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July 27, 2013

A Photographic Essay on the Eternal War of Chance and Fate
— Ace

Via @doreenhdickson

Bonus: Does a lifetime of lying reduce your applied intelligence such that you can only think in stupid ways?

Posted by: Ace at 01:00 PM | Comments (222)
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1 Missed you again Radovan!

Posted by: Hanoverfist at July 27, 2013 01:02 PM (ecN6u)

2 They had it coming.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at July 27, 2013 01:03 PM (ndlFj)

3 Or maybe if you say stupid stuff over and over, you'll begin to believe only stupid stuff?

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at July 27, 2013 01:03 PM (WD0KF)

4 Find Nemo now, bitches!!!!!

Posted by: Jmel at July 27, 2013 01:03 PM (cfFqn)

5 I can think of about 537 examples in the US alone!

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 27, 2013 01:04 PM (XdnQT)

6 I told you Outside will kill you.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD Team SMOD. at July 27, 2013 01:04 PM (Gk3SS)

7 Jesus: Hey Dad, what's for dinner? The Father: Blackened Redfish.

Posted by: Beto at July 27, 2013 01:05 PM (MhA4j)

8 Does a lifetime of lying reduce your applied intelligence such that you can only think in stupid ways? Oh, baby, just kiss it, nobody will find out.

Posted by: Bill C. at July 27, 2013 01:05 PM (MMC8r)

9 GOD doesn't use drones.

Posted by: Hanoverfist at July 27, 2013 01:05 PM (ecN6u)

10 Get away from those fish! He hates those fish!

Posted by: fluffy at July 27, 2013 01:06 PM (z9HTb)

11 I'm pretty sure those are aliens traveling via lightning to their machine pods in the sea.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2013 01:07 PM (lVPtV)

12 Weiner and Kilner goes fishing.

Posted by: Hanoverfist at July 27, 2013 01:08 PM (ecN6u)

13 Those fish kidnapped my daughter.

Posted by: Liam Neeson as Taken Guy and/or Zeus at July 27, 2013 01:08 PM (/IWYB)

14
Q: Does a lifetime of lying reduce your intelligence?

A: Yes, see "politicians"

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 27, 2013 01:08 PM (SkyIE)

15 Or maybe if you say stupid stuff over and over, you'll begin to believe only stupid stuff?

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at July 27, 2013 05:03 PM (WD0KF)

I think it is more lie if you can say stupid stuff (with a straight face), then your brain starts to accept stupid stuff as reasonable (because it can't really believe you would willingly say stupid stuff). So the internal cognitive dissonance undermines the brain's ability to discern truth from lies, and voilÃ another lib politician is hatched.

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 27, 2013 01:09 PM (XdnQT)

16 Awesomesauce.

Posted by: Y-not at July 27, 2013 01:09 PM (5H6zj)

17 Sharks with fricken lightning

Posted by: Dr Evil at July 27, 2013 01:10 PM (SkyIE)

18 Three in a straight line and three forming an equilateral triangle. It's a message!

Posted by: eman at July 27, 2013 01:10 PM (AO9UG)

19 I feel that way about those birds who eat mistletoe and crap out superglue on my truck.

Posted by: EROWMER at July 27, 2013 01:10 PM (OONaw)

20 After years and years of conditioning in dishonesty, the typical modern intellectual (whether journalist, scientist, lawyer, teacher, doctor or whatever) becomes physically unable to think straight. Funny you should bring this up. My father was a pathalogical liar. Although a very wise and talented man, his talents were never good enough, so he made shit up about himself, about my mom, about me and then ducked away when we were faced with the lies he told about us. It is why I am honest to a fault. Hurt your fucking feelings honest, I guess I went the other way.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at July 27, 2013 01:11 PM (XIxXP)

21 Yes.

Posted by: Carlos Danger at July 27, 2013 01:11 PM (ELdpj)

22 Some scuba diver told a sacrilegious joke I see.

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 01:12 PM (lZvxr)

23 I'm not sure what's happening here but I'll throw in a billion in subsidies.

Posted by: Henry Chu, A Nobel Laureate at July 27, 2013 01:12 PM (7e3KP)

24 I'd say that lying makes it easier to deal with your world as you've constructed it, and easier to deal with others who have been constructing a world to suit them. (Those lies may or may not coincide.)

Honesty requires more effort; it forces you to challenge yourself and it forces you to challenge others (even if only in your own head).

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at July 27, 2013 01:12 PM (d7tB2)

25 It would be cool if they were not only killed by cooked.

Posted by: Shark Cracka! at July 27, 2013 01:12 PM (tXGg/)

26 Um, that was six bolts to kill one thing.

Posted by: eman at July 27, 2013 01:12 PM (AO9UG)

27 Does a lifetime of lying reduce your applied intelligence such that you can only think in stupid ways?

So that is what happened to Obama.

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 01:13 PM (lZvxr)

28 Gee, I thought Ace would be out "perving" with Filthy Filner and Wicked Weiner.

Posted by: Shark Cracka! at July 27, 2013 01:13 PM (tXGg/)

29 almost...

almost...

alMOST THERE....

nNNNNGGGHHHH!!!!

...

huh...

huhhhhh...

Posted by: Guy Who Has a Sexual Fetish For Electricity at July 27, 2013 01:14 PM (/IWYB)

30 Bonus: Does a lifetime of lying reduce your applied intelligence such that you can only think in stupid ways? Too easy. Too f*ckin' easy.

Posted by: AmishDude, refraining from anti-lawyer rants on the weekends at July 27, 2013 01:14 PM (xSegX)

31 A life of lying reduces your brain? Fuck are all democrats brain dead? Well, yes they are.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at July 27, 2013 01:14 PM (wR+pz)

I'm not the typical liar - I also toked up.

Posted by: S(l)ick Willie at July 27, 2013 01:14 PM (o44nj)

33 ... he made shit up about himself, about my mom, about me and then ducked away when we were faced with the lies he told about us. Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 Dad, where are we going? You'll see..... (car doors slamming) Okay mother fucker, this kid will kick his ass.... Dad?

Posted by: Beto at July 27, 2013 01:15 PM (MhA4j)

34 One more bucket of horseshit from the SCOAMF and the the Ocean of Tomorrow gets it.

Posted by: God at July 27, 2013 01:15 PM (7e3KP)

35 What does this have to do with Huma's Hair?

Posted by: Waldo at July 27, 2013 01:15 PM (tXGg/)

36 Lightning? Shit we use dynamite.

Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at July 27, 2013 01:15 PM (wR+pz)

37 Lightnado!

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 27, 2013 01:15 PM (eHIJJ)

38 So, a traffic accident in St. Augustine turns into a bomb threat after one of the drivers claims he has some sort of explosive device. I've seen him described as a "non-American." http://tinyurl.com/mwrlk59

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 27, 2013 01:15 PM (GEICT)

39 You know what "shit lightning" is? It's when all those shit ions pile up in the shit clouds--and the clouds take a electrical bolt shit.

See that, fish? The shit lightning's comin' for you.

Posted by: Jim Lahey at July 27, 2013 01:16 PM (TCWb5)

40 What does this have to do with Huma's Hair? Posted by: Waldo at July 27, 2013 05:15 PM (tXGg/) It's connected to a lyin muzzy.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at July 27, 2013 01:16 PM (XIxXP)

41 Hey, what happened to Bill?...he looks all crispy?

Posted by: CanaDave at July 27, 2013 01:16 PM (/Qhja)

42 Ace twice on a Saturday.

Posted by: DOOM! at July 27, 2013 01:16 PM (Aif/5)

43 Posted by: Guy Who Has a Sexual Fetish For Electricity at July 27, 2013 05:14 PM (/IWYB) Wow.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 27, 2013 01:16 PM (GEICT)

44 AtC driving

http://tinyurl.com/nstpkud

Posted by: DaveA at July 27, 2013 01:16 PM (DL2i+)

45 What does this have to do with Huma's Hair? Huma I dunno, but it's how Debbie Wantsomeham Schmultz does hers.

Posted by: Bill C. at July 27, 2013 01:16 PM (MMC8r)

46 Good one, God.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 27, 2013 01:17 PM (eHIJJ)

47 This is how sharknadoes form .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at July 27, 2013 01:17 PM (0iJzo)

48 Lying leads to pathological dishonesty. Who would have thunk it?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 27, 2013 01:17 PM (aDwsi)

49 I love doing this when Poseiden is on the pot.

Posted by: Zeus at July 27, 2013 01:17 PM (6TB1Z)

50 44 AtC driving

http://tinyurl.com/nstpkud

Lol. Who's her passenger?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2013 01:17 PM (lVPtV)

51 Now, five fish and one clam, endowed with amazing super powers, band together to fight evil and injustice. Under water.

Posted by: eman at July 27, 2013 01:18 PM (AO9UG)

52 Ace, looks like you will have to have a meet up in CLT. Live Blog, again? http://tinyurl.com/mqbgeuh

Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at July 27, 2013 01:18 PM (wR+pz)

53 Lol. Who's her passenger --------- That's Cochran. She's finally had enough.

Posted by: Adam at July 27, 2013 01:18 PM (Aif/5)

54 I said stop it.

Posted by: Aquaman at July 27, 2013 01:18 PM (/IWYB)

55 Hey, Debbie Wassaman Schultz is a prime example of that 'liberal women are prettier because they're liberal' thing they were talking about on the other thread.

Posted by: zsasz at July 27, 2013 01:19 PM (MMC8r)

56 "Does a lifetime of lying reduce your applied intelligence?"

Juror B-29, white courtesy telephone please.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at July 27, 2013 01:19 PM (qIFL7)

So that is what happened to Obama.

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 05:13 PM (lZvxr)

You give me too much...er...little credit - I did the trifecta of lying, pot and blow.

Posted by: Teh SCOAMT at July 27, 2013 01:19 PM (o44nj)

58 That's Cochran. She's finally had enough. Posted by: Adam at July 27, 2013 05:18 PM (Aif/5) AtC and I in a car together? Yeah, that pic is prob accurate.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 27, 2013 01:19 PM (GEICT)

59 51 Now, five fish and one clam, endowed with amazing super powers, band together to fight evil and injustice.

Aquaman sucks.

Posted by: five fish and one clam at July 27, 2013 01:19 PM (6TB1Z)

60 53 Lol. Who's her passenger
---------

That's Cochran. She's finally had enough.

Heh. Love his facial expression. "WTF? Nooooooo!"

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2013 01:20 PM (lVPtV)

61 For all we know, those could be six electric eels hurling their defiance toward God.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars[/i][/b][/s] at July 27, 2013 01:20 PM (CYKf3)

62 It takes a very specific set of skills and tools to herd calamari.

And the middle class.

Posted by: Fritz at July 27, 2013 01:20 PM (bWoh5)

63 did you ever realize that Batman's superpower is just bombs?

Posted by: Aquaman at July 27, 2013 01:20 PM (/IWYB)

64 61 For all we know, those could be six electric eels hurling their defiance toward God. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 27, 2013 05:20 PM (CYKf3) Not far from the truth. Lightning goes up, not down.

Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at July 27, 2013 01:21 PM (wR+pz)

65 Batman's superpower is cash

Posted by: Beto at July 27, 2013 01:21 PM (MhA4j)

66 Sorry Charlie

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 27, 2013 01:21 PM (aDwsi)

67 First an Orca and now God Himself. Seems no one likes the porpoise these days.

Posted by: Andy at July 27, 2013 01:21 PM (LG3ga)

68 Just fuckin' with thee, Namor.

Posted by: Thor at July 27, 2013 01:22 PM (MMC8r)

69 See, I told you it was better to be one of the Queen's bitches: It's a jet-set lifestyle for the corgis: Queen lands with her faithful pets for two-month break at Balmoral... but she will spend first part of her holiday without Prince Philip http://tinyurl.com/l46vwll

Posted by: Waldo at July 27, 2013 01:23 PM (tXGg/)

70 The bolts also can be arranged as 1, 2, 3. A fragment of Fibonacci series?

Posted by: eman at July 27, 2013 01:23 PM (AO9UG)

71 first video games and now superhero hijinks and you guys have the nerve to argue with me on anything

Posted by: soothsayer went to phoenix az all the way to tacoma at July 27, 2013 01:24 PM (nymIx)

72 That's Cochran. She's finally had enough.
Posted by: Adam at July 27, 2013 05:18 PM (Aif/5)

Soon.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at July 27, 2013 01:24 PM (Gk3SS)

73 Squidward and the Crusty Crab hardest hit

Posted by: SpongeBob at July 27, 2013 01:25 PM (N3Al8)

74 Soon. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at July 27, 2013 05:24 PM (Gk3SS) Lmao

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 27, 2013 01:25 PM (GEICT)

75 I guess all those buildings were properly grounded.

Posted by: eman at July 27, 2013 01:26 PM (AO9UG)

76 Chance: Being Born

Fate: For a Reason

Posted by: CraigPoe at July 27, 2013 01:26 PM (BVkEs)

77 That tickles.

Posted by: The Ocean at July 27, 2013 01:27 PM (/IWYB)

78 Alternate headline: "God Ordering Sushi."

Posted by: Sharkman at July 27, 2013 01:27 PM (1Cejo)

79 CAPTION: Purple Avenger rewires his boat.

Posted by: zsasz at July 27, 2013 01:27 PM (MMC8r)

80 64 Not far from the truth. Lightning goes up, not down.

Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at July 27, 2013 05:21 PM (wR+pz)

Not true. Got into a big argument with a guy about that at a bar years ago. Went home got a college textbook that discussed it in detail. It goes both ways. Comes down from the cloud and comes up from the ground and meets. Once it meets the current flow goes from the cloud to the ground.

That is the part people see because the first part occurs to quickly to see.

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 01:27 PM (lZvxr)

81 >>> Went home got a college textbook that discussed it in detail. It goes both ways.

It all depends on whom I'm feeling attracted to at the moment. Why choose if you don't have to?

Posted by: Bisexual Lightning at July 27, 2013 01:29 PM (/IWYB)

82 @69 Fuck the queen and all her Royal relatives. I still can not believe that these so called liberals still suck up to these people. Off with their fucking heads.

Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at July 27, 2013 01:29 PM (wR+pz)

83 It goes both ways. Newsletter.

Posted by: Anthony Weiner at July 27, 2013 01:29 PM (MMC8r)

84 It all depends on whom I'm feeling attracted to at the moment. Why choose if you don't have to?

Posted by: Bisexual Lightning at July 27, 2013 05:29 PM (/IWYB)

I guess you go with hole flow instead of electron flow huh.

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 01:30 PM (lZvxr)

85 Shit. First we get bisexual slugs and now we get bisexual lightening.

Posted by: Waldo at July 27, 2013 01:30 PM (tXGg/)

86 that's funny 'cuz I used to go to bars to a) drink for effect, and b) to try to get my tip wet.

Posted by: soothsayer went to phoenix az all the way to tacoma at July 27, 2013 01:31 PM (nymIx)

87 This place is now AoS-Bihq

Posted by: Waldo at July 27, 2013 01:31 PM (tXGg/)

88 This place is now AoS-Bihq Posted by: Waldo at July 27, 2013 05:31 PM (tXGg/) Um, no.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at July 27, 2013 01:31 PM (XIxXP)

89 @80 True, but my understanding, as you said, once they meet, aka, it starts from the ground. THEN once there is a connection it flows down. I don't want to test it out, but I did have a roommate that took a strike while in the NC mts. Burned his shoes up. Lucky fucker that was all.

Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at July 27, 2013 01:32 PM (wR+pz)

90 82 @69 Fuck the queen and all her Royal relatives. I still can not believe that these so called liberals still suck up to these people. Off with their fucking heads. Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at July 27, 2013 05:29 PM (wR+pz) You want to behead puppehs? Fuck you, man! Fuck you!

Posted by: Waldo at July 27, 2013 01:33 PM (tXGg/)

91 You want to behead puppehs? Fuck you, man! Fuck you! Posted by: Waldo at July 27, 2013 05:33 PM (tXGg/) We'll keep the dogs, they don't eat much. The rest? Nope

Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at July 27, 2013 01:34 PM (wR+pz)

92 OK morons, off to get some food, BBl. God knows, we might get THREE weekend posts from the head ewok.

Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at July 27, 2013 01:35 PM (wR+pz)

93 Somebody referred to the Weiner's text pal as Sydney Sausages and it does seem to fit. Sydney Sausages Leathers? Sausages Leathers? Or, just plain Sydney Sausages?

Posted by: Waldo at July 27, 2013 01:36 PM (tXGg/)

94 Burned his shoes up. Lucky fucker that was all.

Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at July 27, 2013 05:32 PM (wR+pz)

Current flow + to -. Enters the body and seeks the ground which is negative. Lightning has enough current to burn through the shoes. Yes, he is damned lucky because the insulation from the shoes provided enough resistance by some miracle to keep the total current in his body lower than the lethal amount (usually 100 ma). The rest of the bolt had to go to ground in some other fashion.

Lightning can do some weird shit.

And BTW, Glenda the good witch's fix didn't last. Have lost my Satellite again

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 01:36 PM (lZvxr)

95 And then there's slow lightning and fast lightning.

Posted by: S. Weasel at July 27, 2013 01:38 PM (Hk4U+)

96 NBC Orders Hillary Clinton Miniseries Starring Diane Lane...

Posted by: Waldo at July 27, 2013 01:38 PM (tXGg/)

97 Continuing my jeremiad on the glorified local small-town historical societies that history departments have become, where seemingly the only research is about what Aunt Edna did wayback, no matter how trivial...I'll hazard that when someone says they research gender, it ain't the male one they talk about. Unless in relation. Same goes for race. Any race but...

Posted by: T. at July 27, 2013 01:38 PM (xpGLI)

98 Diane Lane is an extraordinarily mediocre actress. She was perfect in Judge Dredd because she didnt make Stallone look bad.

Posted by: soothsayer went to phoenix az all the way to tacoma at July 27, 2013 01:40 PM (nymIx)

99 Starring Diane Lane... Posted by: Waldo at July 27, 2013 05:38 PM (tXGg/) Obligatory http://tinyurl.com/kx4obnm NSFW

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 27, 2013 01:41 PM (GEICT)

100 Lightning can do some weird shit.

And BTW, Glenda the good witch's fix didn't last. Have lost my Satellite again
Posted by: Vic
-------------

Looks like heavy rain just E. of Charlotte.

As for the direction of current flow..., it is only a matter of the convention used. Electron/hole flow is not analogous to, say, heat flow.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 27, 2013 01:41 PM (aDwsi)

101 in b4 ball lightning!

Posted by: soothsayer went to phoenix az all the way to tacoma at July 27, 2013 01:41 PM (nymIx)

102 I hope those bolts got a lionfish.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 27, 2013 01:43 PM (l3vZN)

103 Afternoon all. Fitreps all done and I am going to celebrate with some king crab legs and beer

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 27, 2013 01:44 PM (jE38p)

104 I have a real fear of lightning. When I was a toddler, my grandfather's best friend was fishing, the sky in the distance began darkening, and he heard thunder, so he decided to pack up his gear and head home.

He opened the trunk of his car, and lightning hit it and killed him. Now, keep in mind it was still sunny where he was.

So, yeah, I have a real problem with it, especially if we're on the water and a storm is coming up. I freak out.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2013 01:45 PM (lVPtV)

105 someone tell fluffy that Afrikaners are people and Afrikaans is a language

there are no "Afrikaaners" -- only misguided spell-checkers on the intertetz

Posted by: Holden Caulfield at July 27, 2013 01:45 PM (omBWL)

106 Hey, watts up? I'm all amped up for some current events. Shocking, I know. Safer to just stay ohm.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 27, 2013 01:45 PM (pxDth)

107 98

NBC Orders Hillary Clinton Miniseries Starring Diane Lane...

Posted by: Waldo at July 27, 2013 05:38 PM (tXGg/)

*********************

Will it include the scene where Hillary rushes to commandeer a fighter jet for Benghazi rescue and is ordered to stand down because of lightning strikes?

Posted by: gracepmc at July 27, 2013 01:45 PM (rznx3)

108 It's not a lie if you believe it.

Posted by: George Costanza at July 27, 2013 01:45 PM (jfUIE)

109 Lefty gets smacked...hard - by Bill Whittle: http://goo.gl/IMjKgV

Posted by: Waldo at July 27, 2013 01:46 PM (tXGg/)

110 hi all

Posted by: chemjeff at July 27, 2013 01:48 PM (cnS/d)

111 >>> there are no "Afrikaaners" -- only misguided spell-checkers on the intertetz Whaat aabout wise-aass commenters?

Posted by: fluffy at July 27, 2013 01:48 PM (z9HTb)

112 I'm all amped up for some current events.

That's what I would have gaussed.

Posted by: chemjeff at July 27, 2013 01:49 PM (cnS/d)

113 Well, Diane Ladd needs to put on weight for the role.

Posted by: dantesed at July 27, 2013 01:50 PM (9nLXu)

114 Afrikaans is a language

Posted by: Holden Caulfield
--------------

And a difficult one to pick off, if you've never heard it before.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 27, 2013 01:51 PM (aDwsi)

115 >>> Well, Diane Ladd needs to put on weight for the role What difference would that make?

Posted by: fluffy at July 27, 2013 01:52 PM (z9HTb)

116 Sorry, I mean Diane Lane.

Posted by: dantesed at July 27, 2013 01:52 PM (9nLXu)

117 Current flow...., a highly charged discussion.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 27, 2013 01:53 PM (aDwsi)

118 One person who should never stand outside in a thunderstorm is Sandra Fluke. Why? Because she's got a lot of siemens.

ba-doom-ching

Posted by: chemjeff at July 27, 2013 01:56 PM (cnS/d)

119

We'll keep the dogs, they don't eat much. The rest?

Nope

Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at July 27, 2013 05:34 PM (wR+pz)

So that's why dog is chewy and gamey.

Posted by: Teh SCOAMT at July 27, 2013 01:57 PM (o44nj)

120 This is merely Zeus' way of saying, " I haff a very nice penis."

Posted by: Dr. Ruth Westheimer at July 27, 2013 01:57 PM (pxDth)

121 Is this where I wait for the national suicide?

Posted by: eenie meenie chili beanie at July 27, 2013 01:57 PM (pdOKS)

122 Regarding history departments--it's like if law schools no longer really emphasized contract law anymore. Any of them.

Posted by: T. at July 27, 2013 01:58 PM (xpGLI)

123

Whaat aabout wise-aass commenters?

Posted by: fluffy at July 27, 2013 05:48 PM (z9HTb)

Aand creepy-aassed craackaas.

Posted by: Zombie Treyvon at July 27, 2013 01:58 PM (o44nj)

124

One person who should never stand outside in a thunderstorm is Sandra Fluke. Why? Because she's got a lot of siemens.

ba-doom-ching

Posted by: chemjeff at July 27, 2013 05:56 PM (cnS/d)

I'm shocked, SHOCKED you'd go there (well played, sir).

Posted by: Capt. Louis Renault at July 27, 2013 02:00 PM (o44nj)

125 True, but my understanding, as you said, once they meet, aka, it starts from the ground. THEN once there is a connection it flows down.

I don't want to test it out, but I did have a roommate that took a strike while in the NC mts.

Burned his shoes up. Lucky fucker that was all.

Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at July 27, 2013 05:32 PM (wR+pz)

What you see is the ionization that occurs along the current's path, this usually goes from the clouds downward.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at July 27, 2013 02:01 PM (yh0zB)

126 If yooouuu keeeepp maaaakinnnng fuuunnnn ooooof uuuus yooouuuu aaalll juuuust aaaaaskiing fooor an aaaaaasss whoooooppppiiiinnnnngg

Posted by: aafrikaanneeerrr at July 27, 2013 02:01 PM (cnS/d)

127 We are vacationing in Las Vegas this week. Go home tomorrow. I have had all the fun I can stand. Anyway, we are on the 36th floor and watching thunderstorms roll over the city. It's pretty cool to watch a storm from this high off the ground.

Posted by: ALH at July 27, 2013 02:01 PM (62xc8)

128 And trust me. We allwant Zeus to feel good about his penis.

Posted by: Dr. Ruth Westheimer at July 27, 2013 02:01 PM (pxDth)

129 Speaking of Zeus, I'm pretty sure that ocean's pregnant now.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/b][/u] at July 27, 2013 02:03 PM (CA2NO)

130 Motherf****r!

Posted by: Abe Vigoda at July 27, 2013 02:03 PM (Rs2yX)

131 If lightning originates in the ground, how could it be generated by water , which is a conductant ?

Posted by: seamrog at July 27, 2013 02:04 PM (2E7qu)

132 And trust me. We allwant Zeus to feel good about his penis.

Actually, Dr. Ruth, his puny pecker is his problem.

Posted by: Odin at July 27, 2013 02:04 PM (JawqV)

133 Next someone will try to tell us there is only one "u" in vacum cleaner.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 27, 2013 02:04 PM (pxDth)

134

Speaking of fate and chance, how 'bout those HPV vaccine stats? Ol' Rick Perry was correctamundo again.

Fucking vaccines, how do they work?

Wise up America

Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn at July 27, 2013 02:04 PM (BTguA)

135

I'll hazard that when someone says they research gender, it ain't the male one they talk about. Unless in relation.

Actually, I knew a professor in grad school that specialized in male gender roles aka "masculinities," in the Victorian era. Actually more interesting than one might think, even without buying into the "gender is entirely a social construct" theory. "Manhood" is a pretty nebulous concept and varies a lot between cultures (look at our conversations here about what a real man should be able to do/like or not like, etc., people's distinction between a male and a man, and similar sentiments to see what I mean). For example, Victorians were very interested in distinguishing between boys and men, whereas we tend to lump males of all ages together and look at/argue about proper behavior differences between men and women.

An awful lot of that kind of academic weirdness makes more sense once you learn what the language means. I did my own Master's thesis on the interactions between family structure, blood feuds, and warfare in England between AD 600-800 - an area that most people would consider pretty obscure but (I think) led to a better understanding of warfare in general and the peculiarities of the War on Terror in particular.

Posted by: Grey Fox at July 27, 2013 02:05 PM (uSqr3)

136 Thhheeerrree aaarrrreee fouuuurrrrr uuuuu's in vaaccuuuuum

Posted by: aafrikaanneeerrr at July 27, 2013 02:07 PM (cnS/d)

137 Actually, Dr. Ruth, his puny pecker is his problem. Posted by: Odin at July 27, 2013 06:04 PM (JawqV) *** Vunderful! Six years of self esteem therapy with Mr. Zeus down the drain. Ach...

Posted by: Dr. Ruth Westheimer at July 27, 2013 02:08 PM (pxDth)

138 If lightning originates in the ground, how could it be generated by water, which is a conductant ?

Posted by: seamrog at July 27, 2013 06:04 PM (2E7qu)

The ocean is negative, the ground is negative. You have a huge differential in potential between the clouds and the ground/ocean. An arc occurs when the potential is high enough to overcome the resistance between the ocean and the cloud. The arc exit both place at the same time and meets about 1/4 of the distance from the ocean/ground to the cloud. When the arcs meet the current flow then moved from the cloud to the ground. That current flow ionizes the air between them which causes the flow to be increased as it flows from the cloud to the ground/ocean.

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 02:08 PM (lZvxr)

139 If lightning originates in the ground, how could it be generated by water, which is a conductant ?

Posted by: seamrog at July 27, 2013 06:04 PM (2E7qu)

Seriously? Cause the water is sitting on the ground maybe?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at July 27, 2013 02:09 PM (yh0zB)

140 Lightning scares and confuses me!

Posted by: A. Caveman at July 27, 2013 02:11 PM (u6lBN)

141 Makes sense, Thanks Vic.

Posted by: seamrog at July 27, 2013 02:11 PM (2E7qu)

142 Juror B-29, white courtesy telephone please. The unedited interview is interesting in that the splicing the editor made it look totally different. Like they detonated a bomb in her gas tank before impact. Pro Tip: Australian spiders hate you and want you dead dead dead.

Posted by: The Hobo Wears Prada (Totes Normal) at July 27, 2013 02:11 PM (jopHG)

143 OT: Just a reminder that the 7th Doctor special will be on BBCAmerica in less than an hour...

Posted by: The Political Hat at July 27, 2013 02:12 PM (Vk2pI)

144 Pro Tip: Australian spiders hate you and want you dead dead dead.

I have always wondered why there are so many poisonous and dangerous creatures in Australia compared to the rest of the planet.

Posted by: chemjeff at July 27, 2013 02:13 PM (cnS/d)

145 I have always wondered why there are so many poisonous and dangerous creatures in Australia compared to the rest of the planet. So you'll have a nice day ... some place else ...

Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 27, 2013 02:16 PM (Wk9TK)

146 I have always wondered why there are so many poisonous and dangerous creatures in Australia compared to the rest of the planet. Posted by: chemjeff at July 27, 2013 06:13 PM (cnS/d) Come visit me in Florida some time...

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 27, 2013 02:17 PM (GEICT)

147 Chemjeff! I made a disappearing Francium card membership joke and you weren't here. The Australian brown snake has enough venom to kill a bazillion of the rodents it eats. The speculation is that once upon a time there was a bad ass reptile that wanted to eat it. Also Australia is Thunder Dome

Posted by: The Hobo Wears Prada (Totes Normal) at July 27, 2013 02:17 PM (jopHG)

148 Pay no attention to that big iron spider-infested ball under your feet.

Posted by: Fritz at July 27, 2013 02:17 PM (bWoh5)

149 Yooooou know there seems to be the mother of all Bus Crashes in Indianapolis....

fate, chance or just bad fucking driving?

Who knows

Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 27, 2013 02:18 PM (LRFds)

150 So then God says to the ocean:

I know what you're thinking, punk. Did he fire six shots or only five. You know, in all this excitement I've kinda lost track myself. So you gotta ask yourself one question. Do you feel lucky, punk? Well, do ya?

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 27, 2013 02:19 PM (cHZB7)

151 http://tinyurl.com/k97b6g3

didn't know three teens were dead...

damn it....

prayers for the families...

God why do people insist on threading the needle at exit 106 to 465?

Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 27, 2013 02:19 PM (LRFds)

152 I have always wondered why there are so many poisonous and dangerous creatures in Australia compared to the rest of the planet. Posted by: chemjeff at July 27, 2013 06:13 PM (cnS/d) Australia - where everything evolved to kill everything else.

Posted by: The Political Hat at July 27, 2013 02:19 PM (Vk2pI)

153 The thesis about habitual lying reducing intelligence certainly explains the Muslim world; this is why the most advanced Muslim societies on the planet do not and cannot approach what has been the free world.

The free world always paid off on an honest approach to science and engineering; dishonesty in either simply won't produce workable results. However modern liberal "science" (of the Lysenko variety - I would say "political" science but that has another meaning) does pay off on dishonesty; see Mann, Michael and Gore, Al hockey sticks lead to grants and big bucks for the dishonest hucksters.

When engineering starts to pay off on dishonesty we will have the full Atlas Shrugged world where everything is collapsing from incompetent idiocy.

Posted by: [/i] [/s] [/u] [/b] An Observation at July 27, 2013 02:21 PM (ylhEn)

154 154 The Political Hat,

because honestly why shouldn't ladybugs practice biological warfare?

Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 27, 2013 02:22 PM (LRFds)

155 Und a brief announcement. Sandy F. has had to cancel her group therapy sessions, so we haff an opening for an upcoming session. And I must add...that is a very large opening to fill.

Posted by: Dr. Ruth Westheimer at July 27, 2013 02:22 PM (pxDth)

156 155 An Observation,

hey who hasn't thought the laws of thermodynamics and material physics were more a set of suggestions and wild assed guesses than "laws"?

Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 27, 2013 02:23 PM (LRFds)

157 #153 Just heard about this. They are saying the driver tried to turn the bus at a high rate of speed.

This is completely weird. It bears an eerie resemblance to the high-speed train derailment in Spain.

Prayers for all. They were only a mile from their church, returning home.

Posted by: Miss Marple at July 27, 2013 02:23 PM (GoIUi)

158 Box jellyfish, blue ring octopus, stone fish, great white sharks, giant crocodiles, 6 out 7 of the worlds most poisonous snakes. Fucking evil platypusses. And then there are the spiders and psycho ants. Kangaroos fight by attacking their opponents groins. And Koalas.

Posted by: The Hobo Wears Prada (Totes Normal) at July 27, 2013 02:24 PM (jopHG)

159 Australia was isolated for such a long time, it had it's own version of "evolution" which may account for it's unique flora and fauna.

Posted by: seamrog at July 27, 2013 02:25 PM (2E7qu)

160 hey who hasn't thought the laws of thermodynamics and material physics were more a set of suggestions and wild assed guesses than "laws"? Entropy just called you a pussy.

Posted by: The Hobo Wears Prada (Totes Normal) at July 27, 2013 02:26 PM (jopHG)

161 I was one punched in the nuts by a disgruntled wallaby.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 27, 2013 02:27 PM (pxDth)

162 BTW Morons, I have seen a similar phenomena to the lightning flow when opening high voltage disconnects in the switchyard (230KV). Even though the line has been deenergized by opening Circuit Breakers there is still a lot of voltage present in the line being induced from nearby high voltage lines.

When you open the disconnect you get a loud bank and as the air ionizes between the arc it gets thicker until you break the arc completely. When closing the disconnect as the end pieces near each other you can physically see the arc developing on both sides at the same time until they meet and then increase in current until you get the device completely closed.

Funny story on opening disconnects. I had an engineer come out with me one time while opening a set. He was drinking coffee. I told him he should sit the coffee down until I got them open as he probably didn't want to wear the coffee when the bag went off.

He blew it off an said it won't bother me. He wore the coffee. The bang makes you want to shit yourself even when expecting it. That much power up close is awesome.

Another thing on opening those things we were always told to ripple check to make sure we were on the right one. If you opened one under load the ball on the end of the rod and the cup it went into were subject to explode from the huge amount of current flowing though that ionized air.

Our AOS sea story of the day.

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 02:27 PM (lZvxr)

163 159 Miss Marple,

It's sad, and typical. I guess looking at the aerial it's closer to Keystone than 106...

Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 27, 2013 02:29 PM (LRFds)

164 damn; loud bank = loud bang

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 02:29 PM (lZvxr)

165 137 That's exactly what I am talking about. Research in manhood concepts without linking it to some desire to denigrate men or empower women--just study it. Don't want to do it myself, just want to know its being done. As far as your thesis--I'm sure you were able to find the necessary info, but I would have thought primary material on the Anglo-Saxon world pre-Lindisfarne would have been somewhat scarce. Did you infer from tales and sagas?

Posted by: T. at July 27, 2013 02:30 PM (xpGLI)

166 162 Hobo Prada,

Trust me I know Entropy thinks I'm a pussy I somehow managed to lose an ASP in the walk-in closet...

asshole entropy got it.

Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 27, 2013 02:30 PM (LRFds)

167 The Political Hat, because honestly why shouldn't ladybugs practice biological warfare? Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 27, 2013 06:22 PM (LRFds) Stop imposing your gender-norms you cis-gender normative oppressor!!1!

Posted by: Students for Queer Insect Liberation! at July 27, 2013 02:30 PM (Vk2pI)

168 damn typos; ripple check = triple check

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 02:31 PM (lZvxr)

169 Australia - where everything evolved to kill everything else. Posted by: The Political Hat at July 27, 2013 06:19 PM (Vk2pI)

Fragment by Warren Fahy is about an island that went down an entirely different evolutionary path and quite literally everything eats everything else, including the grass.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at July 27, 2013 02:32 PM (Gk3SS)

170

The ocean is negative, the ground is negative. You have a huge differential in potential between the clouds and the ground/ocean. An arc occurs when the potential is high enough to overcome the resistance between the ocean and the cloud. The arc exit both place at the same time and meets about 1/4 of the distance from the ocean/ground to the cloud. When the arcs meet the current flow then moved from the cloud to the ground. That current flow ionizes the air between them which causes the flow to be increased as it flows from the cloud to the ground/ocean.

Simplified: Lightning is what happens when the ground and the clouds love each other very, very much.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at July 27, 2013 02:33 PM (qoQi/)

171 >>>He blew it off an said it won't bother me. He wore the coffee. The bang makes you want to shit yourself even when expecting it. That much power up close is awesome.<<<

Oh, c'mon now. It's like one of those little snap-bangs you throw at the neighbor's cat as he does his business in your begonias.

Posted by: Fritz at July 27, 2013 02:33 PM (bWoh5)

172 162 On homeworks, all the time. I've also, on exams, been able to get electrons go faster than the speed of light. The prof didn't take off that many points..

Posted by: T. at July 27, 2013 02:33 PM (xpGLI)

173 Hey Vic, did you ever attach a skeleton key to a kite and fly it in a thunderstorm off the quarterdeck of the USS Constitution?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 27, 2013 02:33 PM (pxDth)

174 asshole entropy got it. Entropy is an asshole. Heat death. Who the hell else comes up with that. Don't even ask me about zero point energy.

Posted by: The Hobo Wears Prada (Totes Normal) at July 27, 2013 02:35 PM (jopHG)

175
damn typos; ripple check

I was gonna say, because Ripple Check is what hobos do.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at July 27, 2013 02:36 PM (qoQi/)

176 One thing to point out to low information voters: Imagine for a second that your car didn't work any better than the DMV does. Suppose it made you wait in line for two hours before you could drive anywhere? Now ask yourself if you want the same kind of people who gave you the DMV to give you your health care?

Posted by: [/i] [/s] [/u] [/b] An Observation at July 27, 2013 02:38 PM (ylhEn)

177 Hey Vic, did you ever attach a skeleton key to a kite and fly it in a thunderstorm off the quarterdeck of the USS Constitution?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 27, 2013 06:33 PM (pxDth)

No but I had a SF tell me to go out into the switchyard one night in the middle of a lightning storm to update those circuit breaker log cards as the cycled open and closed from lightning strikes on the line.

I told him figuratively to kiss my ass.

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 02:38 PM (lZvxr)

178 Seriously though one wonders if that story about old Ben is true. His ass would stand a good chance of getting roasted.

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 02:41 PM (lZvxr)

179 Now ask yourself if you want the same kind of people who gave you the DMV to give you your health care? *** they are going to give us healthcare? Hey everyone. This guy says they're going to give us free healthcare!! Woohoo!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 27, 2013 02:41 PM (pxDth)

180 Fucking evil platypusses. Bite me!

Posted by: Perry the Platypus at July 27, 2013 02:43 PM (BE7wW)

181 I told him figuratively to kiss my ass. Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 06:38 PM (lZvxr) *** I have no difficulty imagining that scene.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 27, 2013 02:43 PM (pxDth)

182 asshole entropy got it. Entropy is an asshole. Heat death. Who the hell else comes up with that. Don't even ask me about zero point energy. Posted by: The Hobo Wears Prada (Totes Normal) at July 27, 2013 06:35 PM (jopHG) Gibbs! Where the Hell is Gibbs?!

Posted by: The Duke Brothers at July 27, 2013 02:44 PM (AO9UG)

183 #181 There are an amazing number of LIV's who still think they are going to get free healthcare out of Obamacare.

I look forward to them discovering the truth. I hope they decide to march on the White House. I will be watching with popcorn.

Posted by: Miss Marple at July 27, 2013 02:45 PM (GoIUi)

184 178: See its because you're a hater and like a racist like. Obama means everything will stay the same only like people won't have to pay for it because like the corporations are gonna have to like give back the money they like stole and the haters and the racists will like have to just shut up. Like

Posted by: Useful Idiot at July 27, 2013 02:46 PM (yL0v8)

185 Gibbs! Where the Hell is Gibbs?! Helmholtz has him locked in the basement wearing a gimp suit. Free energy isn't free.

Posted by: The Hobo Wears Prada (Totes Normal) at July 27, 2013 02:46 PM (jopHG)

186 #181 There are an amazing number of LIV's who still think they are going to get free healthcare out of Obamacare. I look forward to them discovering the truth. I hope they decide to march on the White House. I will be watching with popcorn. Posted by: Miss Marple at July 27, 2013 06:45 PM (GoIUi) The LIVs will be told they were going to get free healthcare, but the evil Republicans and Wall Street bankers stole all the money and blocked the free shit. They will march, but not how you think.

Posted by: eman at July 27, 2013 02:48 PM (AO9UG)

187 "187 Gibbs! Where the Hell is Gibbs?! Helmholtz has him locked in the basement wearing a gimp suit. Free energy isn't free. " Something to put on your tombstone.

Posted by: Boltzmann at July 27, 2013 02:51 PM (xpGLI)

188 Entropy and the Heat Death of the Universe means we had better figure out how to get into other, younger universes. And quickly, too. We only have 100 trillion years left.

Posted by: eman at July 27, 2013 02:51 PM (AO9UG)

189 Thermodynamics aka there's no such thing as a free lunch.

Posted by: eman at July 27, 2013 02:53 PM (AO9UG)

190 Entropy and the Heat Death of the Universe means we had better figure out how to get into other, younger universes.

The details will still need to be worked out but I think the key to it all is High Speed Rail.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 27, 2013 02:53 PM (7e3KP)

191 188 They will march, but not how you think. Posted by: eman at July 27, 2013 06:48 PM (AO9UG) Yep. Most Obama voters simply lack the intelligence to be anything other than a mob controlled by a demagogue. They will do as they are told.

Posted by: rickl at July 27, 2013 02:53 PM (sdi6R)

192 asshole entropy got it. Entropy is an asshole. Heat death. Who the hell else comes up with that. Don't even ask me about zero point energy. Posted by: The Duke Brothers at July 27, 2013 06:44 PM (AO9UG) I can help take care of thatÂ… would you like to make a contract?

Posted by: /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\ at July 27, 2013 02:54 PM (Vk2pI)

193 Legal Immigration has this post about a guy in NOLA that is being charged with second degree murder, but the article in the Daily News says the guy he shot is in critical condition.

How the hell does that work?

Posted by: underground vulgarian at July 27, 2013 02:54 PM (TI6nB)

194 Legal Insurrection. Sheesh.

Posted by: underground vulgarian at July 27, 2013 02:54 PM (TI6nB)

195 How the hell does that work? Posted by: underground vulgarian at July 27, 2013 06:54 PM (TI6nB) *** Death panel being convened as we speak.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 27, 2013 02:55 PM (pxDth)

196 190 Eman,

er yeah of course here on Earth our sun will go blinky in ~ 4 billion years and given LIVs love of free shit more than industry to gain FTL or colony ship tech....

I'm gonna be an ember burnt ice cube...or inert molecules

Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 27, 2013 02:55 PM (LRFds)

197 Death panel being convened as we speak.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 27, 2013 06:55 PM (pxDth)

If I were that kid's parents I'd be watching those plugs and IVs like a hawk.

Posted by: underground vulgarian at July 27, 2013 02:56 PM (TI6nB)

198 192 Cicero,

I am the final boss in this Final Fantasy Installment!

//Joey "Zero Point Choo Choo" Plugz

Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at July 27, 2013 02:57 PM (LRFds)

199

This "Anglo-Saxon" seems a bit contrived. It seems to suggest what we now think of "British"

Weren't the Angles and Saxons both from what is now Northern Germany?

They resettled in many places, as did the "Vikings", Danes and Scandinavians. Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Normandy et al.

I remember reading that a genetic test ( pre-muz invasion) of Great Britain showed that the majority of inhabitant were of Celtic stock.

Seems to me that Northern Europe all sprung from the same root.

Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Franks, Celts, Scandies, etc have more in common than not. ( still can't figure where to place the Picts)

Anyone want to enlighten me ?

Posted by: seamrog at July 27, 2013 02:57 PM (2E7qu)

200 He blew it off an said it won't bother me. He wore the coffee. The bang
makes you want to shit yourself even when expecting it. That much power
up close is awesome

My brother and I once did an exploding wire experiment. We decided to do it up right and charged up a large, high voltage capacitor, to about 92,000 volts. I never want to do that again. It was like setting off a hand grenade - you could feel the blast wave - plus I just calculated that about 0.2% of the power came out as X-rays; not cool.

Posted by: [/i] [/s] [/u] [/b] An Observation at July 27, 2013 02:58 PM (ylhEn)

201 In other news...Tony Weener, after being blessed out by a Staten Island teacher, he is "plowing on."

It writes itself, the Weiner Files.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky at July 27, 2013 02:59 PM (baL2B)

202 "blessed out"?

Are Opie and Anthony back up to their old stunts again?

Posted by: underground vulgarian at July 27, 2013 03:00 PM (TI6nB)

203 You can post your picts on Instagram.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 27, 2013 03:00 PM (pxDth)

204 Well, wifey has cranked up Wheel of Fortune. Time for me to call it a day for AoS. BBT Morons

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 03:03 PM (lZvxr)

205 better figure out how to get into other, younger universes. It writes itself, the Weiner Files.

Posted by: The Hobo Wears Prada (Totes Normal) at July 27, 2013 03:03 PM (jopHG)

206 Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Franks, Celts, Scandies, etc have more in common than not. ( still can't figure where to place the Picts)

Anyone want to enlighten me ?

Posted by: seamrog at July 27, 2013 06:57 PM (2E7qu)

During the Last Glacial Maximum Northern Europe was basically rendered uninhabitable for at least a millenium. When the ice receded, Europeans tribes that had been pushed southward began moving north again, eventually reoccupying Great Britain and Ireland. This would have included the Picts, who were Celtic IIRC. But from this perspective, the British Isles really have no indigenous population.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 27, 2013 03:03 PM (7e3KP)

207 I believe very strongly that the arcing you see on a high-voltage disconnect is not due to induction from other lines but the capacitance of the conductors being disconnected releasing their charge. Almost sure of it

Posted by: DAve at July 27, 2013 03:03 PM (albkL)

208 201 Not my area of expertise. I do know there has been debate over whether the Angles-Saxons-Jutes displaced the Romano-British, or just replaced the ruling class (like Franks with Gauls, or the Normans would later do with the Angl-Saxons themselves). Certainly pre-invasion place names survived. and though it is not my field, I think it enough of an invasion to call it an invasion, and my guess is that outside of Cornwall and Wales there was significant "ethnic cleansing", but at the end of the day it beats me.

Posted by: T. at July 27, 2013 03:06 PM (xpGLI)

209 201 Seems to me that Northern Europe all sprung from the same root. Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Franks, Celts, Scandies, etc have more in common than not. Posted by: seamrog at July 27, 2013 06:57 PM (2E7qu) Yeah, but they still all wanted to kill each other.

Posted by: rickl at July 27, 2013 03:07 PM (sdi6R)

210 204 "blessed out"?

Are Opie and Anthony back up to their old stunts again?

Posted by: underground vulgarian at July 27, 2013 07:00 PM (TI6nB)

I thought "chewed out" was inappropriate considering the subject. Please forgive me for mocking your weiner.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky at July 27, 2013 03:09 PM (baL2B)

211 Texas Rangers Pitcher a victim of "The Knockout Game"? (link in my handle)

CLEVELAND -- Rangers pitcher Tanner Scheppers sustained a contusion and bruise on his left eye when he was "sucker-punched" by a group of young men on a downtown Cleveland street Thursday night.

Scheppers was a few blocks from the team hotel going to get something to eat when he ran into the group. Scheppers said he was punched in the eye and went hard to the ground. The assailants then scattered and did not rob him.

"It's one of those things ... I was in the wrong place at the wrong time," Scheppers said. "It happened so quickly. The police were called. They said unfortunately this happened quite a bit."

Yes, lets have a conversation on race...

Posted by: JarvisW at July 27, 2013 03:10 PM (E7Iyp)

212 >>>I believe very strongly that the arcing you see on a high-voltage disconnect is not due to induction from other lines but the capacitance of the conductors being disconnected releasing their charge. Almost sure of it<<<

Not so long ago, I remember observing some species of oversized thunder-chicken landing on one of our overhead lines, poised to conquer his surroundings. That is, until he launched himself just right, inducing a phase-to-phase release of energy that both amazed and astounded.

All we found of the thing was a beak and two charred feet.

Posted by: Fritz at July 27, 2013 03:11 PM (bWoh5)

213 ( still can't figure where to place the Picts) Anyone want to enlighten me ? Posted by: seamrog at July 27, 2013 06:57 PM (2E7qu) Picts are different, they gather together in a cave with several species of small furry animalsÂ…

Posted by: Syd Barret's Accountant at July 27, 2013 03:11 PM (Vk2pI)

214 Fuck the queen and all her Royal relatives. I still can not believe that these so called liberals still suck up to these people.

Off with their fucking heads.
Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at July 27, 2013 05:29 PM (wR+pz)
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They are the world's wealthiest welfare family.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at July 27, 2013 03:11 PM (/i3Yt)

215 And basically, based on what I have been able to figure out, Celts once upon a time were the only Europeans there were, once you got away from the Med world. Britain, Gaul, Germany, Northern Italy, Eastern Europe, everywhere. Maybe not the first folks to come out of the steppes, but the ones who dominated late Bronze/early Iron Age Europe.

Posted by: T. at July 27, 2013 03:12 PM (xpGLI)

216

211 rickl

You should attend some of he family parties I've been to.

Some things never change. Unless there is a "different" family around.

Humans are tribal people, that's what worked.

Non-tribals are few and far between

Posted by: seamrog at July 27, 2013 03:13 PM (2E7qu)

217 Picts were Northern British Isles.

Posted by: T. at July 27, 2013 03:13 PM (xpGLI)

218 New Post up..

Posted by: JarvisW at July 27, 2013 03:15 PM (E7Iyp)

219

T. 217 219

I'm guessing the Picts got to Great Britain prior to the Celts. They may have been distant cousins. Could be that they were forced into what we now call Scotland. The Scots came over from Ireland and further displaced them.

The Steppes theory works for me, and mirrors the "Indo_European" theory.

Anything east of "Rome" was probably unknown, away from the Med.

I agree that the "Celts" were predominate in the newly unfrozen north.

Posted by: seamrog at July 27, 2013 03:24 PM (2E7qu)

220 186 178: See its because you're a hater and like a racist like. Obama means everything will stay the same only like people won't have to pay for it because like the corporations are gonna have to like give back the money they like stole and the haters and the racists will like have to just shut up.

Like

Posted by: Useful Idiot at July 27, 2013 06:46 PM (yL0v

Is "Useful Idiot" another name for "ambassador appointee to Japland"?

Posted by: The Farmer at July 27, 2013 03:30 PM (eBupg)

221 Billy Bob @ 91-
I was struck twice by lightning, both in S.C. I live in Texas now but lightning's not the reason for that.

Posted by: EROWMER at July 27, 2013 04:38 PM (OONaw)

222 Say, can any of you long time readers help me? I seem to remember a photoshop meme that went something like "You see that ____? F**k that _____" on this site. Am I weong? cursory google doesn't bring up anything... Thanks

Posted by: Lou at July 27, 2013 05:17 PM (ee6yu)

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