm though, IYKWIM.

Posted by: fd at August 22, 2025 08:01 PM (vFG9F)

67 Yes, they froze due to getting caught in bad storms. It’s definitely dangerous. But the actual approach is relatively easy. They have built-in ropes and handrails. Anyone in good shape can do it. Which is why Everest tourism exploded in the 1990s. I looked into it myself.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 22, 2025 07:58 PM (+hjar)

2023 had the highest number of deaths ever.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2025 08:01 PM (8avO+)

68 K2 is much more dangerous. I don't know how they manage that one

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 08:02 PM (kUxzU)

69 The videos with the older dogs are just so touching. We've raised five from pups to old age and had four senior rescue dogs. Giving an older pet a good life is one of the most rewarding things you can do.

Posted by: JTB at August 22, 2025 08:02 PM (yTvNw)

70 The actual killer whale (orca) isn’t a whale. It’s in the dolphin family.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 22, 2025 07:50 P
I tend to mistrust killer whales, they're dangerous. I mean they even have the name killer whale.
Posted by: Eromero at August 22, 2025 08:00 PM (LHPAg)

Bad press agents. If Tuxedo Cats were universally called "Killer Cats" there would be fewer about I'm sure.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2025 08:03 PM (8avO+)

71 68 K2 is much more dangerous. I don't know how they manage that one

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 08:02 PM (kUxzU

Luck has something to do with it.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2025 08:03 PM (4CKeO)

72 Orcas like great white shark liver. It's the only bite they take.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 22, 2025 08:03 PM (5+Y60)

73 They only hold flat rocks because they can't get 1921s

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2025 08:03 PM (+qU29)

74 Female penguins will take colored rock offerings from male penguins, and then have sex with them, so yes, there are penguin prostitutes.

Female penguins will also take colored rock offerings from male penguins, but then not have sex with them, so yes there are penguin strippers.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2025 08:03 PM (0sNs1)

75 1911s

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2025 08:03 PM (+qU29)

76 It cost around 50k at the low end to climb Mt Everest.

I can think of better uses for 50k.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2025 08:04 PM (zAjsM)

77 K2 is much more dangerous. I don't know how they manage that one
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 08:02 PM (kUxzU)

However it is essential for absorption of D3 and Calcium

Posted by: Kindltot at August 22, 2025 08:05 PM (rbvCR)

78 "It cost around 50k at the low end to climb Mt Everest."

How much to go to the top?

But seriously, what does that get you? If you spring for another $50k can you get someone to tote your stuff? And for another $100k, tote you?

Posted by: fd at August 22, 2025 08:06 PM (vFG9F)

79 David Livingstone, of "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" fame, was searching for the source of the Nile. He never found it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 22, 2025 08:00 PM (w6EFb)

There was a interesting game "Source of the Nile" where the entire interior was empty and you fitted out expeditions to explore. If your expedition was wiped out, you erased the map that you had discovered. Big expeditions seemed the way to go, but one small hiccup and they all fell apart. It was surprisingly effective to explore solo and get back home to glory.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2025 08:06 PM (8avO+)

80 There was a interesting game "Source of the Nile" where the entire interior was empty and you fitted out expeditions to explore. If your expedition was wiped out, you erased the map that you had discovered.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2025 08:06 PM

So, you died of dysentery?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2025 08:08 PM (0sNs1)

81 We should have sound-off roll call during the cafe, so we can get an accurate account of how many commenters we lose to bat-borne infection per week.
Posted by: Penguin Pool Pete at August 22, 2025 07:38 PM

If the sound is off, how will you hear them?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2025 07:45 PM (0sNs1)




Duncanthrax, you're on mute. Can, can you hear us? If you're talking, you're on mute.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 22, 2025 08:08 PM (144I4)

82 I can think of better uses for 50k.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Two chicks, at the same time.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 22, 2025 08:09 PM (gKWVE)

83
Ahhh, there's good news! Mr. Zeus was Winners (best non-champion dog) at today's Greater Twin Cities Borzoi Club specialty for a huge 5-point major to finish his championship. He may now be styled Ch. Soyara's Dragon King.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 08:09 PM (kkTda)

84
See George Mallory and Andrew Irvine. I think they finally found their bodies. I think there's still a question if they made it to the top or not?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 22, 2025 08:09 PM (w6EFb)

85 @78

>>And for another $100k, tote you?


The full expedition experience can cost upwards of 250k

People who climb Everest are essentially rich lunatics.

And the thing is, so many people have climbed it that it's not even special anymore.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2025 08:10 PM (zAjsM)

86
Blue footed boobies synchronized diving

----

The synchronized excretion caused many screams of outrage on the boat.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 22, 2025 08:10 PM (L78T1)

87 76 It cost around 50k at the low end to climb Mt Everest.

I can think of better uses for 50k.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2025 08:04 PM (zAjsM)
——

When I looked into it, it was 60k on the low end. The package I was looking at was closer to 100k. But it takes 3 months, there’s no guarantee of a summit, and above base camp there’s no hygiene facilities. What do you do if you have to piss or shit while on a climb? You don’t want to know. I couldn’t go weeks without showering.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 22, 2025 08:10 PM (+hjar)

88 There was a interesting game "Source of the Nile" where the entire interior was empty and you fitted out expeditions to explore. If your expedition was wiped out, you erased the map that you had discovered.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2025 08:06 PM

So, you died of dysentery?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2025 08:08 PM (0sNs1)

You could, or run out of water in desert portions. In a big party your Askaris could get mad and desert on you, taking your pack animals leaving you without supplies.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2025 08:10 PM (8avO+)

89 Duncanthrax, you're on mute. Can, can you hear us? If you're talking, you're on mute.
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 22, 2025 08:08 PM

I can't hear anyone. I'm going to drop and dial back in.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2025 08:11 PM (0sNs1)

90 When I looked into it, it was 60k on the low end. The package I was looking at was closer to 100k. But it takes 3 months, there’s no guarantee of a summit, and above base camp there’s no hygiene facilities. What do you do if you have to piss or shit while on a climb? You don’t want to know. I couldn’t go weeks without showering.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 22, 2025 08:10 PM (+hjar)

You are gonna have to, the climb isn't that quick IIRC. Plus you need to carry oxygen too.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2025 08:11 PM (8avO+)

91 David Hogg has come out...


Against the Cracker Barrel rebrand.

When you've lost Camera Hogg...


Who next? Greta Thunberg?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 22, 2025 08:11 PM (qpyNK)

92 Skip at 8:03: "1911s"

I thought you were going for 2011s there, and we were going to open up that whole 45 vs 9 can of worms.

Posted by: Pastafarian at August 22, 2025 08:12 PM (sifs3)

93
I can't hear anyone. I'm going to drop and dial back in.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2025 08:11 PM (0sNs1)

SQEEEEEEEEE!

Getting a lot of feedback.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 08:12 PM (kkTda)

94 83 ... Hadrian,
Congrats on that huge win for Mr. Zeus and your latest champion.

Posted by: JTB at August 22, 2025 08:13 PM (yTvNw)

95 Thomas Bender: "I can think of better uses for 50k."

Penguin strippers and penguin prostitutes

Posted by: Pastafarian at August 22, 2025 08:13 PM (sifs3)

96 They found Mallory's body and Irvine's foot. It's likely they summited, but fell on the descent at 1:27 am. See Michael Tracy's videos on You Tube. When they found Mallory, they removed letters and personal effects that have never been made public. They also botched searching the body as they fidn't look for summit rocks.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 08:13 PM (kUxzU)

97 Ahhh, there's good news! Mr. Zeus was Winners (best non-champion dog) at today's Greater Twin Cities Borzoi Club specialty for a huge 5-point major to finish his championship. He may now be styled Ch. Soyara's Dragon King.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 08:09 PM

Congratulations!

Do the Chihuahuas ever get together and J6 one of those shows?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2025 08:14 PM (0sNs1)

98 > And the thing is, so many people have climbed it that it's not even special anymore.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2025 08:10 PM (zAjsM)


If you're looking for a seriously challenging sport involving miserable conditions, you could train for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.


People who have done both say that the Iditarod is way harder than climbing Mount Everest.

And I'd bet it easily costs more $100k after all is said and done.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 22, 2025 08:14 PM (qpyNK)

99 See George Mallory and Andrew Irvine. I think they finally found their bodies. I think there's still a question if they made it to the top or not?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 22, 2025 08:09 PM (w6EFb)

They didn't have oxygen, did they? Its pretty doubtful.

I remember an old Fantasy SF where they discovered a portal into the Miocene, one way. One dude had himself bioengineered so he could climb without oxygen and went back to the Alps since at that point they were higher than Everest.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2025 08:15 PM (8avO+)

100 Who next? Greta Thunberg?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 22, 2025 08:11 PM (qpyNK)

I think she went and bought American Eagle jeans last month.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 22, 2025 08:15 PM (rbvCR)

101 I don't give a flying fuck about Crackerbarrel, their logo or their CEO.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 22, 2025 08:15 PM (dxWFK)

102 Mt Everest is a garbage heap.

Every one of those rich assholes who climbed it should be charged with cleaning it up. They should be charged for helicopter removal of the moi rains of trash. The mountain should be closed until it is clean. And everyone (and their next of kin) are responsible for sunsidizing the wages paid to the Sherpas during the closure.

It is disgusting how those rich assholes have been allowed to literally destroy the whole area.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 22, 2025 08:15 PM (FNTGU)

103 There was a interesting game "Source of the Nile" where the entire interior was empty and you fitted out expeditions to explore. If your expedition was wiped out, you erased the map that you had discovered. Big expeditions seemed the way to go, but one small hiccup and they all fell apart. It was surprisingly effective to explore solo and get back home to glory.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2025 08:06 PM (8avO+)

See: Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890)

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 22, 2025 08:16 PM (l8IGe)

104 Ahhh, there's good news! Mr. Zeus was Winners (best non-champion dog) at today's Greater Twin Cities Borzoi Club specialty for a huge 5-point major to finish his championship. He may now be styled Ch. Soyara's Dragon King.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August

Awesome! Did he ask for a raise?

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2025 08:16 PM (p4NUW)

105 Doug Hansen worked at the Post Office and failed on his first attempt. Managed to go a second time and died up there, during the 1995 disaster. So not everyone is rich doing this. Some tried going it on their own, without being part of a regular group, with mixed results.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 08:17 PM (kUxzU)

106
This win, coupled with his half-sister Rosalind's championship last weekend in Colorado, makes their mutual dam, the late, great Delilah eligible for enrollment in the Borzoi Club of America's Register of Merit (ROM), a program that recognizes sires and dams whose offspring have earned a notable number of titles in conformation and/or performance competition.

Delilah will become the fourth generation, matrilineally, of ROM recipients at Soyara, following her mother Carmen, grandmothers Lacey and Faith, and great-grandmother Possum. These ladies and their progeny have accounted for:

- 30 AKC champions
- 8 all-breed Best in Shows
- 2 BCOA National Specialty Best in Shows
- 12 regional specialty Best of Breeds
- 2 Westminster KC Best of Breeds
- A Morris & Essex KC Best of Breed
- 3 #1 Borzoi in breed rankings
- Nearly 300 Hound Group placements, including 75 Group 1's.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 08:18 PM (kkTda)

107 what Ben Had said.
The food was never great. This "Rebrand!!" just strikes me as stray-voltage. You know, the stuff Obama's screw, I mean crew, used to float to the media, expecting the online Right reaction, which then would dutifully happen, giving Obama the fascist threat to campaign against.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 22, 2025 08:19 PM (gKWVE)

108 speaking of booby attacks, this is real, from twizzer:

Governor Newsom Press Office
@GovPressOffice
I SELDOM WATCH LOW-RATED "GARBAGEMAN" GREG GUTFELD BUT, WHEN I DO, I MARVEL AT THE FAKE LAUGHTER ON THE SHOW. IT SOUNDS LIKE A BAD "LAUGH MACHINE," IT’S SO OBNOXIOUS AND DISGUSTING, JUST LIKE HIM, ALWAYS LAUGHING NO MATTER WHAT IS SAID. REAL PATRIOTS HATE IT WHEN FOX ("EDITS THE TAPES") PUTS GARBAGEMAN GREG ON. FOX OUGHT TO "GET SMART" AND NOT USE LOSERS LIKE THIS. ALSO, THEY SHOULDN'T ALLOW NEGATIVE ADS ABOUT ME. THANK YOU! -- GCN

Posted by: gnats local678 at August 22, 2025 08:19 PM (CWTWj)

109 Congratulations Mr. zeus, Hadrian !

Posted by: KT at August 22, 2025 08:19 PM (7vIsy)

110 Senator Macaroni: "I have in my hand a list of 57 card-carrying communists who have formed an anti-penguinist faction within the Ace of Spades commentariat, and who have been instrumental in shaping comment policy to the detriment, not only of penguins, but of God-fearing Americans everywhere. Time does not permit me to name them all just now, but it is incumbent upon me to expose the leader of these gravediggers of penguinocracy, Mr. Alger Dinklethrax. Be advised, sir, your days are numbered; we have your typewriter."

Posted by: Paco at August 22, 2025 08:19 PM (mADJX)

111 See George Mallory and Andrew Irvine. I think they finally found their bodies. I think there's still a question if they made it to the top or not?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 22, 2025 08:09 PM (w6EFb)

They didn't have oxygen, did they? Its pretty doubtful.

I remember an old Fantasy SF where they discovered a portal into the Miocene, one way. One dude had himself bioengineered so he could climb without oxygen and went back to the Alps since at that point they were higher than Everest.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2025 08:15 PM (8avO+)
——-

The Appalachian mountains were probably once higher than Everest, 100s of millions of years ago. They were certainly taller than the Rockies or Euro Alps.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 22, 2025 08:19 PM (+hjar)

112 Actually, there have been cleanups. They paid a bounty to bring down oxygen bottles and there are charges to fund cleanups as part of the cost of a permit. Sherpas won't touch dead bodies but there have been attempts to remove those as well

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 08:20 PM (kUxzU)

113 nurse: propose that from now on, every Everest climb is a garbage removal expedition. This includes especially retrieving the dead bodies of idiots.
People can pay $50k to clean up trash. That, I can respect.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 22, 2025 08:20 PM (gKWVE)

114 It cost around 50k at the low end to climb Mt Everest.

I can think of better uses for 50k.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2025 08:04 PM (zAjsM)
——

Hell yeah. 10 nice used harleys, or 1 wicked new car, a fuck ton of guitars, a vacation from hell, a small bug out cabin on some acres.

Or 50K to possibly die on some mountain so people can walk past your corpse for the next 100 years.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 22, 2025 08:20 PM (snZF9)

115 Wrong. Mallory and Irvine had oxygen. It's the main reason Irvine was there. And it wasn't a bad system either

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 08:21 PM (kUxzU)

116 Mt Everest - no way I put my the dramatically increased odds of freezing or falling to my horrific death in the hands of others. As the calendar days tick by the realization sets in that our continued health and safety requires we get farther and father away from people as possible. Certainly not join hands on a rope and try walking to the sun.

Posted by: Blacknological at August 22, 2025 08:21 PM (rQDOv)

117
They didn't have oxygen, did they?

A rather crude arrangement.

It's not the ascent that kills most people on the 8000-meter peaks, it's the descent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 08:21 PM (kkTda)

118 Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice

I ain't reading all that upper case shit.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 22, 2025 08:21 PM (gKWVE)

119 Hadrian, Congratulations. Best I can do is our best producing mare averaged $22,500 per foal.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 22, 2025 08:22 PM (dxWFK)

120 Cracker Barrel was going down, they knew it, so they shorted it, lit it up and ran?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 22, 2025 08:23 PM (nO7cW)

121 They did carry primitive oxygen apparatus, that’s why Andy was selected by Mallory in favor of more experienced climbers , he was the jack of all trades fix anything kinda guy, but he was especially adept with the cantankerous O2 regulators.

It looks like somebody slipped and tried self-arrest but dragged whoever was on belay or whatever down a couple thousand feet. It’s doubtful either made the summit. Maybe.

If they found Mallory’s camera that might lay matters to rest. In the high altitude cold, there would still maybe usable images.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2025 08:23 PM (V9VN1)

122
Best I can do is our best producing mare averaged $22,500 per foal.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 22, 2025 08:22 PM (dxWFK)

And if you're anything like us, each of those foals cost you $25,000.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 08:23 PM (kkTda)

123 The curse of the reader: torn between two books.

One is new to me and promises an interesting story.

The other is a re-read, but it's annotated by the author, which adds interesting insights to how the story was written.

Which to choose? *sigh*

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2025 08:24 PM (IBQGV)

124
Were O2 levels a bit lower during the Miocene than today?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 22, 2025 08:24 PM (w6EFb)

125 Hadrian -- I had to look up Borzoi -- what a pretty breed. Looks really big and fragile though. Looks like a lot of work -- they'd need not just walked but run, maybe, and constantly brushed out. Like a dog version of Ivanka Trump.

I'm more of a Boston Terrier and Cavalier King Charles spaniel type -- utterly useless, but low-maintenance, high-character little gentlemen.

Posted by: Pastafarian at August 22, 2025 08:24 PM (sifs3)

126 We need details for the Pet Thread too, Hadran

Posted by: KT at August 22, 2025 08:25 PM (7vIsy)

127
Which to choose? *sigh*
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2025 08:24 PM (IBQGV)

If you can't read three books simultaneously, you may as well pack it in.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 08:25 PM (kkTda)

128 A lot of those Everest videos are click bait, with outdated info. There will always be a problem with cleanup. It's not like you can run a garbage truck up there. All of this is under to control of the Nepalese, who try to balance permits to keep their country going with the knowledge that people don't want to see the mountain trashed.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 08:25 PM (kUxzU)

129 Mt Everest is a garbage heap.

Every one of those rich assholes who climbed it should be charged with cleaning it up. They should be charged for helicopter removal of the moi rains of trash. The mountain should be closed until it is clean. And everyone (and their next of kin) are responsible for sunsidizing the wages paid to the Sherpas during the closure.

It is disgusting how those rich assholes have been allowed to literally destroy the whole area.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 22, 2025 08:15 PM (FNTGU)
——

All done with the knowledge and encouragement of the government. The selling of permits and the influx of money from climbing tourism is huge money for the government and locals. When locals complain, it’s always that they want more money, not anything having to do with spoiling the mountain.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 22, 2025 08:25 PM (+hjar)

130 Hadrian, surprisingly not. $ 5,000 stud fee and I do all the insemination and vet work myself along with the training .

Posted by: Ben Had at August 22, 2025 08:25 PM (dxWFK)

131 so high
higher than a kite can fly

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 22, 2025 08:26 PM (nO7cW)

132 >>>It's not the ascent that kills most people on the 8000-meter peaks, it's the descent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh



Or the penguins. But mostly the penguins.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 22, 2025 08:26 PM (144I4)

133 The curse of the reader: torn between two books.

One is new to me and promises an interesting story.

The other is a re-read, but it's annotated by the author, which adds interesting insights to how the story was written.

Which to choose? *sigh*
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2025 08:24 PM (IBQGV)

Pull a Marty Feldman and read both at the same time.

Posted by: RickZ at August 22, 2025 08:26 PM (gKDq2)

134 Mount Everest is getting taller at a rate of about 2 millimeters per year due to geological processes, including continental erosion from nearby rivers, and isostatic rebound. It has gained, over the past 89,000 years, an estimated additional height of 15 to 50 meters.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2025 08:27 PM (0sNs1)

135 Which to choose? *sigh*
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2025 08:24 PM (IBQGV)

If you can't read three books simultaneously, you may as well pack it in.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 08:25 PM (kkTda)
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Funny you should mention a third book...because I do have a third book sitting next to the other two. Well, there's also a fourth book...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2025 08:27 PM (IBQGV)

136
It is disgusting how those rich assholes have been allowed to literally destroy the whole area.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 22, 2025

You pay a big deposit before you climb and if you return with a certain amount of trash, you get the deposit back. $5k, I think. Not sure how successful that has been, there are other projects in place to clean, too, but its not easy to manage. The touristing and climbing is what drives the local economy, which is why there has been little interest in limiting it either on the side of the Chinese or Nepalese.

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2025 08:28 PM (p4NUW)

137 "It has gained, over the past 89,000 years, an estimated additional height of 15 to 50 meters.
Posted by: Duncanthrax "

Soon...

Posted by: The Kaiju under Everest at August 22, 2025 08:28 PM (vFG9F)

138 In other good news

Due to Trump taking over DC, the entitled leftist twats are finding out their 'vital' perk of food delivery is being adversely impacted as illegals working as delivery drivers are being arrested.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 22, 2025 08:28 PM (it2Ky)

139 134 Mount Everest is getting taller at a rate of about 2 millimeters per year due to geological processes, including continental erosion from nearby rivers, and isostatic rebound. It has gained, over the past 89,000 years, an estimated additional height of 15 to 50 meters.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2025

(It’s probably the frozen poop)

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2025 08:29 PM (p4NUW)

140 $ 5,000 stud fee and I do all the insemination and vet work myself along with the training .
Posted by: Ben Had at August 22, 2025 08:25 PM

No mention of the kitchen table?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2025 08:29 PM (0sNs1)

141 Mallory's watch was stopped at 1:27. He had it in his pocket and it's believed he fell on it. And since his googles were in his pocket, that meant it was night time. This was one of the earliest attempts to climb it. All that points to dying on the descent. And Mallory did try to self arrest and survived the fall for a time, with a broken leg. There are rumored to be drone footage from the searches for both of them, but National Geographic won't release it

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 08:30 PM (kUxzU)

142
What did we learn this week? Well, relearn, really.

We learned that when the topic of Tucker Carlson comes up here, we are to remember that episode of Twilight Zone with the fickle boy with magical powers.

His name is Anthony Fremont, and you didn't want to cross Anthony.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 22, 2025 08:30 PM (4Atq1)

143 Pirate was just the sweetest pup.

Posted by: Max Power at August 22, 2025 08:30 PM (q177U)

144 >>>DHS notified Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s counsel via email that ICE may deport Abrego Garcia to Uganda “no earlier than 72 hours from now”, & ICE is also ordering him to report to ICE’s Baltimore office on Monday.
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Ya boss, I'll be there on time.
_Kilmar

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 22, 2025 08:30 PM (nO7cW)

145 Elephant plays hardball.

https://is.gd/TazrLr

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at August 22, 2025 08:32 PM (L/fGl)

146 They didn't have oxygen, did they?

A rather crude arrangement.

It's not the ascent that kills most people on the 8000-meter peaks, it's the descent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 08:21 PM (kkTda)
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True, but not in the way most people think. The descent is most dangerous because climbers often stay too long on the summit or trying to reach it. They can calculate the weather with surprising accuracy in terms of when to climb, and even how long the window is. But if you stay too long — and many do — you run huge risks of bad weather on the way down. That catastrophe in the 1990s (they made movies about it) was 100% that they stayed too long at the summit.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 22, 2025 08:32 PM (+hjar)

147 Ya boss, I'll be there on time.
_Kilmar

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 22, 2025 08:30 PM

Vamos, sí.

Posted by: Maryland man Kilmar at August 22, 2025 08:32 PM (0sNs1)

148 I'm a show-er and grow-er.

Posted by: Mt. Everest at August 22, 2025 08:33 PM (4/BuS)

149 132 Or the penguins. But mostly the penguins. - haffhowershower

You people are making things very easy for the House Un-Penguiny Activities Committee.

Posted by: Paco at August 22, 2025 08:35 PM (mADJX)

150 I see no point of climbing Everest

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2025 08:35 PM (+qU29)

151 It is disgusting how those rich assholes have been allowed to literally destroy the whole area.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 22, 2025

You pay a big deposit before you climb and if you return with a certain amount of trash, you get the deposit back. $5k, I think. Not sure how successful that has been, there are other projects in place to clean, too, but its not easy to manage. The touristing and climbing is what drives the local economy, which is why there has been little interest in limiting it either on the side of the Chinese or Nepalese.
Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2025 08:28 PM (p4NUW)
——

Yup, similar to big game hunting in Africa, and even safari tourism in general. The price of a tag to kill a lion is more than the locals make in 10 years.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 22, 2025 08:35 PM (+hjar)

152 Posted by: Ben Had


Email sent.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2025 08:36 PM (Wokrt)

153 The highest peak I ever hiked was Medicine Bow in Wyoming (just short of 14,000, but we started at over 11,000). Fairly easy, especially since at the time I was in my 40s. I have absolutely no desire to attempt anything even moderately difficult. Hell, 20 years in Colorado, the only fourteener I was on was driving up Pike's Peak.

Good enough.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 22, 2025 08:37 PM (0aYVJ)

154 "When two old guys mean the world to each other"

Looks like me except I'm trying to put groceries away instead of a dog. Here recently I've actually had people come up to me and offer to help.

Posted by: javems at August 22, 2025 08:37 PM (8I4hW)

155 I do know that one of the folks heavily into investingating Everest is a fan of Ace but no idea who it is.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 08:37 PM (kUxzU)

156
Yup, similar to big game hunting in Africa, and even safari tourism in general. The price of a tag to kill a lion is more than the locals make in 10 years.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

I hate the thought of this, but it is what it is. I would love to go on a photography safari, though.

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2025 08:39 PM (p4NUW)

157 How much do the sherpas charge to retrieve the corpse of a loved one who died trying to ascend Mt Everest?

Posted by: davidt at August 22, 2025 08:40 PM (i0F8b)

158 The 1995 disaster that Krakauer wtote the fictionalized book about. Killed the leaders of two teams and several on Rob Hall's team. One of those things people get in fights on the internet over.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 08:40 PM (kUxzU)

159 By the way, y’all' the Silly Skeleton Dance was released this day in 1929.

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2025 08:41 PM (p4NUW)

160 YouTube video says there are 1400 satellites orbiting the planet, soon we won't see the sun anymore

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2025 08:41 PM (+qU29)

161 Yup, similar to big game hunting in Africa, and even safari tourism in general. The price of a tag to kill a lion is more than the locals make in 10 years.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

I hate the thought of this, but it is what it is. I would love to go on a photography safari, though.
Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2025 08:39 PM (p4NUW)
——

Do it. I took my mom on safari for her birthday. Tanzania and Kenya. Absolutely amazing.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 22, 2025 08:41 PM (+hjar)

162 False Killer Whales have WNBA worthy tongues.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 22, 2025 08:42 PM (zdKZs)

163 There are dead people on Everest and no one is taking bodies down

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2025 08:42 PM (+qU29)

164 Sherpas don't handle dead bodies. Anglo climbers have gone up and put rock cairns over some bodies. Others are pushed into crevasses. Almost none are retrieved.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 08:42 PM (kUxzU)

165 Tallest mountain I've scaled lately is Britton Hill, the highest point in Florida. It rises to a majestic 345 ft. above sea level. The air was quite thin up there. It's nearly in Alabama.

Posted by: Sir Edmund Millinery at August 22, 2025 08:42 PM (G5+As)

166 >> says there are 1400 satellites orbiting the planet,

That's 14,900 as of mid-2025.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 22, 2025 08:43 PM (w6EFb)

167 They are savaging Cracker Barrel on Facebook.

Old sign & picture of Sydney Sweeney in a bustier.

New sign & picture of the broad who did Snow White.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2025 08:44 PM (Wokrt)

168 I hate the thought of this, but it is what it is. I would love to go on a photography safari, though.
Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2025 08:39 PM

https://tinyurl.com/ycyuyhmm

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2025 08:44 PM (0sNs1)

169 157 How much do the sherpas charge to retrieve the corpse of a loved one who died trying to ascend Mt Everest?
Posted by: davidt at August 22, 2025

A lot, if they can even get to them, like a whole whole lot. This is why families tend to ask for them to be left, but not out in the open, in a better place away from everyone’s eyes.

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2025 08:44 PM (p4NUW)

170
Those dead bodies on Everest are helpful directional markers. "Turn left at Green Boots."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 08:44 PM (kkTda)

171 I'm not sure that Green Boots is still there. I think I read that his was one of the bodies moved. There was an American that died in that same spot.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 08:46 PM (kUxzU)

172 Those dead bodies on Everest are helpful directional markers. "Turn left at Green Boots."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


Left houng up or left coming down? Crap!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2025 08:46 PM (Wokrt)

173 Sherpas don't handle dead bodies. Anglo climbers have gone up and put rock cairns over some bodies. Others are pushed into crevasses. Almost none are retrieved.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 08:42 PM (kUxzU)

yeah I didn't think they ever retrieved them from what I read. I remember seeing pictures of ones still laying around for years. They actually had names for some. I think one was called green boots or pants guy or some shit because of the color of his clothes. Thats just messed up.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 22, 2025 08:47 PM (snZF9)

174 The pelvis is against the wall.

I say again, the pelvis is against the wall.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2025 08:48 PM (JkO4W)

175 There are dead people on Everest
Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2025 08:42 PM

I can see them.

Posted by: Cole Sear at August 22, 2025 08:50 PM (0sNs1)

176
Annapurna and K2 are more dangerous than Everest based on the ratio of killed to successfully summitting.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 08:51 PM (kkTda)

177 Dutch, New Social Contract party blocked new sanctions measures to be imposed on Israel.



From anti-Israel zerohedge; ""... foreign minister Casper Veldkamp (center-right New Social Contract party) stepped down in protest

"Over twenty countries, including many in Europe and Netherlands among them, have this week signed a joint declaration condemning Israel's approval of a major West Bank settlement project, dubbing it "unacceptable and contrary to international law."

Parallel to the situation in the United States, the Dutch right is beginning to split on Israel - as more and more conservatives, and especially young people begin to question their governments' constant support of Israel""
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The other day someone mentioned how odd it is this anti-Israel sentiment popping up here, there and and all around the net.
Soros Jr. may have another way to waste his money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 22, 2025 08:51 PM (nO7cW)

178 163 There are dead people on Everest and no one is taking bodies down
Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2025 08:42 PM (+qU29)

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Seems like gravity would make the task rather easy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2025 08:51 PM (JkO4W)

179 Send the frozen ones to a zoo in Denmark.

Posted by: The Kaiju under Everest at August 22, 2025 08:51 PM (vFG9F)

180 I'm not sure that Green Boots is still there. I think I read that his was one of the bodies moved. There was an American that died in that same spot.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 08:46 PM (kUxzU)

Ah, so it was green boots. I couldn't remember if it was boots or pants. Nasty land mark. And over here we have...

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 22, 2025 08:51 PM (snZF9)

181 @105

>>Doug Hansen worked at the Post Office and failed on his first attempt.

He threw away his money and his life, If you could ask him if it was worth it, I doubt he'd say yes.

I rather spend 50k stuffing V8 Tundra engine into my 4Runner.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2025 08:51 PM (XV/Pl)

182
Do it. I took my mom on safari for her birthday. Tanzania and Kenya. Absolutely amazing.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

What a memory you gave her! Good on you.

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2025 08:52 PM (p4NUW)

183
Re: Debris on famous mountain.

Mt. Kilamanjaro in Africa has a walking path all the way to the top. I read an account of an ascent, where the author observed walls on either side of the trail. On closer examination, the walls were made of human poop, deposited over the years by thousands of pilgrims. Left in place because, Africa.

They build houses out of it. Why remove it?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 22, 2025 08:53 PM (qsezt)

184 Those dead bodies on Everest are helpful directional markers. "Turn left at Green Boots."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

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Left houng up or left coming down? Crap!
Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2025 08:46 PM

Remember the navigational marker rule "Red on right returning". So green would be right going up, and left coming down.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2025 08:53 PM (0sNs1)

185
Vamos, sí.
Posted by: Maryland man Kilmar
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Ya me voy.
_Kilmar

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 22, 2025 08:53 PM (nO7cW)

186 They have identified Green Boots but I'd have to look it up. Most folks didn't notice the Anerican is that same spot, because they were trying not to look at the dead body. American was pretty far gone before someone tried to help.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 08:54 PM (kUxzU)

187 If Everest was a nice smooth slope bodies might come down on there own

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2025 08:54 PM (+qU29)

188
Had a co-worker who summitted both Everest and Lhotse.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 08:57 PM (kkTda)

189 They build houses out of it. Why remove it?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 22, 2025 08:53 PM (qsezt)

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In the Himalayas it's yak dung, flattened into patties and stacked everywhere -- on the roof, in the yard, in the house. Walls of yak dung, 7 ft high.

A shitty monument to human ingenuity.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2025 08:57 PM (JkO4W)

190 Hansen tried to turn back that second trip and Hall talked him into going on. That's the reason Hall got stuck up there and died too. You underestimate summit fever, which makes people do stupid things.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 08:57 PM (kUxzU)

191 Very few cuter things than baby elephants.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2025 08:58 PM (viF8m)

192 If Everest was a nice smooth slope bodies might come down on there own
Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2025 08:54 PM (+qU29)

That'll work. But we liked the bounce the stairs provided.

Posted by: Aztecs at August 22, 2025 08:59 PM (gKDq2)

193 182
Do it. I took my mom on safari for her birthday. Tanzania and Kenya. Absolutely amazing.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

What a memory you gave her! Good on you.
Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2025 08:52 PM (p4NUW)
——

I’m a momma’s boy. I’ve taken her to probably 25 countries. We’re planning on Iceland next year.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 22, 2025 08:59 PM (+hjar)

194 Like a mischievous baby elephant in a china shop … hey, who the heck has china shops nowdays anyway?

Posted by: mindful webworker - birthday boy at August 22, 2025 08:59 PM (i1iCx)

195 Hansen tried to turn back that second trip and Hall talked him into going on. That's the reason Hall got stuck up there and died too. You underestimate summit fever, which makes people do stupid things.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 08:57 PM (kUxzU)

Lack of oxygen, biting cold and 'I paid good money to get to the top!'

Posted by: RickZ at August 22, 2025 09:01 PM (gKDq2)

196 >>Ever since I saw the movie Orca as a wee lad, I've found killer whales to be more horrifying than great whites. Something about those not-terribly-sharp teeth and the fact that they're smarter than chimps, I think.

Orcas won't hurt you.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2025 09:01 PM (viF8m)

197 Yak dung is useful. Bat guano is useful. No one has any use for the mephitic projectile eliminations of penguins.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2025 09:02 PM (0sNs1)

198 That "false killer whale" looks like something that would burst out of a dolphin's chest after being implanted by a face-hugger.

Posted by: PabloD at August 22, 2025 09:04 PM (F7Bkc)

199 Well...at least we go some boobies

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 22, 2025 09:04 PM (xcxpd)

200 Orcas are actually members of Delphinidae, so they are dolphins as well. Don't know why they're called "killer whales." Sounds sexier than "murder dolphin," I guess.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 22, 2025 09:04 PM (WvZaB)

201 I see no point of climbing Everest
Posted by: Skip

It's there and I'm OK with that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at August 22, 2025 09:05 PM (L/fGl)

202 A Yak in every yurt! Yak milk, Yak butter, Yak dung, Yak fiber and they pull a cart too.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 22, 2025 09:06 PM (dxWFK)

203
197 Yak dung is useful. Bat guano is useful. No one has any use for the mephitic projectile eliminations of penguins.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2025 09:02 PM

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Fighting the enemy!

It has to be harnessed, like atomic energy.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 22, 2025 09:06 PM (hZ1gu)

204 Beck Wethers is the one to read. Got up on the push to the summit and learned that the surgery he had to correct his vision left him blind at that altitude and cold. Stayed down, waiting several hours for Hall, before he finally decided to leave with help. Was left for dead twice, but came to and managed to struggle on. Lost both forearms, faciial damage and toes due to frostbite.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 09:06 PM (kUxzU)

205 Cleanup needed post #197. The man is sick! Trump is reopening facilities to house such poor unfortunates!

Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23 at August 22, 2025 09:08 PM (G5+As)

206 I’m a momma’s boy. I’ve taken her to probably 25 countries. We’re planning on Iceland next year.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

I am jealous- you can fly direct there from JFK to Reykjavik. I haven’t been to Iceland, and surprisingly, I haven’t been to Spain. How I connected those 2 things in my brain, we shall never know.

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2025 09:11 PM (p4NUW)

207 Beck Wethers is the one to read. Got up on the push to the summit and learned that the surgery he had to correct his vision left him blind at that altitude and cold. Stayed down, waiting several hours for Hall, before he finally decided to leave with help. Was left for dead twice, but came to and managed to struggle on. Lost both forearms, faciial damage and toes due to frostbite.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 09:06 PM (kUxzU)

Got a good story for his money.

I'll read about it. I don't want to live it.

There's enough things out there that will kill you for free, why pay for it? Adrenaline be damned.

Posted by: RickZ at August 22, 2025 09:12 PM (gKDq2)

208
Orcas won't hurt you.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2025

Especially if you stay out of the ocean.

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2025 09:12 PM (p4NUW)

209 >>Orcas are actually members of Delphinidae, so they are dolphins as well. Don't know why they're called "killer whales." Sounds sexier than "murder dolphin," I guess.

Because they kill sharks and eat their livers.

Won't hurt you unless you have a shark liver.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2025 09:12 PM (viF8m)

210 The orca that gets my liver is in for a nasty surprise.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 22, 2025 09:13 PM (gKWVE)

211 We have, as a nation, failed the younger generation. Is anyone building any housing of modest means? Follow my company to get one's foot in the door of affordable housing.

Posted by: Starter Dung Huts, LLC at August 22, 2025 09:14 PM (G5+As)

212
210 The orca that gets my liver is in for a nasty surprise.
Posted by: gKWVE at August 22, 2025 09:13 PM

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Broken tooth?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 22, 2025 09:15 PM (hZ1gu)

213 202 A Yak in every yurt! Yak milk, Yak butter, Yak dung, Yak fiber and they pull a cart too.
Posted by: Ben Had at August

We can sell yak ice cream for those wanting to elevate from goats milk!

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2025 09:15 PM (p4NUW)

214 Won't hurt you unless you have a shark liver.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2025 09:12 PM (viF8m)

That's a lie. Plenty of lawyers swim in the ocean and I have yet to hear of any orca attacks on lawyers for their livers.

Posted by: RickZ at August 22, 2025 09:15 PM (gKDq2)

215 I can understand dying to try to go to the moon or Mars. Not mountains. I dunno.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 22, 2025 09:15 PM (zZu0s)

216 >>Especially if you stay out of the ocean.

Why would you do that?

It's the most magical place on the planet.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2025 09:15 PM (viF8m)

217 You should stay out of the water if you happen to be dark brown and shaped like a sea lion.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2025 09:16 PM (JkO4W)

218 196 >>Ever since I saw the movie Orca as a wee lad, I've found killer whales to be more horrifying than great whites. Something about those not-terribly-sharp teeth and the fact that they're smarter than chimps, I think.

Orcas won't hurt you.
Posted by: JackStraw


Humans are ok but we REALLY LOVE SEA OTTERS!!! We just want to be friends with them. (big toothy smile)

Posted by: Orca at August 22, 2025 09:16 PM (ErLti)

219 The orca that gets my liver is in for a nasty surprise.
Posted by: gKWVE at August 22, 2025 09:13 PM (gKWVE)

Like a bourbon ball without the chocolate?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 22, 2025 09:16 PM (zZu0s)

220 Congratulations H7 and Ch. Soyara's Dragon King!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 22, 2025 09:17 PM (ppG5b)

221 Dammit! This is the thing about going on keto. I immediately start thinking of all the yummy pastries and candy I haven't been eating and now can't eat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 22, 2025 09:17 PM (zZu0s)

222 We have, as a nation, failed the younger generation. Is anyone building any housing of modest means? Follow my company to get one's foot in the door of affordable housing.
Posted by: Starter Dung Huts, LLC at August 22, 2025 09:14 PM (G5+As)


Step off.


Posted by: Shatitat for Shartmanity at August 22, 2025 09:17 PM (144I4)

223 211 We have, as a nation, failed the younger generation. Is anyone building any housing of modest means? Follow my company to get one's foot in the door of affordable housing.
Posted by: Starter Dung Huts, LLC at

We are offering new home owners special discounts with the special code dung!

Posted by: Potpourri Emporium at August 22, 2025 09:17 PM (p4NUW)

224 Sharks don't bother you if your not in the ocean

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2025 09:18 PM (+qU29)

225 Krakauer was good until the middle 2010s.
In retrospect, Missoula about rape complaints in colleges would have made more impact a decade earlier. Because the middle 2010s was exactly when a lot of rape complaints in colleges were proven to be bullshit.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 22, 2025 09:18 PM (gKWVE)

226 Rumor is Maryland Man will make a new life picking coffee in Uganda...

Prolly should have just stayed home.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 22, 2025 09:19 PM (/lPRQ)

227 You should stay out of the water if you happen to be dark brown and shaped like a sea lion.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2025 09:16 PM (JkO4W)

So Stacey Abrams.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 22, 2025 09:19 PM (zZu0s)

228 WY past my bedtime,
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2025 09:19 PM (+qU29)

229 Above, the false killer whale, which is actually a kind of dolphin. Though it sometimes eats other dolphins.

Teeth like that, it can eat anything it wants.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 22, 2025 09:19 PM (2WIwB)

230 Night skip.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 22, 2025 09:20 PM (zZu0s)

231 That dude is lucky that evil river otter didn't rip out his throat and swim happily in the blood soaked waters.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 22, 2025 09:21 PM (2WIwB)

232 216
It's the most magical place on the planet.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2025 09:15 PM (viF8m)

I love watching the dolphins from the boat, but I will only swim in my pool.


Posted by: Potpourri Emporium at August 22, 2025 09:22 PM (p4NUW)

233 The orca that gets my liver is in for a nasty surprise.
Posted by: gKWVE at August 22, 2025 09:13 PM

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Broken tooth?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug


Drunk?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2025 09:22 PM (Wokrt)

234 Sharks don't bother you if your not in the ocean
Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2025 09:18 PM (+qU29)

That is definitely not true. Sharks have been known to swim inland. Happened in Jersey in the early 1900s, swimming up the Matewan Creek and killing 4 people.

Posted by: RickZ at August 22, 2025 09:23 PM (gKDq2)

235 224 Sharks don't bother you if your not in the ocean
Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2025 09:18 PM (+qU29)

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It's in the Shark's Code.

Well, more of a guideline actually.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2025 09:23 PM (JkO4W)

236 The nice thing about the summit of Everest? No orcas.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 22, 2025 09:23 PM (l8IGe)

237 Some people are risk takers and fall in love with the mountains. Always been like that. I'm not athletic and don't care for heights but I find the stories interesting.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 22, 2025 09:24 PM (kUxzU)

238 236 The nice thing about the summit of Everest? No orcas.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 22, 2025 09:23 PM (l8IGe)

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The orcas all hang out in the bars in Kathmandu.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2025 09:24 PM (JkO4W)

239 Welp, I can now say I have joined the ranks of anyone who has been disowned by a sibling over politics. I was overseas for two years and texted back and forth with my brother on holidays, our kids' birthdays, our birthdays, etc., never said anything about politics. A few days after I'm back and he starts bringing up political stuff. I said politics shouldn't dictate our relationship and offer let's just agree not to talk politics. He didn't go for it. Returned the birthday gift I got him.

Sorry to bring the thread down, I just needed to vent.

Posted by: Mainah at August 22, 2025 09:25 PM (LFd6j)

240 >>Sharks don't bother you if your not in the ocean

Depends what kind of sharks you are talking about.

Who has the higher body count over the last couple of years, the sharks in blue cities in the US or the body count of every shark attacks in oceans around the world?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2025 09:25 PM (viF8m)

241 Do people eat shark livers? Are they as tasty as Shamu says?

Posted by: Chicken of the Sea at August 22, 2025 09:25 PM (G5+As)

242 They are savaging Cracker Barrel on Facebook.

Old sign & picture of Sydney Sweeney in a bustier.

New sign & picture of the broad who did Snow White.
Posted by: rickb223

Last night's ONT too, but it was Sydney from the jeans ad, and Greta the doom goblin.

Posted by: mikeski at August 22, 2025 09:25 PM (DgGvY)

243
Sorry to bring the thread down, I just needed to vent.

Posted by: Mainah at August 22, 2025 09:25 PM (LFd6j)

__________

It's what we're here for.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 09:26 PM (kkTda)

244 Videos of great queues of people climbing Mt. Everest. It's so crowded nobody goes there anymore.


I'd rather be climbing back onto my bar stool than Mt Everest.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 22, 2025 09:26 PM (2WIwB)

245
It's in the Shark's Code.

Well, more of a guideline actually.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August


Jack Sparrow!

Posted by: Potpourri Emporium at August 22, 2025 09:27 PM (p4NUW)

246 Sea otters hold hands so they stay together as they sleep. We call that the two for one dinner special.

Posted by: Orca at August 22, 2025 09:28 PM (i0F8b)

247 Sorry for your situation, Mainah. I maintain a strict "no politics" policy with my sis, who is convinced that Trump is herding Americans into concentration camps and everyone in the world hates us now.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2025 09:29 PM (JkO4W)

248 239


Sorry to bring the thread down, I just needed to vent.

Posted by: Mainah

I am so sorry, that must hurt. I will pray he realizes family is more important and can’t be replaced.

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2025 09:31 PM (p4NUW)

249 Do people eat shark livers? Are they as tasty as Shamu says?
Posted by: Chicken of the Sea at August 22, 2025 09:25 PM (G5+As)


According to the box of Preparation H, you can shove some shark liver oil up your ass!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 22, 2025 09:31 PM (2WIwB)

250 I see no point of climbing Everest
Posted by: Skip

It's there and I'm OK with that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at August 22, 2025 09:05 PM (L/fGl)

The wife worked with a dude that climbed it. She also mentioned he was a dick.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 22, 2025 09:32 PM (snZF9)

251 In a world where the skies are alive with vibrant wings, one creature soars above the rest, captivating hearts and defying gravity. The boobies—bold, blue-footed, and unapologetically unique—dance across the oceans, their quirky charm uniting a fractured planet. But when their coastal haven faces a shadowy threat, only one hero can rally these feathered icons to save their legacy. Prepare for a tale of courage, comedy, and unexpected dives... into destiny!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 22, 2025 09:33 PM (cYBz/)

252
Re stuff in orbit. Right now, there are around 50,000 pieces of shit > 10 cm in size in orbit. NORAD tracks all of those. There are millions of pieces of smaller stuff.

Look up "Kessler Syndrome". We're not there yet, but it's a potential future problem. Once the density of space junk in orbit reaches a certain density, it causes of cascade, a chain reaction of collisions that would produce a debris field in orbit which would make launching anything new into orbit impossible.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 22, 2025 09:33 PM (w6EFb)

253 Sorry for your situation, Mainah. I maintain a strict "no politics" policy with my sis, who is convinced that Trump is herding Americans into concentration camps and everyone in the world hates us now.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Go with it -

Tell her two families on the block moved without nobody knowing about it the houses are now occupied. One by a large family from Guatamala and the other by a few single guys from Venezuela.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 22, 2025 09:34 PM (/lPRQ)

254 Thanks Hadrian and Cicero. It's like he's incapable of separating Trump and me.

Posted by: Mainah at August 22, 2025 09:35 PM (LFd6j)

255 Sharks don't bother you if your not in the ocean
Posted by: Skip

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It's in the Shark's Code.

Well, more of a guideline actually.
Posted by: Cicero

Bullshit!! Land sharks will show up at your apartment door disguising themselves.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 22, 2025 09:35 PM (cYBz/)

256 Re stuff in orbit. Right now, there are around 50,000 pieces of shit > 10 cm in size in orbit. NORAD tracks all of those. There are millions of pieces of smaller stuff.

Look up "Kessler Syndrome". We're not there yet, but it's a potential future problem. Once the density of space junk in orbit reaches a certain density, it causes of cascade, a chain reaction of collisions that would produce a debris field in orbit which would make launching anything new into orbit impossible.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 22, 2025 09:33 PM (w6EFb)

We need a ship to drag a giant space magnet. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 22, 2025 09:35 PM (snZF9)

257 Land Shark!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 22, 2025 09:36 PM (63Dwl)

258
Look up "Kessler Syndrome".

Coast to Coast AM

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 22, 2025 09:37 PM (63Dwl)

259 Space Magnet.

Steve Miller really missed the boat not writing a song about that.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2025 09:37 PM (JkO4W)

260 I used to see a lot of blue footed boobies. Then Mrs.D got new slippers and...well...I started hanging out in bars.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 22, 2025 09:37 PM (2WIwB)

261 Re stuff in orbit. Right now, there are around 50,000 pieces of shit > 10 cm in size in orbit. NORAD tracks all of those. There are millions of pieces of smaller stuff.

Look up "Kessler Syndrome". We're not there yet, but it's a potential future problem. Once the density of space junk in orbit reaches a certain density, it causes of cascade, a chain reaction of collisions that would produce a debris field in orbit which would make launching anything new into orbit impossible.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 22, 2025 09:33 PM (w6EFb)
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We need a ship to drag a giant space magnet. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 22, 2025 09:35 PM (snZF9)

Nuke the debris orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: RickZ at August 22, 2025 09:38 PM (gKDq2)

262 Thanks, Piper. Yeah, that's what I keep praying, that the Lord will work on his heart to realize that.

Posted by: Mainah at August 22, 2025 09:39 PM (LFd6j)

263 Or 50K to possibly die on some mountain so people can walk past your corpse for the next 100 years.
Posted by: Berserker

And that means that literally everyone who sees you is better at doing what you did than you were.

Posted by: mikeski at August 22, 2025 09:39 PM (DgGvY)

264 It's in the Shark's Code.

Well, more of a guideline actually.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2025 09:23 PM

That's why I always carry a little briefcase when I dive. Sharks don't bite lawyers...professional courtesy.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 22, 2025 09:40 PM (Wnv9h)

265 And that means that literally everyone who sees you is better at doing what you did than you were.
Posted by: mikeski at August 22, 2025 09:39 PM (DgGvY)

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Pfft.

Not if they're still on the way up.

Posted by: Green Boot Guy at August 22, 2025 09:40 PM (JkO4W)

266 Nuke the debris orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: RickZ at August 22, 2025 09:38 PM (gKDq2)

I remember seeing a map of it. Its not like a ring of saturn, its like a frigging cloud around the entire planet. I can't believe they can even launch rockets at all at this point.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 22, 2025 09:40 PM (snZF9)

267 We need a ship to drag a giant space magnet. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 22, 2025 09:35 PM (snZF9)

Probably most of the metal is shit like aluminum or other non ferromagnetic stuff.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 22, 2025 09:41 PM (zZu0s)

268 Democratic Party loyalist judges are mounting a rebellion–one might say, an insurrection–against the rule of law. They are trying to serve their party by impeding the Trump administration even where there is no good faith legal basis for doing so. This is an outrage. It won’t get as much public attention as other bad faith conduct by the Democratic Party, but it should.
-John Hinderaker
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Disagree. People are noticing the judges are making themselves irrelevant.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2025 09:42 PM (RIvkX)

269 According to the box of Preparation H, you can shove some shark liver oil up your ass!
Posted by: Diogenes


The best brand is Great Wipe!

They've got a Great Wipe Shart for their logo.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 22, 2025 09:42 PM (144I4)

270 We need a ship to drag a giant space magnet. lol
Posted by: Berserker

Nuke the debris orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
Posted by: RickZ

AI drones with lasers to vaporize all the orbital garbage. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: mikeski at August 22, 2025 09:42 PM (DgGvY)

271 We need a ship to drag a giant space magnet. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 22, 2025 09:35 PM

Mega Maid ftw.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 22, 2025 09:43 PM (Wnv9h)

272 Disagree. People are noticing the judges are making themselves irrelevant.

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They'll be irrelevant when the Executive Branch starts ignoring their rogue rulings.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2025 09:43 PM (JkO4W)

273 Salvage 1...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078681/

Posted by: davidt at August 22, 2025 09:44 PM (i0F8b)

274 According to the box of Preparation H, you can shove some shark liver oil up your ass!
Posted by: Diogenes

Before or after?

Posted by: Colorado Rockies (0-9) at August 22, 2025 09:45 PM (gKWVE)

275 Trump is yanking the masks off of every corrupt institution in American society.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2025 09:45 PM (JkO4W)

276 Space Magnet.

Steve Miller really missed the boat not writing a song about that.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2025 09:37 PM (JkO4W)



Space Lord by Monster Magnet kind of closes the gap.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 22, 2025 09:45 PM (144I4)

277 >> AI drones with lasers to vaporize all the orbital garbage

That's actually one of the proposed clean up solutions. Use space lasers to ablate and deorbit the junk.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 22, 2025 09:45 PM (w6EFb)

278 They'll be irrelevant when the Executive Branch starts ignoring their rogue rulings.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2025 09:43 PM (JkO4W)

This. They are still doing it because their wacked pronouncements are still being treated seriously.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 22, 2025 09:45 PM (zZu0s)

279 267 Probably most of the metal is shit like aluminum or other non ferromagnetic stuff.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August

Okay fine. A big net.

Posted by: Piper at August 22, 2025 09:45 PM (pZEOD)

280 They'll be irrelevant when the Executive Branch starts ignoring their rogue rulings.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2025 09:43 PM (JkO4W)

That's when the Dems plan to initiate impeachment.

Posted by: davidt at August 22, 2025 09:46 PM (i0F8b)

281
Here's a high resolution 3D map of the shit in orbit:
https://tinyurl.com/ydqqxn6e

That will load slow and take some CPU.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 22, 2025 09:48 PM (w6EFb)

282 I was always slightly amused by the true story of the Vegan who climbed Mt Everest to prove that Vegans were just as healthy as everyone else and could do the same things.
She died.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 22, 2025 09:49 PM (PfGa7)

283 SCJ Action Jackson decided to do the normal Leftist outlandish projection in her most recent dissent. I can’t believe she’s on the SC just like I can’t believe Obama and Biden were Presidents.

Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2025 09:50 PM (EYmYM)

284 >>They'll be irrelevant when the Executive Branch starts ignoring their rogue rulings.

Haven't done this since day 1. They just let it play out always win in the end. Seems to be working.

Kind of sad that the only thing taking beating as bad as the feds is the legal profession. But it deserves it.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2025 09:51 PM (viF8m)

285 This. They are still doing it because their wacked pronouncements are still being treated seriously.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 22, 2025 09:45 PM (zZu0s)

--------

The veneer of authority is crumbling. Normies are livid that some damn judge turned that MS13 terrorist loose on American citizens.

*tick*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2025 09:51 PM (JkO4W)

286 Every time a vegan dies, I give a little chuckle.

Posted by: Accomack at August 22, 2025 09:52 PM (28cZF)

287 I would be concerned about hitting a piece of space junk flying to the Moon. They were cruising at 5k miles an hour, the lunar module pressure hull was about as thick as a beer can in spots. At those speeds even a piece of sand will ruin your day.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2025 09:53 PM (V9VN1)

288 SCJ Action Jackson decided to do the normal Leftist outlandish projection in her most recent dissent. I can’t believe she’s on the SC just like I can’t believe Obama and Biden were Presidents.

Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2025 09:50 PM (EYmYM)

Is there a bat shit crazy clause to remove complete retards like her?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 22, 2025 09:53 PM (snZF9)

289
The veneer of authority is crumbling. Normies are livid that some damn judge turned that MS13 terrorist loose on American citizens.

*tick*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2025 09:51 PM (JkO4W)

Wake me when the dirt bike Colombians show up.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 22, 2025 09:54 PM (snZF9)

290 Every time a vegan dies, I give a little chuckle.
Posted by: Accomack at August 22, 2025 09:52 PM (28cZF)

The garden laughs a hearty laugh.

Posted by: RickZ at August 22, 2025 09:55 PM (gKDq2)

291 Salvage 1...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078681/
Posted by: davidt

Also, "Planetes."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816398/

Yes, "Planetes" with two e's. It's the Greek word for "wanderers" that we get the word "planets" from. Without telescopes and such, they didn't know planets and stars were different things, so planets were "wandering" stars.

Posted by: mikeski at August 22, 2025 09:55 PM (DgGvY)

292 oops

Posted by: mikeski at August 22, 2025 09:56 PM (DgGvY)

293 Sorry.

Posted by: RickZ at August 22, 2025 09:56 PM (gKDq2)

294 Every time a vegan dies a cat sighs in relief

Posted by: Ben Had at August 22, 2025 09:56 PM (dxWFK)

295 The Barrel laughs a hearty laugh at me.

Posted by: RickZ at August 22, 2025 09:56 PM (gKDq2)

296 >Here's a high resolution 3D map of the shit in orbit:
----

damn, what a mess

Posted by: Don Black at August 22, 2025 09:57 PM (AOsQT)

297 Is there a bat shit crazy clause to remove complete retards like her?
Posted by: Berserker

Supreme Court justices can be impeached by the House and removed by the Senate.

So, no, there is not.

Posted by: mikeski at August 22, 2025 10:00 PM (DgGvY)

298 1 800 space waste removal.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 22, 2025 10:00 PM (dxWFK)

299 ONT up

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2025 10:01 PM (Wokrt)

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