1 not to mention flying pigs

2 not to mention flying pigs Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at April 05, 2012 09:04 AM (QTHTd) Air Force One?

3 ♪♫Hail is the hail-iest
Tornadoes are the scariest
SCOAMF is the SCOAMFiest!
Everywhere I go.... ♪♫

4 I think social media had a lot to do with awareness of this particular storm. It seemed Twitter was especially tuned in. That's where I got a lot of information about it, and pretty much real time, too.

5

I'm just glad my trip to KDAL was yesterday afternoon, and not the day of the tornadoes. Don't want to scare the pants off of my 1%er passengers. 

6 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

7 I was in Bowling Green, KY when a golf ball sized hailstorm hit. I was 10 seconds late in moving my car behind the motel and it got pounded to shit and a cracked windshield. No way was I gonna run into golf ball hail to move the old beater. You might as well get beaten by a ball-peen hammer.

The whole town looked like God blasted it with 0 buckshot. Every car in several car lots were totaled. Every plastic gas station sign was blasted through and full of holes. The city was a real mess.

Hint: if you're ever driving in an urban area at the onset of a storm immediately seek a bank drive thru or some other sturdy overhead structure. I'm leery of recommending gas pumps with canopies because I've seen many of them blown down.

8

Heard the guys on WBAP say only thing worse than being in a plane on the ground wishing you were in the air, is being in a plane in the air, wishing you were on the ground.

 

 

 

 

Very true.  Also there are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots.

9

This is not helping my whole fear of flying thing.  I will fly but I don't like it.  Also, blessed Mother Gaia is a huge bitch who will kill us all.

 

In random news, today is looking up.  I got my beta invite for Mist of Pandaria (shut up) and we just got biscuits brought in to work.  And we're off tomorrow!  Goooo me!

 

I am going to get hit by a meteor any second now.

10 Last I heard: 2 EF2s, 1 "Strong" EF2, 1 EF3, and a number of EF1s and EF0s.

And, yes, Brad Barton was a God-send.  He's not into the sensationalism like some of the other local Meteorologists, and he's very vocal about calling out the Emergency Managers when he thinks they're "diluting the message."

11 I am going to get hit by a meteor any second now.

Well, if it's SMOD, that's at least something, right?

12 Interesting to watch to hail cause splashes in the grass.

13 Also, blessed Mother Gaia is a huge bitch who will kill us all.


We need to turn up the heat on her and her marauding polar bears.

14 Jesus Christ on a snowmobile, it would drive me to screaming insanity to be stuck in a metal tube while balls of ice pounded it and I had nowhere to go. There's not enough Buspirone on the planet to keep me calm through that.

15 Did everyone else get sucked up into a funnel cloud?

16 "May all your take offs and landings...match."

17 Climatologists at Colorado State University have predicted a mild hurricane season for 2012.  That's scary news since this bunch have have never had any  idea of what they have been talking about.  Claim the Atlantic is cooler than in previous years.  Must not have heard about global warming.

18 Dave, it didn't leave any dents in your new Ferrari I hope! You know which one, the "co-blogger blue", cabriolet.

19

I'm     just    glad that all the 'rons and 'ronettes from that region of the country came through okay, and that there weren't a lot of casualties,  thank God.

 

We don't get hail very often in NH -- probably because it rarely gets hot enough for long enough to generate the right conditions -- so whenever I see it in video it feels so unreal to me.     The only ice we usually have falling from the sky is the kind that turns the roads into skating rinks and breaks trees    in winter.        Y'all who endure    hail   and its associated adverse weather conditions (also known as fucking TORNADOES, one of my biggest fears in the known universe)    have my    undying   respect!

 

...

 

Well, unless you suddenly convert to progressive douchebaggery.  Then you'd lose my respect pretty fast.  But I don't think that's going to happen so we're safe.

20 That was the severest thing I have ever seen!  Alert the media!

21 []Climatologists at Colorado State University have predicted a mild hurricane season for 2012. That's scary news since this bunch have have never had any idea of what they have been talking about.


Didn't they have the country's (world's ?) best hurricane forecaster, but they let him go because he was a skeptic?

22 I know this has nothing to do with hail but I gotta go to Passover Dinner with my Liberal Family this weekend and I am just very short on patience and very low on " just be nice now". And I am probably going to be in a very bad mood. Explosive combination

23 Big balls of ice falling from the sky is a sure and certain sign of AGW.

24 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at April 05, 2012 09:29 AM (4df7R)

I have to say that, unless you're caught out in it, hail isn't too scary until you get to the really big stuff (golf-ball and bigger) and that's actually fairly rare.  Tornadoes are bad, but we're getting much better at predicting them, detecting them, tracking them, and predicting their paths.

Really scary are the evil "microbursts."  Those things can come out of no-where, and do every bit as much damage as a tornado.

25 15 Did everyone else get sucked up into a funnel cloud?
 

Posted by: fluffy at April 05, 2012 09:24 AM (z9HTb)

 

It seems that way, doesn't it?    

 

Can you imagine the Moron Horde being dumped on the poor, unsuspecting Land of Oz?  They wouldn't know what hit them, except that whatever it is    really likes to use the    term   "sucker of cock."   

26 I just watched the video and it's just about the same as what I saw in Bowling Green.

I'd much prefer being inside an airliner for that than outdoors.

27 I'd much prefer being inside an airliner for that than outdoors. Posted by: Ed Anger - Certified Kos Kid at April 05, 2012 09:34 AM (7+pP9) Except an A380.

28 23 I know this has nothing to do with hail but I gotta go to Passover Dinner with my Liberal Family this weekend and I am just very short on patience and very low on " just be nice now". And I am probably going to be in a very bad mood. Explosive combination

Posted by: nevergiveup at April 05, 2012 09:31 AM (i6RpT)

Concentrate on the purpose of the commemoration and let God handle the rest. Plus you can drink when you get home.

29 I got my beta invite for Mist of Pandaria

I got mine this morning too.  I was kinda worried when they sent out the first 300k invites and not one of my three accounts got an invite.

As for Mother Gaia, my standard response to 'saving the environment' is, "Fuck the environment.  It has been trying to kill us since the beginning of human history.  Spend a month naked in the wild anywhere in the world.  Then tell me how much you love the environment."

30 Historic! Global Warming!! Armageddon !!!!!

31 Posted by: Mob at April 05, 2012 09:36 AM (mefTt) Yep. I recycle on a geologic time scale.

32 Hail is undesireable when you have a multi million dollar half acre of sheet aluminum out in it. But having no love for airlines these days,  Fukkem.

33

Didn't they have the country's (world's ?) best hurricane forecaster, but they let him go because he was a skeptic?

 

Didn't one of the big forecasters stop making the predictions because s/he was never right?

 

Dammit, now I may have to write The Horde In Oz for Nanawrimo. 

34
I have to say that, unless you're caught out in it, hail isn't too scary until you get to the really big stuff (golf-ball and bigger)...[/]

I beg to differ. I got stuck outside in a hailstorm with stones about the size of chick peas AND THEY HURT LIKE HELL. Golf ball sized stones can cold-cock you.

35 Concentrate on the purpose of the commemoration and let God handle the rest. Plus you can drink when you get home. Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at April 05, 2012 09:36 AM (RD7QR) I plan on drinking before at home, at the re-affirmation of their wedding vows for our good friends and neighbors, and the at Passover Dinner. After all my wife does have a driver's license.

36 Damned formatting here...grumble, grumble.

37

Really scary are the evil "microbursts." Those things can come out of no-where, and do every bit as much damage as a tornado.

 

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 05, 2012 09:33 AM (8y9MW)

 

*SHUDDER*   Another   of my worst fears.   A   couple of years ago we had a few microbursts   touchdown (would that be an accurate term?)   in the Orford area.   Scary powerful.   Thankfully the damage was largely confined to trees and vegetation    and not to people's homes, but if it had happened in one of our "cities" (I alwas feel like I have to use quotes when calling a NH city a city)    it would have been a nightmare.     So    of course now every time I have to commute in stormy weather, I'm terrified my little car is going to get flipped off the road into a tree courtesy of a   microburst.  

 

This is why I don't understand my   own     fascination with     meteorology.    The more I read about it    the    more   pants-shittingly terrifying   it becomes,   the more I want to read about it.   It's like    an    early    Stephen King novel, or the President's budget proposal.

38 Sounded like the bongo banging at Occupy Wall St.

39 At my work place in CA they recycle used pens and we have three kinds of trash disposal bins in the cafeterias, and two kinds in the bathrooms. I worship the Goddess Irony and she hates Gaia. I mean fucking hates dat bitch.

40

The hail is getting hailier.

 

41 we had a hail storm here two yrs ago....a kid in my daughters class got held after school missed his bus....as he walked home the sky opened up on him and the hail showed no mercy....he was covered in bruises......the car dealerships had lots full of dimpled cars......

42 Posted by: Ed Anger - Certified Kos Kid at April 05, 2012 09:39 AM (7+pP9)

I did say "unless you were caught out in it."  If you're caught out in it, even the pea-size stuff hurts like heck.

43 I plan on drinking before at home, at the re-affirmation of their wedding vows for our good friends and neighbors, and the at Passover Dinner. After all my wife does have a driver's license.


Will that numb you to their stupidity, or make you less likely to hold your tongue?

44

Dammit, now I may have to write The Horde InOz for Nanawrimo.

 

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at April 05, 2012 09:39 AM (VtjlW)

 

...

 

YES YOU DO. 

 

Possibly for practice you could try penning a screenplay for Giant Killer Emus of Doom vs. Monkey Gun.   You know, just to get the creative juices flowing.

45 >>They wouldn't know what hit them, except that whatever it is really likes to use the term "sucker of cock."

If you end up in Quadling Country, watch out for the Hammer-Heads.

46

Posted by: eman at April 05, 2012 09:41 AM (SkRNT)

**

Have you seen your hash?? 

47 Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 05, 2012 09:43 AM (Ho2rs)

That's horrible.

And, of course, we've been taught "stranger danger" so much, that the kid wouldn't even think of scurrying to the nearest house for shelter.

48 My most memorable hail storm came when I was still a college kid. Eastern New Mexico. Out on the highway on a Yamaha 650. 10 miles from any town at all, and even further from a tree. Started hailing quarter size hail. Pain, lots of pain. Finally, in desperation, rode the motorcycle through a plowed field of mud about 50 yards to a field barn full of implements. When I finally got under cover, of course it stopped hailing. Covered in bruises, I rode the 15 miles home in the downpour. I still love bikes, hail not so much.

49 Will that numb you to their stupidity, or make you less likely to hold your tongue? Posted by: fluffy at April 05, 2012 09:43 AM (z9HTb) ??? Depends on my mood, just how drunk I get, and the absolute degree of stupidity I encounter.

50 I was homeless in 1974-75 and lived in a discarded shipping crate by the rail station. We had a hail storm come through like that. Very upsetting

51 I alwas feel like I have to use quotes when calling a NH city a city


We are a thriving, dynamic, growing metropolis!

52 Have you seen your hash?? Posted by: Dum CNN Scrunt at April 05, 2012 09:44 AM (8ieXv) Quite proud of it, I am.

53 nevergiveup.....try to sit next to the place set for elijah....

54

Oh, and since I don't think anyone else has    made the inevitable allusion   based on the    post headline, allow me:

 

"I    have   had   it   with    this   motherfucking hail on this motherfucking plane!"

55 ??? Depends on my mood, just how drunk I get, and the absolute degree of stupidity I encounter. Posted by: nevergiveup at April 05, 2012 09:45 AM (i6RpT) I sense a coming disturbance in the Force.

56 nevergiveup.....try to sit next to the place set for elijah.... Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 05, 2012 09:46 AM (Ho2rs) I've often ended up sitting on the front door stoop and been very happy there.

57 53 Have you seen your hash??
Posted by: Dum CNN Scrunt at April 05, 2012 09:44 AM (8ieXv)

Quite proud of it, I am.

Posted by: eman at April 05, 2012 09:46 AM (SkRNT)

*

We Scrunts are getting Scruntier as well.

58 More hail storms like this will happen if the Republicans pass Paul Ryan's budget. And there will be no warnings because Republicans hate you.

59

We are a thriving, dynamic, growing metropolis!

 

Posted by: Greater Orford at April 05, 2012 09:46 AM (z9HTb)

 

LOL!

60 Alright early morning morons- since it's slow here, I don't mind to terribly using the moment to do my early morning shill.  New post up at my place.

61 Heard the guys on WBAP say only thing worse than being in a plane on the ground wishing you were in the air, is being in a plane in the air, wishing you were on the ground.



This, this this.  On a flight into Charlotte last year, on the approach to the runway, the plane suddenly plummeted belly-down.....could see the tree tops just below us.  The pilot slammed the nose into the air and we were thrown back in our seats.  I was squeezing D'oh's hand off.  Total silence on the plane, and the pilot never said a word during the 45 minutes we circled the runway.


Heard on the news yesterday a flight into Houston hit major turbulence, injuring two flight attendants and three passengers. 

62
Posted by: maddogg at April 05, 2012 09:45 AM (OlN4e)

Were you wearing your leathers?

63 ♪♫Scrunts are the scruntiest!
Trolls are the trolliest!
SCOAMF is the SCOAMFiest!
Everywhere I go...♪♫

64 Folks, this could have been a lot worse if y'all had been burnin' cheap gasoline, drivin' to jobs and what-not. You're welcome.

65 3 ♪♫Hail is the hail-iest
Tornadoes are the scariest
SCOAMF is the SCOAMFiest!
Everywhere I go.... ♪♫

Any suggestions as to the tune I should be playing in my head?

66 Were you wearing your leathers?

Posted by: Ed Anger - Certified Kos Kid at April 05, 2012 09:51 AM (7+pP9)

 

 

 

 

Are you kidding? I could barely afford leather shoes. I only ate if I didn't need gas or money for girls. I had on jeans and a tee shirt.

67 Hail on a mutherfuckin' plane? oh, hail no!

68 Go Cowboys!

69 and the pilot never said a word during the 45 minutes we circled the runway.

He'd get in trouble with the FAA if he'd said anything, because the only thing running through his head was "Oh shit, oh shit, ohshitohshitoshit!"

70 Any suggestions as to the tune I should be playing in my head?

I don't know if there's a name for that tune, or not.

It's from Noggin/Nick Jr.  Moose A Moose sings it.  Obviously not with those words.

71 He'd get in trouble with the FAA if he'd said anything, because the only thing running through his head was "Oh shit, oh shit, ohshitohshitoshit!"

 

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 05, 2012 09:58 AM (8y9MW)

 

Undoubtedly related to    Discworld's Rincewind, then.

72 >>Any suggestions as to the tune I should be playing in my head?

It's Moose A. Moose, formerly of Noggin.  Someone's gotta have his song on YouTube (I'm at work, everything fun is blocked, except here for some reason...).

73 >>Obviously not with those words.

But how cool would that have been? :-D

74 Tornadoes mainly emanate fron Al Gore's lower colon.

75 >>I was homeless in 1974-75 and lived in a discarded shipping crate by the rail station. We had a hail storm come through like that. Very upsetting Umm. Hobo Stew and Jerky. Your ONLY warning

76
I had on jeans and a tee shirt.

Posted by: maddogg at April 05, 2012 09:55 AM (OlN4e)

Holy Jeebus that musta hurt. Lucky you weren't knocked out.

77 Undoubtedly related to Discworld's Rincewind, then.

Ha.  No, then he would have been seen running through the plane to jump out the back.

78 It's Moose A. Moose, formerly of Noggin.


Found it. Excellent!

79
Lucky you weren't knocked out.

Were you wearing a helmet?

80

My brother got clonked on the head by a hail stone the size of a baseball one time....knocked him out cold. .....But then he kinda asked for it. ...He was 10 at the time, and was running outside to collect the bigger ones.....to put them in the freezer, so he could later throw them at our other brothers.

 

One year, in December, we got a layer of hail that accumulated on the ground....and it froze. ....Then it was freezing rain for the rest of the day. ....That night, there was the sound of trees popping and breaking under the weight of all the ice. ....Mother Nature can be a bitch sometimes.

81 Holy Jeebus that musta hurt. Lucky you weren't knocked out.

Posted by: Ed Anger - Certified Kos Kid at April 05, 2012 10:01 AM (7+pP9)

 

 

 

I had an old fiberglass helmet on, or coldcocked I would have been. I used to ride motorcycles all over. I may have logged as much as 250,000 miles on a bike. My current BMW has 100K on the clock and still runs good. I once rode a Honda 750 up from the Austin area to Lubbock in winter with 2 whitetail deer strapped on the back and a rifle slung across my shoulders. It got so damn cold my hands couldn't work the levers. Got a lot of horrified looks from old ladies in Buicks though.

82

My brother got clonked on the head by a hail stone the size of a baseball one time....knocked him out cold. .....But then he kinda asked for it. ...He was 10 at the time, and was running outside to collect the bigger ones.....to put them in the freezer, so he could later throw them at our other brothers.

 

Ah, youth!

83 Google moose a moose everywhere I go song. Can't link on phone...

84

Ha. No, then he would have been seen running through the plane to jump out the back.

 

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 05, 2012 10:02 AM (8y9MW)

 

This is true.   And I don't think The Luggage would appreciate being stowed in an overhead compartment.

85 Edward Lorenz, MIT professor, mathemetician, climatologist, and originator of the term "butterfly effect" as regards chaos theory, says there is no way hurricanes can be predicted.  And even after about three days all forecasting is guesswork.  Of course, he's no Al Gore, but he tried.

86 This is true. And I don't think The Luggage would appreciate being stowed in an overhead compartment.

Now I'm going to be thinking of the reactions of various Discworld characters to that situation.

The Librarian, of course, would simply say "ook."

87 87 Edward Lorenz, MIT professor, mathemetician, climatologist, and originator of the term "butterfly effect" as regards chaos theory, says there is no way hurricanes can be predicted. And even after about three days all forecasting is guesswork. Of course, he's no Al Gore, but he tried.  

Posted by: Libra at April 05, 2012 10:09 AM (kd8U

 

Which is why I always tell my parents not to trust the forecast more than 36 hours in advance (adjusted down from 72 because this is New England and fricking New England is insane).  

 

That doesn't stop them from complaining about having rain on Friday when, "the weatherman said we were going to have sun!"

 

"When did he say that?"

 

"Last Saturday."

 

*sigh*

88 Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has Obama at 2/5 odds to win re-election, with Romney at 15/8.

http://is.gd/6FBjWy

89

84.....Ah, youth!

 

Yep. ....After watching my brothers grow up, I've often thought that it's a wonder that some little boys make it to manhood. .....No fear.

90 Yep. ....After watching my brothers grow up, I've often thought that it's a wonder that some little boys make it to manhood. .....No fear.

It's because there are so many of us.  The ones who don't make it are simply an ablative coating of protection for the species.

91

The Librarian, of course, would simply say "ook."

 

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 05, 2012 10:10 AM (8y9MW)

 

And find a way to slip into L-Space    for safety,   after snagging a snack pack     of airline peanuts.

 

Death would no doubt pop in, too. 

 

"I DO HATE FLYING.  IT'S ALWAYS SO CROWDED, AND THERE'S SIMPLY NOWHERE TO STOW THE SCYTHE."

92 First they came for Big Oil, and I didn't speak out because I was not oil. Then they came for Big Pharma, and i didn't speak out because I was not a pill. Then they came for Millionaires & Billionaires, and I didn't speak out because I was not rich. Then they came for me. Who the hell left the barn door open?

93

>> "I have had it with this motherfucking hail on this motherfucking plane!"

 

yesssssssssss.. there it is.

94 The sick shit we used to do on bicycles would of sent my mother to the hospital. The BMX craze of the early eighties combined with visions of Evil Kinevel and Dukes of hazzard kept us scraped up and bruised all summers long. 

95

92
It's because there are so many of us. The ones who don't make it are simply an ablative coating of protection for the species.

 

Heh. .....And also serve as examples of "why you don't do that".

96

OT, but why not?  It's a slow day.

 

While celebrating his Democratic primary victory in Ward 8 Tuesday night, D.C. Councilman Marion Barry delivered a remark apparently critical of Asian business owners.

 

...

 

"We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up businesses and dirty shops,"     Barry said.     "They ought to go. IÂ’m going to say that right now. But we need African-American businesspeople to be able to take their places, too.”

 

But remember, black people can't be racist.

 

Link to NBC   Washington:     http://tinyurl.com/7lt3xux
 

 

(h/t Weasel Zippers)

97 Well crap.  Mark Davis is off the air with WBAP.  Couldn't come to a contract agreement with Cumulus.

I don't get to listen as much as I'd like, but he was the only local guy I could really stand, after Gary McNamara went to Red Eye Radio.

98 "there are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots."

Chuck Yeager

99
I once rode a Honda 750 up from the Austin area to Lubbock in winter with 2 whitetail deer strapped on the back and a rifle slung across my shoulders. It got so damn cold my hands couldn't work the levers. Got a lot of horrified looks from old ladies in Buicks though.

Posted by: maddogg at April 05, 2012 10:06 AM (OlN4e)

Great story. You are a true moron with an appropriate screen name.

100 Good old Marion Barry. I'm surprised the crack-addled old race-baiter can string a coherent sentence together, much less win a political campaign. But then it is DC.

101

The sidebar link about the lady who gets a letter from the hospital telling her that the 2 mile trip she takes to get to surgery is too far due to the global warming hoax gives us a peek at what happens when you let these nutty bitches run your life..  

 

102 Well crap. Mark Davis is off the air with WBAP. Couldn't come to a contract agreement with Cumulus.

I don't get to listen as much as I'd like, but he was the only local guy I could really stand, after Gary McNamara went to Red Eye Radio.
Posted by: AllenG
......
Isn't he available on the internet somewhere?

103 But remember, black people can't be racist.

Link to NBC Washington: http://tinyurl.com/7lt3xux

(h/t Weasel Zippers)

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at April 05, 2012 10:24 AM (4df7R)

*

Without the Asian's shops who else will they loot/pillage and plunder when looking for social justice...and shit???

104 Last week I was trying to tell the little boys that their bike ramp was too close to the back of that car and when they went over the ramp they were going to ....BAM!

105 102 Good old Marion Barry. I'm surprised the crack-addled old race-baiter can string a coherent sentence together, much less win a political campaign. But then it is DC.
 

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at April 05, 2012 10:27 AM (RD7QR)

 

And they wonder why   no one pays attention when they whine about not having adequate "representation" in Congress.

106

Without the Asian's shops who else will they loot/pillage and plunder when looking for social justice...and shit???

 

Posted by: dananjcon at April 05, 2012 10:28 AM (8ieXv)

 

Where else are they going to   buy    steal their Skittles!

107 Isn't he available on the internet somewhere?

Not at the moment.  He'll land somewhere eventually, I'm sure, but he's purely local- not syndicated anywhere- so if he's off the air here, he's not on the air anywhere.

He's still on Twitter @MarkDavis and he's got a wordpress blog, now (that seems to be fairly new).  He also does things here in the area (MCs political events, etc.)

108 Doon bicycles?

109 Microbursts are definitely airplane eaters. Upwards of 6000' per minute downwash on those suckers.   A microburst took down that Delta flight in Dallas several years ago, and a few other ones like the Little Rock crash.  "if you die because of weather, your funeral is on a sunny day."  I play it safe.  If there's a trip going into a line of weather somewhere, the best weather avoidance system on my airplane is the parking brake.  Then i'll do the trip once it passes.

110 Marion Berry is the Rhode Scholar of DC. You have no idea.

111 This liquid body armor might be really handy in a hail storm for you motorbike riders. http://tinyurl.com/cntdyln

112 Without the Asian's shops who else will they loot/pillage and plunder when looking for social justice...and shit???

We weren't having that much luck with them anyway.

113 Had a friend who was a pilot in one of those planes on the ground in Dallas.  Said the hail was the size of golf balls.

114

Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has Obama at 2/5 odds to win re-election, with Romney at 15/8.

 

Daaaaaaaave, someone got math on the blog!

115

96 The sick shit we used to do  on bicycles would of sent my mother to the hospital. The BMX craze of the early eighties combined with visions of Evil Kinevel and Dukes of hazzard kept usscraped up and bruised allsummers long.

 

"Hey look! There's a creek down there! We can jump that.....come on guys!"

 

I grew up trailing behind my brothers and their friends.....shaking my head at some of the gonzo shit they did.

116 110 Doon bicycles?

Posted by: Zombie Frank Herbert at April 05, 2012 10:30 AM (S7ZyK)

**

Yes, they had really big fuckin tires!

117
Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager was a dickhead.

http://www.kalimera.org/nf104/stories/stories_11.html

118 They don't like the asians because the asians aren't afraid of looking racist and they protect their shit with bars and alarms and guns and lots and lots of screaming.

119 AllenG - I like it when he fills in for Rush.  I hope he turns up somewhere.

120 Edward Lorenz, MIT professor, mathemetician, climatologist, and originator of the term "butterfly effect" as regards chaos theory, says there is no way hurricanes can be predicted. And even after about three days all forecasting is guesswork. Of course, he's no Al Gore, but he tried. That would be a "Father of Chaos Theory". And actually, he said forecasting is pretty good out 5 days, not horrible at 7, but kinda shakey and progressively worse on days 8+. Of course, the takeaway was "computing power isn't the problem, better data in terms of time and space will give us better forecasts". I was fortunate enough to be able to attend a lecture he gave, I guess in the mid-90s.

121 "Chuck Yeager was a dickhead."

Did I say Otherwise?

He's old. And regardless of his character faults, which are legend, to say he's not bold is just silly.

122

at what happens when you let these nutty bitches run your life..

 

 

Just remember, the only nutty bitch who will be ruling alextopia will be me.  Rule by whim, baby! 

123

wheatie,one of the craziest things I ever saw in regards to ice/storm happened in the Lakes region in NH.Acres and acres of trees had the top 15 to 20 feet snapped off,as if someone had taken a scythe to them .It was jaw dropping to say the least.

We also had a tornado/micro burst(not sure which)rip through my area(Concord,NH) a couple of years ago.Tore a 100 yard path through EVERYTHING in its way.The power of Mother Nature is not to be trifled with.

124 I am TIRED of this motherfucking hail on this motherfucking PLANE!

125 Did they bother to check the plane out after the storm, or did they just take the fuck off? Would be my question.

126 125 wheatie,one of the craziest things I ever saw in regards to ice/storm happened in the Lakes region in NH.Acres and acres of trees had the top 15 to 20 feet snapped off,as if someone had taken a scythe to them .It was jaw dropping to say the least.
We also had a tornado/micro burst(not sure which)rip through my area(Concord,NH) a couple of years ago.Tore a 100 yard path through EVERYTHING in its way.The power of Mother Nature is not to be trifled with.

Posted by: vae victus at April 05, 2012 10:35 AM (cpMdE)

 

Heya, vae!   *waving*   Nice to see a fellow NH-ite!

127 AllenG - I like it when he fills in for Rush. I hope he turns up somewhere.

Yeah.  I bet he could do fine with a Podcast, honestly.

Did they bother to check the plane out after the storm, or did they just take the fuck off?

Any plane at DFW Airport that had not been under cover (and some of those that were) were grounded until an inspection can be done.  They're still doing some of those today. I think.

So, yes, after sitting through that hail-storm in an airplane, they then also didn't get where they were going.

128

Just remember, the only nutty bitch who will be ruling alextopia will be me. Rule by whim, baby!

 

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at April 05, 2012 10:34 AM (VtjlW)

 

Alex, someone mentioned upthread (or was it on the Headlines thread?) that the town of Buford, WY is up for auction today.   You    planning to make a bid?  

129 Who the hell left the barn door open? Posted by: Big Chicken at April 05, 2012 10:17 AM (ETgqz) Hey, Big Chicken, come here often? what's your sign, baby? can I buy a drink? (if you're gonna eff the chicken, you should think big!)

130 100 "there are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots."

Chuck Yeager



My late dad was an AF test pilot.  He repeated that saying often.  My husband is a somewhat lazy driver.  Has no clue what a turn signal is (he may think it's an "eject" lever).  D'oh used to tell my dad that when our boy was old enough, they were going to take flying lessons together.


My dad pulled me aside one day and said, "Honey, you know I love D'oh like my own son, but do not let him take flying lessons.  The way he drives, he'll get himself and your boy killed."


D'oh never took the lessons, thankfully.

131 it's back.....yuck

132

111.....I play it safe. If there's a trip going into a line of weather somewhere, the best weather avoidance system on my airplane is the parking brake. Then i'll do the trip once it passes.

 

Good for you. ....Most bosses don't have a death wish. But some of them seem to think that their pilots are wizards who can somehow find a way through a weather front.

 

And if you're taking off in a single engine aircraft....you're already in an emergency situation.

133 Great story. You are a true moron with an appropriate screen name.

Posted by: Ed Anger - Certified Kos Kid at April 05, 2012 10:27 AM (7+pP9)

 

 

Caveman was the term my late wife was fond of. Anyway, that isn't the rest of the story. When I got home, the wife was gone somewhere. It was below freezing outside and I was fearful my meat would freeze before I could get them ready for the freezer. So, of course I carried them into the kitchen and laid them out in the floor. Then, needing a bath, I got in the shower. Half way through, I heard this blood curdeling scream from the kitchen, accompanied by much cursing associated with my name............anyway, I had to remove the deer.

134

I hate DFW airport.  Never been stuck on a plane longer, anywhere.

135 135 lol

136

Alex, someone mentioned upthread (or was it on the Headlines thread?) that the town of Buford, WY is up for auction today. You planning to make a bid?

 

Yes, yes I am. Let me dig out all those shiny silver dimes I've been hoarding.

 

137 136 I hate DFW airport. Never been stuck on a plane longer, anywhere.



Ditto.  And their TSA suck ass.  Our boy was coming home on pre-deployment leave at Christmas and received "special treatment"....the nude body scan and full pat-down.  He was told it was "random" like me getting my hands tested for explosive residue last week.

138 Hey MWR,it is nice to see fellow Granite Staters here on the site.I often wonder as I'm sitting at my favorite watering hole if there are any fellow morons in the crowd.

139 It was below freezing outside and I was fearful my meat would freeze



heh, maddogg

140 139 jane the tsa agent must have been a friend of bill and bernadine they hate that the military was seated first on one of their plane trips......sick evil people

141

You'd have a greater chance of being hit by a hailstone, hit by lightning, and getting a TSA random screening than winning the lottery.

 

Speaking of which, any Maryland morons ready to go bumrush the McDonalds where the ticket is supposedly hidden?   

142 Our boy was coming home on pre-deployment leave at Christmas and received "special treatment"....the nude body scan and full pat-down.

Yeah.  Apparently DFW TSA had so many complaints about the Body Scans, that instead of making them "random" they made them the standard- everyone goes through the nude-oh-scopes now.

143 125....The power of Mother Nature is not to be trifled with.

 

Posted by: vae victus at April 05, 2012 10:35 AM (cpMdE)

 

So very  true, vae. .....Which is why I am such a weather junkie. It pays to keep an eye out for what's coming.

 

 

144 Oh joy.  Heard on the local news last night Savannah is finally getting two nude body scanners.  Yay. 

145 Republican policies will lead to more severer hail targeting minority communities and women.

146 Hail on a plane. Exciting stuff.

147 Who was the forecaster who was nicknamed "The Angel of Death"? I can't remember what his name is.

148 Oh joy. Heard on the local news last night Savannah is finally getting two nude body scanners. Yay.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 05, 2012 10:48 AM (UOM4

 

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Yet another folly.  If they could catch the bad guys reliably, I wouldn't mind.  If some TSA puke gets a cheap thrill from seeing a cartoonized naked body, well, sound like they have the problem - not me.  But they can't.  Until they invent the bomb-in-the-anus scanner, or do the smart thing and ban muz from flying (or living in/entering the US), we're all still at risk.

149

wheatie,First thing I do every morning before I head out to work is look at the radar.I'm in the construction business and my buddies usually call me  if they have any doubts about opening a roof etc;.

 

 

I usually give them a hard time about it but they trust my opinion more than the weathermans.

150

It irks me whenever I hear people say...."That's never happened before"....when commenting on some weird weather event.

 

Just because something hasn't happened since we started keeping weather records....doesn't mean it hasn't 'happened before'. .....Ice cores give us some indicators, of what has happened in the past....but not very good details of what kind of crazy weather that has gone on before.

151 Posted by: Reactionary at April 05, 2012 10:51 AM (xUM1Q)

Yep.  We all know that Behavioral Profiling is the best way to catch the bad guys, but there's no way the Loony Left will even allow it to be discussed.

F*ckers.

152

Oh joy. Heard on the local news last night Savannah is finally getting two nude body scanners. Yay

 

Have there been any answers to the whole ummm isn't this actually a dangerously high level of radiation questions yet?

153 Netanyahu slams Guenter Grass for controversial Israel poem PM reacts to Grass' recently released poem that claims Israel's nuclear program is a threat to world peace; Netanyahu says it is no surprise that a man who hid his Waffen-SS past sees Israel as a threat. http://www.haaretz.com/ Happy Passover

154 *SMOD hits earth 2012*

"Well, that's never happened before.  Global warming!!111eleventy!111!!!!!"

155 Well, if you wind up getting cancer from a nude body scanner, you'll be relieved to find out that the same government will be determining your viability for chemotherapy.   

156 Egypt: Brotherhood presidency candidate says Shariah 'final goal' Khairat el-Shater meets with Salafi clerics, stresses he would form group of religious scholars to 'help parliament' enforce Islamic law. Omar Suleiman gives up presidential bid Roi Kais, AP Published: 04.05.12, 17:14 / Israel News The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for Egypt's presidency is lobbying hard for support of ultraconservative Muslim clerics, promising them a say over legislation in the future to ensure it is in line with Islamic law, as he tries to rally the divided Islamist vote behind him. Khairat el-Shater met for four hours Tuesday night with a panel of Salafi scholars and clerics, called the Jurisprudence Commission for Rights and Reform, trying to win their support. Hey a shout out to all them liberals that said the Muslim Brotherhood would never take over the Egyptian Gov: Fuck you and die a horrible death. And obama white house had meeting with muslim brotherhood.

157 154 Oh joy. Heard on the local news last night Savannah is finally getting two nude body scanners. Yay

Have there been any answers to the whole ummm isn't this actually a dangerously high level of radiation questions yet?

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at April 05, 2012 10:53 AM (VtjlW)

Of course not, silly.  (You won't require us to go through them to enter alextopia, will you?)

158 Have there been any answers to the whole ummm isn't this actually a dangerously high level of radiation questions yet?

Yes.  The answer was "Shut up."

159

This is the AGW feedback...planes emit carbon dioxide, which heat the atmosphere...the overheated atmosphere creates unheard of weather events like hail...in Texas...in April....hail pelts aircraft, rendering them Code 3...icky aircraft are grounded, and atmosphere returns to normal.

160 creates unheard of weather events like hail...in Texas...in Apri

Please tell me there aren't people seriously calling our tornadoes the other day "unprecedented" or something stupid like that.  It's April in Texas- of course we're getting bad weather.  We'll deal with it for the next 6 weeks or so, and then we'll be able to fry eggs on the sidewalk.  And watch the roads melt.

161

158....The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for Egypt's presidency is lobbying hard for support of ultraconservative Muslim clerics,....

 

"ultraconservative" .....That's what makes no sense. Liberals rail against conservatives....yet totally ignore how 'ultraconservative' Muslims are. ....I don't even like to call what they are...'ultraconservative'....because it's like over-the-cliff-tyranical compared to being politically conservative.

162

I’m glad we have this time to hash the entire “hail on the plane” thing out.

 

Hopefully we can push past five or six rapid-fire posts on politics this afternoon and get back to something equally as interesting.

163 Liberals love "ultraconservative Muslims" because "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

164 "ultraconservative" .....That's what makes no sense. Liberals rail against conservatives....yet totally ignore how 'ultraconservative' Muslims are. ....I don't even like to call what they are...'ultraconservative'....because it's like over-the-cliff-tyranical compared to being politically conservative. Posted by: wheatie at April 05, 2012 11:06 AM (+5U+B) The point is that obama, the state department, liberals, and assorted other assholes assured us the muslim brotherhood would never take over? I mean we all knew the truth, but someone oughta hold their feet to the fire for be being so naive and stupid.

165

Of course not, silly. (You won't require us to go through them to enter alextopia, will you?)

 

Of course not. That's what the lava pit and the moat gators are for.

166 We had golf ball size hail here last spring just as my apple trees were blooming,  Stripped all of them and my cherry tree.

I notice they are blooming very well this year either.

167

I’m glad we have this time to hash the entire “hail on the plane” thing out.

Hopefully we can push past five or six rapid-fire posts on politics this afternoon and get back to something equally as interesting.

 

Here. You can have the Pamprin that BTH didn't use yesterday.

168 Atlantic hurricanes in the summer?  Unprecedented!

169

166....The point is that obama, the state department, liberals, and assorted other assholes assured us the muslim brotherhood would never take over? I mean we all knew the truth, but someone oughta hold their feet to the fire for be being so naive and stupid.

 

I don't think that O and his inner circle are 'naive and stupid' about the muslim brotherhood. ....I think they know exactly what they're doing. They 'agitated' the Arab Spring. They want this to happen.

170 55 Oh, and since I don't think anyone else has made the inevitable allusion based on the post headline, allow me:
"I have had it with this motherfucking hail on this motherfucking plane!"
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at April 05, 2012 09:47 AM (4df7R)


It had to be said... thank you!

171 the rain is getting rainier the snow is getting snowier the wind is getting windier the hail is getting hailier the sleet is getting sleetier the heat is getting heatier the cold is getting coldier the cost of energy is getting costier the scoamt/f is getting scoamt/fier VOTE HIM OUT

172 Apparently, Chuck Yeager was a household name in the 50s.  By the early 70s,  I cannot help but think that his fame had been completely eclipsed by the likes of Glenn and Armstrong. 

I wonder if he regrets the "spam in a can" comment and his blown opportunity to be an astronaut.

173 I don't think that O and his inner circle are 'naive and stupid' about the muslim brotherhood.....I think they know exactly what they're doing. They 'agitated' the Arab Spring. They want this to happen. Posted by: wheatie at April 05, 2012 11:14 AM (+5U+B) Then that should be made crystal clear to all. Feet to fire. Throw the commie bums out NOW!

174 I wonder if he regrets the "spam in a can" comment and his blown opportunity to be an astronaut.
Posted by: Jimbo
........
Wasn't he too old by that time?

175 Is the Head Ewok going to grace us with   a six page review of the new Avengers trailer?

176

174.....I wonder if he regrets the "spam in a can" comment and his blown opportunity to be an astronaut.

 

I doubt it, Jimbo. ....Truth is, the early astronauts really  were spam in a can. ....Our astronauts weren't really given much in the way of 'flight controls' until the Shuttle came along, and by then, Yeager was too old to be considered for the program.

177 I doubt it, Jimbo. ....Truth is, the early astronauts really were spam in a can. ....Our astronauts weren't really given much in the way of 'flight controls' until the Shuttle came along, and by then, Yeager was too old to be considered for the program.

Posted by: wheatie at April 05, 2012 11:23 AM (+5U+B)

 

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True.  And if you think our guys had it bad - think of those Ruskies!  They had to jump out of the capsule over land and parachute down.  Also, their flight controls were locked out for fear of defection.  I'm not sure how many deaths the Russians covered up as they built their space program but it was more than 1.

178 I am sick and fuckin' tired of this motherfucking hail on this plane!

179 "there are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots."

Chuck Yeager

I was thinking the same thing when I read the first comment.

180
The point is that obama, the state department, liberals, and assorted other assholes assured us the muslim brotherhood would never take over? I mean we all knew the truth, but someone oughta hold their feet to the fire for be being so naive and stupid.

Posted by: nevergiveup at April 05, 2012 11:09 AM (i6RpT)

I don't roll that way.

181 Yeager was a prima donna to the max. He took over every project he was assigned to. He was a great stick and rudder guy, but he had a bloated ego and made a point of screwing anybody who ever got in his way. I've read several accounts by people who worked with him. Most thought he was a dickwad.

Another incident that happened while the accident investigation was still in process, says even more about ChuckÂ’s power, and GuyÂ’s acquiescence.  Shortly after medical release to fly, Chuck tore the top off a bus, North American AviationÂ’s Ground Data Station for the XB-70 tests, which was routinely parked in a space parallel to a taxiway.  He did it with an extended-wing model of the B-57 as he was taxiing. With little ado, it was decided that there was no pilot error, only fault of the contractor for parking the bus in plain sight where it had been for months.  Even though the aircraft had very long wings, it is doubtful any other pilot would have been quietly excused.

182 I could have done without Finfrock on NBC saying the nightmare scenario we've always feared is here right after pointing out a tornado less than a mile from my house. Pants? Shitted. Thankfully it missed me.

183

Couple years ago I was leaving DFW International.  There was a big storm brewin', moving  West -> East as they normally do.  The pilot had made the Executive Decision to board the plane as fast as possible, get out on the tarmac as fast as possible, get in line as fast as possible, and hopefully  get gone before the squall line hit.

 

Didn't work.

 

We wound up sitting through the storm on the tarmac.  No tornadoes (because this was a couple years ago, before we had this EXTREME GLOBAL WARMING!), but driving rain and heavy wind.  Rocked the plane side to side like a beast.  Lasted about 30 mins, then another 15 for everyone to get the all-clear and us to finally get on our way.

 

The only pro to this story?  This was a last-minute business flight for me, and when you get the order "you've GOTTA get to X day-after-tomorrow!" then you're given a little "flexibility" with booking your flight, so I was able to get a Y-Up fare and was in 1st Class.  So the stewardess kept the beer and snacks flowing, and all-in-all it was a good time.  I was sitting next to a retired cattleman, and he was a hoot to talk to.

184

@booger - I believe the correct past-tense verb for the act of soiling your pants is "shat."

As in:  "Pants?  Shat."

185 I'm tired of this motherfucking hail on this motherfucking plane!

186 186 @booger - I believe the correct past-tense verb for the act of soiling your pants is "shat." As in: "Pants? Shat." Ahh, you are correct, hard to remember proper grammar whilst reminiscing about soiling your undies.

187 Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing...

188

reason @ AoSHQ - here for all your grammar needs since January 2009.

And I've never liked Finfrock.  Not sure why, just never got a vibe from him that he's particularly good at his job.

 

Evan Andrews is just nerdy enough to convince me that he gets up every morning and looks forward to geeking out over computer prediction models.

 

And Fiona.  She'd make a good dog break his leash.

189 And I've never liked Finfrock. Not sure why, just never got a vibe from him that he's particularly good at his job. I turned off Finfrock shortly after that because he obviously didn't know or just kept forgetting cities, the guy doesn't have to know all of America or even all of Texas, just North Texas and he didn't even know that, smdh.

190 Another dipshit iPhone user who doesn't know to turn the fucking phone on the side.

191 I kicked in that a local weather guy on the most popular AM station in the area was warning about this crap on Tuesday.

Mark Davis, the morning guy on WBAP is in a contract dispute and Ben Ferguson is filling in for him.  The Big BAP might not be so big in the AM anymore, if they don't get Mark Davis back on the air.

192 Well that didn't work.  My 1st paragraph is a quote from Dave in Texas. 

193 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

194 Need some Tea to go with the cold ICE.

195 I live in Forney, TX where the F3 touched down.  I was at work up in Dallas though when the tornado came through.  I got home about 2-3 hours after it hit.  After looking at some of the videos on youtube I see that it came within about 1/4 mile of my house.  That would probably explain why when I came home my yorkie was completely soaking wet and there was water all over the floor in the bathroom.  Looks like he decided to hide in the toilet when the storm hit.  If I was a 7 lbs dog I'd probably hide in the toilet too.  I'll probably try better to remember to leave the toilet seat down though from now on.