Iran May Abandon Its Capital Tehran Due to Severe Water Shortage

This story has been brewing for a while. It's a glacially slow news day, so I'll post it.

Tehran may be forced to evacuate due to a severe water crisis, with experts warning that all taps in the city could soon run dry.
Officials say that the Iranian capital is facing a Day Zero moment in the near future -- when all water supplies run out.

I like that, So Dramatic.

Iran has faced severe drought for six years, with Tehran's rainfall in the first two months of the current water year, which begins on 1 October, at near zero, leaving reservoir supplies at dangerously low levels.
Officials in Tehran have undertaken a number of measures, including reducing water pressure, discussing rationing and imposing cuts. They have also suggested more radical solutions, such as evacuation or moving the capital if rain does not return.
"We are talking about a few days or even weeks of water left for Tehran," Kaveh Madani, director of the UN's University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, told Canada's CBC broadcaster.
"Day Zero, as we call it in the water sector, is near. It's a day that the taps would run dry."
In early November, Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian warned: "If it doesn't rain in Tehran by late November, we'll have to ration water. And if it still doesn't rain, we'll have to evacuate Tehran."
Typically, rain should start falling in Iran in autumn, following Iran's hot summer. But the September to November period just gone is the driest the country has seen in half a century, the National Weather Forecasting Centre has reported. Rainfall has been 89 per cent below the long-term average.

God is sitting back, filing His nails.

Mr Pezeshkian described the situation as "extremely critical", citing reports that Tehran's dam reservoirs have fallen to their lowest level in 60 years, some as low as 10 per cent of capacity. Officials say that in the east of Tehran, the Latyan Dam -- one of five key reservoirs -- is only about 9 per cent full. The Karaj dam, which supplies a quarter of Tehran's drinking water, is 8 per cent full.

This is interesting -- Tehran's reservoirs are apparently administered by LA Mayor Karen Bass. Who knew.

I've heard about a lot of Impending Disasters and most of them didn't pan out. So I'm not anticipating an abandonment of the capital.

Jewish Space Weather Control Lasers

Making the deserts bloom and making blooms into deserts for 60 years.

Posted by: Ace at 03:53 PM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)

2 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 03:53 PM (DOn9w)

3 This seems, allah's will, so reap it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)

4
ESPONJA!!1!1!1!1

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 10, 2025 03:53 PM (tljrc)

5 Jewish Weather Machine would be an excellent name for a rock band.

Posted by: Zombie Dave Barry at December 10, 2025 03:53 PM (MtcM4)

6 Will likely be my last actually first of the day as it's almost quittin' time and I've got stuff to do.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)

7 I think it's, "I din do nuffin". Giving too much credit with the "didn't."

Posted by: Rdubs at December 10, 2025 03:54 PM (9ALg7)

8 Is this because Trump is hiding the Epstein files?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

9 Can't they just drink Fresca instead?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:54 PM (ufetp)

10 Gee, too bad they didn't spend their oil $$$billions on water storage systems and upgrading their infrastructure!

I guess killing Jews, building nukes, and funding terrorism is more important than water.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (n9ltV)

11 I hate to spoil the good mood...but, this means Iranian Refugees.

Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (TR2dy)

12 1 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)

You know, Blade, you're gonna get in trouble socking Sponge. There's no way the real Sponge got four firsts in a row.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (ExV1e)

13 They can always drink their own piss like Les Stroud or Bear Grylls.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (abIsI)

14 10 Gee, too bad they didn't spend their oil $$$billions on water storage systems and upgrading their infrastructure!

I guess killing Jews, building nukes, and funding terrorism is more important than water.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (n9ltV)

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Pocket change to Hezbollah. The rest into crony pockets.

No way this could lose.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (GBKbO)

15 Typically, rain should start falling in Iran in autumn, following Iran's hot summer. But the September to November period just gone is the driest the country has seen in half a century, the National Weather Forecasting Centre has reported. Rainfall has been 89 per cent below the long-term average.

Huh. Half a century. It's almost like climate is cyclical.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

16 How much cat litter will it take to dry up the Potomac

Just asking.

Posted by: Old lady who swallowed a fly at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (pEFY5)

17
HA HA!

Posted by: Nelson Muntz at December 10, 2025 03:56 PM (IifOV)

18 11 I hate to spoil the good mood...but, this means Iranian Refugees.

Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (TR2dy)

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Sounds like a Europe problem, at most.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

19 Jewish magic hair rays are to blame, I think.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 10, 2025 03:56 PM (rJ48h)

20 Iran May Abandon Its Capital Tehran Due to Severe Water Shortage

Inshallah.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 03:56 PM (+Oyis)

21 And Iran, Iran so far away ...

Posted by: Flock of Persians at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (NwVwg)

22 Tell that fucker in the well to get busy

Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (sDNVV)

23 I'm telling you it's that fucking Imam in the well drinking all the water!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (wBaIH)

24
I guess killing Jews, building nukes, and funding terrorism is more important than water.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (n9ltV)

I do wonder how much water their nuke program wasted over the last couple years.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (Zz0t1)

25 Desalination plants. Iran has energy.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (ufetp)

26
This is a sign. Not a M. Night Shyamalan sign, but a sign none the less.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (IifOV)

27 11 I hate to spoil the good mood...but, this means Iranian Refugees.

Posted by: garrett

Give them all Viagra and send them to London.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (abIsI)

28 Fortunately, they don't waste much water on bathing.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (77rzZ)

29 Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of assholes.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (XMwZJ)

30 10 Gee, too bad they didn't spend their oil $$$billions on water storage systems and upgrading their infrastructure!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (n9ltV)

It's a damn shame, it is.

Anyway!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (zYpTz)

31 Egypt had seven years of drought about 3,000 years ago, and for similar reasons.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (0U5gm)

32 So no AI data centers near Tehran?

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (sX1BW)

33 Isn't there a "Twelfth Imam in the well" thing that's believed in Shi'a theology?

Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (rj6Yv)

34 God is sitting back, filing His nails.

Water? You're up!
Boils...you're on deck!
Locusts...you're in the hole.

Posted by: The Almighty at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (2WIwB)

35 "Told ya"

-- Rango

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (iFTx/)

36 Isn't there some sort of magical well somewhere in Iran they could tap?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (NwnyJ)

37 I thought they had plenty of heavy water...oh, that was before the Jews bombed them...nevermind.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (ynpvh)

38 Well is dry.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (ufetp)

39 And Iran, Iran so far away ...
Posted by: Flock of Persians

Tehy ran away.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (77rzZ)

40 35 "Told ya"

-- Rango

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (iFTx/)

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We ride!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

41 We'll take the hot Persian chicks but we don't want the goatfuckers. Or the Irish.

Posted by: Sound immigration policy at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (TbWk/)

42 33 Isn't there a "Twelfth Imam in the well" thing that's believed in Shi'a theology?
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (rj6Yv)

He refuses to be rescued by an unclean animal like Lassie.

Posted by: Flock of Persians at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (NwVwg)

43 Lol ace. Nah no way that many people will be "moved". There's nowhere for them to go, really. Unless you're talking tent camps in the milder weather regions, mostly down towards the Gulf. And a large % of Tehran residents are, shall we say, not the camping type. Pretty sophisticated tastes and expectations.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (U/Byj)

44 Seriously, though, didn't someone in Tehran say "Hey, we're gonna run out of water unless we do x, y, z" and the Mullahs response was "IT'S ZIONIST PLOT! DIE, JEW LOVER!"

A lot like California, really.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (asXVI)

45
Iran. I ran so far away.

Posted by: Flock of Seagulls at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (IifOV)

46 Reading a historical account of some ancient empire moving their capital because of a water shortage = not shocked

Reading a modern account of some current regime moving their capital because of a water shortage = shocked

Reading a modern account of some current regime moving their capital because of a water shortage but they are muslims = no longer shocked

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (sKqQm)

47 Well is dry.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Imam out front shoulda told ya.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (77rzZ)

48 I hate to spoil the good mood...but, this means Iranian Refugees.

Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (TR2dy)

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Sounds like a Europe problem, at most.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
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Persian girls are hot. The Blade will take a few.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (iFTx/)

49 *dog barks wildly*

*runs toward door*

*looks back*

"S'matter? Jumanji stuck in the well again?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)

50 Liz Warren could do a rain dance.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (ufetp)

51 Oh hey!!! Do you guys remember that story that came out about a year and a half ago about how the Iranians were making a claim on the Arctic? Everyone was mystified by this seeming non-sequitur addition to their foreign policy.

I seriously think they knuckleheads thought they could remedy their water crisis by floating ice bergs down from the Arctic. There was some Arab dude in the UAE that proposed that process, but they couldn't work out the logistics.

Posted by: Orson at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (dIske)

52 Can't they just drink Fresca instead?
Posted by: Boss Moss
.......

Yeah, and they don't look like they ever bathe.

Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (v0R5T)

53 Jewish Weather Machine > Miami Sound Machine

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (pd4dZ)

54 >41 We'll take the hot Persian chicks but we don't want the goatfuckers. Or the Irish.

Posted by: Sound immigration policy at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (TbWk/)

I've known a few Persian women over the years - all smoke shows.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (NgqoH)

55 Time to send a lot of liberals to Iran, so their tears over Trump can refill their reservoirs.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (S/Y4j)

56 We'll take the hot Persian chicks but we don't want the goatf***ers. Or the Irish.

But I don't like falafel.

Posted by: That guy who never gets the main point at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (Riz8t)

57 I hate to spoil the good mood...but, this means Iranian Refugees.

Hot raven haired wimmins and dudes wearing way too much cologne

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (sKqQm)

58 33 Isn't there a "Twelfth Imam in the well" thing that's believed in Shi'a theology?

Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (rj6Yv)

They woulda found him by now, but they stoned Lassie.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (ynpvh)

59 oh well! sucks to be them

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (emBoF)

60 I know .. I know .. a fatwa will do it

Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (RHGPo)

61 What's more interesting than the drought is the fact that the "experts" relied on by the mullahs to deal with non-apocalyptic mundanities like drinking water have mismanaged the entire system on a Biblical scale, allowing the extraction of aquifer water far above replenishment levels for more than a decade.

Justice Jumanji, take a note.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (guGkK)

62 Did we miss celebrating Water New Year on October 1? We celebrate Zappa MONTH, but we missed Water New Year?

Posted by: Wally at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (BYHsk)

63 We don't want their filthy asses coming our way.

Posted by: Bedouin People at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (abIsI)

64 Pecans for Dasani?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (ufetp)

65 The guy that sounded the alarm about the water crisis was executed.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (sDNVV)

66 >60 I know .. I know .. a fatwa will do it

Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (RHGPo)

Fatwa? More like Notwa.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (NgqoH)

67 Shit. There goes the Tehran real estate market.

Posted by: Zillow at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (IifOV)

68 Fuck em. Enjoy that snack bar action, azzholes

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (Y4MsT)

69 48 Persian girls are hot. The Blade will take a few.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (iFTx/)

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"Only hot chicks" is as valid an immigration policy as anything else I've seen proposed over the last 40 years of my life.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

70 I seriously think they knuckleheads thought they could remedy their water crisis by floating ice bergs down from the Arctic. There was some Arab dude in the UAE that proposed that process, but they couldn't work out the logistics.

Ramming Speed!!!

Posted by: Fat guy running the galley at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (Riz8t)

71 There should be room for them in Somalia.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (ufetp)

72 Shit. There goes the Tehran real estate market.
Posted by: Zillow at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (IifOV)

Buy low.......Sell high after the rains come.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)

73 Just use Brawndo, dipshits.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (XMwZJ)

74 "Only hot chicks" is as valid an immigration policy as anything else I've seen proposed over the last 40 years of my life.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

You're 40?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)

75 Shit. There goes the Tehran real estate market.
Posted by: Zillow

"I'm gonna by me a house there while it's cheap!"
-- Tucker Carlson

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (77rzZ)

76 *screaming* Move to where the water is! Aargh!

Posted by: Zombie Sam Kinison at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (wVcYX)

77 Even better news is that Iran is resuming missile production. Meaning, at some point, another corrective intervention by the Zionist Entity. Inshallah this time the tricky space-laser types won't allow the Peace President to cancel useful operations.

"I'm sorry Don, you're breaking up, can't hear you - something about recall our latest strike package? Think they're already over their targets. Not to worry. Everlasting peace can break out a few hours later, no biggie."

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (U/Byj)

78 They may have to abandon their 6000-year-old city, but at least the Persian Snail Darter is no longer threatened, right?

Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (0ZmKh)

79 I seriously think they knuckleheads thought they could remedy their water crisis by floating ice bergs down from the Arctic. There was some Arab dude in the UAE that proposed that process, but they couldn't work out the logistics.

Posted by: Orson

I would like to see a dhow towing an iceberg up the Persian Gulf. The water temperature averages around 90 degrees f.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (0U5gm)

80 If they abandon it, give it to the pallys.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (Y4MsT)

81 51 Oh hey!!! Do you guys remember that story that came out about a year and a half ago about how the Iranians were making a claim on the Arctic? Everyone was mystified by this seeming non-sequitur addition to their foreign policy.

I seriously think they knuckleheads thought they could remedy their water crisis by floating ice bergs down from the Arctic. There was some Arab dude in the UAE that proposed that process, but they couldn't work out the logistics.
Posted by: Orson at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (dIske)

That dood probably stole the idea from Dean Koontz, who wrote a book about a team stranded on an iceberg because they were working on a project on diverting iceburgs to drought-stricken regions. "Icebound".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icebound_(novel)

Posted by: Thrawn at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (9Ovst)

82 74 "Only hot chicks" is as valid an immigration policy as anything else I've seen proposed over the last 40 years of my life.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

You're 40?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)

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Dolley calls me old.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

83 Rename Tehran and call it Palisades.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (2WIwB)

84
"Only hot chicks" is as valid an immigration policy as anything else I've seen proposed over the last 40 years of my life.

The idea of accepting limitless poor young males and then put them on welfare isn't your cup of tea?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (sKqQm)

85 84
"Only hot chicks" is as valid an immigration policy as anything else I've seen proposed over the last 40 years of my life.

The idea of accepting limitless poor young males and then put them on welfare isn't your cup of tea?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (sKqQm)

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Hey, we can't forget the spherical Guatemalans.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

86 I finally saw the last Mission Impossible. I liked it, but it was waaaaay too long. The first hour could have been cut to maybe 20 minutes. Everything was drawn too far out, too much exposition, etc.

There was also no real bad guy. Gabriel (played very well by the underrated Esai Morales) disappeared for long stretches of the movie. The AI didn't do much but exist as some threat somewhere out there, but never interacted with the characters or tried to thwart their plans. Like a monster movie where Godzilla is attacking Tokyo, but the movie takes place in NY.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (iFTx/)

87 If it doesn't rain in Tehran by late November, we'll have to ration water. And if it still doesn't rain, we'll have to evacuate Tehran.

Take it up with allah, heathens.

Posted by: Clay at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (KXkjC)

88
Dolley calls me old.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

I can show her old......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (Zz0t1)

89 Global warming?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (zZu0s)

90 Between losing wars in humiliating fashion, earthquakes and now drought, wouldn't they start to wonder if Allah is trying to tell them they've lost the plot?

Posted by: spongeworthy at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (sLLbN)

91
"I didn't do nuffin'," emails God.

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"I don't care what da white man say ...
Jewish God is a black man."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (CveCS)

92 >>"Only hot chicks" is as valid an immigration policy as anything else I've seen proposed over the last 40 years of my life.

Legal Mindset on youtube endorsed 'Breeding' Visas a week or so back.

Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (TR2dy)

93 Lack of rain is punishment for sinning!

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (g47mK)

94 "Only hot chicks" is as valid an immigration policy as anything else I've seen

Trying to think what could possibly be as valid as that...

Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (0ZmKh)

95 86 I finally saw the last Mission Impossible. I liked it, but it was waaaaay too long. The first hour could have been cut to maybe 20 minutes. Everything was drawn too far out, too much exposition, etc.

There was also no real bad guy. Gabriel (played very well by the underrated Esai Morales) disappeared for long stretches of the movie. The AI didn't do much but exist as some threat somewhere out there, but never interacted with the characters or tried to thwart their plans. Like a monster movie where Godzilla is attacking Tokyo, but the movie takes place in NY.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (iFTx/)

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Ah, another man with a Paramount+ subscription...

We shall watch it this weekend. The week is for Doc Martin now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)

96 under the outstanding leadership of Ayatollah Cockamamie

Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (RHGPo)

97 "The frequency of women being turned to pillars of salt is up 1275 percent"

Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (8avO+)

98
Send Greta Thunberg. She'll solve it.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (IifOV)

99 I have it on good authority that under the rocks and stones water flowing under.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (ufetp)

100 88
Dolley calls me old.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

I can show her old......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (Zz0t1)

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Mine! She's Mine!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

101 Take it up with allah, heathens.
Posted by: Clay at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (KXkjC)

That's the thing- to them, this IS the will of Allah. Islam is the ultimate strong horse mindset.

And yet Israel abides.

Funny that, Allah must hate them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (zZu0s)

102
We shall watch it this weekend. The week is for Doc Martin now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)

The shoe guy?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (Zz0t1)

103 Dolley calls me old.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Knock it off kid. We saw your videos.

Posted by: Kratwurst at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (JIS8C)

104
Mine! She's Mine!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, she doesn't need any more disappointment in her life, I'm sure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 04:06 PM (Zz0t1)

105 "Only hot chicks" is as valid an immigration policy as anything else I've seen proposed over the last 40 years of my life.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

I dunno...would they stay "hawt" if brought over hither, or would they pick up the appearance and habits of the danger-hairs here?

The words of Hatemonger about "boobies" comes to mind.

Posted by: Thrawn at December 10, 2025 04:06 PM (9Ovst)

106 "Only hot chicks" is as valid an immigration policy as anything else I've seen

Trying to think what could possibly be as valid as that...
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (0ZmKh)

That's what Rome did when the Sabines didn't marry their daughters to the ruffians.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:06 PM (8avO+)

107 Mine! She's Mine!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

This kind of thing always works with the ladies. Grimma Wormtongue.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 04:06 PM (zZu0s)

108 Send Newsom. She'll solve it.

Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 04:06 PM (RHGPo)

109 Officials say that the Iranian capital is facing a Day Zero moment in the near future -- when all water supplies run out.

Maybe they should talk to Gavin Newsome. He's an expert on this sort of thing.

Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 04:06 PM (Oy/m2)

110 Hey, we can't forget the spherical Guatemalans.

Perhaps we could get American physicists to marry them?

/Assume you have a wife. And to make the math easier suppose she's spherical

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 04:06 PM (sKqQm)

111 I finally saw the last Mission Impossible. I liked it, but it was waaaaay too long. The first hour could have been cut to maybe 20 minutes. Everything was drawn too far out, too much exposition, etc.

There was also no real bad guy. Gabriel (played very well by the underrated Esai Morales) disappeared for long stretches of the movie. The AI didn't do much but exist as some threat somewhere out there, but never interacted with the characters or tried to thwart their plans. Like a monster movie where Godzilla is attacking Tokyo, but the movie takes place in NY.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (iFTx/)

=====

Ah, another man with a Paramount+ subscription...

We shall watch it this weekend. The week is for Doc Martin now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)
____

I have no streaming in my apartment. I watched it on 4K disc. It's a good transfer with a quality atmos soundtrack.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 04:06 PM (iFTx/)

112 Persian girls are hot. The Blade will take a few.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

I see where this thread is going: https://tinyurl.com/y5u3bwj6

Not that a thread full of Barbara Eden and other hot, scantily clad Persian girls is such a bad thing...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 10, 2025 04:07 PM (JCZqz)

113 Any abandonment of Teheran, and Al Gore and all the mainstream media will start shrieking:

THIS IS DUE TO GERBIL WARBELING!

Remember, they're already claiming that all the illegals from Latin America are really "climate refugees".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 10, 2025 04:07 PM (xTIDn)

114 Democrats Applaud as retard Gov. Tim Walz Promises to Welcome More Somali Migrants to Minnesota

Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 04:07 PM (RHGPo)

115 what happened to all the water?

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:07 PM (g47mK)

116 We'll take the hot Persian chicks but we don't want the goatfuckers. Or the Irish.
Posted by: Sound immigration policy

So, no Ayatollah Colm Meaney, then.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:07 PM (77rzZ)

117 Send Greta Thunberg. She'll solve it.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (IifOV)

Greta von Doom. She can fix it. All it needs is lots and lots of biodegradable green dye

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 04:07 PM (rbvCR)

118 Caspian is brackish.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:08 PM (ufetp)

119 Dolley calls me old.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

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You're almost young enough to be my kid. You're not old.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 04:08 PM (DRSnL)

120
This contradicts the whole storyline of Waterworld.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 04:08 PM (IifOV)

121 93 Lack of rain is punishment for sinning!

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (g47mK)

Too many goats and sheep showing off their naked legs...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:08 PM (ynpvh)

122
That's what Rome did when the Sabines didn't marry their daughters to the ruffians.

There is something odd with that story as the Sabine women then tried to reconcile their new Roman husbands with their Sabine families.

One theory I've had - the Romans started as brigands at a convenient river crossing and when they converted to just charging a "tax" on merchant instead of pillaging them they became rich...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 04:08 PM (sKqQm)

123 Mr. Mohammed: Water, Mr. Sadiq.
Sadiq: Yep.
Mr. Mohammed: At six feet.
Sadiq: Yep.
Mr. Mohammed: And just over there, you had to go down 227 feet to hit the same water.
Sadiq: Yep.
Mr. Mohammed: Now, how do you account for that, Mr. Sadiq?
Sadiq: Well, the way it appears to me, Mr. Mohammed... over here the water is down around six feet. And over there it's down around 227 feet.

Posted by: Mr. Mohammed Builds His Dream House at December 10, 2025 04:08 PM (wVcYX)

124 111
I have no streaming in my apartment. I watched it on 4K disc. It's a good transfer with a quality atmos soundtrack.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 04:06 PM (iFTx/)

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Ah, a man of true taste in the value of good presentation.

I tip my hat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:08 PM (GBKbO)

125 We had a good looking Iranian girl working for us for awhile. Then one day she wore short sleeves and we got to see how hairy her arms were.

Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 04:09 PM (v0R5T)

126 Like the mashadi bread I got at the Persian bakery/store this week. Still prefer the sanjak.

Place is funny, always always russki women shopping there when I'm there. They have a great selection of eastern Med/Balkan specialties, assume that's the reason.

Best pomegranates in town. Great baklava, though still prefer the Kurdish place out in El Cajon.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 04:09 PM (U/Byj)

127 119 Dolley calls me old.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

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You're almost young enough to be my kid. You're not old.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 04:08 PM (DRSnL)

Indeed. But unlike what Darth told Luke, I am NOT your father...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:09 PM (ynpvh)

128 The Final Reckoning went a little overboard on the casting of women of questionable sexuality.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 04:09 PM (sDNVV)

129 Population: 8.7 million (2025)

Posted by: Baldy at December 10, 2025 04:10 PM (4/qdm)

130 We'll take the hot Persian chicks but we don't want the goatfuckers. Or the Irish.
Posted by: Sound immigration policy

So, no Ayatollah Colm Meaney, then.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:07 PM (77rzZ)
_____

But the Ayatollah of Rock-n-Rolla?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 04:10 PM (iFTx/)

131 Do they have a river?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:10 PM (ufetp)

132 An growing area of atmospheric science is, for lack of a better word, microclimates. Meaning that certain local areas have special factors that influence their climate in a different way than similar areas within 100 miles; as far as temperature goes, Urban Heat Island effect is an example

Tehran has been expanding incredibly over the last 30 years, and much of this has been low income poorly built development. Large areas that used to allow water to percolate down to recharge the aquifers have been paved over; green areas that could discharge moisture to help cloud formation have all been built over. In short, the government has turned what was once a slightly dry area into a complete desert.
This is why everything today is "below average"; they've wrecked the local environment that kept those averages up.
I don't disagree that God had a hand; but time and again, the very worst punishments inflicted on people are the consequences of the things they choose to do to themselves.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 04:10 PM (uWKK8)

133 That dood probably stole the idea from Dean Koontz, who wrote a book about a team stranded on an iceberg because they were working on a project on diverting iceburgs to drought-stricken regions. "Icebound".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icebound_(novel)
Posted by: Thrawn at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (9Ovst)

There's an SF book about an independent Texas where in the first book they fight off the Russian Navy with a hydrofoil Battleship Texas converted by disabled veterans. The second book is them dragging icebergs from Antarctica using special ships to solve a huge drought.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:10 PM (8avO+)

134
Allah's punishment for slackin' off on Joo-killin'.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 10, 2025 04:11 PM (y9nCu)

135 Best pomegranates in town. Great baklava, though still prefer the Kurdish place out in El Cajon.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 04:09 PM (U/Byj)

Here, of course, we have two mexican restaurants which are renowned for changing the fry oil every month or so.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 04:11 PM (rbvCR)

136 79 The dhow? How's a book of ancient Chinese philosophy gonna haul an iceberg?

Posted by: Leftist PhD candidate at December 10, 2025 04:11 PM (pd4dZ)

137 Population: 8.7 million (2025)
Posted by: Baldy at December 10, 2025 04:10 PM (4/qdm)

Texas as 30 million.

Has droughts.

Has water.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 04:11 PM (Zz0t1)

138 But the Ayatollah of Rock-n-Rolla?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Stich Jones stays. The Swede? I have bad news.

Posted by: Kratwurst at December 10, 2025 04:11 PM (JIS8C)

139 125 We had a good looking Iranian girl working for us for awhile. Then one day she wore short sleeves and we got to see how hairy her arms were.

Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 04:09 PM (v0R5T)

Well, hello, big boys...
https://tinyurl.com/mu8j274f

Posted by: Princess of Persia at December 10, 2025 04:12 PM (ynpvh)

140 President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the United States seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela in what appears to be an escalation in the administration’s campaign against the country over drug trafficking. _ET

Some appearances are not apparitions but based on fact.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:12 PM (Hm8Vv)

141 Just use Brawndo, dipshits.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (XMwZJ)

It's got electrolytes!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 04:12 PM (g8Ew8)

142 I love jokes about eyes.
The cornea the better.
That's how eye roll.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 04:13 PM (+Oyis)

143 We had a good looking Iranian girl working for us for awhile. Then one day she wore short sleeves and we got to see how hairy her arms were.

Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 04:09 PM (v0R5T)

Well, hello, big boys...
https://tinyurl.com/mu8j274f
Posted by: Princess of Persia at December 10, 2025 04:12 PM (ynpvh)
____

Nobody will ever be able to convince me that ain't a dude

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

144 Didn't Israel design and install their water system under the Shah?

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:13 PM (77rzZ)

145 This is why everything today is "below average"; they've wrecked the local environment that kept those averages up.
I don't disagree that God had a hand; but time and again, the very worst punishments inflicted on people are the consequences of the things they choose to do to themselves.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 04:10 PM (uWKK

Yes growing up our little creek had several bad almost floods. They kept calling them 100 year floods tho there were about 5 of them. They'd built huge lots for department stores upstream, a huge interstate berm, and mounded up one side about 30 foot for apartments, then built a culvert road over it by the school. When a big thunderstorm dropped stuff upstream it hit the improvised dam hard.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:14 PM (8avO+)

146 Let them drink oil !

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:14 PM (g47mK)

147
New Tehran will be better anyways. Just like New York, New Hampshire, New Orleans, New Braunfels, New Haven, New Brunswick, & New Smyrna Beach.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 04:14 PM (IifOV)

148 Too bad for them, ain't it?

Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 04:14 PM (Ia/+0)

149 146 Let them drink oil !

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:14 PM (g47mK)

Desalination plants...woulda been a much better investment than nukes.

Posted by: Princess of Persia at December 10, 2025 04:15 PM (ynpvh)

150 Iran has access to water on two coasts. Desalinization works.

Stop investing in nukes and buy some desalinization plants.

Posted by: Joe Mama at December 10, 2025 04:15 PM (TezPK)

151 Off, sock...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:15 PM (ynpvh)

152 Meanwhile we have record flooding in Western Washington.

Rag headed bastards can drink dust.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 10, 2025 04:16 PM (W2Pud)

153 Well, hello, big boys...
https://tinyurl.com/mu8j274f

Posted by: Princess of Persia at December 10, 2025 04:12 PM (ynpvh)

This is what I get for missing my 3:00 coffee infusion. I clicked before my brain engaged. Wow...thats fucking nasty.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 04:16 PM (snZF9)

154 149, 150 :

Hive mind.

Posted by: Joe Mama at December 10, 2025 04:16 PM (TezPK)

155 So does this mean the Imam in the well can stop swimming after all these years finally?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 04:16 PM (sKqQm)

156 142 I love jokes about eyes.
The cornea the better.
That's how eye roll.
Posted by: rickb223

Uh, can we put a lid on the eye puns?

Posted by: Kratwurst at December 10, 2025 04:16 PM (JIS8C)

157 153 Well, hello, big boys...
https://tinyurl.com/mu8j274f

Posted by: Princess of Persia at December 10, 2025 04:12 PM (ynpvh)

This is what I get for missing my 3:00 coffee infusion. I clicked before my brain engaged. Wow...thats fucking nasty.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 04:16 PM (snZF9)

She'll fit in fine with the other Disney princesses...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (ynpvh)

158 I bet ayatollah and his boys get as much water as they want!

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (g47mK)

159 Silver spot price at $61.97 per oz (all time high dollar price). That means a 1964 or earlier quarter has $11.06 worth of silver in it. Silver and Gold aren't going up, the dollar is lying on the ground bleeding out.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (Da7Vv)

160 I love jokes about eyes.
The cornea the better.
That's how eye roll.
Posted by: rickb223

Uh, can we put a lid on the eye puns?
Posted by: Kratwurst

Those who make eye puns deserve the lash!

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (77rzZ)

161 156 142 I love jokes about eyes.
The cornea the better.
That's how eye roll.
Posted by: rickb223

Uh, can we put a lid on the eye puns?

Posted by: Kratwurst at December 10, 2025 04:16 PM (JIS8C)

Eye, someone deserves lashes.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (ynpvh)

162 Water is un-Islamic.

Posted by: Mullah Water Counsel at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (ms0pm)

163 Do they have a river?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:10 PM (ufetp)

Its an upland, no major rivers in Iran to speak of. Tigris and Euprhates to the east in Iraq, nothing else to Pakistan.

Ancient Persia used to dig channels and canals to move snow runoff around to support cities...but these days the cities are hugely larger.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (8avO+)

164 what is the spot price of soybeans ???

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (g47mK)

165 No need to lash out at eye puns.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (ufetp)

166 After the seizure of the oil tanker, 'West Texas Intermediate traded higher to settle above $58 after earlier dropping as much as 1%. Brent crude settled above $62.'
_Bloomberg

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:18 PM (Hm8Vv)

167 165 No need to lash out at eye puns.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (ufetp)

Some want to put a liner under them.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:18 PM (ynpvh)

168 Global Warming caused by Trump's Earth Unfriendly Policies to hurt Rag-Heads and Terrorists of Color !!!!!!!!!

Has nothing to do with building a city in the middle of the Desert.

Trump is the Anti-Christ sent to kill the Peace-Loving Iranian Ragheads of Color so that the USA can steal their precious bodily fluids !!!!!

Posted by: Jackson at December 10, 2025 04:18 PM (J9q9v)

169 Silver dimes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:19 PM (ufetp)

170 Meanwhile we have record flooding in Western Washington.

Rag headed bastards can drink dust.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 10, 2025 04:16 PM (W2Pud)

says a weatherman who forgot about the Glacial Floods and the Scablands.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:19 PM (8avO+)

171 I have no streaming in my apartment. I watched it on 4K disc. It's a good transfer with a quality atmos soundtrack.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 04:06 PM (iFTx/)

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Ah, a man of true taste in the value of good presentation.

I tip my hat.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:08 PM (GBKbO)
______

[Fist bump]

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 04:19 PM (iFTx/)

172 166 After the seizure of the oil tanker, 'West Texas Intermediate traded higher to settle above $58 after earlier dropping as much as 1%. Brent crude settled above $62.'
_Bloomberg

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:18 PM (Hm8Vv)

Well, that's because its cargo wasn't oil...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:19 PM (ynpvh)

173 Eye, someone deserves lashes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

It’s was Rick. Best not to cross him

Posted by: Kratwurst at December 10, 2025 04:19 PM (JIS8C)

174 That's it! No more monthly showers!

Posted by: Stinky Achmed at December 10, 2025 04:19 PM (qUkBO)

175 Just invade Iraq. They have rivers.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:20 PM (ufetp)

176 High Speed Train would fix things.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 04:20 PM (2z57a)

177 When it comes to eye puns, I'm a slow pupil. Always a dilate and a dollar short.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

178
Do they have a river?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:10 PM (ufetp)

Tehran is one of the few major cities in the world that apparently wasn't built on a navigable river. Them Persians is wicked smahrt.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 10, 2025 04:20 PM (y9nCu)

179 Do they have a river?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:10 PM (ufetp)
____

"Duh. It's the river we're pushing the dirty Jooz into. 'From the river to the sea,' baby!"

-- Palestinians

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 04:21 PM (iFTx/)

180 176 High Speed Train would fix things.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Solar power.

Posted by: Kratwurst at December 10, 2025 04:21 PM (JIS8C)

181 Solar panels could power the desalination plants.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:21 PM (ufetp)

182 "Its an upland, no major rivers in Iran to speak of. Tigris and Euprhates to the east in Iraq, nothing else to Pakistan. "

In the very, very distant east.

Posted by: Geographer at December 10, 2025 04:21 PM (Q+gd/)

183 177 When it comes to eye puns, I'm a slow pupil. Always a dilate and a dollar short.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

Well, like river rafting, watch out for the cataracts.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:21 PM (ynpvh)

184 I went to college with some Iranians and yes, they do rarely shower and would not shower in the Nude in front of us INFIDELS!!!!!!

Always smelled of cheap cologne....

Posted by: Jackson at December 10, 2025 04:22 PM (J9q9v)

185 Iran has access to water on two coasts. Desalinization works.

Stop investing in nukes and buy some desalinization plants.
Posted by: Joe Mama at December 10, 2025 04:15 PM (TezPK)

How do you get the desalinated water uphill to the altitude of Tehran? Tis about 5000 feet, neglecting any higher spots on the way.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:22 PM (8avO+)

186 No one has mentioned a couple of obvious things about this story; first, the talk about "moving Tehran" is ridiculous; the population of Tehran is 9.7 million, and there's no place for those 9.7 million people to go.
Second, this means that when the crisis hits, and it will, those 9.7 million people are likely to go berserk, and the Iranian government will fall.
Why do I assume they won't fix anything in time? Because the Mullah's government is both totally incompetent, and even worse stuck in the mindset of "well Allah will provide a miracle for us."
No. He. Won't.
But they're going to go on spending their money building missiles and trying to make nukes and blaming Evil Jews for everything; they're not even going to try to fix it. They don't know how.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 04:22 PM (uWKK8)

187 I've got a fovea - and it's for more eye puns!

Posted by: Halfhand at December 10, 2025 04:22 PM (F061L)

188 Someone needs to charge (M-sad) with turning on all the taps.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2025 04:22 PM (jFNww)

189 How do you get the desalinated water uphill to the altitude of Tehran? Tis about 5000 feet, neglecting any higher spots on the way.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:22 PM (8avO+)

A bucket brigade?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 04:22 PM (uWKK8)

190 Learn to Code .........

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 10, 2025 04:23 PM (J9q9v)

191 Any Iranian water shortage refugee voluptuous belly dancing gals?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 04:23 PM (wVcYX)

192 Drakkar Noir !

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:23 PM (g47mK)

193 Flying Carpets?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:23 PM (ufetp)

194 185 Iran has access to water on two coasts. Desalinization works.

Stop investing in nukes and buy some desalinization plants.
Posted by: Joe Mama at December 10, 2025 04:15 PM (TezPK)

How do you get the desalinated water uphill to the altitude of Tehran? Tis about 5000 feet, neglecting any higher spots on the way.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:22 PM (8avO+)

Using their oil to fuel vehicles/pumps to transport it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:23 PM (ynpvh)

195 They are at best 2 weeks from abandoning the capital.
But never fear, there is still enough money to fund attacks on Israel!

And seriously - it's not the lack of rain. Iran has had absolutely horrid water management for decades. Even if it rained the rest of December the problem is not getting fixed. They need a revamp on the entire system of water management, top to bottom. And funny enough, Israel is absolutely the best country on earth to advise them on how to do this. Shame they are a bitter enemy.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 10, 2025 04:23 PM (C3IAS)

196 For what it's worth:

"Iran's water crisis is going from bad to worse as the Taliban's Pashdan Dam on the Hari River threatens the city of Mashhad's main water supply. Despite longstanding agreements, Iran's water share is being cut off. Experts blame both the Taliban's disregard for neighbors' rights and Tehran's failure to act on warnings."

Full article:

https://tinyurl.com/nfppju74

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 10, 2025 04:23 PM (2vZ9g)

197 In my best Edward G Robinson 10 Commandments voice " where's your water now?"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 04:24 PM (D+mpw)

198 Water pipeline.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:24 PM (ufetp)

199 196 For what it's worth:

"Iran's water crisis is going from bad to worse as the Taliban's Pashdan Dam on the Hari River threatens the city of Mashhad's main water supply. Despite longstanding agreements, Iran's water share is being cut off. Experts blame both the Taliban's disregard for neighbors' rights and Tehran's failure to act on warnings."

Full article:

https://tinyurl.com/nfppju74

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 10, 2025 04:23 PM (2vZ9g)

"neighbors' rights". LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:24 PM (ynpvh)

200 Tehran may be forced to evacuate due to a severe water crisis, with experts warning that all taps in the city could soon run dry.

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Trump should troll them by offering them that AutoPen Empire "floating" pier ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 04:25 PM (GiIml)

201 High Speed Train would fix things.
Posted by: Pudinhead
......

It's the solution to everything. That and bitcoin.

Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 04:25 PM (v0R5T)

202 At least their blown-up nuke facilities will keep them warm...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:25 PM (ynpvh)

203 I imagine get desalinated water from the Caspian would be quicker than getting it from the Gulf, as the Caspian is much closer.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (77rzZ)

204 EU Launches Full Antitrust Probe Into MSC–BlackRock Bid for Barcelona Container Terminal
-----

So, Blackrock not only wants to own America it also wants to own Europe.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (Hm8Vv)

205 Any Iranian water shortage refugee voluptuous belly dancing gals?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025]/i]

***
"Voluptuous," I hope, in the old sense of "sensual and sensuous," not in the modern sense of "Where's my Ozempic?"

Sofia Vergara vs. Lizzo, in other words.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (wzUl9)

206 Who was rhe chick in Waterworld? Brunette? Kind of a low grade Lara San Giacomo?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (zZu0s)

207 The Iranians hate the Taliban, Pakistan hates the Taliban, Iran and Pakistan hate each other, India hates Pakistan and uses the Taliban against them. Done properly there's an opportunity for a lot of dead Muslims

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (D+mpw)

208 This is interesting -- Tehran's reservoirs are apparently administered by LA Mayor Karen Bass.

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Iranian powerful elites are too busy oppressing their population to care about such things as the water supply. Karen Bass too busy visiting Africa and not looking after her city's water supply. Same, same.

Posted by: Decaf at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (1RAfh)

209 After several weeks of conversation with Gov. Tim "Gopher Balls" Walz an agreement has been reached to make Minneapolis the Capital of Iran.

Posted by: The Ayatollah at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (J9q9v)

210 Easier. Caspian is brackish.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (ufetp)

211 203 I imagine get desalinated water from the Caspian would be quicker than getting it from the Gulf, as the Caspian is much closer.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (77rzZ)

How much of it is left? Heard it was shrinking fast...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (ynpvh)

212 33 Isn't there a "Twelfth Imam in the well" thing that's believed in Shi'a theology?
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (rj6Yv)

Obama was the 12th Imam.

Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (UnA8+)

213 My message to Persia: The is not a 'Me' problem. This is a 'Ewe' problem.

Posted by: goatexchange at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (hyS0X)

214 Trump should troll them by offering them that AutoPen Empire "floating" pier ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant
.......

I bet he could sell them a few icebergs.

Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (v0R5T)

215 @206 Jeanne Tripplehorn ?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (D+mpw)

216 Priorities. Water, or kill Jews.

Posted by: davidt at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (Q+gd/)

217 Just use Brawndo, dipshits.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (XMwZJ)

I have a great idea. If Tehran is abandoned, it would be a great place to send illegals from the US.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (g8Ew8)

218 Damn, it was Jeanna Tripplehorn.

I can only think of her nude turn in Basic Instinct.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (zZu0s)

219 If you read the sources coming out of Iran, they are also on a serious murder rampage. They are hanging people at record rates. It’s at the point they’re doing triple and quadruple hangings of anyone they even think is a collaborator or heretic. It’s like the Spanish Inquisition with a dash of cumin.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (IYMzU)

220 Life Straw FTW.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (ufetp)

221 It's an interesting story. It was Blofeld, Blofeld's tanker. It was his yacht they say, disguised as an oil tanker. Really incredible. It could go under water. They say it is the biggest submarine anyone has ever seen. But we got it while it was still on the surface. Really amazing stuff our guys can do, our sailors and marines. No one's ever seen anything like it. But I hear that Blofeld might be related to royalty or something. Maybe a prince or a king, do you think he might be a king? I don't know, we're gonna have to see. But yeah, it's an amazing story. They'll make a movie about it someday. Hopefully not with Robert DeNiro, I really hate that guy. And I hear he's struggling lately, not getting much work.

Posted by: The Donald at December 10, 2025 04:28 PM (qUkBO)

222 I like the idea of Iran trying to conquer the rivers of Babylon...

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:28 PM (g47mK)

223 Two thirsty Iranians walk into a Jewish deli…

Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 04:28 PM (IYMzU)

224 Although I have to laugh; when seas and lakes shrink, it humans and/or global warming. Hey guys, the Sahara used to be green and wet; was it man's fault 5K or 10K years ago?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:29 PM (ynpvh)

225 Iran wastes more water than it drinks. But a wide margin:

1) The distribution system is leaky.
2) Rapid population growth and development over critical water management areas.
3) Growing the wrong sort of food with the wrong methods.
4) Total lack of conservation and recycling.

There is no scientific fact that indicates climate change has been the main cause of the water bankruptcy in Iran on a national scale.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 10, 2025 04:29 PM (C3IAS)

226 196 For what it's worth:

"Iran's water crisis is going from bad to worse as the Taliban's Pashdan Dam on the Hari River threatens the city of Mashhad's main water supply. Despite longstanding agreements, Iran's water share is being cut off. Experts blame both the Taliban's disregard for neighbors' rights and Tehran's failure to act on warnings."

Full article:

https://tinyurl.com/nfppju74
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 10, 2025 04:23 PM (2vZ9g)

Ooh how I hope that Iran attacks Afghanistan for the water, and then the Taliban get scared and call the Red Army in from China to back them up. That could have so many delicious permutations.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 04:29 PM (uWKK8)

227 Aaargh! No paste! No paste!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 04:29 PM (g8Ew8)

228 At least they still have pecans.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:29 PM (ufetp)

229 Why do I think there is some government body in Minnesota that wants to import a 1 million Iranians as climate refuges?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 10, 2025 04:29 PM (C3IAS)

230 It’s like the Spanish Inquisition with a dash of cumin.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (IYMzU)

Carrots? Cocoa? Macaroni?

They seem like the types.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 04:29 PM (zZu0s)

231 Go East until you fall into Euphrates !

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:29 PM (g47mK)

232 I love jokes about eyes.
The cornea the better.
That's how eye roll.
Posted by: rickb223

Uh, can we put a lid on the eye puns?
Posted by: Kratwurst

Those who make eye puns deserve the lash!
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (77rzZ)

They get paid for them in Elbonian Eye Cruds.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 10, 2025 04:30 PM (S/Y4j)

233 Well, hello, big boys...
https://tinyurl.com/mu8j274f
Posted by: Princess of Persia

Lol, the second or third comment down (after the explanation that Persian beauty standards encouraged hairy women and effeminate men)

Bruh no matter the religion or history people love twinks

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 10, 2025 04:30 PM (JCZqz)

234

Evacuate Tehran? Evacuate it to where? It's millions. The whole country is dried out. Evacuate to where?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 10, 2025 04:30 PM (t1fZA)

235 This seems, allah's will, so reap it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)

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

What if it's not allah? What if it's the real God? They will never get it though.

Posted by: Decaf at December 10, 2025 04:30 PM (1RAfh)

236 >>Two thirsty Iranians walk into a Jewish deli…

Sorry, fellas. You need a Tie.

Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 04:30 PM (TR2dy)

237 But yeah, it's an amazing story. They'll make a movie about it someday. Hopefully not with Robert DeNiro, I really hate that guy. And I hear he's struggling lately, not getting much work.
Posted by: The Donald at December 10, 2025 04:28 PM (qUkBO)

rofl! Great work!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 04:30 PM (uWKK8)

238
I bet he could sell them a few icebergs.
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (v0R5T)

If we had Greenland, we could provide icebergs to the Persians.

Alaskan icebergs would be better used in Clownifornia, but they're in the process of banning ice...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 10, 2025 04:30 PM (y9nCu)

239 236 >>Two thirsty Iranians walk into a Jewish deli…

Sorry, fellas. You need a Tie.

Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 04:30 PM (TR2dy)

A Thai you say?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:31 PM (ynpvh)

240 We were told that one of the things Lifestraw doesn’t work for is urine. lol you guys.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 04:31 PM (IYMzU)

241 Titanic Icebergs LTC

Posted by: Eromero at December 10, 2025 04:31 PM (o2ZRX)

242 How much of it is left? Heard it was shrinking fast...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

The Aral Sea has damn near disappeared, but I hadn't heard much about the Caspian.

It does have natural fluctuations in water level, and it has been going down in the last few years, but nothing like the carnage the Soviets inflicted on the Aral.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:31 PM (77rzZ)

243 How do you get the desalinated water uphill to the altitude of Tehran? Tis about 5000 feet, neglecting any higher spots on the way.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:22 PM (8avO+)

I'd prolly use pumps. Maybe a series of holding areas so that each set of pumps had a limited rise it had to overcome. I'm not that kind of engineer, though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 04:31 PM (ExV1e)

244 The Iranians hate the Taliban, Pakistan hates the Taliban, Iran and Pakistan hate each other, India hates Pakistan and uses the Taliban against them. Done properly there's an opportunity for a lot of dead Muslims

And everybody hates the Jews!

Posted by: Zombie Tom Lehrer at December 10, 2025 04:31 PM (Riz8t)

245 Evacuate Tehran? Evacuate it to where? It's millions. The whole country is dried out. Evacuate to where?

==

Banks of Tigris!

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:32 PM (g47mK)

246 Population: 8.7 million (2025)
Posted by: Baldy at December 10, 2025

***
"There are 8.7 million stories in the Naked Islam City. You have just seen one of them."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 04:32 PM (wzUl9)

247 Drive the Iraqis into the sea.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:33 PM (ufetp)

248 Video shows Chinese vessels operating with impunity off the coasts of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, employing “pulse fishing,” a highly destructive method that blasts high-voltage electricity into the sea to stun and bring millions of fish to the surface.
https://tinyurl.com/btuem73d

It's bad enough them claiming the South China Sea but Hoovering up all our food - You know, Peking is within Cruise missile range from S Korea.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:33 PM (Hm8Vv)

249 The Jews and Trump!!

How do they do it?

I'd advise all the virgins in heaven to rest up. Lots of eager customers arriving soon.

Posted by: Random PJ at December 10, 2025 04:33 PM (RRCAT)

250 "There are 8.7 million stories in the Naked Islam City. You have just seen one of them."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 04:32 PM (wzUl9)

If they all look like Fatima, please, please! No mas, no mas!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 04:33 PM (uWKK8)

251 But they're going to go on spending their money building missiles and trying to make nukes and blaming Evil Jews for everything; they're not even going to try to fix it. They don't know how.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 04:22 PM (uWKK

The Caspian is closest, but there's a big mountain range and the sea there may not be in great shape itself. The Aral sea has had issues with drying up. Probably the answer is all of the above, desalinization and canals and dispersal. It should keep them busy

There are also periodic massive quakes in that part of the world to consider.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (8avO+)

252 @242 Bulg a couple of the dams causing the Aral Sea to go dry have been removed. It's back up to about 40%of its original size.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (D+mpw)

253 Such a darn shame.

Broken up about it. I'm cereal, you guys.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (A0sqA)

254 Hawaiian Judge orders Trump to give Iran water immediately !!!!

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (J9q9v)

255 Making eye puns on a thread about Iran. That's very farsi-ghted of us.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (77rzZ)

256 Does uranium refinement require a lot of water? I know nuclear reactors do.

Posted by: pookysgirl needs to ask her nuke expert at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (Wt5PA)

257 248 Video shows Chinese vessels operating with impunity off the coasts of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, employing “pulse fishing,” a highly destructive method that blasts high-voltage electricity into the sea to stun and bring millions of fish to the surface.
https://tinyurl.com/btuem73d

I'm sure Greenpeace will jump right on that. Right? Right??

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (2vZ9g)

258 2) Rapid population growth and development over critical water management areas.

Yes, but the Iranian population has reached a plateau, and will soon start decreasing. They just need to hang on for another 50 years.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (Riz8t)

259 248 Video shows Chinese vessels operating with impunity off the coasts of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, employing “pulse fishing,” a highly destructive method that blasts high-voltage electricity into the sea to stun and bring millions of fish to the surface.
https://tinyurl.com/btuem73d

It's bad enough them claiming the South China Sea but Hoovering up all our food - You know, Peking is within Cruise missile range from S Korea.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:33 PM (Hm8Vv)

Damn Chinese been watching too many King Ghidora movies!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 04:35 PM (uWKK8)

260 Yes, but the Iranian population has reached a plateau, and will soon start decreasing. They just need to hang on for another 50 years.

https://is.gd/OU5qD1

Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 04:35 PM (Riz8t)

261 Bulg a couple of the dams causing the Aral Sea to go dry have been removed. It's back up to about 40%of its original size.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Oh, that's good to hear. Thanks.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:35 PM (77rzZ)

262 Damn, it was Jeanna Tripplehorn.

I can only think of her nude turn in Basic Instinct.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025

***
I could never understand why Michael Douglas's character in that movie preferred to stick his, uh, equipment into Sharon Stone's crazy, when he had Jeanne the lovely brunette all heated up for him.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 04:36 PM (wzUl9)

263 Isn't this the future of Arizona?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:36 PM (ufetp)

264 The Iranian Government just announced it has hired Gov. Gav "The Stud" Newsome as their new Minister of Water Resources....

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 10, 2025 04:36 PM (J9q9v)

265 I'd prolly use pumps. Maybe a series of holding areas so that each set of pumps had a limited rise it had to overcome. I'm not that kind of engineer, though.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

1/4 mile of sanding water is moved by pump into the Los Angeles water district from the central valley

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2025 04:36 PM (jFNww)

266 This is interesting -- Tehran's reservoirs are apparently administered by LA Mayor Karen Bass. Who knew.

-----------

Her nickname over there is "Karen Delta Smelt."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 04:36 PM (GiIml)

267 The water crisis in Iran has been looming for a century now. Successive governments, going back to the one before the previous Shah, have been building projects demanding water in places where there was no water.

And nobody, not even Khomeini in his early days, had the political capital to stop it.

Not only has there been little rainfall recently but they've sucked the aquifers dry so there's nothing to fall back on.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 10, 2025 04:37 PM (BLOW1)

268 It's kind of too bad they spent all their money trying to kill Jews and spread the terror of Islam instead of on water infrastructure for their people.

Go long on virgins, I guess.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 04:37 PM (Da1lH)

269 Aquaducts.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:37 PM (ufetp)

270 Video shows Chinese vessels operating with impunity off the coasts of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, employing “pulse fishing,” a highly destructive method that blasts high-voltage electricity into the sea to stun and bring millions of fish to the surface.
https://tinyurl.com/btuem73d

It's bad enough them claiming the South China Sea but Hoovering up all our food - You know, Peking is within Cruise missile range from S Korea.

There are maps of all the Chinese vessels off the coast of Peru. Technically, they're in international waters, but it's clear they are going to devastate those waters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oJG_Ct42oo

Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 04:37 PM (Riz8t)

271 255 Making eye puns on a thread about Iran. That's very farsi-ghted of us.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (77rzZ)

Well, they're also pet disadvantaged; all pets must be Sh-SH-SH-SHIA pets...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:37 PM (ynpvh)

272 Isn't this the future of Arizona?
Posted by: Boss Moss

I remember in the 80s, when everyone, it seemed, was leaving the Great Lakes region for the Southwest, only to discover that, gee, there's a lot less water here than in where we came from.

A lot of those folks ended up moving back to where the water was.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:38 PM (77rzZ)

273 Hawaiian Judge orders Trump to give Iran water immediately !!!!
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (J9q9v)

As I am a firm believer in following the law and abiding by all judicial rulings, I have ordered the US Air Force to drop a case of Costco water bottles on Tehran. The big gallon bottles, not those little 20 ounce things. -- Trump

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 04:38 PM (ExV1e)

274 The Iranians also turned Lake Urmia into a smaller Sea of Azov salty wasteland.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 04:38 PM (8gejw)

275 Damn Chinese been watching too many King Ghidora movies!
Posted by: Tom Servo
---

We used to call it telephoning but when we got enough for supper we quit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:38 PM (Hm8Vv)

276 Refilling aquifers and desalinization ain't gonna immanentize the eschaton.

Posted by: Imam Let's Keep Our Eye On the Ball Here at December 10, 2025 04:38 PM (2vZ9g)

277 The water crisis in Iran has been looming for a century now. Successive governments, going back to the one before the previous Shah, have been building projects demanding water in places where there was no water.

And nobody, not even Khomeini in his early days, had the political capital to stop it.

Not only has there been little rainfall recently but they've sucked the aquifers dry so there's nothing to fall back on.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 10, 2025

***
Morning to you, Pixy. Just starting your work day, I see, or at least your first coffee break?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 04:38 PM (wzUl9)

278 We already have a similar collapse of public systems here where our own radicals decide on spending priorities.

Palisades, anyone?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 04:39 PM (A0sqA)

279 There are maps of all the Chinese vessels off the coast of Peru. Technically, they're in international waters, but it's clear they are going to devastate those waters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oJG_Ct42oo

Obligatory: China is ASSHOE!

Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 04:39 PM (Riz8t)

280 266 This is interesting -- Tehran's reservoirs are apparently administered by LA Mayor Karen Bass. Who knew.

-----------

Her nickname over there is "Karen Delta Smelt."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 04:36 PM (GiIml)

I don't want to know about her delta or how it smelt...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:39 PM (ynpvh)

281 There are maps of all the Chinese vessels off the coast of Peru. Technically, they're in international waters, but it's clear they are going to devastate those waters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oJG_Ct42oo
Posted by: Archimedes

Chinese fishing vessels do a significant amount of mischief in the waters near the Galapagos Islands.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:39 PM (77rzZ)

282 Isn't this the future of Arizona?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Gila river, salt river, colorado. and my water table is rising... homes use less h2o than agriculture. Tucson area is completely overdrawn though..

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2025 04:39 PM (jFNww)

283 Isn't this the future of Arizona?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:36 PM (ufetp)

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

Southern Nevada (Las Vegas & Henderson).

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 04:39 PM (GiIml)

284 270 Video shows Chinese vessels operating with impunity off the coasts of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, employing “pulse fishing,” a highly destructive method that blasts high-voltage electricity into the sea to stun and bring millions of fish to the surface.
https://tinyurl.com/btuem73d

It's bad enough them claiming the South China Sea but Hoovering up all our food - You know, Peking is within Cruise missile range from S Korea.

There are maps of all the Chinese vessels off the coast of Peru. Technically, they're in international waters, but it's clear they are going to devastate those waters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oJG_Ct42oo

Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 04:37 PM (Riz8t)

They turn off their transponders when they get to the edge of international waters...so yes, they are poaching.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:39 PM (ynpvh)

285 It's 7000+ miles from Iran to the Davis Sea of Antarctica. Antarctica might be good for a few icebergs per year.

Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 04:40 PM (rj6Yv)

286 Hey y'all let's talk about 9/11 some more!

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 10, 2025 04:40 PM (GD2xa)

287 276 Refilling aquifers and desalinization ain't gonna immanentize the eschaton.

Posted by: Imam Let's Keep Our Eye On the Ball Here at December 10, 2025 04:38 PM (2vZ9g)

What about fracking?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:40 PM (ynpvh)

288 This is interesting -- Tehran's reservoirs are apparently administered by LA Mayor Karen Bass. Who knew.

-----------
Her nickname over there is "Karen Delta Smelt."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025
*
I don't want to know about her delta or how it smelt...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025

***
Delta of Venus?

More like Delta of Kali.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 04:40 PM (wzUl9)

289 Does uranium refinement require a lot of water? I know nuclear reactors do.
Posted by: pookysgirl needs to ask her nuke expert at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (Wt5PA)

It used to be done with gas form of U, Uranium Hexafluoride.

But even without industry and crops, millions of people drink a lot of water.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:42 PM (8avO+)

290 @203/Bulg: "I imagine get desalinated water from the Caspian would be quicker than getting it from the Gulf, as the Caspian is much closer."

Yup, this. Just looked at a map myself, and looked up the Caspian Sea and yes, the southern end is brackish (salt water) but this can be dealt with.

1. Build Desalinization Plants around Chalus.
2. Build a 140 to 150km pipeline (or a multitude of pipelines) from the plants to Tehran.

As a secondary project:
3. Sell the salt.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 10, 2025 04:43 PM (O7YUW)

291 Good thong they never bathe.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:43 PM (ufetp)

292 Hey guys, the Sahara used to be green and wet; was it man's fault 5K or 10K years ago?

The cattle ate all the soybean futures, and the resulting farts ruined the climate-so yes, it obviously was the fault of Reich wing capitalists.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 10, 2025 04:44 PM (Da7Vv)

293 Tehran is at 4500 ft. The power to pump any volume of water nearly a mile up is astronomical. Add in the volume required and you have a pipeline 5 meters diameter. They don't have the power needed to do this. not even close.

Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 04:44 PM (EMg+d)

294 291 Good thong they never bathe.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:43 PM (ufetp)

Crusty Thong...I wonder who they fronted for?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:45 PM (ynpvh)

295 277 Morning to you, Pixy. Just starting your work day, I see, or at least your first coffee break?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Morning Wolfus!

Yeah, up a little early this morning. Cleaning the kitchen, for reasons I'll cover in tomorrow's thread.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 10, 2025 04:45 PM (BLOW1)

296 The Iranians hate the Taliban, Pakistan hates the Taliban, Iran and Pakistan hate each other, India hates Pakistan and uses the Taliban against them. Done properly there's an opportunity for a lot of dead Muslims
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (D+mpw)
======

The Taliban have warehouses filled with 21st century military equipment, ammunition, vehicles, helicopters, spare parts. So, yeah, Taliban's ready to roll.

Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 04:45 PM (rj6Yv)

297 Video shows Chinese vessels operating with impunity off the coasts of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, employing “pulse fishing,” a highly destructive method that blasts high-voltage electricity into the sea to stun and bring millions of fish to the surface.
https://tinyurl.com/btuem73d

Oklahomans do this with an old rotary phone.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 04:45 PM (Zz0t1)

298 The U.S. Coast Guard announced Tuesday it has seized more than 150,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean since launching Operation Pacific Viper in early August,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:45 PM (Hm8Vv)

299 Aquaducts.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:37 PM (ufetp)

The difficulty is Tehran is high up, surrounded by deserts and mountains. Even with pumps its no joke and would cost a lot.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:45 PM (8avO+)

300 Hawaii judge orders the Tehran water reserves to be filled again.

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 10, 2025 04:46 PM (irs4S)

301 A Pixy sighting!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 04:46 PM (Zz0t1)

302 Pulse fishing when depth charges are too obvious.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 04:46 PM (8gejw)

303 The Taliban have warehouses filled with 21st century military equipment, ammunition, vehicles, helicopters, spare parts. So, yeah, Taliban's ready to roll.

I think you're giving them more credit for maintenance and operation than they deserve.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 04:46 PM (Riz8t)

304 293 Tehran is at 4500 ft. The power to pump any volume of water nearly a mile up is astronomical. Add in the volume required and you have a pipeline 5 meters diameter. They don't have the power needed to do this. not even close.

Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 04:44 PM (EMg+d)

You pump up to holding tanks. Yes, that'll be lots and lots of holding tanks at various altitudes.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:46 PM (ynpvh)

305 Not only has there been little rainfall recently but they've sucked the aquifers dry so there's nothing to fall back on.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 10, 2025

Knew a girl like that in college.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 04:46 PM (zZu0s)

306 I've heard that the Great Salt Lake is shrinking, too. Too much is being diverted for agriculture. Must have desalination plants there, as well.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (77rzZ)

307 Iran should import alcohol

Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (Ia/+0)

308 Tehran is at 4500 ft. The power to pump any volume of water nearly a mile up is astronomical. Add in the volume required and you have a pipeline 5 meters diameter. They don't have the power needed to do this. not even close.

Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 04:44 PM (EMg+d)
=====
Ok so put the water tank up there in the first place.
--Millennials

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (A0sqA)

309 Tehran is at 4500 ft. The power to pump any volume of water nearly a mile up is astronomical.

==

Sounds like a "them" problem.

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (g47mK)

310 Aqueduct

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (zZu0s)

311 Sounds like BadlandChugs was sent to Iran on a covert mission.

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (irs4S)

312 I have been led to believe that desalinated water is not potable. It can be used for cleaning and watering crops, but not for drinking.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (W2Pud)

313 Pistachios, not pecans, I think.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 04:48 PM (U/Byj)

314 Just remember, Allah is punishing them.

This is the kind of stuff that causes regimes to fail.

If it doesn't rain soon, you can count on the mullahs getting launched.

Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 04:48 PM (EMg+d)

315 Tehran population 9.6 million.
Average male needs 1 gallon a day female .7. Kids less. Go with .7. Tehran goes through about 6.8 million gallons, just for drinking, a day.

Tehran is a big city. Be a shame if...

Posted by: Complete the sentence at December 10, 2025 04:48 PM (AoMt0)

316 307 Iran should import alcohol

Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (Ia/+0)

They should ask the Jews to borrow the weather machine. Really nicely.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 04:48 PM (Da1lH)

317 You pump up to holding tanks. Yes, that'll be lots and lots of holding tanks at various altitudes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:46 PM (ynpvh)
====

This guy gets it!
--Millenials

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 04:48 PM (A0sqA)

318 The Taliban have warehouses filled with 21st century military equipment, ammunition, vehicles, helicopters, spare parts. So, yeah, Taliban's ready to roll.

I think you're giving them more credit for maintenance and operation than they deserve.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 04:46 PM (Riz8t)

Plus few trained operators and fuel left I'd imagine.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:49 PM (8avO+)

319 This is the kind of stuff that causes regimes to fail.

If it doesn't rain soon, you can count on the mullahs getting launched.
Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 04:48 PM (EMg+d)
====
I've been wrong too many times about that.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 04:49 PM (A0sqA)

320 Just remember, Allah is punishing them.

This is the kind of stuff that causes regimes to fail.

If it doesn't rain soon, you can count on the mullahs getting launched.
Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 04:48 PM (EMg+d)

By their reasoning, they have lost the favor of Allah in some way and deserve this.

*drinks*

That's some high quality H2O right there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 04:49 PM (zZu0s)

321 @RealJamesWoods . 6h

Amazon commits over $35 billion to India through 2030 to scale AI and create 1 million jobs - CNBC

Now imagine what one million jobs could do for struggling Americans.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:49 PM (Hm8Vv)

322 312 I have been led to believe that desalinated water is not potable. It can be used for cleaning and watering crops, but not for drinking.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (W2Pud)

If the water is low-enough in salt, it can be pumped into a water treatment plant to make it potable. The issue probably has to do with preventing bacteria and virii from multiplying in it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:49 PM (ynpvh)

323 Yeah, up a little early this morning. Cleaning the kitchen, for reasons I'll cover in tomorrow's thread.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Hello, Pixy. You and I don't interact much, since I'm not a techie and used to view the Tech Thread as an annoying roadblock holding up JJ's Morning Report.

But I'm over that now. G'day, Mate!

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:50 PM (77rzZ)

324 Pretty sure desalinated water can be made to potable levels. Dubai (and other Gulf states) get all their water from this source.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 04:50 PM (U/Byj)

325 I have been led to believe that desalinated water is not potable. It can be used for cleaning and watering crops, but not for drinking.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (W2Pud)
=====

Kool-Ade?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 04:50 PM (A0sqA)

326 Karen Bass is more like the Okavango Delta, an inland delta. Gets swampy at the end of the rainy season and dries out leaving dead wildebeests around her cooter

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 04:50 PM (D+mpw)

327 "Only hot chicks" is as valid an immigration policy as anything else I've seen proposed over the last 40 years of my life.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The Salma Hayak Sensible Border Act of 2019 was crushed by the Karen AWFL crowd.

Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 04:50 PM (Y8DZL)

328 317 You pump up to holding tanks. Yes, that'll be lots and lots of holding tanks at various altitudes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:46 PM (ynpvh)
====

This guy gets it!
--Millenials

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 04:48 PM (A0sqA)

Depends on the importance, timeframe, and cost...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:51 PM (ynpvh)

329 his is the kind of stuff that causes regimes to fail.

If it doesn't rain soon, you can count on the mullahs getting launched.
Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 04:48 PM (EMg+d)
====
I've been wrong too many times about that.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 04:49 PM (A0sqA)

its easy to move the mullah's ...

Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:51 PM (8avO+)

330 Yeah, up a little early this morning. Cleaning the kitchen, for reasons I'll cover in tomorrow's thread.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 10, 2025 04:45 PM (BLOW1)

Please tell me you are NOT getting a "smart" fridge!

Posted by: pookysgirl likes her appliances to be dumb at December 10, 2025 04:51 PM (Wt5PA)

331 - Napped right through the last thread.
Know which "independent agency" they really don't want Trump firing people from?
See my comment earlier this morning about CIGIE and watch Lara Logan's interview of Dr Timothy Shindelar.
It's why whistle blower evidence given to IG's and yes, congress, don't go anywhere.
Interview on utube and I think they said X.
That is all.

Posted by: TeeJ at December 10, 2025 04:51 PM (jMlHD)

332 It's a glacially slow news day, so I'll post it.
---
Tehran could probably use a few glaciers about now.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 04:51 PM (ESVrU)

333 Tehran is at 4500 ft. The power to pump any volume of water nearly a mile up is astronomical. Add in the volume required and you have a pipeline 5 meters diameter. They don't have the power needed to do this. not even close.

Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 04:44 PM (EMg+d)

A bigger issue is that any solution which resulted in Tehran being livable by anything close to its current population would require a least a decade to accomplish and they don't have ten years. Even if they had a plan, even if they started today.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 04:51 PM (ExV1e)

334 Morning Wolfus!

Yeah, up a little early this morning. Cleaning the kitchen, for reasons I'll cover in tomorrow's thread.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 10, 2025

***
I need to do the same. Gonna be chilly here tomorrow; maybe I can get to it after breakfast.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 04:52 PM (wzUl9)

335 Yeah, up a little early this morning. Cleaning the kitchen, for reasons I'll cover in tomorrow's thread.
Posted by: Pixy Misa
====

Love ya Pixy but I don't need more reasons to wake up at 2:30 Am

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 04:52 PM (A0sqA)

336 @RealJamesWoods . 6h

Amazon commits over $35 billion to India through 2030 to scale AI and create 1 million jobs - CNBC

Now imagine what one million jobs could do for struggling Americans.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:49 PM (Hm8Vv)

Great, a billion internet pictures of eight toed elephants.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:52 PM (8avO+)

337 They should ask the Jews to borrow the weather machine. Really nicely.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

IIRC, Israel actually sold military hardware to Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. I guess Saddam was viewed as a greater threat than Khomeini.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:52 PM (77rzZ)

338 I have been led to believe that desalinated water is not potable. It can be used for cleaning and watering crops, but not for drinking.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (W2Pud)

I believe you have been misled, even though there is typically final treatment to call it potable. We would make fresh water via desalination both with evaporation/condensation and reverse osmosis.

Instantly drinkable, and you could pump it into aquifres or reservoirs and call it potable.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 04:53 PM (Da1lH)

339 324 Pretty sure desalinated water can be made to potable levels. Dubai (and other Gulf states) get all their water from this source.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 04:50 PM (U/Byj)

Yeah. Worst case? Boil the water into stream using all those oil reserves, condense the steam into water...
There are plenty of other options. Can be done by reverse osmosis (most plants do this).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:53 PM (ynpvh)

340 When the water runs out the riots will be nuts . Be like watching a really really bloody French Revolution. "Exxxcellent"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 04:53 PM (D+mpw)

341 Pretty sure desalinated water can be made to potable levels. Dubai (and other Gulf states) get all their water from this source.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 04:50 PM (U/Byj)
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So do boats. Yachts usually have "water-makers" that desalinate and treat sea water so that it can be used by the crew and passengers.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 04:53 PM (ESVrU)

342 80 again today. Damn Christmas tree (outside in a bucket of water) needs to have the pail refilled/topped up every day.

Good swim workout again tomorrow.

No "relief" in sight til Sunday when the high drops to 70.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 04:53 PM (U/Byj)

343 "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Posted by: PG at December 10, 2025 04:54 PM (1GUBr)

344 336 @RealJamesWoods . 6h

Amazon commits over $35 billion to India through 2030 to scale AI and create 1 million jobs - CNBC

Now imagine what one million jobs could do for struggling Americans.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:49 PM (Hm8Vv)

Great, a billion internet pictures of eight toed elephants.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:52 PM (8avO+)

AI: "Here's your elephant with eight toads"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:54 PM (ynpvh)

345 Jeanne Tripplethorne was a beauty back in the day.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:54 PM (77rzZ)

346 Have they considered sacrificing virgins? Oh, used them all up with that 72 thing.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 10, 2025 04:55 PM (MZ+PY)

347 "Only hot chicks" is as valid an immigration policy as anything else I've seen proposed over the last 40 years of my life.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Ass, gas, or grass. Nobody immigrates for free.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 04:55 PM (Da1lH)

348 its easy to move the mullah's ...
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:51 PM (8avO+)

Sure. One trebuchet would do it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 04:55 PM (ExV1e)

349 Love ya Pixy but I don't need more reasons to wake up at 2:30 Am
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025

***
In my last years at work I used to get up close to that on mornings when I planned to work out. Got to the office at six am and could hang out here, or read, or other things, before starting the actual "work" day at eight.

I've shifted everything down the line about two hours or a bit more now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 04:56 PM (wzUl9)

350 My grandmother controlled the weather until she passed away in 1991.
We’ve had climate change ever since

Posted by: Avi at December 10, 2025 04:56 PM (Lbsds)

351 The Bahamas are pretty much completely dependent on desalinated water. They pumped all the ground water out of the lens and it's pretty much undrinkable and useless for irrigation.

Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 04:57 PM (EMg+d)

352 Yep, that's our plan. Resettle 8 million people out into the deserts.

Posted by: Tehran at December 10, 2025 04:57 PM (0ZmKh)

353 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 04:56 PM (wzUl9)

I miss the days when your boss would be out on Fridays and you'd float plans to sneak out early, at which point I'd post a comment about all the work that came up that you needed to work late for, and sock it as "Wolfus' boss."

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:58 PM (77rzZ)

354 Please tell me you are NOT getting a "smart" fridge!
Posted by: pookysgirl likes her appliances to be dumb at December 10, 2025 04:51 PM (Wt5PA)

I don’t think Pixy is the smart fridge type since the only thing in it is gluten-free chicken nuggets and the occasional batch of kangaroo meat.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 04:59 PM (6ydKt)

355 Yep, that's our plan. Resettle 8 million people out into the deserts.
Posted by: Tehran at December 10, 2025

***
Since they think they are twice as good as Hebrews, they can wander in the desert for *eighty* years.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 04:59 PM (wzUl9)

356
Good swim workout again tomorrow.

No "relief" in sight til Sunday when the high drops to 70.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 04:53 PM (U/Byj)

I can't believe how warm it is, it's in the 80s at the base and it's always cold there.

Posted by: Caligirl at December 10, 2025 04:59 PM (gpah0)

357 Countries neighboring Iran better prepare.

Posted by: davidt at December 10, 2025 04:59 PM (Q+gd/)

358 Iran has faced severe drought for six years,

Have you tried emptying the reservoirs in times of plenty?

Posted by: Gavin Newscum at December 10, 2025 04:59 PM (0ZmKh)

359 I miss the days when your boss would be out on Fridays and you'd float plans to sneak out early, at which point I'd post a comment about all the work that came up that you needed to work late for, and sock it as "Wolfus' boss."
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025

***
That was cool.

The joke, not the job.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:00 PM (wzUl9)

360
I believe you have been misled, even though there is typically final treatment to call it potable. We would make fresh water via desalination both with evaporation/condensation and reverse osmosis.

Instantly drinkable, and you could pump it into aquifres or reservoirs and call it potable.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 04:53 PM (Da1lH)

"I'd die before I'd drink my own Urine!"
"Oh, that's only Wishful Thinking."

Posted by: Famous lines from Blackadder at December 10, 2025 05:00 PM (uWKK8)

361 I miss the days when your boss would be out on Fridays and you'd float plans to sneak out early, at which point I'd post a comment about all the work that came up that you needed to work late for, and sock it as "Wolfus' boss."
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:58 PM (77rzZ)

If it makes you feel better, I'm leaving work at noon on Friday. Of course, I'm never going back so having my 'boss' say there was work to do would be pointless but you could say it anyway.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 05:00 PM (ExV1e)

362 According to the Wall Street Journal, Tehran's water-supply system was designed and built by Israeli engineers, working during the Shah's regime, of course. Since then, it's not been maintained - "inshallah", don't you see - with predictable results. Not sabotage, not Jewish space lasers, just plain old neglect and incompetence.

Posted by: Nemo at December 10, 2025 05:00 PM (4RPgu)

363
The Taliban have warehouses filled with 21st century military equipment, ammunition, vehicles, helicopters, spare parts. So, yeah, Taliban's ready to roll.
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 04:45 PM (rj6Yv)

The days when every Afghan was a master marksman are long gone. After the Soviets flooded the country with Kalashnikovs, the Afghans adopted the standard hip-shooting mag dump marksmanship just like every other mohammedan in the world.

Same thing with the more sophisticated equipment. There's a handful of Afghans who can be truly dangerous with it, but the majority are illiterate donkey-fucking savages who can't shoot for shit. The danger with all of that Biden-gifted equipment is that they'll sell it to someone who can actually use it: meaning, non-mohammedan infidels

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 10, 2025 05:00 PM (y9nCu)

364 I don’t think Pixy is the smart fridge type since the only thing in it is gluten-free chicken nuggets and the occasional batch of kangaroo meat.
==
I had Australian beer once. It was pretty good. You could really taste the Kangaroo.

Posted by: Gday at December 10, 2025 05:00 PM (AoMt0)

365 Iran has faced severe drought for six years,

Have you tried emptying the reservoirs in times of plenty?

Posted by: Gavin Newscum at December 10, 2025 04:59 PM (0ZmKh)

Have you tried turning Islam off and back on again?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 05:01 PM (Da1lH)

366
Jews control the Bamboo industry

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:01 PM (H1HTt)

367 Iran should try unplugging the reservoirs and then plugging them back in

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 05:01 PM (D+mpw)

368 345 Jeanne Tripplethorne was a beauty back in the day.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:54 PM (77rzZ)

She’s a big part of the reason I’ll sit through three hours of Waterworld.

That and seeing the girl from Napolen Dynamite before she grew up.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 05:01 PM (6ydKt)

369
speaking of gas...

some AWFL made a huge stink over getting "farted on" in a grocery store??

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:02 PM (H1HTt)

370 Same thing with the more sophisticated equipment. There's a handful of Afghans who can be truly dangerous with it, but the majority are illiterate donkey-fucking savages who can't shoot for shit. The danger with all of that Biden-gifted equipment is that they'll sell it to someone who can actually use it: meaning, non-mohammedan infidels
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 10, 2025 05:00 PM (y9nCu)

I know Russia was sniffing about a few years back as they ramped up. I do not know if they made any deals with them.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 05:02 PM (8avO+)

371 That was cool.

The joke, not the job.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Glad you liked it.

I help where I can.

*writes out another loyalty check to Sponge*

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 05:02 PM (77rzZ)

372 I'm down with an immigration policy of only hot girls that can pass a "i'm not too crazy" test. Whether from Iran, Ukraine, Korea, Japan.... why not?

I suspect the Ette's would love a "Pablo" exemption as well.

Posted by: SimoHayek at December 10, 2025 05:02 PM (0Aoc4)

373
ahhh, Jeanne Triplehorn

one of the many, many Hollywood women with eyes on the side of her face

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:03 PM (H1HTt)

374 If it makes you feel better, I'm leaving work at noon on Friday. Of course, I'm never going back so having my 'boss' say there was work to do would be pointless but you could say it anyway.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025

***
I think I strolled out for the last time about 1:30 pm that day. Last time in that building too; my office moved this past summer (I wanted to avoid organizing that clusterf**k), so they have a whole different building much farther from the avenue where I used to park. I think I timed retirement well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:03 PM (wzUl9)

375 Amazon commits over $35 billion to India through 2030 to scale AI and create 1 million jobs - CNBC

If you're automating wrong answers and almost-English anyways, what are the million jobs for?

Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 05:03 PM (0ZmKh)

376 Elon Musk said on the Katie Miller podcast that the current threat environment from radical left-wing activists remains too dangerous for him to appear in public, especially after the political assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Miller asked Musk:

"When's the last time you did something extremely ordinary like go to Target or CVS?"

Musk responded:

"I can't go to things where there's the general public because I'm there, there's an immediate, can I have a selfie line that forms, and these days, particularly in light of Charlie Kirk's murder, there are serious security issues. It's not that I don't want to. I simply can't."

Miller then asked:

"Has Charlie's murder changed how you do things or were you already locked down pretty well before that?"

Musk responded:

"It certainly reinforced the severity of the situation where life is on hardcore mode. You make one mistake, and you're dead, and it only takes one mistake."

Here's the clip:
youtube.com/watch?t=750&v=bz5Hjk40FD4

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 05:03 PM (Hm8Vv)

377 speaking of gas...

some AWFL made a huge stink over getting "farted on" in a grocery store??
===
Terrance and Philip strike again

Posted by: Canadians at December 10, 2025 05:03 PM (AoMt0)

378 Jeanne Triplehorn, not thorn.

Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 05:03 PM (W7XSX)

379 Sorry for the pedantic outburst.

Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 05:04 PM (W7XSX)

380 I had Australian beer once. It was pretty good. You could really taste the Kangaroo.
Posted by: Gday at December 10, 2025 05:00 PM (AoMt0)

I’m pretty sure that’s the reason Foster’s cans are so big.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 05:04 PM (6ydKt)

381 Jesus said "By their fruits ye shall know them."

The Mormons and the Jews made their deserts "blossom as the rose." The Hamas and Iranians are busily destroying the blossoming deserts others left them.

Isn't that pretty much a "the defense rests your honor "moment?

Posted by: SimoHayek at December 10, 2025 05:05 PM (0Aoc4)

382 Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller has declared war on radical left-wing groups after Kirk's assassination.

.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 05:06 PM (Hm8Vv)

383 Maybe Star Wars vapors?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:06 PM (ufetp)

384
I guess Ace is busy watching Justine Bateman's livestream

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:06 PM (H1HTt)

385 I’m pretty sure that’s the reason Foster’s cans are so big.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 05:04 PM (6ydKt)

Aussie beer causes moobs?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 05:06 PM (ExV1e)

386 The Mormons and the Jews made their deserts "blossom as the rose." The Hamas and Iranians are busily destroying the blossoming deserts others left them.

Isn't that pretty much a "the defense rests your honor "moment?
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 10, 2025 05:05 PM (0Aoc4)

It also applies to places like Portland.
"By their Fruits you shall know them."

Posted by: Famous lines from Blackadder at December 10, 2025 05:06 PM (uWKK8)

387 If you read the sources coming out of Iran, they are also on a serious murder rampage. They are hanging people at record rates.

Gott be honest, that seems like the hard way to reduce demand for water.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 10, 2025 05:07 PM (a+4eV)

388 By their Furries and My Little Ponies ye shall know them.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:08 PM (ufetp)

389 General Flynn Calls For National Address From Trump On Color Revolution Threat

https://tinyurl.com/ynt6f87u

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 05:08 PM (Hm8Vv)

390 378 Jeanne Triplehorn, not thorn.
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 05:03 PM (W7XSX)

Her nickname was Triplehorny in high school.
Scarred her for life.

So she went to Hollywood and got banged by Michael Douglas in her first big role.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 05:08 PM (6ydKt)

391 What color this time?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:09 PM (ufetp)

392 Are the Iranians recycling the water of their victims like the Fremen? A waste if they don't

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 05:09 PM (D+mpw)

393 391 What color this time?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:09 PM (ufetp)

Plaid

Posted by: Justice Sotomayor at December 10, 2025 05:09 PM (VE6XX)

394 Gott be honest, that seems like the hard way to reduce demand for water
==
He's right hanging is way to slow. What shall we do? Eureka, we will fake an endemic and mandate poisionous vaccines!!!

Posted by: The Mullahs at December 10, 2025 05:09 PM (AoMt0)

395
NOOOOOD

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:09 PM (H1HTt)

396 If you read the sources coming out of Iran, they are also on a serious murder rampage. They are hanging people at record rates.

Gott be honest, that seems like the hard way to reduce demand for water.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 10, 2025 05:07 PM (a+4eV)

They're really fond of their lawns.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 05:09 PM (Da1lH)

397 I saw Pedantic Outburst open for...

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 05:09 PM (77rzZ)

398

noood

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:09 PM (H1HTt)

399 How hard can a desalination plant be to put up and run? But no, gotta build missiles instead to kill the jooowes. Sit down and have a glass or two of white wine . . . Oh wait! Well we will finish them off for ya! Sckol!

Posted by: The Man from Athens at December 10, 2025 05:09 PM (eISTN)

400 Sand worms gotta eat.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:10 PM (ufetp)

401 Nood. Fed rate cut.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 05:10 PM (ExV1e)

402 How terrible... Well anyway...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 05:10 PM (VE6XX)

403 "When's the last time you did something extremely ordinary like go to Target or CVS?"

Musk responded:

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I hope they pronounced it "targèt"

Posted by: Old lady who swallowed a fly at December 10, 2025 05:11 PM (pEFY5)

404 362 According to the Wall Street Journal, Tehran's water-supply system was designed and built by Israeli engineers, working during the Shah's regime, of course. Since then, it's not been maintained - "inshallah", don't you see - with predictable results. Not sabotage, not Jewish space lasers, just plain old neglect and incompetence.
Posted by: Nemo at December 10, 2025 05:00 PM (4RPgu)

The Venezuela petroleum industry. Well, Venezuela, period.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 10, 2025 05:12 PM (MZ+PY)

405 Jeanne Triplehorn, not thorn.
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025

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She always reminded me of Sandra Bullock. They could have played sisters.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:12 PM (wzUl9)

406
I know Russia was sniffing about a few years back as they ramped up. I do not know if they made any deals with them.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 05:02 PM (8avO+)

From what I've read, it was mostly a matter of battlefield pick ups from the Soviet occupation, then the Pakistanis dumping tons of them to various groups.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 10, 2025 05:12 PM (y9nCu)

407 Perhaps the Iranians could attach all their rocket boosters to an iceberg and launch it into Tehran. The reentry heat could melt the iceberg and provide the city with a tasty refreshing drink. I believe Acme industries provides a simple attachment harness for just such purposes.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 10, 2025 05:14 PM (Da7Vv)

408 123 Great movie! Oh and Myrna Loy: Mmmm.

Posted by: Fritz at December 10, 2025 05:48 PM (k3OpT)

409 Chem-trails. What can't they do?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 06:14 PM (1zOXE)

410 Don't they know they should be switching to solar and wind power? All this oil drilling, and they are getting the effects of global warming!

Posted by: MikeN at December 10, 2025 06:17 PM (JykNP)

411 Iran has been spending all its money on nukes to kill Jews instead of building desalination plants to bring potable water to its people.

Posted by: wferrin at December 10, 2025 07:03 PM (vsZHH)

412 I guess they could stop bathing.
Heh.
As if.

Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 10, 2025 07:17 PM (TFeiv)

413 I may be late to the tread, but if it hasn't already been mentioned, check out 'the History of Everything Podcast' on youtube. The guy does background information that gives context to current events. Not too long ago he did a video on Iran and its water management. It makes out bureaucracy look competent and well-intentioned.

On one of Iran's rivers, the government built a dam, to 'manage' the water and create a reservoir. The land that the new reservoir covered was a salt flat. Which then turned the reservoir into a salt-water lake. The government actively turned a healthy (or at least usable) river into an un-usable salt lake. It's no surprise that the situation has gotten this bad...

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