The "I Totally Forgot It Was Friday" ONT

I was relaxing with a book after dinner. About 8, my wife comes in and says "Hey, shouldn't you be writing the ONT?" I had totally forgotten, LOL. Anyhow...Howdy folks! So, Grok AI scanned my Twitter/X account and generated this picture of what the world would be like if I ran it.

"World under Weirddave0: Common sense paradise. One-page insurance that works, perfect street tacos (no anger), kids learning safe gun handling, free speech zones, metal detecting gold, strong families, free markets. Liberty and responsibility for all."

Fido Friday: Save fren!

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They do have more experience...

It's that time of year

No, it's knot

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Dodged a bullet

Friends don't let friends vote Commie

Whoops

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What was he thinking?

Bring beer

PSA on women

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Gen X FTW

Social bat

Husbands

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It was actually very nice today

Bitch

Last week's Ravens/Cowboys game was so epic, the Japanese made it into an anime

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Also Gen X

Be prepared

The good old days

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Libs

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by bass players:

Posted by: WeirdDave at 10:00 PM

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1 “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
― Albert Einstein

What a curious thing to say.
― Bart Simpson

Posted by: mindful webworker - nobody nose the truffles I've sneezed at October 02, 2026 10:00 PM (sVrIn)

2 Sponge!

Thanks for the ONT, WeirdDave!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at October 02, 2026 10:00 PM (aJQbY)

3 Interview today was meh. I feel like I represented myself as well as I could, but I also think the job is only a 70% match for me, so we'll see if I make it to the next round. Still think yesterday's interview is one of my best all year. Keep praying, please, it's helping!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at October 02, 2026 10:02 PM (aJQbY)

4 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 02, 2026 10:03 PM (+9wcF)

5 *cue theremin*

I sense that there is an ONT.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 02, 2026 10:03 PM (wpRMV)

6 The Japanese. Nuked too much? Or not enough?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 02, 2026 10:05 PM (wpRMV)

7 Evenin'

The curse of James Franklin is rearing its head tonight in Blacksburg. Pitt is leading VT, 35-24. 4th qt, about 10 min to go. JF just can't win big games.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 02, 2026 10:06 PM (wh7vU)

8 I felt a great disturbance in the Force. It felt like millions of commies tried to vote, and they screamed because they forgot how.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 02, 2026 10:08 PM (qx7Zg)

9 Dogs and cats, living together?

Posted by: 88C+u at October 02, 2026 10:09 PM (88C+u)

10
Dozed off for quite a while. Know what's nice? Sleep.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 02, 2026 10:10 PM (eRlcH)

11 The rope and knot video triggered me something fierce. Fifteen FBI agents are on their way!

Posted by: Bubba Wallace at October 02, 2026 10:10 PM (Fn+3X)

12 VT scores, finally. 35-32, Pitt.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 02, 2026 10:10 PM (wh7vU)

13 I am here with wild and dangerous opinions! 🤣

Posted by: Piper at October 02, 2026 10:10 PM (ZdaMQ)

14 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 02, 2026 10:11 PM (cax1H)

15 I love how the guy teaching the kids about gun safety in Grok's illustration is pointing the rifle directly at the one kid's groin. Either that or the kid holding the barrel is aiming it that way.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at October 02, 2026 10:11 PM (9ZFZd)

16 Thanks for the ONT, WD.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 02, 2026 10:12 PM (l3cgK)

17 I love how the guy teaching the kids about gun safety in Grok's illustration is pointing the rifle directly at the one kid's groin. Either that or the kid holding the barrel is aiming it that way.

He's one twitchy finger away from preventing testicular cancer.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 02, 2026 10:12 PM (+9wcF)

18 Good evening morons und danke wd

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 02, 2026 10:13 PM (RIvkX)

19 9 Dogs and cats, living together?

Posted by: 88C+u at October 02, 2026 10:09 PM (88C+u)

It's platonic.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 02, 2026 10:13 PM (l3cgK)

20 I'm going to be leaving before the bass solo.

Posted by: No Glutton For Punishment at October 02, 2026 10:13 PM (Fn+3X)

21 Thanks for the memeage, WD. Howdy Horde!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 02, 2026 10:13 PM (RNvK7)

22 6 The Japanese. Nuked too much? Or not enough?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 02, 2026 10:05 PM (wpRMV)

Not enough. Want proof? Tentacle pr0n existed well before WW2...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 02, 2026 10:14 PM (l3cgK)

23 Those condoms.
To keep fucking that chi-

Posted by: 88C+u at October 02, 2026 10:15 PM (88C+u)

24 Apparently i can sleep from midnight to 2 and then 5-8. Then grab 30-60 minutes during the day. There is no way i could work in an office.

Posted by: Dark Lix at October 02, 2026 10:15 PM (Fv808)

25 I've heard tell of Governor Bill Lee's office having been inundated with offers of assistance regarding the botched dispatching of that murderess.

Wheat place other than America can a purportedly humane execution be twisted such that it fails when so many methods exist that guarantee instant, painless death?

Posted by: Tonypete at October 02, 2026 10:16 PM (cax1H)

26
Common sense paradise. One-page insurance that works, perfect street tacos (no anger), kids learning safe gun handling, free speech zones, metal detecting gold, strong families, free markets. Liberty and responsibility for all.

_________

"A land whose countryside would be bright with neat and cosy homesteads, whose fields and villages would be joyous with the sounds of industry, with the romping of sturdy children, the contests of athletic youths, and the laughter of comely maidens, whose firesides would be forums for the wisdom of serene old age. It would in a word be the home of a people living the life that God desires that men should live."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 02, 2026 10:17 PM (eRlcH)

27
Tonypete,

Tennessee Morons could take of that problem.

Posted by: four seasons at October 02, 2026 10:17 PM (/QHx4)

28 Fido Friday - don't care if it's AI, it's cute. I could almost hear the words.

Husbands - ...... fair.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at October 02, 2026 10:18 PM (aJQbY)

29 25 I've heard tell of Governor Bill Lee's office having been inundated with offers of assistance regarding the botched dispatching of that murderess.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 02, 2026 10:16 PM (cax1H)

Billy Ray Valentine, or Uncle Ruckus?

Posted by: i got the rope, right here at October 02, 2026 10:18 PM (88C+u)

30 Enjoyable and amusing, WD, top to bottom.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Posted by: mindful webworker - I don't get it. Oh, wait. Yes I do. at October 02, 2026 10:19 PM (sVrIn)

31 Oh gosh WD! As always, fantastically done.
I'm not really welcome here, but I love it, and thank you so much!
Best comments and memes!
Thank you sir!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 02, 2026 10:19 PM (jCKWs)

32
Some Chicoms have stumbled on something that looks like it could be an "alien radio signal". It checks a lot of boxes for being artificial. And it most likely is, but our guys think it's mostly like us, terrestrial origin, but aren't sure exactly what the local source is.

https://t.ly/nnFox

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 02, 2026 10:19 PM (w6EFb)

33 Evening, Weird Dave! Thanks for the ONT!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 02, 2026 10:20 PM (n2qDf)

34 Evenin' Horde. Still in hospital, now with 100% less employment!

Hoo boy, am I screwed.

Well, I have money in the bank, so when I get out, maybe it's finally time to skip town and start over somewhere else.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at October 02, 2026 10:20 PM (ENA4W)

35 BBC vs. sneering, shrewish woman: was it really comedy?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 02, 2026 10:21 PM (mYNxU)

36 I like the knot video.

And on the text 'dodged a bullet' conversation: we all know who was rhe male and who was the female, right?

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 02, 2026 10:21 PM (zZu0s)

37 Great ONT!
Danke!

Bier bitte!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 02, 2026 10:21 PM (2WIwB)

38 The 70's were awesome! DanMan & I married in '76. We were both 18. Our first son was born late December, 1976. Whoops! He must have been 3 months early & 9lbs 4oz. His brother was born 1980. The 70's are why GenX is so awesome now!

Posted by: DanMa'am at October 02, 2026 10:22 PM (8uzBS)

39 I think the clip on childhood in the 70s is off by a decade. It's really describing the 60s. I know. I was there.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 02, 2026 10:23 PM (Riz8t)

40 I relate to most of this ONT. Thank you.

The 1970's kid didn't mention riding bikes in DDT clouds. The most exciting evening of the summer week for my brother and me, other than the ice cream truck. If both had happened at the same time we would have spontaneously combusted with joy. Mother would simply tell us not to ride in the street.

Except it was in the 60's, the rest was the same of being outside all day. Once we moved to the farm no one knew where anyone was. We could have been dead from a stampede or snake bitten or drowned. She knew no one would kidnap us as they'd regret it.

When we went to our grandmother's, every Saturday of our lives til we drove, we were then with feral cousins and still not allowed in the house unless it was raining or cold. They let us in for meals only.

She and her sisters would go shopping and leave seven of us in the car. Most of our bodies were in the car, but legs & heads were hanging out. Or we made baboon noises at people or acted mental. No worries about kidnapping then, either.

I totally got the diagram of the bass player.

You did really good, Weird Dave, to do this so quickly after forgetting. Thanks for not forgetting.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 02, 2026 10:23 PM (hzuYO)

41 Today, my rudimentary lathe worked. More or less, I had to finish the shovel handle off with a rasp and a spokeshave for the correct fit.

And I didn't bleed, so tell my wife that.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 02, 2026 10:24 PM (rbvCR)

42 Some Chicoms have stumbled on something that looks like it could be an "alien radio signal". It checks a lot of boxes for being artificial. And it most likely is, but our guys think it's mostly like us, terrestrial origin, but aren't sure exactly what the local source is.

If they say "You are bugs", it might be real.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 02, 2026 10:24 PM (Riz8t)

43 My mom could step out on the porch and whistle us home from two blocks away. After she got dentures, I asked her if she could still do it. She could.

Posted by: huerfano at October 02, 2026 10:25 PM (2Xqig)

44 At least one of those fancy knots would have been handy in that Tennessee execution attempt.

Posted by: mindful webworker - that's knot funny at October 02, 2026 10:26 PM (sVrIn)

45 Tennessee botched the death penalty. That is actually a blessing in disguise... Hear me out. Now we get to do it the right way: firing squad? electric chair? hanging? NO. We need to make a pay-per-view special where we put her in a large hydraulic press and smash her thinner than a fruit roll up. After that, we feed the "remains" to some rats.

We have a press at work that is big enough to fit her in, only have to remove about half of the 11 platens. Its a difficult task, but I will do it for justice.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 02, 2026 10:26 PM (mTzaS)

46 Some Chicoms have stumbled on something that looks like it could be an "alien radio signal". It checks a lot of boxes for being artificial. And it most likely is, but our guys think it's mostly like us, terrestrial origin, but aren't sure exactly what the local source is.

https://t.ly/nnFox
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 02, 2026 10:19 PM (w6EFb)

Oopsie! (unplugs router)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 02, 2026 10:26 PM (n2qDf)

47 {{{COMountainMarie}}}

Hello, sunshine.

Working on a road trip in December to see you and your Man. NotSoThoreau is looking into it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 02, 2026 10:26 PM (u82oZ)

48 I love how the guy teaching the kids about gun safety in Grok's illustration is pointing the rifle directly at the one kid's groin. Either that or the kid holding the barrel is aiming it that way.
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at October 02, 2026 10:11 PM (9ZFZd)

He is teaching them the Fifth Rule of gun safety: Don't grab the barrel after doing a mag dump.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 02, 2026 10:28 PM (2bl8/)

49 I wouldn't trade growing up in the 70's for growing up today for any amount of money. We wuz kings.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 02, 2026 10:28 PM (viF8m)

50 Did China’s FAST radio telescope detect an alien radio signal?

"One order of Kung Pow chicken, to go."👽

Posted by: mindful webworker - with 2 fortune cookies at October 02, 2026 10:29 PM (sVrIn)

51 I had two rules growing up in nyc
1. Don't go above 92nd St
2. Don't call us from the cops, we're not coming.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 02, 2026 10:29 PM (RIvkX)

52 Purring kitty on my shoulder.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 02, 2026 10:30 PM (n2qDf)

53 Is the actual female from the, "You can't just rename it" meme the professor from Mizzou from years back who called for, "some muscle over here"?

I'd like to think in a world without consequences the bug eyed bitch is immortal.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 02, 2026 10:31 PM (r7+Q7)

54 The Japanese. Nuked too much? Or not enough?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 02, 2026 10:05 PM (wpRMV)

Or like Tillie in “ The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds,” nuked just right.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 02, 2026 10:31 PM (mYNxU)

55 My suggestion is that the governor gets an axe and carries out the sentence himself.

Posted by: it was good enough for the Starks at October 02, 2026 10:31 PM (88C+u)

56 BBC vs. sneering, shrewish woman: was it really comedy?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 02, 2026 10:21 PM (mYNxU)

The joke is that a fiat currency without any sort of restriction on printing like a hard asset backing will lead to continual inflation, uncontrolled business cycles, and more and more frantic moves by the central bank to paper over any default through borrowing and playing games with central bank interest rates, or shift the debt onto other economic actors dependent on the central bank without their being able to prevent it.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 02, 2026 10:31 PM (rbvCR)

57 Alien signal?

Is Calvin bouncing a recording of his Spaceman Spiff stuff off the Moon?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 02, 2026 10:32 PM (2GVsD)

58 If you need an escape, Hitler Rants Parodies is releasing a series of shorts called "Back to the Reich". Each episode gets weirder.

This is #5: https://youtu.be/QJC172_WFaU

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 02, 2026 10:33 PM (qx7Zg)

59 Kindltot,

Man, it sure is a good thing we didn't take that path!

/s

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at October 02, 2026 10:33 PM (aJQbY)

60 52 Purring kitty on my shoulder.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 02, 2026 10

I have a purring kitty on my foot and a puppy chewing his chew stick on my side. Both settled and content. I am missing 1 kitty, though. I expect him to hop up here soon enough.

Posted by: Piper at October 02, 2026 10:34 PM (ZdaMQ)

61 45 Tennessee botched the death penalty. That is actually a blessing in disguise... Hear me out. Now we get to do it the right way: firing squad? electric chair? hanging? NO. We need to make a pay-per-view special where we put her in a large hydraulic press and smash her thinner than a fruit roll up. After that, we feed the "remains" to some rats.

We have a press at work that is big enough to fit her in, only have to remove about half of the 11 platens. Its a difficult task, but I will do it for justice.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 02, 2026 10:26 PM (mTzaS)
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Meh, just strap her ass to a telephone pole on an artillery range and give an extra weekend of leave to the cannon cockers that turn her into pink mist first. No need for messy cleanup of an industrial site.

Posted by: ballistic at October 02, 2026 10:34 PM (oqH4h)

62 The joke is that a fiat currency without any sort of restriction on printing like a hard asset backing will lead to continual inflation, uncontrolled business cycles, and more and more frantic moves by the central bank to paper over any default through borrowing and playing games with central bank interest rates, or shift the debt onto other economic actors dependent on the central bank without their being able to prevent it.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 02, 2026 10:31 PM (rbvCR)

You want gold-backed currency.

You will settle for Fiat currency.

You get Yugo currency.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 02, 2026 10:35 PM (n2qDf)

63 I didn't read every word of the blog today, so maybe I missed it, but have Snow Slut and the Seven Frats faded already as news items? Thought they would be AoS discussion-worthy for at least a week.

Posted by: mindful webworker - hope that something better comes along at October 02, 2026 10:35 PM (sVrIn)

64 I'm trying to remember the weirdest injury of my husband and they all blur into confusion. Married 47yrs.

A couple of weeks before our wedding he cut his hand really badly making dinner. I got him in the car and he was sort of giddy from bleeding (it was a lot of blood). He held a towel on it and above his head for the drive to the ED. Until the day before our vows he was wearing a gigantic bandage on his left hand. It was the start of something once a year or more.

When we were broken up once in college he showed up at my door with a hand injury and gravel embedded into his thumb/palm. He was riding in a parking lot of a bar on the tailgate of a truck. Friend patched out and he fell and decided he'd go see his student nurse. It was late and I was in bed on a school night.

I opened the door and looked at his hand. Asked wth he thought I'd do about it (I doubt I had a bandaid, much less stuff to clean it).

I had no time or pity for the bum who kept breaking up seasonally so he left. He went to the ED the next day for debridement and an antibiotic. I ain't no fool.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 02, 2026 10:36 PM (hzuYO)

65 Another option for the death penalty (also pay-per-view):

Stand that evil scrunt out in the Bonneville salt flats with a rope around her neck. Make sure the rope has at least 1000' coiled up with the other end attached to the bumper of a '69 Chevelle. Drive the car as fast as possible and when the slack runs out, her spine gets ripped right out of her body.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 02, 2026 10:36 PM (mTzaS)

66 My suggestion is that the governor gets an axe and carries out the sentence himself.
Posted by: it was good enough for the Starks at October 02, 2026 10:31 PM (88C+u)

Most Governors don't really have that skill set. If we are going to require the Governor to do the execution, we should employ the Spanish "garrote vil" which pretty much just requires the executioner to twist a wheel.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 02, 2026 10:37 PM (rbvCR)

67 Japan nuked too much?

https://youtu.be/jByZan_6uD4

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 02, 2026 10:37 PM (2GVsD)

68 Evening Hordians.

Thank you WD!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 02, 2026 10:38 PM (NnhvP)

69 Alien signal. Years ago I read an SF short story. A real alien signal is picked up. After much analysis, the scientists realize it has been sent in code; military code. They were eavesdropping on a battle of an interstellar war.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 02, 2026 10:38 PM (2bl8/)

70 31 Oh gosh WD! As always, fantastically done.
I'm not really welcome here, but I love it, and thank you so much!
Best comments and memes!
Thank you sir!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 02, 2026 10:19 PM (jCKWs)

----------

Not sure what you mean by that, but I welcome your presence here!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 02, 2026 10:38 PM (RNvK7)

71 “I think the clip on childhood in the 70s is off by a decade. It's really describing the 60s. I know. I was there.”
There’s more than a slight bit of truth to that, but sill, more 70s from my experience.
The fashion…the bike handlebars.
But they really don’t touch on the deep down remembrances…
Slight skin abrasion? Mercurachome. Painless.
Bloody gash? Methiolate. Ouch!
And I don’t remember the actual reasons… but there was the spray-on “plastic-ish” bandage.
It seemed to get the job done. Right back at it.

Posted by: Gunslinger at October 02, 2026 10:39 PM (N91F8)

72 Stand that evil scrunt out in the Bonneville salt flats with a rope around her neck. Make sure the rope has at least 1000' coiled up with the other end attached to the bumper of a '69 Chevelle. Drive the car as fast as possible and when the slack runs out, her spine gets ripped right out of her body.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 02, 2026 10:36 PM (mTzaS)

That rope would stretch a whole bunch, first. And then when her neck snaps, the head would come rocketing through the back window of the poor Chevelle.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 02, 2026 10:39 PM (n2qDf)

73 Evening, all!

Posted by: caf at October 02, 2026 10:40 PM (fawlF)

74 Well, sweetie, your husband walks in bleeding, with a limp, and busted knuckles so YOU don't have to. And that's the way you both want it

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 02, 2026 10:40 PM (PKL0q)

75
He's one twitchy finger away from preventing testicular cancer.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

I certainly hope Weasel doesn't see the poor trigger discipline!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 02, 2026 10:42 PM (NnhvP)

76 Will Eisner, Signal From Space.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 02, 2026 10:43 PM (2GVsD)

77 72 Stand that evil scrunt out in the Bonneville salt flats with a rope around her neck. Make sure the rope has at least 1000' coiled up with the other end attached to the bumper of a '69 Chevelle. Drive the car as fast as possible and when the slack runs out, her spine gets ripped right out of her body.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 02, 2026 10:36 PM (mTzaS)

That rope would stretch a whole bunch, first. And then when her neck snaps, the head would come rocketing through the back window of the poor Chevelle.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 02, 2026 10:39 PM (n2qDf)

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Damn, I didn't think anybody had tried that before...

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 02, 2026 10:44 PM (mTzaS)

78 24 Apparently i can sleep from midnight to 2 and then 5-8. Then grab 30-60 minutes during the day. There is no way i could work in an office.

Posted by: Dark Lix at October 02, 2026 10:15 PM (Fv80

. . . or as a truck driver.

Posted by: a.moron at October 02, 2026 10:45 PM (X5Jzz)

79 "PSA On Women". Pretty sure that is Benny Hill?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 02, 2026 10:45 PM (mTzaS)

80 My ride... in 1970. Sears Spyder 500.

https://tinyurl.com/5c7skpzt

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2026 10:46 PM (RORbl)

81 The dog protecting his kitten fren knows exactly how to deal with bullies.

Don't give them an inch, don't flinch, and exude the vibe that if they come one inch closer you will terminate them with extreme prejudice.

That kitten chose her friends wisely. That is a VERY important skill for a happy life!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 02, 2026 10:47 PM (HlyYF)

82 25 I've heard tell of Governor Bill Lee's office having been inundated with offers of assistance regarding the botched dispatching of that murderess.

Wheat place other than America can a purportedly humane execution be twisted such that it fails when so many methods exist that guarantee instant, painless death?

Posted by: Tonypete at October 02, 2026 10:16 PM (cax1H)

I don't understand why they didn't just wrap a plastic bag around her head, turn out the lights, go home, then check back the next morning.

Posted by: a.moron at October 02, 2026 10:47 PM (X5Jzz)

83 Well, that sucked. Wide right by a couple of inches. Pitt holds on and beats VT in Blacksburg. They're 5-0.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 02, 2026 10:47 PM (wh7vU)

84 Enjoying MiladyJo's scratch pizza, thin crust with veggies (what? no pepperoni? Oh, well), with a side salad that has a minimum of that annoying leafy green stuff.

Calls for some wine but the cupboard seems to be bare.

Posted by: mindful webworker - nom nom nom at October 02, 2026 10:48 PM (sVrIn)

85 I probably should go watch this anime just to cringe again.

https://youtu.be/XAgL9kQmQvY

The anime tourist born of COVID would probably celebrate it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 02, 2026 10:49 PM (2GVsD)

86 We have a press at work that is big enough to fit her in, only have to remove about half of the 11 platens. Its a difficult task, but I will do it for justice.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks

Jeebus Lemmiwinks. . . .

(Are we related??)

Posted by: Tonypete at October 02, 2026 10:49 PM (cax1H)

87 >>Well, sweetie, your husband walks in bleeding, with a limp, and busted knuckles so YOU don't have to. And that's the way you both want it

The 60s and 70s kids were the generations when our dads told us to rub some dirt on it. Injuries were just part of the day not something to whine about.

Walk it off, snowflake. It was a different attitude.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 02, 2026 10:49 PM (viF8m)

88 Outsourcing death penalty executions to Canada. Is there a tariff on that?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 02, 2026 10:50 PM (OB8ow)

89 Next game up! Montana State Bobkittuhs vs Idaho Vandals. Idaho is up 7-3 already. Penn State is still getting stomped by the nerds at Northwestern. Guess firing James Franklin changed nothing. They lost to NW last year too, which lead to JF getting fired.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 02, 2026 10:50 PM (wh7vU)

90 Ole Pike won't be around much longer for her fans to have glee over her beating the rap.

The med that never reached her vein caused necrosis of both inner elbows. Plus it can cause pulmonary edema. It sounded like a pack of drunk chimps tried to start her IV. "They could not tell it was not in a vein." Yes, yes, you can as there is a blood return you incompetent nincompoops.

While she was already brain damaged and evil (plus satanic I read) before this she's really super brain damaged now. Veggie Pike.

Eventually I guess they will pull the plug. Dunno. It's a weird show to try to kill her then keep her alive, Tennessee.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 02, 2026 10:50 PM (hzuYO)

91 You want gold-backed currency.
You will settle for Fiat currency.
You get Yugo currency.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 02, 2026 10:35 PM (n2qDf)

I know this is a joke on the Yugo being a Fiat, as much as the Lada was.

There is a school of thought that the advent of the trans Atlantic cable and the telegraph net in the US broke the hard currency standard since the banks could kite debts and resolve them faster than they could be settled in gold or silver, and this made "debt backed assets" a normal financial item.
Under telegraph communications, any attempt to settle a debt in physical gold could never catch up with the debts being created, and traded or cancelled by a countering debt.
This point of view is in support of the idea that some sort of globally shared ledger is the ultimate expression of this trend, and it would not be inflationary if there were either some backing mechanism, or if there was a token of sort that had a hard limit to production to prevent inflation.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 02, 2026 10:50 PM (rbvCR)

92 I don't think she even needs a plastic bag over her head. Just disconnect the ventilator...

Posted by: DanMa'am at October 02, 2026 10:50 PM (8uzBS)

93 At least one of those fancy knots would have been handy in that Tennessee execution attempt.
Posted by: mindful webworker - that's knot funny at October 02, 2026 10:26 PM (sVrIn)

Exercise bands has my vote..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 02, 2026 10:50 PM (08OqX)

94 We had Saturday morning, cartoons and Sunday morning Flash Gordon cliffhanger episodes in black and white.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 02, 2026 10:51 PM (PKL0q)

95 Outsource US capital punishment to oh Indonesia.

For every murderer/rapist we reduce what they owe us.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 02, 2026 10:51 PM (2GVsD)

96 31 Oh gosh WD! As always, fantastically done.
I'm not really welcome here, but I love it, and thank you so much!
Best comments and memes!
Thank you sir!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 02, 2026 10:19 PM (jCKWs)

What do you mean 'not really welcome here'?

You're practically part of the infrastructure.

Thank you for ONT, WD

Fall in Tx? We're experiencing an early fall heat wave here in the Southland. Gonna be hot all week. Almost broke 90 today here at the beach. Surfer Joe almost started to sweat....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 02, 2026 10:51 PM (QGaXH)

97 Sadly, "Common Sense Paradise" has one too many syllables to fit into "Gangsta/Amish Paradise."

Posted by: pookysgirl has always thought the Weird Al version was better at October 02, 2026 10:53 PM (Wt5PA)

98 As I said last night, DEI Death Squad.

If you don't see blood welling out, you missed. DUH.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 02, 2026 10:54 PM (2GVsD)

99 Does anyone else want to know what book Weird Dave was reading to forget us?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 02, 2026 10:56 PM (hzuYO)

100 That PSA for women is from Harry Enfield. Full skit here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS37SNYjg8w

Posted by: Butch at October 02, 2026 10:58 PM (98xTj)

101 pookysgirl, just say 'common' and 'sense' at double-speed where 'a-mish' or 'gang-sta' are stretched.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at October 02, 2026 10:58 PM (aJQbY)

102 Since the evil bitch was a satanist, she should die on the cross. Crucify her and let the vultures eat her (they will peck out her eyes first)

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 02, 2026 11:00 PM (mTzaS)

103 MoMe in two weeks.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 02, 2026 11:00 PM (2Ez/1)

104 I am not going to spend another second thinking about Pike. She will get sorted out.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 02, 2026 11:01 PM (2GVsD)

105 I probably should go watch this anime just to cringe again.

https://youtu.be/XAgL9kQmQvY

The anime tourist born of COVID would probably celebrate it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 02, 2026 10:49 PM (2GVsD)

Woohoo, I'm not an anime tourist, because I don't go for middle school slice-of-life anime!

Posted by: pookysgirl, not otaku enough at October 02, 2026 11:03 PM (Wt5PA)

106 Pooky's Girl, do you want the series synopsis?

Beautiful OP to a very problematic anime.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 02, 2026 11:04 PM (2GVsD)

107 pookysgirl, just say 'common' and 'sense' at double-speed where 'a-mish' or 'gang-sta' are stretched.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at October 02, 2026 10:58 PM (aJQbY)

So I should have Pooky do it, because he can talk at three times the speed of a normal person and he loves Weird Al!

Posted by: pookysgirl wishes her life had a 0.5 speed option sometimes at October 02, 2026 11:05 PM (Wt5PA)

108 https://tinyurl.com/ywsp2c5s

An entertaining football video... stay with it.

I'm still giggling, albeit somewhat unwillingly

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 02, 2026 11:06 PM (RNvK7)

109 Well, I mean, now we gotta come up with the rest of the lyrics... or at least a chorus...

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at October 02, 2026 11:07 PM (aJQbY)

110 Or maybe watch Koko wa Greenwood?

https://youtu.be/1IFA1kEMWjc

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 02, 2026 11:07 PM (2GVsD)

111 Beautiful OP to a very problematic anime.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 02, 2026 11:04 PM (2GVsD)

Oh, the OP looked nice, I just can't stand the the typical 20+ episodes of "Will I be able to go to the same high school as my crush?!" angst.

Posted by: pookysgirl was not an angsty teenager at October 02, 2026 11:08 PM (Wt5PA)

112 I am not going to spend another second thinking about Pike. She will get sorted out.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 02, 2026 11:01 PM (2GVsD)

It's more fun to watch Pike in the old BBC comedy series, "Dad's Army," about the Home Guard during WWII.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 02, 2026 11:09 PM (qx7Zg)

113 Here is the full version of "Dearest" with English subtitles, it is such a beautiful song.

https://youtu.be/GPAMT9eT_EI

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 02, 2026 11:11 PM (2GVsD)

114 Or Captain Pike being pushed around by Spock.

*beep*

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 02, 2026 11:11 PM (2GVsD)

115 Gold “backed” was a post Depression scam, for the most part. You want the real thing.

America actually had the largest stock of free circulating gold coinage ever in world history. Prior to FDR outlawing gold, natch. The argument was, people were “hoarding” gold, and this was “against public policy”. He did this as an executive order, congress nor the courts really did nothing. Presumably when they acquired 20,000 tons and piled it in vaults at Ft. Knox bullion repository, this isn’t “hoarding”.

He also reneged on existing government gold Bonds (a form of default) and forbade gold clause lease contracts for real estate. The latter were very common, particularly for long term 99 year lease.

No telling what bullshit can happen to money in a hundred years, a gold clause contract protected the property owner from financial jiggery-pokery.

Before Greenspan went over to the dark side he penned a very succinct paper in 1966 entitled “Gold and Economic Freedom”.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 02, 2026 11:13 PM (lDzxK)

116 Could we go back on a gold standard in our lifetimes without massive destructive upheaval?

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at October 02, 2026 11:15 PM (aJQbY)

117 Benefits of Being a Bassist

Meme checks out.

Posted by: Derek Smalls at October 02, 2026 11:16 PM (wVcYX)

118 Could we go back on a gold standard in our lifetimes without massive destructive upheaval?
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at October 02, 2026 11:15 PM (aJQbY)

It would require re-valuing the gold in the reserves upward from the current peg of $35/Oz

Posted by: Kindltot at October 02, 2026 11:25 PM (rbvCR)

119 Somalis at it again. Gunfire outside the homecoming game, Eden Prairie vs. Minnetonka. Game suspended.
2 formerly nice suburbs, now Mogadishu West.

Posted by: Wally at October 02, 2026 11:26 PM (2QvrQ)

120 they don't make them like fuzzbox anymore
youtu.be/IH16OX_VPOc

Posted by: 88C+u at October 02, 2026 11:26 PM (88C+u)

121 116 Could we go back on a gold standard in our lifetimes without massive destructive upheaval?
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at October 02, 2026 11:15 PM (aJQbY)

Gold bugs.

I know that gold solves everything. No one will die. Inflation will stop. No economic problem will happen again. Only gold can do this.

But why are we so desperate to waste a precious resource like this?

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 02, 2026 11:26 PM (6jna9)

122 >>Could we go back on a gold standard in our lifetimes without massive destructive upheaval?

Which countries hold the largest gold mine reserves?

Gold doesn't have intrinsic worth. A thing is worth what people will pay for it. The US has become by far the world's richest country and South Africa among other countries have greater gold mines than we do.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 02, 2026 11:26 PM (viF8m)

123 I still have to get a chip in my front tooth fixed every decade or so as a result of an Evel Knievel jump on my Schwinn.

Posted by: polynikes at October 02, 2026 11:27 PM (KC5Lt)

124 You're as welcome as the flowers in May, COMountainMarie! I'm the skunk at the picnic, the cop at the teen keg party in the woods.

Posted by: Big Penguin Is Our Friend at October 02, 2026 11:29 PM (Fn+3X)

125 This country was ruint by Franklin Delano Roosevelt!

Posted by: Archie Bunker To Cousin Maude at October 02, 2026 11:31 PM (Fn+3X)

126 Somalis at it again. Gunfire outside the homecoming game, Eden Prairie vs. Minnetonka. Game suspended.
2 formerly nice suburbs, now Mogadishu West.
Posted by: Wally at October 02, 2026 11:26 PM (2QvrQ)

Time to declare Somalis an invasive species, like the anacondas in Florida. No season, no bag limit. If they agree to repatriate, they get a red ear tag that makes them non-shootable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 02, 2026 11:32 PM (n2qDf)

127 D'j'ever see Johnathan V Last? He always looks like he's disgusted by the taste of the dick he just finished sucking.

Posted by: gp at October 02, 2026 11:32 PM (Jr5Lq)

128 Gold doesn't have intrinsic worth. A thing is worth what people will pay for it. The US has become by far the world's richest country and South Africa among other countries have greater gold mines than we do.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 02, 2026 11:26 PM (viF8m)

WRONG!!!

Gold Solves Everything!!! The only reason we have any economic problems is we don’t have money backed by gold! Once we do that, ALL economic problems are over!!!

Posted by: Gold Bugs at October 02, 2026 11:32 PM (6jna9)

129 My understanding is the Fiat system has more recessions but not as severe as the gold system which has less recessions but they are far more severe.

Posted by: polynikes at October 02, 2026 11:32 PM (KC5Lt)

130 Florida has Burmese pythons in the Everglades.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 02, 2026 11:32 PM (2GVsD)

131 Howdy, horde!

Nice save, Weirddave-- lots o' good stuff tonight, thanks.

COMM, I usually have Friday nights off, so would happily join you at the wobbly table & buy us both a drink if you're still here!

Posted by: JQ at October 02, 2026 11:33 PM (rdVOm)

132
Gold doesn't have intrinsic worth. A thing is worth what people will pay for it. The US has become by far the world's richest country and South Africa among other countries have greater gold mines than we do.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 02, 2026 11:26 PM (viF8m)

Doesn’t Russia also have plenty of gold mines? They and the RSA tend to have plenty of precious minerals. And promptly does nothing with them in terms of internal self-development.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 02, 2026 11:34 PM (6jna9)

133 130 Florida has Burmese pythons in the Everglades.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 02, 2026 11:32 PM (2GVsD)

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And cougars in the senior centers.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 02, 2026 11:34 PM (wpRMV)

134 But why are we so desperate to waste a precious resource like this?
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 02, 2026 11:26 PM (6jna9)

Hard currency puts an end to central bank printing, which is the cause of inflation. Inflation destroys saved wealth, and high enough inflation makes it a good deal to have a short time preference, and buy everything today, since actual goods with value will only increase in an inflationary economy where money just loses value.
Short time preference means not investing in long term things like houses, decent cars and marriages, since the cost will invariably become greater the longer the debt is serviced.
It is claimed that high inflation destroys futures, and ruins morals of a nation, since all the virtues have to do with saving for the future, and preparing for the future, not satisfying wants today.
Fiat money is a bad IOU you trade around hoping not to have it in your pocket when the value goes to zero

Posted by: Kindltot at October 02, 2026 11:34 PM (rbvCR)

135 Aluminum used to be so valuable it was chosen to top the Washington Monument.

Posted by: polynikes at October 02, 2026 11:35 PM (KC5Lt)

136 @WeirdDave: The two roos drinking beer: *snorts* Saving that one.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 02, 2026 11:35 PM (O7YUW)

137 “Gold doesn't have intrinsic worth”

But … pieces of paper with pictures of dead presidents do?

C’mon Jack. Take another bong hit.

Gold is still officially valued at $42.2222, the last peg before Nixon closed the gold “window” to foreign central banks.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 02, 2026 11:36 PM (L+MB1)

138 Somalis at it again. Gunfire outside the homecoming game, Eden Prairie vs. Minnetonka. Game suspended.
2 formerly nice suburbs, now Mogadishu West.
Posted by: Wally at October 02, 2026 11:26 PM (2QvrQ)

Who's going at it, different somali clans, or the last three rednecks left in Minnesota vs the skinnies?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 02, 2026 11:37 PM (2WIwB)

139 99 Does anyone else want to know what book Weird Dave was reading to forget us?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 02, 2026 10:56 PM (hzuYO)

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People ?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 02, 2026 11:37 PM (QGaXH)

140 Just saw the last scene of an Adam-12 from 1974, Malloy standing outside a bank. Sign on the door said, "Deposits Federally Insured Up To $20,000.

Posted by: Times Change, I Guess at October 02, 2026 11:37 PM (Fn+3X)

141 Just posted to Tensor, am I on the right track? Link in nic.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 02, 2026 11:38 PM (2GVsD)

142 Aluminum used to be so valuable it was chosen to top the Washington Monument.
Posted by: polynikes at October 02, 2026 11:35 PM (KC5Lt)

It was valuable not because it was scarce, but because until the Hall Process was invented, it was almost impossible to win it from the ore.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 02, 2026 11:38 PM (n2qDf)

143 Prepare for the inevitable spectacular crash. Buy ammo, canned goods, and toilet paper. You can't eat gold or wipe your ass with it.

Posted by: Butch at October 02, 2026 11:39 PM (98xTj)

144 My understanding is the Fiat system has more recessions but not as severe as the gold system which has less recessions but they are far more severe.
Posted by: polynikes at October 02, 2026 11:32 PM (KC5Lt)

the financial panics were less in scope than the Depression, and generally dampened out without intervention. The last big one, 1898 was notable because the US Government got caught up in it and almost had to declare a default until the big banks bailed it out.
The gold reserve system had issues with business cycles due to easy loans made possible by both banks kiting debts, and Congress allowing issuance of unbacked loans for development. However during the period from 1865 - 1890 the US dollar was deflationary, in spite of honoring the greenback fiat script printed to finance the Civil War and the various panics.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 02, 2026 11:40 PM (rbvCR)

145 "am I on the right track?"

I like Pumpkin Cat, and Noodle Girl.

Posted by: gp at October 02, 2026 11:40 PM (Jr5Lq)

146 102 Since the evil bitch was a satanist, she should die on the cross. Crucify her and let the vultures eat her (they will peck out her eyes first)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 02, 2026 11:00 PM (mTzaS)

Her victim suffered for quite a while so nothing fast. Crucifiction is nice and slow. So is tying her to a pier piling at low tide - maybe scuff up her skin so the salt water really stings as it slowly rises....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 02, 2026 11:41 PM (QGaXH)

147 135 Aluminum used to be so valuable it was chosen to top the Washington Monument.
Posted by: polynikes

I could have left a little pyramid up there at no charge!

Posted by: Rodney Dangerfield's Dog, Egypt at October 02, 2026 11:41 PM (Fn+3X)

148 Somalis at it again. Gunfire outside the homecoming game, Eden Prairie vs. Minnetonka. Game suspended.
2 formerly nice suburbs, now Mogadishu West.

Posted by: Wally at October 02, 2026 11:26 PM (2QvrQ)

The madness has spread to Eden Prairie?! Wow...

Posted by: pookysgirl, glad to be in Iowa at October 02, 2026 11:41 PM (Wt5PA)

149 135 Aluminum used to be so valuable it was chosen to top the Washington Monument.
Posted by: polynikes at October 02, 2026 11:35 PM (KC5Lt)

They only chose it so they didn't have to pronounce it aluminium.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 02, 2026 11:41 PM (88C+u)

150
Hard currency puts an end to central bank printing, which is the cause of inflation. Inflation destroys saved wealth, and high enough inflation makes it a good deal to have a short time preference, and buy everything today, since actual goods with value will only increase in an inflationary economy where money just loses value.
Short time preference means not investing in long term things like houses, decent cars and marriages, since the cost will invariably become greater the longer the debt is serviced.
It is claimed that high inflation destroys futures, and ruins morals of a nation, since all the virtues have to do with saving for the future, and preparing for the future, not satisfying wants today.
Fiat money is a bad IOU you trade around hoping not to have it in your pocket when the value goes to zero
Posted by: Kindltot at October 02, 2026 11:34 PM (rbvCR)

For value to go to zero, you will need a 1917 communist revolution. Correct me if I am wrong, but you are saying of you have a gold standard you have no inflation, correct?

Cool. Explain Spain and Egypt after Mansa Musa came through. (I can explain Spain easily: massive government spending.). I shall continue…

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 02, 2026 11:41 PM (6jna9)

151 Prepare for the inevitable spectacular crash. Buy ammo, canned goods, and toilet paper. You can't eat gold or wipe your ass with it.
Posted by: Butch at October 02, 2026 11:39 PM (98xTj)

But you will always be able to find somebody who will sell you food or asswipe for gold. Guaranteed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 02, 2026 11:41 PM (n2qDf)

152 It was valuable not because it was scarce, but because until the Hall Process was invented, it was almost impossible to win it from the ore.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

see also: meteoritic iron

Posted by: Tutankhamen's dagger at October 02, 2026 11:42 PM (88C+u)

153 Just posted to Tensor, am I on the right track?

Yep.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 02, 2026 11:43 PM (+9wcF)

154 Remember, banks had to physically clear their debts, and there was the profession of the man who collected the bank notes for a bank, and then would turn them in to the bank issuing them to be reimbursed for gold. If the bank had overprinted, which was profitable of course, this could bankrupt the bank.
some of the "wildcat" banks had their main branch so far out in the sticks it was hard to find, and depended on that to keep them solvent. Paper notes always were lost or destroyed so overprinting a small amount was not risky, but it would lead to greedy overprinting.

There was a central clearing bureau that was as private as Wall Street that did nothing but record and clear debts, and provide guidance as to which bank appeared solvent.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 02, 2026 11:44 PM (rbvCR)

155 The day wasn't a total loss. Found out that crazy people stick to ChristyBlinky.

Posted by: Same Here at October 02, 2026 11:45 PM (Fn+3X)

156 >> My understanding is the Fiat system has more recessions but not as severe as the gold system which has less recessions but they are far more severe.

It also produces less wealth. It's a closed system that rewards the holders of gold or whatever item is chosen instead of the value of the entity, in this case, the country backing it.

The United States didn't become the richest country in the world, by far, because we have the most gold. We don't. Not even close. We became this rich because the world values the economy of the US. The strength of the US and our ability to project power. The very things Trump is trying to restore and improve. The US dollar IS the real standard.

The whole gold vs fiat is crap. We are never going back to a barter world economy. Strongest country wins. Vote.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 02, 2026 11:46 PM (viF8m)

157 I do riminess the 1970's even though Jimma Carter was President.....

Drive In movies and the simpler things to enjoy as a kid....

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 02, 2026 11:47 PM (b/4LV)

158 We should outdo the Brits and change it to aluminiinium.

Posted by: USA! USA! at October 02, 2026 11:48 PM (Fn+3X)

159 Prepare for the inevitable spectacular crash. Buy ammo, canned goods, and toilet paper. You can't eat gold or wipe your ass with it.
Posted by: Butch at October 02, 2026 11:39 PM (98xTj)

Don't forget cheap whiskey and vodka for trading. I have a few cases I bought during the Obama years, just in case.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 02, 2026 11:48 PM (2bl8/)

160 The problem is this: the ONLY thing that matters in terms of currency is this:

Do People Like Using It? If yes, it doesn’t matter “what backs it”. But people love to overcomplicate money. “BUT I WANT MY MONEY BACKED BY GOLD!!! IT’S JUST STUPID PAPAER IF IT IS NOT BACKED BY GOLD!!!”

OK…so you turn down all currency paid you unless backed by gold? I bet not. Because People Like To Use It. When the DM was reintroduced in 1948, it took off Because People Liked It. Simple as.

How to control inflation, evil central banks or not: spend your money on 1) a good or 2) a service. Government is neither. Notice the sectors of economy with the highest rises in cost, like education, and medicine, are flooded with government money, what if it stopped, or was at least sharply curbed?

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 02, 2026 11:48 PM (6jna9)

161 133 130 Florida has Burmese pythons in the Everglades.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 02, 2026 11:32 PM (2GVsD)

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And cougars in the senior centers.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 02, 2026 11:34 PM (wpRMV)

Snort.......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 02, 2026 11:48 PM (QGaXH)

162 I don't really want a Fiat, unless it's under warranty.

Posted by: Found In A Toilet, Fix It Again, Tony at October 02, 2026 11:50 PM (Fn+3X)

163 Cougars in the senior centers?

Murray Head's other song, "One Night in Boca Raton."

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 02, 2026 11:50 PM (2GVsD)

164 The United States didn't become the richest country in the world, by far, because we have the most gold. We don't. Not even close. We became this rich because the world values the economy of the US. The strength of the US and our ability to project power. The very things Trump is trying to restore and improve. The US dollar IS the real standard.

The whole gold vs fiat is crap. We are never going back to a barter world economy. Strongest country wins. Vote.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 02, 2026 11:46 PM (viF8m)

Why is the USD the reserve currency?

Because it is the ticket to the world’s largest and most dynamic economy, PM Carney is pissed over this and would rather RMBs be the reserve currency. The PRC is not the world’s largest and most dynamic economy. So too bad, Mark. The euro exists because the EU wants it to replace the USD as the reserve currency. Again, the EU is just not as big or as dynamic as the U.S.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 02, 2026 11:52 PM (6jna9)

165 161 133 130 Florida has Burmese pythons in the Everglades.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Myanmarese Python doesn't ring true.

Posted by: Or Myanmar Shave at October 02, 2026 11:52 PM (Fn+3X)

166 For value to go to zero, you will need a 1917 communist revolution. Correct me if I am wrong, but you are saying of you have a gold standard you have no inflation, correct?

Cool. Explain Spain and Egypt after Mansa Musa came through. (I can explain Spain easily: massive government spending.). I shall continue…
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 02, 2026 11:41 PM (6jna9)

I am confused by your response, and I suspect I am tired. That was not what I intended to convey.

Fiat money is inflationary. Inflation has bad societal effects because it creates perverse economic incentives. These incentives are not solely financial since economics is the study of how people interact with perceived future needs and how they prepare for them.

Gold or silver standards rein in fiat currency impulses by the central banks. Fiat currency makes central banks essential since only a centralized banking system can make unbacked script anything but monopoly money. This is because a government can compel use of the Fiat. This is not to say that games can't be played, but they are harder to hide and harder to justify.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 02, 2026 11:53 PM (rbvCR)

167
The Islamic Center in Plano Texas has a website.

A Christian church is being converted to a mosque.

Posted by: four seasons at October 02, 2026 11:53 PM (/QHx4)

168 >>But … pieces of paper with pictures of dead presidents do?

>>C’mon Jack. Take another bong hit.

You stick with Ron Paul. I'll hang with Scott Bessent.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 02, 2026 11:53 PM (viF8m)

169 I guess the young kid is a LIBERAL... seein as how the older guy has an M-16 pointed at him?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 02, 2026 11:54 PM (mP0Kj)

170 How to control inflation, evil central banks or not: spend your money on 1) a good or 2) a service. Government is neither. Notice the sectors of economy with the highest rises in cost, like education, and medicine, are flooded with government money, what if it stopped, or was at least sharply curbed?
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 02, 2026 11:48 PM (6jna9)

Oh, this REQUIRES the people exercising strong oversight over government expenditure. As long as people think that TOO HARD, we will continue to have issues.

Imagine what would happen if the United States paid down, say, a quarter of the debt next year. The USD would become more rare, and thus, more valuable. That might actually trigger DEflation.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 02, 2026 11:55 PM (6jna9)

171 An entrepreneur in the Middle East has started a company that will convert land mines into prayer rugs.
Prophets are going thru the roof!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 02, 2026 11:55 PM (2WIwB)

172 "Crazy people stick to me" is the opening line of the Dee Dee Ramone song "It's So Bizarre".

Posted by: "Zonked" 1997 at October 02, 2026 11:56 PM (Fn+3X)

173 @25

>>Wheat place other than America can a purportedly humane execution be twisted such that it fails when so many methods exist that guarantee instant, painless death?

Because of lawsuits and SCOTUS bullsh*t, we can't administer the correct drugs in the correct doses.

But if you want to kill gramps in hospice care, you can get the good stuff.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 02, 2026 11:56 PM (XV/Pl)

174 Explosive growth huh?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 02, 2026 11:56 PM (2GVsD)

175 If the claim is that “gold has no intrinsic worth”

It begs the question. Why did the US government outlaw it? I mean, it isn’t worth anything. Right? Well sort of - they outlawed it, but they couldn’t make it worth nothing.

Not the way a government can totally renege on bond payments or totally repudiate currencies. Worthless overnight. Pretty cool, huh?

The beauty of gold was that it was always valuable without any regard to the government or entity that issued it. Thousands of years.

No paper currency has lasted more than maybe a hundred years or so. I think the Dollar is the current record holder. Small size Federal Reserve notes starting from 1914 are legal tender (apart from any special collector value) and obligations of the government. That is remarkable, I suppose.

Monetary inflation doesn’t just corrode savings, it trashes investments equally. At official “targeted” inflation rates of 2% to 3% your purchasing power is cut in half every 20 years. And you owe tax on the “gains”. Gold was honest money, that’s all. So it’s no surprise dishonest governments said “Fuck that”. Three governments outlawed gold in the 20th century. Nazis, Soviets, U.S.A.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 02, 2026 11:56 PM (nNwTp)

176 167
The Islamic Center in Plano Texas has a website.

A Christian church is being converted to a mosque.

Posted by: four seasons at October 02, 2026 11:53 PM (/QHx4)

TX will be a caliphate by the end of the year. At least per the endless shrieking online. This will encourage more shrieking and will give my State Rep more red meat to hide behind while being a Leftist.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 02, 2026 11:57 PM (6jna9)

177 The beauty of gold was that it was always valuable without any regard to the government or entity that issued it. Thousands of years.

No paper currency has lasted more than maybe a hundred years or so. I think the Dollar is the current record holder. Small size Federal Reserve notes starting from 1914 are legal tender (apart from any special collector value) and obligations of the government. That is remarkable, I suppose.

Monetary inflation doesn’t just corrode savings, it trashes investments equally. At official “targeted” inflation rates of 2% to 3% your purchasing power is cut in half every 20 years. And you owe tax on the “gains”. Gold was honest money, that’s all. So it’s no surprise dishonest governments said “Fuck that”. Three governments outlawed gold in the 20th century. Nazis, Soviets, U.S.A.
Posted by: Common Tater at October 02, 2026 11:56 PM (nNwTp)

Have we met?

Posted by: Greshams Law at October 02, 2026 11:58 PM (6jna9)

178 Explosive growth huh?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 02, 2026 11:56 PM (2GVsD)

Extreme rapid expansion.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 02, 2026 11:58 PM (2WIwB)

179 Common Tater - do you only accept gold for payment? Do you only pay in gold coinage?

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 02, 2026 11:59 PM (6jna9)

180 Don't forget cheap whiskey and vodka for trading. I have a few cases I bought during the Obama years, just in case.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

I bought 2 cases of rum in 2008, but eventually consumed it. And 300 one ounce silver coins, which I still have. And two revolvers, sadly lost in a canoe accident. Obama was a fine gun salesman.

Posted by: Rum Dum at October 03, 2026 12:00 AM (Fn+3X)

181 Oh, and TBF…how long have we had paper currencies? We once had cloth currencies.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 03, 2026 12:00 AM (6jna9)

182 The 83 to 88 Meme made me laugh out loud...

It is SOOOOO true... went from a Helo Carrier off Beirut, to Sat Com school in San Diego for six months... to stationed on Oahu...

I don't think I EVER wrote letters to my parents... called once every few months... home on leave a couple of times... but...

Yeah... for the record? probably my wildest strangest years.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 03, 2026 12:01 AM (mP0Kj)

183 Spain was an unusual situation, they stole so much gold and silver that they had trouble finding things to do with it. Spain was in the position to set up trade with China which only wanted silver and created a glut of imported chinaware and other such things in the European market, and the Spanish crown used as much gold it could get to fight wars in Europe.
Due to the wealth of the Indies, the Spanish real was the strongest currency and it was far cheaper to import goods than to manufacture them, which is what they did. This is what really destroyed Spain's ability to survive after the loss of the colonies since they really didn't have developed industries. The French didn't help of course.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2026 12:03 AM (rbvCR)

184 Helo Carrier?

An agent of SHIELD?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 03, 2026 12:04 AM (2GVsD)

185 He went to the ED the next day for debridement and an antibiotic. I ain't no fool.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky
-----
I wound up the the ER after doing something stupid, and the medic did the debridement with what I swear was a suede brush - a small brush with fine brass bristles used on suede shoes.
I thought that was a Good Idea, so I kept one soaking in alcohol in a jar for when the kids came home with grit embedded in the road rash. Didn't need to apply hardly any pressure to clean it will out, but boy, you'd think that they were being tortured from all the noise. Tying this into the ONT content, this was the 70s and early 80s.I used it on myself (or had it used by my wife, who enjoyed the process a lot more than I did) more than once.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 03, 2026 12:04 AM (gPVnx)

186 Posted by: Common Tater at October 02, 2026 11:56 PM (nNwTp)

Worse for many, is that Wages are not tied to inflation.

They can REWARD you with a 2% raise... and it's actually a DECREASE in buying power... even in a good year.

Real buying power under Biden decreased by about 20%... and wages did NOT go up that much.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 03, 2026 12:04 AM (mP0Kj)

187 FOR THE RECORD

I was drunkenly gang banged

But only by one chick

That One Time

Posted by: Statue of Limitations at October 03, 2026 12:05 AM (4RYRd)

188 >>Monetary inflation doesn’t just corrode savings, it trashes investments equally. At official “targeted” inflation rates of 2% to 3% your purchasing power is cut in half every 20 years. And you owe tax on the “gains”. Gold was honest money, that’s all. So it’s no surprise dishonest governments said “Fuck that”. Three governments outlawed gold in the 20th century. Nazis, Soviets, U.S.A.

The poorest people in America today live far better than in any time in history. That's just a fact. Any comparison that doesn't start with that obvious and irrefutable fact is dumb.

From food to healthcare to education to healthcare, basically everything, there has never been a better time. And that is 100% because of the "fiat" monetary system.

When we don't elect dunces who try to break the country instead of making it stronger people suffer. We should stop doing that. You can break any economy, even one based on a hunk of metal, if you elect stupid people.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 03, 2026 12:05 AM (viF8m)

189 Hi JQ!
I'm off tonight as well...
I hope to see you via ONT1🤎....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 03, 2026 12:05 AM (jCKWs)

190 I am confused by your response, and I suspect I am tired. That was not what I intended to convey.

Fiat money is inflationary. Inflation has bad societal effects because it creates perverse economic incentives. These incentives are not solely financial since economics is the study of how people interact with perceived future needs and how they prepare for them.

Gold or silver standards rein in fiat currency impulses by the central banks. Fiat currency makes central banks essential since only a centralized banking system can make unbacked script anything but monopoly money. This is because a government can compel use of the Fiat. This is not to say that games can't be played, but they are harder to hide and harder to justify.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 02, 2026 11:53 PM (rbvCR)

Per the examples I cited, gold and silver currencies are also susceptible to inflation. Inflation was not invented by evil “fist currencies”.

And the bigger problem you face is this: People Like Using Fiat Currency, And as long as that is the case, they are here to stay.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 03, 2026 12:06 AM (6jna9)

191
So sorry you missed that experience. Hell, you could have been famous.

Posted by: four seasons at October 03, 2026 12:07 AM (/QHx4)

192 “I'll hang with Scott Bessent”

You might.

But, you tried to change the subject and didn’t answer the question.

Why would you claim gold has no intrinsic value, yet (presumably) pieces of paper do? Seriously, are you high?

Posted by: Common Tater at October 03, 2026 12:08 AM (VRkwH)

193 47 Nacly
I
Missed your post! Please keep in touch, and let me know when you're gonna get here....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 03, 2026 12:09 AM (jCKWs)

194 Oh, and TBF…how long have we had paper currencies? We once had cloth currencies.
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 03, 2026 12:00 AM (6jna9)

The collapse of the Mongol paper currency soured people on paper currency.
During the French and Indian wars, Massachusetts colony hired troops to go an loot Quebec, and paid the soldiers out of the loot. One year they lost, and the Colony gave out promissory notes which immediately found a secondary market. It was so successful that the Colony started printing them for all debts.
this solved a couple of problems, one of which was that all Silver went back to England because the English demanded hard currency, and the colonies were starved for cash. One of the objections leading to the revolutionary war was the English tamping down the printing of paper currency since they considered it counterfeiting, This is the rebirth of paper currency in the West

Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2026 12:10 AM (rbvCR)

195 183 Spain was an unusual situation, they stole so much gold and silver that they had trouble finding things to do with it. Spain was in the position to set up trade with China which only wanted silver and created a glut of imported chinaware and other such things in the European market, and the Spanish crown used as much gold it could get to fight wars in Europe.
Due to the wealth of the Indies, the Spanish real was the strongest currency and it was far cheaper to import goods than to manufacture them, which is what they did. This is what really destroyed Spain's ability to survive after the loss of the colonies since they really didn't have developed industries. The French didn't help of course.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2026 12:03 AM (rbvCR)

You are forgetting that Spain also pissed it away on fighting constantly and other government expenditure. It is a classic case of, again:

To curb inflation, spend your money on 1) a good or 2) a service. Government is neither.

If Spain instead spent their money on say, a better road net (don’t laugh) or other internal self development projects, and did so SPARINGLY, that would have gone a long way.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 03, 2026 12:10 AM (6jna9)

196 There you are, COMM!

*brings pitcher of spicy margaritas and 2 glasses to wobbly table*

Cheers!

Posted by: JQ at October 03, 2026 12:10 AM (rdVOm)

197 For some reason, videos of scythes in use have shown up in my EweTube feed. I think I'll watch a couple and try to sleep.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 03, 2026 12:11 AM (qx7Zg)

198 I did knot see that particular video coming.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at October 03, 2026 12:11 AM (OoT17)

199 Why would you claim gold has no intrinsic value, yet (presumably) pieces of paper do? Seriously, are you high?

Posted by: Common Tater at October 03, 2026 12:08 AM (VRkwH)

Hi. Have we met?

Posted by: Currency Markets at October 03, 2026 12:12 AM (6jna9)

200 Happy Friday Horde!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 03, 2026 12:12 AM (ibDUx)

201 Hi, Debby!

Come sit with us at the wobbly table!

*orders Chivas*

Posted by: JQ at October 03, 2026 12:14 AM (rdVOm)

202

I am wobbly but it's not the tables fault, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at October 03, 2026 12:15 AM (/QHx4)

203 The collapse of the Mongol paper currency soured people on paper currency.
During the French and Indian wars, Massachusetts colony hired troops to go an loot Quebec, and paid the soldiers out of the loot. One year they lost, and the Colony gave out promissory notes which immediately found a secondary market. It was so successful that the Colony started printing them for all debts.
this solved a couple of problems, one of which was that all Silver went back to England because the English demanded hard currency, and the colonies were starved for cash. One of the objections leading to the revolutionary war was the English tamping down the printing of paper currency since they considered it counterfeiting, This is the rebirth of paper currency in the West
Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2026 12:10 AM (rbvCR)

I think JackStraw put it best: you can have: gold, or silver, or oil, or baseball cards, or whatever, backing your currency. Or you can have it run by an evil central bank. Fine. It doesn’t matter if you have blithering idiots at the helm. They will wreck any economy.

This is why it is important to work to keep blithering idiots out of government.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 03, 2026 12:15 AM (6jna9)

204 Also-

I am very surprised at how easy it can be to get a dog Certified as a an Official Service Dog.

Work in Progress

Posted by: post Harley Week disabled at October 03, 2026 12:16 AM (4RYRd)

205 *grabs napkin*
*slips folded napkin under short leg of wobbly table*
*sits back*
Cheers Hordemates!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 03, 2026 12:16 AM (2WIwB)

206 One of the causes of the fall of Rome was the outflow of gold and silver to purchase goods from the East. Once the mines within the Empire were depleted, debasement of the currency began in earnest.

Just think, if the Romans had only developed paper money and fractional reserve banking we might still be able to go to the local colosseum and catch a chariot race and a couple of gladiator bouts.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 03, 2026 12:16 AM (2bl8/)

207 So. Heading to wobbly table....JQ, it might be time for coffee....
You are certainly welcome to sit over here.
The band kinda seems to warning up...
Who knows...🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 03, 2026 12:17 AM (jCKWs)

208 I am wobbly but it's not the tables fault, lol.

Posted by: four seasons

MAINTAIN GRAVITY

Posted by: Weebles at October 03, 2026 12:18 AM (4RYRd)

209 >>Why would you claim gold has no intrinsic value, yet (presumably) pieces of paper do? Seriously, are you high?

Because it doesn't. Nothing does. Are you stupid?

A thing is worth exactly what someone is willing to pay for it. Just like your house or any other object. Gold wasn't blessed by God as the basis of world trade.

South Africa has by far the largest reserves of gold mines in the world. How they doing? Russia is up near the top of that list. Has Putin taken over Ukraine yet?

We don't live in the 1800s anymore. Gold can be a solid investment, at times. But it is idiotic to pretend that basing the world's economy on a single metal is a solid basis for today's world. It isn't which is why nobody with any understanding of how the world economy works, other than Ron Paul who admittedly is a super genius, is suggesting that is something serious people should consider.

The US dollar is the world reserve currency because of a variety factors but it has almost nothing to do with gold.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 03, 2026 12:18 AM (viF8m)

210 Worse for many, is that Wages are not tied to inflation.
——

Right. I’ll tell you what’s dumb, Jack.

Wages have been stagnant for Americans. since 1974.

You ARE high, if you think funny money has been good for the poor, or anyone else. I can explain it for you, but I can’t understand it for you.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 03, 2026 12:18 AM (J48Co)

211 Nearly all the tables are somewhat wobbly here, and have a generous coating of gum underneath. Mine is mostly spearmint.

Posted by: Wrigley's, I Think at October 03, 2026 12:20 AM (Fn+3X)

212 And the bigger problem you face is this: People Like Using Fiat Currency, And as long as that is the case, they are here to stay.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 03, 2026 12:06 AM (6jna9)

This is a recency bias. At one point paper currency was considered impossible because of the risk of default and pre-WWI fiat was considered so inflationary that it could not be used except for closely controlled economies like Colonial India - and it was highly inflationary there.
Fiat was a response to a central bank or authority not having enough cash on hand to meet demands for debt. The big one was Britain at WWI when all the gold was called in and paper issued in response, with a peg to gold at a very nice rate that the Bank of England could afford and not reflecting actual values. England would have defaulted if they had not gone to fiat, and all Keynes did was to formalize the UKs technique of staving off the default.
Eventually all fiat systems have to reset due to ongoing inflation. It can be sudden like the Mongols or Argentina and Brazil, or like Paraguay and Colombia they can try to ride it out. Or like the US they reset from the Continental to Silver and did well.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2026 12:21 AM (rbvCR)

213 *grabs napkin*
*slips folded napkin under short leg of wobbly table*
*sits back*
Cheers Hordemates!
Posted by: Diogenes

THANK YOU, Diogenes! No more spilt drinks!

Ok COMM, coffee for you and four seasons...

Posted by: JQ at October 03, 2026 12:25 AM (rdVOm)

214 Posted by: Common Tater at October 02, 2026 11:56 PM (nNwTp)

The monetary value of gold is dependent on the exact same magical belief in it holding value that paper currency has.

Gold jewelry is convenient because it's an easy material to work with, but the value holds only really because gold is expensive. Industrial uses for gold exist, but are extremely minimal due to the price of gold, so that isn't propping up high gold prices.

Only thing left is rarity, which is dangerously volatile to the discovery or exploitation of new reserves. Asteroid mining projects have the potential to exponentially increase the total amount of rare heavy metals we have access to and upend the entire market. 50 years from now SpaceX might just turn gold into Zimbabwean Dollars.

Posted by: Sjg at October 03, 2026 12:25 AM (i8HNq)

215

I am trying to figure out why I am wobbly. Could be my fat ass or my huge boobs. Naw probably alcohol, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at October 03, 2026 12:27 AM (/QHx4)

216 This is a recency bias. At one point paper currency was considered impossible because of the risk of default and pre-WWI fiat was considered so inflationary that it could not be used except for closely controlled economies like Colonial India - and it was highly inflationary there.
Fiat was a response to a central bank or authority not having enough cash on hand to meet demands for debt. The big one was Britain at WWI when all the gold was called in and paper issued in response, with a peg to gold at a very nice rate that the Bank of England could afford and not reflecting actual values. England would have defaulted if they had not gone to fiat, and all Keynes did was to formalize the UKs technique of staving off the default.
Eventually all fiat systems have to reset due to ongoing inflation. It can be sudden like the Mongols or Argentina and Brazil, or like Paraguay and Colombia they can try to ride it out. Or like the US they reset from the Continental to Silver and did well.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2026 12:21 AM (rbvCR)

This is all well and good. But People Like Using Fiat Currency even as you are convinced we shouldn’t. How do you breach that hurdle?

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 03, 2026 12:28 AM (6jna9)

217 It took less than 24 hours for baby mama's lawyer to find out the boy had shot his own damned leg, and to file against us on custody of the grandbaby. I can't find any information online concerning his idiot behavior, but apparently baby mama's lawyer has a hot line to APD.

Fucking hell.

We will never see our grandbaby again.

I am wrestling with detachment. It isn't going very well. That sweet grandbaby will not know us, nor care, all because our son is a degenerate fool, and can't figure out how to get the hell out of his own way.

We have spent over $25K to keep his ass in a condo he can't be bothered to pay for, in order to house the grandbaby. We are done with that crap.

I have missed everything about the grandbaby for the past three months. I will go on doing so, I guess for eternity, because the boy is a fool.

Let's hope he finally gets his poop in a group, but it is not immanent.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 03, 2026 12:28 AM (+iz5Z)

218
Oh no,I said boobs. Bulg's siren call.

Posted by: four seasons at October 03, 2026 12:28 AM (/QHx4)

219 Because it doesn't. Nothing does. Are you stupid?
——

Ah, now you have to call people stupid to try and make your argument, I was waiting for that.

“Gold has no intrinsic value” is just a stupid argument was exactly my point.

But, gold has been not intrinsically valuable for 5000 years. No other currency has lasted more than a hundred years or so. Nobody mounts an expedition to recover some long lost monarch’s checkbook from the ocean floor.

Gold stands as a protector of property rights, among other things. I’m not wedded to gold or gold standards, merely pointing out we are being robbed in the absence of objective money standards.

You always get mighty pissed off when you can’t argue using facts, logic, or reason. Thanks for playing, though.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 03, 2026 12:30 AM (vphdi)

220 >>Right. I’ll tell you what’s dumb, Jack.

>>Wages have been stagnant for Americans. since 1974.

And? How much did wages grow from 1820 to 1880?

Do you know what happens when you put a really stupid person in charge of a boat? They put in on the rocks.

We've been electing really stupid people, career politicians who have no fucking idea how the economy works, for decades. They put this country in a deep hole by idiotic economic policies that focused more on bread and circus than actually dealing with the underlying fundamentals of building a strong economy starting with manufacturing which not so coincidentally those same idiots started offshoring in the 70's.

Maybe we should hire better people to drive the boat and stop freaking out when they haven't fixed every bit of decades of idiocy in 2 fucking years while facing unprecedented resistance from people who have made bank by leeching off the boat going on the rocks.

Ron Paul is still a fucking idiot.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 03, 2026 12:30 AM (viF8m)

221

tcn,

I am sorry you are going through this.

Posted by: four seasons at October 03, 2026 12:30 AM (/QHx4)

222 *buys Diogenes his drink of choice*

Thanks again for stabilizing our table!

Posted by: JQ at October 03, 2026 12:31 AM (rdVOm)

223 >>Ah, now you have to call people stupid to try and make your argument, I was waiting for that.

Hey fuckstick, you told me multiple times to smoke more weed.

ace gets to kid me. A dickhead like you does not.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 03, 2026 12:31 AM (viF8m)

224 A shrill argument over fiat currency versus gold, soon to devolve into pinching and sissy slap fighting. This place never fails to entertain.

I look forward to upcoming discussions of the stock market and real estate advice.

I have a sudden vision of an episode of the old Dave Ramsey show, with Dave drunkenly declaring that you should only buy bottom shelf booze, and the best bargain is fortified wine, just before he passes out and falls over, to thunderous studio applause.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 03, 2026 12:32 AM (2bl8/)

225 The Japanese. Nuked too much? Or not enough?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Not enough. Want proof? Tentacle pr0n existed well before WW2...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Hokusai's "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife" is a woodcut created in 1814. Two octopi, father and son, having their way with a Japanese woman.

This checks out.

Posted by: mikeski at October 03, 2026 12:32 AM (VHUov)

226 Posted by: tcn in AK at October 03, 2026 12:28 AM

Oh, no! {{{tcn}}} I'm so sorry!

Hope you can press for/win "supervised visitation" at least!

Posted by: JQ at October 03, 2026 12:33 AM (rdVOm)

227 Per the lovely commenter above...
This is just me.
I have collected many pure copper and pure nicker coins for years. They most likely won't be worth much monetarily. BUT...
they might be useful for helpful in building a local infrastructure...
Just sayin'...copper and nickel in pure form could be helpful...
Yeah. I'm probably crazy🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 03, 2026 12:33 AM (jCKWs)

228 You are forgetting that Spain also pissed it away on fighting constantly and other government expenditure. It is a classic case of, again:
To curb inflation, spend your money on 1) a good or 2) a service. Government is neither.
[ . . . ]
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 03, 2026 12:10 AM (6jna9)

Governments print money to spend it on themselves because if they had to shake it out of the citizenry at that amount they would have a revolt. Fiat is designed to spend on the government first, it is what it was always made to do.

1) fiat is created by a central bank
2) it is made to pay the government, not to make your life better
3) It does not matter if it is printed by an idiot or the wisest man on earth, it is not for you and your friends, it is for the government, and you get to pay for it through inflation instead of taxes.
4) Fiat causes inflation because it increases the money supply greater than it increases the things it can buy. Robbing the Aztecs and Incas has the same effect by increasing the money supply.
5) this is not a defect of gold, it is a problem of increasing the money supply, the only difference is that it is easier to do with fiat

Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2026 12:34 AM (rbvCR)

229 Right. I’ll tell you what’s dumb, Jack.

Wages have been stagnant for Americans. since 1974.

You ARE high, if you think funny money has been good for the poor, or anyone else. I can explain it for you, but I can’t understand it for you.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 03, 2026 12:18 AM (J48Co)

Maybe go to an ATM and scream at everybody that they need to stop using evil paper currency and should only accept gold and silver coinage?

In spite of the fact that People Like Using Evil Paper Money and there is nothing you can do about it?

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 03, 2026 12:34 AM (6jna9)

230 Hope you can press for/win "supervised visitation" at least!
Posted by: JQ at October 03, 2026 12:33 AM (rdVOm)

Grandparents have no rights in AK. We're fucked.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 03, 2026 12:35 AM (+iz5Z)

231 I am trying to figure out why I am wobbly. Could be my fat ass or my huge boobs. Naw probably alcohol, lol.
Posted by: four seasons

Agreed. Ass on the back, boobs on the front. Those should balance out. Gotta be the alcohol.

Posted by: mikeski at October 03, 2026 12:36 AM (VHUov)

232 *buys Diogenes his drink of choice*

Thanks again for stabilizing our table!
Posted by: JQ at October 03, 2026 12:31 AM (rdVOm)

Thanxs!
*sips drink*

Posted by: Diogenes at October 03, 2026 12:36 AM (2WIwB)

233
Lol

Posted by: four seasons at October 03, 2026 12:36 AM (/QHx4)

234 SpaceX might just turn gold into Zimbabwean Dollars.
Posted by: Sjg
---------------

John Stewart (and Stevie Nicks) 'Gold'

https://shorturl.at/fVCEG

When the lights go down in the California town
People are in for the evening
I jump into my car and I throw in my guitar
My heartbeat in time with my breathing
Driving over Kanan, singing to my soul
There's people out there turning music into gold

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 03, 2026 12:37 AM (XeU6L)

235 Posted by: tcn in AK at October 03, 2026 12:35 AM

Get on your lawyer's ass about baby mama's weed habit? Legal door swings both ways, I'd hope...

Posted by: JQ at October 03, 2026 12:37 AM (rdVOm)

236 What? Nobody has advocated for crypto currency yet? Tell me you're over 29 without telling me you're over 29.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 03, 2026 12:38 AM (2bl8/)

237
Governments print money to spend it on themselves because if they had to shake it out of the citizenry at that amount they would have a revolt. Fiat is designed to spend on the government first, it is what it was always made to do.

1) fiat is created by a central bank
2) it is made to pay the government, not to make your life better
3) It does not matter if it is printed by an idiot or the wisest man on earth, it is not for you and your friends, it is for the government, and you get to pay for it through inflation instead of taxes.
4) Fiat causes inflation because it increases the money supply greater than it increases the things it can buy. Robbing the Aztecs and Incas has the same effect by increasing the money supply.
5) this is not a defect of gold, it is a problem of increasing the money supply, the only difference is that it is easier to do with fiat
Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2026 12:34 AM (rbvCR)

Again: People. Like. Using. Fiat. Currency. No matter how much you or Common Tater think that we shouldn’t. How do you suggest we breach that hurdle?

If No One Liked Using It It Would Not Exist.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 03, 2026 12:38 AM (6jna9)

238 MAINTAIN GRAVITY
Posted by: Weebles

Dude. In the absence of gravity, weebles can't fall down.

Posted by: mikeski puffs and passes at October 03, 2026 12:38 AM (VHUov)

239 On a lighter note, we should be out of the camper in about two weeks. The house looks fantastic. Propane tank comes next week, then the countertops and tile in the shower. I need to get over there and vacuum just about everything, and do a shit ton of laundry. Can't wait until they hook up the appliances, but it's coming, at last.

A whole summer living in the camper is... nearly over. I don't think I have ever had cabin fever in the summer before! Lol. Luckily, it's a nice camper.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 03, 2026 12:39 AM (+iz5Z)

240 JQ, no coffee for me please, I'll stick with the usual.

tcn, I don't know what to say, I will continue to pray for you.

Diogenes, thanks for fixing the table, Cheers.

Hi COMM, if you are still around.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 03, 2026 12:40 AM (ibDUx)

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