The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Sauk Prairie)

1) This is an open thread, feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate away.
2) Be kind, be nice. The trolls have had another tough month.
3) No, you may not run with sharp objects and submit prayer requests.
4) Have a safe and fun Labor Day Weekend for those of you in the work world force.

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AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
7/11 – Matthew Kant Cipher requested prayers for Layne, a family friend who is also his son’s FIL. He was diagnosed with bladder cancer and is awaiting further test results to determine whether they treat with chemo or remove his bladder. As of now, it appears to be contained. Please pray that he and his family are blessed with God’s love and grace through this time of trial.
8/13 Update – Layne has had some good news. His PET scan indicated that the cancer hasn’t spread beyond his bladder. Also, it seems to be a less aggressive form of cancer than originally diagnosed. The Horde prayers are blessing him greatly and are immensely appreciated. Please keep them coming!
7/23 – D sent an update on his wife Susan, as they deal with cancer. The last few weeks have been a roller coaster. They cannot operate on the cancer, because it has spread too much. They have started chemo and hope to get it to shrink. Susan’s gallbladder is inflamed, but they cannot remove it, due to the chemo, and her blood sugar is having issues. Thanks to everyone for their prayers; Susan has pulled through all of this and is looking great as they keep praying to the Lord.
8/14 Update – Susan had to go back to the hospital and is still there. It seems like every time they make progress, something else happens and she is back in the hospital. Prayers are deeply appreciated and needed.
7/26 – Coelacanth sent his thanks for prayers for his son. He has come a _very_ long way but could still use more prayers as he deals with vax and black mold injuries. Also, Coelacanth cut his left hand pretty badly and severed two tendons. He will be on light duty at work for 6+ weeks. Prayers are appreciated.
8/16 Update – Surgery for the repair went very well. He had cut 3 tendons, and all were repaired. He has 6 weeks in a split and then limited use for a few months thereafter. Thank you all for all your support and prayers!
7/26 - Brother Tim was discharged from the cancer rehab facility and has returned to his routine of living out of hotel rooms, while working on better housing prospects. He is praising God for all the blessings and mercies!
7/30 Update – Brother Tim found out that the cancerous mass impinged on a blood vessel. He needs a full body scan to make sure it has not spread. He is relieved that he only needs radiation and not chemo to make sure the original cancer stays gone. He’s also out of PTO. He said that sometimes it feels like 2025 will be the death of him – possibly literally.
8/16 Update – The latest scan confirms the cancer did not spread, so radiation therapy will likely start on 8/28. The other problems are not budging, but he is thankful for the news he gets that is good.
8/2 – Teresa in Fort Worth received the good news that her cancerous tumors continue to shrink. She had some not-so-good news, that she has 2 pulmonary emboli, and has been put on a blood thinner, which should dissolve the clots and prevent any new ones.
8/4 Update – The oncological surgeon said everything is looking great. After her next CT scan, they will be planning surgery to remove the tumors. The largest tumor is showing signs of calcification, which means that it is dying.
8/2 – FenelonSpoke requested prayers for P. She was to have an experimental but successful heart procedure which the surgeon thinks will help her arrythmia, pain, and fatigue, but insurance will not pay for it. Prayer that rough places are made smooth for her to have this procedure.
8/4 – Moki posted that s/he could use some prayers. A daughter has gone AWOL, claiming that they don’t love her.
8/9 Update – Moki reported that her daughter has come home.
8/4 – Inogame asked for continued prayers. Baby #5 continues to grow, and the genetic test came back clean. Prayers for mom and baby (daughter #4), and also dad and son are appreciated.
8/13 – MkY sent an update on his wife Judy’s battle with cancer. Her immunotherapy is scheduled for every 3 weeks. Six weeks ago, she had a cold and had to skip it, and it was the best she had felt in a year. So they skipped the last one, too. She is scheduled for it again on 8/14. She’s not hurting. She is sleeping. She’s not healthy, but she’s got stage 4 cancer! September is the next CT scan, and they will find out if the immunotherapy is making enough of an impact to continue. They are very grateful for the prayers.
8/13 – MkY would appreciate prayers for Butch and Harry, who have worked with him for 20 years. Both have recently been diagnosed with cancer. Butch has liver cancer and Harry has cancer in his larynx.
8/16 – Our Country is Screwed sent an update. He said he had his last chemo last week, and has a break before radiation begins. Everything looks good so far. He is easily fatigued, and has to build strength.
8/16 – Hadrian asked for prayers for Her Majesty, who is away on the show circuit, with The Big Dummy until Labor Day. Prayers for health and safety (especially from hurricanes) for them are appreciated.
8/16 – naturalfake requested prayers for a quick and full recovery from a bilateral inguinal hernia. It will be 2-4 weeks before being able to move around without pain, and up to 12 weeks, depending on how it heals. Thank you for the prayers.
8/16 – From about That Time asked for prayers for a daughter, whose baby is overdue. The daughter was scheduled to be induced on 8/17.
8/16 – GV requested prayers for his neighbors, Kathy and Nicola, a mother and daughter. Kathy has a tumor near the base of her brain. She has been in and out of hospice care, and is getting radiation at a hospital an hour away. She is very weak and can barely walk a few steps. Nicola has a heart of gold, and quit her job and moved in with her mother to care for her. They are now saddled with medical expenses that go along with a bedridden patient, plus the cost and difficulty of maintaining two homes.
8/16 – Madmike requests prayers for his friend Jim. In less than a month, Jim went from being a fit, healthy, 70+ runner to bedridden, needing both open heart and brain surgery.
8/20 – rickb223 sent an update. His wife, Stacy, was diagnosed with Stage 4 endometrial cancer on 3/5/23. She had been seeing an oncologist in Plano, TX, but after two years, the chemotherapy was no longer working, and was doing more harm than good. They wanted to try and let her body heal for a couple of weeks. She went on hospice 8/1/25. They thought they would have more time, but God had other plans. She went Home at 10:20 am, to be with her father, brother, granddaughter, and our Lord.
8/22 – NR Pax requests prayers for his father, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s on 8/20.
8/23 – SpeakingOf could use prayers. SpeakingOf’s father’s lung cancer has returned, and due to him missing SpeakingOf’s mother, dad does not want any treatment and is in hospice. SpeakingOf is worried and fearful and heartbroken, and would appreciate God’s mercy at this time.
8/23 – Tecumseh Tea gave a status. She is steadily improving from her heart attack. She said she feels mostly like herself again. She is looking for a new cardiologist, since the one she saw had zero interest in her or her heart.
8/28 Update – Tecumseh Tea is in the hospital again with heart issues. Please pray that they can figure out what is going on and how to treat it.
8/25 – Grammie Winger posted that Rev is doing well, but she was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer last week.
8/25 – BurtTC is dealing with a family matter and could use some prayers.
8/26 – Axeman would appreciate prayers. He just gave the verbal approval to move his mom to hospice.
8/27 – Ben Had sent an update on JT. He is doing well and sends a “Hiya” to the Horde.
8/28 - Grumpy and Recalcitrant asks for prayers for Pixy Misa, who runs the morning tech thread. Pixy has been suffering from edema (water retention and swelling of the extremities). In addition to the swelling, there has been significant pain in both feet, and now one hand. Please pray that the doctors and nurses take this problem seriously. Pray that God guides their minds and hands in the diagnostic and treatment processes, so that Pixy may be restored to full health. Pray that He sustains Pixy through this health trial.

For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 07:35 AM

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1 Good morning Mis Hum and Horde

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 07:37 AM (+qU29)

2 Axeman's mother passed away.
I try and keep track but sometimes get things mixed up. Really hope not this time.

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 07:41 AM (+qU29)

3 "Getting lucky" as we speak.

Posted by: t-bird at August 30, 2025 07:42 AM (bd7Xf)

4 Been cutting down on coffee all summer, no idea if will go back to full size coffee pot soon or not.

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 07:45 AM (+qU29)

5 Headline - Nobel winning economist warns Trump will destroy the economy with his actions.

Without reading anything why do I think it is Paul Krugman, unindicted Enron conspirator?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 30, 2025 07:46 AM (SL2Gl)

6 >>>8/27 – Ben Had sent an update on JT. He is doing well and sends a “Hiya” to the Horde.

This is GREAT news!

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 07:46 AM (aURVT)

7 I called Nood dutifully as always.
You can lead a commenter to a thread but can't make them comment

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 07:46 AM (+qU29)

8 Was thinking of JT the other day and wondered how he was doing.

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 07:47 AM (+qU29)

9 8/28 - Grumpy and Recalcitrant asks for prayers for Pixy Misa, who runs the morning tech thread. Pixy has been suffering from edema (water retention and swelling of the extremities). In addition to the swelling, there has been significant pain in both feet, and now one hand. Please pray that the doctors and nurses take this problem seriously. Pray that God guides their minds and hands in the diagnostic and treatment processes, so that Pixy may be restored to full health. Pray that He sustains Pixy through this health trial.

Amen!

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 07:48 AM (aURVT)

10
Hard as it is to do, everything else - morning prayers, house dogs run out, opening the doors for the kennel dogs - has to be done before coffee. That's how I "get lucky."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 07:48 AM (kkTda)

11 Ooh, I slept in until 4:30...
Happy Saturday, Hordelings! I'm trying to be quiet and not wake the missus, but the moment she's up I'm grabbing the frying pan and making eggs and bacon. Coffee pot just gurgled that it has finished brewing.

Posted by: PabloD at August 30, 2025 07:50 AM (R20f1)

12 Good morning again dear horde with thanks to annie and mh and you morons for praying

grammie saw the oncologist yesterday?
Hiya JT

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2025 07:50 AM (RIvkX)

13 Whatever happened to Krakatoa?

Prayers up for all the hordelings whether they want em or not.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 30, 2025 07:53 AM (2J/Lj)

14 Good morning everyone. Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones in need
Thx MisHum for your work in this beautiful thread. My aunt was prayed for . She underwent treatment for colon cancer. She's largely recovered and doing palliative care . She's 82 . Thx to the Horde for prayers earlier this year

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2025 07:56 AM (Kp8LC)

15 13 Prayers up for all the hordelings whether they want em or not.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 30, 2025 07:53 AM (2J/Lj)

Ha!

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 07:56 AM (aURVT)

16 HIYA JT!

I'm yelling so he can hear me from the distance.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 30, 2025 07:56 AM (2J/Lj)

17 Prayers to all the Horde in need

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 30, 2025 07:57 AM (DoBxX)

18 Hiya JT

Waiting for the warehouse to open, decided to pass by after dropping off KTE to work.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 30, 2025 07:58 AM (DoBxX)

19 good morning MisHum, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 30, 2025 08:00 AM (4Z4M/)

20 I'm going to be babysitting this afternoon! My grandson will be hanging out with grandma while his dad and mom attend the IU football game. Just me and a 4 month old baby! This could be interesting.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 30, 2025 08:00 AM (2J/Lj)

21 Apparently this is also a popular time for hispanic worker types to go grocery shopping.
One of them has a uhaul and a fren; probably buying something big on sale. Maybe a TV, or a mattress...

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 30, 2025 08:01 AM (DoBxX)

22 covfefee
Its what for breakfast

BRCC AK

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 30, 2025 08:03 AM (gbOdA)

23 Posted by: r hennigantx

uh-oh mr. hennigantx

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 08:04 AM (aURVT)

24 One of them has a uhaul and a fren; probably buying something big on sale.

They're the backbone of this country! That family whose job they stole aren't buying much of anything. They're just kind of a drag on the economy.

Posted by: "The Experts" at August 30, 2025 08:06 AM (bd7Xf)

25 Pray for me, I'm rip roaring pissed off.
Woke up this morning and microsoft has upgraded outlook classic and microsoft 365 right off my computer.
Can't open excel or word, and all my passwords for microsoft in a word file. I've been a paying customer my entire professional life and 15 years after.
I'm either going to blow a valve and keel over or go postal.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2025 08:06 AM (n4GiU)

26 Hat tip to Juan Valdez and his donkey.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2025 08:07 AM (dDmld)

27 I called Nood dutifully as always.
You can lead a commenter to a thread but can't make them comment

Posted by: Skip

You can't make me comment!

Wait.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 30, 2025 08:08 AM (QVmho)

28
Woke up this morning and microsoft has upgraded outlook classic and microsoft 365 right off my computer.
Can't open excel or word, and all my passwords for microsoft in a word file. I've been a paying customer my entire professional life and 15 years after.
I'm either going to blow a valve and keel over or go postal.

Posted by: From about That Time

Go here https://www.libreoffice.org/ and download the free competition to office 365. All your office products are belong to you again.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 30, 2025 08:11 AM (QVmho)

29 I took me a while but I got used to linux @25. The doc or docx can be opened in open office to.

My beef with microsoft started with the ribbon and xp retirement. ms is regressing badly to the point I only use it for work and once I retire, Im done with ms for good.

Posted by: sTevo at August 30, 2025 08:11 AM (HNXEw)

30 oy yeah

HOOKEM HORNS

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 30, 2025 08:13 AM (gbOdA)

31 My beef with microsoft started with the ribbon and xp retirement. ms is regressing badly to the point I only use it for work and once I retire, Im done with ms for good.
Posted by: sTevo at August 30, 2025 08:11 AM (HNXEw)

I ran seven with patches for about 6 or 7 years.
It was great.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 30, 2025 08:14 AM (gbOdA)

32 On TCM The Story of Three Loves, about a ballerina.
I don't get ballet much. Neo writes about it often as a former ballerina I guess do has inside appreciation.
It does amaze me dancing on your toes

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 08:15 AM (+qU29)

33
I took me a while but I got used to linux @25. The doc or docx can be opened in open office to.
Posted by: sTevo

Early 90s for me, don't remember exactly when, but I do remember cold booting dos to get the cdrom driver loaded, then hot booting Slackware to a shell prompt, then finally starting up xwin.

It's Slackware's fault I taught myself unix sysadmin.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 30, 2025 08:17 AM (QVmho)

34 We are so isolated here on Earth. Just traveling to the next star would take four years -- if we could move at the speed of light. And we can't because we're not made of photons.

There could be trillions of planets with life of some sort and we wouldn't know a thing about them.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 30, 2025 08:17 AM (DKj3U)

35 Waiting for F-1 qualifying at Zandvoort, after a month long vacation. Don't know how all of Europe takes off a month. Guess you need to build up supplies or go somewhere where someone else has built up supplies for the month.

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 08:17 AM (+qU29)

36 Could someone fill me in on grammie's situation? It's been a hectic month and I've missed a lot here at the hq.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 30, 2025 08:19 AM (2NHgQ)

37
Her Majesty and The Big Dummy do battle again this morning at the Tri-City KC show. At 8:00. Just love show superintendents who schedule heavy-coated breeds just after the sun comes up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 08:19 AM (kkTda)

38 Trump Admin Revokes Visas for Palestinian Officials Ahead of UN General Assembly Meeting, Citing ‘Incitement to Terrorism’

The Trump administration on Friday revoked visas for Palestinian officials seeking to attend the U.N. General Assembly in New York City next month, denying them entry into the United States as punishment for inciting terrorism against Israel and pursuing statehood outside of the established peace process.
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Bye, Felicia.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2025 08:22 AM (RIvkX)

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Don't know how all of Europe takes off a month.

Just lock Grand-mère up in her apartment and head off for Spain.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 08:22 AM (kkTda)

40 Prayers for Mrs Accomack who is hospitalized with Babesiosis that advanced to hemolysis. She is anemic to begin with and won't be discharged until the red blood count returns to normal.

Posted by: Accomack at August 30, 2025 08:22 AM (4qMiv)

41 35 Waiting for F-1 qualifying at Zandvoort, after a month long vacation. Don't know how all of Europe takes off a month. Guess you need to build up supplies or go somewhere where someone else has built up supplies for the month.
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 08:17 AM (+qU29)

Who is the big buck sponsors for the Caddy entry next year?

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 30, 2025 08:22 AM (gbOdA)

42 25 Pray for me, I'm rip roaring pissed off.
Woke up this morning and microsoft has upgraded outlook classic and microsoft 365 right off my computer.
Can't open excel or word, and all my passwords for microsoft in a word file. I've been a paying customer my entire professional life and 15 years after.
I'm either going to blow a valve and keel over or go postal.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2025 08:06 AM (n4GiU)

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I we'll say a prayer for you and one for all the rest of us. I hope this is some temporary glitch

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 30, 2025 08:23 AM (OjX2e)

43
Prayers for Mrs Accomack who is hospitalized with Babesiosis that advanced to hemolysis.

*rrring! rring!*

"Hello, Heaven help desk... Mrs. Accomack?.. You got 'em!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 08:23 AM (kkTda)

44 OUTLOOK

To revert to Classic Outlook, open the New Outlook, toggle the switch for "New Outlook" to OFF, and confirm the change. If you don't see the toggle, you may need to access the Registry Editor and set the "UseNewOutlook" value to 0.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 30, 2025 08:24 AM (gbOdA)

45 32 I don't get ballet much. Neo writes about it often as a former ballerina
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 08:15 AM (+qU29)

She's great. I hadn't been there in a while.
https://thenewneo.com

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 08:25 AM (aURVT)

46 Cloudy and cool again today. Rain expected later. This is a very nice way to spend late summer.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 30, 2025 08:26 AM (g8Ew8)

47 Grammie Winger has stage 4 cancer

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 30, 2025 08:26 AM (kUxzU)

48 Can't open excel or word, and all my passwords for microsoft in a word file. I've been a paying customer my entire professional life and 15 years after.
I'm either going to blow a valve and keel over or go postal.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2025 08:06 AM (n4GiU)

If you really need access quickly, Libre Office is free and will open your Word docs.

https://www.libreoffice.org/

I believe there’s an Excel type program included with the suite as well.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2025 08:27 AM (6ydKt)

49 Neo is one of my daily stops
She does pop in here occasionally

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 08:28 AM (+qU29)

50 Thanks for the prayers, for all who have.

It’s a comfort.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2025 08:28 AM (6ydKt)

51 If I switch to Libreoffice, is there any way I can keep my hotmail email account?

It's the only reason I'm still on MS.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 30, 2025 08:29 AM (OjX2e)

52 here https://www.libreoffice.org/ and download the free competition to office 365. All your office products are belong to you again.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August

Thank you Bif, will do just that. Will still need to get to microsoft and change that automatic renewal to f off. Or change checking accounts before next January, which may be easier.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2025 08:30 AM (n4GiU)

53
Breakfast orders are being placed. BRB.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 08:30 AM (kkTda)

54 Am I the only one with old passwords on pieces of paper stuck somewhere in the desk drawer?

Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2025 08:31 AM (Oy/m2)

55 There’s also Apache Open Office if LibreOffice doesn’t work for you:

https://www.openoffice.org/

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2025 08:31 AM (6ydKt)

56 Hotmail is free.

Posted by: fd at August 30, 2025 08:31 AM (vFG9F)

57 25 Pray for me, I'm rip roaring pissed off.
Woke up this morning and microsoft has upgraded outlook classic and microsoft 365 right off my computer.
Can't open excel or word, and all my passwords for microsoft in a word file. I've been a paying customer my entire professional life and 15 years after.
I'm either going to blow a valve and keel over or go postal.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2025 08:06 AM (n4GiU)

I feel for you. Can't be of tech help, but am sending good vibes.

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 08:33 AM (aURVT)

58 Morning peeps.

Another chilly morning here in Bourbon Country. Seems like Fall is really making a run at us this year.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2025 08:33 AM (Q4IgG)

59 54 Am I the only one with old passwords on pieces of paper stuck somewhere in the desk drawer?
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2025 08:31 AM (Oy/m2)

I used to, but I’ve got so many now I gave up and use a password app on my phone.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2025 08:34 AM (6ydKt)

60 Up to 48° here in Mid Hudson. Can't remember colder August nights ever.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2025 08:34 AM (Kp8LC)

61 56 Hotmail is free.
Posted by: fd at August 30, 2025 08:31 AM (vFG9F)

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True, but it runs on outlook.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 30, 2025 08:34 AM (2/ORG)

62 If I switch to Libreoffice, is there any way I can keep my hotmail email account?

Absolutely. And with Libreoffice, you can open up the file that has your MS passwords.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 30, 2025 08:35 AM (7xrfc)

63 I guess I answered my own question about hotmail4

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 30, 2025 08:35 AM (2/ORG)

64 Go here https://www.libreoffice.org/ and download the free competition to office 365. All your office products are belong to you again.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 30, 2025 08:11 AM (QVmho)

Thanks for that.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 30, 2025 08:35 AM (WHfpM)

65 I keep all of my passwords written down in my planner. Hardcopy. If I lose my planner, I am SOL.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 30, 2025 08:35 AM (ZmEVT)

66 Can't open excel or word, and all my passwords for microsoft in a word file. I've been a paying customer my entire professional life and 15 years after.
I'm either going to blow a valve and keel over or go postal.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2025 08:06 AM (n4GiU)

Pro tip: Write down ALL your passwords in a little notebook, and place it somewhere that you can remember.

Ask me how I know.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 30, 2025 08:36 AM (5xuJ/)

67 There’s also Apache Open Office if LibreOffice doesn’t work for you:

https://www.openoffice.org/
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2025 08:31 AM (6ydKt)

Apache doesn't save in docx.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 08:36 AM (0eaVi)

68 I'll give library office a try.Thanks for the recommendation

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 30, 2025 08:36 AM (2/ORG)

69 So update on my father from my prayer request up above. He was in the ER all Tuesday night after taking a spill that required my mother and two security personnel to assist with uncontorting him. He is on medication for his Parkinson's so now it's a matter of seeing how much that helps.

There isn't much I can do. I live out in the GPROMD and he and mom and in CA so it's not like I can easily hop over to see them.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 30, 2025 08:37 AM (7xrfc)

70 In a stunning move, McDonald's has dropped the "Mc" from their name, with the new "Donald's" logo revealed as a silhouette outline of a Golden Scalp Weasel.

Posted by: Headlines we'd like to see at August 30, 2025 08:37 AM (vFG9F)

71 Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever.

Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.

Child Martyrs of Minneapolis and Nashville, pray for us. (I've added them to my personal litany of saints.)

Providentially, I had prayed a Rosary for persecuted Christians a few hours before that attack in Minneapolis.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 08:37 AM (pJWtt)

72 If you lose or forget your passwords I can help you out.

Just email me, Bob@NSA.com.

Happy to help

Posted by: Bob from the NSA at August 30, 2025 08:38 AM (i0F8b)

73 Apache doesn't save in docx.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 08:36 AM (0eaVi)

Should still be able to open docx and then you can save to the native format or in .rtf just to have something without relying on M$.

I’d use Libre anyhow, but Open is there if needed.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2025 08:39 AM (6ydKt)

74
Breakfast served. Yum, yum. Cooked chicken breast, raw hamburger (27% fat) and buttermilk.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 08:39 AM (kkTda)

75 Feels like October, which is fine after the run of heat and humidity

Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 30, 2025 08:39 AM (rUzJT)

76 "True, but it runs on outlook.
Posted by: JM in Illinois"

You can just go to hotmail.com (now outlook.com I think) and log in there.

Posted by: fd at August 30, 2025 08:39 AM (vFG9F)

77 go to docs.google.com

It will open just about any file.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 30, 2025 08:39 AM (gbOdA)

78 Providentially, I had prayed a Rosary for persecuted Christians a few hours before that attack in Minneapolis.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 08:37 AM (pJWtt)

Attacks on Churches are up a bunch.
2015 2020 about 400 total.
Now most years are over 400.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 30, 2025 08:41 AM (gbOdA)

79 Should still be able to open docx and then you can save to the native format or in .rtf just to have something without relying on M$.

I’d use Libre anyhow, but Open is there if needed.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2025 08:39 AM (6ydKt)

True, but the reason I changed from Apache to Libre is because almost every publisher wants docx.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 08:41 AM (0eaVi)

80 69 I live out in the GPROMD and he and mom and in CA
Posted by: NR Pax at August 30, 2025 08:37 AM (7xrfc)

Maryland? I can't figure out GPROMD.

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 08:42 AM (aURVT)

81
Was telling friends about my visit to Lansing Thursday and driving over to MLK boulevard; they laughed; I told them gas is at least 20 cents a gallon cheaper there.

They thought I was going to the strip club.

Odd how what you get excited about changes as you get older.

Posted by: Auspex at August 30, 2025 08:43 AM (Y8DZL)

82 Cooked chicken breast, raw hamburger (27% fat) and buttermilk.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 08:39 AM (kkTda)
====

Breakfast of champions.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2025 08:44 AM (RIvkX)

83 Attacks on Churches are up a bunch.
2015 2020 about 400 total.
Now most years are over 400.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 30, 2025 08:41 AM (gbOdA)

Saw clip from Fox News that said attacks on Christian churches in the U.S. are up about 750% since 2016-ish.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 08:45 AM (pJWtt)

84 Cooked chicken breast, raw hamburger (27% fat) and buttermilk.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 08:39 AM (kkTda)
=====

Chocolate covered donuts are always on my training table!

Posted by: John Belushi at August 30, 2025 08:45 AM (RIvkX)

85 Prayers up for all of the Horde.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 30, 2025 08:45 AM (Wnv9h)

86 Prayers for all.

Hiya JT

Posted by: Mick at August 30, 2025 08:46 AM (HFx9z)

87 Hiya JT!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2025 08:46 AM (XQo4F)

88 True, but the reason I changed from Apache to Libre is because almost every publisher wants docx.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 08:41 AM (0eaVi)

Yeah that makes sense for that.

For publishers. I’d just export to a pdf, they should all be able to handle those just fine and you can annotate, highlight, set it to be editable, have illustrations, and copyright metadata all in one convenient package.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2025 08:47 AM (6ydKt)

89 Was telling friends about my visit to Lansing Thursday and driving over to MLK boulevard;

Ever notice how in every city, and most have one, MLK Blvd. is always in the shittiest part of town.
He deserved better for his public works.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2025 08:47 AM (n4GiU)

90 Go to grok
sign in (with X)
upload just about any file
type Summary
Press enter

TA DA

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 30, 2025 08:48 AM (gbOdA)

91 Am I the only one with old passwords on pieces of paper stuck somewhere in the desk drawer?
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2025 08:31 AM (Oy/m2)

I have a tiny notebook tucked away that contains my passwords. Just in case. Been doing that for years. I have other backup computers as well, all running either XP or Windows 8.1. Those are rarely hooked up to the home network and are freestanding units. But, in a pinch can be used.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 30, 2025 08:49 AM (5xuJ/)

92 Ever notice how in every city, and most have one, MLK Blvd. is always in the shittiest part of town.
He deserved better for his public works.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2025 08:47 AM (n4GiU)

In Austin runs between UT and Capital.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 30, 2025 08:49 AM (gbOdA)

93 Maryland? I can't figure out GPROMD.
Posted by: m

Sorry. I've been posting that for so long I take it for granted that people know what I mean:

Glorious People's Republic of Maryland.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 30, 2025 08:49 AM (7xrfc)

94 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 08:50 AM (ZOv7s)

95 Maryland: If you can dream it, we can tax it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2025 08:50 AM (XQo4F)

96 93 Maryland? I can't figure out GPROMD.
Posted by: m

Sorry. I've been posting that for so long I take it for granted that people know what I mean:

Glorious People's Republic of Maryland.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 30, 2025 08:49 AM (7xrfc)

Thanks. I got *close* to getting that, but no cigar.

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 08:51 AM (aURVT)

97 Glorious People's Republic of Maryland.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 30, 2025 08:49 AM (7xrfc)

I hear the singing from Red October when I read this.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 30, 2025 08:51 AM (gbOdA)

98 Good morning good people. Prayers for all Hordian intentions: those requested and those known but to God.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 08:52 AM (cYBz/)

99 mr. hennigantx, your nic needs help

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 08:52 AM (aURVT)

100 100

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 08:52 AM (aURVT)

101
Breakfast of champions.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2025 08:44 AM (RIvkX)

Diana had two problems. One was acute: she didn't want to eat. So among us and our vets, we tried to break her cycle of pain, which led to her stomach becoming irritated such that she didn't want to eat. That problem has been solved.

The other is chronic: she doesn't gain any weight. Diana is three years old and weighs 59 pounds. Her half-sister Puff, who's not yet two, weighs 74 pounds, which is about right. So either Diana has an incredible metabolic rate or there's something that prevents her from getting the full benefit of the ample viander we provide.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 08:53 AM (kkTda)

102 Saw clip from Fox News that said attacks on Christian churches in the U.S. are up about 750% since 2016-ish.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 08:45 AM (pJWtt)
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Remember when Bill Clinton created the myth that black churches were being burned in the 1990s to shore up his base? Totally made up, but people bought into it.

Canada has had a ton of church burned based on fake accusations that Catholic boarding schools killed their kids and covered it up. Not a single mass grave has been found - and hardly anyone has even bothered to look, but it's government approved arson, which makes it okay.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 08:53 AM (ZOv7s)

103 Good Saturday morning, horde.

So much cancer. Prayers said for those who have been battling it for a while, and those newly diagnosed. Hugs, grammie winger. You've been through so much turmoil the last couple of years with the Rev, it's such a trial now to be hit with this.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2025 08:53 AM (h7ZuX)

104 Was telling friends about my visit to Lansing Thursday and driving over to MLK boulevard;

Ever notice how in every city, and most have one, MLK Blvd. is always in the shittiest part of town.
He deserved better for his public works.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2025 08:47 AM (n4GiU)

Bigoted Democrat politicians tossing a bone to black people to keep them on the plantation.

Martin Luther King Jr had his flaws (however, don't we all), but his fight against racial discrimination was just. Ironically, the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because a majority of whites agreed that racial discrimination was wrong.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 08:53 AM (pJWtt)

105 Can't remember colder August nights ever."

Forecast is for highs in the mid 80s here (greater Conroe area).
Almost chilly...

Posted by: man at August 30, 2025 08:54 AM (tubbA)

106 I have 3 passwords and a formula for creating new ones. Nothing is written down. My Amazon password is so old, algo's would think of its structure.

Posted by: Accomack at August 30, 2025 08:54 AM (oERdd)

107 The governor of Maryland, with crabs.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 30, 2025 08:54 AM (jwbkN)

108 Morning again, Coffee People! I come to you from the glorious People's Republic of Da Swamp, courtesy of local chain PJs Coffee. I've got a while before my haircut and thought I's stop for a latte. Whassup?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 08:54 AM (ChXu9)

109 For publishers. I’d just export to a pdf, they should all be able to handle those just fine and you can annotate, highlight, set it to be editable, have illustrations, and copyright metadata all in one convenient package.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2025 08:47 AM (6ydKt)

Aye, but ye'd have ta pay Adobe for doin' all that. Me Scots blood canna allow it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 08:55 AM (0eaVi)

110 Ooh, I slept in until 4:30...
Happy Saturday, Hordelings! I'm trying to be quiet and not wake the missus, but the moment she's up I'm grabbing the frying pan and making eggs and bacon. Coffee pot just gurgled that it has finished brewing.
Posted by: PabloD at August 30, 2025

***
Four-thirty??? Luxury!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 08:55 AM (ChXu9)

111 Not a single mass grave has been found -"

Not a single grave, period. GPR isn't an xray...

Posted by: man at August 30, 2025 08:55 AM (tubbA)

112 99 mr. hennigantx, your nic needs help
Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 08:52 AM (aURVT)

maybe a dash r-henn
or a * r*henn
or a pipe r|henn

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 30, 2025 08:56 AM (gbOdA)

113 106 I have 3 passwords and a formula for creating new ones. Nothing is written down. My Amazon password is so old, algo's would think of its structure.
Posted by: Accomack at August 30, 2025 08:54 AM (oERdd)

A site where I was signing in the other day said nope your password isn't good enough; here's a new one--which was this loooong set of letters and numbers and punctuation marks I would never be able to remember. So that's my password now.

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 08:56 AM (aURVT)

114 > Glorious People's Republic of Maryland.
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I grew up in Montgomery Co. just outside of Silver Spring... not far from Wheaton back in the 60's and 70's.

It was borderline Soviet back then.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2025 08:57 AM (Q4IgG)

115 And special prayers for those caring for elderly parents, Lots of us here are at an age where we are losing our parents and siblings to age-related conditions. It's never easy, even when you know it's coming.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2025 08:57 AM (h7ZuX)

116 ... or arrhennigantx, for Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 08:58 AM (aURVT)

117 Maryland: If you can dream it, we can tax it.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2025

***
Lousy-ana: If you can dream it, we can tax it, then screw it up or let it decay into uselessness. Or both.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 08:58 AM (ChXu9)

118 Hadrian,

Have been reading your updates of the victories of the Big Dummy. Do you think he will be used at stud with any of your Borzoi girls?

Posted by: Brunnhilde at August 30, 2025 08:58 AM (3AwA+)

119 EU takes Aug off and goes on VaCa.

Trump tries for whirled Peas and Cheap Energy.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 30, 2025 08:58 AM (gbOdA)

120 I needed a new password that my formula couldn't construct so I used the expletive laced phrase instead.

Posted by: Accomack at August 30, 2025 08:59 AM (oERdd)

121 HIYA, JT! Hope you are lurking with us.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2025 08:59 AM (h7ZuX)

122 Lousy-ana: If you can dream it, we can tax it, then screw it up or let it decay into uselessness. Or both.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 08:58 AM (ChXu9)

The Globull Warmering Channel (aka Weather) is running Katrina XX Longer Harder Darker all weekend.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 30, 2025 09:00 AM (gbOdA)

123 Good morning Horde, prayers offered for all in need, especially grammie winger. Hiya to JT, happy to see some good news about you.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 30, 2025 09:00 AM (0nHVk)

124
While I remember all of you in my intentions, I have started dedicating a decade (the third) of my daily Rosary to the needs and intentions of the Horde. Hope someone's listening Upstairs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 09:00 AM (kkTda)

125 Bigoted Democrat politicians tossing a bone to black people to keep them on the plantation.

Martin Luther King Jr had his flaws (however, don't we all), but his fight against racial discrimination was just. Ironically, the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because a majority of whites agreed that racial discrimination was wrong.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 08:53 AM (pJWtt)
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The routes chosen for re-naming (they were always renamed, the left never builds anything new) ran through minority-majority neighborhoods, which were already in distress. The new street signs were cheaper than actually doing policing or improving the schools.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:00 AM (ZOv7s)

126 True, but the reason I changed from Apache to Libre is because almost every publisher wants docx.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025

***
I've been using Libre on the Mac desktop at home. "At home" being redundant now, as I have no office to slog off to five days a week any more.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 09:00 AM (ChXu9)

127 "Since May 28, 2020, there have been at least 521 attacks against Catholic churches in the United States, including acts of arson which damaged or destroyed historic churches; spray-painting and graffiti of satanic messages; rocks and bricks thrown through windows; statues destroyed (often with heads cut off); and illegal disruptions of Mass. Attacks spiked dramatically after the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked in May 2022. At least 355 attacks have been perpetrated against Catholic churches since the Supreme Court leak, with many including graffiti with pro-abortion messages. Crucially, while a handful of the attacks have included thefts, the vast majority have only involved property destruction, indicating that the primary motive is not material gain."

https://t.ly/vyJQF

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 09:01 AM (cYBz/)

128 Lousy-ana: If you can dream it, we can tax it, then screw it up or let it decay into uselessness. Or both.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025
*
The Globull Warmering Channel (aka Weather) is running Katrina XX Longer Harder Darker all weekend.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 30, 2025

***
I gave up cable, so no WX Channel. Are Stephanie Abrams and the other cute blonde still around?

Twenty years ago today I had fled to College Station, TX, and was enjoying it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 09:02 AM (ChXu9)

129
Lousy-ana: If you can dream it, we can tax it, then screw it up or let it decay into uselessness. Or both.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 08:58 AM (ChXu9)

Lord, what a state. You'd think that with a huge river, forests, oil, gas and other natural resources, Louisiana would be a prosperous place. But no, the denizens thereof cultivate their good-time laissez-le-bon-temps-rouler layabout lifestyle and are governed by people whose stupidity rivals their corruption. Tragic.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 09:04 AM (kkTda)

130 My bank just made me change my password I've had for untold years and three bank changes because of mergers.
I think its the last the kept them from catching up to me.
Now it's another 8-20 characters, upper and lower case, etc, etc. My old one had become more unique than this crap.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2025 09:04 AM (n4GiU)

131
And I'm not saying that with contempt but bemused pity. But you can't help those not willing to help themselves.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 09:06 AM (kkTda)

132 And special prayers for those caring for elderly parents, Lots of us here are at an age where we are losing our parents and siblings to age-related conditions. It's never easy, even when you know it's coming.
Posted by: Dash my

I am the aged parent. Trying hard to be as little a burden to my kids as possibe.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2025 09:06 AM (n4GiU)

133 Bigoted Democrat politicians tossing a bone to black people to keep them on the plantation.

Martin Luther King Jr had his flaws (however, don't we all), but his fight against racial discrimination was just. Ironically, the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because a majority of whites agreed that racial discrimination was wrong.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 08:53 AM (pJWtt)
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The routes chosen for re-naming (they were always renamed, the left never builds anything new) ran through minority-majority neighborhoods, which were already in distress. The new street signs were cheaper than actually doing policing or improving the schools.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:00 AM (ZOv7s)

The Lefties have been keeping blacks on the plantation by bribing them with offers of MOAR FREE SH!T. It has infantalized a huge proportion of black persons. Tragically, blacks have been betrayed for decades by "leaders" that they trusted.

President Trump is breaking that relationship by actually giving black people measurable improvement in their lives.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 09:07 AM (pJWtt)

134 Pro tip: Write down ALL your passwords in a little notebook, and place it somewhere that you can remember. Ask me how I know.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 30, 2025

***
I started doing that about ten years ago. Unfortunately I bought a composition book which does not lie flat. I'm going to have to buy a spiral notebook, copy the essential ones over (don't need most of those for my former work), then tear out and shred the pages from the old one.

Speaking of that, Office Depot has a shredder you can use . . . for .99/lb. I've got six months of old bills to shred. Looks like I'm gonna have to skip a few lattes this month. (Yes, I could buy a shredder, and will when I have more room. My bedroom/office is jammed now.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 09:07 AM (ChXu9)

135 Greetings from San Antonio. Prayers for the Horde and our loved ones, especially those who are ill or grieving. And a big Hiya to JT. So happy to see an update. Thank you, Ben Had.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 30, 2025 09:08 AM (xQ48f)

136 Mornin', box critters.

Nippy in the Mitten.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2025 09:08 AM (kpS4V)

137 MS marked a perfectly fine laptop as os 11 incompatible to force me to hand over $$$$$ to their oems for a new computer. Nah, bro. I installed Linux.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 30, 2025 09:09 AM (WbprS)

138 Crucially, while a handful of the attacks have included thefts, the vast majority have only involved property destruction, indicating that the primary motive is not material gain."

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 09:01 AM (cYBz/)
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ACLU is of course silent on this, because they're now just a Communist agitprop machine.

I'm pleased to see that Trump's people are classifying the attack in MN as an act of terrorism, and I'm hoping that other attacks will also be incorporated into that. These are not random acts but a coordinated campaign.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:09 AM (ZOv7s)

139 > Pro tip: Write down ALL your passwords in a little notebook, and place it somewhere that you can remember. Ask me how I know.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 30, 2025
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Spreadsheet. Encrypted. A printed copy in our bugout box. Updated... uh... when I remember about it.

But today it's current.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2025 09:10 AM (Q4IgG)

140 I really should do serious work at home today, replace the bathroom fan. Have a new one for way too long . Old one light didn't work. But want to make vent outside much better as well. Will require crawling through the attic space.

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 09:10 AM (+qU29)

141 If you really need access quickly, Libre Office is free and will open your Word docs.

https://www.libreoffice.org/

Thank you for this. I've bookmarked, because I expect my MS Office products aren't going to work anymore after October. But the laptop still mostly works, so I don't intend to buy a new one just because MS is kicking me to the curb.

I'm just not savvy enough to install those other operating systems you guys talk about.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2025 09:10 AM (h7ZuX)

142
Bigoted Democrat politicians tossing a bone to black people to keep them on the plantation

Dims do slavery. They always have and they always will.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! [/i at August 30, 2025 09:10 AM (Tv15w)

143 Mornin', box critters.

Nippy in the Mitten.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2025 09:08 AM (kpS4V)
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You mean "beautiful." This is my ideal weather.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:10 AM (ZOv7s)

144 Ever notice how in every city, and most have one, MLK Blvd. is always in the shittiest part of town.
He deserved better for his public works.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2025 08:47 AM (n4GiU)

Correct! When I am driving thru the hood and I am on MLK Blvd or Skreet or Circle I am usually on the lookout for a dime bag or a handy or maybe a crap game near the Korean liquor store.

Posted by: Ghetto Joe at August 30, 2025 09:10 AM (R/m4+)

145 137 MS marked a perfectly fine laptop as os 11 incompatible to force me to hand over $$$$$ to their oems for a new computer. Nah, bro. I installed Linux.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 30, 2025 09:09 AM (WbprS)

My friend Tim (RIP) had a hacked win 10 disk that would install on just about anything. Also did not need MS account.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 30, 2025 09:11 AM (gbOdA)

146 Lord, what a state. You'd think that with a huge river, forests, oil, gas and other natural resources, Louisiana would be a prosperous place. But no, the denizens thereof cultivate their good-time laissez-le-bon-temps-rouler layabout lifestyle and are governed by people whose stupidity rivals their corruption. Tragic.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025

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There used to be a semi-"news" local access program on the PBS outlet here called Louisiana: The State We're In. I doubt the creators realized the true meaning of that. The irony is so hot it burns. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 09:12 AM (ChXu9)

147 ACLU is of course silent on this, because they're now just a Communist agitprop machine.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:09 AM (ZOv7s)

Now?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 09:13 AM (0eaVi)

148
I saw this posted on one of our beloved social media sites recently --

Today I completed a chore I have been putting off for six months.

It took15 minutes.

I will learn nothing from this.

I rated it as "true".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! [/i at August 30, 2025 09:15 AM (Tv15w)

149 The coffee is almost gone, and I need to leap across the river to gas up the car and head to my hair appointment. I might be back later, though probably not until the Pet Thread. Enjoy thy Saturday!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2025 09:15 AM (ChXu9)

150 I actually have nothing I have to do today. Yay me!!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 09:15 AM (cYBz/)

151 President Trump is breaking that relationship by actually giving black people measurable improvement in their lives.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 09:07 AM (pJWtt)
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This is why they had to change the voting rules, which had stood for two hundred years - they couldn't win an honest vote.

Some folks are whining about how slow things are moving (an oddly perjorative term, since they never moved at ALL before) but Trump is moving systematically. There's a master calendar somewhere, constantly updated and he wants to make sure that information is released when it does the most damage.

Like the fednapping in Michigan. You don't drop all of that now, because new candidates can be found. No, drop it a year from now, and really screw the Dems. Trump understands that he needs to flood the zone, and he's doing just that, shifting from crime, to trade, to conspiracies, to hearings - all the while keeping the Dems on their back foot.

Anyone complaining about this is the kind person who bitches because their team is *only* up by 21-0 in the first quarter.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)

152 IMO it's not Democrats keeping the plantation going, it's Marxism keeping their protected class from going anywhere to improve themselves.

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 09:16 AM (+qU29)

153 LibreOffice Writer has a 'Save As' option to save in many other formats including two versions of docx.

I have gotten away from using Word to using notepad++ at work and gedit in linux.

There is no greater frustration than loosing your train of thought while getting sidetrack by Words formatting of bullets numbers and floating indents.

Posted by: sTevo at August 30, 2025 09:16 AM (HNXEw)

154 Long ago someone--I think a woman--commented, "If I could MAKE the coffee in the morning, I wouldn't NEED the coffee in the morning."

Oh, my yes.

Posted by: Wenda at August 30, 2025 09:16 AM (utsBX)

155 Now?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 09:13 AM (0eaVi)
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They used to be pink. Now they're red.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)

156 Hiya, JT!

Are you really going to leave us hanging on the birdbath status? Some Moron keeps asking.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 30, 2025 09:17 AM (Wnv9h)

157 Mis Hum, did you get frost last night?

Posted by: Muad'dib at August 30, 2025 09:17 AM (kpLzV)

158 Also, the new outlook is an abomination. Basically a watered down web app. A whole lot of things like searching are completely broken or just gone now. I actually think all of ms is run by china now. TEMU OS.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 30, 2025 09:18 AM (WbprS)

159 The irony is that I moved from CA to MD in order to escape a lot of the crap I was dealing with out there. But at least my folks have a good retirement community and access to the nearby base so we're not worried about the care they are getting.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 30, 2025 09:18 AM (7xrfc)

160 Crucially, while a handful of the attacks have included thefts, the vast majority have only involved property destruction, indicating that the primary motive is not material gain."

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 09:01 AM (cYBz/)
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ACLU is of course silent on this, because they're now just a Communist agitprop machine.

I'm pleased to see that Trump's people are classifying the attack in MN as an act of terrorism, and I'm hoping that other attacks will also be incorporated into that. These are not random acts but a coordinated campaign.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:09 AM (ZOv7s)

I suspect that President Trump is going to make the attacks on Christians within the U.S. a big issue. The Democrats are already shreeking, "Trans People are the real victims! REEEE!!!" Then you have the transgenders taking glee in the murder of Christian children. Normies, of course, are revolted and disgusted by this behavior.

The children killed at that Nashville school a few years ago never got the justice they deserved during the Biden Junta. They were martyrs, too: killed because they were Christians.

However, there's a new sheriff in town, now.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 09:18 AM (pJWtt)

161
I started doing that about ten years ago. Unfortunately I bought a composition book which does not lie flat. I'm going to have to buy a spiral notebook, copy the essential ones over (don't need most of those for my former work), then tear out and shred the pages from the old one.

Put the pages in a burn bag and then send it to the FBI in DC. I hear that they have a knack for safekeeping such things.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! [/i at August 30, 2025 09:19 AM (Tv15w)

162 Now?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 09:13 AM (0eaVi)
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They used to be pink. Now they're red.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)

They've always been red. Just took cases to appear to care about civil liberties which outraged the normal people.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 09:20 AM (0eaVi)

163 Ever notice how in every city, and most have one, MLK Blvd. is always in the shittiest part of town.
He deserved better for his public works.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2025 08:47 AM

Ayuh. Or Malcom X. Blvd, or [insert local community organizer here] Blvd.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 30, 2025 09:20 AM (Wnv9h)

164 In Austin runs between UT and Capital"

So, yes. Where you don't want to be...

Lots of us here are at an age where we are losing our parents and siblings to age-related conditions"

Tell me about it. Both parents w/vascular dementia, spouse w/cancer. I've come to loathe Drs/meds/etc.

Posted by: man at August 30, 2025 09:20 AM (tubbA)

165
Long ago someone--I think a woman--commented, "If I could MAKE the coffee in the morning, I wouldn't NEED the coffee in the morning."

Every morning (when she's home) for 31 years, I've made Her Majesty's coffee for her.

Of course, when I wake up, early, I think, "I have to get moving and take care of the dogs." When she wakes up, much later, she thinks, "Hadrian took care of the dogs, so I can lounge."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 09:20 AM (kkTda)

166 154 Long ago someone--I think a woman--commented, "If I could MAKE the coffee in the morning, I wouldn't NEED the coffee in the morning."

Oh, my yes.
Posted by: Wenda at August 30, 2025 09:16 AM (utsBX)

; )

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 09:20 AM (aURVT)

167 You mean "beautiful." This is my ideal weather.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:10 AM (ZOv7s)
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Mine too. I feel like I'm returning to normal.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2025 09:20 AM (kpS4V)

168 The Cultural Marxists have to keep protecting the LGBQXYZ, it's their best class they have.

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 09:21 AM (+qU29)

169 I think it is interesting how US politicians are now going full UK about prayer. Who came up with this? Why did they think it was a good idea?

The British of all people should know history, and the whole blood-soaked story of the English Reformation should have demonstrated to them that you cannot kill your way to victory over faith. You might keep it out of view, but despite grisly torture, organized famine and wholesale massacres, they could not wipe out dissenting beliefs, and arguably made them stronger through the many courageous martyrs they created.

This also gives the lie to the notion that England is some sort of paragon of 'liberty.' It has always been coercive, and the myth of their freedoms has been utterly exposed. English liberty was an afterthought, an accident that happened because the ruling class was too distracted by Empire to keep the serfs down. I think our Founding Fathers actually believed in it, and were genuinely shocked that it was a myth in practice.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)

170 >>> Long ago someone--I think a woman--commented, "If I could MAKE the coffee in the morning, I wouldn't NEED the coffee in the morning."

Oh, my yes.
Posted by: Wenda at August 30, 2025 09:16 AM (utsBX)

Setting up the coffee in the evening is my version of bootstrapping my os in the morning. My morning brain cpu can handle pressing the on button but that’s it.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 30, 2025 09:22 AM (WbprS)

171 Mine too. I feel like I'm returning to normal.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2025 09:20 AM (kpS4V)
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This summer sucked. It wasn't just the humidity, but the Canadian brown haze that our "green" neighbors visited upon us.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:22 AM (ZOv7s)

172 I have an app that I load all my passwords on to so I can pull them up on my phone if need be. BUT, I've written them down also and placed a copy in my wife's "If my better half kicks the bucket file".

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 09:23 AM (cYBz/)

173 Good morning dear Horde! I'm still lounging in bed!

Posted by: Ladyl at August 30, 2025 09:23 AM (D6+4s)

174 My morning brain cpu can handle pressing the on button but that’s it."

Old keurig died, new Cuisinart requires 2 buttons pushed.
The horror.

Posted by: man at August 30, 2025 09:24 AM (tubbA)

175 IMO it's not Democrats keeping the plantation going, it's Marxism keeping their protected class from going anywhere to improve themselves.
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 09:16 AM (+qU29)

Before I realized the Communism is actually an inversion of Christianity, I used to argue that Communism is unethical because it requires robbing the productive of the fruit of their labor, infantalizes others by making them dependent upon government largess, and requires a ruling class to make the decisions to redistribute wealth.

Now, I have come to understand that the struggle against Communism is actually spiritual. While Communism purports to aid the poor, it actually requires the commission of the Sins of Pride, Theft, Anger and Envy. There is no agape' (unconditional love) in Communism.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 09:25 AM (pJWtt)

176 Good morning dear Horde! I'm still lounging in bed!
Posted by: Ladyl

Go on. . . .

LOL - Good to see you!!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 09:25 AM (cYBz/)

177 Something no one remembers about WW II Britain was that their "finest hour" also completely suspended democracy. Churchill was driven from power in part because the Conservative Party had ruled for 10 years without an election.

When Churchill took over, a National Coalition government was created - what we would call Uniparty. Everybody got a piece of the action and while I'm sure there was a lot of good feelings among the politicians at the time, they also took over every aspect of English life, and that ratchet has never been released.

Which is how they can imprison people for the "crime" of thinking the wrong thoughts (silent prayer).

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:26 AM (ZOv7s)

178 Philosophy corner.

https://is.gd/i0Di7A

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 30, 2025 09:27 AM (L/fGl)

179
While Libre Office is quite good and reasonably priced (read, free), recognize that it does not replicate everything that could be done with MS Office.

In particular, presentations prepared in Libre Office did not run well in Powerpoint's presentation mode, where the lowest portion of each slide was cut off from showing on the screen, in my own experience. (To be fair, I did not have access to a machine running Office so that I might have been able to solve the issue ahead of my having to deliver the presentation.)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! [/i at August 30, 2025 09:27 AM (Tv15w)

180 The Cultural Marxists have to keep protecting the LGBQXYZ, it's their best class they have.
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 09:21 AM (+qU29)
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It isn't "Cultural Marxism." That term was coined by ageing Cold Warriors who are incurably secular in their worldview.

It's demonic. It has nothing to with Marx's 'scientific socialism.' If you took a bunch of today's activists and sent them to 1936 Spain, they'd have been lined up and shot for being decadent bourgeois pigs.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:28 AM (ZOv7s)

181 If you took a bunch of today's activists and sent them to 1936 Spain, they'd have been lined up and shot for being decadent bourgeois pigs.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

See - we can find common ground with them!!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 09:30 AM (cYBz/)

182 Original Antifa would massacre current Antifa - not just because they hate them, but because original Antifa were hard men who drank cold coffee, slept on the ground, and charged machinegun nests with broken rifles.

The International Brigades were often Communist dupes, and frequently purged, but they were actually tough fighters. George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia talks about the harsh conditions that existed even in a quiet sector of the front.

Modern Antifa cries when their iced latte melts.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:30 AM (ZOv7s)

183
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)

The UK also shows the danger of a church under the thumb of the government. The Anglican church has for a century been a spent moral force.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 09:30 AM (kkTda)

184 Hey TonyPete! How's it going?

Posted by: Ladyl at August 30, 2025 09:30 AM (D6+4s)

185 Lots of MLK Blvd's. Also lots of Obama Blvd's.

Although, some of Barky's streets are being renamed after people realized what a disaster he was/is. Guy was such a stain...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2025 09:31 AM (Q4IgG)

186 Murders by the Cultural Marxists thugs doesn't bother them 1 bit, eggs need to be broken to arrive at their utopia

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 09:31 AM (+qU29)

187 Well, two radiation treatments under the belt and no sign of super powers yet. I kinda feel ripped off...

Prayers up for who needs them. The REAL super power, don'cha know...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at August 30, 2025 09:31 AM (HUUje)

188 Religious moment.

https://is.gd/LywcBF

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 30, 2025 09:32 AM (L/fGl)

189
This summer sucked. It wasn't just the humidity, but the Canadian brown haze that our "green" neighbors visited upon us.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

That's "Canadian Nice" for you!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! [/i at August 30, 2025 09:32 AM (Tv15w)

190 My favorite bank password story is when Chase gave another customer my username that I had had for a dozen years. Every attempt at a sign-in required a password reset, and then the other customer had the same issue. That, and refusing to do medallion signatures is why I pulled all of my accounts from them. I walked in, demanded and got thousands in cash from three accounts, and drove to a credit union to open a new account.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2025 09:33 AM (0U5gm)

191 Something no one remembers about WW II Britain was that their "finest hour" also completely suspended democracy. Churchill was driven from power in part because the Conservative Party had ruled for 10 years without an election.

All of the world wide conflicts from the French And Indian War to WW1 & 2 and the "cold" war involved Great Britain and it's quest for and holding onto it's Empire and containing the other Dirty Euros from growing theirs, especially the germans. Now they are a morally bankrupt nation heading for the dustbin of history while clutching their dole in one hand and King Chuck's left nut in the other while reading the Heart Of Darkness and enjoying their white guilt.

Posted by: Al-Akhbar Dhimmi Rape Gang at August 30, 2025 09:33 AM (R/m4+)

192 En mi casa toman Bustelo!

Posted by: Caffiend at August 30, 2025 09:33 AM (G5+As)

193 I think it is interesting how US politicians are now going full UK about prayer. Who came up with this? Why did they think it was a good idea?

...

This also gives the lie to the notion that England is some sort of paragon of 'liberty.' It has always been coercive, and the myth of their freedoms has been utterly exposed. English liberty was an afterthought, an accident that happened because the ruling class was too distracted by Empire to keep the serfs down. I think our Founding Fathers actually believed in it, and were genuinely shocked that it was a myth in practice.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)

1) The Democrat politicians in leadership positions are straight-up Minions of Satan. Everything they strive for violate the Four Sins that Cry to Heaven for Vengeance: Murder of the Innocent, Sodomy, Oppression of the Poor, and Defrauding the Laborer of Just Wages. Of course, they going to support the Father of Lies. Praying to God is painful to Satan and his minions.

2) The Founding Fathers experienced serious infractions against their liberty by the British Government. The Bill of Rights was written for a reason.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 09:34 AM (pJWtt)

194 150 I actually have nothing I have to do today. Yay me!!
Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 09:15 AM (cYBz/)

Ahem.. Ohio State plays Texas at noon.

Posted by: Ladyl at August 30, 2025 09:34 AM (D6+4s)

195 The leftist critique of prayers revealed two very important things. The first was the utter contempt these people have for people of faith, and their hatred for the way they can continue to trust in God despite adversity.

The second was Dems' belief that the only measure of success is material power. Morality is at best a window dressing because the (materialist) ends justify the means.

A tertiary element was the tragi-comic revelation that Dems will call for "red flag" laws without knowing whether or not they exist. Purely unthinking reflexive calls for ineffective policies. It's like their hatred of Trump's crime-fighting success.

"You can't fix those problems, we need those problems!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:34 AM (ZOv7s)

196 Rule Brittania! Marmalade and Jam ...

Over 70% of Brits are against their government but they're being suppressed. Blocking speech can diffuse opposition but only to a breaking point.

"Baby Boudica" adds to the tension as it shows the stakes are rising. Dare I say life or death. When the oppressed start seeing it that way you have a powder keg ready to go off.

Will they let Tommy Robinson take to the stage on 9/13? Will they arrest him before?

Developing ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 30, 2025 09:35 AM (dtajH)

197
All of the world wide conflicts from the French And Indian War to WW1 & 2 and the "cold" war involved Great Britain and it's quest for and holding onto it's Empire and containing the other Dirty Euros from growing theirs, especially the germans and the filthy Frogs.

Fix'd

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 09:36 AM (kkTda)

198 If you took a bunch of today's activists and sent them to 1936 Spain, they'd have been lined up and shot for being decadent bourgeois pigs.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

See - we can find common ground with them!!
Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 09:30 AM (cYBz/)

LOL. A bit early for the Book Thread, but Vince Flynn's novel Term Limits plays with this idea a bit.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 09:36 AM (pJWtt)

199 Ahem.. Ohio State plays Texas at noon"

Let's go...Mets?

Posted by: man at August 30, 2025 09:37 AM (tubbA)

200 Prayers up for all the Horde's intentions. Those asked and unasked.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 30, 2025 09:38 AM (N4DCU)

201 Murders by the Cultural Marxists thugs doesn't bother them 1 bit, eggs need to be broken to arrive at their utopia
Posted by: Skip

Guns don't kill people. Democrats do.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 30, 2025 09:39 AM (L/fGl)

202
So what are the media saying over there in Merrie Olde? Is it, "OMG, civil war is nigh!"? Or is it, "Nothing to see here, just some drunken yobs."?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 09:39 AM (kkTda)

203 @m: Saw your earlier comments to me, just haven't had a chance to respond. Busy morning.

Yeah, that Kindle thing really was a bit of a nightmare. Thankfully I've been through it once before so it wasn't a complete panic, but it is most assuredly annoying.

I wish Amazon would get their stuff together and stop breaking people's libraries on their Kindle, but I suspect we're going to see a lot more of this in the coming years, all over the place, because of "vibe coding" where people let the 'AI's (LLMs really) write all their code for them.

Have you seen the latest update to the Google apps on Android phones? The timer with huge buttons, and for the stopwatch, you have to scroll down to see all three buttons. The contacts screen that doesn't show you your nice alphabetized contacts list, but your most recent contacts, and you have to push another small button to get to the list you actually want (HERE they'll use an ultra small button, but not for the stopwatch, oh no, there they're yuuuuuuge)

*bangs head on desk*

It's gone from "Technology, don't fail me now!" to "Technology, please try not to be retarded today."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 30, 2025 09:40 AM (O7YUW)

204 199 Ahem.. Ohio State plays Texas at noon"

Let's go...Mets?
Posted by: man at August 30, 2025 09:37 AM (tubbA)

Ha!

Posted by: Ladyl at August 30, 2025 09:40 AM (D6+4s)

205 The UK also shows the danger of a church under the thumb of the government. The Anglican church has for a century been a spent moral force.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 09:30 AM (kkTda)
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ALL of the state churches in Europe have crashed and burned. The Catholic Church isn't doing great, but there are revivals in various forms going on in the UK, France and Spain.

But elsewhere, it's all gay all the time. Sweden's church has embraced Islam as well, taking down crosses so the Muslims can pray in their abandoned churches.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:41 AM (ZOv7s)

206
Guns don't kill people. Democrats do.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 30, 2025 09:39 AM (L/fGl)

Homicide rates are downstream from culture. You can look it up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 09:41 AM (kkTda)

207 Back from shopping
More chores
Breakfast
Confession & Mass later in the afternoon

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 30, 2025 09:43 AM (DoBxX)

208 The leftist critique of prayers revealed two very important things. The first was the utter contempt these people have for people of faith, and their hatred for the way they can continue to trust in God despite adversity.

The second was Dems' belief that the only measure of success is material power. Morality is at best a window dressing because the (materialist) ends justify the means.

A tertiary element was the tragi-comic revelation that Dems will call for "red flag" laws without knowing whether or not they exist. Purely unthinking reflexive calls for ineffective policies. It's like their hatred of Trump's crime-fighting success.

"You can't fix those problems, we need those problems!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:34 AM (ZOv7s)

A thought that came to me while seeing a clip of Jen Psaki's tearful call for gun control was that she was experiencing cognitive dissonance: she has come to realize that Transgenderism is driving people to homicidal violence, but she's so in thrall to her ideology she can't say that. So, she denies human agency and focuses on inanimate objects.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 09:43 AM (pJWtt)

209 Ahem.. Ohio State plays Texas at noon.
Posted by: Ladyl at August 30, 2025 09:34

What's on the tailgating menu? Need me to bring anything?

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 30, 2025 09:43 AM (N4DCU)

210 I have gotten away from using Word to using notepad++ at work and gedit in linux.
Posted by: sTevo at August 30, 2025 09:16 AM

Dooooood.

Posted by: vi at August 30, 2025 09:43 AM (0sNs1)

211 I've resorted to using 3 X 5 cards for my work password entries. The card fits in a pocket of my computer bag.

At home, it's the traditional post-it notes stuck to various things with passwords.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 30, 2025 09:43 AM (wVcYX)

212 Wokeism is an ersatz religion. It has tenets of faith that adherents must believe no matter how silly they are and how much they defy reason and evidence. If you stray from these beliefs you're branded an apostate and ejected from the Body (The Borg).

It's Medieval!

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 30, 2025 09:44 AM (dtajH)

213 Hmm, the German city of Cologne has an election coming up. All major parties except the Alternative for Germany (AfD) have pledged to speak only positively about immigration and avoid linking it to social problems. I'm sure that will fix the problem.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2025 09:45 AM (0U5gm)

214 The Style Guide recommends THE Ohio State when referring to THE Ohio State.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 30, 2025 09:45 AM (0sNs1)

215 so the Muslims can pray in their abandoned churches."

It's as if we're back in the mid 1400s. Very strange.
Where is the New World to rejuvenate the Old?

Posted by: man at August 30, 2025 09:46 AM (tubbA)

216 "Baby Boudica" adds to the tension as it shows the stakes are rising. Dare I say life or death. When the oppressed start seeing it that way you have a powder keg ready to go off.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 30, 2025 09:35 AM (dtajH)
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That image really changed things. It's visceral. No actual man can look at that and not feel his blood start to boil.

Are there actual men left in Blighty? We'll see.

I am of course biased (see my surname) but I like to imagine that the Welsh will lead the way because they've been less corrupted by foreigners. They were the ones who pushed Brexit through, and have been shat upon for centuries. And unlike the Scots, they haven't given themselves over to communist leaders pushing the gay.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:46 AM (ZOv7s)

217 At home, it's the traditional post-it notes stuck to various things with passwords.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 30, 2025 09:43 AM

Underneath the keyboard is the traditional place to safeguard one's password Post-It notes.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 30, 2025 09:46 AM (0sNs1)

218 Arizona woman searching for her soul mate who she married after he came to the U.S. illegally 19 years ago. He ignored a deportation order in 2012. Knowing he was facing deportation now they went for an immigration hearing to "start the process" of seeking citizenship, and he was deported. Wife thought he was being sent to El Salvador but he was sent to Mexico instead.

Now she says this:

“So it’s really frustrating to know that they actually put him in a country where he doesn’t belong."

Heh.

Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2025 09:47 AM (/iMjX)

219 214 The Style Guide recommends THE Ohio State when referring to THE Ohio State.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 30, 2025 09:45 AM (0sNs1)

I was born there, married there, and have 2 degrees from there. I'll call it whatever the hell I want!

Posted by: Ladyl at August 30, 2025 09:47 AM (D6+4s)

220 Confession & Mass later in the afternoon
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 30, 2025 09:43 AM (DoBxX)

Theres a fine line between Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Jimmy Buffet

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 30, 2025 09:47 AM (gbOdA)

221 wrong country link:

https://is.gd/OiPt5j

Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2025 09:48 AM (/iMjX)

222 A thought that came to me while seeing a clip of Jen Psaki's tearful call for gun control was that she was experiencing cognitive dissonance: she has come to realize that Transgenderism is driving people to homicidal violence, but she's so in thrall to her ideology she can't say that. So, she denies human agency and focuses on inanimate objects.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 09:43 AM (pJWtt)
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The Dems hate RFK because he cuts through the b.s. and can't be painted as a Nazi because of his family and history.

When he said that this is new and unique, and that Americans once had high school rifle teams, he blew up their entire narrative. Ripping open the black box of psych drugs is the worst nightmare of Big Pharma and will likely destroy much of the "medical" profession.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:49 AM (ZOv7s)

223 They've always been red. Just took cases to appear to care about civil liberties which outraged the normal people.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 09:20 AM (0eaVi)

Agreed. My theory is that they defended the Skokie Nazis because they *agreed* with them.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2025 09:49 AM (lFFaq)

224 IMO it's not Democrats keeping the plantation going, it's Marxism keeping their protected class from going anywhere to improve themselves.
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 09:16 AM (+qU29)

Until further notice, all democrats should be considered marxists.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 30, 2025 09:50 AM (g8Ew8)

225 Baby Boudica" adds to the tension as it shows the stakes are rising. Dare I say life or death. When the oppressed start seeing it that way you have a powder keg ready to go off.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 30, 2025 09:35 AM (dtajH)
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That image really changed things. It's visceral. No actual man can look at that and not feel his blood start to boil.

Are there actual men left in Blighty? We'll see.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

One would think that the image of a young girl trying to protect herself would shame the men into doing something, but the politicians have long since gotten over feeling shame for anything. They are literally paying mohammedans to come over, live free in hotels, and give them walking around money in order to give them free time to go hunt for victims.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2025 09:50 AM (0U5gm)

226 Are there actual men left in Blighty? We'll see."

No. Decades of gelding and excising chests has left them hollow. But that was wanted, so...meh.

Posted by: man at August 30, 2025 09:50 AM (tubbA)

227 >>> My favorite bank password story is when Chase gave another customer my username that I had had for a dozen years. Every attempt at a sign-in required a password reset, and then the other customer had the same issue. That, and refusing to do medallion signatures is why I pulled all of my accounts from them. I walked in, demanded and got thousands in cash from three accounts, and drove to a credit union to open a new account.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

My old bank, a small local bank I had since 1984, used to be great.
Then they apparently got bought out and proceeded to incrementally bork their on-line system.
Bestest improvement is when they 'upgraded' and required users to make new 'secure' user names... So my new user name looked more like a password because it followed format I had used for years.
About three months later I received a phone call asking me to change my user name - using a 'pipe' ('|') in my name caused their system to freeze up when they ran certain functions and it took months for them to figure out the 'bug'.

Not as bad as "del *.* /s". But bad enough that they had to revise their programming to filter pipes from user names (still OK in pw though).

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 30, 2025 09:50 AM (/lPRQ)

228 Wokeism is an ersatz religion. It has tenets of faith that adherents must believe no matter how silly they are and how much they defy reason and evidence. If you stray from these beliefs you're branded an apostate and ejected from the Body (The Borg).

It's Medieval!
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 30, 2025 09:44 AM (dtajH)

Um...I agree with you a bit. However, religion and reason are not in opposition. Also, I would argue that we are seeing irrational behavior since they deny reality: humans can not change sex.

The knock on the European Medieval period comes from the so-called Enlightenment philosophers that had an agenda in denying the importance of religion (namely Christianity).

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 09:50 AM (pJWtt)

229 Ladyl, good morning!

I've been staying with Mom in Columbus during the week--we should have us a micro mini MoMe sometime.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2025 09:51 AM (h7ZuX)

230 When you ask my B-I-L what college team he roots for he looks down at his front of his sweatshirt and reads:

O-I-H-O

Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2025 09:51 AM (/iMjX)

231 It's as if we're back in the mid 1400s. Very strange.
Where is the New World to rejuvenate the Old?
Posted by: man at August 30, 2025 09:46 AM (tubbA)
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Catholic missionaries are once again going to the Norse countries. There is a growing community in Finland, so much so that they are starting up their own seminary. Sweden is seeing growth and monks are re-establishing their old abbeys in Norway.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:51 AM (ZOv7s)

232 The Style Guide recommends THE Ohio State when referring to THE Ohio State.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher

I was born there, married there, and have 2 degrees from there. I'll call it whatever the hell I want!
Posted by: Ladyl

Heh! Speaking of that, I understand the Blue Danube is going to reopen. Or maybe already has.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 09:52 AM (cYBz/)

233
Hook'em Horns!!!

Does Ohio State have to eat Cincinnati "Chili" if they win or lose?

Either way that sounds like a no win situation.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 30, 2025 09:53 AM (iJfKG)

234 Great Britain and it's quest for and holding onto it's ~~Empire~~apostrophe's

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 30, 2025 09:53 AM (zdLoL)

235 Rule Brittania! Marmalade and Jam ...

Over 70% of Brits are against their government but they're being suppressed. Blocking speech can diffuse opposition but only to a breaking point.

"Baby Boudica" adds to the tension as it shows the stakes are rising. Dare I say life or death. When the oppressed start seeing it that way you have a powder keg ready to go off.

Will they let Tommy Robinson take to the stage on 9/13? Will they arrest him before?

Developing ...

Suppression such as what the British government is doing is like the stress building up at a tectonic fault. Everything is great...until it isn't. I'm expecting a rather large earthquake.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2025 09:53 AM (Riz8t)

236
Confession & Mass later in the afternoon
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 30, 2025 09:43 AM (DoBxX)

Went to Confession yesterday. How people can spend 10 minutes (at least) in there is beyond me. You're a screw-up, not a monster. Get it out, say you're sorry, pledge not to do it again, ask for forgiveness and absolution. You should be in and out in two minutes, tops.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 09:53 AM (kkTda)

237 I've been staying with Mom in Columbus during the week--we should have us a micro mini MoMe sometime.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

You two should meet up at The Varsity Club, head out to the patio and throw your empty beer cans on the ground for old times sake!!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 09:53 AM (cYBz/)

238 "None of us have the promise of tomorrow. God forbid this is my last day on this beautiful earth, it won't be spent listening to some news person telling me how rotten we are, how rotten life is, heck no, I'm going out and seeing how beautiful life is.

As humans, our time on this planet is very limited...
Turn off, tune out, and turn on your life. Peace."

-- Frank Zappa

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2025 09:54 AM (0sNs1)

239 I was born there, married there, and have 2 degrees from there. I'll call it whatever the hell I want!
Posted by: Ladyl at August 30, 2025 09:47 AM (D6+4s)
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My father's family is from Ohio, and so I identify as Buckeye-adjacent.

Going back to my time in MSU's band, we got a long famously with OSU, and even traded band shirts (which I still have). Having a common enemy does that.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:54 AM (ZOv7s)

240 How people can spend 10 minutes (at least) in there is beyond me. You're a screw-up, not a monster. Get it out, say you're sorry, pledge not to do it again, ask for forgiveness and absolution. You should be in and out in two minutes, tops.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

It's always the same old ladies that do that!! Father Mike says it's like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 09:55 AM (cYBz/)

241 On the lawn maintenance front, it's comforting to know that you're just like thousands of other DIYs.

Using your edger for double digit years without replacing the blade puts you in a large cohort. Many of us were amazed to discover that the replacement blade is 7.25 inches, eclipsing our worn-down 5 inch blade.

The YT and Amazon comments of astonishment with pics were priceless.

I will say that a new replacement blade does wonders for a sharp, crisp lawn edge.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 30, 2025 09:55 AM (wVcYX)

242 If you stray from these beliefs you're branded an apostate and ejected from the Body (The Borg).
It's Medieval!
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 30, 2025 09:44 AM (dtajH)

You will be absorbed. Your individuality will merge into the unity of good, and in your submergence into the common being of the body, you will find contentment, fulfillment. You will experience the absolute good.

Posted by: Landru, original democrat at August 30, 2025 09:55 AM (R/m4+)

243 I'm expecting a rather large earthquake."

Hmm.

I'm going with a whimper...

Posted by: man at August 30, 2025 09:55 AM (tubbA)

244 You'd think that with a huge river, forests, oil, gas and other natural resources, Louisiana would be a prosperous place.
——

Now do Mexico. I was trying to ‘splain this to leftists 30 years ago. They have tremendous natural resources, and highly intelligent industrious people. They are a “poor” country only because their government is $&@ker up. This does not require or obligate the USA to soak up their problems.

Argentina once made the list as the 3rd wealthiest country on the planet. Socialists may or may not have had good intentions but the results are uniformly horrific.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2025 09:56 AM (kEIJE)

245 I will say that a new replacement blade does wonders for a sharp, crisp lawn edge.

So does a lawn crew.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2025 09:56 AM (Riz8t)

246 Rosary experts, I have a question.
I was reading about the 5 First Saturdays rosary devotion.
Anyone know which mysteries are usually prayed? Is it always the Joyful or can I go thru the 4 sets and end up with Joyful on the 5th first Saturday?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 30, 2025 09:56 AM (DoBxX)

247 Went to Confession yesterday. How people can spend 10 minutes (at least) in there is beyond me. You're a screw-up, not a monster. Get it out, say you're sorry, pledge not to do it again, ask for forgiveness and absolution. You should be in and out in two minutes, tops.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I recall a story from an inner city downtrodden parish. Man walks into confessional, just grunting and not saying anything. Priest says "How are you doing?" , and the man answers " Oh. Hi. Hey, do you have any toilet paper in your stall?"

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2025 09:57 AM (0U5gm)

248 no sign of super powers yet.

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Apparently, Mrs. Wrecks' and my super powers have kicked in. Thirty years ago, when our daughters were mere toddlers, daycare was provided by our neighbors. Something happened between our toddlers and their toddler son. We had had adopted through Human Services who stressed that our daughters would be watched very carefully for any signs of abuse. When this event, apparently playing doctor, happened, Mrs. Wrecks felt we had to report to DHS. This was traumatic to our neighbors who were good people, especially the mom (dad was a little controlling). A few days ago, Mrs. Wrecks met them again and they've had a tragic life including the mom now having cancer. The dad accused us of causing her cancer by reporting the incident from 30 years ago. So apparently our super power is causing cancer but it takes a few decades to kick in.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 30, 2025 09:57 AM (L/fGl)

249 Went to Confession yesterday. How people can spend 10 minutes (at least) in there is beyond me. You're a screw-up, not a monster. Get it out, say you're sorry, pledge not to do it again, ask for forgiveness and absolution. You should be in and out in two minutes, tops.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 09:53 AM (kkTda)

Well.....unless you're Hitler.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 30, 2025 09:57 AM (g8Ew8)

250 Ripping open the black box of psych drugs is the worst nightmare of Big Pharma and will likely destroy much of the "medical" profession.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:49 AM (ZOv7s)

I hope so.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2025 09:57 AM (h7ZuX)

251 So does a lawn crew"

Si.

Posted by: man at August 30, 2025 09:57 AM (tubbA)

252 It's as if we're back in the mid 1400s. Very strange.
Where is the New World to rejuvenate the Old?
Posted by: man at August 30, 2025 09:46 AM (tubbA)
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Catholic missionaries are once again going to the Norse countries. There is a growing community in Finland, so much so that they are starting up their own seminary. Sweden is seeing growth and monks are re-establishing their old abbeys in Norway.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:51 AM (ZOv7s)

The African bishops are sending out missionaries even the midst of the persecution they are seeing. The blood of martyrs fertilizes the Church.

We have to have faith that God's Permissive Will is at work. I am of the opinion that the attacks on children will ultimately undo the evil that we are currently seeing.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 09:58 AM (pJWtt)

253 Went to Confession yesterday. How people can spend 10 minutes (at least) in there is beyond me. You're a screw-up, not a monster. Get it out, say you're sorry, pledge not to do it again, ask for forgiveness and absolution. You should be in and out in two minutes, tops.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 09:53 AM (kkTda)
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Don't judge. Maybe it's their first time in ten years, or maybe something really awful has happened and they need priestly guidance. I typically try to keep it short, but there have been situations where I have needed more time, and those have often been my best experiences. Life-changing, even.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 09:59 AM (ZOv7s)

254 Blue Danube was a Linda Ronstadt song.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 30, 2025 09:59 AM (5+Y60)

255 Anyone know which mysteries are usually prayed? Is it always the Joyful or can I go thru the 4 sets and end up with Joyful on the 5th first Saturday?
Posted by: vmom

We switch them up. I don't think there is a hard and fast rule though.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 09:59 AM (cYBz/)

256 Agreed. My theory is that they defended the Skokie Nazis because they *agreed* with them.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2025 09:49 AM (lFFaq)

You're probably not incorrect.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 09:59 AM (0eaVi)

257 WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY, THEY FIRST MAKE RIDICULOUS:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1961437669440835644

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2025 10:00 AM (Riz8t)

258 We have to have faith that God's Permissive Will is at work. I am of the opinion that the attacks on children will ultimately undo the evil that we are currently seeing.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 09:58 AM (pJWtt)
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I agree. We've reached a parting of the ways. The trans thing can no longer be ignored and Catholics are openly talking about creating their own security forces because the police don't care. (Protestants have actually taken the lead on this.)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 10:00 AM (ZOv7s)

259 I'm expecting a rather large earthquake."

Hmm.

I'm going with a whimper...
Posted by: man at August 30, 2025 09:55 AM (tubbA)

Peacefully, in my sleep. Just like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 30, 2025 10:00 AM (wVcYX)

260 How people can spend 10 minutes (at least) in there is beyond me.

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Just say, "Sloth, yadda yadda yadda, gluttony, yadda yadda yadda, wrath, yadda yadda yadda" etc.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 30, 2025 10:01 AM (L/fGl)

261
It's always the same old ladies that do that!! Father Mike says it's like being stoned to death with popcorn.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 09:55 AM (cYBz/)

The more straightforward you are, without unnecessary euphemisms and excuses, the easier it is. Otherwise, you either aren't going as often as you should or you haven't examined your conscience properly.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 10:01 AM (kkTda)

262 Rosary experts, I have a question.
I was reading about the 5 First Saturdays rosary devotion.
Anyone know which mysteries are usually prayed? Is it always the Joyful or can I go thru the 4 sets and end up with Joyful on the 5th first Saturday?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 30, 2025 09:56 AM (DoBxX)

Traditionally, the Joyful Mysteries are prayed on Saturday. However, I don't think there is any strict rule. My understanding is the Marian instruction was simply, "Pray the Rosary."

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 10:02 AM (pJWtt)

263 Get it out, say you're sorry, pledge not to do it again, ask for forgiveness and absolution.

Reminds me of George Carlin talking about how he and his friend would go to confession when one priest was handling it because the penance was always the same.

"You could commit murder and three Hail Marys later, you were back on the streets!"

Posted by: NR Pax at August 30, 2025 10:02 AM (7xrfc)

264 Went to Confession yesterday. How people can spend 10 minutes (at least) in there is beyond me. You're a screw-up, not a monster. Get it out, say you're sorry, pledge not to do it again, ask for forgiveness and absolution. You should be in and out in two minutes, tops.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I'm telling everybody!

Posted by: Old Jewish Man in Confession at August 30, 2025 10:03 AM (wVcYX)

265
Anyone know which mysteries are usually prayed? Is it always the Joyful or can I go thru the 4 sets and end up with Joyful on the 5th first Saturday?

Joyful: Saturday and Monday
Glorious: Sunday and Wednesday
Sorrowful: Tuesday and Friday
Luminous: Thursday

In Advent, the Joyful Mysteries are said on Sunday. In Lent, the Sorrowful Mysteries are.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 10:03 AM (kkTda)

266 A co-worker's mother appendix burst this past Wednesday, while the surgeons were taking care of that problem they detected what they thought was cancer. Praise GOD, it was not. Consuelo thanks you for prayers.

Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2025 10:03 AM (LHPAg)

267 Just a question for those to the right of Indiana. Do you, or have you ever pronounced it Ahia?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 10:03 AM (0eaVi)

268 WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY, THEY FIRST MAKE RIDICULOUS:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1961437669440835644
Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2025 10:00 AM (Riz8t)
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Hopefully.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 30, 2025 10:05 AM (hkixX)

269 Anyone know which mysteries are usually prayed? Is it always the Joyful or can I go thru the 4 sets and end up with Joyful on the 5th first Saturday?
Posted by: vmom

We switch them up. I don't think there is a hard and fast rule though.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 09:59 AM (cYBz/)
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There are mysteries associated with certain days, but that is not set in stone. It is appropriate to feel a certain intention and pray that way. For example, a few weeks ago I decided to do the Joyful Mysteries on a Friday because I was in a very Marian mood and it felt appropriate. Go where the spirit takes you.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 10:05 AM (ZOv7s)

270 Good morning.
Late so update first and then I'll go and see how everyone else is doing.
I had a euphoric 5 days painfree after the hip surgery and then the combo of meds upset my stomach and the fact that I wasn't eating. Stopped the meds. Felt better immediately but some pain. Small setback. But rallied, graduated home PT. See surgeon Friday. Start outpatient PT following week. Trying to be patient but not in my nature. Still on track for Texas.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2025 10:05 AM (t/2Uw)

271 So does a lawn crew.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2025 09:56 AM (Riz8t)

I'm one of the Poors. Seems everyone else on this block has a crew. When the crews show up in sequence, it's an unending cacophony of mowers and blowers all day long.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 30, 2025 10:06 AM (wVcYX)

272 Just a question for those to the right of Indiana. Do you, or have you ever pronounced it Ahia?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 10:03 AM (0eaVi)

Not me, but I have heard it.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 30, 2025 10:06 AM (5+Y60)

273 We have to have faith that God's Permissive Will is at work. I am of the opinion that the attacks on children will ultimately undo the evil that we are currently seeing.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 09:58 AM (pJWtt)
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I agree. We've reached a parting of the ways. The trans thing can no longer be ignored and Catholics are openly talking about creating their own security forces because the police don't care. (Protestants have actually taken the lead on this.)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 10:00 AM (ZOv7s)

I'm chairman of my parish's Worship Commission. I've brought up the issue of security before, but have always found many of the other members to not be supportive. I suspect that it's simply a hard truth that's difficult to face.

I shall raise the issue again at our next meeting.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 10:06 AM (pJWtt)

274 Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2025 10:00 AM (Riz8t)

Should have faced a road from Lexington moment.

Posted by: Just sayin' at August 30, 2025 10:07 AM (0eaVi)

275 OK, time for a break.

Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2025 10:07 AM (/iMjX)

276 257 WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY, THEY FIRST MAKE RIDICULOUS:

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2025 10:00 AM (Riz8t)

Not so fast...post underneath it identifies it as not Baby Boudicca, but some girl arrested in a pro-Palestinian protest.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2025 10:07 AM (h7ZuX)

277 The Five Joyful Mysteries are traditionally prayed on Mondays, Saturdays, and, during the season of Advent, on Sundays.

The Five Sorrowful Mysteries are traditionally prayed on Tuesdays, Fridays, and, during the season of Lent, on Sundays.

The Five Glorious Mysteries are traditionally prayed on Wednesdays and, outside the seasons of Advent and Lent, on Sundays.

The Five Luminous Mysteries are traditionally prayed on Thursdays.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2025 10:08 AM (0sNs1)

278 8/28 - Grumpy and Recalcitrant asks for prayers for Pixy Misa, who runs the morning tech thread.

Just saw this. Very kind.

It's irritating (very!) but the medication I'm on now should deal with it given a little time.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2025 10:08 AM (BLOW1)

279 Left-wing X and Bluesky are ablaze with rumors that Trump is dead, and expressing their happiness.

They are ghouls.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 30, 2025 10:09 AM (xTIDn)

280 Not me, but I have heard it.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 30, 2025 10:06 AM (5+Y60)

Oldsters? I have a character who said it that way. Want to make sure it's not wrong.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 10:11 AM (0eaVi)

281 It's always the same old ladies that do that!! Father Mike says it's like being stoned to death with popcorn.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 09:55 AM (cYBz/)
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In my experience, the ones who take the most time are the mothers with young children who seem the personification of maternal wholesomeness.

At one point, our pastor made an announcement at Mass that you do not have to confess impure thoughts. "I get it, you were tempted, but you didn't actually DO it! That's a good thing!"

My wife blushed.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 10:12 AM (ZOv7s)

282 Left-wing X and Bluesky are ablaze with rumors that Trump is dead, and expressing their happiness.

They are ghouls.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 30, 2025 10:09 AM (xTIDn

Well, that would allow now-President J.D. Vance to petition Pope Leo XIV to declare a Crusade!

I don't X or Bluesky: drop that bomb on them if you do and don't care about your account.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 10:12 AM (pJWtt)

283 Not so fast...post underneath it identifies it as not Baby Boudicca, but some girl arrested in a pro-Palestinian protest.

Understood. The cops are German. That doesn't make it better.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2025 10:12 AM (Riz8t)

284 Do you, or have you ever pronounced it Ahia?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 10:03 AM (0eaVi)

Absolutely not.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2025 10:12 AM (h7ZuX)

285 Absolutely not.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2025 10:12 AM (h7ZuX)

Have you ever heard it that way? Maybe it's something that was said before, and now has disappeared?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 10:13 AM (0eaVi)

286 The routes chosen for re-naming (they were always renamed, the left never builds anything new) ran through minority-majority neighborhoods, which were already in distress. The new street signs were cheaper than actually doing policing or improving the schools.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

In most of Texas and the south, most of the “new” MLK blvds were previously named Lincoln St.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2025 10:13 AM (jjpbs)

287 Nobel winning economist warns Trump will destroy the economy with his actions.

Yep - Krugman.

Remember, the Biden Administration rounded up a bunch of distinguished economists (including a number of Nobel Prize winners) to say that the "Inflation Reduction Act" was a good thing, and that the Act would, in fact, reduce inflation.

Inflation exploded after the Act was passed, of course.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 30, 2025 10:13 AM (xTIDn)

288 mr. hennigantx, your nic needs help
Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 08:52 AM (aURVT)
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Thank you it was so triggering.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2025 10:14 AM (RIvkX)

289 Do you, or have you ever pronounced it Ahia?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 10:03 AM (0eaVi)

Absolutely not.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2025 10:12 AM (h7ZuX)

Me neither. But I wasn't born here: only lived in Ahia since 1975. I think I have heard it pronounced that way, however. Now I'm going to be hearing it everywhere!

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 10:15 AM (pJWtt)

290 I'm chairman of my parish's Worship Commission. I've brought up the issue of security before, but have always found many of the other members to not be supportive. I suspect that it's simply a hard truth that's difficult to face.

I shall raise the issue again at our next meeting.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 10:06 AM (pJWtt)
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Our parish held a special Mass the day after and took elaborate security measures. I get a sense that these will be permanent and they specifically spoke of volunteers to keep watch, locking doors once Mass starts, etc.

There was vandalism here after Roe was overturned, so people are a bit on edge, as they should be.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 10:15 AM (ZOv7s)

291
Went to a Vigil Mass last Saturday because I was stewarding at shows and it was the only time I could fit it in.

It just depresses the hell out of me. I don't want to question the canonical validity or the piety of those attending, but: is this the best we can do? The chatting and laughing before Mass begins, the awful music, the readings done from the William Shatner school of declamation, the Tabernacle shoved off onto a side table, the lack of vertical reverence.

The Tridentine Mass is the culmination of centuries of organic development. The Novus Ordo Mass is like a meteor that crashed down and destroyed all that beauty, reverence and mystery. Worse, we're expected to say it's the best thing that ever could have happened. Heartbreaking.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 10:15 AM (kkTda)

292 Went to Confession yesterday. How people can spend 10 minutes (at least) in there is beyond me. You're a screw-up, not a monster. Get it out, say you're sorry, pledge not to do it again, ask for forgiveness and absolution. You should be in and out in two minutes, tops.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 09:53 AM (kkTda)
~~~~~

You'll get a kick out of this, Hadrian.

In grammar school, we were brought to confession every Friday afternoon. Late for dinner that night, I lied about my whereabouts because I was somewhere I was not allowed to be. A bit later, it suddenly dawns on me that I've committed another sin! And I have to receive on Sunday with my class! So, I lie again about where I'm going and run to church before the adult confession time ends. Whew!

"Bless me Father for I have sinned. It's been four hours since my last confession."

Posted by: IrishEi at August 30, 2025 10:15 AM (3ImbR)

293 French toast with homemade challah and blueberry-raspberry compote.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2025 10:16 AM (RIvkX)

294 Just a question for those to the right of Indiana. Do you, or have you ever pronounced it Ahia?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 10:03 AM (0eaVi)

Wife is from Westerville. She pronounced it Ohiah.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, Mellow for the Long Weekend at August 30, 2025 10:16 AM (0aYVJ)

295 Well, that would allow now-President J.D. Vance to petition Pope Leo XIV to declare a Crusade!

The Left is convinced that MAGA is entirely a creation of Donald Trump, and that if he leaves the scene, that control of the Republican Party will shift back to people like Mike Pence.

Rationality is not required here.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 30, 2025 10:16 AM (xTIDn)

296 Do you, or have you ever pronounced it Ahia?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 10:03 AM (0eaVi)

Absolutely not.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

Heh. I think it is more of a Meigs, Athens or Adams county thing.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 10:16 AM (cYBz/)

297 Oldsters? I have a character who said it that way. Want to make sure it's not wrong.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 10:11 AM (0eaVi)

Yes, oldsters. Might be a regional thing.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 30, 2025 10:17 AM (5+Y60)

298 Nick Sortor@nicksortor
BREAKING: Demond Taylor, the man arrested for SH00TING AND KlLLING a St. Louis area police officer, has been released after posting a $5,000 bond
Blue cities are OUT OF CONTROL.
Each and everyone one of them need to be taken under FEDERAL CONTROL by Trump at this point.

https://is.gd/wjewh7R

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 30, 2025 10:18 AM (L/fGl)

299 Me neither. But I wasn't born here: only lived in Ahia since 1975. I think I have heard it pronounced that way, however. Now I'm going to be hearing it everywhere!
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 10:15 AM (pJWtt)

Sorry!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 10:19 AM (0eaVi)

300 “Suppose that you didn’t make your Easter duty and it’s Pentecost Sunday, the last day, and you’re on a ship at sea. And the chaplain goes into a coma! But you wanted to receive. And then it’s Monday, too late… But then you cross the International Date Line! Would that then be a sin then, Father?”

Posted by: Zombie George Carlin at August 30, 2025 10:20 AM (wVcYX)

301 I'm chairman of my parish's Worship Commission. I've brought up the issue of security before, but have always found many of the other members to not be supportive.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop

We've had a standing Security team at all Masses and special gatherings for years now. Some folks don't care for it but tough noogies.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 10:20 AM (cYBz/)

302
At one point, our pastor made an announcement at Mass that you do not have to confess impure thoughts. "I get it, you were tempted, but you didn't actually DO it! That's a good thing!"

*polite cough*

Kinda makes a mockery of the Confiteor where you say, "I have sinned exceedingly in thought, word and deed..."

It's one thing to have sinful thoughts. But you cross a threshold when, knowing they're wrong, you persist with them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 10:20 AM (kkTda)

303 Prayers for all, especially Grammy Winger and Rev. May God strengthen you both to continue shining His light upon each other.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 30, 2025 10:20 AM (8gt++)

304 Heh. I think it is more of a Meigs, Athens or Adams county thing.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 10:16 AM (cYBz/)

Are those Ohio counties?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 10:21 AM (0eaVi)

305 Nick Sortor@nicksortor
BREAKING: Demond Taylor, the man arrested for SH00TING AND KlLLING a St. Louis area police officer, has been released after posting a $5,000 bond
Blue cities are OUT OF CONTROL.
Each and everyone one of them need to be taken under FEDERAL CONTROL by Trump at this point.

https://is.gd/wjewh7R
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I was born & raised in St. Louis city. I'm so old, I can remember when if you shot a cop, you didn't make it to the station alive.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2025 10:21 AM (cr7L+)

306 Thank you it was so triggering.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

https://is.gd/GX7bkF

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 30, 2025 10:22 AM (L/fGl)

307 The Novus Ordo Mass is like a meteor that crashed down and destroyed all that beauty, reverence and mystery. Worse, we're expected to say it's the best thing that ever could have happened. Heartbreaking.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 10:15 AM (kkTda)

The Novus Ordo was the product of a committee, and it shows. Creaky and disjointed. The Modernists that created it, and the hippies the pews that loved it are rapidly dying-off.

I'm right there with you in my dislike of many of the happy-clappy "hymns" we are forced to sing. My 15 year old grandson has noticed that I will open the Hymnal, see what "hymn" is being listed, close the Hymnal and stand in silent prayer. I offer-up my little bit of suffering.

I agree with Bishop Athanasius Schneider: the Novus Ordor will change and become more like the TLM. I have tried to get my wife to go the the local TLM but she doesn't like it. She's a convert. I'm a cradle Catholic that grew up with the TLM.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 30, 2025 10:22 AM (pJWtt)

308
"Bless me Father for I have sinned. It's been four hours since my last confession."
Posted by: IrishEi at August 30, 2025 10:15 AM (3ImbR)

I had something similar and the priest replied, "To God a day is eternity."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 10:22 AM (kkTda)

309
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2025 10:05 AM (t/2Uw)

Thanks for the update and good news b"h for good health

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2025 10:22 AM (RIvkX)

310 Prayers for all, especially Grammy Winger and Rev. May God strengthen you both to continue shining His light upon each other.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher

Amen.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2025 10:22 AM (cr7L+)

311 Are those Ohio counties?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Geographically yes. But as Appalachian as they come as soon as you get off the paved road.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 10:23 AM (cYBz/)

312 203 @m: Saw your earlier comments to me, just haven't had a chance to respond. Busy morning.

Yeah, that Kindle thing really was a bit of a nightmare. Thankfully I've been through it once before so it wasn't a complete panic, but it is most assuredly annoying.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 30, 2025 09:40 AM (O7YUW)

It woke you up! Wonder if they'll find a way to charge you for that.....

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 10:23 AM (aURVT)

313 Here I'm getting ready for work, well home work

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 10:24 AM (+qU29)

314 https://is.gd/GX7bkF
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I immediately furnished this to my idiot friends back east.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2025 10:24 AM (RIvkX)

315 At home, it's the traditional post-it notes stuck to various things with passwords.
Posted by: Count de Monet

We use a ratty notebook at home

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 30, 2025 10:24 AM (DoBxX)

316 Are those Ohio counties?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Geographically yes. But as Appalachian as they come as soon as you get off the paved road.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 10:23 AM (cYBz/)

Got it. Thanks for all the answers. Ahia it is.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 10:24 AM (0eaVi)

317 The Novus Ordo was the product of a committee, and it shows. Creaky and disjointed. The Modernists that created it, and the hippies the pews that loved it are rapidly dying-off.
I'm right there with you in my dislike of many of the happy-clappy "hymns" we are forced to sing. My 15 year old grandson has noticed that I will open the Hymnal, see what "hymn" is being listed, close the Hymnal and stand in silent prayer.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop

My Parish is mostly old Boomers. During the 'sign of peace' many of them will actually flash the peace sign to others.

It makes me want to scream.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 10:25 AM (cYBz/)

318 Have you ever heard it that way? Maybe it's something that was said before, and now has disappeared?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 10:13 AM (0eaVi)

I've never even heard it, to my recollection, and I grew up in rural southeastern Ohio, which is where one might expect to hear that pronunciation.

I only see this as a stereotype of Ohioans. On the other hand, stereotypes usually have a basis in experience, so...maybe it is an oldster thing.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2025 10:26 AM (h7ZuX)

319 283 Understood. The cops are German. That doesn't make it better.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2025 10:12 AM (Riz8t)

Agreed. Lotta force for one girl.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2025 10:27 AM (h7ZuX)

320 Best confessional scene ever is Kevin Kline in "Love You to Death".

Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2025 10:27 AM (c0xEo)

321
Best of Breed for The Big Dummy this morning at the Tri-City KC show in Iowa. Not expecting anything in the Hound Group. A pity, because the entry yesterday was 208. It would be nice to get a piece of it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 10:28 AM (kkTda)

322 THE Ahia St Buckeyes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 30, 2025 10:29 AM (5+Y60)

323 https://is.gd/GX7bkF
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I immediately furnished this to my idiot friends back east.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2025 10:24 AM (RIvkX)

Just watched a YT vid from "Jolly." They tried White Castle and didn't like anything except for the fried mozzarella.

I've never had WC when I was in school, and there's no WC around where I live now.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 10:29 AM (0eaVi)

324 The Minnesota Star Tribune@StarTribune
Transgender Minnesotans on alert after Annunciation Church shooting

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Didja see NBC "News" apologized for referring to the shooter as "he"?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 30, 2025 10:29 AM (L/fGl)

325 Good morning! Hope everyone is doing well.

Posted by: Piper from the pool at August 30, 2025 10:30 AM (ZdaMQ)

326
My Parish is mostly old Boomers. During the 'sign of peace' many of them will actually flash the peace sign to others.

It makes me want to scream.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 10:25 AM (cYBz/)

Most of the glad-handing Old Creepy Thing went away with COVID. The New Creepy Thing is everyone doing that stupid Orans posture that you shouldn't do.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 10:31 AM (kkTda)

327 Transgender Minnesotans on alert after Annunciation Church shooting

"Muslims Fear Backlash from Tomorrow's Suicide Bombing"

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 30, 2025 10:31 AM (xTIDn)

328 People still watch the "news?"

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2025 10:31 AM (XQo4F)

329 The Confessional
https://youtu.be/BLlKCVVd3hk

Posted by: Zombie George Carlin - Class Clown at August 30, 2025 10:32 AM (wVcYX)

330 MLK was known for non-violence. But wherever there's an MLK Blvd, there's some violence going on!

Posted by: Chris Rock at August 30, 2025 10:32 AM (zda6q)

331 White Castle's are pretty good at staving off a hangover for a couple hours. In exchange you get irregular bowel movements for a couple hours.

Sort of a preference thing I guess.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2025 10:32 AM (Q4IgG)

332 So apparently our super power is causing cancer but it takes a few decades to kick in.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 30, 2025 09:57 AM (L/fGl)

It's Dr Manhattan!
Seriously, you are not responsible for that nor for other peoples' grudges.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 30, 2025 10:33 AM (08DAr)

333 Best confessional scene ever is Kevin Kline in "Love You to Death".
Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2025 10:27 AM (c0xEo)

I nominate the episode of Seinfeld where George is following Jerry everywhere and in one scene bursts into the confessional booth where Jerry is talking to the priest about how Whatley converted to Judaism purely for the jokes AND Whatley’s telling a joke about the pope and Raquel Welch in a dinghy…. Those aren’t buoys!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 30, 2025 10:34 AM (6RwsA)

334 And "All Are Welcome In This Place" is on repeat in that gate where is inscribed lasciate ogni speranza.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 30, 2025 10:35 AM (08DAr)

335 Paul A. Szypula @Bubblebathgirl
Rosie O’Donnell falsely says the Minneapolis trans attacker was a “Republican, MAGA person, white supremacist.”
Rosie has a daughter who identities as they/them so you can see why Rosie ignores that the attacker was leftist and trans.
Rosie can’t face reality.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 30, 2025 10:35 AM (L/fGl)

336 White Castle's are pretty good at staving off a hangover for a couple hours. In exchange you get irregular bowel movements for a couple hours.

Sort of a preference thing I guess.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2025 10:32 AM (Q4IgG)

The comments on the Jolly vid did bring that note up.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 10:35 AM (0eaVi)

337
Posted by: Zombie George Carlin - Class Clown at August 30, 2025 10:32 AM (wVcYX)

Sorry, I got no use for George Carlin. He may have been funny once, but he turned into a bitter old religion hater later on.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 10:35 AM (kkTda)

338 Meigs County was famous back in the day for The Varmints, a rural loose social group that lead a somewhat degenerate lifestyle. But they were fun as long as you didn't piss them off. Grew some of the best domestic weed before all the hybridization. We used to call it Appalachian Ass Kick.

They had a festival every summer that was like a mini-Woodstock, but with an county style flair.

Wet T shirt completions were such a great thing.

Do the youngsters still do that?

Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2025 10:35 AM (c0xEo)

339 White Castle's are pretty good at staving off a hangover for a couple hours. In exchange you get irregular bowel movements for a couple hours.

Sort of a preference thing I guess.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2025 10:32 AM (Q4IgG)

The mighty one bites! I could eat 10 of those sliders in my heyday. We’d get them when visiting my cousins in the Chicago area. In retrospect they’re slimy disgusting little things….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 30, 2025 10:36 AM (6RwsA)

340
My impression is that White Castle can only be consumed while intoxicated.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 10:37 AM (kkTda)

341 Wet T shirt completions were such a great thing.

Do the youngsters still do that?
Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2025 10:35 AM (c0xEo)

I'd hate to see oldsters doing it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 10:37 AM (0eaVi)

342 First off crawled 40 feet in attic with screw-up to find old fan is held in with slotted screws.
Back down I go

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 10:38 AM (+qU29)

343 *Trying to figure out why I should care what Rosie O’Donnell thinks. Goes searching for what Tay Tay thinks instead.*

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2025 10:38 AM (XQo4F)

344 French toast with homemade challah and blueberry-raspberry compote.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2025

Oh that sounds amazing. By father owned a kosher bakery while I was growing up. Have not had a decent slice of bread since I left home to go to college.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2025 10:39 AM (t/2Uw)

345 Kind of like people in Kentucky pronouncing Louisville as "Loovull."

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, Mellow for the Long Weekend at August 30, 2025 10:39 AM (0aYVJ)

346 Sorry, I got no use for George Carlin. He may have been funny once, but he turned into a bitter old religion hater later on.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 10:35 AM (kkTda)

He was a God hater sadly. But he was also extremely funny… his bit about flying simply hilarious (I’m getting in the airplane not on it… why do they call it the cockpit… boarding process). And his comparison of football and baseball brilliant

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 30, 2025 10:40 AM (6RwsA)

347 Sorry, I got no use for George Carlin. He may have been funny once, but he turned into a bitter old religion hater later on.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 10:35 AM (kkTda)

I get that, he was and he did.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 30, 2025 10:40 AM (wVcYX)

348
French toast with homemade challah and blueberry-raspberry compote.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2025

I sometimes think about learning how to make bread. If things go wrong, we have plenty of garbage disposals.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 10:40 AM (kkTda)

349 White Castle is awful.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 30, 2025 10:41 AM (5+Y60)

350 My big temptation this week will be the sin of wrath.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 30, 2025 10:41 AM (L/fGl)

351 Kinda makes a mockery of the Confiteor where you say, "I have sinned exceedingly in thought, word and deed..."

It's one thing to have sinful thoughts. But you cross a threshold when, knowing they're wrong, you persist with them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 10:20 AM (kkTda)
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To clarify: He specifically addressed situations where people didn't like the thoughts and rejected them, but were clogging up the confessional by coming each week and listing them. In detail.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 10:41 AM (ZOv7s)

352 My big temptation this week will be the sin of wrath.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 30, 2025 10:41 AM (L/fGl)
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This is a perpetual temptation for me.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 10:42 AM (ZOv7s)

353 No one pronounces Ohio "Ahia, in Ohio except, as TP noted, the folks down by the river.

People that do that outside Ohio are trying to mildly slur natives as a bunch of hill jacks. Everyone knows the real hill jacks come from West Virginnie.

Southeastern Ohio is one of the least discovered great places to live if you dislike cities and city folk.

Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2025 10:42 AM (c0xEo)

354 > Kind of like people in Kentucky pronouncing Louisville as "Loovull."
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Versailles, KY = Ver-sally.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2025 10:43 AM (Q4IgG)

355 Bill Clinton’s Health Concerns Mount After Being Spotted with Defibrillator

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Maybe he just uses it on his dick.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 30, 2025 10:44 AM (L/fGl)

356
To clarify: He specifically addressed situations where people didn't like the thoughts and rejected them, but were clogging up the confessional by coming each week and listing them. In detail.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 10:41 AM (ZOv7s)

Then he's on good ground. And there's no reason to go into detail, unless it materially changes the nature of the sin. It's one thing to steal $10 from your parents and another to steal $100,000 from a client.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2025 10:44 AM (kkTda)

357 Kind of like people in Kentucky pronouncing Louisville as "Loovull."
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, Mellow for the Long Weekend at August 30, 2025 10:39 AM (0aYVJ)
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Passing through eastern Kentucky some years ago, a shop was selling T-shirts with the four ways of pronouncing it. Pretty funny.

My wife's from Appalachia, so it's "Loo-uh-vull," with the last syllable practically swallowed.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 10:44 AM (ZOv7s)

358 Do you, or have you ever pronounced it Ahia?

In the days before the Great Gentrification, there was a T-shirt that said "Nurkahia."

There's a language line that passes right around Findlay, and more or less follows the edge of the Appalachian plateau east of there. The northeast speaks Pennsylvanian or Eastern urban dialects, the northwest speaks Detroiter ("melk"), and south of the is The Saath. Beware any Klumbiad who calls you "muhfrann."

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 30, 2025 10:44 AM (zdLoL)

359 Versailles, KY = Ver-sally.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Versailles, OH = ver SALES

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 10:45 AM (cYBz/)

360 Clenis looks terrible.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 30, 2025 10:45 AM (5+Y60)

361 Versailles, KY = Ver-sally.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2025 10:43 AM (Q4IgG)
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Versailles, OH = Ver-sales. Just like it looks.

Charlotte, MI = Char-LOT

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 10:46 AM (ZOv7s)

362 What does that bitch think she's doing?!

DC Dems Are Furious At Mayor Bowser For Admitting Trump's Troops Are Lowering Crime

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 30, 2025 10:46 AM (L/fGl)

363 In the days before the Great Gentrification, there was a T-shirt that said "Nurkahia."

Flippo the Clown (Columbus TV C-movie host) would spell it:

"N E R K"

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2025 10:47 AM (cYBz/)

364 Kind of like people in Kentucky pronouncing Louisville as "Loovull."
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Versailles, KY = Ver-sally.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2025 10:43 AM (Q4IgG)

At LAX waiting for a flight just last week the American Airlines gate agent announced that the flight to “Lewisville” was boarding. That was how she pronounced Louisville… folks were confused

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 30, 2025 10:48 AM (ANuwa)

365 No one pronounces Ohio "Ahia, in Ohio except, as TP noted, the folks down by the river.

Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2025 10:42 AM (c0xEo)

Well, I don't state exactly where the character is from, but Appalachia can be the place. Besides, it's a widow of a never seen character.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2025 10:51 AM (0eaVi)

366 Southeastern Ohio is one of the least discovered great places to live if you dislike cities and city folk.
Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2025 10:42 AM (c0xEo)
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Ohio is so wretchedly dull. I wish they could build a rocket sled to Kentucky and bypass it entirely. Indiana is more geographically interesting, and that says something.

Is there a state law requiring people to drive slow in the fast lane? My wife has remarked on how odd it is to cross back into Michigan and suddenly everyone adds 10 mph and traffic gets properly sorted. (Until we reach Ann Arbor and it all goes to hell.)

I had driving south, because after hours of boredom, you reach the highway terror of Cincinnati, which makes one long for the peace and tranquility of driving in Detroit.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 10:51 AM (ZOv7s)

367 Southeastern Ohio is one of the least discovered great places to live if you dislike cities and city folk.
Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2025 10:42 AM (c0xEo)

*fistbump

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2025 10:51 AM (h7ZuX)

368 Greenvul, SC

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 30, 2025 10:52 AM (5+Y60)

369 What does that bitch think she's doing?!

DC Dems Are Furious At Mayor Bowser For Admitting Trump's Troops Are Lowering Crime
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 30, 2025 10:46 AM (L/fGl)
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How DARE you acknowledge reality!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 10:52 AM (ZOv7s)

370 You damn well better get his/her/their pronouns right!

Trans Activist Arrested After Fatal Shooting of Dad Who Dropped Son Off Moments Before

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 30, 2025 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

371 > At LAX waiting for a flight just last week the American Airlines gate agent announced that the flight to “Lewisville” was boarding. That was how she pronounced Louisville… folks were confused
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Kentucky transplants, those from elsewhere, refer to it as "Louie-ville" if they don't use "Louis-ville or Lewis-ville."

I just refer to it as "the shithole."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2025 10:54 AM (Q4IgG)

372 I have some silverware and china passed down from my "Loovull" Great Grand Aunties. Includes silver serving pieces with Bakelite handles. It was the latest hi-tech innovation at the time.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 30, 2025 10:54 AM (wVcYX)

373 Speaking of Satanic . . .

IDF Troops Retrieve Bodies of 2 Israeli Hostages

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 30, 2025 10:56 AM (L/fGl)

374 Last week Typepad announced it is shutting down, so I had to find a new host for my site, which I did.

No sale or anything, just closing up shop. One of the last of the OG blog sites.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 10:56 AM (ZOv7s)

375 I have family in Louisville. They say to pronounce it as if you had a mouthful of marbles.

And I grew up in Mo-BEELE, Alabama.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2025 10:57 AM (XQo4F)

376 Ever notice how in every city, and most have one, MLK Blvd. is always in the shittiest part of town.
He deserved better for his public works.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2025 08:47 AM (n4GiU)

Chris Rock had a bit about that.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 30, 2025 11:01 AM (qI4z+)

377 Carlin was very funny but in old age crankiness took over. However his comment it's a big club and you ain't in it" is very spot on

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2025 11:04 AM (Kp8LC)

378 377 Carlin was very funny but in old age crankiness took over.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2025 11:04 AM (Kp8LC)

I wonder if he regretted that.

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 11:08 AM (aURVT)

379 Prayers for the Horde and Horde intentions.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 30, 2025 11:08 AM (omzh6)

380 Sorry, I got no use for George Carlin. He may have been funny once, but he turned into a bitter old religion hater later on.

***

Once, or twice maybe. He really only ever had a few funny bits. He mostly just got famous for swearing a whole lot. He's a badly overrated hack, IMO. Andrew Dice Clay for the pseudointellectual crowd.

Posted by: Worst Earl Flloyd-George at August 30, 2025 11:08 AM (Eax70)

381 Kentucky transplants, those from elsewhere, refer to it as "Louie-ville" if they don't use "Louis-ville or Lewis-ville."

I just refer to it as "the shithole."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2025 10:54 AM (Q4IgG)
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The cultural differences between eastern and western Kentucky are pretty stark. In the east you have mountains, dry counties, moonshine and generational poverty and the west has bourbon, horses, wealth and of course there's the Protestant-Catholic split as well. Fascinating.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 11:09 AM (ZOv7s)

382 362 DC Dems Are Furious At Mayor Bowser For Admitting Trump's Troops Are Lowering Crime
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 30, 2025 10:46 AM (L/fGl)

The word "Admitted" kinda indicates the political leaning of the person who wrote that headline! I think.

Posted by: m at August 30, 2025 11:09 AM (aURVT)

383 Once, or twice maybe. He really only ever had a few funny bits. He mostly just got famous for swearing a whole lot. He's a badly overrated hack, IMO. Andrew Dice Clay for the pseudointellectual crowd.
Posted by: Worst Earl Flloyd-George at August 30, 2025 11:08 AM (Eax70)
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He could be very funny, but I think his material has aged badly. It's easy to poke fun at a moral society, but once the guardrails are down, are we better off?

A lot of his stuff was adolescent humor.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 11:11 AM (ZOv7s)

384 > The cultural differences between eastern and western Kentucky are pretty stark. In the east you have mountains, dry counties, moonshine and generational poverty and the west has bourbon, horses, wealth and of course there's the Protestant-Catholic split as well. Fascinating.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 11:09 AM (ZOv7s)
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I used to live in western West Virginia... near the Ohio River about half way between Charlestown and Pittsburg. Talk about "generational poverty." I still have a house there, not far from the river and not far from where my wife was born and raised.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2025 11:12 AM (Q4IgG)

385 Marxists love their street thugs

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2025 11:12 AM (+qU29)

386
Best video of the week is rabid Wolverine Dave Portnoy reviewing a Columbus pizza joint while wearing a CMU outfit.

Posted by: Auspex at August 30, 2025 11:13 AM (Y8DZL)

387 Coffee ✔️
Prayer - pending
Classical music - waiting 'til MiladyJo is up.
Dog - anxious

Slow and late start to the day.

But coffee's a good start.

G'morn, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - getting into the spirit at August 30, 2025 11:14 AM (HETr4)

388 I used to live in western West Virginia... near the Ohio River about half way between Charlestown and Pittsburg. Talk about "generational poverty." I still have a house there, not far from the river and not far from where my wife was born and raised.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2025 11:12 AM (Q4IgG)
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My wife's family has a graveyard going back two centuries. So many of the young people have moved away, that its fate is uncertain. The mountainside is still peppered with cousins, but her parents sold out and others are sure to follow.

Also: don't venture down into the wrong holler with Michigan plates!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 11:18 AM (ZOv7s)

389 Best video of the week is rabid Wolverine Dave Portnoy reviewing a Columbus pizza joint while wearing a CMU outfit.
Posted by: Auspex at August 30, 2025 11:13 AM (Y8DZL)
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If you have to explain why your championship is legitimate, your championship is not legitimate.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2025 11:19 AM (ZOv7s)

390 Nood

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 30, 2025 11:24 AM (5+Y60)

391 Looking for an exciting new opportunity in a growing field, a safe community to raise a family, or somewhere with easy access to nature? The Sauk Prairie area is the place for you!

I usually get a little Wisconsin geography lesson, but the website has no map. Had to Goggle it. Always need to know if we're talking Beloit latitude or Door County latitude.

Posted by: mindful webworker - In case we want to visit at August 30, 2025 11:28 AM (HETr4)

392 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd, I think you are referring to SW Ohio when you say "dull". SE Ohio is a totally different world with it's own culture, topography, and economics.

South of a line from about Cambridge to Chillicothe. I wouldn't call it dull but it's not a good place to live if you are in a hurry.

Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2025 11:38 AM (c0xEo)

393 Prayer list perused. God bless all with health of body, mind, spirit, family, as needed.

We mortals sure can be fragile critters.

This week they poked at my heart because the left side function was down v 2 years ago. Good fortune three ways. First, they didn't give me a brutally early appointment, and actually got me through with little waiting time. Second, they were able to go in through my right wrist instead of the groin (such amazing tech). Thirdlish, they found no obstructions, so no stent, no surgery, nothing but recommendation to exercise more.

Next week, another scan to see how the clots are or aren't. After that, more stuff…

Psalm 90:10
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Posted by: mindful webworker - aspiring centenarian at August 30, 2025 11:40 AM (HETr4)

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