Christmas Seals Cafe

Dusk at Bolton, Lancashire
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Saving a deer trapped in an acquaduct.

Sea otter is anxious about his diagnosis.

Lynx senses that the icy stream is cracking, so he takes the Pouncing Bridge over it.

By special request of garrett: eye contact with a bear on all fours. Also requested by garrett: blood worms.

Bear picking off salmon as they climb a waterfall. People will risk anything to get some cloaca.

Baby tiger sucks on a pacifier.

Little seal climbs aboard a boat to escape killer whales.

Outstanding work little feller, take the rest of the week off.

You must not move. the Ocean cat has chosen you pic.twitter.com/hmqb03vg5v
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 23, 2025

We are freezing in Gaza:

Imagine climbing Mt. Everest and seeing someone ski past you 😭🙏 pic.twitter.com/O1vzQ44Gai
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 24, 2025

Children are freezing in their tents in Gaza:

Antarctica has some of the most profound blue pools pic.twitter.com/SHLpIPZhvM
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 24, 2025

I've been saying this for YEARS 👏👏 pic.twitter.com/33xIMPvt6W
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 24, 2025

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Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 07:32 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec

The appointment of Ketanji Brown Jackson was signed by autopen

X: https://bit.ly/4pGQl0I

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 28, 2025 07:34 PM (P5BPp)

3
It's Friday, so Skip will be here with us until 9:05.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 07:34 PM (3cPiL)

4 Saw a video recently that drinking Millennium age ice can have bacteria also a few Millennium old

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 07:35 PM (Ia/+0)

5 Baby tiger sucks on a pacifier.

Oh, I thought it was going to be the body of some guy named Patel.

Posted by: Paco at November 28, 2025 07:35 PM (mADJX)

6 Orlon is a good synthetic option to wool. It used to be everywhere. Don't know where, now.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 28, 2025 07:35 PM (Zz+7G)

7
Best Winter Movie?

The Thing

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 07:36 PM (3cPiL)

8 The dog burying the stick.

That stick is like totally in the vault.

Posted by: Paco at November 28, 2025 07:37 PM (mADJX)

9 I don't care for cold and sure won't watch movies that make me cold. The Missing made me want to wrap up in two down comforters

Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2025 07:40 PM (sDNVV)

10 Clyde, that feels huge. Is it huge? Do we have a list of all the things that were autosigned that are supposedly now void? Does that means she cleans out her desk next week? Or will nothing happen?

Posted by: LizLem at November 28, 2025 07:40 PM (gWBY1)

11 "@JackPosobiec The appointment of Ketanji Brown Jackson was signed by autopen"

@WrestlerVillage
Confirmed by the Senate though. This won't work on her. Everything else Trump is voiding was a plenary power of Biden. Judges were a multi-step process.

Biden judges can only be gotten rid of by a Republican house with balls (which they don't have)."

Posted by: illiniwek at November 28, 2025 07:41 PM (vbXSk)

12 4 Saw a video recently that drinking Millennium age ice can have bacteria also a few Millennium old
Posted by: Skip
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A bacteria that our body is not equipped to deal with?
And it mutates in out gut. And, and it's scary thinking
about what it could do.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 28, 2025 07:41 PM (Zz+7G)

13 Lots of deer roaming the property.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at November 28, 2025 07:41 PM (JGGWx)

14 The only problem with Citizen Kane is you can only see it for the first time once.

It's like you can only hear JS Bach's Cello Suite only once.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 28, 2025 07:42 PM (XV/Pl)

15 Guy made it but think he is nuts

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 07:44 PM (Ia/+0)

16 Biden judges can only be gotten rid of by a Republican house with balls

And are actually on our side....

Posted by: steevy at November 28, 2025 07:44 PM (YwEeS)

17 Hahaha, millennium water soon to be marketed like all those caffeine drinks.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2025 07:44 PM (sDNVV)

18 >>>This creature is a Maine blood worm, it’s teeth are made of copper

I wonder how much you could get for one of those at the recycling place.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 28, 2025 07:46 PM (syz1S)

19 All best winter movies take place in Russia.

A very underrated movie is TransSiberian with Woody Harrelson.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 07:46 PM (KDPiq)

20 " The Way Back" goes from Siberian cold to desert hot in the course of the journey.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2025 07:47 PM (sDNVV)

21 >>>Bear picking off salmon as they climb a waterfall.

The crowd was not on the side of the salmon.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 28, 2025 07:48 PM (syz1S)

22 Also, the Gundam Shop near me had a Black Friday Sale, picked up a Unicorn Gundam Master Grade for a nice discount.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 28, 2025 07:49 PM (XV/Pl)

23 Med tech: You're dead
Otter: My goodness, are you sure?
Med tech: let me . . . Nope, Nope, um . .
Otter: Is it permanent?
Med tech: Yeah, batteries . . .
Otter: Is this covered in my Major Medical?

Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 07:50 PM (rbvCR)

24 Also discovered you can enable vim bindings in the zsh shell.

Was one of those mind blown moments.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 28, 2025 07:50 PM (XV/Pl)

25 There is a herd of deer in my neighborhood, and no hunting near by

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 07:50 PM (Ia/+0)

26 The Way Back" goes from Siberian cold to desert hot in the course of the journey.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2025 07:47 PM (sDNVV)

Coming Out of the Ice is a similar movie . John Ssvage and Willie Nelson. I think it was a made for TV movie. Very good.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 07:50 PM (KDPiq)

27 21 >>>Bear picking off salmon as they climb a waterfall.

The crowd was not on the side of the salmon.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 28, 2025 07:48 PM (syz1S)
Bear has no need for a cedar plank.

Posted by: Eromero at November 28, 2025 07:51 PM (LHPAg)

28 This creature is a Maine blood worm, it’s teeth are made of copper

Remember to walk without rhythm...

Posted by: steevy at November 28, 2025 07:51 PM (YwEeS)

29 How far is Blackburn from Bolton Lancashire? Any holes there?

Posted by: Sgt Lemon Pepper at November 28, 2025 07:51 PM (mDKvs)

30 Orlon is a good synthetic option to wool. It used to be everywhere. Don't know where, now.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 28, 2025 07:35 PM (Zz+7G)

Nomex glove liners and greased unlined rawhide gloves. Best of both worlds.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 07:54 PM (rbvCR)

31 Deadly Code. /Siberian Education with John Malkovich takes place in Siberia . I thought it was excellent and worth multiple viewings but rotten tomatoes gives it only 37%.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 07:55 PM (KDPiq)

32 Saw a video recently that drinking Millennium age ice can have bacteria also a few Millennium old
Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 07:35 PM (Ia/+0)\
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Sounds like the start of an X-Files episode...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 28, 2025 07:55 PM (IBQGV)

33 the way I see it, "The Way Back " features Ed Harris and Colin Farrell. They may have done it as a " pay the rent " movie but I really enjoy it.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2025 07:56 PM (sDNVV)

34 Always boil your Millennium age ice before drinking 😃

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 07:57 PM (KDPiq)

35 "Black Robe" is my coldest movie.

Have to make pies for tomorrow night's Sausage Supper at Mr. S's church. I prepped for them when I made the T-giving ones- the difficulty will be keeping my mitts off them until I can grab a slice tomorrow evening.

Posted by: sal at November 28, 2025 07:57 PM (f+FmA)

36 UGA beat GT in rivals week. Woot!

Posted by: Piper at November 28, 2025 07:57 PM (Wmg4n)

37 Also requested by garrett: blood worms.
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Also looks like the start of an episode of The X-Files...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 28, 2025 07:58 PM (IBQGV)

38 7
Best Winter Movie?

The Thing
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 07:36 PM (3cPiL)

Absolutely! The original version* with James Arness as 'The Thing'. Back when we met problems head-on with a can-do attitude and without a lot of crybaby self-introspection and self second-guessing....

Watch the skies!!!

*I think there's a remake..

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 28, 2025 07:58 PM (QGaXH)

39 Kindltot, Buffalo wool provides the most warmth I have ever had. Socks and gloves.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2025 07:58 PM (sDNVV)

40 Black Robe" is my coldest movie.

Have to make pies for tomorrow night's Sausage Supper at Mr. S's church. I prepped for them when I made the T-giving ones- the difficulty will be keeping my mitts off them until I can grab a slice tomorrow evening.
Posted by: sal at November 28, 2025 07:57 PM (f+Fm

Excellent movie. May be my favorite of that genre. ( new world /trappers /indians)

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 07:59 PM (KDPiq)

41 The appointment of Ketanji Brown Jackson was signed by autopen

He did say he was going to appoint a black woman and I doubt he cared much which one or if he could even tell one from another, so I'll give autopen a pass on this one. It was clearly following his intention.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 28, 2025 08:00 PM (3nLb4)

42 Remember to walk without rhythm...

I'm white. Lack of rhythm comes naturally to my people.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 28, 2025 08:01 PM (lUFok)

43 10 Clyde, that feels huge. Is it huge? Do we have a list of all the things that were autosigned that are supposedly now void? Does that means she cleans out her desk next week? Or will nothing happen?
Posted by: LizLem at November 28, 2025 07:40 PM (gWBY1)

Betting Odds:

Cleans out desk: 1

Nothing Happens: 999,999

Remains Know-nothing skank b****: Infinity and then some...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 28, 2025 08:01 PM (QGaXH)

44 Best Winter Movie?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 07:36 PM (3cPiL)
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Doctor Zhivago. It has summer parts, but the winter sequences make you want to throw on a blanket.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 08:01 PM (ZOv7s)

45 Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2025 07:56 PM (sDNV

I'm about to watch it. Free on Roku.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 08:02 PM (KDPiq)

46 the way I see it. Let me know how you like it.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2025 08:03 PM (sDNVV)

47 Biden judges can only be gotten rid of by a Republican house with balls (which they don't have)."
Posted by: illiniwek

Impeachment is in House, trial is in
Senate, and requires 60 votes.
Sounds great. Won't work without a 60 seat majority.

Posted by: MkY at November 28, 2025 08:04 PM (q6tQZ)

48 26 The Way Back" goes from Siberian cold to desert hot in the course of the journey.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2025 07:47 PM (sDNVV)

I have not seen the movie, but have read the book on which it is based (The Long Walk, by Slavomir Rawicz). An astonishing story of perseverance against incredible odds.

Coming Out of the Ice is a similar movie . John Ssvage and Willie Nelson. I think it was a made for TV movie. Very good.

I did see that, and I liked it. I also read the book by the same name on which the movie is based (by Victor Herman).

Posted by: Paco at November 28, 2025 08:04 PM (mADJX)

49 Excellent movie. May be my favorite of that genre. ( new world /trappers /indians)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 07:59 PM (KDPiq)
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I remember watching it but don't remember anything about it.

"Last of the Mohicans" I own, because it rocks. Great film, and the director's cut actually makes it better. Also shorter. (The cut out the gay Clannad music video sequence.)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 08:04 PM (ZOv7s)

50 32 Saw a video recently that drinking Millennium age ice can have bacteria also a few Millennium old
Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 07:35 PM (Ia/+0)\

How do we know that Eric the Red didn't piss in it?

Posted by: Paco at November 28, 2025 08:06 PM (mADJX)

51 I do wonder what procedure it would take to get a Comassar Judge tossed off the bench

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 08:09 PM (Ia/+0)

52 "Black Robe" is my coldest movie. - sal

That's a good one. From back before the Jesuits became commies.

Posted by: Paco at November 28, 2025 08:09 PM (mADJX)

53 47 Biden judges can only be gotten rid of by a Republican house with balls (which they don't have)."
Posted by: illiniwek

Impeachment is in House, trial is in
Senate, and requires 60 votes.
Sounds great. Won't work without a 60 seat majority.
Posted by: MkY at November 28, 2025 08:04 PM (q6tQZ)

60 or 67? two thirds?

We've got to tempt her out with something manifestly better - extremely lucrative seat on corporate board, 500K/year no-show university or think tank job....anything...

I also wonder if Justice Thomas should think about retiring while we have a 'base' R president and favorable senate.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 28, 2025 08:09 PM (QGaXH)

54 Kindltot, Buffalo wool provides the most warmth I have ever had. Socks and gloves.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2025 07:58 PM (sDNVV)

I throw a lot of firewood and cut out blackberry vines and brush, rough work that tears up my hands or my gloves, so I need something I can replace cheaply.
Last pair of gloves I had broken in right, I lost the left one kicking through some heavy thickets.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 08:09 PM (rbvCR)

55
How far is Blackburn from Bolton Lancashire? Any holes there?
Posted by: Sgt Lemon Pepper

They had to count them all.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 28, 2025 08:09 PM (pkeXY)

56 Shooting full oxygen tanks with various caliber rifles.

youtube.com/shorts/dvt5_w_XKJ0

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 28, 2025 08:09 PM (Zz+7G)

57 I do wonder what procedure it would take to get a Comassar Judge tossed off the bench
Posted by: Skip

District courts are a child of the Congress. The House could defund one (say the D.C. District) and spread the load to other courts.
Supremes are impeachment, retirement or death.

Posted by: MkY at November 28, 2025 08:11 PM (q6tQZ)

58 " The Last of the Mohicans" is visually the most incredible scenery with a plot.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2025 08:11 PM (sDNVV)

59 Anonymous Rogue

You're right, I believe. 2/3

Posted by: MkY at November 28, 2025 08:12 PM (q6tQZ)

60 Saw a video recently that drinking Millennium age ice can have bacteria also a few Millennium old

Cool! You can get diseases that today's immune systems forgot how to fight!

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 28, 2025 08:13 PM (rgGn5)

61 " The Last of the Mohicans" is visually the most incredible scenery with a plot.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2025 08:11 PM (sDNVV)
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Saw it in the theater. Mind. Blown.

Still holds up. Actually looks better because the Indians are actual people, not angelic beings gracing us with their wisdom.

Magua is an outstanding villain.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 08:14 PM (ZOv7s)

62 And, and it's scary thinking
about what it could do"

Hello, my baby! Hello my honey! Hello my ragtime gal! Send me a kiss by wire! Baby my heart's on fire!

Posted by: man at November 28, 2025 08:15 PM (XuXeR)

63 District courts are a child of the Congress. The House could defund one (say the D.C. District) and spread the load to other courts.

I think the vast majority of the House prefers that today's composition of the District Court remain as is - fighting every MAGA move.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 28, 2025 08:15 PM (rgGn5)

64 Kindltot.

You need a machete with a brush hook. Lets you toss the blackberries easie. We cleared a house on Hwy 14 in WA state that hadn't been lived in for ten years. Base of the blackberries were as big around as your wrist. We did it with machetes.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 28, 2025 08:17 PM (+mUZM)

65 Evening all.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2025 08:17 PM (3k5hk)

66 8 The dog burying the stick.

That stick is like totally in the vault.
Posted by: Paco at November 28, 2025 07:37 PM (mADJX)

Yep. That dtick might as well have never even existed as far as anybody elsenis concerned.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 08:18 PM (IxQNO)

67
What's the movie with the plane crash and they eat their dead?

That's a nice feel-good Winter movie, yes?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 08:18 PM (3cPiL)

68 Congress, 530 of the most ill suited people to their elected positions. There are 4 that are worth a shit.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2025 08:18 PM (sDNVV)

69 I see a headline of 130 dead in a residential high-rise fire in Hong Kong.

Terrible!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 28, 2025 08:18 PM (QGaXH)

70
Ooh, another great Winter movie to curl up to:

The Gray.

Such a happy ending, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 08:19 PM (3cPiL)

71 'Imagine climbing Mt. Everest and seeing someone ski past you'

Imagine watching some shit-for-brains plummet into a bottomless crevice and thinking, "I'll bet that's why you don't see skiers on this mountain."

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 28, 2025 08:19 PM (fd80v)

72 Congress, 530 of the most ill suited people to their elected positions. There are 4 that are worth a shit.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2025 08:18 PM (sDNVV)
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This bunch is benign.

During the Civil War, Congressfolk would finagle commissions from their governor and become actual no-shit GENERALS.

Look it up. No wonder the Union almost lost.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 08:20 PM (ZOv7s)

73
Last of the Mohicans is the best Soundtrack of all-time.

But it's not a great movie. 6/10

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 08:20 PM (3cPiL)

74 60 Saw a video recently that drinking Millennium age ice can have bacteria also a few Millennium old

Cool! You can get diseases that today's immune systems forgot how to fight!
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 28, 2025 08:13 PM (rgGn5)

Could be the beginning of a pretty awesome sci-fi movie...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 28, 2025 08:20 PM (QGaXH)

75 14 The only problem with Citizen Kane is you can only see it for the first time once.

It's like you can only hear JS Bach's Cello Suite only once.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 28, 2025 07:42 PM (XV/Pl)

So there is at least one upside to getting Alzheimer's.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 08:21 PM (IxQNO)

76
Indeed, didn't that snob, Samuel Clemens, publicly take a crap on Fennimore Cooper?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 08:21 PM (3cPiL)

77
Clemens didn't think much of Cooper as a writer.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 08:21 PM (3cPiL)

78 I see a headline of 130 dead in a residential high-rise fire in Hong Kong.

Terrible!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 28, 2025 08:18 PM
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The were renovating buildings and used bamboo scaffolding and nylon mesh netting. May as well have smeared napalm on the exterior.

May as

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 08:22 PM (ZOv7s)

79
Sickens me to agree with this, but many people are of the opinion The Mission is one of the best all-time among cinematic scenery.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 08:23 PM (3cPiL)

80 I read Coopers LotM, it's a disaster

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 08:25 PM (Ia/+0)

81 Indeed, didn't that snob, Samuel Clemens, publicly take a crap on Fennimore Cooper?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 08:21 PM (3cPiL)
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"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses." First American literary takedown. I read Last of the Mohicans and it was trash.

Zero tension, improbable events.

The movie rocks, tho.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 08:25 PM (ZOv7s)

82 10 Clyde, that feels huge. Is it huge? Do we have a list of all the things that were autosigned that are supposedly now void? Does that means she cleans out her desk next week? Or will nothing happen?
Posted by: LizLem at November 28, 2025

Since she was confirmed, I am thinking she is there providing frustration to everyone else on the bench forever.

Posted by: Piper at November 28, 2025 08:25 PM (OoFl2)

83 An attempt to get rid of Jackson from the SC based on the autopen would lead to an epic shitstorm. If the economy keeps getting better , give it a try

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 28, 2025 08:25 PM (bfwj/)

84 I'm white. Lack of rhythm comes naturally to my people.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 28, 2025 08:01 PM (lUFok)

Speak for yourself.

Posted by: Gene Krupa at November 28, 2025 08:25 PM (IxQNO)

85 "The Last of the Mohicans" is visually the most incredible scenery with a plot.
Posted by: Ben Had

Also, Daniel Day Lewis and Madeleine Stowe had some real chemistry.

Posted by: Tuna at November 28, 2025 08:26 PM (lJ0H4)

86 Just fixed a bowl of 'Turkey mash' for my honey: Leftover turkey, mashed potatoes, corn and gravy over the entire mess nuked to perfection.

And my President lives just to piss off my enemies.

Is this the greatest country in the world or what?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2025 08:26 PM (cYBz/)

87 26 Coming Out of the Ice is a similar movie . John Ssvage and Willie Nelson. I think it was a made for TV movie. Very good.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 07:50 PM (KDPiq)

Willie Nelson still alive and kicking at age 92. He did a concert in AL last month.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 28, 2025 08:26 PM (y171U)

88 71 'Imagine climbing Mt. Everest and seeing someone ski past you'

Imagine watching some shit-for-brains plummet into a bottomless crevice and thinking, "I'll bet that's why you don't see skiers on this mountain."
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 28, 2025 08:19 PM (fd80v)

Friend of mine had just that experience - guy flew right over my friend and off a 1000 foot cliff.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 28, 2025 08:28 PM (QGaXH)

89
Samuel Clemens was no William Faulkner.

Posted by: William Faulkner at November 28, 2025 08:28 PM (3cPiL)

90 Fenimore Cooper was a rather boring writer. Hawthorne was better.
Michael Mann's Last of the Mohicans blows the book away for entertainment

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 28, 2025 08:28 PM (bfwj/)

91 Fenimore Cooper was an affirmative action hero before it technically existed. He was one of the first American novelists and the budding intelligentsia rallied around him because he was what we had.

But he was really, really bad. The big thing he had going for him (other than the family name) was that he was writing about the 'first' frontier and this made all the Easterner nostalgic and he was AMERICAN.

I mean, Twain had a point, but who here wouldn't like to see college faculty be ludicrously biased *in favor* of their country?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 08:28 PM (ZOv7s)

92 47 Sounds great. Won't work without a 60 seat majority.
Posted by: MkY at November 28, 2025 08:04 PM (q6tQZ)

Considering the dedication and spine of some GOP Senstors, we'd need a 70 seat majority.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 08:28 PM (IxQNO)

93 The Robe, Dr Zhivago, great winter movies. Another one - Stalingrad - the 1993 German one, not the more recent Russian one.

It matches The Robe for brutality, and seems to be a fairly accurate snapshot of the final chapter for the 6th Army, culminating of course in desperate winter scenes.

Been a long time but seem to recall The Robe was a nice more plausible version of the historical events depicted than the usual fairy tales. Brutal, both nature, and man (including of course the horribly oppressed, dispossessed, and otherwise angelic Huron).

Posted by: rhomboid at November 28, 2025 08:28 PM (U/Byj)

94
Willie Nelson is a piece of shit. Willie can eat shit and croak.

Posted by: William Faulkner at November 28, 2025 08:29 PM (3cPiL)

95 I throw a lot of firewood and cut out blackberry vines and brush, rough work that tears up my hands or my gloves, so I need something I can replace cheaply.
Last pair of gloves I had broken in right, I lost the left one kicking through some heavy thickets.
Posted by: Kindltot
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I get these at local farm supply store, the 3pk runs about $23 now, but can sometimes find on sale for ~$20:

tinyurl.com/ekfhkrxk

Also available in fleece-lined, but I haven't priced those..

Posted by: JQ at November 28, 2025 08:30 PM (rdVOm)

96 Lack of rhythm comes naturally to my people"

Navin? Navin Johnson?

Posted by: man at November 28, 2025 08:30 PM (XuXeR)

97 So there is at least one upside to getting Alzheimer's.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 08:21 PM (IxQNO)
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My stepmother has no short term memory. She doesn't talk much now, but a couple of years ago she would ask the kids what they were up to, they'd answer, she'd react and then ask the same question again. They'd answer, she'd react the same way, and then after a pause, she'd ask the same question again.

Funny, but also sad.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 08:30 PM (ZOv7s)

98 I read Coopers LotM, it's a disaster
Posted by: Skip

The movie: same characters, different plot.

Posted by: Tuna at November 28, 2025 08:31 PM (lJ0H4)

99
I understand that all the fake "liberal" hollywood celeries have to "endorse" the Democrat, but kalama fucking harris??

Instead of sitting out the '24 election with their stupid endorsements, they went out of their to pretend harris was qualified. And they All would've endorsed biden, too.

I thought Jeff Bridges had more sense than that. Worse was Sam Elliott. Fuck. Them. All.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 08:31 PM (3cPiL)

100 67
What's the movie with the plane crash and they eat their dead?

That's a nice feel-good Winter movie, yes?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 08:18 PM (3cPiL)

Alive.

Based on actual events.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 08:32 PM (IxQNO)

101 The last LotM movie is one of my favorites

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 08:32 PM (Ia/+0)

102 Notsothoreau, I have found the best tool for blackberry thickets is one of those hooked linoleum knives.
Grab the cane, pull it taught, cut it as far in as you can by hooking it and pulling back to cut it, and then repeat. I might use a small folding saw if the canes get too thick at the base, but I have to cut in to where they are first.
then, once I have the base exposed by cutting all the canes, I use an Ames Razor Back trenching shovel to pop the root ball out. It is never easy.
I have used machetes and hedge trimmers but they are not really controllable. I hate blackberries.

Actually the best tool is a Cat to blade the thicket off, but that is not good in side yards and laurel hedges

Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 08:32 PM (rbvCR)

103 The Robe, Dr Zhivago, great winter movies. Another one - Stalingrad - the 1993 German one, not the more recent Russian one.

It matches The Robe for brutality, and seems to be a fairly accurate snapshot of the final chapter for the 6th Army, culminating of course in desperate winter scenes.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 28, 2025 08:28 PM (U/Byj)
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Being a German film, everyone dies.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 08:33 PM (ZOv7s)

104
oh, Kevin Costner is a piece of feces

sean astin RUINED LotR for me

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 08:34 PM (3cPiL)

105 I thought Jeff Bridges had more sense than that. Worse was Sam Elliott. Fuck. Them. All.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 08:31 PM (3cPiL)
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Hostage videos. They want to keep working.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 08:34 PM (ZOv7s)

106 @103 in real life at Stalingrad most of the Germans died too

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 28, 2025 08:36 PM (bfwj/)

107
jeff bridges will be 76 next week
beau bridges will be 84 next week

Lloyd Bridges croaked in 1998 at 85.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 08:36 PM (3cPiL)

108 sean astin RUINED LotR for me

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 08:34 PM (3cPiL)
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No, that was Peter Jackson and his Scrubbing Bubbles of Death who made the Ride of the Rohirrm totally unnecessary.

If Theoden had been 15 minutes late, he could have just watched the Ghost Rider Army solve the whole problem.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 08:36 PM (ZOv7s)

109 Blackberries

Napalm. Flammenwaffer. Gasoline. Nuke from space.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2025 08:36 PM (mT+6a)

110 in real life at Stalingrad most of the Germans died too
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 28, 2025 08:36 PM (bfwj/)
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Not in the battle. In Soviet camps. But one wouldn't want to make a movie about that.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 08:37 PM (ZOv7s)

111
What?

WHAT??

LotR are PERFECT films! All 3 of them.

I hate sean astin in real-life.

How dare you criticize LotR.

How dare you.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 08:38 PM (3cPiL)

112 Well something like 90K German soldiers were alive to surrender at Stalingrad (many in horrendous near-death condition of course), and of those only around 5K emerged from captivity. So yep almost all died as a direct result of the battle and then the end stages in the pocket.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 28, 2025 08:39 PM (U/Byj)

113 You can't have a cavalry unit 50 ranks deep nose to tail, 1 horse goes down in a hole the 49 behind are all going down too.
Actually 2 behind, then the 4 behind them, and the 8 behind them and so on

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 08:40 PM (Ia/+0)

114 I hope the skier going down Everest took all his garbage and equipment back DOWN with him too.

There’s an incredible amount of trash and abandoned stuff up there. It’s criminal.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2025 08:40 PM (mT+6a)

115 Last of the Bohicans would be a more timely novel.

Posted by: Ben Dover at November 28, 2025 08:41 PM (dIuJT)

116 My stepmother has no short term memory. She doesn't talk much now, but a couple of years ago she would ask the kids what they were up to, they'd answer, she'd react and then ask the same question again. They'd answer, she'd react the same way, and then after a pause, she'd ask the same question again.

Funny, but also sad.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

That describes my aunt to a T.
I don't know how bad my mother in law is. I didn't see her yesterday. She never came out of her room.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2025 08:42 PM (3k5hk)

117 There’s an incredible amount of trash and abandoned stuff up there. It’s criminal.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2025 08:40 PM (mT+6a)

Alaska unfortunately has that problem also. Snow covers a lot of dumps.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 08:43 PM (KDPiq)

118 nurse and bodies too

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 08:43 PM (Ia/+0)

119 118 nurse and bodies too
Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 08:43 PM (Ia/+0)

I have read that some of them are used as landmarks and navigational aids.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 08:45 PM (IxQNO)

120 Hubby's roommate passed away last night. He was 96-97? Didn't talk much & slept most of the time, but he was up for lunch in the dining room yesterday. His wife would visit often, staying all day on Sundays. We had many chats... such lovely people.

Godspeed, Frank. Bless you, Edna.

Posted by: JQ at November 28, 2025 08:46 PM (rdVOm)

121 Hey, tonight is a Weird Dave ONT night, isn't it? That means I get to look at a lot if funny pictures instead of trying to read difficult words.

I like Weird Dave ONT nights.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 08:48 PM (IxQNO)

122 I don't much care if Everest is a high-altitude dump. The only people who climb it are well to do ne'er to wells.

Posted by: 72 oz. bottle of Haterade at November 28, 2025 08:48 PM (EOI/y)

123 120 Hubby's roommate passed away last night. He was 96-97? Didn't talk much & slept most of the time, but he was up for lunch in the dining room yesterday. His wife would visit often, staying all day on Sundays. We had many chats... such lovely people.

Godspeed, Frank. Bless you, Edna.
Posted by: JQ at November 28, 2025 08:46 PM (rdVOm)

I'll add a prayer for Frank and Edna tonight.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 08:50 PM (IxQNO)

124 Evenin’. All.

Posted by: Bulg at November 28, 2025 08:50 PM (77rzZ)

125 122 I don't much care if Everest is a high-altitude dump. The only people who climb it are well to do ne'er to wells.
Posted by: 72 oz. bottle of Haterade

Who should be fined and beaten for leaving all their refuse up on the mountain.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2025 08:50 PM (mT+6a)

126 I don't care for cold and sure won't watch movies that make me cold. The Missing made me want to wrap up in two down comforters
Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2025 07:40 PM

Remember what it says in the good book:

Many are cold, but few are frozen.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 28, 2025 08:50 PM (0sNs1)

127 Dad was a Korea-era vet. About 1960, he thought he would clear out the blackberries in the back pasture by blowing them up with dynamite. He went to the local hardware store, bought a couple of sticks (another thing they took from us!) and prepped one.

He lit the fuse, tossed it into the thicket, and ran. There was a mighty bang, which came dangerously close to breaking every window in the vicinity. He checked the results.

All he had managed to do, at the risk of jail and paying for property damages (which he could in no way afford) was to blow a hole only one foot across through the top of the thicket.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 28, 2025 08:51 PM (TVOOe)

128 Many are cold, but few are frozen.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 28, 2025 08:50 PM (0sNs1)

Liam Neeson is in a new move called Cold Storage. Alien disease escapes from an old military storage facility. Jump scares, body horror, Liam Neeson.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 08:53 PM (rbvCR)

129 The field adjacent to my parents' house was thick with the damned blackberry vines.

Mom swore that one day she'd fill a backpack sprayer with diesel....

Too bad she didn't! That sh*t roots every place it touches the ground and spreads like wild fire.

Posted by: JQ at November 28, 2025 08:55 PM (rdVOm)

130
zelensky's #2 flew the coop?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 08:55 PM (3cPiL)

131 I usually only see the ONT if I have insomnia or maybe the last 15 minutes of the thread. But it's always funny or interesting stuff.

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 08:56 PM (Ia/+0)

132 Screw climbing Everest. It’s obvious that man doesn’t belong there,

I’m so sick of these extremophiles who insist that humans have to be everywhere.

Posted by: Bulg at November 28, 2025 08:56 PM (77rzZ)

133 I better call it a night
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 08:59 PM (Ia/+0)

134 127
'All he had managed to do, at the risk of jail and paying for property damages (which he could in no way afford) was to blow a hole only one foot across through the top of the thicket.'

He needed a bulldozer with one of those blade attachments like they used in the bocage in WWII.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 28, 2025 08:59 PM (fd80v)

135 Mmmm, blackberries.

Posted by: davidt at November 28, 2025 09:00 PM (Q+gd/)

136 I planted a whole lotta things from the MO. Dept. of Cons. when I first moved here. The only thing that lived was blackberry.
Made a thicket not even rabbits could get through. Brush hogged it, then nuked it.
It still comes back here and there, but I've got it under control. How I wish I had paid up and bought thornless from a nursery.

Posted by: MkY at November 28, 2025 09:00 PM (q6tQZ)

137 Kiffin is taking the money and going to LSU. He just wants Ole Miss to think he cared.

Posted by: Accomack at November 28, 2025 09:02 PM (IG7T0)

138 Jump scares, body horror, Liam Neeson.

He's just my age, and by golly I'm every bit as tough as he is.

But damn, does he have better stunt men.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 28, 2025 09:02 PM (zdLoL)

139 Hey everybody.

Accomack and college football/sports fans here, wanted to ask yet another question. Are there still issues about paying student athletes? Or is that now a dead letter and all the stars are making money?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2025 09:04 PM (IET3u)

140 The NY Post has a headline on one of it's stories that shouldn't exist. "Jill Biden seen popping into a Nantucket lingerie shop".
I just ate , thx a lot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 28, 2025 09:05 PM (bfwj/)

141 Way Way:

How many people do you think Liam has to listen to every day doing 'the bit' about 'certain skills.'

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2025 09:05 PM (IET3u)

142 Sooth: Z's paychecks keep bouncing out the door :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2025 09:06 PM (IET3u)

143 @137 saw that Kiffin was "praying over " the decision. Praying over a pile of cash more like it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 28, 2025 09:06 PM (bfwj/)

144 Impeachment is in House, trial is in
Senate, and requires 60 votes.
Sounds great. Won't work without a 60 seat majority.

Won’t work with a 60 seat majority because squishes.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 28, 2025 09:06 PM (gxRWI)

145 But damn, does he have better stunt men.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 28, 2025 09:02 PM (zdLoL)

And directors who will make eighteen cuts in a scene showing him climbing a fence to make it seem dynamic.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 09:06 PM (IxQNO)

146 All he had managed to do, at the risk of jail and paying for property damages (which he could in no way afford) was to blow a hole only one foot across through the top of the thicket.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 28, 2025 08:51 PM (TVOOe)

Sounds like a berry difficult task.

Posted by: not to worry - no one hates me for this comment more than me at November 28, 2025 09:08 PM (AS5Pl)

147 a bulldozer with one of those blade attachments like they used in the bocage

I have a tractor attachment very much like that: a heavy back blade with foot-long scarifier tines. Bought the late neighbor's lots, paid to have the trash trees removed, then essayed to root out the forest mat beneath ground level by driving over and over it, pulling out the web of intertwined stump-lumber. I spent the rest of the year at it -- and it was really hard on my back, too. Lots of sudden stops. You don't just need the blade; you need the whole Sherman. I enjoyed the work, though.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 28, 2025 09:09 PM (zdLoL)

148 Sounds like a berry difficult task.
Posted by: not to worry - no one hates me for this comment more than me at November 28, 2025 09:08 PM (AS5Pl)

If things went just a bit differently, he would have been in a real jam.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 09:09 PM (IxQNO)

149 tank:
and every one of those 18 cuts require an entirely new camera and equipment set-up, coordinated by hundreds of Hollywood techies.

Movie sets today are extremely boring places.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2025 09:10 PM (IET3u)

150 Idaho Spudboy - bangalore torpedoes sound right for that job. Removing wire and barriers seems similar to clearing out tough foilage.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 28, 2025 09:12 PM (U/Byj)

151 148 Sounds like a berry difficult task.
Posted by: not to worry - no one hates me for this comment more than me at November 28, 2025 09:08 PM (AS5Pl)

If things went just a bit differently, he would have been in a real jam.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 09:09 PM (IxQNO)

Heaven preserve us!

Posted by: not to worry - no one hates me for this comment more than me at November 28, 2025 09:12 PM (AS5Pl)

152 I can't tell if that bear was just drinking or salivating. I'd like to think just he was drinking but we are all snacks to a bear. A good crunch at first, decent mouth feel, satisfying juicy center finish.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 28, 2025 09:12 PM (3uBP9)

153 Announcement: After prayerful consideration, I can confirm that I am not a candidate for head college football coaching jobs. I will not be participating in any coaching searches at this time.

As I will not be coaching college football, I plan to continue my participation in the Hobby Thread and periodic ONT posts. I ask the media to please respect my family's privacy. Thank you for you attention to this matter.

Posted by: TRex - Coach Dino at November 28, 2025 09:13 PM (cCn4/)

154 149 tank:
and every one of those 18 cuts require an entirely new camera and equipment set-up, coordinated by hundreds of Hollywood techies.

Movie sets today are extremely boring places.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2025 09:10 PM (IET3u)

The way digital photography is progressing, it will soon get to the point that one merely needs to toss a few Go Pros on the ground and maybe put a drone in or two in the air and just see what angles work best later.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 09:13 PM (IxQNO)

155 Screw climbing Everest. It’s obvious that man doesn’t belong there,

I’m so sick of these extremophiles who insist that humans have to be everywhere.
Posted by: Bulg at November 28, 2025 08:56 PM (77rzZ)

Humans can survive from the deepest arctic to the worst deserts and rank jungles. Also we can die of hypothermia at 80F.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 09:14 PM (rbvCR)

156 Just glanced the russki story on it, Ermak is caught up in the latest corruption scandal, thus endeth his job as head of Z's office. Corruption of course is spectacular and endemic in Ukeistan, but there are degrees of it, and also the question of investigations being used to oust those you want ousted. So who knows.

Uke problems at the moment are more related to manpower (effective, adequately trained, suitable, motivated manpower). The russki Gletscherkrieg is, well, glacial in its pace (basically the only way to advance under these conditions), but seems just as inexorable as a glacier.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 28, 2025 09:16 PM (U/Byj)

157 147
'Lots of sudden stops. You don't just need the blade; you need the whole Sherman. I enjoyed the work, though.'

Oh yeah. I don't doubt it. That's why I threw in the bulldozer. Those roots have a hell of a grip on the ground. You need a lot of mass to dislodge them.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 28, 2025 09:18 PM (fd80v)

158 153 Announcement: After prayerful consideration, I can confirm that I am not a candidate for head college football coaching jobs. I will not be participating in any coaching searches at this time.
Posted by: TRex - Coach Dino at November 28, 2025 09:13 PM (cCn4/)

I, however, will gladly consider any open coaching position in a Division 1 school. Please don't let my total lack of experience or any semblance of expertise discourage you from offering me millions of dollars to bring your program to as yet unimagined levels of ineptitude.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 09:18 PM (IxQNO)

159 Taking trash to Mt. Everest is lame, we should set our sites higher and fire it all into the sun

Posted by: banana Dream at November 28, 2025 09:19 PM (3uBP9)

160 Uke problems at the moment are more related to manpower (effective, adequately trained, suitable, motivated manpower). The russki Gletscherkrieg is, well, glacial in its pace (basically the only way to advance under these conditions), but seems just as inexorable as a glacier.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 28, 2025 09:16 PM (U/Byj)

I have seen someone calculate that if a snail had started at the Russians original position 3 years ago and moved steadily in a straight line, it would have made it to the Polish border by now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 28, 2025 09:21 PM (3U2FH)

161 Oh, Hay. Rice University prof James Tour has developed a method to extract rare earth elements from scrapped electronics using flash heating of materials which is less toxic and less expensive than current recycling techniques

https://tinyurl.com/mssxfxa6

Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 09:23 PM (rbvCR)

162 150 Idaho Spudboy - bangalore torpedoes sound right for that job. Removing wire and barriers seems similar to clearing out tough foilage.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 28, 2025 09:12 PM (U/Byj)

I know all there is to know about Bangalore Torpedoes, because I watch The Longest Day every June 6th!

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 28, 2025 09:24 PM (3U2FH)

163 I have seen someone calculate that if a snail had started at the Russians original position 3 years ago and moved steadily in a straight line, it would have made it to the Polish border by now.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 28, 2025 09:21 PM (3U2FH)

So what are the Uke's excuse, then?

Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 09:24 PM (rbvCR)

164 I never heard of a Colbertism silkworm scheme in NW Ohio, but it's the only way to account for the number of very old mulberry colonies you find in back lots. People had to really really want some berries (and I never heard anybody that enthusiastic about the character of mulberry fruit). They send runners out from a well-hidden deep stump bole, and those find fences and other trees to twine around. Tough vine; you can cut it out all day just to see it come back the next week if you don't dig out the bole, and the bole invites the dynamite noted above. More than once I've chased down the mother trunk and built a fire pit around it.Hard to do on the property line though, and they seem to know right where the line is.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 28, 2025 09:26 PM (zdLoL)

165 Is that an African or European snail?

Posted by: PabloD at November 28, 2025 09:26 PM (lC2t1)

166 165 Is that an African or European snail?
Posted by: PabloD
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Laden or unladen?

Posted by: lin-duh at November 28, 2025 09:27 PM (VCgbV)

167 159
'Taking trash to Mt. Everest is lame, we should set our sites higher and fire it all into the sun'

And only rich people can enjoy the trash on Everest. If you threw it in the Grand Canyon everyone could appreciate it.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 28, 2025 09:28 PM (fd80v)

168 "The field adjacent to my parents' house was thick with the damned blackberry vines.
Mom swore that one day she'd fill a backpack sprayer with diesel...." Posted by: JQ

2-4D or RoundUp probably cheaper and more effective.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 28, 2025 09:30 PM (vbXSk)

169 Any suggestions as to what to do with all this leftover penguin and sauerkraut?

Posted by: Ex-Penguin Lover at November 28, 2025 09:31 PM (vFG9F)

170 A new viral video: How to tell if fellow commenters are AI generated AI generated AI generated

https://youtu.be/gGpFB3ms6rU

Posted by: mindful webworker - rickshaw rolleuxed at November 28, 2025 09:32 PM (LaTF/)

171
What's interesting about ukraine is President Trump didn't tell zelensky, again, to release all the info on biden's corruption in that country.

Remember the "phone call" Hoax?
Trump wanted the dirt on the bidens. zelensky never forked it over.

Why not demand it now? No doubt other Democrats are involved.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 09:32 PM (GptnP)

172 Do these vines not produce blackberries anymore?

I remember blackberries as a kid being like free candy.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 09:32 PM (KDPiq)

173 @169 ritually bury the penguin remains to ward off other penguins

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 28, 2025 09:33 PM (bfwj/)

174 I remember blackberries as a kid being like free candy.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 09:32 PM (KDPiq)

They are, if you have a thicket you can pick enough in 15 minutes to make a batch of jam.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 09:34 PM (rbvCR)

175 167 159
'Taking trash to Mt. Everest is lame, we should set our sites higher and fire it all into the sun'

And only rich people can enjoy the trash on Everest. If you threw it in the Grand Canyon everyone could appreciate it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 28, 2025 09:28 PM (fd80v)

If this was a real country, we'd have turned the Grand Canyon into the world's largest ball pit several generations ago. This country can't do great things anymore.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 28, 2025 09:35 PM (QPCEj)

176 I have seen someone calculate that if a snail had started at the Russians original position 3 years ago and moved steadily in a straight line, it would have made it to the Polish border by now.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 28, 2025 09:21 PM (3U2FH)

If the snail also killed and crippled a million Ukrainian soldiers and destroyed a thousand NATO tanks while moving in the straight line, then the Russians would have a reason to be embarrassed.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 28, 2025 09:38 PM (TVOOe)

177 There’s an incredible amount of trash and abandoned stuff up there. It’s criminal.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2025 08:40 PM (mT+6a)

I can think of no better place to dump trash, than some God-forsaken mountain where nobody with any sense ever goes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 28, 2025 09:38 PM (npFr7)

178 Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 09:34 PM (rbvCR)

We would put in a big bowl with a little bit of milk and mix with sugar.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 09:38 PM (KDPiq)

179 175
'If this was a real country, we'd have turned the Grand Canyon into the world's largest ball pit several generations ago. This country can't do great things anymore.'

Haha. Lord. We'd be having people stuffed down so far we wouldn't be able to find them until the smell hit.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 28, 2025 09:38 PM (fd80v)

180 If this was a real country, we'd have turned the Grand Canyon into the world's largest ball pit several generations ago. This country can't do great things anymore.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 28, 2025 09:35 PM (QPCEj)

Eagle Mtn Calif... a deep strip mine out in the Desert. There was a really cool project to fill it in with garbage from all over Southern Calif, but folks in Palms Springs and Palm Desert killed it using environmental laws.

So... Enviro laws were used to bankrupt a project, that would have mitigated an Enviro problem.. go figure.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2025 09:39 PM (mP0Kj)

181 If this was a real country, we'd have turned the Grand Canyon into the world's largest ball pit several generations ago. This country can't do great things anymore.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 28, 2025 09:35 PM (QPCEj)

Imagine if we did that, and you jumped in, and then had to figure out how to climb back up out of 5,000 feet of balls.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 28, 2025 09:39 PM (3U2FH)

182 Paying players is a done deal. We’ll see if caps become a thing. I see an informal minor league system forming.
Sometimes I think the Russians are going so slowly because they know they can’t have/don’t want all of Ukraine.
The whole thing stinks and we should just leave.

Posted by: Accomack at November 28, 2025 09:40 PM (IG7T0)

183 If the snail also killed and crippled a million Ukrainian soldiers and destroyed a thousand NATO tanks while moving in the straight line, then the Russians would have a reason to be embarrassed.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 28, 2025 09:38 PM (TVOOe)

Russians are fighting Europe, and the US... just using Ukrainian soldiers.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2025 09:41 PM (mP0Kj)

184 Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2025 09:39 PM (mP0Kj

They built a 27 hole golf course in Houston on top of a former dump. It might be the highest elevation in Houston.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 09:42 PM (KDPiq)

185 PabloD!

Howdy, sir! How’s your neck of the woods? Gorgeous day here today, sunshine and 50 on the beach.

Going to get chilly tonight.

Hope you and the wife and the demon dog are well. Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2025 09:43 PM (mT+6a)

186 Idaho Spudboy - bangalore torpedoes sound right for that job. Removing wire and barriers seems similar to clearing out tough foilage.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 28, 2025 09:12 PM (U/Byj)

I expect a skid-steer with a flail mower attachment would do a number on blackberries.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 28, 2025 09:43 PM (npFr7)

187 The drone tech in the Uke war has advanced to the point that neither side can risk being seen out in the open. Makes any large scale advance impossible for either side.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 28, 2025 09:43 PM (3U2FH)

188 I just drive the tractor with a bush hog on it thru the blackberry patches. They will come back next year.

Posted by: fd at November 28, 2025 09:45 PM (vFG9F)

189 173 @169 ritually bury the penguin remains to ward off other penguins
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 28, 2025 09:33 PM (bfwj/)

Don't bury them. If you really want to ward off other penguins, you have to display the remains of the slain to let their kinfolk know what horrors await them if they continue their foolishness. There's a reason Vlad's impalement victims were outside the walls and not in the banquet hall.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 09:46 PM (IxQNO)

190 @160

>>I have seen someone calculate that if a snail had started at the Russians original position 3 years ago and moved steadily in a straight line, it would have made it to the Polish border by now.

A theoretical snail could do it, but in reality, the snail would have had to stop for cigarettes and alcohol along the way, and probably got distracted by some whore snails looking to make some scratch.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 28, 2025 09:47 PM (XV/Pl)

191 There's a reason Vlad's impalement victims were outside the walls and not in the banquet hall.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 09:46 PM (IxQNO)

Well, the smell would get a little rank after a few days, too. Could put the nobles off their feed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 28, 2025 09:50 PM (npFr7)

192 181 Imagine if we did that, and you jumped in, and then had to figure out how to climb back up out of 5,000 feet of balls.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 28, 2025 09:39 PM (3U2FH)

Bonnie Blue has entered the chat.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 09:50 PM (IxQNO)

193 I went to town to get groceries to make dinner, and the Chinese restaurant was open, so I ate there. Nice meal for $12.95, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 28, 2025 09:51 PM (npFr7)

194 ONT is nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 09:51 PM (bss/y)

195 How many ball pit balls would it take to fill the grand canyon?

Number of Balls=
Volume of Grand Canyon 4.17×10^12m^3 /
Volume of One Ball 0.0034 m
≈1.23×10^15

Conclusion: It would take approximately 1.23 quadrillion ball pit balls to fill the Grand Canyon.
🤖

Posted by: mindful webworker - no math is an island at November 28, 2025 09:53 PM (LaTF/)

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