Monday Overnight Open Thread (11/10/25)

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The Quote of The Day
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. Montesquieu

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How many days has the Federal Teat been shutdown?

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I'm so blessed that my idea of diversity is the multiple bird species visiting the feeders.

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The ONT Musical Interlude & Grocery Cart Corral Emporium

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I thought I had heard every reason not to go on vacation until I read: Bear attacks in northeastern Japan deflate tourism amid peak fall foliage

MORIOKA (Kyodo) -- A steady stream of bear attacks in northeastern Japan is turning some tourists away from the region, hitting local businesses hard during the normally busy season of peak fall foliage.
In the Tohoku region, hotel bookings at hot spring resorts have declined sharply, public access to areas is often limited after bear sightings, and local governments are warning visitors to be vigilant about potential bear encounters.
With no immediate signs that tourists are likely to turn up at levels seen in previous years, businesses that rely on the traditionally lucrative period before winter are facing an uncertain future.
In the Gembi area of Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture, a man was found dead outside his house in late October after being fatally attacked by a bear.

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Taking matters seriously? I for one am certainly relieved. Genius Award Winner.

CHESHIRE, Mass. (NEWS10) — The Berkshire District Attorney’s Office (BDAO) announced that Michael Alibozek, the chief of the Cheshire Police Department, was taken into custody on Thursday night. The 53-year-old Adams man is accused of trying to solicit sex in exchange for a fee.

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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Overcoming Acrophobia.

Notice: Posted with permission by the Ace Media Empire & AceCorp, LLC. Contrary to persistent rumors, there is no more credit at the liquor store. Data Reduction Clerks hardest hit.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:00 PM

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1 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 10, 2025 10:01 PM (SRRAx)

2 Arf!

Posted by: Sandy at November 10, 2025 10:01 PM (dyewR)

3 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2025 10:01 PM (cYBz/)

4 Oh look. Frozen corpse land!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 10, 2025 10:01 PM (uQesX)

5 ten-ish, anyone?

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at November 10, 2025 10:02 PM (O+4+J)

6 Hey guys,

Launch in 9 minutes.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 6-87
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: November 10, 2025
Launch Time: 10:21 p.m. EST (November 11, 0321 UTC, 04:21 CET)

https://youtu.be/hnlfq3QrHbs

Posted by: Joyenz at November 10, 2025 10:02 PM (2F0/Y)

7
That window would just have to stay dirty.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 10, 2025 10:03 PM (Gjh8j)

8 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 10, 2025 10:03 PM (zZu0s)

9 Overcoming Acrophobia?

Nah, she was just hiding from the kids birthday party and was going to pretend to be Superman.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 10, 2025 10:04 PM (uQesX)

10 In the Gembi area of Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture, a man was found dead outside his house in late October after being fatally attacked by a bear.

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When Yogi has had enough of this shit...

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 10, 2025 10:04 PM (dyewR)

11 There it is.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 10, 2025 10:05 PM (vd6bO)

12 There it is.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 10, 2025 10:05 PM (vd6bO)

Get it off!! Get it off!!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 10, 2025 10:05 PM (uQesX)

13 Happy ONT. Thank you MisHum!
Is wall of ice getting closer to Casa Hum?

Posted by: Some Rat at November 10, 2025 10:05 PM (TfUTr)

14 HMS Wakefield, "Monster Mansion", just claimed another tenant. Kyle Bevan (childkiller) is now housed with Ian Watkins down where there is no parole.
An inspection recently pointed out there was too much violence in Wakefield.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 10, 2025 10:05 PM (gKWVE)

15 Bears, Beets, Battlestar Galactica.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 10, 2025 10:06 PM (lHPJf)

16
Yes! A MisHum ONT!

Posted by: fourseasons at November 10, 2025 10:06 PM (3ek7K)

17 Acrophobia? Heck, that ledge looks pretty wide to the younger LRob!

Nice ONT, Mis Hum!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 10, 2025 10:06 PM (47diA)

18 250th Anniversary of the founding of the US Marine Corps.
In a bar. Which makes sense because somebody would have to be drunk to stand up and say, "Let's start a Marine Corps"

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at November 10, 2025 10:06 PM (gIcAo)

19 In the Gembi area of Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture, a man was found dead outside his house in late October after being fatally attacked by a bear.

"The other day
I met a bear.
Up in the woods
Oh way up there!"

Repeat.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2025 10:06 PM (cYBz/)

20 When Yogi has had enough of this shit...
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Screw the picanic basket....I'm gutting a tourist.

Posted by: Yogi at November 10, 2025 10:07 PM (TfUTr)

21 In the Gembi area of Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture, a man was found dead outside his house in late October after being fatally attacked by a bear.

His last words were, "No, I will not protect you from crazy American women."

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 10, 2025 10:07 PM (S/Y4j)

22 Evening, MisHum, and ONT Horde! Much content to be digested. Is the top image one of your paintings?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 10, 2025 10:07 PM (npFr7)

23 Thanks for the dandy Monday ONT, Mis Hum!

That photo up top is lovely but looks very cold.

What in the holy hell is that woman doing washing windows like that?!?!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 10, 2025 10:07 PM (kB9dk)

24 I could not step out like that woman doing the cleaning!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 10, 2025 10:07 PM (0M7jv)

25 Good evening morons y gracias mh

Always punctual ont!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2025 10:08 PM (A0sqA)

26 A first for TiFW! Woo hoo.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 10, 2025 10:08 PM (47diA)

27 As much as I loved Top Gun Maverick I couldn't ignore the intentional diversity casting. They weren't the first though. An Officer and a Gentleman did it first.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 10:08 PM (EYmYM)

28 Where's that gal that cleans my room...

Posted by: Leon Redbone at November 10, 2025 10:08 PM (vd6bO)

29 Happy ONT. Thank you MisHum!
Is wall of ice getting closer to Casa Hum?
Posted by: Some Rat at November 10, 2025 10:05 PM (TfUTr)

80 degrees where I was.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 10, 2025 10:09 PM (uQesX)

30 That window would just have to stay dirty.

Are the sun shades on the outside of each window?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 10:09 PM (a4flb)

31 Thanks, Miss Hum! That picture is how I feel.

Posted by: Piper at November 10, 2025 10:09 PM (Wmg4n)

32 I think TG:M was pretty good. A complete retread of the first. Jennifer Connelly was quite lovely.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 10, 2025 10:09 PM (zZu0s)

33 Great picture on top.

Thank you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 10, 2025 10:10 PM (u82oZ)

34 IASIA - I Am Swimming In Acronyms

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 10, 2025 10:10 PM (vd6bO)

35 Who shit my pants?

Posted by: Chuck Schumer
Sucking Cock by Choice
For America at November 10, 2025 10:10 PM (XQzjh)

36
MORIOKA (Kyodo) -- A steady stream of bear attacks in northeastern Japan is turning some tourists away from the region, hitting local businesses hard during the normally busy season of peak fall foliage.

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An obvious conspiracy. They've got to find Mister Big.

Posted by: George Stephanopoulos at November 10, 2025 10:10 PM (azNOR)

37 I guarantee the window washer lady is not in Section 8 housing

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at November 10, 2025 10:10 PM (VPPG8)

38 think TG:M was pretty good. A complete retread of the first. Jennifer Connelly was quite lovely.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 10, 2025 10:09 PM (zZu0s)

I loved it. Even though it turned into a mission Impossible movie at the end.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 10:11 PM (EYmYM)

39 How many days has the Federal Teat been shutdown?

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Didn't even get to the comments before the post lurched toward boobs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 10, 2025 10:11 PM (dyewR)

40 >>What in the holy hell is that woman doing washing windows like that?!?!

Good question. Look at the apartment below her. The windows open inward.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2025 10:12 PM (viF8m)

41 Happy Birthday, U.S. Marines!

Semper Fi!

*this one's for you, Dad. Cheers!*

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 10, 2025 10:12 PM (kB9dk)

42 Mystery click did not go to a land acknowledgement statement.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 10, 2025 10:12 PM (8AONa)

43 Didn't even get to the comments before the post lurched toward boobs.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 10, 2025 10:11 PM (dyewR)

Check that link at the end of last thread...

I think Abbys boobs are actually bigger than Ben's ego at this point.

They have their own weather.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 10, 2025 10:12 PM (zZu0s)

44 I did not miss the Federal Government.

My life went on unaffected.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 10, 2025 10:13 PM (u82oZ)

45 The 53-year-old Adams man is accused of trying to solicit sex in exchange for a fee.

Um stay in yer own lane there buddy..

-Johnny Johnson

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at November 10, 2025 10:13 PM (VPPG8)

46 If that was New York it would take about 2 minutes for a crowd to gather below shouting "Jump! Jump!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2025 10:13 PM (A0sqA)

47 I think TG:M was pretty good. A complete retread of the first. Jennifer Connelly was quite lovely.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 10, 2025 10:09 PM (zZu0s)

Jennifer Connelly 2022 >>> Kelly McGillis 1986

Posted by: Dr. T at November 10, 2025 10:13 PM (lHPJf)

48 https://tinyurl.com/Inside140yrOldViolin

Looks like a large room.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 10, 2025 10:13 PM (vd6bO)

49 She has them all the way open. The blind pulled on the one she is cleaning. She had to step over a deep sill to get to the ledge.

Fuck.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 10, 2025 10:14 PM (zZu0s)

50 HMS Wakefield, "Monster Mansion", just claimed another tenant. Kyle Bevan (childkiller) is now housed with Ian Watkins down where there is no parole.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 10, 2025 10:05 PM (gKWVE)

Along with Sally Decker, Montague Martin, Dutch Gunderson, Lana Casales, Thames the butler, and Veronica Rivers.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 10, 2025 10:14 PM (uQesX)

51 Nah, she was just hiding from the kids birthday party and was going to pretend to be Superman.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 10, 2025 10:04 PM (uQesX)
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Luuuuuuuuucy!

Posted by: Ricky at November 10, 2025 10:14 PM (A0sqA)

52 As much as I loved Top Gun Maverick I couldn't ignore the intentional diversity casting. They weren't the first though. An Officer and a Gentleman did it first.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 10:08 PM (EYmYM)
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The original had "Sundown," so I'm not sure what you're on about.

Posted by: Zardoz at November 10, 2025 10:14 PM (ZOv7s)

53 The Massachusetts chief of police who got picked up for trying to hire a hooker didn't claim that he was doing research or working undercover? He's not too bright.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 10, 2025 10:14 PM (0Htd1)

54 There is some kind of exterior shade she's cleaning .

Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 10:14 PM (EYmYM)

55 Good evening Horde. Thanks MisHum!

Posted by: TRex - can't reach windows with short arms at November 10, 2025 10:14 PM (IQ6Gq)

56 Was the "music" behind the top pic just for nurse?

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 10, 2025 10:14 PM (47diA)

57 Jennifer Connelly 2022 >>> Kelly McGillis 1986
Posted by: Dr. T at November 10, 2025 10:13 PM (lHPJf)

I'd agree.

If it was 1995 Jennifer Connelly it would not even be a question.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 10, 2025 10:14 PM (zZu0s)

58 The bullshit aspect of Diwali explains why politicians want to celebrate it.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 10, 2025 10:15 PM (0Htd1)

59 Mark Dice, the diversity video… this guy
Is a bigly fan of a young Mr. Nick Fuentes and Tucker and is not much of a fan of Israel or them pesky Joos.

Just an FYI.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 10, 2025 10:15 PM (lO7EU)

60 Jennifer Connelly 2022 >>> Kelly McGillis 1986
Posted by: Dr. T at November 10, 2025 10:13 PM (lHPJf)
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Sad but true. Connelly still has it going on.

McGillis peaked at being Amish.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 10, 2025 10:15 PM (ZOv7s)

61 42 Mystery click did not go to a land acknowledgement statement.
_-_
I acknowledge that this land is my land. Shut up, Guthrie! I'm tryin' to make a point over here!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 10, 2025 10:16 PM (vd6bO)

62 Overcoming Acrophobia - odd that every one of those windows are different.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 10, 2025 10:16 PM (/lPRQ)

63 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 10, 2025 10:16 PM (lUFok)

64 Apparently, there are 2 types of bears in Japan. They have the Japanese Black Bear, which is vegetarian, almost extinct, and basically a big pussy.

Then there's the Ussuri Brown Bear. Those are some real mf'ers. The worst attack by one of those was in 1915. It attacked a village twice. After the first attack, it came back and attacked the funeral procession for the victims of its first attack.

https://outforia.com/bears-in-japan/

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 10, 2025 10:16 PM (syz1S)

65
When Yogi has had enough of this shit...
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Screw the picanic basket....I'm gutting a tourist.
Posted by: Yogi

He will sleep till noon but before it's dark he'll have every shushi basket that's in Iwate Park.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 10, 2025 10:17 PM (pkeXY)

66 >>Jennifer Connelly 2022 >>> Kelly McGillis 1986

Jennifer's sailboat and Kelly's Porsche 356 Speedster.

There's no reason to be picky. Both women had excellent assets.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2025 10:17 PM (viF8m)

67 I think the lady is cleaning the roll-down window covering common in Euro land. Maybe she's already been into the Valu Rite!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 10, 2025 10:17 PM (47diA)

68 McGillis peaked at being Amish.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 10, 2025 10:15 PM (ZOv7s)

Valid. But think of connelly for... Career Opportunities. And thats not even one she got them out for.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 10, 2025 10:17 PM (zZu0s)

69 If it was 1995 Jennifer Connelly it would not even be a question.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 10, 2025 10:14 PM (zZu0s)
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"The Rocketeer" is about something besides Connolly, but I forget what it was.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 10, 2025 10:17 PM (ZOv7s)

70 58 The bullshit aspect of Diwali explains why politicians want to celebrate it.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Antiwestern humiliation ritual.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 10, 2025 10:17 PM (gKWVE)

71 Cowboy State Daily · 3 days ago3d
Japan Calls Out The Military To Help Stop Surge In Bear Attacks

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Let's see how those damn bears like a few tanks and kamikazes!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 10, 2025 10:17 PM (L/fGl)

72 You could offer me all the money in the world, it would not overcome my acrophobia for that...

Posted by: RandomDave at November 10, 2025 10:18 PM (aJQbY)

73 odd that every one of those windows are different.

Nah, the same. The outer covers are in different positions.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 10, 2025 10:18 PM (47diA)

74 Lady is actually washing the external shade, not the window. Saw these all over Europe and I forget what they call them.

But why she's washing it is beyond me. Must be German.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 10, 2025 10:19 PM (3ImbR)

75 Overcoming Acrophobia - odd that every one of those windows are different.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 10, 2025 10:16 PM (/lPRQ)

The windows look identical to me- just different types of blinds or curtains.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 10, 2025 10:19 PM (zZu0s)

76 What in the holy hell is that woman doing washing windows like that?!?!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 10, 2025 10:07 PM (kB9dk)

Especially since it looks like the windows open inward -

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 10, 2025 10:19 PM (SRRAx)

77 Valid. But think of connelly for... Career Opportunities. And thats not even one she got them out for.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 10, 2025 10:17 PM (zZu0s)
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Sydney Sweeny is but a shadow of peak Connelly.

She's above average, but surrounded by malignant dwarfs, so she towers above the rest.

We were spoiled.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 10, 2025 10:19 PM (ZOv7s)

78 "The Rocketeer" is about something besides Connolly, but I forget what it was.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 10, 2025 10:17 PM (ZOv7s)

Nazzis. It's always Nazzis. That's why my villains are always commies.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 10, 2025 10:19 PM (uQesX)

79 Nah, the same. The outer covers are in different positions.

I take that back! The lower windows are different!!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 10, 2025 10:20 PM (47diA)

80 Let's see how those damn bears like a few tanks and kamikazes!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 10, 2025 10:17 PM (L/fGl)
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They've got plenty of experience against Gojira, so this should be a cakewalk.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 10, 2025 10:20 PM (ZOv7s)

81 You could offer me all the money in the world, it would not overcome my acrophobia for that...
Posted by: RandomDave

When you care enough to send the wife.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 10, 2025 10:20 PM (TfUTr)

82 Happy Birthday, U.S. Marines!

Semper Fi!

*this one's for you, Dad. Cheers!*
Posted by: Legally Sufficient
+++
Thanks to your dad and all the other Marines who served.
My dad was also a Marine. Fought the japs in the Pacific in WW2 and lived to tell the tale. Passed away at the age of 87. And was a Marine til the day he died.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at November 10, 2025 10:20 PM (Lo97M)

83 Oh well the jig is up! (no pun intended)

Due to the shrieking threatening violent Tik Toker's the working class has finally learned the true number of SNAP recipients. The USDA put it north of 40 million. There is a push for reapplication of all SNAPAH HEADS.

ON an upbeat note Trump has negotiated the cost of Ozempic down to from 1300 to 50 bucks I read. So they got that goin for themselves...

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at November 10, 2025 10:20 PM (VPPG8)

84 "The Rocketeer" is about something besides Connolly, but I forget what it was.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 10, 2025 10:17 PM (ZOv7s)

Blah blah. Rockets pack. Blah blah- retard keeps forgetting his date with PEAK JENNIFER CONNELLY, Blah blah Howard Hughes.

Dude might be gay.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 10, 2025 10:21 PM (zZu0s)

85 Hey Rat
The ice is forming

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 10, 2025 10:21 PM (Eymsi)

86 So the IOC finally sees that women should play in women's sports. But some high schools haven't gotten the memo, so we might see this again:

"Payton McNabb, a former high school (and aspiring college) volleyball player suffered a traumatic brain injury, a brain bleed, partial paralysis, and vision problems after being hit in the face by a ball spiked by a transgender opponent during a 2022 match."

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 10, 2025 10:21 PM (Ep3eI)

87 Nazzis. It's always Nazzis. That's why my villains are always commies.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 10, 2025 10:19 PM (uQesX)
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It worked with the Hindenburg motif. Dalton was a better as a villain than Bond.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 10, 2025 10:22 PM (ZOv7s)

88 The windows look identical to me- just different types of blinds or curtains.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I see that now.

Serious OCD to clean the outside of a blind you cannot see unless you climb out on a ledge.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 10, 2025 10:22 PM (/lPRQ)

89 Inventing the Abbotts was Connelly's best movie and worst movie.

She released the pair of Krakens in it.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 10:22 PM (EYmYM)

90 My public library DVD would not play, so here's "Elmer Gantry" free on YT:

youtube.com/watch?v=Bvfqy_-mwwM

Starts out with the Now-Obligatory Trigger Warnings. I don't know who put them on there, whether it was YT or Kino, but there they are.

Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 10:22 PM (7imtn)

91 Don't wanna hear about no gays and don't wanna hear about no Nazis...and definitely don't wanna hear about no gay Nazis. So there.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 10, 2025 10:22 PM (vd6bO)

92 Serious OCD to clean the outside of a blind you cannot see unless you climb out on a ledge.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 10, 2025 10:22 PM (/lPRQ)
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Or a German.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 10, 2025 10:22 PM (3ImbR)

93 She released the pair of Krakens in it.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 10:22 PM (EYmYM)

I never saw the movie- just that scene.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 10, 2025 10:23 PM (zZu0s)

94 What in the holy hell is that woman doing washing windows like that?!?!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 10, 2025 10:07 PM (kB9dk)

She's prolly Italian..

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at November 10, 2025 10:23 PM (VPPG8)

95 We're holding our own....

Posted by: Capt McSorely at November 10, 2025 10:23 PM (GbY9M)

96 >>Lady is actually washing the external shade, not the window. Saw these all over Europe and I forget what they call them.

They are called shades. This would be a new concept for the Irish where the sun never shines.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2025 10:23 PM (viF8m)

97 Oh, I forgot to say re Inventing the Abbotts:

Damn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 10, 2025 10:23 PM (zZu0s)

98 92 Serious OCD to clean the outside of a blind you cannot see unless you climb out on a ledge.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 10, 2025 10:22 PM (/lPRQ)
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Or a German.

A Wallenda!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 10, 2025 10:23 PM (vd6bO)

99 Been a minute since I heard Old 97s. Thanks, MisHum, and hello!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 10, 2025 10:23 PM (Vvh2V)

100 I'm so blessed that my idea of diversity is the multiple bird species visiting the feeders.

I counted 8 species yesterday at my feeder.
As for human diversity, I have just two birds for them; the one on the left hand and the one in the right.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 10, 2025 10:23 PM (2WIwB)

101 It worked with the Hindenburg motif. Dalton was a better as a villain than Bond.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 10, 2025 10:22 PM (ZOv7s)

I think he played a fine Bond. Not as jokey, more serious. He had the look and the acting skills. Don't remember why he only did the two.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 10, 2025 10:24 PM (uQesX)

102 "Or a German."

Monticello, WI. All the tombstones in the cemetery have German names. I bicycled through there on annual Big Trash pickup day.

They even clean their trash before they put it on the curb. My ancestors.

Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 10:24 PM (7imtn)

103 Every holiday is celebrated.
Except Christmas. That’s hateful And racist.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 10, 2025 10:25 PM (lO7EU)

104 Connelly's best movie was Alita Battle Angel.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 10:25 PM (EYmYM)

105 Nazzis. It's always Nazzis. That's why my villains are always commies.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

And actors~! are the heroes. Fucking dumb self-sucking movie. Feh.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 10, 2025 10:25 PM (mlg/3)

106 Blah blah. Rockets pack. Blah blah- retard keeps forgetting his date with PEAK JENNIFER CONNELLY, Blah blah Howard Hughes.

Dude might be gay.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 10, 2025 10:21 PM (zZu0s)
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Autistic. Before it became fashionable.

My wife is into a line of books where the cute, brainy chick struggles to get the attention of the studly nerd who is too lost in SCIENCE to notice her.

Talk about fantasy! The noble pirate shit of the 80s was may more realistic.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 10, 2025 10:25 PM (ZOv7s)

107 Wir Ordnung haben mussen!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 10, 2025 10:25 PM (vd6bO)

108 Read a lede within this week that the Japanese government was sending military to the region to 'deal' with the increasing bear problem.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 10, 2025 10:26 PM (5xURv)

109 Andrew Klavan has a new and funny thing: It rhymes like "Farma is a glitch, you sleazy brother-duckers" and
"Burn you supersilious niece of split.

This is a great way to cuss without cussing.

Posted by: no one at November 10, 2025 10:26 PM (W7XSX)

110 "The Rocketeer" is about something besides Connolly, but I forget what it was.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 10, 2025 10:17 PM (ZOv7s)

Blah blah. Rockets pack. Blah blah- retard keeps forgetting his date with PEAK JENNIFER CONNELLY, Blah blah Howard Hughes.

Dude might be gay.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 10, 2025 10:21 PM (zZu0s)

***

Dude needed a haircut too.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 10, 2025 10:26 PM (2WIwB)

111 108 Read a lede within this week that the Japanese government was sending military to the region to 'deal' with the increasing bear problem.
_-_
Is that codespeak for invading Russia?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 10, 2025 10:27 PM (vd6bO)

112 And actors~! are the heroes. Fucking dumb self-sucking movie. Feh.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 10, 2025 10:25 PM (mlg/3)

Yeah, imagine the gall it takes to claim hero status. Unlike us, the true heroes.

Posted by: The Press at November 10, 2025 10:27 PM (uQesX)

113 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 10, 2025 10:27 PM (sAmhv)

114 Arf!
Posted by: Sandy
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Shut up Sandy.

Posted by: Daddy Warbucks at November 10, 2025 10:28 PM (XeU6L)

115 Serious OCD to clean the outside of a blind you cannot see unless you climb out on a ledge.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 10, 2025 10:22 PM (/lPRQ)

Seems to me it is the responsibility of building management to clean the exterior of the building.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 10, 2025 10:28 PM (npFr7)

116 I think he played a fine Bond. Not as jokey, more serious. He had the look and the acting skills. Don't remember why he only did the two.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 10, 2025 10:24 PM (uQesX)
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Good actor. Terrible Bond. Moore was played out, but when Brosnan showed up, it was like night and day.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 10, 2025 10:28 PM (ZOv7s)

117 Thank you Mis. Hum.

Diversity fatigue. I actually worked for an India Indian computer company in Ohio

But if you really want diversity, there was a Canadian kid's show called "I Woke Up a Vampire" which was actually pretty good but the diversity. A girl turns 13 and finds out she's a vampire.

The girl is asian. Adopted by a black family. White male friend who works for a middle eastern guy at a comic book store. It put Star Trek to shame. And that's not even close to the most diverse show or movie.

If you have have inter-racial gay couples like 'Popularity Papers', you can check off a lot of boxes.

Older western entertainment or asian stuff for the win...

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 10, 2025 10:28 PM (Sco7b)

118 They are called shades. This would be a new concept for the Irish where the sun never shines.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2025 10:23 PM (viF8m)
~~~~~

No they're not, weisenheimer.

You made me look it up. They're called roller shutters.
So there.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 10, 2025 10:29 PM (3ImbR)

119 Trigger Warning sez, among other things, don't let kids watch "Elmer Gantry." Heck, NO kid in the year 2025 would last two minutes watching it; his nose would be buried in his phone no later than 90 seconds into the flick.

Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 10:29 PM (7imtn)

120 And actors~! are the heroes. Fucking dumb self-sucking movie. Feh.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 10, 2025 10:25 PM (mlg/3)

Yeah, imagine the gall it takes to claim hero status. Unlike us, the true heroes.
Posted by: The Press

Nobody was more courageous than us!

Posted by: Fags coming out. at November 10, 2025 10:29 PM (TfUTr)

121 This is why my windows are filthy

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 10, 2025 10:29 PM (nrpZ6)

122 Goldeneye was fantastic. After that... eh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 10, 2025 10:29 PM (zZu0s)

123 That woman on the outside of the window reminds me of the time we moved out of our first apartment and were zinged for not cleaning the outside of the windows. One more apartment and another raft of shift, and realized, leave the place a dump. Don't bother vacuuming and cleaning it up. They are going to rob you of your cleaning deposit.

Posted by: no one at November 10, 2025 10:30 PM (W7XSX)

124 Clean blinds? They cost $7 each at WalMart. Chuck em and replace em, don't clean em.

Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 10:30 PM (7imtn)

125 Good actor. Terrible Bond. Moore was played out, but when Brosnan showed up, it was like night and day.

Remember that fella named Sean? Seemed like Bond to me rather than the later actors.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 10, 2025 10:30 PM (47diA)

126 >>>A Wallenda!
~~~~~

Yes!

Posted by: IrishEi at November 10, 2025 10:31 PM (3ImbR)

127 No they're not, weisenheimer.

You made me look it up. They're called roller shutters.
So there.
Posted by: IrishEi at November 10, 2025 10:29 PM (3ImbR)

Be sure to pull them down in the event of nuclear attack!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 10, 2025 10:31 PM (npFr7)

128 Posted by: no one at November 10, 2025 10:26 PM (W7XSX)

Reminded me of Up the Academy.

Tickle your ass with a feather?

I said Particularly Nasty weather. isn't it?

Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 10:31 PM (EYmYM)

129 This is a great way to cuss without cussing.
Posted by: no one at November 10, 2025 10:26 PM (W7XSX)
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Isn't his son a "brother-ducker"?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 10, 2025 10:31 PM (ZOv7s)

130 Older western entertainment or asian stuff for the win...
_-_

Ayup.

Say, Stateless, if it ain't too personal a thing to ask, what is the denominator for the percentage calculation?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 10, 2025 10:31 PM (vd6bO)

131 In the pic, my immediates concern was the state of the mortar holding the winow ledge.

Posted by: Daddy Warbucks at November 10, 2025 10:32 PM (XeU6L)

132

That's it?

Posted by: Just Sayin... at November 10, 2025 10:32 PM (rr191)

133 Ultraman could take care of that Japanese bear problem

Posted by: PA Dutchman at November 10, 2025 10:32 PM (31p00)

134 Good actor. Terrible Bond. Moore was played out, but when Brosnan showed up, it was like night and day.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 10, 2025 10:28 PM (ZOv7s)

Yeah, Roger Moore even said he was too old for the last one. Liked Brosnan until he became insufferable. Should have stayed Remington Steele.

I would have kept watching it just for Stephanie Zimbalist.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 10, 2025 10:32 PM (uQesX)

135 Or the Exorcist

You mother sews socks that smell !

Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 10:32 PM (EYmYM)

136 Goldeneye was fantastic. After that... eh.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 10, 2025 10:29 PM (zZu0s)
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Go rewatch "Tomorrow Never Dies." It's where we are today. Media guys making up news, creating events. The most prescient of all the Bond films.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 10, 2025 10:33 PM (ZOv7s)

137 I see the left went apeshit over 50 year mortgages. It’s like there isn’t anything magical about 30 years. It’s just a number. 20, 30, 50. It’s options. Different products for different people depending on their needs.

But because Trump said it, it must be the mostest worstest thing ever.

Oh what’s that? Other countries like Japan, UK, France and Sweden have them? And isn’t the left always telling us how much better those counties are than us?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 10, 2025 10:33 PM (lO7EU)

138 You made me look it up. They're called roller shutters.
So there.
Posted by: IrishEi

Ah, like hurricane shutters, so wind-borne debris won't break your windows, or asian yutes rioting.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 10, 2025 10:33 PM (/lPRQ)

139 Yeah, Roger Moore even said he was too old for the last one. Liked Brosnan until he became insufferable.

_-_

Hey, I'm insufferable, maybe I could...okay, probably not.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 10, 2025 10:33 PM (vd6bO)

140 Sydney Sweeny is but a shadow of peak Connelly.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 10, 2025

I think Sydney's pretty cute.

Dakota Johnson I don't get.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 10, 2025 10:33 PM (Sco7b)

141 Nobody was more courageous than us!
Posted by: Fags coming out. at November 10, 2025 10:29 PM (TfUTr)

Actually, the most courageous of us was Brian Williams.

Posted by: Brian Williams at November 10, 2025 10:34 PM (uQesX)

142 They're called roller shutters.

In Germany, they were called Rolladen. We had 'em in our windows. Totally dark inside with them pulled down. When we later lived in Florida, I thought they would be pretty helpful in heavy storms (less than hurricanes).

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 10, 2025 10:34 PM (47diA)

143 Yeah, Roger Moore even said he was too old for the last one. Liked Brosnan until he became insufferable. Should have stayed Remington Steele.

I would have kept watching it just for Stephanie Zimbalist.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 10, 2025 10:32 PM (uQesX)
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No. It jumped the shark hard. Same as "Moonlighting." You can only play the "will they/won't they?" game for so long, and having answered the question, the show is over.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 10, 2025 10:34 PM (ZOv7s)

144 Serious OCD to clean the outside of a blind you cannot see unless you climb out on a ledge.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Seems to me it is the responsibility of building management to clean the exterior of the building.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Maybe she owns the building?

Actually, she's inspecting the masonry. Window-washing is just her side gig.

Posted by: mikeski at November 10, 2025 10:35 PM (nhCoE)

145 They wanted Brosnan, but he could not get out of his contract with "Remington Steele." They had to wait. Mercifully, Doris Roberts killed the show.

Posted by: no one at November 10, 2025 10:35 PM (W7XSX)

146 I'm so blessed that my idea of diversity is the multiple bird species visiting the feeders.
________________________

Until the Blue Jays show up with their assault, hording, bullying and systemic racism.

Posted by: Orson at November 10, 2025 10:35 PM (dIske)

147 Trump is going the strong man route. I thought is was a mistake to oust Gaddafi and Hussein. After learning the true nature of the Muzzies fug em they deserve torture and rape rooms...
President Donald Trump hinted that Syria could possibly join several agreements, which include joining an anti-ISIS coalition and the Abraham Accords, after meeting with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Monday.

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at November 10, 2025 10:36 PM (VPPG8)

148 Dakota Johnson I don't get.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 10, 2025 10:33 PM (Sco7b)
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What part about nepotism don't you understand?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 10, 2025 10:36 PM (ZOv7s)

149 Back when I just started as a baby DA, the cops were doing prostitution stings. They would lure a ho to a hotel room wired for video and sound. Reviewing the tapes, I expected a French Connection style, "Freeze, m*th*rf*cker!" Instead, she comes in, strips down, and waves her money maker in the undercover's face. Then his partner wanders in chomping on a big hoagie in his face and says, "Alright. Get dressed. You're under arrest."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 10, 2025 10:36 PM (L/fGl)

150 81 You could offer me all the money in the world, it would not overcome my acrophobia for that...
Posted by: RandomDave

What if we tied a rope around your ankle in case you slipped? We could give you about 10 or 20 feet of slack.

I figure a bungee cord would just be mean.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 10, 2025 10:37 PM (aTimx)

151 I think I know the Queen of Overcoming Acrophobia, Elizabeth a former cleaning lady at work. She was unstoppable.

One day, while cleaning the IBM mainframe computer, her dusting cloth caught the Emergency Power Off switch. Brought down the entire hospital computer system.

You were the best, Elizabeth!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 10, 2025 10:37 PM (Ep3eI)

152 "Alright. Get dressed. You're under arrest."
_-_

"Sheisse Beruf."

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 10, 2025 10:37 PM (vd6bO)

153 Hey, I'm insufferable, maybe I could...okay, probably not.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 10, 2025 10:33 PM (vd6bO)

You seem ok to me!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 10, 2025 10:37 PM (uQesX)

154 Federal teat meme is great. Thanks for the ONT, MisHum.

Posted by: scampydog at November 10, 2025 10:37 PM (41CYW)

155 You made me look it up. They're called roller shutters.
So there.
Posted by: IrishEi
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Ah, like hurricane shutters, so wind-borne debris won't break your windows, or asian yutes rioting.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 10, 2025 10:33 PM (/lPRQ)

Hotel I stayed at in Buenos Aires had those roll shutters, as did most of the houses/buildings.

They make the room very dark at night, really good for sleeping, much better than any old curtain. There is some noise reduction as well.

Posted by: RickZ at November 10, 2025 10:37 PM (gKDq2)

156 111 108 Read a lede within this week that the Japanese government was sending military to the region to 'deal' with the increasing bear problem.
_-_
Is that codespeak for invading Russia?
Posted by: Don in SoCo
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Ha ! No, however: Sanae Takaich said that 'Japan stands with Taiwan' and if they are attacked Japan will defend them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 10, 2025 10:39 PM (5xURv)

157 No. It jumped the shark hard. Same as "Moonlighting." You can only play the "will they/won't they?" game for so long, and having answered the question, the show is over.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 10, 2025 10:34 PM (ZOv7s)

I wasn't interested in jumping sharks....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 10, 2025 10:39 PM (uQesX)

158 I would have kept watching it just for Stephanie Zimbalist.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 10, 2025 10:32 PM (uQesX)

I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 10, 2025 10:39 PM (2WIwB)

159 Wir Ordnung haben mussen!

Käse burger, pepsi!

Posted by: clarence at November 10, 2025 10:40 PM (0zmNP)

160 Mercifully, Doris Roberts killed the show.

Posted by: no one at November 10, 2025 10:35 PM (W7XSX)

She was in it from season two. So, four years of her. I didn't like her character, but her acting is ok. I guess.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 10, 2025 10:40 PM (uQesX)

161 We don't go to theaters for movies and wait to stumble onto them online. Because we think we'd possibly be considered lunatics as we both laugh at weird stuff. Especially if the movie is pretty bad to begin with.

Dante's Peak with Pierce Brosnan is the one we laughed at tonight. In the traumatic lava scenes, etc. It was retarded.

For starters we saw him after the Eurostar brought us back to London from Paris with our then HS sons in 1999. Pierce was not yet married to his wife, and had the two children with him. The youngest, a toddler son, was screaming his head off from a stroller and Pierce, 007 himself, was pushing the stroller, saying quietly, "shutupshutupshutup."

Baby mama, now wife, had gone to the front of the customs line and was overheard by all saying, "Do you know who he is?" The customs guy told her to go to the end of the line and most of us smirked. She had a huge carry cart of LV luggage.

Our youngest son was star struck and I asked him not to stare. He then got mad at me, saying, "This is the first famous person I have seen!,"but they were behind us like peasants and didn't hear.

Since then I think of Pierce being defeated by his toddler son when I see him.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 10, 2025 10:40 PM (MAl//)

162 Braenyard - The Japanese are really somethin' else. I was kinda disappointed to hear they were going for the mass immigration thing. Their culture seems worth saving.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 10, 2025 10:40 PM (vd6bO)

163 In America you can get 100% blackout roller shades that go on the inside of the window.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 10, 2025 10:40 PM (/lPRQ)

164 Ha ! No, however: Sanae Takaich said that 'Japan stands with Taiwan' and if they are attacked Japan will defend them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 10, 2025 10:39 PM (5xURv)
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I'm seeing reports that Japan's submarines are getting frisky with the Chicoms, stalking them Cold War-style and even surfacing within torpedo range to let them know they've been owned.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 10, 2025 10:40 PM (ZOv7s)

165 149 Back when I just started as a baby DA, the cops were doing prostitution stings. They would lure a ho to a hotel room wired for video and sound. Reviewing the tapes, I expected a French Connection style, "Freeze, m*th*rf*cker!" Instead, she comes in, strips down, and waves her money maker in the undercover's face. Then his partner wanders in chomping on a big hoagie in his face and says, "Alright. Get dressed. You're under arrest."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Sounds like a 'Barney Miller' episode. I read somewhere (probably here) that 'Barney Miller' was the most realistic cop show on TV and that was said by other cops.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 10, 2025 10:41 PM (sAmhv)

166 Ha ! No, however: Sanae Takaich said that 'Japan stands with Taiwan' and if they are attacked Japan will defend them.

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Those Japanese carriers have a tendency to take on a lot of water.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 10, 2025 10:41 PM (dyewR)

167 I am trying to think of a show that actually made the romance work after resolving it. Nope, every show plays will they won't they, then they do it, then they separate them again.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 10, 2025 10:41 PM (zZu0s)

168 (Consider this a warning in advance of the Holidays)

Hey...you all have to see this if you buy or gift those cookie tins at Christmas time. I saw this over at SmallDeadAnimals.com and I had to watch is a number of times to convince myself that it's real. It is. A lot of those "Danish Style" butter cookies are made in India. This is insane:

https://tinyurl.com/4tp3t2nz

I now have a new rule. Check the label. If it is a food product made in India. Put it back on the shelf and go wash your hands.

Posted by: Orson at November 10, 2025 10:42 PM (dIske)

169 159 Wir Ordnung haben mussen!

Käse burger, pepsi!

Lache laut aus!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 10, 2025 10:42 PM (vd6bO)

170 38 -- I really liked TG:M, too. My favorite scene is Mav wheeling that F-14 out of the hanger. That plane is just gorgeous with the wings not yet extended.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at November 10, 2025 10:43 PM (DK5Sh)

171 Chicom fishing boats are destroying ecosystems all up and down the Pacific coast of South America. Japan fucking up their shit will earn a lot of goodwill from Panama to Chile.
Maybe Trump should get in on the fun.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 10, 2025 10:44 PM (gKWVE)

172 Mystery click did not go to a land acknowledgement statement.
Posted by: 2009Refugee

I acknowledge that the land my house was built on was once owned by someone else. I own it now. Any questions?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at November 10, 2025 10:44 PM (djluG)

173 Those Japanese carriers have a tendency to take on a lot of water.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 10, 2025 10:41 PM (dyewR)
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They don't have carriers. Banned. They have "destroyers" that look like carriers but aren't.

Also, do joint exercises where Marine aircraft fly off of them.

There were photos of this during Trump's first term. Imagine an aircraft with MARINES painted on the side sitting on a flight deck while the Rising Sun is snapping in the breeze above.

That right there is nightmare fuel.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 10, 2025 10:44 PM (ZOv7s)

174 If I were china... I am pretty sure I would not fuck with Japan. You want those guys to start feeling their oats and rediscover real women and fighting?

Go ahead and attack them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 10, 2025 10:45 PM (zZu0s)

175 I am trying to think of a show that actually made the romance work after resolving it. Nope, every show plays will they won't they, then they do it, then they separate them again.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 10, 2025 10:41 PM (zZu0s)

Most shows are good for only five years. Make it to syndication and they've got it made. Then, cousin Oliver shows up.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 10, 2025 10:45 PM (uQesX)

176 TG:M

It's a sign - time to get back to the acronym soup.
What source provides the security requirements that make up the CMMC Level 1 practices?

A FAR Clause 52.204-21
B NIST SP 800-171 Rev 1
C DFARS Clause 252.204-7012
D NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 10, 2025 10:46 PM (vd6bO)

177 What in the holy hell is that woman doing washing windows like that?!?!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 10, 2025 10:07 PM (kB9dk)

Mom was the original white tornado (IYKYK), but dad would raise a 3rd floor window, back out into nothingness, grab the bottom of said window while I put a rag and a spray bottle in his free hand. He would then lower the window onto his legs and, spray bottle in one hand and rag in the other, proceed to clean said window. When he could no longer claim me as a dependent, he would send me out to clean said window..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 10, 2025 10:46 PM (nbLIj)

178 The sexual tension is great romantic comedy. Once that is over, the story is done.

Every comedy starts with a funeral and ends with a wedding.

Posted by: no one at November 10, 2025 10:46 PM (W7XSX)

179 I now have a new rule. Check the label. If it is a food product made in India. Put it back on the shelf and go wash your hands.
Posted by: Orson at November 10, 2025 10:42 PM (dIske)

Or China.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 10, 2025 10:46 PM (uQesX)

180 Speaking of carriers, has anyone heard anything about the newly-commissioned Chinese carrier Fujian? Rumor has it that it can't launch and recover planes at the same time due to design snafus.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 10, 2025 10:47 PM (dyewR)

181 Those Japanese carriers have a tendency to take on a lot of water.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Being able to read their mail helps immensely.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 10, 2025 10:48 PM (TfUTr)

182 Just finished watching Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans."
Nicholas Cage!
Val Kilmer!
Gator-Cam!
Iguana-Cam!

I liked it.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 10, 2025 10:48 PM (0vB2I)

183 Cheers managed to last about 10 seasons. The will they won't they was the central question of the first 2 seasons.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 10, 2025 10:48 PM (R86kT)

184 176 TG:M

It's a sign - time to get back to the acronym soup.
What source provides the security requirements that make up the CMMC Level 1 practices?

A FAR Clause 52.204-21
B NIST SP 800-171 Rev 1
C DFARS Clause 252.204-7012
D NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5
Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 10, 2025 10:46 PM (vd6bO)

***

Ooo! Ooo!!
I know! I know!
*waves hand frantically*

Posted by: Diogenes at November 10, 2025 10:49 PM (2WIwB)

185 Several series ended with a wedding. I Dream of Jeannie and Get Smart, for starters.

Posted by: Forever Hold Your Peas at November 10, 2025 10:49 PM (oftw2)

186 Most shows are only good the first year. Then the good writers want more pay an the producers balk. Then they bring in the crap.

"Mad About you"
etc, etc.

Posted by: no one at November 10, 2025 10:49 PM (W7XSX)

187 What? No "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" for the mystery click?

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 10, 2025 10:50 PM (vwL3N)

188 Peirce Brosnan costarred with Rene Russo in the remake of The Thomas Crown affair. Good movie. One time in the oldie isle of a Block Buster I came across the original version from 1968 staring Steve McQueen with Faye Dunaway. Yeah McQueen was more of a Great Escape type guy IMO. Brosnan was entertaining...But McQueen was a very cool dude. His story reads like a movie. McQueen's son Chad looked passed last year...
RIP Chad McQueen
https://tinyurl.com/ycyc7xju

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at November 10, 2025 10:51 PM (VPPG8)

189 27 As much as I loved Top Gun Maverick I couldn't ignore the intentional diversity casting. They weren't the first though. An Officer and a Gentleman did it first.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 10:08 PM (EYmYM)

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True. But, when the film came out in 1982, it reflected the fact that the Academies already admitted women. Jim Webb, (later Sec. of Navy) wrote a controversial article in in 1979: "Women Can't Fight".

https://tinyurl.com/3npr7uzz

He was also a combat veteran and graduate of the Naval Academy.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 10, 2025 10:51 PM (Ep3eI)

190 Cheers managed to last about 10 seasons. The will they won't they was the central question of the first 2 seasons.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson

I liked the way they wrote shelly long out of it.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 10, 2025 10:51 PM (TfUTr)

191 186 Most shows are only good the first year. Then the good writers want more pay an the producers balk. Then they bring in the crap.

"Mad About you"
etc, etc.
Posted by: no one at November 10, 2025 10:49 PM (W7XSX)

Space: MCMXCIX had only one season. NEVER SHALL THERE BE A SECOND.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 10, 2025 10:51 PM (vwL3N)

192 "Pride and Prejudice" is the first romantic comedy. Boy meets girl. Girl hates boy....

Posted by: no one at November 10, 2025 10:52 PM (W7XSX)

193 Line from Elmer Gantry'

Lulu Bains:
"Oh, he gave me special instructions back of the pulpit Christmas Eve. He got to howlin' "Repent! Repent!" and I got to moanin' "Save me! Save me!" and the first thing I know he rammed the fear of God into me so fast I never heard my old man's footsteps!"

Odd how one remembers such things

Posted by: javems at November 10, 2025 10:52 PM (8I4hW)

194 I now have a new rule. Check the label. If it is a food product made in India. Put it back on the shelf and go wash your hands.
Posted by: Orson

Or China.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

How does washing your china help?

Posted by: mikeski at November 10, 2025 10:52 PM (nhCoE)

195 180 Speaking of carriers, has anyone heard anything about the newly-commissioned Chinese carrier Fujian? Rumor has it that it can't launch and recover planes at the same time due to design snafus.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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Elevator miss-located.
Much like Arab high rise with no toilets.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 10, 2025 10:52 PM (5xURv)

196 Usually Star Trek seasons were bad in their first season and got better though.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 10, 2025 10:52 PM (gKWVE)

197 Sounds like a 'Barney Miller' episode. I read somewhere (probably here) that 'Barney Miller' was the most realistic cop show on TV and that was said by other cops.
Posted by: Puddleglum

Hard to accept that Abe Vigoda was only 53 on Barney Miller's first season.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2025 10:52 PM (cYBz/)

198 Young Savick was peak Savick.

Posted by: no one at November 10, 2025 10:53 PM (W7XSX)

199 27 As much as I loved Top Gun Maverick I couldn't ignore the intentional diversity casting. They weren't the first though. An Officer and a Gentleman did it first.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 10:08 PM (EYmYM)

That had a more natural fit, in that they weren't trying to smack you over the head with it every 10-15 seconds like other movies and TV shows. IMHO, they approached Top Gun Maverick with the attitude of STORY FIRST. Which is all I ask.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 10, 2025 10:53 PM (vwL3N)

200 My late MIL would probably clean a window like that. She was very OCD and lived without a speck of dust motes in the air, or a crumb on a counter. Just another reason to be horrified that her son picked me to marry.
When they came to visit in FL our sons remember me being a psycho lunatic to try to get our house clean. She always found something, even when I was feeling pretty good about it. Once, doing the dishes with me, she was helpful in telling me I needed to wrap yarn around a coathanger to clean the coils under the fridge. Which meant she was, at some point that visit, on her hands and knees looking under our fridge. My co-workers loved these horror stories when I'd tell them of her.

She and her spinster daughter would scrub walls twice a year as if they lived in London during coal fires. Plus wash the drapes twice a year. I do neither, by the way.

When she died my husband, on our realtor friend's advice, had to put charcoal in her immaculate condo. It reeked of cleaning solutions and moth balls. Seriously toxic levels (we had to air out our coats and sweaters after visits). We are pretty sure this explains a lot about the two of them.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 10, 2025 10:54 PM (MAl//)

201 Jim Webb, (later Sec. of Navy) wrote a controversial article in in 1979: "Women Can't Fight".

https://tinyurl.com/3npr7uzz

He was also a combat veteran and graduate of the Naval Academy.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 10, 2025 10:51 PM (Ep3eI)

Lucky he never met my clerk typist. In Desert Storm she was 5'4", 110 lbs, with 200 rounds and an attitude.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 10, 2025 10:54 PM (2WIwB)

202 Lache laut aus!

Vielen Dank. Vielen Dank, vert much
/nicht Elvis

Posted by: clarence at November 10, 2025 10:55 PM (0zmNP)

203 I guess the window washer lady has never heard of my
Clean-O Matic magnetic window washing system.

-Zombie Ron Propeil

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at November 10, 2025 10:55 PM (VPPG8)

204 Good even', y'all. Howdy, MisHum. Your usual hearty ONT, Thanky.

Before I get caught up on ~150 comments, a weather report. Two days ago, our high temperature was near 70. Then that wintry blast rolled in, bringing us down to the 20s last night. High only in the low 40s today, 20s again tonight.

We prepared as needed. Plants in from the front porch. Hoses drained, spigots covered. Thick hay mulch over the flower and herb gardens. Trying to remember how to dress for the cold. Been three decades since those long wintery months we suffered through in Chicago. (Heard they're having snow up there.)

But come Friday it'll be up in the 70s again, almost 80, with gusty winds out of the South, probably a couple of days of rain, but certainly not snow. Oklahoma in November. It was of this hyar Sooner State that Will Rogers quipped, if you don't like the weather, wait a minute.

I can't complain.

On with the show.

Posted by: mindful webworker - warmly at November 10, 2025 10:55 PM (3ynhY)

205 Good night MisHum & the gray box people.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 10, 2025 10:56 PM (nrpZ6)

206 a stray kitten has just showed up. She has a collar and a bell and still smells like laundry, so she will be missed. Still very hungry.
I will have to take her around the neighborhood tomorrow to see who claims her.
Meanwhile my new cat is as wary of her as she is of him.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 10, 2025 10:56 PM (rbvCR)

207 I liked the way they wrote shelly long out of it.
Posted by: Some Rat
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Less Shelly Long is always a win.

Posted by: scampydog at November 10, 2025 10:57 PM (41CYW)

208 Will they won't they? "Castle." I quit watching before the mandatory "Amnesia" episode. I think it was cancelled before they got to the "Time Travel/Alternate Universe" stage.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 10, 2025 10:57 PM (0vB2I)

209 Just read your "rumor" about the Chinese carrier to Ratboy, was Edumikated about Xi mandated an electro-magnetic launcher (on the steam-turbine carrier.)

Posted by: Steck at November 10, 2025 10:57 PM (LlRQB)

210 I liked the way they wrote shelly long out of it.
Posted by: Some Rat
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Less Shelly Long is always a win.
Posted by: scampydog at November 10, 2025 10:57 PM (41CYW)

*=*

What scampydog said.
She was annoying as hell.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 10, 2025 10:58 PM (2WIwB)

211 Did Shelly Long get as fat as Kirstie Alley?

Posted by: no one at November 10, 2025 10:59 PM (W7XSX)

212 #206

Even with the snow, stray cat Sierra is not into the backyard shelter and wary of coming inside. Because Bravo and Charlie are not exactly welcoming.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 11:01 PM (vKEG1)

213 What scampydog said.
She was annoying as hell.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 10, 2025 10:58 PM (2WIwB)

Shelly Long was the perfect annoying Olive Oyl in a forgettable movie.

Posted by: RickZ at November 10, 2025 11:01 PM (gKDq2)

214 D'j'ever have a chunk of earwax just spontaneously roll out of your ear? You know it's a big one when you feel it bounce off your lap, and hear it go 'clunk' when it hits the floor. Life of a geezer.

Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 11:01 PM (7imtn)

215 How does washing your china help?
Posted by: mikeski at November 10, 2025 10:52 PM (nhCoE)

You ever drink out of a dirty toilet? Ugh.

Posted by: The Dog at November 10, 2025 11:01 PM (uQesX)

216 Maybe Trump should get in on the fun.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 10, 2025 10:44 PM (gKWVE)

1000 bucks says Trump does a head fake and retakes the Panama Canal as well as bitch slapping the Maduro regime.

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at November 10, 2025 11:01 PM (VPPG8)

217 What scampydog said.
She was annoying as hell.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 10, 2025 10:58 PM (2WIwB)

Well. Now she's homeless or missing teeth or something. So I hope you both are happy.

Or I have her mixed up with someone else...which is possible. Especially based on the fact that just today, here, I got Toobin mixed up with Stelter.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 10, 2025 11:01 PM (MAl//)

218 I was a little bummed that Solar Opposites ended but also relieved that they went out before they wore out.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 11:02 PM (vKEG1)

219 I was just on the edge of noticing the government shutdown. Still waiting on an income tax refund.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 10, 2025 11:02 PM (jc0TO)

220 209 Just read your "rumor" about the Chinese carrier to Ratboy, was Edumikated about Xi mandated an electro-magnetic launcher (on the steam-turbine carrier.)

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Yep. Politics trumped engineering. The Chicoms had to have electromagnetic catapults because the Americans did. Only problem is, the Americans have nuclear powered carriers. The Chinese have steam turbines.

There has been a lot of speculation about what happens to the electrical systems onboard when those EMCs start cycling.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 10, 2025 11:03 PM (dyewR)

221 M I S
H U M
O N T
G!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 10, 2025 11:03 PM (ULPxl)

222 Shelly Long was the perfect annoying Olive Oyl in a forgettable movie.
Posted by: RickZ

Perhaps Shelly Duval? (sp) or is there another Popeye movie I'm unaware of?

Posted by: Some Rat at November 10, 2025 11:03 PM (TfUTr)

223 1/4

Latest Attempt at Nuking Tracfone Moto g pure XT2163DL Android Malware 251110

GOALS: Kill MyHub malware app; Detach as much as possible from Google; Stop unwanted apps from installing themselves.

PROCEDURE: On a separate PC, I deleted ALL files from my Google Drive, in a best-effort attempt to delete any files that Drive might sync with the Android phone when it boots. But who can guess what other, non-Drive, resyncing persistent stores those a-holes have on their servers?

I went to motorola.com, (which now has a partner previously unknown to me, Lenovo,) and used their Win PC tool (“Software Fix,” a really stupid name for “Motorola Android Phone Firmware Reflash,” but whatever,) and their original factory firmware file, and a USB cable, to reflash it.

Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 11:04 PM (7imtn)

224 Good night MisHum & the gray box people.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 10, 2025 10:56 PM (nrpZ6)

Darn it!

Posted by: Puts dow espresso at November 10, 2025 11:04 PM (uQesX)

225 Really liked The Big Bang Theory in season one; it was such a unique set of characters with strange quirks. Except for Penny.

But eventually, they all got girlfriends and wives.

And in real life, the actors became millionaires.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 10, 2025 11:04 PM (Ep3eI)

226 2/4

After the reflash, I went through all the initial setup steps, being very careful not to put my Google Login credentials in, and declining ALL prompts to “restore my data and/or apps.” Apparently, there is a mandatory “Accept” for a couple of “Google Services” which operate (presumably) without a Google Login; there was NO visible option to “Decline” or “Skip” that sh!t. (The a-holes can identify that it’s MY phone by its IMEI, at the very least.)

I note that the phone asked for my old PIN in here somewhere, even though the reflash was supposed to be, you know, a farging REAL reflash that was supposed to nuke ALL my old credentials and data.

After several broken promises that my “Phone is All Setup Now” (cycling through a couple repetitions of prior ‘Hell NO’ steps,) I went to Settings|Apps and immediately began uninstalling the sh!t apps that allow themselves to be uninstalled, and “disabling” the sh!t apps that won’t allow uninstall but do allow “Disable,” as if anybody believes they are really disabled.

Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 11:05 PM (7imtn)

227 Well. Now she's homeless or missing teeth or something. So I hope you both are happy.

Or I have her mixed up with someone else...which is possible. Especially based on the fact that just today, here, I got Toobin mixed up with Stelter.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

I think she was on a couple episodes of Modern Family.
But I'm probably wrong...

Posted by: Some Rat at November 10, 2025 11:05 PM (TfUTr)

228 222 Shelly Long was the perfect annoying Olive Oyl in a forgettable movie.
Posted by: RickZ

Perhaps Shelly Duval? (sp) or is there another Popeye movie I'm unaware of?
Posted by: Some Rat at November 10, 2025 11:03 PM (TfUTr)

No, Shelly Duval, who also became homeless and missing teeth.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 10, 2025 11:05 PM (MAl//)

229 3/4

Sure enough, there was farging MyHub (malware IMHO) again, not uninstallable, but “disableable,” which does jacksh!t IMHO. Sure enough, sh!t apps installed themselves as fast as I could uninstall them: TikTok, Temu, Pinterest, a sh!t-ton of sh!t games, etc.

After one session of this, when the apps seemed to stop installing themselves, I smooth-powered off the phone. Then I turned it back on, and let it idle for a while, to see what happens next.

Now more “Notifications.” ‘Mobile Services Manager’ now claims the blame for installing all the sh!t apps, except for MyHub (it has also now installed “GamesHub.”. In Settings|Apps, it mysteriously calls itself “Games” instead of “GamesHub,” and cannot be uninstalled, only “disabled.” Happy Happy Joy Joy.)

Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 11:05 PM (7imtn)

230 4/4

At this point, I have 47 apps. I went into Settings|Display to change the ridiculously short default screen timeout from 30 secs to 30 mins. I will do no other work or installs for awhile.

My next step after ‘awhile’ is to look in Settings for any other system updates that it might want to apply.

Then after a decent interval, I shall install a GPS compass app I really DO need for my radio-direction-finding setup. It comes from the Google Play Store app, of course, which I have been promised I can use without a Google Login; we shall see.

PS: I did not setup any Tracfone stuff. I do not use this thing as a phone at all, just as a portable computer.

Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 11:05 PM (7imtn)

231 No, Shelly Duval, who also became homeless and missing teeth.

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Naw, that was Margot Kidder.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 10, 2025 11:06 PM (dyewR)

232 Shelly Long was the perfect annoying Olive Oyl in a forgettable movie.
Posted by: RickZ at November 10, 2025 11:01 PM (gKDq2)

I think that was Shelley Duvall.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 10, 2025 11:06 PM (utsBX)

233 146 I'm so blessed that my idea of diversity is the multiple bird species visiting the feeders.
________________________

Until the Blue Jays show up with their assault, hording, bullying and systemic racism.
Posted by: Orson
Wait til a hawk shows up near your feeder. They're not there for the seed.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 10, 2025 11:06 PM (0Htd1)

234 "The Money Pit" is hilarious.

I also liked Shelly Long in the first remake of "Freaky Friday."

Posted by: no one at November 10, 2025 11:06 PM (W7XSX)

235 sacred cows make the best burgers!

Posted by: kelly at November 10, 2025 11:06 PM (XRaX7)

236 Perhaps Shelly Duval? (sp) or is there another Popeye movie I'm unaware of?
Posted by: Some Rat

Yeah, Gene Hackman in The French Connection (I and II)

Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2025 11:06 PM (cYBz/)

237 Shelley Long was cute, and never bothered me any.

Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 11:08 PM (7imtn)

238 Yeah. Both of which were crap.

Posted by: no one at November 10, 2025 11:08 PM (W7XSX)

239 >>> 233 146 I'm so blessed that my idea of diversity is the multiple bird species visiting the feeders.
________________________

Until the Blue Jays show up with their assault, hording, bullying and systemic racism.
Posted by: Orson
Wait til a hawk shows up near your feeder. They're not there for the seed.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 10, 2025 11:06 PM (0Htd1)

It's a bird feeder, we're birds.

Posted by: hawks at November 10, 2025 11:09 PM (ULPxl)

240 Yeah, Gene Hackman in The French Connection (I and II)
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My dad took me to see that when I was 7 years old. Thanks, dad!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2025 11:09 PM (A0sqA)

241 Shelly Long was the perfect annoying Olive Oyl in a forgettable movie.
Posted by: RickZ
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Perhaps Shelly Duval? (sp) or is there another Popeye movie I'm unaware of?
Posted by: Some Rat at November 10, 2025 11:03 PM (TfUTr)

I'll just be an old fart here in the back of the room.

Posted by: RickZ at November 10, 2025 11:10 PM (gKDq2)

242 Perhaps Shelly Duval? (sp) or is there another Popeye movie I'm unaware of?

Posted by: Some Rat at November 10, 2025 11:03 PM (TfUTr)

Shelley Duvall:

https://tinyurl.com/mssrwujn

Posted by: javems at November 10, 2025 11:10 PM (8I4hW)

243 231 No, Shelly Duval, who also became homeless and missing teeth.

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Naw, that was Margot Kidder.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 10, 2025 11:06 PM (dyewR)

LOL! They could all be homeless and missing teeth for all I know.

I did once think I read that Judge Judy died and convinced my parents of this for a month or so until my father called me to tell me she was alive. I'm ver convincing.

It is the point of the ONT where I have to scroll down to see the latest comments vs having a weird add. I don't understand the magic of this blog when that happens.

The bathroom has been heating up for my shower so I take that as goodnight and have a pleasant tomorrow!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 10, 2025 11:10 PM (MAl//)

244 Yeah, Gene Hackman in The French Connection (I and II)
Posted by: Tonypete

Nods at Tonypete. Well played.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 10, 2025 11:11 PM (TfUTr)

245 Did anyone notice that in the remake of "The Parent Trap' the actress that played the golddigger in the original played the mother of the golddigger in the remake?

I was amused.

Posted by: no one at November 10, 2025 11:11 PM (W7XSX)

246 Shelly Long was well cast in Outrageous Fortune.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 10, 2025 11:11 PM (ULPxl)

247 Shelley Winters rocked The Poseidon Adventure.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 10, 2025 11:11 PM (dyewR)

248 Shelly Long's best performance was for Homemakers.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 10, 2025 11:12 PM (R86kT)

249 It makes me nearly get hives to not be able to edit my own spelling here. I am not as stupid as I seem most of the time.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 10, 2025 11:13 PM (MAl//)

250 247 Shelley Winters rocked The Poseidon Adventure.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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At that time in her life she could rock the boat.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 10, 2025 11:13 PM (5xURv)

251 Conservation biologists' views on diversity:

Abundance of many native species: Good!
Abundance of many non-native species: Bad!

Applies to all biological communities, except, of course, humankind. With people, the rules are reversed.

Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 11:13 PM (7imtn)

252 Shelley Winters rocked The Poseidon Adventure.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 10, 2025 11:11 PM (dyewR)
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Literally. She was a big girl.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2025 11:13 PM (A0sqA)

253 I too am much smarter than everyone thinks I am.

I am above average. I am pretty sure I am.

Posted by: no one at November 10, 2025 11:14 PM (W7XSX)

254 The woman cleaning the window way, way up on a building: looking closer at the image the panels that she’s cleaning make the thing she’s cleaning look like a door. It’s a little hard to tell, but I think she is cleaning a door. What’s a door doing way up on the side of a building? Well, it wouldn’t be: a door would be at ground level. I suspect photo manipulation. If the woman is cleaning a door at ground level, it explains why she is so nonchalant about doing it this way!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 10, 2025 11:15 PM (0M7jv)

255 Did she capsize the ship by moving to the leeward side during a storm?

Posted by: no one at November 10, 2025 11:15 PM (W7XSX)

256 I am not as stupid as I seem most of the time.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

I'm dumber than I appear most of the time.

The Universe is still in balance.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2025 11:16 PM (cYBz/)

257 Shelley Winters rocked The Poseidon Adventure.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 10, 2025 11:11 PM (dyewR)
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Literally. She was a big girl.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2025 11:13 PM (A0sqA)

She wasn't that big in Winchester '73.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 10, 2025 11:16 PM (uQesX)

258 She wasn't that big in Winchester '73.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 10, 2025 11:16 PM (uQesX)

Until she ate all her co-stars.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 10, 2025 11:16 PM (npFr7)

259 .
https://tinyurl.com/4tp3t2nz

I now have a new rule. Check the label. If it is a food product made in India. Put it back on the shelf and go wash your hands.
Posted by: Orson at November 10, 2025 10:42 PM (dIske)

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Did you see this explanatory comment?
"Come on all you white supremacists! Those cookies will be BAKED at temperatures that will kill most e-coli bacteria."

Sure. "kill MOST e-coli..

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 10, 2025 11:16 PM (Ep3eI)

260 Sure. "kill MOST e-coli..
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 10, 2025 11:16 PM (Ep3eI)

It's the ones that don't get killed that are the most worrisome.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 10, 2025 11:18 PM (npFr7)

261 Did you see this explanatory comment?
"Come on all you white supremacists! Those cookies will be BAKED at temperatures that will kill most e-coli bacteria."

Sure. "kill MOST e-coli..

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Guaranteed that only the hardiest survived.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 10, 2025 11:19 PM (dyewR)

262 Did you see this explanatory comment?
"Come on all you white supremacists! Those cookies will be BAKED at temperatures that will kill most e-coli bacteria."

Sure. "kill MOST e-coli..
Posted by: JM in Illinois

Only the weak ones!

Posted by: an e. coli bacterium, flexing at November 10, 2025 11:19 PM (nhCoE)

263 I gather that there's a lot of lead in some Indian spices.

Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 11:20 PM (7imtn)

264 In other news:

"Pine Gate Renewables files for Chapter 11, set to sell solar and energy storage fleet"

"Solar power generator Pine Gate Renewables has filed for bankruptcy, the largest renewables developer to collapse in the aftermath of US President Donald Trump’s cuts to solar and wind tax credits."

In other words, it never was a viable busiiness.

Posted by: Daddy Warbucks at November 10, 2025 11:21 PM (XeU6L)

265 Wings ,NewsRadio , Rules of Engagement and Scrubs all ended before I wanted them to . I think they had a few seasons left in them.

Scrubs had more because they changed it up and had change locations and brought in a new cast to be medical students. It lasted only one season but I thought it was really good.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 11:21 PM (EYmYM)

266 Oops

/Warbucks

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 10, 2025 11:21 PM (XeU6L)

267 Thank you Morons who served the US.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 10, 2025 11:22 PM (CHHv1)

268 For gp:

"For advanced users, the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) provides a command-line solution to uninstall apps from a PC. First, enable USB Debugging in Developer Options on your Android device and install ADB on your computer. Connect your device via USB, verify the connection using the adb devices command, and then use the adb uninstall package_name command to remove the app.
This method can also be used to remove system apps if the device is rooted, though caution is advised to avoid disrupting essential system functions."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 10, 2025 11:23 PM (npFr7)

269 "In other words, it never was a viable busiiness."

Too many American companies and sectors are propped up solely by govt subsidies, carve-outs, kickbacks, tax trickery, and other market-distorting perverse incentives.

Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 11:24 PM (7imtn)

270 Shelly Long's best movie was Night Shift.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 11:24 PM (EYmYM)

271 Did you see this explanatory comment?
"Come on all you white supremacists! Those cookies will be BAKED at temperatures that will kill most e-coli bacteria."

Sure. "kill MOST e-coli..
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 10, 2025 11:16 PM (Ep3eI)
_____________________

In that one video (which is about a minute long at most) I saw cigarette ashes go in the flour, bare feet in the dough, a rodent (mouse) run across the rolling table, unclean water added to the mixture, no gloves on "bakers", sweaty guy carrying dough against his chest... I looked up the video and it was taken by an Indian guy who had similar questions about hygiene. I found the company name and they use a US importer that was just purchased by a Canadian company in Quebec. But, I guarantee those cookies are sitting in shelves in the US somewhere.

Posted by: Orson at November 10, 2025 11:24 PM (dIske)

272 268 Yes, I've got ADB installed and will be exploring it soon

Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 11:24 PM (7imtn)

273 Fleet:

noun
A number of warships operating together under one command.
A group of vessels or vehicles, such as taxicabs or fishing boats, owned or operated as a unit.

adjective
Moving swiftly and nimbly. synonym: fast.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 10, 2025 11:26 PM (5xURv)

274 ,201 Jim Webb, (later Sec. of Navy) wrote a controversial article in in 1979: "Women Can't Fight".

https://tinyurl.com/3npr7uzz

He was also a combat veteran and graduate of the Naval Academy.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 10, 2025 10:51 PM (Ep3eI)

Lucky he never met my clerk typist. In Desert Storm she was 5'4", 110 lbs, with 200 rounds and an attitude.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 10, 2025 10:54 PM (2WIwB)

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Hats off to the hard-core clerk, but here's the opener in Webb's article:
"We would go months without bathing, except when we could stand naked among each other next to a village well or in a stream or in the muddy water of a bomb crater. It was nothing to begin walking at midnight, laden with packs and weapons and ammunition and supplies, seventy pounds or more of gear, and still be walking when the sun broke over mud-slick paddies..."

Vietnam Vet

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 10, 2025 11:26 PM (Ep3eI)

275 Elmer Gantry: Well, on rewatch, I like it enough to read the novel. Lancaster is Bottled Lightning in this one

Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 11:27 PM (7imtn)

276 We definitely take our food safety for granted but I've notice a lot more recalls this past decade that seem to be caused by lack of inspection. The latest is a huge recall of pre-cook pasta and all the different products it was used in. Two people have died so far.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 11:29 PM (EYmYM)

277 273 Fleet:

noun
A number of warships operating together under one command.
A group of vessels or vehicles, such as taxicabs or fishing boats, owned or operated as a unit.

adjective
Moving swiftly and nimbly. synonym: fast.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 10, 2025 11:26 PM (5xURv)
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Fleet-wood:
1. A small town in Pennsylvania
2. A model of Cadillac
3. Someone who really, really really likes to see a number of warships operating together.

Posted by: Orson at November 10, 2025 11:29 PM (dIske)

278 BIG BREAKING:
RFK's MAHA finds the Cure for Karens

When prescribed responsibly—and started early—hormone replacement therapy transforms the lives of women.

It has been found to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality by as much as 50%, Alzheimer’s disease by 35%, bone fractures by 50–60%, as well as reducing cognitive decline and all-cause mortality. In other words, extending lives by as much as ten years.

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at November 10, 2025 11:31 PM (VPPG8)

279 Shelly Duvall always produced a feeling of instant revulsion in me. I was heartily rooting for Jack Nicholson in "The Shining."

Posted by: PabloD at November 10, 2025 11:31 PM (HqfBN)

280 265 Wings ,NewsRadio , Rules of Engagement and Scrubs all ended before I wanted them to . I think they had a few seasons left in them.
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Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 11:21 PM (EYmYM)

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Ever since seeing Stephen Root in Newsradio, I've tried to watch everything he's ever done. Love that actor!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 10, 2025 11:33 PM (Ep3eI)

281 208 Will they won't they? "Castle." I quit watching before the mandatory "Amnesia" episode. I think it was cancelled before they got to the "Time Travel/Alternate Universe" stage.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 10, 2025 10:57 PM (0vB2I)

This.

Fun while it lasted (to a point).

Stana Katic was just so bloody hot…

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 10, 2025 11:33 PM (vwL3N)

282 I've done dumb hi wire stuff back when I had perfect balance.
Nope , im careful on stairs now. Had trouble with an escalator...couldn't will myself to go down but no trouble to go up.

Posted by: torabora at November 10, 2025 11:34 PM (7xKra)

283 Great ONT. MisHum!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 10, 2025 11:36 PM (Ep3eI)

284 Fleet-wood:
1. A small town in Pennsylvania
2. A model of Cadillac
3. Someone who really, really really likes to see a number of warships operating together.
Posted by: Orson

*ahem, clears throat*

The Cadillac "Fleetwood" name originates from the Fleetwood Metal Body Company, a prestigious coachbuilding firm founded in 1909 right in Fleetwood, PA (Berks County). This company produced high-end custom metal and wood automobile bodies for luxury chassis from brands like Packard (their largest client), Cadillac, Lincoln, Duesenberg, Rolls-Royce, and others.

So there!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2025 11:36 PM (cYBz/)

285 The new Top Gun was good. Old style action movie with cool visuals.The start tho..why would the best pilot ever fly the plane fast enough to meet the requirement and keep the program alive..then decide to go way past the design limit and ignore all the warnings til the plane comes apart? Just to get the shot where he walks in the rural diner?

Posted by: Azjaeger at November 10, 2025 11:37 PM (3/XaG)

286 "Nope , im careful on stairs now."

Had a good friend fall on stairs Saturday night, went to ER. Gravity is the enemy of geezers like him and me.

Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 11:37 PM (7imtn)

287 Ever since seeing Stephen Root in Newsradio, I've tried to watch everything he's ever done. Love that actor!
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 10, 2025 11:33 PM (Ep3eI)
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I didn't realize that was him playing Milton in "Office Space" until I watched the movie a second time.

Posted by: Orson at November 10, 2025 11:37 PM (dIske)

288 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 10, 2025 11:13 PM (MAl//)

You never seem stupid.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 10, 2025 11:37 PM (ELdpA)

289 The Office , Seinfeld, How I Met Your Mother and Two and Half men all went two or more seasons than they should have.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 11:38 PM (EYmYM)

290 *ahem, clears throat*

The Cadillac "Fleetwood" name originates from the Fleetwood Metal Body Company, a prestigious coachbuilding firm founded in 1909 right in Fleetwood, PA (Berks County). This company produced high-end custom metal and wood automobile bodies for luxury chassis from brands like Packard (their largest client), Cadillac, Lincoln, Duesenberg, Rolls-Royce, and others.

So there!
Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2025 11:36 PM (cYBz/)
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Fantastic...but I was just going for the Fleet WOOD joke. But, I feel enriched.

Posted by: Orson at November 10, 2025 11:38 PM (dIske)

291 Fleet-wood:
1. A small town in Pennsylvania
2. A model of Cadillac
3. Someone who really, really really likes to see a number of warships operating together.
Posted by: Orson

4. Olympia, WA pop band from the late 1950s - early 1960s.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at November 10, 2025 11:39 PM (fex38)

292 I make a point to not post anything here until the 3-glass doctrine is achieved.

The glasses must contain a palatable red wine of course.

But you all knew that.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 10, 2025 11:40 PM (25kuG)

293 I suspect photo manipulation. If the woman is cleaning a door at ground level, it explains why she is so nonchalant about doing it this way!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 10, 2025 11:15 PM (0M7jv)

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The plot thickens...

https://tinyurl.com/3y92k8ad

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 10, 2025 11:40 PM (JkO4W)

294 I guess the Fleetwood bodies never had any fissures.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 10, 2025 11:40 PM (npFr7)

295 Had a good friend fall on stairs Saturday night, went to ER. Gravity is the enemy of geezers like him and me.
Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 11:37 PM (7imtn)

That was Ace Frehley's cause of death . Blunt trauma from a fall.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 11:41 PM (EYmYM)

296

Have you ever heard these "get out of your timeshare contract now" radio ads?

I recently heard a "get out of your solar contract now" ad for people who aren't gettting a good return on their solar installation.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 10, 2025 11:41 PM (pkeXY)

297 Babbitt and Zenith. Now I get it! Elmer Gantry is another story in the same time and place and with the same dramatis personae as "Babbitt," which I've read. I got through that whole book, and came out wondering why Babbitt was such a Bad Guy in Sinclair Lewis' eyes. Message was too subtle for me I guess.

Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 11:41 PM (7imtn)

298 "That was Ace Frehley's cause of death . Blunt trauma from a fall."

IDNKT. RIP. I want to rock and roll all night and party all day!

Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 11:43 PM (7imtn)

299 "Two and a Half Men", the show that answered the question, "What would happen if you give a known drug addict a ludicrous amount of money?"

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 10, 2025 11:43 PM (utsBX)

300 233:Wait til a hawk shows up near your feeder. They're not there for the seed.
Posted by: nerdygirl
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I watch several species of birds gang up on a hawk that got a bit too close to some nests. Not sure I had ever seen blue jays and cardinals work together, but there they were, attacking that hawk.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 10, 2025 11:44 PM (sAmhv)

301 I guess the Fleetwood bodies never had any fissures.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 10, 2025 11:40 PM (npFr7)

ISWYDT

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 10, 2025 11:46 PM (utsBX)

302 Either she is careless about her life, or it’s some sort of photo manipulation.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 10, 2025 11:46 PM (0M7jv)

303 295

I find myself being "extra cognitive" of my foot placement while in my morning shower with soap suds flowing all over the tub.

Not a young man anymore and well aware of what a hip fracture can mean to mobility (30 years Nursing)

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 10, 2025 11:47 PM (25kuG)

304 wondering why Babbitt was such a Bad Guy in Sinclair Lewis' eyes. Message was too subtle for me I guess.
Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 11:41 PM (7imtn)

Sinclair Lewis was a Socialist. He was like George Orwell who was critical of Communism but never realized Socialism was just a step to eventual Communism.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 11:47 PM (EYmYM)

305 The plot thickens...

https://tinyurl.com/3y92k8ad
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 10, 2025 11:40 PM (JkO4W)

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It's getting so confusing that, if I see my own picture, I'm wondering, "Is it real?"

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 10, 2025 11:47 PM (Ep3eI)

306 The Office , Seinfeld, How I Met Your Mother and Two and Half men all went two or more seasons than they should have.
Posted by: the way I see it

But the last two years of Two and Half Men was glorious in watching charlie sheen destruct in real time!

Posted by: Some Rat at November 10, 2025 11:48 PM (TfUTr)

307 304 Concur.

Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 11:49 PM (7imtn)

308 Later James Webb would go on to letting women pound him in the a55 with a big giant strap-on. Not a sight you want to see.

Posted by: torabora at November 10, 2025 11:50 PM (7xKra)

309 "Two and a Half Men"

We've got a local broadcast DTV channel that shows "Two and a Half Men" 24/7. There's a similar channel for "The Rifleman." It's pretty bleak on DTV. Slim pickins for content.

Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 11:51 PM (7imtn)

310 But the last two years of Two and Half Men was glorious in watching charlie sheen destruct in real time!
Posted by: Some Rat at November 10, 2025 11:48 PM (TfUT

They went for 3 or 4 more seasons after Sheen who was replaced by Ashton Kutcher. The writing was terrible.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 11:51 PM (EYmYM)

311 Two and a Half Men", the show that answered the question, "What would happen if you give a known drug addict a ludicrous amount of money?"
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 10, 2025 11:43 PM
****
This is about me, isn't it.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at November 10, 2025 11:52 PM (7xKra)

312 Sinclair Lewis was a Socialist. He was like George Orwell who was critical of Communism but never realized Socialism was just a step to eventual Communism.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 11:47 PM (EYmYM)

As I like to say, Socialism is Communism's bitch.

Posted by: RickZ at November 10, 2025 11:53 PM (gKDq2)

313 "But the last two years of Two and Half Men was glorious in watching charlie sheen destruct in real time!"

Mackenzie Phillips on "One Day at a Time." She turned into a ghostly white skeletal near-corpse before our eyes, firing up cocaine off camera.

Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 11:53 PM (7imtn)

314 The Ashton Kutcher episodes were an abomination and they made no sense at all.

No sense unless, "lets squeeze every last nickel out of this golden goose before it drops dead" is sense.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 10, 2025 11:54 PM (JkO4W)

315 The plot thickens...

https://tinyurl.com/3y92k8ad
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 10, 2025 11:40 PM (JkO4W)

They made a LOT of Pervitin in the 40's

Posted by: Kindltot at November 10, 2025 11:55 PM (rbvCR)

316 It has been found to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality by as much as 50%, Alzheimer’s disease by 35%, bone fractures by 50–60%, as well as reducing cognitive decline and all-cause mortality. In other words, extending lives by as much as ten years.

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at November 10, 2025 11:31 PM (VPPG

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Late menopause does all of those things and I don't need a prescription. Yay, me.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 10, 2025 11:56 PM (Pek1+)

317 So we then must review the efforts of Joe McCarthy back in the 50's and focus on the supposed "Americans" that took him down.

Like the tale of “Paul Revere’s Ride”, McCarthy tried to warn America of the influx of Communism onto our soil.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 10, 2025 11:56 PM (25kuG)

318 Like the tale of “Paul Revere’s Ride”, McCarthy tried to warn America of the influx of Communism onto our soil.
Posted by: Nightwatch at November 10, 2025 11:56 PM (25kuG)

This was also the story of Joe McCarthy. "Who lost China?"

Posted by: Kindltot at November 10, 2025 11:58 PM (rbvCR)

319 I also can't read, apparently.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 10, 2025 11:59 PM (rbvCR)

320 he Ashton Kutcher episodes were an abomination and they made no sense at all.

No sense unless, "lets squeeze every last nickel out of this golden goose before it drops dead" is sense.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 10, 2025 11:54 PM (JkO4W)

The premise of a normal , male model billionaire couldn't find a mate was insulting to watch.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 12:00 AM (EYmYM)

321 318

Like it was a bad thing as you infer?

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 11, 2025 12:01 AM (25kuG)

322 Joe McCarthy was right, but about twenty years too late.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 12:02 AM (0M7jv)

323 Police chief in Louisiana writes funny note to criminals:

https://tinyurl.com/283fwzz2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2025 12:03 AM (8Cor4)

324 Make that thirty years!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 12:03 AM (0M7jv)

325 *spreads scrotal web to capture the wind*

*glides into the ONT nonchalantly*

Posted by: commenter with scrotal web at November 11, 2025 12:03 AM (9scTu)

326 "I recently heard a "get out of your solar contract now" ad for people who aren't gettting a good return on their solar installation."

I'm at 42deg N latitude, I've done the math, and without the subsidies, the NPV on solar installs is solid negative at our lower level of insolation up here. Yet BIG and little solar installs have sprouted up everywhere.

And thanks, Pete B, for the billion dollars worth of bike lanes you painted everywhere. We really needed that, asshole.

Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 12:05 AM (7imtn)

327 America has always gotten the short end of the stick (unless a current Tech BAZILLIONARE)

China is NOT our friend from a geopolitical standpoint; they just want to take over our country and destroy the Republic and Capitalism and make us their slaves.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 11, 2025 12:06 AM (25kuG)

328 Had a good friend fall on stairs Saturday night, went to ER. Gravity is the enemy of geezers like him and me.
Posted by: gp at November 10, 2025 11:37 PM (7imtn)

Ooo!
This reminds me. The final round of geezer golf tomorrow. Then done until Spring.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2025 12:07 AM (2WIwB)

329 It's getting so confusing that, if I see my own picture, I'm wondering, "Is it real?"
Posted by: JM in Illinois

They send you pictures of yourself.
It's someone you don't know.....

https://youtu.be/zaxr9hnQA2U

Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 12:08 AM (nhCoE)

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