Sunday Overnight Open Thread - November 9, 2025 [Doof]

Welcome to the Sunday night ONT. There might be some content. It's definitely an open thread, as always. The gray boxes await you!

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Shutdown Over?

BREAKING: A deal has been struck to reopen the government, with a test vote expected imminently. Republicans have agreed to provide back pay to federal employees and reverse White House firings of federal workers (RIFs) dating back to October 1st.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) will… pic.twitter.com/X204YY1NIl
— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) November 10, 2025

As eight Democrats have voted to reopen the government, CNN quietly admits that this entire charade is because of the Democrats.

"The democratic filibuster has been broken."

They've always known who carried the blame, but chose to run cover for the Democrats. pic.twitter.com/cFvt9CyD81
— Media Lies (@MediasLies) November 10, 2025

This is a developing situation. If you see anything relevant, please share it in the comments.

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Socialism for Dummies

Simple explanation

This video should be a huge wake up call for young people that are all gung-ho about Socialism but will the message actually sink in? pic.twitter.com/NW8yWeLZYF
— Michelle Maxwell ™ (@MichelleMaxwell) November 8, 2025

Speaking of dummies -

Bill O'Reilly and Bill Maher

O’Reilly: "[New Yorkers are] going to move [because of Mamdani]."
Maher: "No, they’re not. People say they’re going to move all the time after elections. They never do it."
O’Reilly: "You know how many people moved out of your state under Newsom?"

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So Kewl!!

This is so cool

This dude plays “Sweet Child O’ Mine’ on a vintage mechanical music machine pic.twitter.com/jZgqUMLGTJ
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) November 6, 2025

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Travel Planning

For your road trip fun!

Scientists Create a Google Maps of the Roman Empire–Plan Your Trip Along Their Famous Roads

It was said that all roads lead to Rome, but from where do all the roads to Rome lead?
Using a mountain of data, a team of two dozen scientists have created a digital road atlas of the Roman imperial world, complete with many features you’d recognize from Google Maps.
Called Itiner-e, it displays the roads that would have been found throughout the Roman Empire around the year 150 CE. It’s the most expansive research project on the topic to date, and increases the estimated length of the empire’s road system by over 60,000 miles.
At its height in the second century CE, the Roman Empire included over 55 million people and stretched as far north as modern day Britain to as far south as Morocco, eastward to the Syrian deserts, and, turning towards Europe, included all of Turkey, northeastern Bulgaria, and the Danube. It was carved up and maintained by a network of stone/gravel/sand highways stretching 117,162 miles.
But the total extent of the Roman interstate system had remained incompletely mapped and existing digitizations were low resolution. Seeking to improve on them, a vast international and interdisciplinary team of scientists from across Europe created Itiner-e using archaeological and historical records, topographic maps, and satellite imagery.

Check out the whole thing. Video segment at the link.

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This Classic American Road Trip Was Just Named the Most Scenic Drive in the U.S.

Any guesses as to where? Here's a major hint...

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'Ette Couture (Courtesy of Piper)

It's that time of the week - when we turn the ONT over to our good friend Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.

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Why Your Grandma’s Closet Is the Hottest Runway Right Now: The Maximalist Grandmother Trend Is Here to Stay
Listen up, darlings—minimalism is officially on hospice care, and the new queen of style is your 85-year-old nonna (or mother) who never met a brooch she didn’t pin somewhere outrageous. Welcome to the Maximalist Grandmother Trend, a deliciously chaotic movement that’s taking over Paris runways. Think: clashing florals, pearls the size of gumballs, velvet everything, and enough vintage charm to make Marie Antoinette jealous.

What Exactly Is “Maximalist Grandma”?
It’s “eclectic grandpa” brighter, wiser, and twice as extra. Where eclectic grandpa gave us oversized cardigans and loafers, maximalist grandma says, “Hold my martini” and layers on the sequins. It’s the aesthetic of a woman who has lived through eight decades of fashion and decided rules are for people who don’t own 47 scarves.
Core elements:
• Clashing prints like it’s personal (leopard + gingham + toile? Yes, all at once)
• Jewelry that enters the room five minutes before you do
• Velvet, brocade, lace, and anything that feels like a hug from 1972
• Handbags that could double as small suitcases
• Shades of merlot, emerald, and mustard that scream “I have stories”

The Runway Said It First
Gucci’s Fall 2025 show literally sent models down the runway in florals with pearls. Dries Van Noten layered baroque tapestry everywhere. Even Miu Miu— the patron saint of quiet luxury—threw in a broached sweater that looked stolen from someone’s bubbe in Boca.

Gucci Fall / Cruise 2025

Dries Van Noten AW 2025

Miu miu AW 2025

But the streets? The streets are where the real magic happens.

How to Nail the Look
1. Start with a statement coat
Find a vintage velvet opera coat or a brocade swing jacket. Bonus points if it has a mink collar (faux is fine, we’re not monsters).

2. Layer like you’re allergic to subtlety
Silk blouse + lace camisole + chunky knit vest + embroidered shawl. If you can still move your arms, you’re doing it wrong.

3. Jewelry rules? There are none.
Mix gold with silver with bakelite with pearls. Wear every ring you own. Earrings should graze your shoulders. Necklaces should reach your navel.

4. The “I found this in a trunk” bag
Think beaded 1940s evening bags, wicker baskets with silk scarves tied on, or structured leather totes covered in pins.

5. Shoes that make you gasp
Kitten heels with rhinestone buckles, mary janes with bows the size of dinner plates, or metallic brogues worn with frilly socks.

6. Makeup = old Hollywood meets vamp
Red lipstick (always), winged liner sharp enough to cut glass, and a beauty mark, why not?

Where to Shop (Because Yes, You Need This Now)
• Etsy “vintage brooch lot” – buy in bulk, never look back
• The RealReal’s “statement coat” filter – set price low to high for maximum chaos
• Your actual grandmother / mother – offer to clean out her attic for “sentimental reasons”
• Thrift stores in Florida – trust me on this one

Maximalist Grandmacore inspiration:

Why We’re Obsessed
In a world of beige cashmere, maximalist grandma is a glorious middle finger to restraint. It’s the fashion equivalent of eating dessert first and talking too loud in restaurants. It’s joy in fabric form. It’s proof that getting older doesn’t mean getting boring.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a date with a velvet blazer that smells faintly of Chanel No. 5 and decades of fabulously questionable decisions.

Save this post. Your future self (wearing seven brooches and zero regrets) will thank you

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Thanks, Piper -- I think. Actually, I can hear my Mom-Mom from the afterlife saying "Aw, HELL no!"

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DJ Doof - Song Titles Named After Their Artists Edition

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Weekly commenter stats for week of 11-9-2025

AoSHQ Commenter Statistics:
Number of posts: 87
Number of comments: 26006
Number of unique hashes: 2209

Top 10 commenters:
1 [458 comments] 'Its Go Time Donald' [65.05 posts/day]
2 [380 comments] 'toby928(c)'
3 [366 comments] 'Sponge - F*ck Cancer'
4 [356 comments] 'Bulg'
5 [325 comments] 'runner'
6 [324 comments] 'the way I see it'
7 [284 comments] 'm'
8 [274 comments] 'Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon'
9 [271 comments] 'Alberta Oil Peon'
10 [243 comments] 'Boss Moss'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [172 names] 'Old Yeller' [24.43 unique names/day]
2 [160 names] 'Cue the solipsism brigade'
3 [77 names] 'J'Quavious'
4 [57 names] 'Count de Monet'
5 [45 names] 'Quarter Twenty '
6 [38 names] 'The Grateful - Acta Non Verba'
7 [38 names] 'It's A Swindle, A Swindle'
8 [32 names] 'Duncanthrax'
9 [30 names] 'toby928(c)'
10 [30 names] 'Moron Analyst'

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Mystery Click is a hint to the ONLY correct answer!

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1 How many local stations are playing Christmas music already?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2025 10:01 PM (uQesX)

2 Our long national day off from government is over.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2025 10:01 PM (dyewR)

3 guten tag, horde

Posted by: clarence at November 09, 2025 10:01 PM (0zmNP)

4 Evenin'

Posted by: Mrs. IS ROTH at November 09, 2025 10:01 PM (ha8/l)

5 RIP Lenny

Posted by: Rex B at November 09, 2025 10:01 PM (CzhWp)

6 Ah, ha, it’s ONT. Howdy!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 10:01 PM (FtvNE)

7
Wait, tomorrow is holiday, yes?
Armistice Day?

Is Ace making this a 3-day weekend?

Posted by: democracy manifest at November 09, 2025 10:02 PM (8SBf1)

8
I don't have to put the trash out tonight, is what I'm asking?

Posted by: democracy manifest at November 09, 2025 10:02 PM (8SBf1)

9 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2025 10:02 PM (cYBz/)

10 TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS? WHY ???

Posted by: runner at November 09, 2025 10:02 PM (g47mK)

11 >>>This is a developing situation. If you see anything relevant, please share it in the comments.
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What a revolting development.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 10:03 PM (FtvNE)

12 Good evening. Rookie mistake and read the content.

Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at November 09, 2025 10:03 PM (fveCG)

13 ONT fun! Thanks!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 09, 2025 10:03 PM (OUqBw)

14
Wow, toby928 was, um, prolific, this week.

Posted by: democracy manifest at November 09, 2025 10:03 PM (8SBf1)

15 Answer - "Smear the Queer"!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2025 10:04 PM (cYBz/)

16 Question: Does that yellow curtain-looking skirt thingie really go with that green checkered jockey's blouse? I say no.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2025 10:04 PM (dyewR)

17 I want two thanx Pres d ent Oboner foor endrring this stewped Trump government shutdown and hurting childrin of coller.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at November 09, 2025 10:04 PM (357Ky)

18
Succulent chinese meal!

/sockoff

Posted by: democracy manifest at November 09, 2025 10:05 PM (8SBf1)

19 What Exactly Is “Maximalist Grandma”?

Stupid looking clothes and jewelry designed and sold by homosexual men who hate women. Especially women who are gullible enough to buy what gay guys sell.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2025 10:05 PM (uQesX)

20
So what happens in 2 weeks when the CR expires?
We do this Shit all over again??

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 09, 2025 10:05 PM (8SBf1)

21 Iron maiden!!

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 09, 2025 10:06 PM (snZF9)

22 My mom was mom mom, Doof! She would dig the maximalist grandma look, just because she was kind of crazy.

Posted by: Piper at November 09, 2025 10:06 PM (Wmg4n)

23 Socialism for Dummies

Simple explanation

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Makes no difference. That Mamdani guy is just ADORABLE.

Posted by: A College Educated AWFL at November 09, 2025 10:07 PM (dyewR)

24 >>> Republicans have agreed to provide back pay to federal employees and reverse White House firings of federal workers (RIFs) dating back to October 1st.

The back pay for furlough is SOP, hiring back the RIFed I'd just the UniParty jabbing Trump in the eye.
Trump can sign, reversing the downsizing or be blamed for the continued shutdown.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 09, 2025 10:07 PM (/lPRQ)

25 19 What Exactly Is “Maximalist Grandma”?

Stupid looking clothes and jewelry designed and sold by homosexual men who hate women. Especially women who are gullible enough to buy what gay guys sell.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2025

Seriously stay out of my closet. You would have an absolute heart attack.

Posted by: Piper at November 09, 2025 10:07 PM (Wmg4n)

26 Republicans have agreed to provide back pay to federal employees and reverse White House firings of federal workers (RIFs) dating back to October 1st.

So, as usual... the GOPe gives the game away. I want the RIFs permanent. The other stuff is less important and can be fixed later.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2025 10:07 PM (uQesX)

27 Those are some ugly outfits.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2025 10:07 PM (2sfNr)

28 That game was called smear the queer. Guess they don't play that any more in blue neighborhoods...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2025 10:07 PM (sKqQm)

29 Reading the book thread this morning, I was reminded that I wanted to buy the The Golden Thread, so I looked for it at several retailers. Then, I found it on Amazon at a discount - $72 instead of $100 for the hardcover - so I snapped it up. I hope they wrap it better that they did for the commenter that reminded me about it but I don't think you can get a better deal on a new book.

Posted by: Retired, thank God at November 09, 2025 10:07 PM (va0Yo)

30 Up top pic is amazing. Good mystery click, too. Smear the Queer. Thanks for the ONT, Disco and Piper. Gamgam fashion?

Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2025 10:08 PM (41CYW)

31 Smear the Queer ...

Posted by: browndog nipping at your heels at November 09, 2025 10:08 PM (3sXRv)

32 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 09, 2025 10:08 PM (SRRAx)

33 Okay I'll say it. The women's clothes are uniformly hideous.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2025 10:09 PM (dyewR)

34 Dress hem lines go up, the stock market goes up (The Roaring Twenties)

Hem lines go down, the stock market goes down (The Great Depression.)

Looks like it's time for me to sell all my Enron stock, and all the GM stock I bought in 2002.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 09, 2025 10:09 PM (utsBX)

35
Iron maiden!!
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Excellent!

Posted by: Bill and Ted at November 09, 2025 10:09 PM (pkeXY)

36 16 Question: Does that yellow curtain-looking skirt thingie really go with that green checkered jockey's blouse? I say no.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2025 10:04 PM (dyewR)

Yes! Because it’s fun! And we need more fun. This is just a fun look to play with - it can go all out, or one can just borrow a few elements if not so brave.

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

37 Piper,

I cannot imagine you wearing outfit number 2.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2025 10:10 PM (2sfNr)

38
Piper, where do you find that shit? Lol

Posted by: fourseasons at November 09, 2025 10:10 PM (3ek7K)

39 >>> But the total extent of the Roman interstate system had remained incompletely mapped and existing digitizations were low resolution.

The Roman "Interstate" was the Mediterranean Sea.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 09, 2025 10:10 PM (/lPRQ)

40 Sorry I'm late, but I was told showing up a few minutes after the listed start time is actually fashionable.

(Might need a ruling from Piper.)

Posted by: tankdemon at November 09, 2025 10:10 PM (R256O)

41 Question: Does that yellow curtain-looking skirt thingie really go with that green checkered jockey's blouse? I say no.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2025 10:04 PM (dyewR)

None of those "fashion" pics looked very hot. Soviet-era vibe, mostly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 10:11 PM (npFr7)

42 Smear the queer.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at November 09, 2025 10:11 PM (XMwZJ)

43 I saw Maximalist Grandma open for Minimum Vital at Midway Stadium in 2022.

https://youtu.be/yKpOY5_hWtc

Posted by: mikeski at November 09, 2025 10:11 PM (nhCoE)

44 hnmmm....smear the queer?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 09, 2025 10:11 PM (xcxpd)

45 Maximilist Grandma is probably okay for a 20 something gal. I don't wear many florals. They make me feel like Scarlett O'Hara wearing drapes. I do like stripes and polka dots.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 09, 2025 10:12 PM (OUqBw)

46 Yay, ONT!

And you know it's going to be a good one when Smear the Queer is featured.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 09, 2025 10:12 PM (lUFok)

47 Sure, it can play Sweet Child of Mine, but I doubt it could handle Darude's Sandstorm.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 09, 2025 10:12 PM (R256O)

48 Evenin'

youtu.be/9f_EziyDsZY

Been binge listening to Cole Chaney for a bit now. Only two albums but they are both gems. Heavy on the Appalachia/Bluegrass spectrum, if your into that (I AM!!). The most recent album, he seemed to have listened to Soundgarden and Alice in Chains and then went and made his next Appalachia/Bluegrass album. Its an outstanding album; 'In the Shadow of the Mountain'.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 09, 2025 10:12 PM (sAmhv)

49 Is this real?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 10:12 PM (FtvNE)

50 Thanks for the Sunday Overnight Thread, Doof!

And thanks to Piper for the latest in fashion, whatever it may be at the moment!

That photo up top is a splendid example of western sunsets - they look stunning because they are!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 09, 2025 10:13 PM (kB9dk)

51 It's Calvinball. Duhhhhh.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 09, 2025 10:13 PM (L/fGl)

52 Smear the Queer is a favorite of mine

Posted by: George Takei at November 09, 2025 10:13 PM (Q+gd/)

53 And thank you for the fashion, Piper. It is fun to see.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 09, 2025 10:13 PM (OUqBw)

54 Well, friends, I mix patterns a lot and I just bought a brocade coat. Y’all can hate it all you want. 😂 I won’t do serviceable shoes, though. Even I have my limits. And I skipped eclectic grandpa trends because big cardigans and loafers are boring. We strive for exciting on the AOSHQ fashion runway.

Posted by: Piper at November 09, 2025 10:14 PM (Wmg4n)

55 41 Question: Does that yellow curtain-looking skirt thingie really go with that green checkered jockey's blouse? I say no.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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Hey, it's not a curtain, it's a table cloth.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 10:14 PM (FtvNE)

56 I do bible studies at the assisted living- nursing home. None of the women there wear this kind of thing ,and I often admire their taste in clothing.
But the outfits made me laugh. Thanks, Piper.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2025 10:14 PM (2sfNr)

57 So they all get a long paid vacation like what always happens every damned time and all the deadly parasites are invited back to feed on us. And that might not even be all of it, just the going in starting offer our worthless cucks are laying at their feet.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 09, 2025 10:14 PM (3uBP9)

58 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco and Piper!

Posted by: TRex - aces high dino at November 09, 2025 10:14 PM (IQ6Gq)

59 Seriously stay out of my closet. You would have an absolute heart attack.
Posted by: Piper at November 09, 2025 10:07 PM (Wmg4n)

Heck, I can't even get into my own. I think the previous house owners were a couple named McGee.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2025 10:15 PM (uQesX)

60 So the shutdown is over, and apparently democrats are pissed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2025 10:15 PM (eQmnE)

61 Gamgam fashion?

Gangnam style >>> Gamgam fashion

Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2025 10:15 PM (Riz8t)

62 I'll take a wild guess and say the desert sunset pic is the 215 southbound between Baker and Barstow. That hill on the left is the Chinaman's Hat.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2025 10:15 PM (dyewR)

63 53 And thank you for the fashion, Piper. It is fun to see.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 09, 2025 10:13 PM (OUqBw)

It is fun, and like I said, you can just do a piece - like a big ‘ol broach and a scarf, maybe.

Posted by: Piper at November 09, 2025 10:15 PM (Wmg4n)

64 We need to get back to business as usual. The Graft Must Flow!

Posted by: GOPe at November 09, 2025 10:16 PM (Q+gd/)

65 Doof!
Excellent ONT as usual!

Piper - wild stuff! Yikes 🤪!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 09, 2025 10:16 PM (3pxDZ)

66 "The utmost care for not caring about your feelings went into the creation of tonight's ONT."

I always thought the ONT was a labor of love. Now I learn it is just another exercise in cynicism.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 09, 2025 10:16 PM (R256O)

67 Is this real?

It might be fantasy.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2025 10:16 PM (Riz8t)

68 29 Reading the book thread this morning, I was reminded that I wanted to buy the The Golden Thread, so I looked for it at several retailers. Then, I found it on Amazon at a discount - $72 instead of $100 for the hardcover - so I snapped it up. I hope they wrap it better that they did for the commenter that reminded me about it but I don't think you can get a better deal on a new book.
Posted by: Retired, thank God at November 09, 2025 10:07 PM (va0Yo)

Been shopping the price of that book myself.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 09, 2025 10:16 PM (y171U)

69 60 So the shutdown is over, and apparently democrats are pissed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2025 10:15 PM (eQmnE)

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Schumer? He's a dead man. Jeffries, DEAD.

Posted by: Bluto at November 09, 2025 10:16 PM (dyewR)

70 Didn't play Smear the Queer...but kids played a variant of "Horse" called "Puto"...same rules as Horse, but one less chance...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 09, 2025 10:16 PM (ynpvh)

71 That game was called smear the queer. Guess they don't play that any more in blue neighborhoods...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2025 10:07 PM (sKqQm)

Only in the safety of their bedrooms.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2025 10:17 PM (uQesX)

72 Back pay for federal workers is already the law, though the administration claims they found a loophole to get around it.

I think there were only 2000 or so employees RIFed, in agencies that are being chopped anyway.

If this is all the GOP had to give up, I say it is a resounding victory.

Let's drink!

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 09, 2025 10:17 PM (utsBX)

73 That top Gucci pic should be captioned “the saddest man in Minnneapolis”.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2025 10:18 PM (eQmnE)

74 The UN put out a map showing who the "indigenous people" are for the entire world. According to this map there are no indigenous people in any of Europe. (Interestingly also Egypt, most of West Africa, and Saudi Arabia - what did they do to piss off the globalists?)

Posted by: Ian S. at November 09, 2025 10:18 PM (3ha+O)

75 Scientists Create a Google Maps of the Roman Empire–Plan Your Trip Along Their Famous Roads

Interesting map. Lots of trade going on back then because I don't think most people traveled just to travel, only the very weathy (same as it ever was).

But The Roman Empire II, or the European Union, is a failure just as much as the first one was, and not for such different reasons, either.

Posted by: RickZ at November 09, 2025 10:18 PM (gKDq2)

76 Schumer? He's a dead man. Jeffries, DEAD.

Pelosi? Might as well be dead.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2025 10:18 PM (Riz8t)

77 My mom was mom mom, Doof! She would dig the maximalist grandma look, just because she was kind of crazy.
Posted by: Piper at November 09, 2025 10:06 PM (Wmg4n)

My Mom-Mom didn't really like too many things. Aside from her ABC soap operas (her "stories"). And her grandkids, of course!

I guess I'll defer to your mom on this one!

Posted by: Doof at November 09, 2025 10:18 PM (QMAsf)

78 Maximalist Grandma

I knew I would be "the in thing" someday.

Posted by: zombie Mrs. Slocombe at November 09, 2025 10:18 PM (nhCoE)

79
Not all of them are parasites. Oldest son runs, the US Forest Service office here. He's trying to do the work of his ten employees who were furloughed.

He's sick as a dog now and still working.

A broad brush is not always right.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 09, 2025 10:18 PM (3ek7K)

80 I was reading the polcompball.wiki forum and its odd.

Basically imagine someone decided to create a forum where every political ideology you can imagine gets a cute ball to anthropomorphize it.

And one thing that fascinates me is there is such a hunger...coming from the left...for oddball "rightwing" ideologies like say avaritoinism. On the left you can find political parties for every oddball leftwing ideology...or at least a real terror group.

But then all those leftwing groups work together when push comes to shove and the rightwing groups spend all their time fighting each other.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2025 10:18 PM (sKqQm)

81 Families at Florida air base ordered to remove Christmas decorations

Military families living at the Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City, Florida, have been instructed to take down their Christmas decorations from their private residences.

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Well, Santa is red, promises free shit, and keeps a naughty or nice list. One Mamdani is enough!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 09, 2025 10:19 PM (L/fGl)

82 I wouldn't hire those people back. What a waste of money.
Trump tell the GOP to pound sand!

Posted by: Case at November 09, 2025 10:19 PM (9HFDU)

83 Evening.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 09, 2025 10:19 PM (pNNfr)

84 The game is definitely called "smear the queer."

Unless we were playing it in gym class, then it was just "smear."

Mrs. Gym Teacher was quite the proper lady, for a gym teacher.

Posted by: mikeski at November 09, 2025 10:19 PM (nhCoE)

85 37 Piper,

I cannot imagine you wearing outfit number 2.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2025 10

Street pic 2 or Dries Van Noten number 2? Because I am probably more street number 3, and if you know anyone who went to the MoMe, they will probably attest I am pretty okay with pattern and color! 😂

Posted by: Piper at November 09, 2025 10:20 PM (Wmg4n)

86
Reserve Best in Show for The Big Dummy at today's Cypress Creek KC show. Only the Lhasa Apso beat him.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 09, 2025 10:20 PM (tgvbd)

87 I call BS.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 09, 2025 10:20 PM (25kuG)

88 Does the disclaimer imply that Doof has acquired Rush tickets?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 09, 2025 10:20 PM (IQ6Gq)

89 So exactly what do we get out of this deal?

This sounds like near complete capitulation to me.

You know the Dems are going to get what they want eventually if they just back off for a little while.

Reminds me of some religion I've heard of.

Posted by: pawn at November 09, 2025 10:21 PM (sPsWv)

90 "DJ Doof - Song Titles Named After Their Artists Edition"

I guess Slowdive named themselves from a Siouxsie song but then wrote their own song called "Slowdive"

Posted by: gKWVE at November 09, 2025 10:21 PM (gKWVE)

91 Military families living at the Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City, Florida, have been instructed to take down their Christmas decorations from their private residences.

It's not Thanksgiving yet, they should take them down.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 09, 2025 10:21 PM (3ha+O)

92 Cool mechanical music machine Disco. I like player pianos / pianolas, that machine is next level.

Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2025 10:21 PM (41CYW)

93 So...
I went out this afternoon, and made ready to load three tires in the back of the white Suburban so I can take it to the tire shop tomorrow to have them mounted and balanced. The third row seat was in there, as well as some old upholstery and other junk. Drag out the seat, and what do I find? The jack and wheel wrench I couldn't find 3 nights ago. Doh! And the spare wheel had the same size and style of tire as the flat, and its mates. Tread really chewed by rocks, though. But it held air. But also really stale dated: 2006! The "new" set of tires I want to mount are 2016, so not quite stale-dated. Also well stored, so in better condition than their age would indicate.

So I busted the spare off the rim, and mounted a singleton 235/85R16 that I had hanging around for years. Has near-perfect tread on it, too. Had a bitch of a time getting it to bead up; had to do the ether trick about ten times before it took. But it's all good now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 10:22 PM (npFr7)

94 Scientists Create a Google Maps of the Roman Empire–Plan Your Trip Along Their Famous Roads

________________________

There is a small print warning suggesting that if you run into anyone along the highway who says his name is Hannibal, turn around and go back. Don't even talk to the guy. Run away....fast.

Posted by: Orson at November 09, 2025 10:22 PM (dIske)

95 If you can still move your arms, you’re doing it wrong.

Piper - I love it! :-)

Posted by: Iris at November 09, 2025 10:22 PM (bOJ2I)

96 Anyone interested in donating to a small veteran's charity?

https://tinyurl.com/bdz593xt

Tomoe Umari is an vtuber and active duty member of the US Military. For Veteran's Day she's doing a charity stream on Twitch. She's a real sweetheart.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 09, 2025 10:23 PM (pNNfr)

97 49 Is this real?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 10:12 PM (FtvNE)

Nope. You are hallucinating again.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 09, 2025 10:23 PM (R256O)

98 First it's a guy modeling a dress
Then it's queer music
Is this where it is
Where is this

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 10:23 PM (FtvNE)

99
But then all those leftwing groups work together when push comes to shove and the rightwing groups spend all their time fighting each other.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2025 10:18 PM (sKqQm)

Leftists know that everything they say is bullshit lies, all they really want is power. So it’s easy to drop it all and pull together if power is the prize.
Most on the right are actually foolish enough to believe the things they say, and so we don’t give them up so easily.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2025 10:23 PM (eQmnE)

100 Garbage is awesome.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 09, 2025 10:23 PM (mT+6a)

101 That top Gucci pic should be captioned “the saddest man in Minnneapolis”.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2025 10:18 PM (eQmnE)

Lileks?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2025 10:24 PM (uQesX)

102 So exactly what do we get out of this deal?

No Obamacare for illegals and no USAID re-animation, so Schumer, AOC, and Bernie are all furious about the deal and trying to stop it.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 09, 2025 10:24 PM (3ha+O)

103 We called the game "Kill 'em Quick". Western Illinois.

Posted by: BufordGooch at November 09, 2025 10:24 PM (ZoHZd)

104 Unless we were playing it in gym class, then it was just "smear." . . .
Posted by: mikeski

After a hard morning of walking to school in the snow, uphill, we'd be treated to a rousing contest of crab soccer by our beloved 6th grade PE instructor, Mr. Klay.

He unerringly would somehow finagle the class asshole into being forced into a corner and then having the shit kicked out of him by the rest of us.

Good times, good times.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2025 10:25 PM (cYBz/)

105 Piper-

Can't imagine you wearing street picture #2-Mismatched Granny. The ones further up by actual designers don't look so bad.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2025 10:25 PM (2sfNr)

106 96 Anyone interested in donating to a small veteran's charity?

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Maybe. What's the height cutoff?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2025 10:25 PM (dyewR)

107 It's not Thanksgiving yet, they should take them down.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 09, 2025 10:21 PM (3ha+O)

Unless they're getting deployed somewhere real soon. Then, yeah, go for it.

Taking a hike in other people's shoes and all that.

Posted by: RickZ at November 09, 2025 10:25 PM (gKDq2)

108 Does the disclaimer imply that Doof has acquired Rush tickets?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 09, 2025 10:20 PM (IQ6Gq)

Wow - you actually noticed the removal of the "Rush tickets to donate" thing??? That is some next level attention to detail!

I'd offer you a bunch of Club ONT restroom tokens, but you probably don't need them!

Posted by: Doof at November 09, 2025 10:25 PM (QMAsf)

109 57 ....and all the deadly parasites are invited back to feed on us.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 09, 2025 10:14 PM (3uBP9)

How many were RIF'd after 10/1, about 4K federal workers? A drop in the bucket of the total fed employees (2 million). And they would not have been RIF'd if not for the shutdown.

And the voting to extend Obamacare subsidies will not pass in the Republican Senate.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 09, 2025 10:25 PM (y171U)

110
queer means odd, strange, etc.

So smear the oddball, not necessarily the fag. But the perverts coopted the word queer and made it perverted.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 09, 2025 10:26 PM (8SBf1)

111 Anyone interested in donating to a small veteran's charity?
Posted by: Robert

How small is she?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2025 10:26 PM (cYBz/)

112 had to do the ether trick about ten times before it took. But it's all good now.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 10:22 PM (npFr7)

Are you writing this while flat on your back on the concrete floor, as the garage spins around you?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 09, 2025 10:26 PM (utsBX)

113 >>>Nope. You are hallucinating again.
Posted by: tankdemon
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Thank goodness, it's just the drugs. They'll wear off.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 10:27 PM (FtvNE)

114 Mystery Click is a hint to the ONLY correct answer!

LoL!! Yep!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 09, 2025 10:27 PM (sAmhv)

115 DJ Doof - Song Titles Named After Their Artists Edition

With the extra point conversion: Lunatic Soul, playing Lunatic Soul, from the album Lunatic Soul.

https://youtu.be/a_BipgHif7E

Posted by: mikeski at November 09, 2025 10:27 PM (nhCoE)

116 How small is she?
Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2025 10:26 PM (cYBz/)

She's 5'8", apparently.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 09, 2025 10:28 PM (pNNfr)

117 110
queer means odd, strange, etc.

So smear the oddball, not necessarily the fag. But the perverts coopted the word queer and made it perverted.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Long before you were born.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 10:28 PM (FtvNE)

118 So smear the oddball, not necessarily the fag. But the perverts coopted the word queer and made it perverted.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 09, 2025 10:26 PM (8SBf1)

A faggot was a bundle of sticks and a fag was a cigarette -- until the Sixties.

Posted by: RickZ at November 09, 2025 10:28 PM (gKDq2)

119 95 If you can still move your arms, you’re doing it wrong.

Piper - I love it! :-)
Posted by: Iris at November 09

Right? It’s FUN. We should have it. 😉

Posted by: Piper at November 09, 2025 10:29 PM (Wmg4n)

120
I was talking with a friend about son's employees being furloughed. She said she never thought about people all over the country being furloughed. She thought only people in DC.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 09, 2025 10:29 PM (3ek7K)

121 Didn't Curious George get into too much ether also?

That little shit - I hated him.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2025 10:29 PM (cYBz/)

122 In my misspent youth we called the game described “smear the queer.”

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 09, 2025 10:29 PM (hlNLQ)

123 Smear the queer. Taught me to not be a wimp in grade school and junior high. So, you got your face pushed in the mud? So what! Sack up!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 09, 2025 10:29 PM (0aYVJ)

124 A faggot was a bundle of sticks and a fag was a cigarette -- until the Sixties.

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But a poofter is eternal.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2025 10:29 PM (dyewR)

125 Oh. So the deal will also save oblama care. Great. I was worried I wouldn’t be repeatedly sodomized by shiftless bureaucrats and their vote slaves anymore, but no worry. Really great.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 09, 2025 10:30 PM (3uBP9)

126 112 had to do the ether trick about ten times before it took. But it's all good now.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 10:22 PM (npFr7)

Are you writing this while flat on your back on the concrete floor, as the garage spins around you?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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Lotta types of valueRite goin' on tonight.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 10:30 PM (FtvNE)

127 How many were RIF'd after 10/1, about 4K federal workers? A drop in the bucket of the total fed employees (2 million). And they would not have been RIF'd if not for the shutdown.

I'm trying to figure out if FedGov Employees are First Class citizens or Illegal Aliens and foreigners are, with FedGov Employees as First.

The Congress works as hard at making sure FedGov employees never experience any hardship ever in their parasite lives, or does Congress work harder to make it easier for the private sector to RIF Tax Payers and replace them with H1, J1, and other other foreigners who are granted all kinds of advantages as colonists and invaders.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 09, 2025 10:31 PM (a4flb)

128 105 Piper-

Can't imagine you wearing street picture #2-Mismatched Granny. The ones further up by actual designers don't look so bad.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2025 10

Would it surprise you to learn I have cat eye sunglasses and do scarf up when I have them on and the top down on my car? But the next day would be an entirely different look all together. Assuming I got out of leggings that day, of course.

Posted by: Piper at November 09, 2025 10:31 PM (Wmg4n)

129 Gavin Newsom is now denouncing the deal. MSNBC and Bluesky (but I repeat myself) are furious about it. LOL.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 09, 2025 10:31 PM (3ha+O)

130 Are you writing this while flat on your back on the concrete floor, as the garage spins around you?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 09, 2025 10:26 PM (utsBX)

Heh! No. Mostly, All I got was a small poof! followed by wan blue flames for a few seconds. I think the rim and tire were too cold for the ether to vaporize properly. Maybe the repeated efforts finally warmed it up enough. Took the very last shpritz from the ether can to do it, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 10:31 PM (npFr7)

131 Cool mechanical music machine Disco. I like player pianos / pianolas, that machine is next level.
Posted by: scampydog

The next level yet: Wintergatan's Marble Machine.

https://youtu.be/IvUU8joBb1Q

Posted by: mikeski at November 09, 2025 10:31 PM (nhCoE)

132 101 That top Gucci pic should be captioned “the saddest man in Minnneapolis”.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2025 10:18 PM (eQmnE)

Lileks?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2025 10:24 PM (uQesX)

Apparently Lileks is trading in the wife on a newer model, so he ought to be pretty happy now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2025 10:32 PM (eQmnE)

133 In my high school, dodgeball was called battle-ball.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 09, 2025 10:32 PM (0aYVJ)

134 I'd better go check my popcorn stockpile.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2025 10:32 PM (dyewR)

135 Spare a tear for Schmukie.

BREAKING: A shook Chuck Schumer is STUNNED on the Senate floor after several of his party members caved to Donald Trump, backing the GOP government reopening bill
He’s hoping for a HUGE House Dem opposition.
“I voted NO!!”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 09, 2025 10:32 PM (L/fGl)

136 Need to re-activate Snake Plissken and air drop him onto the roof of the Federal Hall.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 09, 2025 10:32 PM (25kuG)

137 But a poofter is eternal.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2025 10:29 PM (dyewR)

Oh, I'm sure there were those who were 'light in the sandals'.

Posted by: RickZ at November 09, 2025 10:33 PM (gKDq2)

138 125 Oh. So the deal will also save oblama care. Great. I was worried I wouldn’t be repeatedly sodomized by shiftless bureaucrats and their vote slaves anymore, but no worry. Really great.
Posted by: banana Dream
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Whoever said it was going to happen after the election was correct.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 10:33 PM (FtvNE)

139 Gavin Newsom is now denouncing the deal. MSNBC and Bluesky (but I repeat myself) are furious about it. LOL.

Right. Because a man's man like Gavin would have annihilated Trump and all his works. What a shrill little poodle.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2025 10:33 PM (Riz8t)

140 Yes, I thought the # of shutdown RIFs was pretty piddly, so as long as this reversal of RIFs is only back to Oct 1, 2025 I can easily live with it.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 09, 2025 10:33 PM (JEcs7)

141 Night Ranger had a song called Night Ranger on their first album.

Posted by: Blahblahblah at November 09, 2025 10:34 PM (oV7lS)

142 Apparently Lileks is trading in the wife on a newer model, so he ought to be pretty happy now.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2025 10:32 PM (eQmnE)

Peg Lynch's daughter?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2025 10:34 PM (uQesX)

143 The next level yet: Wintergatan's Marble Machine.

https://youtu.be/IvUU8joBb1Q
Posted by: mikeski
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Yes! I actually put that in the ONT content about a year ago. Watched that video a bunch of times. Super cool.

Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2025 10:34 PM (41CYW)

144 BREAKING: A shook Chuck Schumer is STUNNED on the Senate floor after several of his party members caved to Donald Trump, backing the GOP government reopening bill

Schumer should get used to insubordination, given AOC's gunning for his seat.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 09, 2025 10:34 PM (3ha+O)

145 TheRight. Because a man's man like Gavin would have annihilated Trump and all his works. What a shrill little poodle.

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Newsom is a posturing little boy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2025 10:34 PM (dyewR)

146 kill da guy with da ball

Posted by: vizzy at November 09, 2025 10:34 PM (qwdJy)

147 BREAKING: A shook Chuck Schumer is STUNNED on the Senate floor after several of his party members caved to Donald Trump, backing the GOP government reopening bill

And if you think he didn't know who would vote for it, and approved because they'd take the blame and not him, then you're an idiot.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2025 10:34 PM (Riz8t)

148
There is a small print warning suggesting that if you run into anyone along the highway who says his name is Hannibal, turn around and go back. Don't even talk to the guy. Run away....fast.

Unless he has an elephant.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 09, 2025 10:34 PM (pkeXY)

149 Apparently Lileks is trading in the wife on a newer model, so he ought to be pretty happy now.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2025 10:32 PM (eQmnE)

Per Lileks, the reverse is true. He just doesn't know it yet. Tennis lessons, anyone?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 09, 2025 10:34 PM (utsBX)

150 I got my two “angry old man yelling at clouds” comments over with. I’ll chill now. Goodnight everyone.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 09, 2025 10:34 PM (3uBP9)

151 Oh, I'm sure there were those who were 'light in the sandals'.
Posted by: RickZ at November 09, 2025 10:33 PM (gKDq2)

They liked the gladiator fights.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2025 10:35 PM (uQesX)

152 Maybe I’m wrong about Lileks, maybe he’s just gonna be a sad old man. He should get out of Minnesota at least. Find some philipino hotties who will appreciate him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2025 10:35 PM (eQmnE)

153 Beat the Pete

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 09, 2025 10:35 PM (pkeXY)

154 Gavin "Nancy's Nephew" Newscum...

"BAWWWWHHAAHAAA,HAHA!!!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 09, 2025 10:36 PM (25kuG)

155 Posted by: Ian S. at November 09, 2025 10:31 PM (3ha+O)

I find it hard to envision Democrats voting for Newsom for President. There is not one redeeming quality he presents for being a candidate. I can see some more palatable people ( I wouldn't vote for them ) but they're not as bad as Newsom. How about Josh Shapiro? Whoops, he 's Jewish. D Party won't go for that

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2025 10:36 PM (2sfNr)

156 this begins the long and drawn-out process of Majority Leader John Thune presenting the original House-passed continuing resolution for a vote, which will then have the minibus and updated CR attached. There will then be two more votes before the package goes back to the House. If they pass it, it will head to President Trump's desk.

Posted by: Jerry Saves at November 09, 2025 10:36 PM (zxrfm)

157 Hearing about all the Democrats upset by the deal warms the cackles of my heart.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 09, 2025 10:37 PM (R256O)

158 Beat the Pete
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 09, 2025 10:35 PM (pkeXY)

Go on...

Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at November 09, 2025 10:37 PM (utsBX)

159
Please Remember: It's ALL Theater.

It's all bullshit Theater. Cuck schumer couldn't care less. He's putting on a Show. They all are.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 09, 2025 10:37 PM (8SBf1)

160 Per Lileks, the reverse is true. He just doesn't know it yet. Tennis lessons, anyone?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 09, 2025 10:34 PM (utsBX)

Saaaaay.... anyone seen the Paolo lately?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2025 10:37 PM (uQesX)

161 Piper - Maximalist Grandma is coming back in home decorating also. Think patterned wallpaper, chintz, overstuffed chairs and sofas, collectibles, etc. I guess everything old is new again.

Posted by: The Pilot at November 09, 2025 10:37 PM (M+4Y9)

162 Minimalism or bust !

Posted by: runner at November 09, 2025 10:38 PM (g47mK)

163 We used to ply another every man for himself game in the school yard- we called it “battle ball” you get hit by the ball, you're out, and anyone you got out is back in. You catch the ball, you’re still in and the thrower is out, plus every man he got out is back in. Last man standing wins- but that man had to get out literally everyone else. Anyone else play?

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 09, 2025 10:38 PM (hlNLQ)

164 There is not one redeeming quality he presents for being a candidate. I can see some more palatable people ( I wouldn't vote for them ) but they're not as bad as Newsom. How about Josh Shapiro? Whoops, he 's Jewish. D Party won't go for that
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2025 10:36 PM (2sfNr)

He's a Democrat, Fen. Redeeming qualities are to be avoided at all costs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 10:39 PM (npFr7)

165 Piper - Maximalist Grandma is coming back in home decorating also. Think patterned wallpaper, chintz, overstuffed chairs and sofas, collectibles, etc. I guess everything old is new again.

We got some Waterford crystal for an absolute steal from an old friend of ours who was downsizing. Our daughters didn't want it because it's old fashioned. I told my wife to wait. It'll come back around. I'll bet we're close to that point.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2025 10:39 PM (Riz8t)

166
BEAKING: A shook Chuck Schumer is STUNNED on the Senate floor after several of his party members caved to Donald Trump, backing the GOP government reopening bill
He’s hoping for a HUGE House Dem opposition.
“I voted NO!!”

So, Schumer is STUNNED but Tim Kaine (retard-VA) is for it. Reactions are all over the place, even here. I will wait and see. I've enjoyed work with all the meddling FedGov overlords staying at home. Alas, that is over. Maybe I'll find out what will happen to my contract. It's good till Aug 26 anyway. Who knows after that.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 09, 2025 10:39 PM (sAmhv)

167 Minimalism or bust !
Posted by: runner at November 09, 2025 10:38 PM (g47mK)

Sydney Sweeney enters the thread.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 10:40 PM (npFr7)

168 That clip at the top from Faux News- that black guy ain't real, is he? That's like a mannequin or AI or something. Creepy AF.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 09, 2025 10:40 PM (MZ+PY)

169 You all are just pawns of Big Brooch!

Posted by: Beau Brummell! at November 09, 2025 10:40 PM (oftw2)

170 I find it hard to envision Democrats voting for Newsom for President.

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If the last ten years have taught us anything, it's that there is NO DISQUALIFYING QUALITY in a Democrat candidate. Dem voters have elected a man who advocated killing the children of political opponents to "soften them" so they might change their policy positions.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2025 10:41 PM (dyewR)

171 Piper! I have been Grandma chic since 20yrs before I was a Nana! Classics, a lot of pearls, I love velvet...but do not wear after Easter or before fall, which is a rule I made up. Silk blouses I found on sale over a decade ago, same with silk scarves. Cashmere sweaters. Love vintage jewelry and have some brooches but don't wear them. Soon. No longer work or go on business trips, but I still have it all!

I totally agree on thrift shops in FL, not just for beaded evening bags (altho I also have one of my aunt's made in France), but wine glasses, etc. Sometimes you can find awesome stuff there! I bought an entire set of water and wine glasses for $18 that are lovely. An expensive Oriental bowl for about the same remains in my livingroom.

Now I am over run with glasses and other stuff and when I croak my sons will not grieve because they'll be cussing about the estate sale, which will make them some $ if they are not stupid.

Regarding the end of the shut down...President Trump is not signing of free stuff to illegals, or that's what I saw.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2025 10:41 PM (MAl//)

172 Minimalist bust? I don't think so.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 09, 2025 10:41 PM (L/fGl)

173 He's a Democrat, Fen. Redeeming qualities are to be avoided at all costs.

“Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls. And if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand?” - Luke 11:17-18

The Will To Power is the only thing that matters.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 09, 2025 10:41 PM (a4flb)

174 Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2025 10:39 PM (Riz8t)

We had the most beautiful china at our last rummage sale. Nobody bought it because they don't use really nice patterned china anymore.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2025 10:41 PM (2sfNr)

175 >>Oh. So the deal will also save oblama care. Great. I was worried I wouldn’t be repeatedly sodomized by shiftless bureaucrats and their vote slaves anymore, but no worry. Really great.

Pretty much the opposite of what happened.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2025 10:42 PM (viF8m)

176 "There is not one redeeming quality he presents for being a candidate."

81 million (ha!) votes for Biden says you're wrong. Of course, when the alternative is me...

Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at November 09, 2025 10:42 PM (utsBX)

177 So, Schumer is STUNNED but Tim Kaine (retard-VA) is for it

That actually makes sense. VA is where most FedGov employees live, and they really wanted the shutdown over.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 09, 2025 10:42 PM (3ha+O)

178 We got some Waterford crystal for an absolute steal from an old friend of ours who was downsizing. Our daughters didn't want it because it's old fashioned. I told my wife to wait. It'll come back around. I'll bet we're close to that point.
Posted by: Archimedes

I wouldn't part with my Waterford for all the tea in China. It's just too pretty.

Posted by: Tuna at November 09, 2025 10:43 PM (lJ0H4)

179 I am now for giving free health care to illegals

provided that we get rid of all the illegals

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 09, 2025 10:43 PM (kDHiw)

180 161 Piper - Maximalist Grandma is coming back in home decorating also. Think patterned wallpaper, chintz, overstuffed chairs and sofas, collectibles, etc. I guess everything old is new again.
Posted by: The Pilot at November

I actually love we are getting away from minimalist. I am slowly undoing it in my own home and the new wallpaper trend is a big yes for me. If you follow me on x, you will see it has been done to my foyer already. 😂.

That said, there is a limit - there is a house on the market here where someone went maximalist overdrive. I don’t know how they find one room to the next, but I can’t stop going back to Zillow to stare.

Posted by: Piper at November 09, 2025 10:44 PM (OoFl2)

181 how can y'all post so many times a day

Posted by: Don Black at November 09, 2025 10:44 PM (AOsQT)

182 181- were secretly all feds

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 09, 2025 10:45 PM (hlNLQ)

183 We had the most beautiful china at our last rummage sale. Nobody bought it because they don't use really nice patterned china anymore.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2025 10:41 PM (2sfNr)

I would be happy to have just a complete set of Corelle, plain or patterned, no matter, other than they should all be the same. Great stuff. Tough, light weight, easy to wash, and thin, so a stack doesn't overwhelm your china cabinet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 10:45 PM (npFr7)

184 I wouldn't part with my Waterford for all the tea in China. It's just too pretty.

---------

I won a bunch of that stuff on a game show. I could barely give it away but I got taxed for it at its ridiculous full retail value.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2025 10:45 PM (dyewR)

185
We got some Waterford crystal for an absolute steal from an old friend of ours who was downsizing. Our daughters didn't want it because it's old fashioned. I told my wife to wait. It'll come back around. I'll bet we're close to that point.
Posted by: Archimedes at November

Yes! And people are getting mismatched China and blending it. It’s really a fun trend. It’s soft, and warm.

Posted by: Piper at November 09, 2025 10:46 PM (OoFl2)

186 Maximalist Grandma is coming back in home decorating also. Think patterned wallpaper, chintz, overstuffed chairs and sofas, collectibles, etc. I guess everything old is new again.

Posted by: The Pilot

----
My wing chair seems to be Maximilist Grandma. It has a loud floral and paisley pattern with leopard print on the wings. There is also purple velour. It is a most glorious chair.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 09, 2025 10:46 PM (OUqBw)

187 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 10:45 PM (npFr7)

Corelli is fine. This was very delicate china.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2025 10:46 PM (2sfNr)

188 the best part of this whole shut down deal is

Schumer has failed.

Posted by: Don Black at November 09, 2025 10:46 PM (AOsQT)

189 I wouldn't part with my Waterford for all the tea in China. It's just too pretty.
Posted by: Tuna at November 09, 2025 10:43 PM (lJ0H4)

Crystal is different than China. Not many people use formal sets anymore. Unless it's Royal Doulton with the hand-painted periwinkles.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2025 10:46 PM (uQesX)

190 I wouldn't part with my Waterford for all the tea in China. It's just too pretty.

How about for Steuben Glass?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 09, 2025 10:47 PM (a4flb)

191 how can y'all post so many times a day
Posted by: Don Black at November 09, 2025 10:44 PM (AOsQT)

A passion for justice and cocaine. But mainly cocaine.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at November 09, 2025 10:47 PM (utsBX)

192 Unless it's Royal Doulton with the hand-painted periwinkles.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Didn't Georgia O'Keefe hand paint periwinkles?

Or something like that. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2025 10:48 PM (cYBz/)

193 My wing chair seems to be Maximilist Grandma. It has a loud floral and paisley pattern with leopard print on the wings. There is also purple velour. It is a most glorious chair.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November

Yesss! It absolutely is!

Posted by: Piper at November 09, 2025 10:48 PM (OoFl2)

194 I need to get my China off the floor in my pantry. It’s in protective containers, but still. I have fall dishes, and red Christmas dishes.

Maximalist kinda works for me. lol.

Posted by: Piper at November 09, 2025 10:49 PM (OoFl2)

195 The funeral director came into our social hall and said " Oh, you have a Goodwill store here" I laughed and said "It's the reminders from our last rummage sale" He did buy a lovely rocking chair and a desk lamp, however.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2025 10:49 PM (2sfNr)

196 Piper - White cat-eye sunglasses FTW. Now I need to go listen to Nat King Cole's version of Route 66.

Posted by: The Pilot at November 09, 2025 10:49 PM (M+4Y9)

197 My first real girlfriend 40 or so years ago dropped the
Talk Talk line on me. She was so right. Thanks for the reminder...

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 09, 2025 10:50 PM (MZ+PY)

198 Are mirrored ceilings in bedrooms coming back? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 09, 2025 10:50 PM (utsBX)

199 1 -- Orangent -- Someone out there seems to think that "Happy Together" by The Turtles is a Christmas carol.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at November 09, 2025 10:50 PM (DK5Sh)

200 Question: Does that yellow curtain-looking skirt thingie really go with that green checkered jockey's blouse? I say no.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2025 10:04 PM (dyewR)

Nonna had cataracts, and not much color sense.
Which is why she tended to wear black a lot.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2025 10:50 PM (rbvCR)

201 >>>Pretty much the opposite of what happened.
Posted by: JackStraw
---

What happened, pray tell.
Between the drugs and alcohol I know not.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 10:51 PM (FtvNE)

202 I have china and a lot of dishes. I use them. Now and then our sons moan about it but I don't care. One was in Canada last summer at a restaurant. Took a photo of the dish sets and said he finally found somewhere that had more than his mother! I laugh and don't care!

One granddaughter (she's only 4 and her sister is 3mo) has picked out the china pattern she wants as well as a ring I wear. She ain't stupid.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2025 10:51 PM (MAl//)

203 I wants two thanx Presdent Obana for telling the stepping Republitards open the government again because peeple was dying from no foood.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at November 09, 2025 10:51 PM (357Ky)

204 Didn't Georgia O'Keefe hand paint periwinkles?

Or something like that. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2025 10:48 PM (cYBz/)

I think it was Chayote....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2025 10:51 PM (uQesX)

205 Now I need to go listen to Nat King Cole's version of Route 66.

The Manhattan Transfer version is superior.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2025 10:51 PM (Riz8t)

206 I also need maximalist sleep, so have fun with this look, y’all. Maybe next week we will do southern maximalist decor and how to avoid the line into hoarding. 😂🤣😂🤣😂

Posted by: Piper at November 09, 2025 10:51 PM (OoFl2)

207 Hi Mary!

*waves*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2025 10:52 PM (dyewR)

208 Re: fashion, I love that Piper loves it, but I just don’t get it. My style is (and always has been) well fitting , matching masculine clothes, Marine Corps “low regulation” haircut (zero at the ears to 3 at the top of the head, evenly tapered) and good hygiene. I remember mismatched furniture came into style awhile ago too, which I always thought of as “Fischer-Price’s my first apartment” sets.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 09, 2025 10:52 PM (hlNLQ)

209 One granddaughter (she's only 4 and her sister is 3mo) has picked out the china pattern she wants as well as a ring I wear. She ain't stupid.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2025 10:51 PM (MAl//)

It’s fun! I am glad you do this.

Posted by: Piper at November 09, 2025 10:52 PM (OoFl2)

210 192 Unless it's Royal Doulton with the hand-painted periwinkles.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

I miss Patricia Routledge. I found it really funny that she was an extremely well trained singer and she was clearly terrible at singing as Hyacinth. I bet she had fun.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2025 10:53 PM (2sfNr)

211 Orangent -- Someone out there seems to think that "Happy Together" by The Turtles is a Christmas carol.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at November 09, 2025 10:50 PM (DK5Sh)

Welllll, I'd say it's more of a Christmas song than "Happy Christmas/War is Over and "Favorite Things."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2025 10:53 PM (uQesX)

212 Spot price for Royal Doulton has gone straight to the basement since my demise several weeks ago.

Posted by: Zombie Hyacinth Bucket at November 09, 2025 10:53 PM (oftw2)

213 I was helping my niece reset the fencing panels on her chicken run today, part of which required taking down the bird netting she had put up against predators.

I kept getting stuck in it when it would grab my shirt buttons, and I was reminded of when Mary Cloggenstien got her nose stud caught in the bird netting over her blue berries and had to scream for an hour before the neighbors contacted EMS

Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2025 10:54 PM (rbvCR)

214 The Manhattan Transfer version is superior.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2025 10:51 PM (Riz8t)

Asleep At The Wheel does a fine cover of it too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 10:55 PM (npFr7)

215 >>>I don’t know how they find one room to the next, but I can’t stop going back to Zillow to stare.
Posted by: Piper
---

Just did a Zillow walk through. It was a Winchester house, I love them. But too much R&R for me.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 10:55 PM (FtvNE)

216 Dishes! Oh... I love pretty dishes and kitchen stuff!

Have paternal grandma's Haviland china, Mom's Noritake china, plus a set of Christmas china that I bought overseas... plus Christmas dishes (Revere stoneware) that Mom gave me... plus the odd Better Homes holiday plates I bought at W-M for a few years....

Stepson doesn't want any of it. Nobody wants any of it!

That's ok. I will enjoy it all until I die and *somebody else* will then figure out what to do with it. LOL.

Posted by: JQ at November 09, 2025 10:55 PM (rdVOm)

217 If that is what the Republicans are conceding to reopen the government, why the hell did they let it close in the first place? You know damn well and good they will cave on everything else eventually. Ar-r-r-gh!!!

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at November 09, 2025 10:55 PM (DK5Sh)

218 "Socialism means I don't have to work anymore, but I still get paid, right?"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 09, 2025 10:55 PM (CHHv1)

219 I miss Patricia Routledge. I found it really funny that she was an extremely well trained singer and she was clearly terrible at singing as Hyacinth. I bet she had fun.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2025 10:53 PM (2sfNr)

Yeah, just noticed she passed recently? Funny show.

It's pretty well known that to portray a lousy singer, you have to be a very good one.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2025 10:56 PM (uQesX)

220 183 I would be happy to have just a complete set of Corelle, plain or patterned, no matter, other than they should all be the same. Great stuff. Tough, light weight, easy to wash, and thin, so a stack doesn't overwhelm your china cabinet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 10:45 PM (npFr7)

Corelle is the best. Have some Corelle I bought 30 years ago, use it 4-5 times a week. As you say, it is durable and light.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 09, 2025 10:56 PM (y171U)

221 205 Now I need to go listen to Nat King Cole's version of Route 66.

The Manhattan Transfer version is superior.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2025 10:51 PM (Riz8t)

Asleep at the Wheel does a kick ass rendition as well.

Posted by: browndog nipping at your heels at November 09, 2025 10:58 PM (3sXRv)

222 Another point where GLOBAL WARMING is a GOOD THING !!!!!!!!!!!

Energy Minister Abbas Alibadi also announced that water supplies will be cut off on some evenings to refill reservoirs, urging citizens to reduce consumption by 20% to avoid rationing.

"The symptoms were already present, and now the flames are undeniable. We are discussing Day Zero, when the taps would run dry in Tehran and other cities once immune to shortages," Madani said.

"Iran is in a state of water bankruptcy, the result of decades of mismanagement, worsened by prolonged drought and CLIMATE change," he added.

Posted by: Jackson at November 09, 2025 10:58 PM (J9q9v)

223 It’s fun! I am glad you do this.
Posted by: Piper at November 09, 2025 10:52 PM (OoFl2)

I'm really, really bad, Piper. And have been collecting stuff for decades for me and our house. Our LR furniture is all antique from my grandmothers (reupholstered) plus an ivory sofa (with that outdoor fabric, Sunbrella, bought off the floor of the store as no longer making them). It looks very fancy but can withstand chocolate from the grands. The family room is Western and leather except for my red velvet type chair and ottoman.

My husband frets of wth will happen when my 95yr old mother dies. I've already told him. I am eccentric and care not what anyone thinks!

I should be ashamed for all I have, but seeing as how we started with nothing, were very poor for over 5yrs, and I did not get my grandmother's china til my elderly aunt died (by then we'd been married 20yrs), I simply don't care what sons or brothers-in-law's judge. I love all my stuff.

I also have a ton of books all over the nuthous. Sons are going to suffer when I croak. Ha! Mom's revenge!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2025 10:59 PM (MAl//)

224 But, and you all know there was going to be a "BUT"

All these re-instated Fed employees mean the Democrat's get their foot soldiers put back in the swamp ahead of the 2026 mid-terms. A total political chess move that may mean bad news for the Republicans.

Just an observation.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 09, 2025 10:59 PM (25kuG)

225 Hubby's Grandma's china is in a tote in the closet. It is pretty, but there is so much of it. So many cups and saucers. I'm the proverbial bull in a china shop, so like my Corelle dishes.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 09, 2025 10:59 PM (OUqBw)

226 >>What happened, pray tell.
Between the drugs and alcohol I know not.

Democrats folded. They got none of their demands after the longest shutdown in history. The only minor concession they got was the rehiring of a couple thousand people who had their jobs before Democrats shut down the government.

No money for Obamacare. No money for anything. Just a return to the status quo in spending until the end of January. And now they know with Trump in the White House Republicans aren't going to bend over.

As a bonus, the communists in the Democrat Party are furious. Not only didn't Chuck appease them they think he's a pussy. There is no way the Democrats can spin this into a win other than with the hardcore lunatics on the far left.

This was a big win for Team Us.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2025 10:59 PM (viF8m)

227 "Re: fashion, I love that Piper loves it, but I just don’t get it. My style is (and always has been) well fitting , matching masculine clothes, Marine Corps “low regulation” haircut (zero at the ears to 3 at the top of the head, evenly tapered) and good hygiene."

Thats ours too!

Posted by: Bull dykes everywhere at November 09, 2025 10:59 PM (utsBX)

228 205 Now I need to go listen to Nat King Cole's version of Route 66.

The Manhattan Transfer version is superior.
Posted by: Archimedes
------------

Don't forget the man who wrote it.

youtube.com/watch?v=kLUYf6cekMA

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 10:59 PM (FtvNE)

229 214 The Manhattan Transfer version is superior.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2025 10:51 PM (Riz8t)

Asleep At The Wheel does a fine cover of it too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 10:55 PM (npFr7)

Horde mind at work ...

Posted by: browndog nipping at your heels at November 09, 2025 11:00 PM (3sXRv)

230 Chicks dig good hygiene.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2025 11:01 PM (dyewR)

231 Now I'm going down a rabbit hole on U-tube for versions of Route 66.

Posted by: The Pilot at November 09, 2025 11:01 PM (M+4Y9)

232 "Iran is in a state of water bankruptcy, the result of decades of mismanagement, worsened by prolonged drought and CLIMATE change," he added.
Posted by: Jackson at November 09, 2025 10:58 PM (J9q9v)

I search for a drop of sympathy for Tehran and find that well empty.

PS...Doof I LOVE BAD COMPANY!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2025 11:01 PM (MAl//)

233 Spouse and I have been listening to David Suchet ( the English actor who played Hercule Poirot) reading Psalms and Proverbs . He went into the studio and taped the entire Bible.He had such an expressive voice and does a great job. I've decided to write to him and tell him how much I appreciate what he did. I guess I can find the address of his agent online. I knew a person in college who went to England as an exchange student and saw Alec Guinness is some Shakespeare play. She wrote and told him how much he enjoyed his performance as well D his movie roles and he wrote a handwritten letter back to thank her , and I think they continued the correspondence

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2025 11:01 PM (2sfNr)

234 Maximum Overdrive Granny

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 09, 2025 11:01 PM (pkeXY)

235 Night Ranger had a song called Night Ranger on their first album.
Posted by: Blahblahblah

Hey Hey We are the Night Ranger..
[ Repeat indefinitely]

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 09, 2025 11:01 PM (/lPRQ)

236 All these re-instated Fed employees mean the Democrat's get their foot soldiers put back in the swamp ahead of the 2026 mid-terms. A total political chess move that may mean bad news for the Republicans.

Just an observation.
Posted by: Nightwatch at November 09, 2025 10:59 PM (25kuG)

It's only bad news if you didn't plan it that way.

Posted by: GOPe at November 09, 2025 11:01 PM (uQesX)

237 >Now I need to go listen to Nat King Cole's version of Route 66.

The Manhattan Transfer version is superior.
Posted by: Archimedes
------------

the Rolling Stones version

Posted by: Don Black at November 09, 2025 11:02 PM (AOsQT)

238 Or his wife:

youtu.be/1U7APF1HuQE?&t=11

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 11:02 PM (FtvNE)

239 PS...Doof I LOVE BAD COMPANY!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2025 11:01 PM (MAl//)

Excellent!

Posted by: Doof at November 09, 2025 11:02 PM (QMAsf)

240 Learn to take a W. It's ok to win.

>>@SenSanders

>>Tonight was a very bad night.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2025 11:03 PM (viF8m)

241
Well, that arctic air mass is on its way down here. Got breezy this afternoon, and dew point crashed from 60F to mid 30Fs this afternoon, but temps stayed warmish. Now, temp is dropping. It will bottom out only around 36F this morning, but high will be only around 45F tomorrow, then it takes the plunge down to 26F.

Lowest temp so far here as been 33F, but no frost on the ground yet. So, it's a smidge late for the first freeze, but a smidge early for the first hard freeze (28F or lower).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 09, 2025 11:03 PM (w6EFb)

242 So what happens in 2 weeks when the CR expires?
We do this Shit all over again??

The new CR will expire at the end of January.

Posted by: Chuck C at November 09, 2025 11:03 PM (0GLZr)

243 Played hundreds of hours of STQ. I think it was the core of my childhood, heh.

As for the shutdown over, whatever, I hate when the GOP gives up anything, but I always expect it. And now back to business as usual in DC, giving it to us up the wazoo.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 09, 2025 11:04 PM (n5tGW)

244 233 Spouse and I have been listening to David Suchet ( the English actor who played Hercule Poirot) reading Psalms and Proverbs . He went into the studio and taped the entire Bible.He had such an expressive voice and does a great job. I've decided to write to him and tell him how much I appreciate what he did. I guess I can find the address of his agent online. I knew a person in college who went to England as an exchange student and saw Alec Guinness is some Shakespeare play. She wrote and told him how much he enjoyed his performance as well D his movie roles and he wrote a handwritten letter back to thank her , and I think they continued the correspondence
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2025 11:01 PM (2sfNr)

Fen...have you read "Surprised by Oxford" by Carolyn Weber? Great book! And a really good video on Amazon, which inspired me to buy not only this book but all three she write. Her take on not having sex til marriage I may ask my granddaughter's to read someday. Surprised by Oxford was one of the best books I have read in a long time.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2025 11:04 PM (MAl//)

245 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2025 11:01 PM (2sfNr)

----
I enjoy his narration of the Bible. He did a couple of documentaries that I saw on PBS years ago. In the Steps of Paul, and In the Steps of Peter. Those were interesting.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 09, 2025 11:05 PM (OUqBw)

246 Maximum Overdrive Granny
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 09, 2025 11:01 PM (pkeXY)

Driver of the Joker Truck?

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 09, 2025 11:05 PM (wVcYX)

247 Well, let the games begin again.

President Trump,

Your move.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 09, 2025 11:06 PM (25kuG)

248 That woman with the yellow purse is doing acid, I think. I would not wear any of the above unless separately. I don't like prints to start with.

I never mix metals because I only wear sterling or white gold. And I'd rather die than wear zirconia or plastic stuff.

You "used" to be able to find "good" jewelry at TJ Maxx...ropes of freshwater pearls. I bought some and still have them. Rarely go anywhere, but when I do I sashay. My beloved granddaughters, and those possibly not hatched yet will benefit someday from their eccentric Nana.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2025 11:07 PM (MAl//)

249
It's going to snow in the mountains along the TN-NC border tonight and tomorrow, and a smidge may get down to Asheville where Mike Hammer is.

Anyway, the GSP guys were going about conditions will be right for perfect dendritic snow crystal growth, and the snow to liquid equivalent ratio will be a whopping 25:1 (that is, 25" of snow is just 1" of rain). Very fluffy low density snow, like cotton candy.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 09, 2025 11:08 PM (w6EFb)

250 had to do the ether trick about ten times before it took. But it's all good now.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 10:22 PM (npFr7)

with smaller tires, I have found that running a bungee cord around the tire splays the bead enough to get it to seal just by air pressure. I have never tried this with a full sized tire, though,

Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2025 11:08 PM (rbvCR)

251 This was a big win for Team Us.
Posted by: JackStraw

It looks like a pretty good win, so thanks. It's been 30 years of taking it in the ass with "gosh dern it, we shure tried" pablum from the Repubs (since Gingrich lost his own shutdown fight) so it's nice to get a W for once.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 09, 2025 11:08 PM (gKWVE)

252 >>>President Trump,

Your move.
Posted by: Nightwatch
--------

This was his move.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 11:08 PM (FtvNE)

253 Night Ranger had a song called Night Ranger on their first album.
Posted by: Blahblahblah

Hey Hey We are the Night Ranger..
[ Repeat indefinitely]
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 09, 2025 11:01 PM (/lPRQ)

And people say we ranger around
But we're too busy singing
To put anybody down

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 09, 2025 11:08 PM (wVcYX)

254
Trump spoke on air with the FOX NFL guys in the booth at the Redskins game.

Hell, he could be damn good color commentator.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 09, 2025 11:09 PM (w6EFb)

255 Seriously. Does anyone like Chris Collinsworth?
I bet his mom rolls her eyes.

JFC. You’re awful. Shut up. Go away.

Killmenow.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 09, 2025 11:10 PM (mT+6a)

256 Thats ours too!
Posted by: Bull dykes everywhere at November 09, 2025 10:59 PM (utsBX)

When I regard them as almost "normal" at this point, well, we've been through hell and back in the last few years.

I'll speak to them at least vs a blue haired tranny. Not that I go anywhere to see a tranny, but I would not speak to one!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2025 11:10 PM (MAl//)

257 Lunatic fringe, I know you're out there
You're in hiding and you hold your meetings
I can hear you coming, I know what you're after
We're wise to you this time (Wise to you this time)
We won't let you kill the laughter.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 09, 2025 11:11 PM (25kuG)

258 So, what's this talk about $2000?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2025 11:12 PM (uQesX)

259 250 had to do the ether trick about ten times before it took. But it's all good now.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 10:22 PM (npFr7)

with smaller tires, I have found that running a bungee cord around the tire splays the bead enough to get it to seal just by air pressure. I have never tried this with a full sized tire, though,
_-_
Perhaos a ratcheting strap? Never tried it. Trained on the ol'starting fluid and a match method....now more often use the Discount Tire method.

Posted by: Dkn in SoCo at November 09, 2025 11:12 PM (vd6bO)

260 I'm the proverbial bull in a china shop, so like my Corelle dishes.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 09, 2025 10:59 PM (OUqBw)

I have always been extremely scared of drinking out of my fine china (Lennox) glasses. I've got the champagne flutes, white and red wine glasses and water/iced tea goblets. I'm petrified to use them. They're so fragile and I'm not exactly dainty.

Posted by: RickZ at November 09, 2025 11:12 PM (gKDq2)

261 Lunatic fringe, I know you're out there
You're in hiding and you hold your meetings
I can hear you coming, I know what you're after
We're wise to you this time (Wise to you this time)
We won't let you kill the laughter.
Posted by: Nightwatch
----------
Wore the As Far as Siam cassette out.

Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2025 11:12 PM (41CYW)

262 257 Lunatic fringe, I know you're out there
You're in hiding and you hold your meetings
I can hear you coming, I know what you're after
We're wise to you this time (Wise to you this time)
We won't let you kill the laughter.
Posted by: Nightwatch at November 09, 2025 11:11 PM (25kuG)

yeah, good luck with that

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 09, 2025 11:13 PM (xcxpd)

263 with smaller tires, I have found that running a bungee cord around the tire splays the bead enough to get it to seal just by air pressure. I have never tried this with a full sized tire, though,
Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2025 11:08 PM (rbvCR)

True. I have seen air-inflatable belts to wrap around the tire tread; then air them up to constrict the tire tread and splay the beads out. A ratchet strap might work, too. Nice thing about the ether trick is that it beads the tire fully nearly every time, if you can make the ether "pop". I have used it many times. I use a flaming wad of paper on the end of a long stick to touch it off. No way I want any part of my body near the action, LOL.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 11:14 PM (npFr7)

264

Can we PLEASE BRING BACK Korea Girl?

Posted by: Ped Xing at November 09, 2025 11:14 PM (jjKb/)

265 Monday should be interesting.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 09, 2025 11:14 PM (25kuG)

266 Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 09, 2025 11:05 PM (OUqBw)

We haven't gotten started on the New Testament yet, and we still have a lot of Proverbs to do -about seven more chapters. I said to spouse "Are we over the warnings about a quarrelsome wife yet? 😉 Solomon had about 100 wives, I think Bound to be that some of them were quarrelsome if I had to deal with 99 other wives I'd probably be quarrelsome as well. Anyway spouse always says "Quarrelsome wife" and makes a funny face and I laugh

I would like to see those documentaries about Peter and Paul. Maybe I could find

Goodnight all. Have to get up about 5:00

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2025 11:14 PM (Yl2Ob)

267 It's going to snow in the mountains along the TN-NC border tonight and tomorrow, and a smidge may get down to Asheville where Mike Hammer is.
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36.7 deg here now,but will be dropping overnight. Snow? We shall see. Calling for 20's tonight.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 09, 2025 11:15 PM (XeU6L)

268 Meant "Maybe I could find them online."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2025 11:15 PM (Yl2Ob)

269 Iran is in a state of water bankruptcy, the result of decades of mismanagement, worsened by prolonged drought and CLIMATE change," he added.
Posted by: Jackson at November 09, 2025 10:58 PM (J9q9v)

There was an Iranian environmentalist / hydraulic engineer who went public with his observations that there was nothing different about the climate, that most of Iran had been an arid plateau for the last 3 millennia, at least. He said that the current government had totally ignored all maintenance and certainly did no improvements while population exploded, and that the growing water shortages were absolutely predictable because of how badly they were being managed.

The Iranian Government executed him as an Enemy of the State about 3 or 4 years ago.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2025 11:16 PM (eQmnE)

270 AHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

Not a chance, chump:

https://tinyurl.com/avn2ts44

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2025 11:16 PM (uQesX)

271 Night all.

Monday and work be calling with the sunrise.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 09, 2025 11:16 PM (25kuG)

272 Wow. Can't spell me own name. Listening to Tom Luongo talk to Richard Poe saying the Brits did it and blamed the Jews.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 09, 2025 11:16 PM (vd6bO)

273
This was a big win for Team Us.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2025 10:59 PM (viF8m)

YAHOO! *REBEL YELL*

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2025 11:17 PM (MAl//)

274 A ratchet strap might work, too.
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Have done that several times, usually on smaller trailer tires.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 09, 2025 11:17 PM (XeU6L)

275 I hear fat bottom girls make the rocking world go round.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 09, 2025 11:18 PM (xcxpd)

276 The game is called Smear the Queer, and if you played it, you took a turn being the "queer". It's kind of like being in the Illuminati.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 09, 2025 11:20 PM (pIfcn)

277 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2025 11:04 PM (MAl//)

Was there a movie of "Suprised by Oxford" ?If so, I saw that and it was really fine

Have a good evening.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2025 11:21 PM (Yl2Ob)

278 DJ Doof - Song Titles Named After Their Artists Edition

Dutch prog-rock band Focus did this on almost every album.

There's a limit to how many links you can post, so here's #1 and #13.

https://youtu.be/PyQH2U6CHM0
https://youtu.be/ZQYAVHJESL0

Posted by: mikeski at November 09, 2025 11:21 PM (nhCoE)

279 Maximalist Grandma, and not one picture of the late, great Iris Apfel?!

I am more of a Maximalist Feral Aunt. I can't do the clashing patterns. The red hair clashes sufficiently with just about everything. I love leopard in reasonable doses. Not as a main item, just scarves or bag or shoes. Never all 3 at once. I'm a big fan of brooches. I wear multiples on my circa 1980s Guess Jeans jacket, usually with a black maxi column dress and combat boots, or some ridiculously tacky Betsry Johnson shoes.

I love my 60s so far!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 09, 2025 11:21 PM (Vvh2V)

280 >>>He said that the current government had totally ignored all maintenance and certainly did no improvements while population exploded, and that the growing water shortages were absolutely predictable because of how badly they were being managed.

The Iranian Government executed him as an Enemy of the State about 3 or 4 years ago.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Dams? We don't need no stinking dams.
If allah wanted us to have dams he would have given us dams.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 11:21 PM (FtvNE)

281 It's going to snow in the mountains along the TN-NC border tonight and tomorrow, and a smidge may get down to Asheville where Mike Hammer is.

Yeah, down to 31 here up on the Plateau already and the county schools are on a 2 hr delay for tomorrow morning. There are only 2-3 snowplows in the entire county - maybe.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2025 11:22 PM (cYBz/)

282 I must have grown up in a kinder, gentler world. We called it "Kill the man with the ball."

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 09, 2025 11:22 PM (vd6bO)

283 "Iran is in a state of water bankruptcy, the result of decades of mismanagement,"
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Nope. Decades of inshallah. Before we took out the Shah, it was a well kept country. After, typical Islamic barbarism.

Posted by: clarence at November 09, 2025 11:23 PM (0zmNP)

284 *REBEL YELL*
--ChristyBlinky
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Right here:

https://shorturl.at/h7wD4

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 09, 2025 11:23 PM (XeU6L)

285 https://tinyurl.com/avn2ts44
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2025 11:16 PM (uQesX)

Race Bannon sure has let himself go. I wonder how that custody fight with Dr. Quest over the kids went?

Posted by: Bull dykes everywhere at November 09, 2025 11:24 PM (utsBX)

286 Yeah, down to 31 here up on the Plateau already and the county schools are on a 2 hr delay for tomorrow morning. There are only 2-3 snowplows in the entire county - maybe.
Posted by: Tonypete
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What is your location?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 09, 2025 11:24 PM (XeU6L)

287 Dams? We don't need no stinking dams.
If allah wanted us to have dams he would have given us dams.

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The California Strategy!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2025 11:25 PM (dyewR)

288 283 "Iran is in a state of water bankruptcy, the result of decades of mismanagement,"
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Nope. Decades of inshallah. Before we took out the Shah, it was a well kept country. After, typical Islamic barbarism.
_-_
The commnists ally themselve with the islamists, take over, the the islamists kill the communists, or something like that.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 09, 2025 11:25 PM (vd6bO)

289 Man, I love the drums on that Bad Company song! Rockin' eccentric Nana! Old as dirt but still got it!

To continue to alarm my sons and husband is a testament to good livin'.

Read the other day that a doc said one must do 7 things like walking 500 steps, yada. Cooking. Remembering conversations. I whipped through that youtube and thought, big deal! He doesn't mention planting spring bulbs or getting up off the ground by yourself! Or racing grands and jumping in piles of leaves! Or still dancing nearly daily to '70's rock.

Who are these people who don't do this?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2025 11:26 PM (MAl//)

290 258 So, what's this talk about $2000?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2025 11:12 PM (uQesX)

That is the Trump tariff dividend. It will happen only if the Supreme Court rules in his favor.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 09, 2025 11:26 PM (y171U)

291 Where did love go?

>>@harryjsisson

>>Absolutely pathetic. I cannot believe we caved to this wannabe dictator and his goons. Thanks to the Democrats who voted no. We’ll remember who bent the knee.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2025 11:27 PM (viF8m)

292
Latest GSP forecast discussion:
https://is.gd/objMXP

They've got a Winter storm advisory for high elevation Swain County.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 09, 2025 11:28 PM (w6EFb)

293 That is the Trump tariff dividend. It will happen only if the Supreme Court rules in his favor.
Posted by: Joemarine at November 09, 2025 11:26 PM (y171U)

Finally heard a story about it. Yeah, CONgress will have to approve it, and as we know they don't want us to have anything, likelihood of seeing the 2k is zero.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2025 11:28 PM (uQesX)

294 The game is called Smear the Queer, and if you played it, you took a turn being the "queer". It's kind of like being in the Illuminati.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here

The primary objective is to take the ball... by force.

Kind of like king of the hill. But with a ball and no hill.
If you have no ball you can use a stray cat or baby goat.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 09, 2025 11:29 PM (/lPRQ)

295 I love driving cross country. Have seen that sunset many times. Again soon I hope!!

Posted by: NC Ref at November 09, 2025 11:29 PM (HIRLq)

296 MH - I'm over on the far side of Oak Ridge from you.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2025 11:29 PM (cYBz/)

297 Absolutely pathetic. I cannot believe we caved to this wannabe dictator and his goons. Thanks to the Democrats who voted no. We’ll remember who bent the knee.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2025 11:27 PM (viF8m)

Well, I think that guy is pretty familiar with being on knees....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2025 11:30 PM (uQesX)

298 I've heard that the cult of Cyrus the Great is growing in Iran. It's a deliberate thumb in the eye to the mullahs and their incompetent theocracy. The government tries to suppress it since there is no history before the arrival of islam.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2025 11:30 PM (dyewR)

299 getting up off the ground by yourself
_-_
I still get under vehicles to work on them, but I find myself much more patient explaining to a young assistant exacly what channel-lock pliers look like...and which drawer they're in....no, the other toolbox.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 09, 2025 11:30 PM (vd6bO)

300
>>Absolutely pathetic. I cannot believe we caved to this wannabe dictator and his goons. Thanks to the Democrats who voted no. We’ll remember who bent the knee.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2025 11:27 PM (viF8m)

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I've heard that on the Left the way you deal with politicians who don't toe the line is, you kill their kids.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2025 11:33 PM (dyewR)

301 Posted by: The Pilot at November 09, 2025 10:37 PM (M+4Y9)

I was born a Maximalist Granny where interior design is concerned, though.b

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 09, 2025 11:33 PM (Vvh2V)

302 One of my kids came home from school one day toting a box of Waterford crystal that he found in the trash. I drove him back to that house and told the homeowner that it was too valuable to throw out. She was insistent that she did not want it and she wouldn't take any money for it. Those glasses have graced our holiday dinner table for many years now.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 09, 2025 11:34 PM (0nHVk)

303 Luongo is pretty good on predictions, and explaining the "why" things are going the way they are.
The fact that he is a gold-bug neo-Larouchite is merely a side benefit from my point of view.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2025 11:34 PM (rbvCR)

304
https://shorturl.at/h7wD4
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 09, 2025 11:23 PM (XeU6L)

May have to give that a swig next time I am down South.

Right now there's Scotch and local whiskey at this saloon on the ridge. I am currently jealous of the snow back east. Soon.

I saw a youtube once, a black and white very old video of real Confederates, in their 80's, doing the Rebel Yell. Meeting like a mome with Yankees.

To my knowledge none of my ancestors fought in the War of Unpleasantness. Oh, wait, I think a great-great-great something grandfather was in a Yankee POW camp and walked home. He was not a slave owner.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2025 11:35 PM (MAl//)

305 AoSHQ Commenter Statistics:
Number of posts: 87
Number of comments: 26006
Number of unique hashes: 2209

Thanks for these added statistics. I am always curious. 26k, huh. So, combined with the number of posts means ~299 comments per thread. That seems about right.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2025 11:35 PM (bss/y)

306 I've heard it called smear the queer but we called it Kill the carrier.

Posted by: Veeshir at November 09, 2025 11:36 PM (1/Ztw)

307 >"Iran is in a state of water bankruptcy, the result of decades of mismanagement,"
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That's a shame.
So, anyway....

Posted by: Don Black at November 09, 2025 11:36 PM (AOsQT)

308 291 Where did love go?

>>@harryjsisson

>>Absolutely pathetic. I cannot believe we caved to this wannabe dictator and his goons. Thanks to the Democrats who voted no. We’ll remember who bent the knee.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2025 11:27 PM (viF8m)

Considering I wanted to keep the fuckers fired, I initially thought we were talking about Schumer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2025 11:37 PM (bss/y)

309 302 One of my kids came home from school one day toting a box of Waterford crystal that he found in the trash. I drove him back to that house and told the homeowner that it was too valuable to throw out. She was insistent that she did not want it and she wouldn't take any money for it. Those glasses have graced our holiday dinner table for many years now.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 09, 2025 11:34 PM (0nHVk)

Good for him (and you!)!!! I like to wash my fancy stuff the morning after the dinner at my leisure. The in-laws freak out but I don't care. It ain't going in the dishwasher. My late MIL would not sit down after dinners til everything was washed, dried and put away. I am the total opposite of her.

Have read people today don't want crystal or china or sterling because it can't go in the dishwasher. Bless their hearts.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2025 11:38 PM (MAl//)

310 I think Trump beat them with the offer to send the money the states would have gotten under a de-sunsetted spending plan directly to the public.

It was a keep this up then you'll get nothing and like it for the Dems. The math changed and the behavior changed.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 09, 2025 11:38 PM (pIfcn)

311 Maybe Zoroastrianism will make a comeback in Iran.

"Zoroastrianism, also called Mazdayasna or Behdin, is an Iranian religion centred on the Avesta and the teachings of Zarathushtra Spitama, who is more commonly referred to by the Greek translation, Zoroaster. Among the world's oldest organized faiths, its adherents exalt an uncreated, benevolent, and all-wise deity known as Ahura Mazda, who is hailed as the supreme being of the universe. Opposed to Ahura Mazda is Angra Mainyu, who is personified as a destructive spirit and the adversary of all things that are good"

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 09, 2025 11:39 PM (utsBX)

312 >>I've heard that on the Left the way you deal with politicians who don't toe the line is, you kill their kids.

Did we go sailing this weekend?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2025 11:40 PM (viF8m)

313
Have read people today don't want crystal or china or sterling because it can't go in the dishwasher. Bless their hearts.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky
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Or 'dark' furniture. Ikea>>Mahogany, among young moderns. Auctioneers tell me, 'No one wants it'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 09, 2025 11:41 PM (XeU6L)

314 It's "maul ball."

I think it needs to be made into an Olympic sport

Posted by: Dirk Manley at November 09, 2025 11:41 PM (d4OOA)

315 This was a big win for Team Us.
Posted by: JackStraw

Big win, insofar as the fucking commies usually get everything and then some? I guess. But it's hard to get amped about a defensive victory. Not gonna gut leviathan without taking ground.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at November 09, 2025 11:41 PM (2tdWV)

316 I still get under vehicles to work on them, but I find myself much more patient explaining to a young assistant exacly what channel-lock pliers look like...and which drawer they're in....no, the other toolbox.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 09, 2025 11:30 PM (vd6bO

I forgot to add that I don't look graceful or lovely after digging in dirt and getting up off the ground. But I still can without help. One day my husband may have to put me on his dolly thing and wheel me inside, but not yet!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2025 11:42 PM (MAl//)

317 I played smear the queen as a kid. Fun stuff.

I also just remembered how we selected teams (for other games). It involved "Inty Minty Dibbety Fig, Delia Delia Dominig"

Not sure why that came to mind - does it ring a bell for anyone or was it a local VT thing?

Posted by: 496 at November 09, 2025 11:42 PM (EWlvz)

318 307 >"Iran is in a state of water bankruptcy, the result of decades of mismanagement,"
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That's a shame.
So, anyway....
Posted by: Don Black at November 09, 2025 11:36 PM (AOsQT)

Your Messiah is trapped in a well and you ran out water? Maybe you go dig five times a day instead. You'll find one or the other eventually.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 09, 2025 11:43 PM (pIfcn)

319 Oh and Happy Birthday, Berserker!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 09, 2025 11:43 PM (Vvh2V)

320 303 Luongo
_-_
I've come to like listening to that whole crowd of Luongo, LTC Steven Murray, E M Burlingame, Matt Bracken, Michael Yon, etc. Don't always agree with their conclusions, but I Always learn and get new perspectives to consider.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 09, 2025 11:44 PM (vd6bO)

321 311 Maybe Zoroastrianism will make a comeback in Iran.

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FUN FACT: Interest in Zoroastrianism peaked in the West in the late 1800s. Nietzche published Thus Spake Zarathustra, which gained enough popularity that Wagner wrote a major work with the same title.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2025 11:45 PM (dyewR)

322 >>I think Trump beat them with the offer to send the money the states would have gotten under a de-sunsetted spending plan directly to the public.

I think he freaked him out when he started calling for Republicans to end the filibuster, end the shutdown and pass everything with 51 votes. He went full Bruce Willis. Killed a mutant then asked who else wanted to negotiate.

Amazing what happens when you have a guy who doesn't just like to negotiate he lives for it. And he's really good at it.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2025 11:45 PM (viF8m)

323 Or 'dark' furniture. Ikea>>Mahogany, among young moderns. Auctioneers tell me, 'No one wants it'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 09, 2025 11:41 PM (XeU6L)

We own no Ikea. Antique solid wood, or a kitchen set of solid oak from Amish. Solid cherry tables in family room.

Once we buy something it is forever. Ask my poor husband. I seriously can tell he will be doing more than mourning my mother someday when a semi drives up the driveway to her house to go West, young man. I have a way of turning grief into hysteria. There will be a trio of, "Oh, no!" from him and sons. Don't care!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2025 11:45 PM (MAl//)

324 Gotta put in a plug for Glenn Frey's Route 66. On U-tube: a fine version.

Posted by: The Pilot at November 09, 2025 11:46 PM (M+4Y9)

325 Also.

Posted by: Zarathustra at November 09, 2025 11:46 PM (vd6bO)

326 Amazing what happens when you have a guy who doesn't just like to negotiate he lives for it. And he's really good at it.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2025 11:45 PM (viF8m)

Every day since November 2024 I thank God for him, and pray for President Trump, VP Vance, their family and friends and cabinet. That any plan against them fail.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2025 11:47 PM (MAl//)

327 307 >"Iran is in a state of water bankruptcy, the result of decades of mismanagement,"
............................................
Water ran out of money? Forgot to pay the bills? Iran is a weird place.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 09, 2025 11:47 PM (sAmhv)

328 Correction: Strauss, not Wagner.

Krauts all of em.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2025 11:48 PM (dyewR)

329 Or 'dark' furniture. Ikea>>Mahogany, among young moderns. Auctioneers tell me, 'No one wants it'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer

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Ran into this issue when having an estate sale for family member. There was a lot of vintage furniture, and marble-top tables. It wasn't a big draw.

Personally, there are a few pieces of old 'dark' furniture in our house, and I like them. But I prefer the mid-century maple pieces we have, as I like maple.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 09, 2025 11:48 PM (OUqBw)

330 324 Gotta put in a plug for Glenn Frey's Route 66. On U-tube: a fine version.
Posted by: The Pilot at November 09, 2025 11:46 PM (M+4Y9)

Oh! I LOVE him!!! My main Eagle.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2025 11:48 PM (MAl//)

331 Oh, and Happy Birthday, Berserker!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 09, 2025 11:48 PM (Vvh2V)

332 324 Gotta put in a plug for Glenn Frey's Route 66

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PICK ME! PICK ME!

Posted by: Mayor Pete at November 09, 2025 11:49 PM (dyewR)

333
Well, now NASA can finally release the 3I/ATLAS images from their Mars orbiters. Well, spacecraft operations are "essential" even "critical", releasing the data isn't, so they let ESA and even the Chicoms scoop them.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 09, 2025 11:51 PM (w6EFb)

334 Just an observation.
Posted by: Nightwatch at November 09, 2025 10:59 PM (25kuG)

In 3 months, they will get shitcanned again.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at November 09, 2025 11:51 PM (89Sog)

335 I love dark wood and gimme all the marble top everything. Except cabinet tops, I prefer dark green granite.

But I love Victorian era casegoods! I think Eastlake is my favorite, but I love it all.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 09, 2025 11:52 PM (Vvh2V)

336 Amazing what happens when you have a guy who doesn't just like to negotiate he lives for it. And he's really good at it.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2025 11:45 PM (viF8m)

Refusing that black pill there , Mr Straw?

Well! I never...!!!!

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at November 09, 2025 11:53 PM (89Sog)

337 My gosh, I didn't know it was Bers' birthday today. Happy Birthday, Bers.

Both of my daughters got a ton of Ikea stuff to furnish their first apartments, none of it has stood the test of time very well. All of a sudden they are a lot more interested in old furniture here at the house and I couldn't be happier about that.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 09, 2025 11:56 PM (0nHVk)

338 2 Our long national day off from government is over.

Crap! Every day without government is a better one that with government.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at November 09, 2025 11:56 PM (icmmM)

339 Wait...Bers has gotten older? What the hell is going on here?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 09, 2025 11:57 PM (XeU6L)

340 Refusing that black pill there , Mr Straw?

Even the Cure don't do that faggy emo shit all the time
youtu.be/phMX4DBafG4

Posted by: gKWVE at November 09, 2025 11:57 PM (gKWVE)

341 >>Big win, insofar as the fucking commies usually get everything and then some? I guess. But it's hard to get amped about a defensive victory. Not gonna gut leviathan without taking ground.

I think you are underestimating what just happened.

Yes, commies have always gotten things for years. And this time they got it shoved up their asses. The Washington Generals just dunked on the Globetrotters and proved they are full of shit. Better, the left are now fighting amongst themselves. Even the media is admitting this was a huge loss for Democrats.

First thing, teach our team that winning is not just possible its fun. Prom queens and all that. All of a sudden nobody is going to give a crap about elections in deep blue states. They are going to be happy that their flight on Thanksgiving to see meemaw is going to happen. That's all happening because Democrats lost ground by starting a shutdown they lost.

The goal is to keep winning until you win before ever fighting.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2025 11:57 PM (viF8m)

342 I stand corrected. Not Eastlake, but Rococco and Renaissance Revival is more what I like. And the later era where they used a lot of honey colored oak, although I don't care for oak, but the sideboard and hutches were soooo beautiful in that era.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 09, 2025 11:58 PM (Vvh2V)

343 Wait...Bers has gotten older? What the hell is going on here?
Posted by: Mike Hammer

No worries, Bers' hair remains perfect!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2025 12:01 AM (cYBz/)

344 And yes, I am relatively certain today, wrll, yesterday on his time, is Berserker's 🎂 🥳 🎉 because it's Thor's birthday, too.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 10, 2025 12:01 AM (Vvh2V)

345 So, speaking of black pills:
Inadequate Deportation Levels
H1-B Visa Program still exists
Currency Crisis Imminent
DEI practices still in place in most places
Tarriffs probably going away
No action on spending cuts by Congress

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 10, 2025 12:03 AM (vd6bO)

346 >> I love dark wood and gimme all the marble top everything. Except cabinet tops, I prefer dark green granite.

You would love the kitchen I had built in my last place.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2025 12:03 AM (viF8m)

347 Most of the wood furniture in the house was inherited from grandparents. I appreciate the memories.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 10, 2025 12:03 AM (OUqBw)

348 Corporate democrats cave on filibuster on donors orders. Schumer tells them cave ;but he has to vote no or AOC will primary him! Thei pseudo no vote wont save him.

Posted by: raimondo at November 10, 2025 12:04 AM (g+CfW)

349 Socialism: You work your ass off and thugs come along and take your profits and your creations and give them to others under the guise of "equity" and "each according to his needs" and shit like that while keeping the vast majority for themselves. You will learn that this disease needs to be destroyed at the source quickly or it will spread and be harder to eradicate.

But it dies in the end. Every place it is tried. The waste in lives and riches is, however, immense.

Nuke it before it spreads. Best course of action.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at November 10, 2025 12:05 AM (icmmM)

350 Hi, raimondo! How are you?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 10, 2025 12:06 AM (Vvh2V)

351 Been sitting here trying to think of something to comment, and failing.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver. But that was proverbially Solomon, not me.

https://youtu.be/iS3XL4Jg4zQ

Guess I'll just say g'nite, y'all. Things to do tomorrow.

Posted by: mindful webworker - fitly at November 10, 2025 12:06 AM (3ynhY)

352 And yes, I am relatively certain today, wrll, yesterday on his time, is Berserker's 🎂 🥳 🎉 because it's Thor's birthday, too.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 10, 2025 12:01 AM (Vvh2V)

Yup, you are correct *hic*

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 10, 2025 12:06 AM (snZF9)

353 >>Schumer tells them cave ;but he has to vote no or AOC will primary him! Thei pseudo no vote wont save him.

Even the troll gets it.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2025 12:07 AM (viF8m)

354 Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2025 12:03 AM (viF8m)

I betvI would, even moreso knowing you built it! Did you incorporate ship/boat building ideas? Always felt that those folks did such great storage.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 10, 2025 12:08 AM (Vvh2V)

355 Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 10, 2025 12:03 AM (vd6bO)

The H-1B and other visas remain a problem, yes. They were funded through the shutdown.
They are killing support for MAGA among the youth - and it's not so hot for us older tech workers either.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 10, 2025 12:08 AM (gKWVE)

356 The Democrats caved for Bers' birthday? Wow.
Happy Birthday, Bers!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 10, 2025 12:09 AM (OUqBw)

357 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 10, 2025 12:06 AM (snZF9)

😁😁😁

And what was your celebratory beverage l? Mead? 😉

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 10, 2025 12:10 AM (Vvh2V)

358 Played smear the queer as a kid. Fun stuff.

No one said shit about faggots or pronouns and the like.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at November 10, 2025 12:10 AM (icmmM)

359 Yup, you are correct *hic*
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 10, 2025 12:06 AM (snZF9)

Happy Birthday, Berserker!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 10, 2025 12:10 AM (npFr7)

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