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I think this is near Pike's Peak
Kristin Mae Photography

Now this is a Republican-worthy pounce.

Stuntwoman practices "getting hit in the head by a sniper's bullet while running." She's so good at it that this is violent and upsetting, even though it's all fake.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

As Corporal Hudson said: "How can they do that? They're f***in' animals, man!"

I've been watching House, M.D. They're big on MRI mishaps. Specifically, when people with steel pins or hips go into the MRI room, the metal in their bodies gets torn out by the magnets or heats up and starts spitting fire.

This short vid shows the power of an MRI's magnets, even when it's unpowered.

Bobcat purrkour.

Hippos are natural sprinters. They're wasted on cross-country.

A very old fashioned "bakeri" in Norway. A m00se bit mi sister 0nce.

Strange art.

German photographer Christian Vieler captures the hilarious moments when dogs try to catch treats mid-air.

[📹 vieler. photography]pic.twitter.com/inTiKIjKcI
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 12, 2025

The very first ghost caught on camera 👻pic.twitter.com/0b0aqsruSn
— Enezator (@Enezator) October 15, 2025

The cliffs Ireland 🌊🇮🇪pic.twitter.com/HBS3rRGswD
— Cosmic Gaia (@CosmicGaiaX) October 13, 2025

These bears are out of control.

Even the little bear gets shocked and faints on Halloween night 🎃😳pic.twitter.com/SdY6nn8yNr
— Enezator (@Enezator) October 14, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 07:36 PM

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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 16, 2025 07:36 PM (+qU29)

2 No penguins! Sweet!!!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 16, 2025 07:37 PM (0sNs1)

3 I think this is near Pike's Peak

Probably Garden of the Gods.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 16, 2025 07:37 PM (3nLb4)

4 Can we still talk about Bolton?

Posted by: Squid at October 16, 2025 07:37 PM (R6ckG)

5 I'm Hicks, sir. He's Pvt Hudson.

Posted by: Corporal Hicks at October 16, 2025 07:38 PM (wVcYX)

6 I saw a report that Ace Frehley of KISS has died.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 16, 2025 07:38 PM (0U5gm)

7 I believe in ghosts now.

Posted by: Crusader at October 16, 2025 07:40 PM (TN0g+)

8 Rotties are such cool dogs.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 16, 2025 07:41 PM (0sNs1)

9 May be quiet around here for the next few days. Lots of Morons meeting in meatspace.

Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at October 16, 2025 07:41 PM (/jGcj)

10 With House it's always nearly lupus. However 90% of the time I could figure it out. He's a mean SOB.

Get well, Ace!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 16, 2025 07:41 PM (6PCLE)

11 Is shit Ace's pants if that robot screamed at me whilst grabbing a KitKat.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 16, 2025 07:41 PM (aPY1X)

12 Dressed finally

Posted by: Skip at October 16, 2025 07:42 PM (+qU29)

13 Can we still talk about Bolton?

Only if you can relate it to one of the linked videos. I suggest either rodents or hippos.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 16, 2025 07:42 PM (3nLb4)

14
Wow, that's some great content, ace!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 07:42 PM (ldc7S)

15 I understand the bear's reaction. I probably would have passed out as well. I don't like the really creepy Halloween things.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 16, 2025 07:42 PM (Nx5jP)

16 Yup.... backside of Pikes Peak... used to hike back there.

Was nice because NO ONE was ever back there.... good place for a... hiking... date.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 16, 2025 07:42 PM (mP0Kj)

17 Gregory House, M.D. is an infrequent commenter here.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 16, 2025 07:42 PM (0sNs1)

18 Can we still talk about Bolton?
Posted by: Squid at October 16, 2025 07:37 PM (R6ckG)

Any Bolton a storm, I suppose.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 16, 2025 07:43 PM (rbvCR)

19 15 I understand the bear's reaction. I probably would have passed out as well. I don't like the really creepy Halloween things.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 16, 2025 07:42 PM (Nx5jP

I like candy though.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 16, 2025 07:43 PM (aPY1X)

20 In re: the "bakeri": is a Danish called a Norwegian in Norway?

Posted by: Paco at October 16, 2025 07:43 PM (mADJX)

21
I once heard of a case where a guy got killed by one of those MRI magnets. The technicians were lax and stupid and failed to secure the area, and the patient's boyfriend came in wearing a bunch of bling, and -- he and the machine became as one.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 07:44 PM (ldc7S)

22 I'm sorry, the Ghost video is clearly a fake...

There are no DOG ghosts... all Dogs go to Heaven.

This is known.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 16, 2025 07:44 PM (mP0Kj)

23 Pike's Peak International Hill Climb is the second oldest auto race in America.

Posted by: Mark1971 at October 16, 2025 07:44 PM (CNl8/)

24 With House it's always nearly lupus. However 90% of the time I could figure it out. He's a mean SOB.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 16, 2025 07:41 PM

House would nearly kill you with his first two diagnoses, but the third would cure you.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 16, 2025 07:44 PM (0sNs1)

25 Don't care what time it is there.
Here it's time for a drink.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 16, 2025 07:45 PM (XH6Dk)

26 On a hill far away, stood an old rugged Cross
The emblem of suffering and shame
And I love that old Cross where the dearest and best
For a world of lost sinners was slain
And I'll cherish the old rugged Cross
And till my trophies at last I lay down
I will cling to the old rugged Cross
And exchange it some day for a classified documents

-John (Fast Johnny) Bolton
ha ha ha what a rube shhh dont tell nobody

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at October 16, 2025 07:45 PM (VPPG8)

27 I believe in ghosts now.
Posted by: Crusader at October 16, 2025 07:40 PM (TN0g+)

Pfft. Ice Machine.

Geez I hate it when those ice machines go tromping up and down the stairs and floating down the upstairs hallway.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 16, 2025 07:45 PM (rbvCR)

28 21
I once heard of a case where a guy got killed by one of those MRI magnets. The technicians were lax and stupid and failed to secure the area, and the patient's boyfriend came in wearing a bunch of bling, and -- he and the machine became as one.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 07:44 PM (ldc7S)

You have to walk by several huge warning signs to be that stupid.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 16, 2025 07:45 PM (aPY1X)

29 18 Can we still talk about Bolton?
Posted by: Squid at October 16, 2025 07:37 PM (R6ckG)

Any Bolton a storm, I suppose.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 16, 2025 07:43 PM (rbvCR)

Bolt On, yeah, that's what SHE called it...

Posted by: Frankenstiens Monster at October 16, 2025 07:45 PM (mP0Kj)

30
I hope vivi continues to update us on the NYC mayor debate, which I don't have the stomach to watch. I hope Sliwa is zinging the shyte out of that commie, even though he'll lose.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 07:45 PM (ldc7S)

31
You have to walk by several huge warning signs to be that stupid.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

=============

I can't remember the details, but there were probably multiple levels of stupidity.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 07:46 PM (ldc7S)

32 >>I've been watching House, M.D. They're big on MRI mishaps. Specifically, when people with steel pins or hips go into the MRI room, the metal in their bodies gets torn out by the magnets or heats up and starts spitting fire.

After spending more than 1/2 hour today with my head stuffed in an MRI machine this rings true. They called me when they made the appointment to ask about metal in my body. They called me 2 days ago to ask the same thing and they made me fill out a form before the exam asking me the same thing. Then the tech, very cute by the way, asked me again. She even asked if I've ever had metal in my eyes. Wut?

The process is grim enough, don't need to make me wonder if the whole time if I overlooked some metal intrusion that might jump out of me like an alien.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 16, 2025 07:46 PM (viF8m)

33 THINK HIPPOS ARE FAST SPRINTERS WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE THEM SWIM. OUTBOARDS CAN BARELY OUTRUN A PISSED OFF HIPPO.

Oh and watch out if a hippo starts to spin their tail real fast because the shit is about to hit the fan.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 16, 2025 07:46 PM (xvV+O)

34 Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 16, 2025 07:43 PM

I like candy. Not if some creepy demonically sounding doll shrieks at me after I take it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 16, 2025 07:46 PM (Nx5jP)

35 Can we still talk about Bolton?
Posted by: Squid at October 16, 2025 07:37 PM (R6ckG)

Bolton. (R6ckG)

Bolton. Rack

Bolt on racks!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 16, 2025 07:46 PM (wVcYX)

36 Can we still talk about Bolton?
-------

Michael Bolten's first single "Fools Game" features Aldo Nova on guitar.

Posted by: Crusader at October 16, 2025 07:46 PM (TN0g+)

37 I had metal in my eye from a galvanized nail long ago, then years after needed a MRI and told them. Had to go get x-ray to see if it was still there but was gone. Maybe worked itself out

Posted by: Skip at October 16, 2025 07:47 PM (+qU29)

38 Can we still talk about Bolton?

Only if you can relate it to one of the linked videos. I suggest either rodents or hippos.

Man, if I saw a ghost like that in the video, I'd be bolton for home.

Posted by: Paco at October 16, 2025 07:47 PM (mADJX)

39 You have to walk by several huge warning signs to be that stupid.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

You can't fix it.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 16, 2025 07:47 PM (LjSYW)

40 CHEVY Bolt >>>> John Bolton

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 16, 2025 07:47 PM (xvV+O)

41 I believe in ghosts now.
Posted by: Crusader at October 16, 2025 07:40 PM (TN0g+)

Pfft. Ice Machine.

Geez I hate it when those ice machines go tromping up and down the stairs and floating down the upstairs hallway.
-------

I haven't told my Altus, OK encounter with...something...in awhile now.

Posted by: Crusader at October 16, 2025 07:48 PM (TN0g+)

42
The process is grim enough, don't need to make me wonder if the whole time if I overlooked some metal intrusion that might jump out of me like an alien.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 16, 2025 07:46 PM (viF8m)

A friend of my Father's had metal in his eye from a welding mishap and so couldn't have an MRI and I'd be happy I knew there was metal in my eye before the MRI. I don't want to know what would happen.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 16, 2025 07:48 PM (QsMb/)

43 Finally! A ghost video in focus. Props to you!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 16, 2025 07:50 PM (YlWIZ)

44 Ace here mentioned he was sick.

And I'm on the other thread and everyone is saying "RIP Ace!"

And I'm thinking "Man, the horde has turned really dark!"

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 16, 2025 07:50 PM (Sco7b)

45 I'm having fun envisioning the veins popping out of Bolton's forehead.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 16, 2025 07:50 PM (aPY1X)

46 Stuff in eyes. I worked in a very large machine shop and the old salts weren't fond of the safety glasses. They all seemed to carry Swiss army knives because of the little tweezer. "Hey Gus, got another, see if you can pull it out so I don't have to go to the nurse. Wanna make my piece work before lunch".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 16, 2025 07:51 PM (gm9Sb)

47 I saw a report that Ace Frehley of KISS has died.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 16, 2025 07:38 PM (0U5gm)

Lots of media has it. Seems like it's true.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2025 07:51 PM (ExV1e)

48 I would invite people over just to be pounced on, unaware, by my pet panther. That would never get old.

Pdiddy and his freak offs? Weird rich perverts. But I would definitely get a pouncing panther if I was rich.

Wouldn’t even need to video it, just the memory of someone pissing their pants because a 90 lb black as night cat just flew across the room to grab them would be all I need to the end of my days.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 16, 2025 07:51 PM (3uBP9)

49 44 Ace here mentioned he was sick.

And I'm on the other thread and everyone is saying "RIP Ace!"

And I'm thinking "Man, the horde has turned really dark!"
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 16, 2025 07:50 PM (Sco7b

It's well known Ace was very unhappy about sharing a name with some dude from KISS.

Does anyone know where Ace was when Ace had an accident?

Just saying.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 16, 2025 07:51 PM (aPY1X)

50 43 Finally! A ghost video in focus. Props to you!
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 16, 2025 07:50 PM (YlWIZ)

Yeah, clearly fake, as we know all Dogs go to heaven.

Now... if it was a CAT Ghost? Totes believable!

Posted by: Frankenstiens Monster at October 16, 2025 07:51 PM (mP0Kj)

51 The strange art is very cool.

Posted by: Tuna at October 16, 2025 07:52 PM (lJ0H4)

52 Now I want to visit Norway again, just for the baked goods.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 16, 2025 07:52 PM (2NHgQ)

53 47 I saw a report that Ace Frehley of KISS has died.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 16, 2025 07:38 PM (0U5gm)

Lots of media has it. Seems like it's true.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2025 07:51 PM (ExV1e)

Metal Stations on Sirius are playin a LOT of Kiss today...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 16, 2025 07:53 PM (mP0Kj)

54
Stand back, everyone, we have a genius in the house.

"This is clearly an issue where the market didn't develop the way automakers thought," said Former Ford CEO Mark Fields on EVs.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 07:53 PM (ldc7S)

55 MRI trivia:
The superconducting magnet in a working MRI is never off, even when there’s no patient being imaged. There’s a special procedure for powering down the magnet in a controlled fashion. It’s spectacularly bad if it powers down (called a “quench”

in an uncontrolled fashion.

Despite whatever is said on House, for at least a couple of decades orthopedic implants have been made of titanium, so not attracted to the magnet. Can’t specifically say about the oldest in that range, but over the last decade or so virtually all orthopedic implants are MRI safe (although will degrade image quality)

Posted by: Steeldoc at October 16, 2025 07:54 PM (B/IJT)

56 Norway? When is the rainy season?

Posted by: Glenn at October 16, 2025 07:54 PM (M0r9f)

57 25, endorsed!

*clink!*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 16, 2025 07:54 PM (kHop/)

58 54
Stand back, everyone, we have a genius in the house.

"This is clearly an issue where the market didn't develop the way automakers thought," said Former Ford CEO Mark Fields on EVs.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 07:53 PM (ldc7S

Sounds like he went to the same school as Disney execs.

The pleebs obviously didn't know a good film when they saw it.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 16, 2025 07:55 PM (aPY1X)

59
the memory of someone pissing their pants because a 90 lb black as night cat just flew across the room to grab them would be all I need to the end of my days.
Posted by: banana Dream

==============

Just to letcha know, that panther was easily 150 pounds.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 07:55 PM (ldc7S)

60 My 4lb Kitten does that sort of pounce on my 20lb tom cat. I call it "cat judo" It is cute as can be, though it is going to be more serious for both of them when he gets more growth

Posted by: Kindltot at October 16, 2025 07:56 PM (rbvCR)

61 Ideo

Posted by: Accomack at October 16, 2025 07:56 PM (FqNtp)

62 What a full day of news and entertainment! Thanks, Ace. Now rest & take care of yourself. 🤗

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 16, 2025 07:56 PM (NFX2v)

63 46 Stuff in eyes. I worked in a very large machine shop and the old salts weren't fond of the safety glasses. They all seemed to carry Swiss army knives because of the little tweezer. "Hey Gus, got another, see if you can pull it out so I don't have to go to the nurse. Wanna make my piece work before lunch".
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at O

The man I was referring to was probably born in 1930 so checks out.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 16, 2025 07:56 PM (QsMb/)

64 >>Despite whatever is said on House, for at least a couple of decades orthopedic implants have been made of titanium, so not attracted to the magnet. Can’t specifically say about the oldest in that range, but over the last decade or so virtually all orthopedic implants are MRI safe (although will degrade image quality)

I have some. Made the cute technician assure me they weren't going to come flying out.

"No, those should be fine."

Should be?

"Get on the table you big baby."

Posted by: JackStraw at October 16, 2025 07:57 PM (viF8m)

65 "This is clearly an issue where the market didn't develop the way automakers thought," said Former Ford CEO Mark Fields on EVs.

Just think how much money he could have saved if he'd hired one guy to do nothing but read AoS and report back on whatever Buck said.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 16, 2025 07:57 PM (3nLb4)

66 55, thx for the update! good to know.

I have a little piece of titanium plumber's strap in one hand, mending a bone I broke around 25 years ago ...
I hope the nails are, too ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 16, 2025 07:58 PM (kHop/)

67
And I'm on the other thread and everyone is saying "RIP Ace!"

And I'm thinking "Man, the horde has turned really dark!"
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 16, 2025 07:50 PM (Sco7b)

This is funny. Sorry Stateless.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 16, 2025 07:58 PM (QsMb/)

68 >>> Just to letcha know, that panther was easily 150 pounds.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 07:55 PM (ldc7S)

I kinda figured my estimate was way off. I had a big black lab that topped out at 80 before we got him on a diet so I went with that.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 16, 2025 07:58 PM (3uBP9)

69 Stuntwoman practices "getting hit in the head by a sniper's bullet while running." She's so good at it that this is violent and upsetting, even though it's all fake.

She's got the rag doll act down pat.
I'd have broken my neck with some of those falls.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 07:59 PM (6ydKt)

70 That video of the cliffs of Ireland: it looks just right for some extreme surfing.

Posted by: Paco at October 16, 2025 07:59 PM (mADJX)

71 The dogs catching treats portraits are awesome.

It took some work to get those.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 08:00 PM (6ydKt)

72 Dodgers Mariners would be a good WS.

Posted by: Accomack at October 16, 2025 08:01 PM (FqNtp)

73 Don't feel bad little bear cub.

I would've been right there with you.

Probably with shit in my pants.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 08:01 PM (6ydKt)

74
Wouldn’t even need to video it, just the memory of someone pissing their pants because a 90 lb black as night cat just flew across the room to grab them would be all I need to the end of my days.
Posted by: banana Dream at October 16, 2025 07:51 PM (3uBP9)

I would hate trying to give a 90lb panther a pill. My 9lb cat was a beast to medicate I couldn't imagine a large cat.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 16, 2025 08:02 PM (QsMb/)

75 "This is clearly an issue where the market didn't develop the way automakers thought," said Former Ford CEO Mark Fields on EVs.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 07:53 PM (ldc7S)

I wonder now that CARB is not considered and CAFE penalties are zeroed, if they will get back to making cars and small trucks the people actually want, instead of Imperial Battleships, and things that look like a computer mouse?

I want a crappy 4-banger pickup truck with a manual transmission and hub locking 4 wheel drive. I want the option to bolt a skid plate under the engine compartment and a hard-point for an optional winch.
Are manual windows too much to request?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 16, 2025 08:04 PM (rbvCR)

76 The Cincinnati Bengals are wearing all-white uniforms

now they look like zebras

Posted by: Don Black. Message: I care, dammit at October 16, 2025 08:04 PM (AOsQT)

77 My former cow-orker had a teenage son who obtained a ghillie suit and hid in the bushes to scare trickertreaters. It worked really well.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 16, 2025 08:04 PM (0aYVJ)

78 I read some story not too long ago about some guy up north who mistakenly walked into the MRI room while his wife was in there getting tested.

Dude was wearing a big chain or something and it immediately grabbed him, slung him across the room and he choked to death before they could get the machine shut down.

Apparently they are really difficult to shut down quickly.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 08:05 PM (6ydKt)

79 15 I understand the bear's reaction. I probably would have passed out as well. I don't like the really creepy Halloween things.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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People on the corner have a 15' macabre death hobo looking thing in the front yard. Bit of a shock at first sight.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 16, 2025 08:06 PM (XH6Dk)

80 I love the very last few frames of that stuntwoman video... i won't spoil it this early

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 16, 2025 08:06 PM (06Hmj)

81 54
Stand back, everyone, we have a genius in the house.

"This is clearly an issue where the market didn't develop the way automakers thought," said Former Ford CEO Mark Fields on EVs.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 07:53 PM (ldc7S

It's like Chevy, they finally got the Camaro just right... 6 month waiting list to get one built...

Then they cancelled it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 16, 2025 08:06 PM (mP0Kj)

82 The pleebs obviously didn't know a good film when they saw it.

Promethius?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 16, 2025 08:07 PM (2qbYS)

83 74 I would hate trying to give a 90lb panther a pill. - CaliGirl

I'm pretty sure you'd have to shoot it with a tranquilizer dart first.

I was watching some videos about cheetahs recently, and they seem to be easier to deal with than the bigger cats.

Posted by: Paco at October 16, 2025 08:07 PM (mADJX)

84 I would hate trying to give a 90lb panther a pill. My 9lb cat was a beast to medicate I couldn't imagine a large cat.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 16, 2025 08:02 PM (QsMb/)

They probably sedate those big cats first.
Or somehow combine it into their food as a powder.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 08:08 PM (6ydKt)

85 82 The pleebs obviously didn't know a good film when they saw it.

Promethius?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 16, 2025 08:07 PM (2qbYS

I thought we weren't gonna mention Prometheus?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 16, 2025 08:08 PM (aPY1X)

86 52 Now I want to visit Norway again, just for the baked goods.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine

And the 50 kinds of mackerel and cod paste in a tube.

Posted by: Fish Balls Bjorn at October 16, 2025 08:08 PM (oftw2)

87 77 My former cow-orker had a teenage son who obtained a ghillie suit and hid in the bushes to scare trickertreaters. It worked really well.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 16, 2025 08:04 PM (0aYVJ)

We had a big tree out in the front yard... kids would take a short cut across the lawn to get house to house quicker...

Made a scarecrow... hung it from a noose, then ran another line up so I could have it swing down out of the tree as kids went by...

Quit after one 12 year old kid had an 'accident' in their costume.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 16, 2025 08:09 PM (mP0Kj)

88 >>That video of the cliffs of Ireland: it looks just right for some extreme surfing.

Landing looks a bit rough.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 16, 2025 08:10 PM (viF8m)

89 Totally random thought: a Vikings/Bills Sooper bowl would be fun to watch. makes me wonder if they would both manage to lose somehow, like a meteor striking the stadium or something.

Meanwhile, the Lions bide their time. Soon. Soon.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 16, 2025 08:10 PM (0aYVJ)

90 And the 50 kinds of mackerel and cod paste in a tube.
Posted by: Fish Balls Bjorn at October 16, 2025 08:08 PM (oftw2)

Hey, there are some people here looking for an easy way to medicate a 90lb. panther, you know.

.... just sayin'.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 16, 2025 08:11 PM (06Hmj)

91 Stand back, everyone, we have a genius in the house.

"This is clearly an issue where the market didn't develop the way automakers thought," said Former Ford CEO Mark Fields on EVs.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 07:53 PM (ldc7S

It's like Chevy, they finally got the Camaro just right... 6 month waiting list to get one built...

Then they cancelled it.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 16, 2025 08:06 PM (mP0Kj)

GM has a history of this.

Posted by: Pontiac Fiero at October 16, 2025 08:11 PM (wVcYX)

92
I wonder now that CARB is not considered and CAFE penalties are zeroed, if they will get back to making cars and small trucks the people actually want, instead of Imperial Battleships, and things that look like a computer mouse?

No, because they know that the rules will revert whenever Dems take over again.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 16, 2025 08:11 PM (63Dwl)

93 It's well known Ace was very unhappy about sharing a name with some dude from KISS.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 16, 2025 07:51 PM (aPY1X

I think I missed a few threads in the last couple of decades.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 16, 2025 08:11 PM (Sco7b)

94 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 16, 2025 08:06 PM (XH6Dk)

I remember when Halloween was less creepy and more fun. People up the room from me have dueling skeleton displays . They are like 25 feet high . One house also has about 15 skeletons in their yard doing various activities. That's why when I see displays of a Halloween Mickey Mouse or little kid inflatiables holding Halloween candy holders I almost breath a sig. of relief. It's so normal.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 16, 2025 08:12 PM (PFs9e)

95 Landing looks a bit rough.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 16, 2025 08:10 PM (viF8m)

"When i said 'Let's hang ten', this is NOT what i meant!!!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 16, 2025 08:12 PM (06Hmj)

96 >>>Are manual windows too much to request?
Posted by: Kindltot
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I'll take the Battleship just not the Imperial one. Medium V8 (in the 350 range), auto trans, A/C, cruise, tow package and tinted windows. Not one other piece of modern tinker toy, help you drive crap.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 16, 2025 08:12 PM (XH6Dk)

97 Posted by: Steeldoc at October 16, 2025 07:54 PM (B/IJT)

Thanks.
I thought I'd read on here awhile back how hard it is to shut down the MRIs. Somebody even mentioned the quench thing.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 08:13 PM (6ydKt)

98 95 Landing looks a bit rough.
Posted by: JackStraw
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How did it go?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 16, 2025 08:14 PM (XH6Dk)

99 The strange art is amazing .

And I would hang everyone of those dog catching treats photographs.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 16, 2025 08:15 PM (EYmYM)

100 No, because they know that the rules will revert whenever Dems take over again.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 16, 2025 08:11 PM (63Dwl)

Oh, they make them for Mexico, South America and the middle east. Even at 15% tariff there is a market for them here.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 16, 2025 08:15 PM (rbvCR)

101
They probably sedate those big cats first.
Or somehow combine it into their food as a powder.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 08:08 PM (6ydKt)

I had a big feral tom cat here and he had a hurt ear that was kind of goopy looking and I dumped out amoxicillin capsules in wet food and put it out in the morning and he ate it and I did it for 10 more days and his ear healed nicely.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 16, 2025 08:15 PM (QsMb/)

102 Not one other piece of modern tinker toy, help you drive crap.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 16, 2025 08:12 PM (XH6Dk)

Hey, looks like you're veering out of your lane, let's just sever control between you and your vehicle and fix that, shall we.... and plow straight through a giant pothole.

Thanks, asshole. It was a rental anyway.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 16, 2025 08:15 PM (06Hmj)

103 All of the trick or treaters in my hood are on the young side. No scary stuff.

But I do have 54 individually wrapped wasabi kit-kats on order. No reason.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 16, 2025 08:15 PM (jwFh7)

104 Mormons call it Garden of the Goshes.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 16, 2025 08:16 PM (0aYVJ)

105 Phone is dead and way past my bedtime
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 16, 2025 08:16 PM (+qU29)

106 >>How did it go?

Surfing off the Irish coast?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 16, 2025 08:17 PM (viF8m)

107 I had a big feral tom cat here and he had a hurt ear that was kind of goopy looking and I dumped out amoxicillin capsules in wet food and put it out in the morning and he ate it and I did it for 10 more days and his ear healed nicely.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 16, 2025 08:15 PM (QsMb/)

A lot better than a $1000 vet bill, for sure.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 08:17 PM (6ydKt)

108 Kayleigh Macenany just told Jesse Watters that Mamdani is smart enough to run for president.

Dear Kayleigh, he was born in Uganda. The highest office he could aspire to is a governor.

Posted by: Decaf at October 16, 2025 08:17 PM (unUNN)

109 Stellantis never stopped making the hemi. Now, if they'd just get the rest of the vehicle right.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 16, 2025 08:18 PM (XH6Dk)

110 I have staples in my knee so I make sure I’m good to go before I enter any MRI machine room. I think though the staples are non-magnetic. But what really concerns me is I also have a piece of shrapnel deep in my right calf. I don’t want that to shoot out.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 16, 2025 08:19 PM (EYmYM)

111 89 Totally random thought: a Vikings/Bills Sooper bowl would be fun to watch. makes me wonder if they would both manage to lose somehow, like a meteor striking the stadium or something.

Meanwhile, the Lions bide their time. Soon. Soon.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

I was hopin' for a Brewers/Mariners WS. That was some team will win there first WS. Alas, the Dodgers are going to screw that up.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 16, 2025 08:19 PM (Wg6v7)

112 108 Kayleigh Macenany just told Jesse Watters that Mamdani is smart enough to run for president.
...
Posted by: Decaf
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Considering recent past presidents he probably is smart 'enough' to run for president.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 16, 2025 08:20 PM (XH6Dk)

113 I would be terrible at a “Let me guess your panther’s weight” booth job at a carnival.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 16, 2025 08:20 PM (3uBP9)

114 I actually saw a commercial on TV last night while my brother and his wife were watching Chicago Med for dogs.

Seriously, an arthritis drug for dogs.

It was just like any other big phrama ad you've seen except instead of fat people dancing around like they're in The Sound of Music it was a dog on a leash being walked all over town.

I forget the name of the pill. Started with an "L".

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 08:21 PM (6ydKt)

115 The Left’s definition of smart is a lot different than mine.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 16, 2025 08:21 PM (EYmYM)

116 Kayleigh Macenany just told Jesse Watters that Mamdani is smart enough to run for president.

Dear Kayleigh, he was born in Uganda. The highest office he could aspire to is a governor.
Posted by: Decaf

What about a Representative?
Speaker of the House?
Would he be in the line of succession even if not qualified?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 16, 2025 08:22 PM (/lPRQ)

117 Thought you had an MRI or some such today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 16, 2025 08:22 PM (XH6Dk)

118 That stunt woman reminded me of a Jane's Addiction song:

"Jane says, I'm through with Sergio.
He treated me like a ragdoll."

Posted by: tankdemon at October 16, 2025 08:24 PM (HRZsv)

119 I was hopin' for a Brewers/Mariners WS. That was some team will win there first WS. Alas, the Dodgers are going to screw that up.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 16, 2025 08:19 PM (Wg6v7)

Bob Uecker would have loved that. Bet he would be in the front row.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 16, 2025 08:25 PM (0aYVJ)

120 >>Thought you had an MRI or some such today

It went fine. The place I went is really good. Not a pleasant experience but they make it as comfortable as possible.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 16, 2025 08:25 PM (viF8m)

121 You've convinced me; Ghosts are real

Posted by: tankdemon at October 16, 2025 08:25 PM (HRZsv)

122 Thanks for asking.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 16, 2025 08:25 PM (viF8m)

123 And I would hang everyone of those dog catching treats photographs.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 16, 2025 08:15 PM (EYmYM)

In some you can see how hard they are focusing with both eyes.

Their entire faces are distorted, tongues hanging out, jowls flared... but the eyes are on the prize.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 08:26 PM (6ydKt)

124 g'night Skip!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 16, 2025 08:26 PM (kHop/)

125 So many people would prefer a stripped down model you think they would get a hint.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 16, 2025 08:27 PM (XH6Dk)

126 The Cliffs of Moher in County Clare. Where my Dad's side is from.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 16, 2025 08:29 PM (3ImbR)

127 Kayleigh Macenany just told Jesse Watters that Mamdani is smart enough to run for president.

That's not the high bar you might think it is.

Posted by: Kamala! 2024! 2028! David Hogg! 2032! at October 16, 2025 08:30 PM (0sNs1)

128 This is clearly an issue where the change in government cheese disbursement didn't develop the way automakers thought," said Former Ford CEO Mark Fields on EVs.

Fify...

Posted by: man at October 16, 2025 08:30 PM (tubbA)

129 Re: sprinting hippos - you think they're fat because they are pretty much spherical, but no. That's aaaaaall muscle.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 16, 2025 08:31 PM (a+4eV)

130 Also watching those Irish Cliffs all I could think was "Attempt no landing there"

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 16, 2025 08:32 PM (a+4eV)

131 Garden of the Gods is near Pikes Peak and has similar formations. I used to hike a lot in the nearby crags but the formations were rounder than pointy. Big gigantic boulders really.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 16, 2025 08:32 PM (3uBP9)

132 Meanwhile, the Lions bide their time. Soon. Soon.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 16, 2025 08:10 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQlByoPdG6c

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 16, 2025 08:32 PM (0sNs1)

133 because they know that the rules will revert whenever Dems take over again."

This. We're farked.

Posted by: man at October 16, 2025 08:32 PM (tubbA)

134 Kayleigh Macenany just told Jesse Watters that Mamdani is smart enough to run for president.
...
Posted by: Decaf
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Considering recent past presidents he probably is smart 'enough' to run for president.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 16, 2025 08:20 PM (XH6Dk)

There's a vast difference between running for president and actually being elected president. Will he sell on the national stage? Not a friggin' chance.

Posted by: RickZ at October 16, 2025 08:32 PM (gKDq2)

135 but the formations were rounder than pointy. Big gigantic boulders really.
Posted by: banana Dream at October 16, 2025 08:32 PM

Sweeney style, rather than '50's style?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 16, 2025 08:33 PM (0sNs1)

136 Pikes peak area is a nice chill hiking time if you avoid the more touristy places.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 16, 2025 08:33 PM (3uBP9)

137
GM has a history of this.
Posted by: Pontiac Fiero
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Exactly. I'll point out that they had also finally gotten the engineering of the Corvair right also.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 16, 2025 08:34 PM (XeU6L)

138 Venezuela being surrounded.
Shits happening.

Maybe Peace prize winner new president.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at October 16, 2025 08:34 PM (jZ3ZM)

139 Ace Frehley has died.

The sound of youth.

RIP.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 16, 2025 08:34 PM (XV/Pl)

140
Librela for dogs

https://youtu.be/rNn-ubUoZlo

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 16, 2025 08:35 PM (63Dwl)

141 GM has a history of this.
Posted by: Pontiac Fiero
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Your fate might have been worse.

Posted by: Oldsmobile at October 16, 2025 08:35 PM (XeU6L)

142 The 3D art of the animals "Strange art" is really good.

It's amazing how they managed to do that.
A lot of thought & creativity went into putting those together.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 08:36 PM (6ydKt)

143 "133 because they know that the rules will revert whenever Dems take over again."
This. We're farked.
Posted by: man at October 16, 2025 08:32 PM (tubbA) "

meh, we just have to see to it that no demonrat gets elected president for a full generation (or two) ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 16, 2025 08:36 PM (kHop/)

144 Kayleigh Macenany just told Jesse Watters that Mamdani is smart enough to run for president.

So I'm just going to give it to you straight. Its gonna' hurt.

99% of Trump's staff decisions the first time around sucked. If he picked them first time ? Mistake.

Kayleigh with the tits on the butchers floor sucked.

Steve Bannon was a fine pick. Also the first one fired. Maybe Sarah Huckabee Sanders ?

Posted by: Head On A Swivel at October 16, 2025 08:36 PM (rMlgb)

145 33 THINK HIPPOS ARE FAST SPRINTERS WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE THEM SWIM. OUTBOARDS CAN BARELY OUTRUN A PISSED OFF HIPPO.

Oh and watch out if a hippo starts to spin their tail real fast because the shit is about to hit the fan.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 16, 2025 07:46 PM (xvV+O)

Hippos can't swim. They bound along the bottom of the river. At a seriously impressive rate of speed, mind you, but it isn't swimming.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 16, 2025 08:36 PM (HRZsv)

146 Mamdani was born in Uganda, his family moved to South Africa and didn't move to the US until he was 7.

He's not going to run for president let alone be one.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 16, 2025 08:37 PM (viF8m)

147 Oh and watch out if a hippo starts to spin their tail real fast because the shit is about to hit the fan.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 16, 2025 07:46 PM

IOW, the tail is the fan, and you're about to be the sh*t?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 16, 2025 08:39 PM (0sNs1)

148 140
Librela for dogs

https://youtu.be/rNn-ubUoZlo

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 16, 2025 08:35 PM (63Dwl)

Yup, that's the stuff.

It's an injection so it's probably $500 a tube or something.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 08:40 PM (6ydKt)

149 Big kitties are amazing.

Our ancestors must have hated them with a passion

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 16, 2025 08:40 PM (8AONa)

150 108 Kayleigh Macenany just told Jesse Watters that Mamdani is smart enough to run for president.

Dear Kayleigh, he was born in Uganda. The highest office he could aspire to is a governor.
Posted by: Decaf at October 16, 2025 08:17 PM (unUNN)

Kamala ran for President, and Biden actually won (allow me to re-phrase that) and Biden actually got inaugurated President. "Smart enough" is not exactly a hurdle in this case.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 16, 2025 08:40 PM (HRZsv)

151 Geez, I'd think the MRI rooms would at least have metal dectectors before one enters them like at the courthouse and airports, only stronger. Strong enough to catch that forgotten gold crown on your tooth.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 16, 2025 08:40 PM (kdHU2)

152 Perhaps hippo tail is an evolving screw.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 16, 2025 08:40 PM (XeU6L)

153 He's not going to run for president let alone be one.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 16, 2025 08:37 PM (viF8m)

True.
Most he can hope for is Governor or Senator.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 08:43 PM (6ydKt)

154 I've been watching House, M.D. They're big on MRI mishaps. Specifically, when people with steel pins or hips go into the MRI room, the metal in their bodies gets torn out by the magnets or heats up and starts spitting fire.

And have them placed in a ridiculously non-secure manner so basically any swinging díck can walk right into the MRI room with ease. Like, Final Destination levels of stupid. The hazards posed are why hospitals and imaging centers have only one way in and out and you have to go through an antechamber to get there.

Posted by: Well he USED to have a Prince Albert at October 16, 2025 08:43 PM (TbWk/)

155 The world needs a movie about Bruce like a fish needs a bicycle.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 16, 2025 08:43 PM (8AONa)

156 Geez, I'd think the MRI rooms would at least have metal dectectors before one enters them like at the courthouse and airports, only stronger. Strong enough to catch that forgotten gold crown on your tooth.
Posted by: PaleRider
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The problem is only with ferrous metals.

In my squandered youth, I did some work with an NMR spectrography apparatus. All tools were copper.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 16, 2025 08:44 PM (XeU6L)

157 True. Most he can hope for is Governor or Senator.

He'll be Governor of New York. Because NYC.

At some point, just like Chicago, you have to let the entire rest of the State simply walk away from a City. These boundaries are dumb.

Posted by: Head On A Swivel at October 16, 2025 08:44 PM (rMlgb)

158 Big kitties are amazing.

Our ancestors must have hated them with a passion
Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 16, 2025 08:40 PM (8AONa)

Big Kitties. Oh. NVM

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 16, 2025 08:45 PM (wVcYX)

159 Posted by: Well he USED to have a Prince Albert at October 16, 2025 08:43 PM (TbWk/)

The junkyard magnet scene from Breaking Bad.

https://youtu.be/IxZ_W64xD4U

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 08:46 PM (6ydKt)

160 Your fate might have been worse.
Posted by: Oldsmobile "

Whimpers

/Saturn, Geo, Pontiac, Hummer

Posted by: man at October 16, 2025 08:46 PM (tubbA)

161 Kayleigh Macenany just told Jesse Watters that Mamdani is smart enough to run for president.

-
Freedom's just another word for busses, food, and doctors
And freedom ain't worth nothing but it's free

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 16, 2025 08:46 PM (L/fGl)

162 " the metal in their bodies gets torn out "

What about fillings?

Posted by: Fen at October 16, 2025 08:47 PM (9EyKs)

163 Last MRI I had they did a metal detector scan on me.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 16, 2025 08:48 PM (2NHgQ)

164 Jay Jones did not do well this evening.

Not knowing what he was running for or what the job is, I guess, was par for his course.

AKA - he did not help himself.

So, we'll see if "Orange Man Very Bad" is enough of a winning message/strategy (which is all he had tonight, quite literally)...

And we'll see if he's still in by Monday...he did the apology thing, so HE won't be the one deciding he needs to drop out...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 16, 2025 08:49 PM (tOcjL)

165 Last MRI I had they did a metal detector scan on me.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine
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"Uh..., you're going to have to shed the Glock".

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 16, 2025 08:49 PM (XeU6L)

166 162 " the metal in their bodies gets torn out "

What about fillings?
Posted by: Fen at October 16, 2025 08:47 PM (9EyKs)

Nonferrous, so no problem.

Posted by: Non Bueller at October 16, 2025 08:52 PM (TbWk/)

167 Thanks Mike Hammer, at first I thought only ferrous metals would be a problem for Magnetic Resonance Imager but then I thought the electromagnetic effect might do weird things to other metals too.

Would suck to think your gold jewelry was safe to enter the room and then zing, the other 2 to 10 carats had steel or iron.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 16, 2025 08:52 PM (kdHU2)

168 "99% of Trump's staff decisions the first time around sucked. If he picked them first time ? Mistake."

Who's plan was it to go after leftwing funding? Trump himself? Because that was a Grand Master move. And why the hell didnt any Republican consider it before now?

Posted by: Fen at October 16, 2025 08:52 PM (9EyKs)

169 I'm bored so I'm writting a roku controller app widget for Apple Os.

Every TV in the house is a roku tv but this mostly to control the tv in my office.

There are a couple of widget apps that exist but I don't like them.

This is going to be a very stripped down version.

I've already got an html java script version going.

I'm too damn lazy to pick up a remote.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 16, 2025 08:53 PM (XV/Pl)

170
Would suck to think your gold jewelry was safe to enter the room and then zing, the other 2 to 10 carats had steel or iron.
Posted by: PaleRider at October 16, 2025 08:52 PM (kdHU2)

They make you remove all jewelry, rings, necklaces, earrings, piercings, watches, etc. beforehand as a precaution regardless of what you think they might be made of.

Posted by: No jewelry. Or capes. at October 16, 2025 08:55 PM (TbWk/)

171

Who's plan was it to go after leftwing funding? Trump himself? Because that was a Grand Master move. And why the hell didnt any Republican consider it before now?
Posted by: Fen

That's just not whom we are.
- Mitch, Romney, GWB, Pence, McCain, etc., etc., etc.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 16, 2025 08:55 PM (QVmho)

172 That MRI video is chilling. Our hospital accidentally killed a child when a maintenance guy entered the room with a running MRI with a replacement fire extinguisher. It was very sad and cost us over a million dollars.

Posted by: toby928 at October 16, 2025 08:55 PM (VXJx/)

173 >>Last MRI I had they did a metal detector scan on me.

They did the hand wand thing on me on top of everything else.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 16, 2025 08:55 PM (viF8m)

174 @ 168 - they were getting a (pitifully small) cut?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 16, 2025 08:55 PM (kHop/)

175 172 That MRI video is chilling. Our hospital accidentally killed a child when a maintenance guy entered the room with a running MRI with a replacement fire extinguisher. It was very sad and cost us over a million dollars.
Posted by: toby928 at October 16, 2025 08:55 PM (VXJx/)

That never should have fucking happened. I'm surprised it was only $1 million considering the number of colossal fuckups it would take for that to happen. State probably fined the shit out of it too, or should have.

Posted by: That's near-criminal levels of negligence at October 16, 2025 08:58 PM (TbWk/)

176 We didn't wait to be sued. Our lawyer went to the family with, IIRC, a $1.25M check and a release.

Posted by: toby928 at October 16, 2025 08:59 PM (VXJx/)

177 & g'nght everyone from scenic Chateau D'Eez!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 16, 2025 09:00 PM (kHop/)

178 So from the other Bolton thread I just want to say that I still have 2 AOL accounts from the early 90’s and they have never been hacked. Can anyone say that about yahoo, gmail or even outlook?

Posted by: Jaimo at October 16, 2025 09:00 PM (sOA7y)

179 Mamdani was born in Uganda, his family moved to South Africa and didn't move to the US until he was 7.
Posted by: JackStraw

And he'll never be honest why his family got chased out of OOOOganda.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 16, 2025 09:00 PM (mlg/3)

180 Disparu reviews Starfleet Academy.

Star Trek Starfleet Academy Horny Zoomers in Space

https://youtu.be/WZnaequOW00

Definitely another woke bomb made for "The Modern Audience".

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 09:01 PM (6ydKt)

181 OOps.

He reviews the trailer.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 09:02 PM (6ydKt)

182 Once again Ace, thanks for your wonderful Cafe ❣❣❣

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 16, 2025 09:02 PM (mAdag)

183 Very sad. We were getting pretty bad at one point. We had mandatory all-hands meetings even for non-clinical staff where the message was Stop killing our customers.

Lots of procedure changes because the big thing was that we were taking our patients word on their prescriptions, especially insulin. Patients were giving us numbers an order of magnitude wrong. The change was to not trust them and call their doctors every time.

Posted by: toby928 at October 16, 2025 09:02 PM (VXJx/)

184 168
' And why the hell didnt any Republican consider it before now?'
Two reasons:
1) the 'Rats weren't stealing money at the current high rate until Obama
2) no earlier Republican considered them to be be the existential enemy that they always were.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 16, 2025 09:02 PM (fd80v)

185 Cuomo and Sliwa both braced madmani that he gave the finger to the statue of Columbus. The question was about parades. Cuomo and Sliwa said they'd march in all of them. Madmani deflected. Then Sliwa asked about the Columbus day parade and he deflected again. nobody asked about the salute to Israel parade.

Posted by: Vivi at October 16, 2025 09:03 PM (cpunl)

186 Mamdani was born in Uganda?
Not a problem, tell him to call me - Barky

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 16, 2025 09:03 PM (yUhFq)

187 139 Ace Frehley has died.

The sound of youth.

RIP.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 16, 2025 08:34 PM (XV/Pl)
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Just saw this a few minutes ago. He was the main reason I picked up a guitar as a teenager, and I'm still a fan to this day. RIP Space Ace... Rock soldiers come, and rock soldiers go, and some hear the drum, and some never know. :-(

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at October 16, 2025 09:04 PM (QdGJh)

188 Short man's Star Fleet Academy was a hot mess since the super plus sized female Jem'Hadarr was showcased.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 16, 2025 09:08 PM (fSmD1)

189 Its will blow your minds away - for some of you talking about Medical Mistakes - how it works when you get your ass dragged into the ER when you've got that "donor" checked on your drivers license.

Pro Tip - they don't work nearly as hard on you when you check that box. I know. Anyone that ever worked volunteer or paid Fire or EMS knows.

Posted by: Head On A Swivel at October 16, 2025 09:09 PM (rMlgb)

190 Lots of procedure changes because the big thing was that we were taking our patients word on their prescriptions, especially insulin. Patients were giving us numbers an order of magnitude wrong. The change was to not trust them and call their doctors every time.
Posted by: toby928 at October 16, 2025 09:02 PM (VXJx/)

Hay, remember when HIPAA formulated so that Doctors and hospitals could freely transfer information back and forth and consult with family members to avoid such tragedies? That sure lasted no longer than the initial planning phases.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 16, 2025 09:10 PM (rbvCR)

191 Pro Tip - they don't work nearly as hard on you when you check that box. I know. Anyone that ever worked volunteer or paid Fire or EMS knows.
Posted by: Head On A Swivel at October 16, 2025 09:09 PM

If you are coded coming in, they aren't going to do much at all. If they revive you the fear is that you will be brain damaged and your family will sue.

Posted by: toby928 at October 16, 2025 09:12 PM (VXJx/)

192
I wonder now that CARB is not considered and CAFE penalties are zeroed, if they will get back to making cars and small trucks the people actually want, instead of Imperial Battleships, and things that look like a computer mouse?

No, because they know that the rules will revert whenever Dems take over again.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

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No, because they ARE Dems.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 09:12 PM (ldc7S)

193 Hippos are natural sprinters. They're wasted on cross-country.

Almost all land animals are sprinters. The only distance runners are pronghorns and humans. Us because we know how to think ahead and conserve energy by jogging. Them because their blood's got freaky-high oxygen-carrying capability compared to every other animal, and they can run flat-out for miles.

Posted by: mikeski at October 16, 2025 09:13 PM (nhCoE)

194 Ann-Margret...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW25INh9zhQ

Posted by: davidt at October 16, 2025 09:13 PM (i0F8b)

195
Vivi, please keep sending those despatches.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 09:13 PM (ldc7S)

196 If you are coded coming in, they aren't going to do much at all. If they revive you the fear is that you will be brain damaged and your family will sue.

Posted by: toby928 at October 16, 2025 09:12 PM (VXJx/)

And also all those tasty organs. Part out one body to save three or four ?

Anyone that checks that box on their license is a damn fool.

Posted by: Head On A Swivel at October 16, 2025 09:13 PM (rMlgb)

197 I wonder now that CARB is not considered and CAFE penalties are zeroed, if they will get back to making cars and small trucks the people actually want, instead of Imperial Battleships, and things that look like a computer mouse?
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No, because they know that the rules will revert whenever Dems take over again
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No, because they ARE Dems.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 09:12 PM (ldc7S)

Listen to her more. And then remember - when you do the old school "Muh Corporations".

Times have changed. She gets it.

Posted by: Head On A Swivel at October 16, 2025 09:16 PM (rMlgb)

198
Kayleigh Macenany just told Jesse Watters that Mamdani is smart enough to run for president.

Dear Kayleigh, he was born in Uganda. The highest office he could aspire to is a governor.
Posted by: Decaf

===============

He supposedly crushed his interview with Martha McCallum, mostly by being savvy and cagey. So yeah, he's smart enough in that sense, no doubt.

Thank God he was born in Uganda is all I can say, although if he shines brightly enough as NYC mayor he could go much bigger.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 09:16 PM (ldc7S)

199 MRI is why you should always wear the clear plastic butt plugs with no metal in them.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 16, 2025 09:17 PM (gKWVE)

200 169 I'm bored so I'm writting a roku controller app widget for Apple Os.

Every TV in the house is a roku tv but this mostly to control the tv in my office.

There are a couple of widget apps that exist but I don't like them.

This is going to be a very stripped down version.

I've already got an html java script version going.

I'm too damn lazy to pick up a remote.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Just recently purchased a Roku TV. I had been using a Roku stick for a long while on an old TV set and liked it a lot. So far, the new TV is wasting my time nicely.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 16, 2025 09:19 PM (Wg6v7)

201 MRI is why you should always wear the clear plastic butt plugs with no metal in them.

You sound like a man with experience. With clear plastic butt plugs. With no metal. You seem firm on that last point.

OK ...

Posted by: Head On A Swivel at October 16, 2025 09:19 PM (rMlgb)

202 dang, i didn't know that i'd be causing such a guilty mass silence with that comment

Posted by: gKWVE at October 16, 2025 09:19 PM (gKWVE)

203
Did the world end?

Or is everyone rummaging for their clear butt plug with no metal.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 16, 2025 09:24 PM (QVmho)

204 192
I wonder now that CARB is not considered and CAFE penalties are zeroed, if they will get back to making cars and small trucks the people actually want, instead of Imperial Battleships, and things that look like a computer mouse?

No, because they know that the rules will revert whenever Dems take over again.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

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I am at the age where I should be able to buy a Buick Senior Discount Special sedan, and I can't, and I feel cheated. Looked at a 2018 Lincoln MKZ last week, and even it seemed a bit pinched. Going to look at a 2020 Continental this weekend.

Start a car company and only make vehicles based on five models: a late-70s 2-door Olds Cutlass, a mid-80s 4-door Ford LTD, a mid-80s Caprice station wagon, a late-90s Ford Ranger, and any generic full-size pickup with a standard cab, 4WD and a 4-speed. Make them at least semi-affordable and you'd eat the Big 3's lunch.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at October 16, 2025 09:24 PM (QdGJh)

205 It's the end of the world...

Posted by: man at October 16, 2025 09:25 PM (tubbA)

206 He supposedly crushed his interview with Martha McCallum, mostly by being savvy and cagey. So yeah, he's smart enough in that sense, no doubt.

Being a clever liar doesn't mean one is smart. Also, nearly all msm journalists are vapid and useless, at best.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 16, 2025 09:25 PM (Wg6v7)

207 199 MRI is why you should always wear the clear plastic butt plugs with no metal in them.
Posted by: gKWVE at October 16, 2025 09:17 PM (gKWVE)

*needle scratch*
*dead silence*
*crickets*

Posted by: Uncomfortable in many ways at October 16, 2025 09:26 PM (TbWk/)

208 @200

>>Just recently purchased a Roku TV. I had been using a Roku stick for a long while on an old TV set and liked it a lot. So far, the new TV is wasting my time nicely.

The only apps I run on my Roku are plex and Pluto , pretty much.

Basically I want to be able to control the Roku using keyboard commands, probably will be vim key commands and motions.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 16, 2025 09:28 PM (XV/Pl)

209 Who's plan was it to go after leftwing funding? Trump himself? Because that was a Grand Master move. And why the hell didnt any Republican consider it before now?
Posted by: Fen

That's just not whom we are.
- Mitch, Romney, GWB, Pence, McCain, etc., etc., etc.
Posted by: BifBewalski

Also, we were all on the same side, anyway.

.....did we say that out loud?

Posted by: Mitch, Romney, GWB, Pence, McCain, etc., etc., etc. at October 16, 2025 09:28 PM (nhCoE)

210 Make them at least semi-affordable"

Sure.

ABS/traction control, carplay/android auto, backup cams, park distance control, airbags, tensioning meatballs, HID lamps, OBD II...

For starters

Posted by: man at October 16, 2025 09:28 PM (tubbA)

211 188 Short man's Star Fleet Academy was a hot mess since the super plus sized female Jem'Hadarr was showcased.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 16, 2025 09:08 PM (fSmD1)

Disparu noticed that and explains the impossibility of a "her".

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 09:29 PM (6ydKt)

212 MRI is why you should always wear the clear plastic butt plugs with no metal in them.

You sound like a man with experience. With clear plastic butt plugs. With no metal. You seem firm on that last point.

OK ...
Posted by: Head On A Swivel

I thought it was a callback to the ONT (I think?) that had the x-ray of the guy who wore his silicone butt plug into the MRI machine.

At which point he found out the plug had a metal core to help it keep its shape.

He found that out when it hit him in the lung.

Posted by: mikeski at October 16, 2025 09:30 PM (nhCoE)

213 207 199 MRI is why you should always wear the clear plastic butt plugs with no metal in them.
Posted by: gKWVE at October 16, 2025 09:17 PM (gKWVE)

*needle scratch*
*dead silence*
*crickets*
Posted by: Uncomfortable in many ways at October 16, 2025 09:26 PM (TbWk/)

If you wear one with a pony tail affixed, the MRI tech will notice and helpfully ask you to remove it if it contains metal.

Posted by: Overmilked Minotaur at October 16, 2025 09:31 PM (jwFh7)

214 Meatballs? Seatbelts.

Love autocucumber

Posted by: man at October 16, 2025 09:31 PM (tubbA)

215 Also, we were all on the same side, anyway.

.....did we say that out loud?
Posted by: Mitch, Romney, GWB, Pence, McCain, etc., etc., etc.

Well I wasn't going to say it out loud! But I think we all were thinking it...

Posted by: Adriane the Spaced Cadet Critic . . . at October 16, 2025 09:32 PM (3ZUWJ)

216 "Nonferrous, so no problem"

Ah hell, that counts towards my monthly quota of stupid questions doesn't it? That leaves two and it's only the 16th

Posted by: Fen at October 16, 2025 09:32 PM (9EyKs)

217 So, proof that few are here...

Posted by: man at October 16, 2025 09:32 PM (tubbA)

218 Luckily at AOSHQ nobody has a ponytail on their... accoutrements.

Posted by: unlike lgf at October 16, 2025 09:33 PM (gKWVE)

219 I was partaking on a thread on X where someone was complaining that nobody liked the new characters on this new Trek, and I was trying to explain how ST:TOS had an incredibly beautiful woman in it; but when you ask people to to watch Tranny planet fighting the descendants of poisonous toads, nobody wants to watch that shit. You just want them to all die horribly, and fast.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 16, 2025 09:33 PM (TBCjf)

220 What about fillings?
Posted by: Fen

Nonferrous, so no problem.
Posted by: Non Bueller

Tooth implants and other surgical screws: same.

I can vouch for it.

Just maybe not the cheap Mexican tooth implants.

Posted by: mikeski at October 16, 2025 09:33 PM (nhCoE)

221 Short man's Star Fleet Academy was a hot mess since the super plus sized female Jem'Hadarr was showcased.

Posted by: Anna Puma

So, large, um, galaxies of stars ...

Posted by: Adriane the Spaced Cadet Critic . . . at October 16, 2025 09:34 PM (3ZUWJ)

222 I'm too damn lazy to pick up a remote.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 16, 2025 08:53 PM

That used to be what 7 to 9 year-olds were for.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 16, 2025 09:35 PM (0sNs1)

223 Just maybe not the cheap Mexican tooth implants.
Posted by: mikeski

Possibly older Eastern European immigrants... I think stainless steel filings were used way back in the day.

Posted by: Adriane the Spaced Cadet Critic . . . at October 16, 2025 09:36 PM (3ZUWJ)

224 since the super plus sized female Jem'Hadarr was showcased."

President'n of everybody in space. Right Stacy A?

Posted by: man at October 16, 2025 09:36 PM (tubbA)

225 I thought we weren't gonna mention Prometheus?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 16, 2025 08:08 PM

Well, we weren't going to mention Yoko on the ONT either, and we all know where ~~that~~ you got us.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 16, 2025 09:36 PM (0sNs1)

226
Non-ferrous metals, being conductors, will have eddy currents induced them due to the time-varying fields as well. The MRI is basically a YUGE static field, but things are modulated resulting in time variation.

That can be a problem with heating due to the induced current.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 16, 2025 09:36 PM (w6EFb)

227 The key to Star Trek has always been the same, strong charismatic leader, hot head, logic mind tripod relationship or some variation of that and beautiful Bangable women.

Deviate from that and it's not Star Trek.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 16, 2025 09:37 PM (XV/Pl)

228 SouthCom Commander announces retirement in the middle of our real war on drugs.

It tells me he is woke DEI promoted officer.

I would like to be wrong.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 16, 2025 09:37 PM (EYmYM)

229 Well, I guess Ace Frehley won't be in any more Kiss reunions.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 16, 2025 09:37 PM (CHHv1)

230 For starters
Posted by: man at October 16, 2025 09:28 PM (tubbA)

From what I understand a Tacoma without all that crap costs about $15,000.

Posted by: Reforger at October 16, 2025 09:37 PM (SG6eL)

231 I am at the age where I should be able to buy a Buick Senior Discount Special sedan, and I can't, and I feel cheated. Looked at a 2018 Lincoln MKZ last week, and even it seemed a bit pinched. Going to look at a 2020 Continental this weekend.

Start a car company and only make vehicles based on five models: a late-70s 2-door Olds Cutlass, a mid-80s 4-door Ford LTD, a mid-80s Caprice station wagon, a late-90s Ford Ranger, and any generic full-size pickup with a standard cab, 4WD and a 4-speed. Make them at least semi-affordable and you'd eat the Big 3's lunch.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at October 16, 2025

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Your last shot at the Buick Senior Citizen Sedan was the LaCrosse, the 2009 (?) to 2016 sedan, and the final 2017-2019 model. (I have a 2016.) The last three model years were gorgeous, but they have that Auto Stop Start tech, and from what I've read you can't turn it off.

You still have the Toyota Avalon and the Lexus ES300 to be your Bingo Night Express, but they aren't "American" in the old Big Three sense.

I agree with you about the five models. Maybe add a convertible to the Olds Cutlass line.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 16, 2025 09:37 PM (omVj0)

232 "I'm too damn lazy to pick up a remote."

(Nasal Karen voice) You're so privileged. I have 3 tvs and no remote for any of them. One is stuck on 11 volume. It's a new Hell.

Posted by: Fen at October 16, 2025 09:37 PM (9EyKs)

233
Start a car company and only make vehicles based on five models: a late-70s 2-door Olds Cutlass,
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In the garage. '78 Olds Cutlass Calais. It awaits the installation of the 403 sitting on an engine stand.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 16, 2025 09:37 PM (XeU6L)

234 Start a car company and only make vehicles based on five models: a late-70s 2-door Olds Cutlass,
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In the garage. '78 Olds Cutlass Calais. It awaits the installation of the 403 sitting on an engine stand.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 16, 2025 09:37 PM (XeU6L)

I had a 1973 Cutlass Salon with a 455 Rocket.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 16, 2025 09:39 PM (EYmYM)

235 guess Ace Frehley won't be in any more Kiss reunions.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

There's always AI.

Posted by: horrors beyond imagination at October 16, 2025 09:40 PM (gKWVE)

236 "The key to Star Trek has always been the same, strong charismatic leader, hot head, logic mind tripod relationship or some variation of that and beautiful Bangable women."

And photon torpedoes. They were really cool.

Posted by: davidt at October 16, 2025 09:40 PM (i0F8b)

237 227 The key to Star Trek has always been the same, strong charismatic leader, hot head, logic mind tripod relationship or some variation of that and beautiful Bangable women.

What about precocious twinks?

Posted by: that fag who's always posting as Wesley Crusher at October 16, 2025 09:40 PM (jwFh7)

238 SouthCom Commander announces retirement in the middle of our real war on drugs.

It tells me he is woke DEI promoted officer.

I would like to be wrong.
Posted by: Willie Nailer

Biggest job perk is proximity to Miami South Beach.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 16, 2025 09:40 PM (/lPRQ)

239 Almost all land animals are sprinters. The only distance runners are pronghorns and humans. Us because we know how to think ahead and conserve energy by jogging. Them because their blood's got freaky-high oxygen-carrying capability compared to every other animal, and they can run flat-out for miles.
Posted by: mikeski at October 16, 2025

***
Wolves are pretty good at the long-distance thing. But yes, among animals our size (ca. 100-150-200 lbs.), humans are the marathon champs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 16, 2025 09:41 PM (omVj0)

240 Last MRI I had they did a metal detector scan on me.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine

"Uh..., you're going to have to shed the Glock".
Posted by: Mike Hammer

A gal in Wisconsin got shot in the butt when she took her concealed carry into the MRI room, and the field cycled it for her.

A lawyer dude in Brazil killed himself the same way.

Posted by: mikeski at October 16, 2025 09:41 PM (nhCoE)

241 228 SouthCom Commander announces retirement in the middle of our real war on drugs.

It tells me he is woke DEI promoted officer.

I would like to be wrong.
Posted by: Willie Nailer

Kickbacks from the Cartels dried up?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 16, 2025 09:41 PM (Wg6v7)

242 When the remote fell down the crack between the table and the wall, I always wished I could use The Force.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 16, 2025 09:41 PM (gKWVE)

243 Andy Boenau "Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom."
x.com/Boenau/status/1978791056218181738

Posted by: gKWVE at October 16, 2025 09:43 PM (gKWVE)

244 From Cell Block D:
Who wants a mustache ride?

Posted by: JOHN BOLTON at October 16, 2025 09:43 PM (njGzd)

245 Had a '73 Monte Carlo. 350, AT, PS, PB, AC... manual windows and locks. (Go figure, but it was ok by me)

Miss that car! Smooooth ride, plenty of room, plenty of power, lots of trunk space.

*sigh*

Posted by: JQ at October 16, 2025 09:43 PM (rdVOm)

246 And photon torpedoes. They were really cool.
Posted by: davidt
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Pfft. The replicator.

"Computer, GlenAllachie 12 Years Old, double, one cube of ice"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 16, 2025 09:43 PM (XeU6L)

247 From Cell Block D:

Stop the hammering!

Posted by: John Bolton at October 16, 2025 09:44 PM (i0F8b)

248 For the 'ettes, Tom Cruise is back on the market.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 16, 2025 09:44 PM (0sNs1)

249 Possibly older Eastern European immigrants... I think stainless steel filings were used way back in the day.
Posted by: Adriane the Spaced Cadet Critic . . . at October 16, 2025 09:36 PM (3ZUWJ)

Russian bridgework was stainless steel, and Mexican bridgework was too, either because they employed Russian or Cuban dentists, or their dentists got training from Russians.

I suspect the average Russian in a city can get better dental work now than I can in my little town.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 16, 2025 09:44 PM (rbvCR)

250 Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 16, 2025 09:28 PM (XV/Pl)

I find Tubi on my Roku has the best movies.

They are playing 2015 movie Mr Right with Sam Rockwell. I love the movie. Previously you had to rent it on another streaming service.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 16, 2025 09:44 PM (EYmYM)

251
Isn't Cruise 4'11 inches tall? Lol

Posted by: fourseasons at October 16, 2025 09:45 PM (3ek7K)

252 I had an 83 Cutlass Calais for a couple of years. Transmission went out in it so regretably it went to pick and pull. Thing was like a rocket powered lazyboy.

Posted by: Reforger at October 16, 2025 09:46 PM (SG6eL)

253 I've got most of what I want in 4K so Hollywood can die whenever they like. "Killed by LOLCats" would be a good epitaph.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 16, 2025 09:47 PM (CHHv1)

254 Isn't Cruise 4'11 inches tall? Lol
Posted by: fourseasons
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I've often thought that finding actors to surround the shorter star might be a problem. See: Audie Murphy

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 16, 2025 09:47 PM (XeU6L)

255
Actually my husband is 4 inches shorter than me. We've been married almost 50 years.

Never an issue.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 16, 2025 09:47 PM (3ek7K)

256 It's not that Tom Cruise is short. He just seems odd and weird. And not in a charming, dorky way.

Posted by: ScaryMary at October 16, 2025 09:48 PM (6tEBv)

257 Actually my husband is 4 inches shorter than me. We've been married almost 50 years.

Never an issue.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 16, 2025 09:47 PM (3ek7K)

You aren't 6'4" are you?

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 16, 2025 09:48 PM (EYmYM)

258
Scarymary, I agree.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 16, 2025 09:49 PM (3ek7K)

259 Non-ferrous metals, being conductors, will have eddy currents induced them due to the time-varying fields as well. The MRI is basically a YUGE static field, but things are modulated resulting in time variation.

That can be a problem with heating due to the induced current.
Posted by: publius

Probably with bigger pieces? I didn't notice my tooth implant screws warming up at all when I had a brain MRI.

Posted by: mikeski did test positive for a brain at October 16, 2025 09:49 PM (nhCoE)

260
Willie, 5'9"

Posted by: fourseasons at October 16, 2025 09:50 PM (3ek7K)

261 Tom Cruise always plays TomCruise except for Tropical Thunder.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 16, 2025 09:50 PM (EYmYM)

262 It's not that Tom Cruise is short. He just seems odd and weird. And not in a charming, dorky way.
Posted by: ScaryMary
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And he belongs to that scientology-cult. Yuck. Creepy.

Posted by: JQ at October 16, 2025 09:50 PM (rdVOm)

263 Toes to toes, your nose is in it.
Nose to nose, your toes is in it.

Posted by: Lone Waddie at October 16, 2025 09:51 PM (WQDw6)

264

Our daughter is short, two sons are tall.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 16, 2025 09:51 PM (3ek7K)

265 229
'Well, I guess Ace Frehley won't be in any more Kiss reunions.'

Not until the other 3 die.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 16, 2025 09:52 PM (fd80v)

266 NOOD

The ONT is live!

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 16, 2025 09:53 PM (O7YUW)

267 the Scientology is a dealbreaker for me if the interested party was female (if male I'm more worried about the penis)

Posted by: gKWVE at October 16, 2025 09:53 PM (gKWVE)

268
For the 'ettes, Tom Cruise is back on the market.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

--------------------

Did he break up with some Scientology slave girl?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 09:53 PM (ldc7S)

269
I just had Grok run through the basic details about eddy currents in non-ferrous implants. "Approved" implants generally aren't a problem -- conductivity of titanium is not as high as copper and silver and gold, for instance.

Main parameter is temp rise, which should be known or estimated and kept under 2C. The biggest problem is imaging artifacts caused by the eddy currents reaction field.

It's larger implants and those with loop geometries that can be a problem. How much dB/dt there is influences that, and they might have to limit that depending.

Grok says there are all sorts of protocols about this, as you'd expect. IOW, the techs are supposed to know this shit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 16, 2025 09:54 PM (w6EFb)

270 I had manual windows in all my cars for years, until I bought the '89 Olds Cutlass coupe in late '91. Since then, all power windows (even the '84 and '86 Mercedes), and I wouldn't want to do without them. It's great on a hot day to run all the windows down, drive for a minute or two, blowing the hot air out. Then you start the A/C and run the windows up. Hard to lean over and crank the passenger window up manually with a console in the way, and the back windows would be impossible.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 16, 2025 09:54 PM (omVj0)

271 Never got the whole Tom Cruise height thing.

He's never made any claim to being tall and he's cast films and appeared with dudes that are taller than him and dates tall women.

So he seems quite secure in his height, whatever it it is.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 16, 2025 09:57 PM (XV/Pl)

272 233
Start a car company and only make vehicles based on five models: a late-70s 2-door Olds Cutlass,
------

In the garage. '78 Olds Cutlass Calais. It awaits the installation of the 403 sitting on an engine stand.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 16, 2025 09:37 PM (XeU6L)
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I had the very same, except mine had a 350 Rocket that a friend and I rebuilt (OK, I mostly 'helped', he was the one who knew what he was doing). It had some rust on the fenders but it ran like a raped ape. I really am getting old - I just had the urge to say, "They don't make 'em like that anymore." But, it's true. They don't.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at October 16, 2025 10:05 PM (QdGJh)

273 “Only if you can relate it to one of the linked videos. I suggest either rodents or hippos.”

I’ve tried for an hour and I got nothing.

Posted by: Squid at October 16, 2025 10:10 PM (R6ckG)

274 I think this VPN puts me in the phantom zone.

Posted by: toby928 at October 16, 2025 10:15 PM (VXJx/)

275 at one point the US decided to try to frack for natural gas using a smallish nuke. Being the US, they decided to leave a cow at ground zero. It didn't get fried or dead, but it sure got levitated for a second

/youtu.be/QuWDDx2-CgA

Posted by: Kindltot at October 16, 2025 10:20 PM (rbvCR)

276 Boy we've got a s#!† ton of MR experts in the moronosphere! Though I probably have seniority: I worked for the inventor, had my first publication in 1983 and my PhD in 1991. Nowadays I spend a lot more time on the patient side (wrist, knee, brain, heart, prostate, ...)

Above commenters are right that the most serious concern is with ferrous metal, non-ferrous metal can heat up from eddy currents, and most ortho implants (mine are 26 years old) are titanium and MRI-compatible. Tomorrow I'll tell the rat story.

Posted by: Otto Zilch at October 16, 2025 10:33 PM (Ws2ua)

277 Loved the Grail reference!

Posted by: Bruce of Newcastle at October 17, 2025 12:01 AM (nASCF)

278 Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretti nasti.

Posted by: Ken at October 17, 2025 07:46 AM (GXPss)

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