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April 23, 2014

Overnight Open Thread (4-23-2014)
— Maetenloch

Because I'm kinda tired and sick tonight. And because sometimes words suck.

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Posted by: Maetenloch at 05:50 PM | Comments (844)
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1 First!

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at April 23, 2014 05:52 PM (W7zKe)

2 Third!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 23, 2014 05:52 PM (QFxY5)

3 Did the world end and I missed It?

Posted by: CMU VET at April 23, 2014 05:54 PM (ejB0r)

4 Seventh?

Posted by: derangeddm at April 23, 2014 05:55 PM (QmQVg)

Gaaack Shrillary, what did YOU morons to to deserve that

Posted by: The Jackhole of Alan Parsons pissed off project at April 23, 2014 05:55 PM (uOV6o)

6 *peers at pictures* This means something...

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at April 23, 2014 05:55 PM (oFCZn)

7 Fifth. That's what I'm drinking.

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at April 23, 2014 05:55 PM (oWhIO)

8 Feel better, soon, Maet!

'Lo, 'rons.....

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 05:56 PM (T1005)

9 NINE! ...or a reasonable facsimile thereof.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 05:56 PM (lq3Ak)

10 g'evenin, 'rons`

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 23, 2014 05:56 PM (KCxzN)

11 "Latest Trends in Motorboating"? Hope the pics with that were good...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon/Cetacian hybrid at April 23, 2014 05:56 PM (m9V0o)

12 Fifth.
That's what I'm drinking.Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at April 23, 2014 09:55 PM (oWhIO)
It's what's for dinner.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 23, 2014 05:56 PM (I9I9J)

13 As someone who's neither Catholic nor divorced, this whole "giving Communion to divorcees" thing is bothering me more than it should.

Posted by: Lauren at April 23, 2014 05:57 PM (hFL/3)

14 I'd have been first , but I read all the links .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at April 23, 2014 05:57 PM (XWw96)

15 Why were we not told of this nood until now?

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 05:58 PM (SlZiq)

16 -"Fifth. That's what I'm drinking." Posted by: Michael the Hobbit -"It's what's for dinner." Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 23, 2014 09:56 PM (I9I9J) The other White Liquor.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 05:58 PM (lq3Ak)

17 Never hold out on the Horde. Never.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 05:58 PM (SlZiq)

18 That's like, what, 13,000 words?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 23, 2014 05:58 PM (0HooB)

19 Click the pic ........morons , and 'ettes .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at April 23, 2014 05:59 PM (XWw96)

20 Let's see: 19 pictures times one thousand words..... 19 carry the zero 3x. Wow Meat, nearly a 20,000 word essay. Good work

Posted by: tbodie at April 23, 2014 05:59 PM (9Zci/)

21 Sadly ... I think the blonde chic with big hair is Irish

I'm not really even all that Irish. I just feel left out of the Blank-American game. And I drink alot. So I just grabbed the first ethnicity that came along.

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 23, 2014 06:00 PM (v3BJ5)

That marijuana fudge looks yummy.

But it'd probably put me in a coma.

Hope you feel better soon, MÃ¦tenloch!

I actually like these picture-collage-clinky threads, a lot...and I bet they took some work to create them...so don't apologize for them.

Posted by: wheatie at April 23, 2014 06:00 PM (la7X9)

23 Hillary! looks perturbed about something.

Posted by: davidt at April 23, 2014 06:00 PM (PAplM)

24 In the churches I have been attending it has always been an open table. This makes sense to me. If the Catholic Church is not offering Communion to sinners, then no one is partaking.

Posted by: blaster at April 23, 2014 06:00 PM (BG5jZ)

25 22...'clicky' not clinky

Posted by: wheatie at April 23, 2014 06:01 PM (la7X9)

26 Is it too early to unburden myself of some sorrow here?

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 23, 2014 06:02 PM (l3vZN)

27 Future of Obamacare Secret waiting lists to hide the true scope of the disaster NewsTalk 550 KFYI ‏@KFYI Vets Die While On Secret Wait List At The Phoenix VA? @BroomheadShow: 'CNN exclusively interviewed a former Do... http://bit.ly/1jDGe41

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 23, 2014 06:02 PM (ZPrif)

28 Last night Chelsea, tonight Hillary. Damn, I'm gonna run out of tequila and have to go to drinking vodka.

Posted by: fairweatherbill deerslayer at April 23, 2014 06:02 PM (vA2UI)

29 Jinx, have at it. Hopefully you won't be hit by misfired snark.

Posted by: blaster at April 23, 2014 06:03 PM (BG5jZ)

30 "Is it too early to unburden myself of some sorrow here?" Posted by: Jinx the Cat Please... fire away, Sir.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 06:03 PM (lq3Ak)

31 Yeah, let's hear it for sick and tired. Jinx, tell us . . .

Posted by: Peaches at April 23, 2014 06:04 PM (8lmkt)

32 @26: In many ways The Horde is a Brothers and Sisters keeper. Unburden when ready.

Posted by: tbodie at April 23, 2014 06:04 PM (9Zci/)

33 If y'all will indulge me, can I toot my own horn, for a second? Remember a couple of weeks ago I was raving about Whole Foods (from now on will be referred to as A-Hole Foods)? Well, I went back and this time it was busy; full of freaks, geeks, homos, and stuck up witches who think they're cute in their little yoga pants because they're not fat in their 40's. But anyway, so I go in there and I'm the only in the store who actually looks like he goes to a gym. And the others have their carts full of all this healthy organic cruelty-free crap, and here I am walking out of the store with... corn bread.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 06:04 PM (SlZiq)

34 I think I will go to my "go to" drink - Walmart Oak Leaf Merlot and Sierra Mist. It's cheap, sweet, and can get you drunk. Ain't nothing wrong with that.

Posted by: blaster at April 23, 2014 06:05 PM (BG5jZ)

35 Go for it, Jinx.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 23, 2014 06:05 PM (0HooB)

36 Let 'er rip, Jinx. It's good to unload with strangers, and ya don' get much stranger than the horde...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon/Cetacian hybrid at April 23, 2014 06:05 PM (m9V0o)

37 First!!!!

Posted by: EC at April 23, 2014 06:06 PM (doBIb)

38 We're gonna find that f*cking plane if it's the last thing we ever do!

Posted by: This is CNN at April 23, 2014 06:06 PM (SAaEI)

39 Nice collection of Doom, Gloom and Epic Fails.

Posted by: Drill_Thawl at April 23, 2014 06:06 PM (H84UO)

40 I got a better job! Yay Me! No more working for the current incompetent boss! It's a nice promotion, complete with pay raise. I turned in my 2 weeks notice today. Even better, I go on a pre-planned already leave approved vacation next week. They can get a head start on missing me.

Posted by: ALH at April 23, 2014 06:06 PM (btTLZ)

41 Everything's Bigger in Texas ONT Compliance Pic http://tinyurl.com/m6qk43h

Posted by: kbdbear at April 23, 2014 06:06 PM (aTXUx)

42 In the churches I have been attending it has always been an open table. This makes sense to me. In my church we ask that you be a member of a bible-believing church (I.e., have publically confessed your faith), not be excommunicate, and not secretly living unrepentantly in sin. In other words, the Lord's supper is intended for sinners, but please take the warning about eating and drinking judgment upon yourself seriously.

Posted by: Grey Fox at April 23, 2014 06:07 PM (kN6FA)

43 1. That's a really cute elefunk that Camilla is fondling. 2. Chelsea Clinton was an ass to tell her mama to grow her hair out. Hillary was an even bigger ass for taking beauty tips from her daughter. 3. Lupita Nyong'o is really, really pretty. She seems like a gracious, decent sort too --- for an actress, anyway.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 23, 2014 06:07 PM (dfYL9)

44 27 flatbush joe, The secret lists are b/c they are terrified they'll need the 7 billion rounds... Tricare Prime doesn't allow walk-in consultations anymore. I am ready to let IPAB play God as soon as their data is as secure as Joe the Plumber's

Posted by: sven10077 at April 23, 2014 06:07 PM (TE35l)

45 I wish I'd kept my dads old Popular Science and Popular Mechanics magazines.

Worth money now I'd bet.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 06:08 PM (JS0vr)

46 The botox factory will be working overtime for Hillary's campaign.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 23, 2014 06:09 PM (HxSXm)

47 Lupita Nyong'o is really, really pretty. She seems like a gracious, decent sort too --- for an actress, anyway.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 23, 2014 10:07 PM (dfYL9)

Highly educated and extremely well-spoken, too. She's a winner!

Posted by: Peaches at April 23, 2014 06:09 PM (8lmkt)

48 This happened yesterday, but has been with me all day. Young man, due to graduate, commission as an officer in the USMC and to marry took his own life. He was a mentor to my young son at school. Breaks my heart, and I didn't even know him directly. I don't know if you can watch this link, but these are his fellows last night. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=627634060650059

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 23, 2014 06:09 PM (l3vZN)

49 Posted by: Soothsayer Â§ at April 23, 2014 10:04 PM (SlZiq) I remember going into some Natural Foods store in my neighborhood in LA when the Albertson's was closed Healthy? The other patrons looked like they'd just been liberated from Auschwitz

Posted by: kbdbear at April 23, 2014 06:09 PM (aTXUx)

50 Ooooh. The Hillary is smiling. How she lights up a room. An inspiration to us all. I remember how I thrilled in the campaign when she came out and started shrieking "VAE VICTIS!" I was so proud that The Hillary would take such a phrase and make it hers, let fools use "top 40", the classics are what makes for Procrustian policy. I feel, so, delighted. Join me...we can end it together. Please.

Posted by: Pajama Boy's non-cis-normative sibling. at April 23, 2014 06:10 PM (z7ZM2)

51 24 In the churches I have been attending it has always been an open table. This makes sense to me. If the Catholic Church is not offering Communion to sinners, then no one is partaking. You owe it to yourself to find out what the Catholic Church teaches and believes about receiving Holy Eucharist. Look it up for free starting around paragraph 1331 in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Posted by: DM at April 23, 2014 06:10 PM (Ztudx)

52 I think that Avril Lavigne chic might be Irish ...

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 23, 2014 06:10 PM (v3BJ5)

53 Gooooaaaaallllll!!! Bluejackets

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 23, 2014 06:11 PM (HxSXm)

54 because they're not fat in their 40's

That's hawt.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at April 23, 2014 06:11 PM (L02KD)

55 officer in the USMC and to marry took his own life. He was a mentor to my young son at school.

ah, Jinx, that breaks my heart, too. i'm so sorry. how is your son doing?

Posted by: Peaches at April 23, 2014 06:11 PM (8lmkt)

56 Should have posted this: http://tinyurl.com/k9eoyak

Posted by: gm at April 23, 2014 06:11 PM (K0tm3)

57 kbdabear's PSA to get you into a healthy lifestyle http://tinyurl.com/ltsqafy You're welcome

Posted by: kbdbear at April 23, 2014 06:11 PM (aTXUx)

58 Cankles looks like she's been beaten regularly with an ugly stick lately.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/s] [/u] at April 23, 2014 06:11 PM (YbCsp)

59 Evening morons. No work tonight!!

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at April 23, 2014 06:11 PM (R+XDI)

60 "The Week In Pictures."

Posted by: rickl at April 23, 2014 06:12 PM (sdi6R)

61 Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 23, 2014 10:09 PM (HxSXm)

We're gonna need a bigger syringe.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 06:12 PM (JS0vr)

62 Good evening, good people. And you too, cthulhu. Just a drive-by for now, as the doggeh is in a mood, and I need to tire him out with a good walk/run. Feel better Maet. Sooner than later, hopefully. I'll be back with an important question for the morons & 'ettes in a hot minute...

Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 06:12 PM (Eri3o)

63 Peaches, sometimes I think the young are more resilient than dinosaurs like me. I can't imagine the family.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 23, 2014 06:13 PM (l3vZN)

64 I'm thinking Jensen Revolver, but maybe a derringer of some kind.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 06:13 PM (aDwsi)

65 So this ONT is worth 20,000 words.

Posted by: rickl at April 23, 2014 06:13 PM (sdi6R)

Rick Perry was on Cavuto this afternoon...looking good and making lots of sense.

Hannity is getting ready to replay it, right now, if you want to see it.

Perry was in NY today, to debate 'job creation' with Coumo.

I think Coumo chickened out, though.

Posted by: wheatie at April 23, 2014 06:13 PM (la7X9)

67 I don't know if you can watch this link, but these are his fellows last night. That's hard to watch. You have my condolences, Jinx. And prayers for your son.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 23, 2014 06:13 PM (0HooB)

68 church stuff always discombobulates me. never been much for it and, when obliged to attend, can't make myself mouth the words i mostly know because i refuse to lie to a creator that i do know exists. yet, gotta get the kid baptized and all that shit. last thing i want to do, honestly. maybe he'll have a better experience with it all.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 06:13 PM (uXhnS)

69 I am not clicking that picture of Hillary, and I have no idea who the woman in the pink get-up is.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 06:14 PM (aDwsi)

70 Three Nice Small Town Girls ONT Compliance Pic http://tinyurl.com/m979ql4 Or three entrants to a Daisy Duke Lookalike Contest

Posted by: kbdbear at April 23, 2014 06:14 PM (aTXUx)

71 Oh - and by the way - the little blonde with a gun in her hoo-hah? The obligatory "i'd hit it." There I said it.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 06:14 PM (Eri3o)

72 That X-Y chromosome article is quite interesting. One takeaway I got was that you can hormonally change a male so that they grow tits etc., you're still really a guy at the cellular level.

I mean, that's not really a surprise, but it does raise interesting questions about, say, natural shemales.

And finally, the Y chromosome can be blamed on the duck billed platypus. That is ghey.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 23, 2014 06:15 PM (wNF3N)

73 Prayers for the family, Jinx. There is no understanding it with a suicide, there just isn't. I don't fb, so can't watch your link, but that's probably okay, in a selfish way. {{{{{}}}}}

Posted by: Peaches at April 23, 2014 06:15 PM (8lmkt)

74 This happened yesterday, but has been with me all day. Young man, due to graduate, commission as an officer in the USMC and to marry took his own life. He was a mentor to my young son at school. Breaks my heart, and I didn't even know him directly. I don't know if you can watch this link, but these are his fellows last night. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=627634060650059 Posted by: Jinx the Cat oh my so much promise, such a good guy a real tragedy. Prayers for you, your son, his friends and family. I hope God holds you all in the palm of his hand and you all help each other through this

Posted by: thunderb at April 23, 2014 06:16 PM (zOTsN)

75 >>duck billed platypus no that was Krauthammer

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 06:17 PM (Cq0oW)

76 Rick Perry was on Cavuto this afternoon...looking good and making lots of sense. Great. Is it true about him hiring former McCain campaign staff & other totally unacceptable advisers? I don't remember where I read it, I'm in a fucking pollen haze. Kill. Me. Now.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 23, 2014 06:17 PM (QnqoN)

77 Jinx, Maet feel better. Jinx suicide sucks and is tragic and a brutal thing to your circle.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 23, 2014 06:17 PM (TE35l)

78 I should've phrased it: they're in their forties and not fat.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 06:17 PM (SlZiq)

79 >sends Jinx some mint oreos via USB<

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at April 23, 2014 06:17 PM (L02KD)

80 "Continue reading"

Heh. Good one.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 23, 2014 06:18 PM (IN7k+)

81 71 Oh - and by the way - the little blonde with a gun in her hoo-hah? The obligatory "i'd hit it." There I said it. Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 10:14 PM (Eri3o) "The Gun is good!"

Posted by: Zardoz at April 23, 2014 06:18 PM (WlWt+)

82 >sends Jinx some mint oreos via USB< And wash them down with this margarita.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 23, 2014 06:18 PM (0HooB)

83 No, really, you ever see this type of woman? They have a superiority complex or something? Look at me! Look at me! I'm skinny and I'm a mom! and I eat healthy and I recycle! Shuddup.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 06:19 PM (SlZiq)

84 Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 10:14 PM (Eri3o)

Hit her in her crotch first. Just in case it's Occupado.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 06:19 PM (JS0vr)

85 they're in their forties and not fat

Yeah I got a weakness for the young skinny ones.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at April 23, 2014 06:19 PM (L02KD)

86 48 --- Jinx the Cat --- Oh, that is truly heart-breaking. God help all those who loved him, including your son....and even those (like you) who knew him only indirectly. What a terrible loss.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 23, 2014 06:19 PM (dfYL9)

87 jinx how's your son dealing with it?

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 06:20 PM (Cq0oW)

88 Thank you all....such a waste. I will go back to lurking now, and am sorry to have shared that in a way, but I have been hoping the ache would go away and it hasn't.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 23, 2014 06:20 PM (l3vZN)

89 the 173rd is a tough unit, but 150 men, is no match, I was reading about the original Crimea war, about 160 years ago, and it began with expertly calibrated signals by the Brits, which Nicholas 1, ignored for the most part,

Posted by: Jeffrey Pelt at April 23, 2014 06:21 PM (Jsiw/)

90 Shit Jinx, that's hard. I don't know how regular schools deal with the death of a student. At the military schools they always do something. When I started at West Point, whenever we lost someone, we would all go out on the apron and have a few minutes of silence. Somewhere along the line, some trumpet players (not sure if they were cadets or from the Army band) came out and played Silver Taps. After that, it became a tradition. It was like that every time.

Posted by: blaster at April 23, 2014 06:21 PM (BG5jZ)

91 59 Evening morons. No work tonight!! Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at April 23, 2014 10:11 PM (R+XDI) If I'm not mistaken, you have a wee one due to make a debut shortly, no?

Posted by: grammie winger at April 23, 2014 06:21 PM (oMKp3)

92 Never apologize, Jinxie. It's a rule at AoS.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 06:21 PM (SlZiq)

93 Before I go clicking Maet's pix (you should excuse the expression)... Had I thought about the ONT coming up, I would've saved this instead of posting to the last thread like a socially awkward fool... oh, well. I are what I am. Just found out about this, of possible interest to folks in the NE Oklahoma area, as a few of us get to be, so I rushed in here to share (sorry about banging the door). Ha ha that joke's... no funnier the second time. ______ Liberty Rally Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Sarah Palin, and Oklahoma's "most conservative ever" Speaker of the State House and candidate for Coburn's Senate seat, T.W. Shannon. Tomorrow, Apr 24, 6pm, Green Country Event Center, 12000 E 31st Street, Tulsa, OK, 74146. RSVP at twshannon.com/rsvp, 918-246-6104, #TWLibertyRally _____ We probably can't make it. Maybe you can. Oh, yeah... Howdy.

Posted by: mindful webworker is inside your computer at April 23, 2014 06:21 PM (U13jb)

94 kbdabear's PSA to get you into a healthy lifestyle

http://tinyurl.com/ltsqafy

You're welcome

Posted by: kbdbear at April 23, 2014 10:11 PM (aTXUx)

First I'm going to try my hand at being a shooter. After that...yeah...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 23, 2014 06:21 PM (yh0zB)

95 What they're saying is the XY chromosome is singular and streamlined. Unlike the common and filled with extraneous material, XX.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 06:22 PM (JS0vr)

96 I will go back to lurking now, and am sorry to have shared that in a way, but I have been hoping the ache would go away and it hasn't. Time heals all wounds, Jinx. We're here if you need us, such as we are.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 23, 2014 06:22 PM (0HooB)

97 Â“We are only beginning to understand the full extent of the differences in molecular biology of males and females,Â” Andrew Clark, a geneticist at Cornell University, wrote in a commentary in Nature on the two reports. Such a cis-normative simple way to describe things. Men and wymen are different, please!

Posted by: Gender Studies Student at April 23, 2014 06:22 PM (WlWt+)

98 Three nice corn fed country girls

They making corn out of silicon these days?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 23, 2014 06:22 PM (IN7k+)

99 "Latest Trends in Motorboating" Yeah!

Posted by: Stark Dickflüßig at April 23, 2014 06:22 PM (MbqmP)

100 88 Thank you all....such a waste. I will go back to lurking now, and am sorry to have shared that in a way, but I have been hoping the ache would go away and it hasn't. Aw crap jinx, that's horrible.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 23, 2014 06:22 PM (QnqoN)

101 Yeah I got a weakness for the young skinny ones. You and every other man in the world. Except me; I like 'em thick and curvy.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 06:23 PM (SlZiq)

102 Nice pic of a custom Harley chopper http://tinyurl.com/lcogtcg

Posted by: kbdbear at April 23, 2014 06:23 PM (aTXUx)

103 I should've phrased it: they're in their forties and not fat. You say that like its a bad thing. Get old you will, soothy.

Posted by: blaster at April 23, 2014 06:24 PM (BG5jZ)

104

48...Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 23, 2014 10:09 PM (l3vZN)

Such a tragic loss. It's so sad when we lose one so young.

It never makes any sense.

My condolences to you and your son.

Posted by: wheatie at April 23, 2014 06:24 PM (la7X9)

105 I FOUND MY LENS CAP! Sorry for the all "caps" thing (see what I did there) but I'm pretty pleased. This has been the greatest day EVER!

Posted by: Null at April 23, 2014 06:24 PM (xjpRj)

106 So sorry to hear that, jinx.

Posted by: Jeffrey Pelt at April 23, 2014 06:25 PM (Jsiw/)

107 Oh - and by the way - the little blonde with a gun in her hoo-hah?
The obligatory "i'd hit it." There I said it.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 10:14 PM (Eri3o)

And "it" would hit back.

Posted by: tbodie at April 23, 2014 06:25 PM (Eec6W)

108 I will go back to lurking now, and am sorry to have shared that in a way, but I have been hoping the ache would go away and it hasn't.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 23, 2014 10:20 PM (l3vZN)

Damn Jinx, sorry to see this. It doesn't go away, you just get used to living with it.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 23, 2014 06:25 PM (yh0zB)

109 OK, it's time for The Americans. Gotta accumulate some fast-forward time, don'tchaknow. Y'all have fun and try not to trash the place, 'k?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 23, 2014 06:25 PM (0HooB)

110 Maet, I'm sorry you are sick. Thank you for ONT!

Posted by: Carol at April 23, 2014 06:26 PM (gjOCp)

111

There is nothing sexier than a confident, fit middle aged woman.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at April 23, 2014 06:26 PM (jucos)

112 First I'm going to try my hand at being a shooter. After that...yeah...))) How the biathlon race was invented.

Posted by: Dendritic at April 23, 2014 06:26 PM (75hfB)

113 I refuse to get old, dammit! I hate it. I made a huge mistake a couple of weeks ago -- I looked up high school classmates online and saw a few pics. And that's why today I'm giving "my rat" injections of growth hormones.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 06:26 PM (SlZiq)

114 Here's another picture, with accompanying article: https://tinyurl.com/jwvxl8j NASA's LADEE moon orbiter ended its mission this week by being intentionally crashed into the far side of the moon. Its primary mission was to measure the amount of dust near the moon's surface, and it also tested for the first time a method of transmitting data by laser instead of the traditional radio. That's the equivalent of broadband vs. dialup. It was also the first moon launch from Wallops Island, VA, and I was able to watch the ascent from my front yard in Pennsylvania last September. Since I've never been to Cape Canaveral, that's the first moon launch I saw live and in person, which was pretty cool. RIP, LADEE.

Posted by: rickl at April 23, 2014 06:26 PM (sdi6R)

115 I know, and have known, men that are better than me, a lot better. One, a friend for decades, passed away today from a heart attack. I do not recall him ever using a curse word, or ever saying anything bad about anyone. He was hardly a shrinking violet, he was well known, well respected, and active in the community. RIP Tommy. http://tinyurl.com/o99ft93

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 06:27 PM (aDwsi)

116 62 Good evening, good people. And you too, cthulhu.

Just a drive-by for now, as the doggeh is in a mood, and I need to tire him out with a good walk/run.

Feel better Maet. Sooner than later, hopefully.

I'll be back with an important question for the morons & 'ettes in a hot minute... Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 10:12 PM (Eri3o) Hide posts from (Eri3o)

You need to run him extra hard to try and work-off some of that cake.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 06:27 PM (T1005)

117 88 Thank you all....such a waste. I will go back to lurking now, and am sorry to have shared that in a way, but I have been hoping the ache would go away and it hasn't. Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 23, 2014 10:20 PM (l3vZN) ---------------- Jinx - yesterday I babysat my grandchildren while my daughter and her husband went to the wake for their friend who took his own life on Friday. He left two very young children at behind. My daughter was sick to her stomach during the service, from grief and shock and, yes - ANGER that he would do this to his family. It's beyond understanding. My condolences to your son. My daughter is feeling similar things tonight. God be with you, and with us all. Too much death.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 23, 2014 06:27 PM (oMKp3)

118 I refuse to get old, dammit! I hate it. Posted by: Soothsayer --------------- Sucks, don't it? It is a creeping, insidious thing that picks up speed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 06:28 PM (aDwsi)

119 As an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion, I have been taught that if Nancy Pelosi, and Zombie Ted Kennedy present themselves for Holy Communion, I must give it to them. The local Bishop reserves for himself the ability to deny Holy Communion. But, did you ever hear of the sin of Sacrilege? It is the sin of receiving Holy Communion while in the state of Mortal Sin. Piling sin upon sin.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 23, 2014 06:28 PM (V70Uh)

120 Latest trends in Motorboating in 1930 Was that a story on Mae West?

Posted by: kbdbear at April 23, 2014 06:29 PM (aTXUx)

121

76 Rick Perry was on Cavuto this afternoon...looking good and making lots of sense.

Great. Is it true about him hiring former McCain campaign staff & other totally unacceptable advisers? I don't remember where I read it, I'm in a fucking pollen haze. Kill. Me. Now.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy

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Eh, I doubt that's true, bebe.

I read a blurb a couple of weeks back, that he'd hired some of Newt's campaign staff.

This early on we have to take these stories with a grain of salt.

I know exactly what you mean about "being in a pollen haze"...I have been too.

In fact, the throbbing in my head is coming back right now.

Posted by: wheatie at April 23, 2014 06:29 PM (la7X9)

122 >> I FOUND MY LENS CAP! Sorry for the all "caps" thing (see what I did there) but I'm pretty pleased. This has been the greatest day EVER!

I'm wondering how Null would describe finding a $20 bill on the sidewalk.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 23, 2014 06:29 PM (wNF3N)

123 what's our opinion on .22 airguns? looking at the beeman rs2 or a ruger airhawk, something boyhowdy that smarts but not holy crap you paid what

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 06:30 PM (Cq0oW)

124 You and every other man in the world. Except me; I like 'em thick and curvy. Posted by: Soothsayer Â§ at April 23, 2014 10:23 PM (SlZiq) You need two of the skinny ones just to warm the bed properly. Twice the hassle!

Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 23, 2014 06:30 PM (TNcMy)

125 Nice pic of a custom Harley chopper

http://tinyurl.com/lcogtcg

Posted by: kbdbear at April 23, 2014 10:23 PM (aTXUx)

Best. Hood. Ornament. Ever!

Posted by: tbodie at April 23, 2014 06:30 PM (Eec6W)

126 Bertram Cabot, Thank you, I found Dennis Miller radio show on website you suggested in Letterman/Colbert thread. I'll have to send link to my office email so I can listen when everyone good is off for one treason or another.

Posted by: Carol at April 23, 2014 06:31 PM (gjOCp)

127 Hammer, I'm sorry for your loss.

Posted by: Peaches at April 23, 2014 06:31 PM (8lmkt)

128 Lileks has a lot of stuff like the old Popular magazines. I have the complete home handymans encyclopedia c1968 and several yearbooks. Full of good ideas and products that never caught on. Horribly dated audio and camera stuff.

Posted by: Bill sometimes bill from Canada at April 23, 2014 06:32 PM (iDvEZ)

129 105 I FOUND MY LENS CAP! Sorry for the all "caps" thing (see what I did there) but I'm pretty pleased. This has been the greatest day EVER!
Posted by: Null at April 23, 2014 10:24 PM (xjpRj) Hide posts from (xjpRj)

You really should get out more.....

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 06:33 PM (T1005)

130 So the Y chromosome is a lean, mean fightin' machine while the X chromosome is chock full of superfluous junk, kinda like a handbag. 'Splains a lot... * ducks and covers *

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/s] [/u] at April 23, 2014 06:33 PM (HsTG8)

131 Airguns are for shooting cats that defecate in flower beds. Specifically the neighbors cat, and yes I have.

Posted by: fairweatherbill deerslayer at April 23, 2014 06:33 PM (vA2UI)

132 dang, grammie winger, that's horrible . . . I'm so sorry. never, ever will i be able to understand what makes someone do that, especially someone with young children. seems so selfish.

Posted by: Peaches at April 23, 2014 06:33 PM (8lmkt)

133 "Breaks my heart, and I didn't even know him directly." Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 23, 2014 10:09 PM (l3vZN) When inexperienced youth find themselves in something so painful that they cannot see their way "to the other side", it is a tragedy. Sometimes, words and actions aren't enough to clear them from their seemingly "neverending" fog. For those they leave behind, the confusion cannot always be cleared. I felt this way when my Best Friend took his own life while I was still in High School. For the friends and Family, the questions can be worse than the act itself, as it replays in their minds over-and-over. I ask God to assuage the emotional impact on the Family and hold them close; through His love and their loving, caring actions. May He surround them with those who will break this fall gently. May they close ranks and mourn together with our outside Love and Prayers. ...in Jesus' Name, I Pray, *Amen*

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 06:34 PM (lq3Ak)

134 what's our opinion on .22 airguns? looking at the beeman rs2 or a ruger airhawk, something boyhowdy that smarts but not holy crap you paid what Posted by: Bigby's ------------------------ Are you settled on .22?, because there are .177 fans, and, uh, uh... .25 fans

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 06:35 PM (aDwsi)

135 I used to have a Smith and Wesson .22 Co2 that looked exactly like an automatic. Would blow a hole in 1/4 " plywood at 30 feet.

Posted by: Bill sometimes bill from Canada at April 23, 2014 06:35 PM (iDvEZ)

136 131 oh i wanted one for plinking. want range for that, mostly. i figure 22 might even be useful here and there

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 06:35 PM (Cq0oW)

137 108 I will go back to lurking now, and am sorry to have
shared that in a way, but I have been hoping the ache would go away and
it hasn't.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 23, 2014 10:20 PM (l3vZN)

Damn Jinx, sorry to see this. It doesn't go away, you just get used to living with it.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 23, 2014 10:25 PM (yh0zB) Hide posts from (yh0zB)

I'm finding that it hits me in odd ways at odd times. At one point, I had a flashback to the panic I had felt.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 06:35 PM (T1005)

138 Racial Equality Declared Constitutional The Supreme Court has ruled that the obvious truth is the obvious truth: States that ban racial discrimination do not violate the 14th Amendment's prohibition on racial discrimination. More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=5613

Posted by: The Political Hat at April 23, 2014 06:35 PM (AymDN)

139 Airguns are for shooting cats that defecate in flower beds. Specifically the neighbors cat, and yes I have. Posted by: fairweatherbill deerslayer at April 23, 2014 10:33 PM (vA2UI) ******* And for the neighbor's cat that comes into my garage every time it's open for an hour and puts paw prints on the body and convertible top of my '72 442.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 06:36 PM (ojnk6)

140 132 dang, grammie winger, that's horrible . . . I'm so sorry. never, ever will i be able to understand what makes someone do that, especially someone with young children. seems so selfish. Posted by: Peaches at April 23, 2014 10:33 PM (8lmkt) I know Peaches. It's just not right. I know he was suffering from depression, and had just gotten some new medication a few days before. Why couldn't he have given it time to work? Those two babies might still have their daddy. It's beyond sad.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 23, 2014 06:36 PM (oMKp3)

141 1. Guys don't just slip and fall and cause a massive head injury while simply standing smoking a cigarrette. I wonder when they are going to report the real story. 2. Shand was a rich playboy who dabbled in environmental bullshit so idiots wouldn't think he was such a worthless pussy chasing git.

Posted by: Sir Pug A Lott at April 23, 2014 06:37 PM (8c12T)

142 139 lemme guess. you wait until the cat jumps off and gets at least 10 feet away

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 06:37 PM (Cq0oW)

143 Lupita Nyong'o is my kinda gal.

Posted by: eman at April 23, 2014 06:37 PM (AO9UG)

144 Peaches - Thnx. A hell of a nice guy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 06:38 PM (aDwsi)

145 I refuse to get old, dammit! I hate it. start weight lifting yo. like power lifting ie. Mark Rippetoe stuff I'm almost 50, but stronger than I was in my 20's and 30's Squat Dead Lift Overhead Press Bench Press Power Cleans

Posted by: Le Derp, which is French for soffisticated.. at April 23, 2014 06:39 PM (8OOTf)

146 Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 10:34 PM (lq3Ak) Hide posts from (lq3Ak)

Amen.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 06:39 PM (T1005)

147 I have a problem with 3 feral cats on a rural road. they harrass my two cats.

Going to trap and relocate one by one.

Posted by: Bill sometimes bill from Canada at April 23, 2014 06:39 PM (iDvEZ)

148 Well, I think I'll call it a night. I'm going to go pray for all of you guys going thru pain right now. I suppose that covers most of us, eh? Love you people. Good night.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 23, 2014 06:40 PM (oMKp3)

149 That slip-and-fall story is total bullshit. The "teen stowaway" story is more believable, and that's probably bullshit, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 06:40 PM (SlZiq)

150 The BBC is really overrated. They are so PC, all their shows are predictable and boring. They even lack technical finesse. Recently I was watching a doc where the guy was outside and it was cloudy causing his face to appear unnaturally dark. They were too stupid to have one of those white light reflectors to bounce light up under his face. This week they are showing a series called Jamaica Inn. Episode 1 had 10 minutes of video missing and episode 3 had several minutes of garbled sound which they are blaming on the actors. Really, bbc?

Posted by: Sir Pug A Lott at April 23, 2014 06:40 PM (8c12T)

151 139 lemme guess. you wait until the cat jumps off and gets at least 10 feet away Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 10:37 PM (Cq0oW) ******* I catch him in the yard on the way up to the house when I'm on a smoke break in the garage. 2 pumps. I've gotten it twice and have not seen it around my house for a while.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 06:41 PM (ojnk6)

152 Hi Cthulhu, Did you read what I posted about Kumato tomatoes? They are brown & taste delicious raw & were very good roasted.

Posted by: Carol at April 23, 2014 06:41 PM (gjOCp)

153 "In the run up to the gathering, which is similar to a parliament, the Vatican has commissioned a Â‘sex surveyÂ’ from every diocese in the world asking for parishionersÂ’ opinions on divorce, gay marriage and celibacy"

That celibacy word right there at the end is maybe a big deal if it is about the clergy.

Posted by: Baltimorethug at April 23, 2014 06:41 PM (B1IvI)

154 That blonde in the garters, my first thought was ... "Ann Coulter stars in 'Rocky Horror Picture Show'"

Posted by: kbdbear at April 23, 2014 06:42 PM (aTXUx)

155 Well, I've been in the gym regularly since I was 16 so I'm definitely not as strong as I was when I was 25, or 35.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 06:42 PM (SlZiq)

156 " I know he was suffering from depression, and had just gotten some new medication a few days before. Why couldn't he have given it time to work? Those two babies might still have their daddy. It's beyond sad." That's actually really common. Anti-depressants can actually increase the risk of suicide when you first begin them because they give the very very depressed the energy to get up and actually kill themselves instead of just thinking about doing it. That's why a) people need to monitored very closely when starting new antidepressants and b) they shouldn't be given to teenagers.

Posted by: Lauren at April 23, 2014 06:42 PM (hFL/3)

157 oh i wanted one for plinking. want range for that, mostly. i figure 22 might even be useful here and there Posted by: Bigby's ----------------- For casual plinking, I think any of the brand-name break-barrels is fine. There are probably a bazillion reviews on-line. I think it is mostly a matter of how much you care to spend. Beware of one thing, many of the guns packaged with scopes, have fairly crappy scopes.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 06:42 PM (aDwsi)

158 I have a Crossman .177 pistol that you pump. The neighborhood strays have learned when they here that pumping noise that it's time to go. Cats are Pavlovian.

Posted by: fairweatherbill deerslayer at April 23, 2014 06:42 PM (vA2UI)

159 Goodnight Grammie Winger, Thank you for praying for the Horde.

Posted by: Carol at April 23, 2014 06:43 PM (gjOCp)

160

The plane stowaway story is bullshit. No one survive 5 + hours of -60 temps in a t-shirt and slacks. It is just a matter now of who is hiding what, and for what reason.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at April 23, 2014 06:43 PM (jucos)

161 had just gotten some new medication a few days before. Why couldn't he have given it time to work? Those two babies might still have their daddy. It's beyond sad. Some of those meds push people over the edge. And I believe that the truly mentally ill are not thinking straight and cannot accurately fathom just how much damage their death will do.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 23, 2014 06:43 PM (QnqoN)

162 >start weight lifting yo man i wish i could do that. ruined, wasted elbow. cant lift my own weight with it, a face plant can rebreak it in many places.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 06:44 PM (cZ9ct)

163 "I will go back to lurking now, and am sorry to have shared that in a way, but I have been hoping the ache would go away and it hasn't." Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 23, 2014 10:20 PM (l3vZN) God will allow you to be as sad as it takes, for as long as it should hurt*. No apologies necessary. *If it lasts for more than four years, tell your doctor.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 06:44 PM (lq3Ak)

164 Well, I've been in the gym regularly since I was 16 so I'm definitely not as strong as I was when I was 25, or 35. Posted by: Soothsayer Â§ at April 23, 2014 10:42 PM (SlZiq) Get Starting Strenght 3rdE by Mark Rippetoe to start. Most things you learned at 16 are probable not correct

Posted by: Le Derp, which is French for soffisticated.. at April 23, 2014 06:44 PM (8OOTf)

165 Whole foods will take you even when you are 50 and should be re thinking your Sally o Malley pants. They offer you Ice when you buy very nice lump meat crab cakes and to carry that and the very interesting pale pink wine that turned out to be that Brangelina wine but was shockingly good to you car because you have a splinted up wrist. Why are you mad at whole foods?

Posted by: SarahW at April 23, 2014 06:44 PM (Lbv/k)

166 152 Hi Cthulhu,
Did you read what I posted about Kumato tomatoes? They are brown & taste delicious raw & were very good roasted. Posted by: Carol at April 23, 2014 10:41 PM (gjOCp) Hide posts from (gjOCp)

I've tried all sorts of tomatoes, and the only ones I didn't like as much were the runny ones. Anything that has a lot of pulp works well -- you can even do cherry tomatoes in it.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 06:46 PM (T1005)

167 157 thanks, thats one doubt covered

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 06:46 PM (LjymQ)

168 Most things you learned at 16 are probable not correct Posted by: Le Derp ------------------ A generalization that is impossible to contradict..., in so many ways.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 06:46 PM (aDwsi)

169 man i wish i could do that. ruined, wasted elbow. cant lift my own weight with it, a face plant can rebreak it in many places. Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 10:44 PM (cZ9ct) start very light, you would be supprised on how good it feels

Posted by: Le Derp, which is French for soffisticated.. at April 23, 2014 06:46 PM (8OOTf)

170 *If it lasts for more than four years, tell your doctor. Posted by: Slapweasel that's what they told me in Nov. 2008, my friend.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 23, 2014 06:47 PM (l3vZN)

171 Most things you learned at 16 are probable not correct. What if you learned that at 16?

Posted by: blaster at April 23, 2014 06:47 PM (BG5jZ)

172 The plane stowaway story is bullshit. No one survive 5 + hours of -60 temps in a t-shirt and slacks. It is just a matter now of who is hiding what, and for what reason. Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at April 23, 2014 10:43 PM (jucos) Not to mention lack of oxygen

Posted by: kbdbear at April 23, 2014 06:47 PM (aTXUx)

173 24 In the churches I have been attending it has always been an open table. This makes sense to me. If the Catholic Church is not offering Communion to sinners, then no one is partaking. Posted by: blaster at April 23, 2014 10:00 PM (BG5jZ) 1. Holy Eucharist is a sacrament, which is a serious matter. Even Catholics can't take part in it until they have been properly prepared, which includes being taught an understanding of what Holy Eucharist is in the Catholic Church, transubstantiation, Jesus is present. Most protestants don't believe in the sacrament the way we do. 2. Sinners are welcome but they must repent, and make a sincere effort to stop sinning. You can't consider yourself repenting for the sin if you intend to keep doing it. You do this through the sacrament of reconciliation (confession). Many Catholics don't go to church but don't go to communion if they are sinning, for instance committing adultery, and aren't stopping.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 23, 2014 06:47 PM (ynL/v)

174 Most things you learned at 16 are probable not correct. What if you learned that at 16? Posted by: blaster ---------------- Paradox?, or conundrum?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 06:48 PM (aDwsi)

175 man i wish i could do that. ruined, wasted elbow. cant lift my own weight with it, a face plant can rebreak it in many places Uh light weights at increasingly high reps will still help a lot. You don't need to the full on ahnuld bodybuilder thing,

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 23, 2014 06:48 PM (QnqoN)

176 141. He was drinking, drinking heavily. That's why he fell down, that and he already needed a cane because his proprioception was bad.

Posted by: SarahW at April 23, 2014 06:48 PM (Lbv/k)

177 oh i know derp. done it before. its a non starter now is all

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 06:48 PM (Cq0oW)

178 The plane stowaway story is bullshit. No one survive 5 + hours of -60 temps in a t-shirt and slacks. It is just a matter now of who is hiding what, and for what reason. Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at April 23, 2014 10:43 PM (jucos) The Stow away is a Somalli, if it matters. trying to get nback to the homeland

Posted by: Le Derp, which is French for soffisticated.. at April 23, 2014 06:48 PM (8OOTf)

179 I had thought that suicide was a one-way ticket to Hell. So much Western literature confirms this no? Bram Stoker's Dracula sold his soul to the Devil because his sister, who jumped into a river upon news (false) that he died in battle was refused Christian burial in the church graveyard. Lies. Don't judge the Church by the novels of 19th century writers.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 23, 2014 06:49 PM (V70Uh)

180 Godspeed, 173rd.

Posted by: Arthur Cognomen at April 23, 2014 06:49 PM (dkesm)

181 So I am still this side of 50, but rounding up.... I let myslef get too far out of shape. I had a friend (on the other side of 50) who is a Beachbody coach, he recommended doing the workouts. Yeah, I know, its Amway of fitness, but it works. I feel way better. And we lost 6 classmates last year. Yikes.

Posted by: blaster at April 23, 2014 06:49 PM (BG5jZ)

182 Got put on a drug for cluster headaches back in the day. Took me to so many dark places I swear I couldn't find a way out. Thank God I hid the ammo so good that I couldn't find it. Also, I was too damn lazy to search it out. Not fun.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at April 23, 2014 06:49 PM (Q8vlx)

183 Get Starting Strenght 3rdE by Mark Rippetoe to start. Most things you learned at 16 are probable not correct I'll look it up. And my training has evolved over the years. My joints are worn, now. And now my muscles are less dense.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 06:50 PM (SlZiq)

184 Uh light weights at increasingly high reps will still help a lot. You don't need to the full on ahnuld bodybuilder thing, Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 23, 2014 10:48 PM (QnqoN) Linear Progression baby, Work set is 3 sets of 5 reps bebe!!

Posted by: Le Derp, which is French for soffisticated.. at April 23, 2014 06:50 PM (8OOTf)

185 ..."One, a friend for decades, passed away today from a heart attack. I do not recall him ever using a curse word, or ever saying anything bad about anyone. He was hardly a shrinking violet, he was well known, well respected, and active in the community. RIP Tommy." -Posted by Mike Hammer May God find him Well, Mike. May his plane of existence reflect the way he treated others. May we find him as an example of just how beautiful life can be lived. I'll pray for you and his family. Should his life be an example, he will be honored and admired, as it should be. Rest in Heaven, Dear Friend in Love, *amen*

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 06:51 PM (lq3Ak)

186 I didn't go away after all. Could we please not start a debate on Holy Communion? I'm not about the rain on anybody's parade as to what they feel the Sacrament is. I think if we spent more time on the meaning of "the New covenant in my blood" which Jesus said in three Gospels and was said in Corinthians, and more time focusing on Jesus, we would be more united as Christians which is what Jesus wanted us to be. People of a variety of denominations love the Sacrament. Let's lift up Jesus-not our disagreements. As I have said numerous times, the left will make all faithful Christian who don't believe in the faux Messiah Obama into the enemy so we need to be united in Christ. We all have much more in common that we don't have.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2014 06:51 PM (XyM/Y)

187 When I lived in town the guy across the street use to let his little old yappen**cker out at night to yap and crap. I used to shoot at the fence next to it with a pump .177. On Halloween it was harasssing kids, I heard one say it nipped him. I got the wrist rocket slingshot and caught it with a pebble crossing the strret. Then one Sat it wandered over to crap on my lawn while he was curtting the grass and iI plugged his ass from the window. After that when I heard it yapping I just held the gun near an open window and dry fired after one pump, and it would go back in their yard and I assume; try to get in the house.

Its up to you to train your stupid neighbors dogs.

Now I'm working on the one next door here. Going to get some mexican firecrackers.

Posted by: Bill sometimes bill from Canada at April 23, 2014 06:52 PM (iDvEZ)

188 re: elbows Fish oil caps can really help lubricrate joints and help lower inflammation.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 06:52 PM (SlZiq)

189 Also, regarding Catholicism and Holy Eucharist. I don't believe that politicians like Pelosi, who openly promote abortion, should be going to communion. And her describing late-term abortions as "sacred ground" is grotesque.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 23, 2014 06:52 PM (ynL/v)

190 I see Flatbush Joe hit is way up thread but I just now saw it myself. This should be criminal. Ashley Sewell ‏@TXTrendyChick 1h Number of veterans waiting on the "secret list" to see a primary care physician is somewhere between 1,400 and 1,600.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 23, 2014 06:52 PM (DmNpO)

191 Cissus Quadranglis (sp) is also a good supplement for joints and tendons.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 06:53 PM (SlZiq)

192 OK, Somali gets him off the hook for food and water. Still needs a little air, though.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 23, 2014 06:53 PM (xq1UY)

193 Work set is 3 sets of 5 reps 5 reps?! Shit, my trainer always started 8-10 and worked up to 15. When I could do 15 easy, the weight increased.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 23, 2014 06:53 PM (QnqoN)

194 oh i know derp. done it before. its a non starter now is all Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 10:48 PM (Cq0oW) it is never too late. I started overhead press w/ a 45# bar and squatting 135# at first was fookin heavy

Posted by: Le Derp, which is French for soffisticated.. at April 23, 2014 06:54 PM (8OOTf)

195 So how does human flesh, at -60F to -80F for 4-5 hours, not suffer from severe frostbite?

Posted by: Javems at April 23, 2014 06:54 PM (ZnvRl)

196 Now I'm working on the one next door here. Going to get some mexican firecrackers. Posted by: Bill sometimes bill from Canada -------------- Bill - still waiting for you to come pick up yer damn geese.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 06:54 PM (aDwsi)

197 "Sucks, don't it? It is a creeping, insidious thing that picks up speed." Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 10:28 PM (aDwsi) I feel like a boat that hit a rock when I play sports with younger folks... lol. The waves take away boards and planks every year. ...and then they add hairs in the wrong places, as well as tits. ::fistbump::

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 06:54 PM (lq3Ak)

198 I was never taught it was a sin to take communion if you were divorced -- just if you remarried.

Posted by: Sir Pug A Lott at April 23, 2014 06:54 PM (8c12T)

199 Like I wrote, if Pelosi shows up, I have to give It to her. The Sacrilege belongs to her.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 23, 2014 06:55 PM (V70Uh)

200 Fish oil caps can really help lubricrate joints and help lower inflammation. Posted by: Soothsayer --------------- Easy for you to say...

Posted by: The Fish at April 23, 2014 06:55 PM (aDwsi)

201 Sorry about your friend, Mike. May the Lord strengthen and comfort you and his other friends and family.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2014 06:56 PM (XyM/Y)

202 Hairy reed threatened a nv citizen today, straight out of the godfather, just my opinion, I could be wrong, but I'm not!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 23, 2014 06:56 PM (VgMBx)

203 68 church stuff always discombobulates me. never been much for it and, when obliged to attend, can't make myself mouth the words i mostly know because i refuse to lie to a creator that i do know exists. yet, gotta get the kid baptized and all that shit. last thing i want to do, honestly. maybe he'll have a better experience with it all. Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 10:13 PM (uXhnS) I know how you feel. For several reasons, I hold a great deal of animosity toward God and do not go to church for that reason. I can't go pretend to worship someone I'm continuously pissed at. I may be a dick, but I'm not a hypocrite.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2014 06:56 PM (mx5oN)

204 yet, gotta get the kid baptized and all that shit. last thing i want to do, honestly. maybe he'll have a better experience with it all. Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 10:13 PM (uXhnS) Have you looked into various churches to find one that suits your beliefs? I've known people who couldn't accept some aspects about the Catholic Church, or the Baptist Church, or whatever, and found churches that were a better match. There are a huge variety out there. The Catholic Church is very structured and legalistic. Everything is spelled out. That puts some people off. There are churches that are more flexible.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 23, 2014 06:57 PM (ynL/v)

205 grief comes in waves. You forget and then it pops up and you feel guilty for forgetting. Slowly the waves get farther apart. Its necessary to talk about it Jinx so don't feel bad for bringing it here. Make sure your boy finds ways to talk about it too. Not talking about it, that is a killer

Posted by: thunderb at April 23, 2014 06:57 PM (zOTsN)

206 There are 'trends' in motorboating?

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I amn't at April 23, 2014 06:58 PM (ab+jQ)

207 5 reps?! Shit, my trainer always started 8-10 and worked up to 15. When I could do 15 easy, the weight increased. Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 23, 2014 10:53 PM (QnqoN) read Rippetoe's book most of the mutha fuklkin time I got to pause after 3 reps cuz the shit if fuckin heavey

Posted by: Le Derp, which is French for soffisticated.. at April 23, 2014 06:58 PM (8OOTf)

208 tried fish oil its interesting. i appreciate the advice and all but none of you have seen what im talking about. im not offended, and please dont be offended in turn. im limited to stuff like bike riding, cardio blah blah. i can drag with the arm and often do. i cannot lift much or straighten it fully. i do what i can is all.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 06:58 PM (rUoJa)

209 "That's what they told me in Nov. 2008, my friend." Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 23, 2014 10:47 PM (l3vZN) *Hah!*

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 06:59 PM (lq3Ak)

210 Sir Pug, correct. Remarried or living "in sin." Personally, I could see myself going to confession once (for the sin of fornication). I would be too ashamed to take Communion after a relapse.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 23, 2014 06:59 PM (V70Uh)

211 Bigsby, find a good trainer & do at least 10 sessions with them so you are comfortable with all the technique, then do it at home. Check in with the trainer a couple times a month to make sure you're still doing the exercises correctly, and to mix up your program.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 23, 2014 06:59 PM (QnqoN)

212 205 grief comes in waves. You forget and then it pops up and you feel guilty for forgetting. Slowly the waves get farther apart. Its necessary to talk about it Jinx so don't feel bad for bringing it here. Make sure your boy finds ways to talk about it too. Not talking about it, that is a killer Posted by: thunderb at April 23, 2014 10:57 PM (zOTsN) This. It's extremely important not to try to go it alone with something this traumatic.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2014 06:59 PM (mx5oN)

213 Fenelon - Thanks. Completely unexpected. A reminder that when we speak to someone, it may be for the last time.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 06:59 PM (aDwsi)

214 Somali kid was probably smuggled on board the aircraft by some asshole baggage handler. No way he survived travel in the wheel well

Posted by: thunderb at April 23, 2014 06:59 PM (zOTsN)

215 I'm 56 and was playing volley ball with mostly younger people on Easter. Impressed my son (15) More fun than seeing inlaws and hardly felt a thing later. I'm one of those stronger than when I was younger.

Posted by: Bill sometimes bill from Canada at April 23, 2014 07:00 PM (iDvEZ)

216 I went to school with a kid with a 'little arm.' I don't think it was polio, I dunno know what it was from. But he had a regular arm and a skinny arm, his little arm.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 07:01 PM (SlZiq)

217 There are 'trends' in motorboating? )) For married people yes. And the trend is south.

Posted by: Dendritic at April 23, 2014 07:01 PM (75hfB)

218 179 I had thought that suicide was a one-way ticket to Hell. We don't know whether another person has committed a serious sin or not. For a person to commit a serious sin 3 things must happen. 1. It must be a serious sin 2. The person must know that it is a serious sin 3 The person, knowing it is a serious sin, must make a conscious decision to commit it anyway If a person commits suicide: 1.perhaps they're in a mental state where they aren't responsible for their choice 2. perhaps after they take the pills, or whatever, they repent We don't know the state of their conscience.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 23, 2014 07:02 PM (ynL/v)

219 Hairy reed threatened a nv citizen today, straight out of the godfather, just my opinion, I could be wrong, but I'm not!! Posted by: lou's a girl at April 23, 2014 10:56 PM (VgMBx) Did it involve a horse head, or a "free candy" van.

Posted by: The Political Hat at April 23, 2014 07:02 PM (AymDN)

220 Somali in Hawaii. Holy moley, I bet the taxpayers will be paying for his room and board and edumacation at the Punahou School.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 23, 2014 07:02 PM (V70Uh)

221 nerdygirl at April 23, 2014 10:57 PM (ynL/v) ********** True. I now attend a Church that is non denominational. I was raised Catholic, but could not stay there. My last experience was at a Wedding in which the Priest would not serve communion to non Catholics. I know the guy was a dick, but that tore it for me. New Church celebrates and sends messages via music. Their basic philosophy is "We're all screwed up in various ways. Work to change it, and God will pick up the rest when you meet".

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 07:03 PM (ojnk6)

222 There are 'trends' in motorboating? Yes, me for example. If you want to motorboat anything you just come on over.

Posted by: Christina Hendricks at April 23, 2014 07:03 PM (3oRDB)

223 We don't know the state of their conscience ive talked with a few that regretted putting in motion something we were too late to stop

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 07:04 PM (Cq0oW)

224 most of the mutha fuklkin time I got to pause after 3 reps cuz the shit if fuckin heavey Yeah, not interested in lifting heavy weights. It's not necessary to strengthen, tone and build endurance. Especially for people with injuries. The heaviest I've ever lifted is 15lb dumbells. I don't know that I would go even a little higher, cause I don't want to piss my joints off.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 23, 2014 07:04 PM (QnqoN)

225 222 There are 'trends' in motorboating? Yes, me for example. If you want to motorboat anything you just come on over. Posted by: Christina Hendricks at April 23, 2014 11:03 PM (3oRDB) Moron stampede!

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2014 07:04 PM (mx5oN)

226 ManWithNoParty, And this came to you as a surprise? A lot of protestants break the bread, but they don't believe in transubstantiation. You say you were raised Catholic. You didn't make it too far if you don't understand the issue. My sister left the Catholic Church when once some nun or priest said something mean to her. Seriously.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 23, 2014 07:06 PM (V70Uh)

227 So, I have an argument against polygamy that I don't think has been completely gamed out. What happens if the wife of a crime lord is arrested? You can nail her for anything she's personally done, but you can't even ask her to testify against her husband the kingpin, because they're married. If polygamy becomes the law of the land, every big crime syndicate will simply require all its officers to enter into a group marriage. That way, any officer who's arrested cannot be compelled to testify against any other officer. Because, marriage.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 23, 2014 07:06 PM (/96QU)

228 Did anyone see the Menu from The Titanic that is going to be auctioned? One of the selections is "Yarmouth Bloaters". That sure tickles my tastebuds....

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 07:06 PM (aDwsi)

229 Most things you learned at 16 are probable not correct There are a few courses I would like to repeat

Posted by: Jean at April 23, 2014 07:07 PM (Aqvh6)

230 I tear my muscles and demand they re-pair stronger and bigger.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 07:07 PM (SlZiq)

231 Somali kid was probably smuggled on board the aircraft by some asshole baggage handler. No way he survived travel in the wheel well

Posted by: thunderb at April 23, 2014 10:59 PM (zOTsN)

________________

And the TSA (spit) is just trying to cover it's ample federal ass. Security theater at airports is such a fucking joke I don't even know where to begin.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at April 23, 2014 07:07 PM (jucos)

232 Most of them die due to hypoxia. And if the lack of oxygen or freezing temps don't kill them, when the wheel well opens and they fall it does.

Posted by: Sir Pug A Lott at April 23, 2014 07:08 PM (8c12T)

233 "Most things you learned at 16 are probable not correct " My calculations for the orbital ellipse of the Moon are probably still correct.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 23, 2014 07:09 PM (V70Uh)

234 I know the guy was a dick,... - Not true at all, he was merely conducting the communion as the Church directs it to be conducted.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 07:09 PM (aDwsi)

235 I go to a catholic church with my wife who was brought up Catholic. They hsve a new priest who is very well liked. Except he puts up with horrible choir music, they don't even know there are hymns for certain days. I was in the choir for a while but it was hopeless, they know absolutely nothing about the great variety of music for church. I hsve been a soloist for years, tenor, but felt completely unwanted.
I was looking for an Episcopalian church nearby, my dad used to take us to Evensong years ago.

Posted by: Bill sometimes bill from Canada at April 23, 2014 07:09 PM (iDvEZ)

236 so in addition to being "made" you've gotta screw the mob boss after a gay marriage? what has the world come to

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 07:09 PM (dsxn5)

237 The TSA, where the Lumpen Proletariat find jobs in the Obama Recovery.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 23, 2014 07:10 PM (V70Uh)

238 Yeah, not interested in lifting heavy weights. It's not necessary to strengthen, tone and build endurance. Especially for people with injuries. The heaviest I've ever lifted is 15lb dumbells. I don't know that I would go even a little higher, cause I don't want to piss my joints off. Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 23, 2014 11:04 PM (QnqoN) Well don't be stoopid and go too heavy, but lifting is the fastest way to get fit and lean. I watched Idaho Jakes wife squat 155# and Dead Lift 185# at 5'5"@130#

Posted by: Le Derp, which is French for soffisticated.. at April 23, 2014 07:10 PM (8OOTf)

239 My sister left the Catholic Church when once some nun or priest said something mean to her. Seriously. Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 23, 2014 11:06 PM (V70Uh) *********** No, not a surprise. It just opened my eyes fully. I got pretty far, 30 years, altar boy, past confirmation, etc. I had some issues prior to that, which I will keep private. This was just the final straw. I'm now at a Church where all are welcome and happy about it.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 07:10 PM (ojnk6)

240 Most things you learned at 16 are probable not correct --------------------- I wish I didn't know now, what I didn't know then.

Posted by: Bob Seger at April 23, 2014 07:10 PM (aDwsi)

241 At 16 I was given an illustrated weightlifting manual for beginners with Mike Dorsey, or was it Ken Dorsey(?) of the Dallas Cowboys. It was the white Dorsey.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 07:11 PM (SlZiq)

242 toppin da capo

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 07:11 PM (dsxn5)

243 I watched Idaho Jakes wife squat 155# and Dead Lift 185# at 5'5"@130# Posted by: Le Derp That IJ crowd is a tough bunch.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 07:11 PM (aDwsi)

244 "Yarmouth Bloaters" Gotta be some English delicacy. Those fuckers are depraved when it comes to food.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 23, 2014 07:12 PM (3oRDB)

245 I also had Arnold's first autobiography, as my guide.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 07:12 PM (SlZiq)

246 Suicide is supposed to be a mortal sin--the act of denying that the Creator has the power to redeem one's circumstances, etc--but I have to suspect He makes allowances for mental illness.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon/Cetacian hybrid at April 23, 2014 07:12 PM (m9V0o)

247 My grandmother stopped being a Catholic after the parish priest gave communion to the lawyer that represented the bastard that murdered her husband. It was one of those blame the victim trials. Did I mention that I hate lawyers (but not as much as grams).

Posted by: fairweatherbill deerslayer at April 23, 2014 07:12 PM (vA2UI)

248 244 "Yarmouth Bloaters" Gotta be some English delicacy. Those fuckers are depraved when it comes to food. Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 23, 2014 11:12 PM (3oRDB) Food is defined rather loosely in those parts.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2014 07:12 PM (mx5oN)

249 #236: I'd like to point out that one of the Weather Underground's rules was that every member would have sex with any other member who asked. They would've totally taken advantage of the fact that you can't be compelled to testify against your spouse by entering into a polygamous marriage if that had been an option.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 23, 2014 07:13 PM (/96QU)

250 Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring... vagina gun! I've got this feeling, it's so appealing

Posted by: Raffi at April 23, 2014 07:13 PM (qyomX)

251 One aspect of airport kabuki security theater is the fences. Airport near here was required to put up these big ugly fences, but, memo to terrorists, they did nothing about the broken down 3 strand barb wire fence on the South and West side of the airport.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at April 23, 2014 07:14 PM (L02KD)

252 246 Suicide is supposed to be a mortal sin--the act of denying that the Creator has the power to redeem one's circumstances, etc--but I have to suspect He makes allowances for mental illness. Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon/Cetacian hybrid at April 23, 2014 11:12 PM (m9V0o) That may be Catholic doctrine, and it's taught in some Protestant churches as well, but I have yet to see any Scriptural basis for it.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2014 07:14 PM (mx5oN)

253 Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2014 10:56 PM (mx5oN)

What you're really mad at isn't God, it's YOUR idea of God. (or perhaps what you've been taught/learned).

Many religions do not teach the concept of God very well.

Faith is all very well but some of us have trouble with the idea of a just and righteous God allowing things to happen to people (and to ourselves) that seem so unfair and so outright wrong that we have trouble accepting that what happens is God's will.

After you've lived and experienced many different situations (which may or may not happen depending on how far you travel and how open to new experiences you are) you will come to understand that we cannot see to the extent that God does. We also do not understand or perceive the outcomes that are to come to pass.

There are many situations where ugly things have to happen for beautiful things to happen. It can also be reversed. What looks like the best thing to happen will actually (in the long run) result in more misery and pain than what would seem possible.

You cannot begin to understand God so how can you be angry with God?

This is where faith comes in. After you accept that God will do what God will do and to endure those bad times you must have faith that there are reasons for those bad times to happen and if you are lucky and persevere perhaps there will be good times to enjoy also.

No life is completely wasted and no life is fully utilized except those few who give themselves wholly over to God and God's purposes. Acceptance is the beginning of understanding and to enduring what may seem unendurable.

Be faithful, be strong, be righteous and be merciful and your life will be better for it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 07:14 PM (JS0vr)

254 238 I watched Idaho Jakes wife squat 155# and Dead Lift 185# at 5'5"@130# That's cool, if that's what you're into. Higher reps at lower weights gets me the results I want.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 23, 2014 07:15 PM (QnqoN)

255 Here is what happens at ground level spending a similar time sleeping at -17 degrees (attached enclosed porch so probably warmer). http://www.startribune.com/local/235335841.html

Posted by: Dendritic at April 23, 2014 07:15 PM (75hfB)

256 "Grief comes in waves. You forget and then it pops up and you feel guilty for forgetting. Slowly the waves get farther apart. Its necessary to talk about it Jinx so don't feel bad for bringing it here. Make sure your boy finds ways to talk about it too. Not talking about it, that is a killer." Posted by: thunderb at April 23, 2014 10:57 PM (zOTsN) I was thankful that I had plenty of other friends in my neighborhood who "helped me explain" things to the rest of the kids in school. We talked to each other and "compared notes" after nearly every day. We didn't know "Why", exactly. We just told them about the family. We were our own stress-relief. I still Thank God that while I did not attend church, all of my other friends did. I was able to give his death some "Grace". The dreams came and went. He was there and he wasn't. I believe God allowed me to be as confused and sad for as long as I was supposed to be. That was twenty-six years ago and I can still tell you everything I did before and after I found out what happened. ---My apologies. I'm slow tonight. I was stuck thinking about the last thread, catching up on baseball and trying to avoid some feelings about this topic. My over-explanatory nature overwhelmed me and I've gone off on a tangent. P.S.: Don't worry about me. I just looked at my Fantasy Baseball Team and I'm pretty happy... lol.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 07:15 PM (lq3Ak)

257 246 dunno. ive talked with suicide "survivors" maybe failures? too. few talk in details but a couple talked about something being very pissed at them and shoving them back.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 07:16 PM (7pCjY)

258 God knows our hearts. Whatever will be will be, when it is time to meet our Maker.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 07:16 PM (SlZiq)

259 Remember that movie with Carol Baker? She was a Spanish nun but ran away with Roger Moore. It was during the Napoleonic Wars. A whole lot of shit happened and then she released that the area where she was from was suffering from a horrible drought because she broke her vows so she returned. Moore followed her trying to get her back but when he saw her back in Church all happy, he let her be.... fini. God, Carol hot back then. Made me want to join a nunnery.

Posted by: Sir Pug A Lott at April 23, 2014 07:16 PM (8c12T)

260 I was looking for an Episcopalian church nearby, my dad used to take us to Evensong years ago. Posted by: Bill -------------------- Evensong at Salisbury Cathedral. Mrs. Hammer, myself, and four elderly ladies. That was it. Very sad. I considered the thousands who, over centuries, had attended services there. I could almost feel myself surrounded by them. Maybe I was.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 07:17 PM (aDwsi)

261 re the Somali stowaway --

There has to be a pretty good volume of ground level air in the wheelwell at the start, and I'll assume the doors seal pretty well with the gear up. He's Somali, therefore probably skinny, so his core temp probably dropped pretty fast. There have been a number of cases of drowned children in icy cold water that have been revived after 30 minutes or more, usually without brain damage.

In fact, hospitals are starting to use chilled patient techniques for extended operations to take advantage of this very same phenomenon.

So it's quite possible he survived; whether he's a veggie or not they haven't said that I've seen.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 23, 2014 07:17 PM (wNF3N)

262 My pastor got up and said in a Homily that suicide is not a one-way ticket to Hell. According to him it never was. Either he is lying or Bram Stoker is lying. I trust my pastor. 4 years of theology. a couple years of philosophy.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 23, 2014 07:17 PM (V70Uh)

263 Ok. back and kinda caught up on the the conversation. Jinx - I am so, so sorry. I hate hearing these stories, but I realize that they are part of life as we know it. So young, with so much ahead of him... I know depression and suicide way too well, and I hate reading the ugly stories of horde & their loved ones lately that are suffering. I have been practicing my prayers more than I wish I need to. God Bless. Prayers forthcoming for all. That said - if anyone ever shoots my barking mutt with a pellet gun, expect retaliation x10. I say this as a guy that has multiple airguns & doesn't think twice about disposing of neighborhood squirrels - I will shoot you and your family with rock salt. Maybe worse.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 07:18 PM (HXQvh)

264 That IJ crowd is a tough bunch. Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 11:11 PM (aDwsi) yep, don't even ask about thier kids..... Jake almost stopped drinking beer and is powerliftng now

Posted by: Le Derp, which is French for soffisticated.. at April 23, 2014 07:18 PM (8OOTf)

265 Suicide is not a victimless crime. Everyone who gives a shit about the person who killed himself is a victim. Suicide is a terrible thing that assholes do.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 23, 2014 07:18 PM (/96QU)

266 they did nothing about the broken down 3 strand barb wire fence on the South and West side of the airport. Work in the biz. Airport security is a weird thing. A lot of it appears a show for the public. And there's more to it than just the TSA shaking down little old ladies in the terminal. In the background. Won't say too much but there are things.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 23, 2014 07:19 PM (3oRDB)

267 Ephesians 4 Our unity as Christians is experienced in: Body-The fellowship of believers-the church universal Spirit-The Holy Spirit who activates the fellowship Hope-The glorious future to which we are called-God's Eternal Kingdom. Lord-Christ to whom we all belong Faith-Our singular commitment to Christ Baptism-the sign of entry to the church God-Our father. The father of all of us. God above all, through all and in all People are where they are, and people leave churches for a variety of reasons. Pray that we all become closer to Christ wherever we are.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2014 07:19 PM (XyM/Y)

268 Late to the party but oh well. This was a private phone call between the man who is Pope, notice in the report he did not identify himself as Francis, and a woman seeking advice. This is not official Church policy.

There is a path for her to receive Communion already in place. It is called seeking an Annulment. But it seems she did not seek that corrective path and has compounded her moral issues by marrying another.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 23, 2014 07:20 PM (a26oX)

269 "Be faithful, be strong, be righteous and be merciful and your life will be better for it." Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 11:14 PM (JS0vr) Nicely said, Sir.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 07:20 PM (lq3Ak)

270 246 Suicide is supposed to be a mortal sin--the act of denying that the Creator has the power to redeem one's circumstances, etc--but I have to suspect He makes allowances for mental illness. Yeah, my dad searched out an article from a Jesuit when J died, that said that the mentally ill don't get an automatic trip to hell. And actually, we can't be sure that anybody, even Judas got an automatic trip because we don't know if they repented at the last second.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 23, 2014 07:20 PM (QnqoN)

271 That was twenty-six years ago and I can still tell you everything I did before and after I found out what happened. ---My apologies. I'm slow tonight. I was stuck thinking about the last thread, catching up on baseball and trying to avoid some feelings about this topic. My over-explanatory nature overwhelmed me and I've gone off on a tangent. I'm with you there I can tell you everything about the day my dad killed himself it hurts. its supposed to. I survived it

Posted by: thunderb at April 23, 2014 07:21 PM (zOTsN)

272 249 #236: I'd like to point out that one of the Weather Underground's rules was that every member would have sex with any other member who asked.

They would've totally taken advantage of the fact that you can't be compelled to testify against your spouse by entering into a polygamous marriage if that had been an option.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 23, 2014 11:13 PM (/96QU)

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

Did that include the Gay love?

Posted by: Darth Randall at April 23, 2014 07:22 PM (KlVdw)

273 Nice post, Bitter Clinger. You are a very articulate person of faith, Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2014 07:22 PM (XyM/Y)

274 Suicide is a terrible thing that assholes do. Well, seemed like the thing to do at the time.

Posted by: Korechika Anami at April 23, 2014 07:22 PM (3oRDB)

275 Good night friends. Don't kill yourself. While some theologians think that God is merciful, unless you have stage 5 cancer and someone else ups the morphine, I don't think you should do it. Not only do we have our crosses to carry, we have our time to be scourged at the pillar too.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 23, 2014 07:22 PM (V70Uh)

276 Saw this elsewhere: The liberal position on Affirmative Action can be summed up as: "Racism requires racism, because racism."

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 23, 2014 07:22 PM (ZPrif)

277 272 asking for a friend?

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 07:22 PM (Cq0oW)

278 244 "Yarmouth Bloaters"

Gotta be some English delicacy. Those fuckers are depraved when it comes to food. Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 23, 2014 11:12 PM (3oRDB) Hide posts from (3oRDB)

I think we're being sent off on some false trail -- http://tinyurl.com/k7cz48t

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 07:23 PM (T1005)

279 Suicide is a terrible thing that assholes do. Considering one of our own succumbed to depression in that way this past year, I might moderate that. A touch.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon/Cetacian hybrid at April 23, 2014 07:24 PM (m9V0o)

280 219 Political Hat, well I guess the full power of the US Senate.

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 23, 2014 07:24 PM (VgMBx)

281 Thank you. I am glad that my words are appreciated.

But I am only the messenger.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 07:25 PM (JS0vr)

282 cthulhu - ISWYDT

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 07:25 PM (aDwsi)

283 God knows our hearts. Whatever will be will be, when it is time to meet our Maker. This is my belief exactly. You can't lie to God. He knows who and what you are and there's no talking Him out of it. I can go to church everyday of my life but if I'm a mean, miserable, lying, murderous, deceitful SOB it won't do me any good at all. I live my life by God's rules everyday and He knows that. I don't have to prove it to my fellow man by putting on an act. God knows.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 23, 2014 07:26 PM (3oRDB)

284 #272: Yes, it did. It's very likely, for example, that Ward Churchill had buttsecks with Bill Ayers at some point, because that was a rule of the group they both belonged to.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 23, 2014 07:26 PM (/96QU)

285 asking for a friend?

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 11:22 PM (Cq0oW)

-----------

I almost put that, but I was thinking along the lines of the Weather Underground being a bunch of libs, was it full on depreaved hedonism or were they a bunch of homophobes per their modern definition?

Posted by: Darth Randall at April 23, 2014 07:26 PM (KlVdw)

286 The TSA, where the Lumpen Proletariat find jobs in the Obama Recovery. Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 23, 2014 11:10 PM (V70Uh) And Somali "immigrants". In fact, one thing that really perplexes me is the large number of Somali or visibly Islamic people employed by US airports. There's gotta be a quota or something, seems like at least a third or more of the service workers are wearing hijabs or look like extras from the Blackhawk Down movie set.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 23, 2014 07:26 PM (AHzA7)

287 "Suicide is not a victimless crime. Everyone who gives a shit about the person who killed himself is a victim. Suicide is a terrible thing that assholes do." Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 23, 2014 11:18 PM (/96QU) I've gone back-and-forth on this for a decade-and-a-half. It may be true, at times. I think my friend was mentally ill and abused by his Father. After failing a few classes in High School, he didn't want to deal with it. Selfish? -Yes. Asshole? -No

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 07:26 PM (lq3Ak)

288 Mental illness is not a sin.

Posted by: Sir Pug A Lott at April 23, 2014 07:27 PM (8c12T)

289 I say this as a guy that has multiple airguns & doesn't think twice about disposing of neighborhood squirrels - I will shoot you and your family with rock salt. Maybe worse. Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 11:18 PM (HXQvh) *********** What's so hard about being a good neighbor and controlling the amount of time your barking dog can bother people? It starts, bring it inside. How hard is that? No need to be an asshole and threaten x10 retaliation when you ought to be in more control of the situation in the first place.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 07:27 PM (ojnk6)

290 #279: A friend of mine committed suicide several years ago, and I'd punch him in the mouth for it if he were here in front of me right now.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 23, 2014 07:28 PM (/96QU)

291 Ricardo, The folks going to church all the time are probably not the murderous ones. In the words on Blaise Pascal: Every sinner thinks he is a saint. Every Saint knows that he is a sinner. Don't be too smug.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 23, 2014 07:29 PM (V70Uh)

292 Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 11:14 PM (JS0vr) You clearly put thought and effort into that, which I appreciate. You seem a decent fellow. What I have to say in response would come off as rather hostile, so I'm just going to leave it alone.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2014 07:29 PM (mx5oN)

293 When it comes to suicide, it's not up to me to judge.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at April 23, 2014 07:29 PM (Q8vlx)

294 Some Christians, other than Catholics, believe once you accept Christ as your savior your Name is written in the Book Of Life. But, yeah, God knows your heart. He knows who is sincere and who is not. So I never believed in that Book of Life thing. But I also don't believe in the ritualistic Catholic practices that one has to perform for Everlasting Life.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 07:29 PM (SlZiq)

295 "I'm with you there I can tell you everything about the day my dad killed himself ...it hurts. its supposed to. I survived it" Posted by: thunderb at April 23, 2014 11:21 PM (zOTsN) We won't allow it to devour us! We hold strong through the love of friends and family! Love Strong, thunderb!

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 07:30 PM (lq3Ak)

296 I heard a protestant preacher on the radio put it like this: Faith saves you. Works put you in a leadership position.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 23, 2014 07:32 PM (V70Uh)

297 kindle is low on the juice so signing off i worked a lot with suicidal people before in the past. its an assholish thing to do but i cant say its entirely their own fault always. for some yes its all me me me my pain woe woe is me but others. i dunno, kind of an automatic action is going on. they find themselves collecting pills or at the edge of the swift running river or at the cliff and just walking. They're not present for it, more spectators. its terrible yes. life thrown away.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 23, 2014 07:32 PM (Mp4RO)

298 Don't be too smug. ???? What was "smug" about what I wrote?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 23, 2014 07:33 PM (3oRDB)

299 290 #279: A friend of mine committed suicide several years ago, and I'd punch him in the mouth for it if he were here in front of me right now. Yeah, and I'd kick J square in the nuts. But as mad ad I can still get that he checked out, he was sick. It didnt happen out if spite or anger or anything like that. It makes me sick to think that people can be so lost that they conclude this is the only way out for them.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 23, 2014 07:33 PM (QnqoN)

300 But, what's that saying, faith without deeds...? I forgot the rest.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 07:34 PM (SlZiq)

301 289 I say this as a guy that has multiple airguns & doesn't think twice about disposing of neighborhood squirrels - I will shoot you and your family with rock salt. Maybe worse.
Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 11:18 PM (HXQvh)

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What's so hard about being a good neighbor and controlling the amount of time your barking dog can bother people? It starts, bring it inside. How hard is that? No need to be an asshole and threaten x10 retaliation when you ought to be in more control of the situation in the first place. Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 11:27 PM (ojnk6) Hide posts from (ojnk6)

His dog isn't that barky, the lots in his neighborhood are good-sized, and -- honest to God, I watched this myself in stunned disbelief -- he has the kind of neighbor that would blow the leaves off his yard, then carefully blow them across the street so that they'd be in the road of his across-the-street neighbor.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 07:34 PM (T1005)

302 I live my life by God's rules everyday. And you never fail?

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 23, 2014 07:34 PM (V70Uh)

303 Guess what? Diphtheria has possibly returned. Fabulous.

Posted by: Lauren at April 23, 2014 07:35 PM (hFL/3)

304 Dang it, Chapter 7 of the Catholicism series attended this week on Liturgy and Eucharist. The Father who was narrating related a story from a saint, John the something on sinners and saints.

This saint described each human as a pane of glass. A saint's pane is turned more fully towards the light of G_d, hence the saint can see more clearly the little smudges. Whereas a sinner's pane is turned more away from the light and hence the sinner does not realize the smudges.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 23, 2014 07:35 PM (a26oX)

305
Yarmouth bloaters are English red herrings. I remember that from the time I spent in England. Asked the same question about them.

Also had (I think) a conversation with a bona fide Cockney of which I understood absolutely not one word.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 23, 2014 07:35 PM (SAMxH)

306 The X chromosome is clearly overweight compared to the Y chromosome. Patriarchy!!!!!!1&&(!!

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 07:35 PM (r+7wo)

307 cthulhu at April 23, 2014 11:34 PM (T1005) *********** I think you missed my point, Cth.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 07:35 PM (ojnk6)

308 Stole my gun and stuck'it WHERE!?

Posted by: and irresolute at April 23, 2014 07:35 PM (RqHWH)

309 Good night again. I could not tear myself away. Love you all. Take care.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 23, 2014 07:35 PM (V70Uh)

310 obama's judgement day will be...interesting. I cannot and should not judge obama's soul but I can imagine how his judgement day will go. But, but, but, I gave millions of people free health care!

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 07:36 PM (SlZiq)

311 James 2:17-Faith without works is dead. We can't earn our way into heaven by serving and obeying God, but such works show our commitment to Christ and that we believe God is real. They are a verification of our faith.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2014 07:37 PM (XyM/Y)

312 ont is finished?

Posted by: fargo bob at April 23, 2014 07:37 PM (BbHYt)

313 Good Night, Grampa Jimbo.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 07:38 PM (lq3Ak)

314 I will repeat what I have said here before. Depression and despondency can become black holes from which one can not spontaneously escape. Occasionally it occurs rapidly. Sometimes it happens to someone we know, with no external evidence. It is one thing to have the blues, or feel a little hopeless, it is quite another to be in the grips of something that is stronger than you are.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 07:38 PM (aDwsi)

315 I think posts like these are fun because I see how many stories I know before clicking the pics.

The Muslim teen-in-the-cockpit is horrific -- this may have been a dry run for terror and even if not -- it is NOW. The whole world saw how weak our airports are.

The MH370 story du jour -- of course it's not the wreckage! They're looking in the completely wrong place. But I love how the MSM and even Fox breathlessly reported this today whereas the Halon bottle found in the Maldives WEEKS ago gets *crickets*.

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at April 23, 2014 07:38 PM (KL49F)

316 James 2: 14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, Â“Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,Â” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 07:38 PM (SlZiq)

317 "Also, regarding Catholicism and Holy Eucharist. I don't believe that politicians like Pelosi, who openly promote abortion, should be going to communion. And her describing late-term abortions as 'sacred ground' is grotesque."

On the day that the Pope publicly excommunicates Pelosi and her ilk and says that they'll be denied the Kingdom of Heaven unless they recant -- on that day, I'll walk into my local parish and begin the process of becoming a Catholic.

Of course, if the Mormons expel Dingy Hairy first, well, here I come, LDS.

Hoping that the Catholics get there first. Giving up on Val-U-Rite would be tough.

Sadly, I doubt that either lot have the spine any longer to stand up forcefully for their professed doctrines.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 23, 2014 07:39 PM (noWW6)

318 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 23, 2014 11:35 PM (a26oX) Sounds like St. John Of the Cross

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2014 07:39 PM (XyM/Y)

319 ah, you beat me to it, Miss Spoke

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 07:39 PM (SlZiq)

320 Gah, I feel like crap and rehashing this is not helping. Time to try to sleep.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 23, 2014 07:39 PM (QnqoN)

321 I was chased out of church by an abusive Youth Pastor. He used Allinsky like tactics to isolate me and freeze me out. It was effective. I don't know how a 15 / 16 year old kid could be a threat to an adult in a leadership position, but I guess I was.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at April 23, 2014 07:40 PM (jucos)

322 And you never fail? No. I fail all of the time. And I realize that. I make amends for it. I don't forget God's rules even if I break them. I know I've done it and I beat myself up over it. As a human I am not perfect, none of us are. I hate judging others as if I am perfect and they are the flawed one. God knows better and I know that too.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 23, 2014 07:40 PM (3oRDB)

323 FenelonSpoke I think that was the name. Thanks.

Night Bebes, hope you get to feeling better.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 23, 2014 07:40 PM (a26oX)

324 Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2014 11:29 PM (mx5oN)

You clearly have some strong and convincing feelings about the subject and I was not trying to be critical but to see if I could point you in a different direction.

Being angry at God is like be mad at the dirt. The weather is weather and God is God.

We have little to say or ability to influence the composition of the Earth. Likewise we have even less influence with God.

We are taught to pray to God because prayer can sooth the heart and focus the mind. But prayer is not a magic spell or an order form. Prayer is meant to focus our attention on those things that we would want to happen or to aid those we love.

And as it has been said, sometimes the answer to our prayers is; NO.

As I said above we can never know the reasons behind Gods actions. Feel free to say whatever you wish. Perhaps talking about it will help you understand what you feel and cause you to reevaluate your judgment. Whatever you wish.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 07:41 PM (JS0vr)

325 Heh. Just got an email from William's Brewing:

"We took a little gamble a while back and ordered high quality beer soap made with several different craft beers. We thought, home brewers might buy these, because they are made with the beer they like to drink, and they are of the highest natural quality.

Turns out we were wrong, home brewers do not buy soap. As a result, save 40% on all our remaining stock (you must order 2 or more mix or match to get the discount). While supplies last."

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 07:41 PM (T1005)

326 "he has the kind of neighbor that would blow the leaves off his yard, then carefully blow them across the street so that they'd be in the road of his across-the-street neighbor."

I clean up leaves with a shop vac.

It's not any more noisy than a leaf blower, and it does not redistribute the mess.

Also: it's like a flippin' video game when the termite queens take wing. Zap!

Posted by: torquewrench at April 23, 2014 07:42 PM (noWW6)

327 Jimmy Fallon telling depressed panda jokes: What's black and white and really depressed? Barack Obama after he sees his poll numbers.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 23, 2014 07:43 PM (DmNpO)

328 I went through a suicidal streak when I was younger. I didn't succumb to it, and now I look down on people who do succumb. Because I realize what all the people I care about would've gone through if I had succumbed to it. So, yes, I do look down on people who commit suicide. Because they're assholes who don't give a shit what their loved ones go through as a result.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 23, 2014 07:44 PM (/96QU)

329 Did I accidentally wander onto Free Republic again? What the Hell?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 23, 2014 07:44 PM (3oRDB)

330 cthulhu - So, 'Belly up to the bar' takes on a new meaning?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 07:44 PM (aDwsi)

331 101 Yeah I got a weakness for the young skinny ones. You and every other man in the world. Except me; I like 'em thick and curvy. Posted by: Soothsayer Â§ at April 23, 2014 10:23 PM (SlZiq) How you doin'?

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 07:45 PM (r+7wo)

332 PW please tell me you don't volunteer for a Suicide Crisis line...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 23, 2014 07:45 PM (a26oX)

333 Today was really stressful, until it wasn't. God always comes through for me, and a lot of the time the answer is no!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 23, 2014 07:45 PM (VgMBx)

334 What's so hard about being a good neighbor and controlling the amount of time your barking dog can bother people? It starts, bring it inside. How hard is that? No need to be an asshole and threaten x10 retaliation when you ought to be in more control of the situation in the first place. Posted by:Â ManWithNoPartyÂ at April 23, 2014 11:27 PM (ojnk6) ------ I'm in control of my situation. My pet is not a nuisance. I have those bothersome neighbors that won't control their pets, but I'm not going to shoot it with my pellet gun. Look - I don't even like cats. I HATE that it's accepted to let cats roam to shit in my flowerbeds & use my birdfeeders as a hunting ground. Am I going to shoot the thing? No. Then again, I'm not bragging about how cool it is to shoot my neighbors pet for walking into the garage that I left open, now am I?

Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 07:45 PM (HXQvh)

335 woohoo!

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 07:46 PM (SlZiq)

336 Did I accidentally wander onto Free Republic again? What the Hell? Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 23, 2014 11:44 PM (3oRDB) ********* Starting to feel that way. Not sure why this happened, but would rather see us go back to what made the site great. All of 2 days ago.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 07:47 PM (ojnk6)

337 shoot, shovel, shutup

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 07:47 PM (JS0vr)

338 Time for the old folk. You young ones make me smile griping about getting old.

Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 23, 2014 07:47 PM (SAMxH)

339 Turns out we were wrong, home brewers do not buy soap))) So most home brewers are French?

Posted by: Dendritic at April 23, 2014 07:48 PM (75hfB)

340 I would suggest they play that Avril Lavigne song at Gitmo but the song is a real war crime.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 23, 2014 07:48 PM (a26oX)

341 Angst...., I sense angst. Theory: We're allowing the Left/Liberal/Progressive/Secularists to infect us with stress.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 07:48 PM (aDwsi)

342 'Night IG

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 07:48 PM (aDwsi)

343 Jimmy Fallon telling depressed panda jokes: What's black and white and really depressed? Barack Obama after he sees his poll numbers. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 23, 2014 11:43 PM (DmNpO) ******** Wow, he realizes very early on that his pandering to the Leftists was not getting him ratings, apparently.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 07:49 PM (ojnk6)

344 The pet shooting brags were kind of off- putting. A charging pit bull, an alarming snow of aggression from another cat or dog...that's one thing. A yipper who touches your yard? maybe not. I think not.

Posted by: SarahW at April 23, 2014 07:49 PM (Lbv/k)

345 #332: I don't. So, don't worry; suicidal people will not be exposed to my views on the subject, even though I think they'd benefit from it.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 23, 2014 07:50 PM (/96QU)

346 A friend of mine committed suicide several years ago, and I'd punch him in the mouth for it if he were here in front of me right now.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 23, 2014 11:28 PM (/96QU)

I must have attended an easy dozen or so people's/freind's funerals over the years that killed themselves. 2 of them were brothers that killed themselves years apart from each other. Another shot himself in the head with a .22 while on the phone with his sister who had to hear him suddenly change his mind as he was dying. Another few hung or gassed themselves over chicks, and on and on. I'm fucking numb to it, just seen too much of it. Every one left a fucking mess in their wake.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 23, 2014 07:50 PM (FMbng)

347 If you are depressed for a long time or repeatedly it changes your brain chemistry and your thinking. It messes with your serotonin level. Serotonin is what wakes you feel content or if you will, happy. It is not a question, IMO, of being an ass****. Your blackened thinking make you think that people would be better off without you. It's not logical. It's a disease.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2014 07:51 PM (XyM/Y)

348 I'm doing spring cleanup and also using a shop vac -- although I've been dumping into the greenwaste bin, so I actually purged the vac first.

And, yes, I saw Penn + Teller's excellent expose of multi-bin garbage pickup.....but I also rototilled 6" of composted yard clippings into my backyard when we initially bought the house. It was the quickest and cheapest way to start turning the slimy sticky and/or brick-hard adobe clay into something you could do something with.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 07:51 PM (T1005)

349 On understanding suicide: People routinely form "identities": a father, a good worker, an American, someone who always gets good grades, very religious, and so on and so forth. When our instincts protect these identities, we feel emotions. Mostly these identity-facets coexist without trouble, even if they don't quite line up all of the time (my advice as a friend might not be the same as my advice as a father). But occasionally, two deeply held identities become so opposed that they cannot both be maintained. I believe that some people, when faced with the apparent irretrievable loss (read: death) of a major identity facet, choose to extend that loss to the real world as the only perceptible alternative to walking around "dead inside." This is why friends and family can't always see it coming: there can be internal tensions that we have entirely missed, because we so rarely see all aspects of another person at once. That's my take, anyway. Whatever the cause, my heartfelt condolences to those of you who have had close brushes with suicide.

Posted by: Piercello at April 23, 2014 07:51 PM (jJ97i)

350 Then again, I'm not bragging about how cool it is to shoot my neighbors pet for walking into the garage that I left open, now am I? Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 11:45 PM (HXQvh) ********* Don't believe I bragged about anything. Just described a situation. The cat is still alive and well.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 07:51 PM (ojnk6)

351 And if the lack of oxygen or freezing temps don't kill them, when the wheel well opens and they fall it does.

That happened up here a few years ago. Guy who lived on the approach to Logan found what was left of him on his lawn. Took the cops a few days to figure out what happened

Posted by: tu3031 at April 23, 2014 07:52 PM (yagOO)

352 *ring ring*

PW: Suicide hot line

Caller: yeah I'm thinking of killing myself. Maybe hanging or pills.

PW: what a pussy! Step out in front of a bus so your family can collect some insurance money you dork. How inconsiderate of you.

Caller: what? what? I'm depressed and think my life's not worth living and you tell me I'm a pussy. Well Fcuk you you prick *slams phone*

PW: Heh another one bites the dust.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 07:53 PM (JS0vr)

353 I think there are people who takes their lives without thinking much about it-It's an impulse reaction. I have seen this with youngish people and sometimes it's fueled by drugs. That is different than chronic depression. And yes, it always leave a mess in its wake.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2014 07:53 PM (XyM/Y)

354 I be very angry if bite into pellet!

Posted by: Chinese Chef at April 23, 2014 07:53 PM (PAplM)

355 Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 11:51 PM (ojnk6)

Just has a strange aversion to open garage doors and is a little twitchy.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 07:54 PM (JS0vr)

356 If I was this giraffe I think I would be worried.

http://tinyurl.com/lv7dkcq

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 23, 2014 07:54 PM (a26oX)

357 Wow, he realizes very early on that his pandering to the Leftists was not getting him ratings, apparently. *** This is the first time I've watched him since he took over for Leno and I'd bet money he has been watching video of Carson. During his monologue I recognized several of Carson's mannerisms. Fallon's not stupid and he's got a really good thing going with this gig. Perhaps he's growing up enough to realize that he's entitled to his own biases, but that they are best left off the stage.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 23, 2014 07:54 PM (DmNpO)

358 Respect Mah Authoritah!!!! NC deputy goes berserk, snatches phones from family after recording proves she Â‘liedÂ’ http://tinyurl.com/kad2myu

Posted by: kbdbear at April 23, 2014 07:55 PM (aTXUx)

359 cthulhu - I bag my grass clippings, put them on the garden as mulch. I do the same thing with leaves in the fall. Run the mower over them, bag the output, dump it on the garden.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 07:55 PM (aDwsi)

360 And, yes, I saw Penn + Teller's excellent expose of multi-bin garbage pickup.. *** It was incredible how far they could push folks before they finally said "enough".

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 23, 2014 07:55 PM (DmNpO)

361 #352: Actually, I'd try to get across to him how much it'd hurt his loved ones if he went through with it. I certainly don't think they'd take the insurance money over having him continue to be around.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 23, 2014 07:55 PM (/96QU)

362 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 23, 2014 11:50 PM (FMbng)

You're just a ray of fcuking sunshine aren't you?

Is there a thunder cloud or a guy in black robe follows you around?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 07:55 PM (JS0vr)

363 Just has a strange aversion to open garage doors and is a little twitchy. Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 11:54 PM (JS0vr) ******** Kinda goes back to the owner control thing I mentioned earlier.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 07:56 PM (ojnk6)

364 @270 And actually, we can't be sure that anybody, even Judas got an automatic trip because we don't know if they repented at the last second. ------------------- Well, Paul did call Judas a "Son of Perdition" in one of his letters. That doesn't speak well of the latter's ultimate fate. However, you're essentially correct. It's God's job to judge those who have died. We can always second guess, but only God knows all of the circumstances that were involved.

Posted by: junior at April 23, 2014 07:56 PM (Yxwtc)

365 "So, don't worry; suicidal people will not be exposed to my views on the subject, even though I think they'd benefit from it." Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 23, 2014 11:50 PM (/96QU) Okay. We get it. I personally get it. I know how you feel, but I can't condone it. Thank you for your opinion, because you are correct some-of-the-time. Let the scab cover-over, lest it become an infection.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 07:56 PM (lq3Ak)

366 PW: that was just a joke. Riffing on what Anna asked.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 07:57 PM (JS0vr)

367 In light of what happened with a fellow Moron, maybe we shouldn't make light of suicide since a few ONT regulars were his friends

Posted by: kbdbear at April 23, 2014 07:58 PM (aTXUx)

368 "I'm doing spring cleanup and also using a shop vac -- although I've been dumping into the greenwaste bin, so I actually purged the vac first."

The missus insists that I sterilize the shop vac canister to surgical operating room standards before picking up stuff with the vac that will go in the greenwaste can.

This is such a hassle that I have considered buying a second canister assembly just for that purpose.

Now, though, I'm starting to covet one of those really really powerful industrial excavation vacuums that will lift a bowling ball sized rock on the end of the nozzle.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 23, 2014 07:58 PM (noWW6)

369 *pounds head into keyboard*

I am out of here.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 23, 2014 07:58 PM (a26oX)

370 I think this is a good time to point out that I hate fucking monkeys. Very much.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 07:58 PM (SlZiq)

371 Nice Boat in this pic http://tinyurl.com/kx37a5l

Posted by: kbdbear at April 23, 2014 07:59 PM (aTXUx)

372 I think this is a good time to point out that I hate fucking monkeys. Very much. *** Then stop doing it!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 23, 2014 07:59 PM (DmNpO)

373 265 Suicide is not a victimless crime. Everyone who gives a shit about the person who killed himself is a victim. Suicide is a terrible thing that assholes do. When I contemplated oblivion, what stuck out to me is that it would be a dagger through the heart of all of my family. Miserable though I felt, I did not hate them that much.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 23, 2014 07:59 PM (M9BzG)

374 Posted by: Soothsayer Â§ at April 23, 2014 11:58 PM (SlZiq)

Then don't fuck them.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 07:59 PM (JS0vr)

375 370 I think this is a good time to point out that I hate fucking monkeys. Very much. Posted by: Soothsayer Â§ at April 23, 2014 11:58 PM (SlZiq) Is that why you keep spanking me?!?

Posted by: Sooth's Monkey at April 23, 2014 07:59 PM (QeH9j)

376 Well, fuck it. If I piss somebody off on here? I. Don't. Give. A. Shit. You hear that? That's what this place is about...........I fucking think anyway??? Somebody please count up all my cuss words and moral transgressions in the above statement so that I can make amends next Sunday.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 23, 2014 07:59 PM (3oRDB)

377 290Â #279: A friend of mine committed suicide several years ago, and I'd punch him in the mouth for it if he were here in front of me right now. Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 23, 2014 11:28 PM (/96QU) ------ I'll second that. I wish I could get into Ace's time machine & go back to shake some sense into a couple friends... I am tired of dealing with it. Twice in the last two years, I've been a little too close to it. First, no indictation whatsoever. This last time, i was just too fucking close, and it hit hard. Hard. Brother Cavil, and I think, Bebe's are both (not) talking about the same friend of ours.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 07:59 PM (HXQvh)

378 Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 11:41 PM (JS0vr) I'll consider what you've said. Right now is probably not the best time for discussing the whole thing in any event.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2014 08:00 PM (mx5oN)

379 370
I think this is a good time to point out that I hate fucking monkeys. Very much.

Posted by: Soothsayer Â§ at April 23, 2014 11:58 PM (SlZiq)

Maybe you should consider gorillas. They're thicker and have more curves.

Posted by: buzzion at April 23, 2014 08:00 PM (LI48c)

380 Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 23, 2014 11:59 PM (3oRDB)

42

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 08:00 PM (JS0vr)

381 Serenity now!

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 08:01 PM (SlZiq)

382 #373: I'm glad you saw it that way, CM, because you're still around to share your wisdom and jokes with us as a result.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 23, 2014 08:01 PM (/96QU)

383 I think this is a good time to point out that I hate fucking monkeys. Very much.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 23, 2014 08:02 PM (DmNpO)

384 @357 This is the first time I've watched him since he took over for Leno and I'd bet money he has been watching video of Carson. During his monologue I recognized several of Carson's mannerisms. ----------------------- A good idea if he's been doing that. Emulating Leno would get him mocked. But Carson's been gone long enough that he's essentially a "safe" choice for that sort of thing.

Posted by: junior at April 23, 2014 08:02 PM (Yxwtc)

385 ..."That's my take, anyway. Whatever the cause, my heartfelt condolences to those of you who have had close brushes with suicide." Posted by: Piercello at April 23, 2014 11:51 PM (jJ97i) That's a reasonable take on the subject. Loss of identity, if shallow*, allows for such a mentality. Good post. *I believe a deeper meaning allows most to go on and find other avenues of love. Mental illness negates such introspection through a Higher Power.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 08:02 PM (lq3Ak)

386 Is this the IHFM support group?

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 08:02 PM (QeH9j)

387 42 Does that mean I'm fucked or forgiven? Will one of Bible thumpers help a brother out here?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 23, 2014 08:03 PM (3oRDB)

388 What did a monkey do to you? You can share it with us.

Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 23, 2014 08:03 PM (SlZiq)

389 347 If you are depressed for a long time or repeatedly it changes your brain chemistry and your thinking. It messes with your serotonin level. Serotonin is what wakes you feel content or if you will, happy. It is not a question, IMO, of being an ass****. Your blackened thinking make you think that people would be better off without you. It's not logical. It's a disease. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2014 11:51 PM (XyM/Y) Hide posts from (XyM/Y)

There are many paths to get there, and some of them are neither logical, nor a disease, but more like a cancer of thought -- where the mechanisms that normally keep things going are subtly altered to where feedback loop stops keeping you on an even keel, and -- instead -- they drag you slowly away from light, hope, friends, and the future. But it's still horribly recognizable as the same mental feedback loop that everyone has -- just like cancer cells are still mostly the patient's human cells, with normal human-cell plumbing and wiring, with just the subtle twist of continually demanding more resources.

I believe that the saying "There, but for the Grace of God, go I" applies.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 08:03 PM (T1005)

390 "Maybe you should consider gorillas. They're thicker and have more curves." Posted by: buzzion at April 24, 2014 12:00 AM (LI48c) *HAH!*

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 08:03 PM (lq3Ak)

391 The over sensitive are bombarded with cruelty and horror every moment of every day in some way. They become basket cases if they can't back off.

The under sensitive wind up being shunned or ignored perhaps even scapegoated as they seem aloof and cold.

They'll become paranoid maniacs if they don't open up.

Life. It's all about choices and making do with what nature gave you.

Sometimes it's hard to know what to do. But not doing anything is a choice itself.

Fall down, get up, dust off, drive on.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 08:04 PM (JS0vr)

392 This last time, i was just too fucking close, and it hit hard. Hard. Brother Cavil, and I think, Bebe's are both (not) talking about the same friend of ours. Yeah. It was a punch in the gut. Especially remembering the previous close call where he stepped back from the brink. Even with the best of care, it takes its toll and claims its prey. And for the rest of us, it hurts like hell. But I can't blame a sick man for dying from his disease. Even this way. Probably what makes it harder.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon/Cetacian hybrid at April 23, 2014 08:04 PM (m9V0o)

393 371 Motorboatin http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V0O0nzkESTI

Posted by: Dendritic at April 23, 2014 08:05 PM (75hfB)

394 Show us on the doll where the bad monkey touched you.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 08:05 PM (JS0vr)

395 Thanks, Slap.

Posted by: Piercello at April 23, 2014 08:05 PM (jJ97i)

396 Rev. Chloe Breyer will be the first in a burkha or up against a wall. Jihad is an inner struggle to do good. Go. Fuck. Yourself.

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 08:05 PM (QeH9j)

397 I think this is a good time to point out that I hate fucking monkeys. Very much. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 24, 2014 12:02 AM (DmNpO) *********** "Show us ln the stuffed animal where the monkey touched you".

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 08:05 PM (ojnk6)

398 We don't know the state of their conscience. Posted by: nerdygirl at April 23, 2014 11:02 PM (ynL/v) And mercy. One often forgets that. We rely daily upon the mercy of God, else we could not live at all. The beauty of Catholicism often comes to light when one finds a way to make a confession more often than not, by which I mean weekly or so. Once people realize how beautiful the mercy and forgiveness of God can be, and how amazing it is to receive His body and blood without stain, a lot of the personal misbehavior of people in the Church starts to fade. Even if the priest is a dick, and there are a few, the forgiveness isn't hampered, nor is the Communion. Of course, if you need to put down roadblocks to confession in order to satisfy your pride or for some other reason, then it will be hard to get to that point. I do that, and I hate it. Much better when I remember to get my knees in the box.

Posted by: tcn at April 23, 2014 08:06 PM (lp+pe)

399 Ask a cop. Everybody wants to confess their sins.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 08:07 PM (JS0vr)

400 For the love of gah, will someone please send a PR rep to the Bundy Ranch?! http://t.co/tVUoUZYBEN

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 23, 2014 08:07 PM (DmNpO)

401 "Does that mean I'm fucked or forgiven? Will one of Bible thumpers help a brother out here?" Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 24, 2014 12:03 AM (3oRDB) You're fine...lol. I'm not a "Bible-Thumper", so there may be another answer. I still love you... lol.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 08:07 PM (lq3Ak)

402 Not a fan of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 08:08 PM (JS0vr)

403 377 290 #279: A friend of mine committed suicide several years ago, and I'd punch him in the mouth for it if he were here in front of me right now.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 23, 2014 11:28 PM (/96QU)
------
I'll second that. I wish I could get into Ace's time machine & go back to shake some sense into a couple friends...
I am tired of dealing with it. Twice in the last two years, I've been a little too close to it. First, no indictation whatsoever.

This last time, i was just too fucking close, and it hit hard. Hard. Brother Cavil, and I think, Bebe's are both (not) talking about the same friend of ours. Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 11:59 PM (HXQvh) Hide posts from (HXQvh)

I'm pretty sure that Bebe is not talking about Joffen.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 08:08 PM (T1005)

404 "Thanks, Slap." Posted by: Piercello at April 24, 2014 12:05 AM (jJ97i) You're welcome. It was a darned-good post.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 08:09 PM (lq3Ak)

405 Now, though, I'm starting to covet one of those really really powerful industrial excavation vacuums that will lift a bowling ball sized rock on the end of the nozzle. Posted by: torquewrench -------------------- I had a killer Craftsman lawn vac. I used vinyl lettering and named it 'Monica'. Lib neighbor borrowed it, and actually *complained* when he returned it. Didn't see the humor. One of these, http://www.precious-people.com/auctions/18373a.jpg

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 08:09 PM (aDwsi)

406 I also sort of think suicidal people aren't inclined to listen to reason, so emotional arguments against suicide are probably more likely to get traction with them.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 23, 2014 08:09 PM (/96QU)

407 You might be more likely to get a response if you didn't call people "bible thumpers". I'm not a Bible thumper. I'm a Christian.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2014 08:09 PM (XyM/Y)

408 NDH, it's the NYT.

Since they don't quote him, do you really think they're accurately stating what he actually said?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 08:10 PM (JS0vr)

409 "Does that mean I'm fucked or forgiven? Will one of Bible thumpers help a brother out here?" If you're trying, there's always divine Grace. You know...the true Hope.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon/Cetacian hybrid at April 23, 2014 08:10 PM (m9V0o)

410 386 Is this the IHFM support group? Posted by: RWC at April 24, 2014 12:02 AM (QeH9j) Hide posts from (QeH9j)

That's two doors down -- but don't go three doors, because that's "Getting Hit on the Head" lessons.

Posted by: Helpful Advice Department at April 23, 2014 08:10 PM (T1005)

411 382 #373: I'm glad you saw it that way, CM, because you're still around to share your wisdom and jokes with us as a result. Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 24, 2014 12:01 AM (/96QU) Never got close to action. Love has a gravitational pull in an opposite direction. Does inform what I think I'd say to someone on the edge. God have mercy on us.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 23, 2014 08:10 PM (M9BzG)

412 "So, yes, I do look down on people who commit suicide. Because they're assholes who don't give a shit what their loved ones go through as a result."

Just to throw a marker down:

I've been privately amazed at the proportion of the Horde who admit to carrying around depression, or at least having done so at some point in their lives. Not least the Boss Ewok.

But, perhaps unsurprising. In light of research showing that depressives actually tend to have the most accurate perception of what's going on in the real world. The mass of non-depressive humanity see the world through a gauzy veil of self-protective illusions and deceptions.

When depression reaches truly grand mal stages, however, individuals become incapable of accurately gauging the effect on the larger world of their own actions. A truly badly off depressive individual will actually figure their suicide to be a net positive and helpful thing for their loved ones.

In that circumstance, for a depressive, it's inaccurate to speak of them as being an asshole who doesn't care about the loss of their person hurting their family.

Just as though a blind person not being able to see their family's faces is not being an asshole, or a deaf person being unable to hear their voices is not being an asshole. It's a physiological condition beyond conscious correction.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 23, 2014 08:11 PM (noWW6)

413 That's two doors down -- but don't go three doors, because that's "Getting Hit on the Head" lessons. Posted by: Helpful --------------- I was looking for 'Arguments'

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 08:11 PM (aDwsi)

414 Don't worry, they're just doing "drills": Russia says conducting military drill near Ukraine http://tinyurl.com/nyrvkgc

Posted by: Thrawn at April 23, 2014 08:11 PM (WlWt+)

415 Posted by: torquewrench at April 24, 2014 12:11 AM (noWW6)

If you're not depressed, you're not paying attention.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 08:12 PM (JS0vr)

416 Yeah. It was a punch in the gut. Especially remembering the previous close call where he stepped back from the brink.

Even with the best of care, it takes its toll and claims its prey. And for the rest of us, it hurts like hell. But I can't blame a sick man for dying from his disease. Even this way. Probably what makes it harder.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon/Cetacian hybrid at April 24, 2014 12:04 AM (m9V0o)

The previous one was very close. I called a friend who actually came on that night to tell her story of finding her own father after he killed himself when she was 12 years old. She laid it all out about how it haunted her for years, and how it tormented her thinking how could he leave her, and etc etc. She painted a pretty clear picture of what the daughter would go through had he gone through with it. In the end it happened anyway, it does eventually take it's toll.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 23, 2014 08:12 PM (FMbng)

417 And I hope that didn't sound nasty. It wasn't intended to be. I just don't know any Christian who likes the term Bible thumper as it's usually used by leftists who also talk about the "big daddy in the sky"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2014 08:12 PM (XyM/Y)

418 So, yes, I do look down on people who commit suicide. Because they're assholes who don't give a shit what their loved ones go through as a result. Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 23, 2014 11:44 PM (/96QU) Has it occurred to you that they CAN'T give a shit? Don't go preaching about your holier than thou depressive episode. You had the blues. Those of us who have been to the darkest depths can see your little self-hate rant for what it is. You fear dropping that low, but you never did. You haven't a clue of what it is like, so maybe you should take your pontificating and jump off the dock.

Posted by: tcn at April 23, 2014 08:14 PM (lp+pe)

419 Since they don't quote him, do you really think they're accurately stating what he actually said? *** Uh. He IS quoted.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 23, 2014 08:14 PM (DmNpO)

420 I still love you... lol. Not in a gay, God-hating way I hope. GOD HELP YOUR SOUL! Help us Both. Help us All.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 23, 2014 08:14 PM (3oRDB)

421 "I'm glad you saw it that way, CM, because you're still around to share your wisdom and jokes with us as a result." Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 24, 2014 12:01 AM (/96QU) The same goes for you, Prothonotary. Whatever your scars, we'll deal with them. I merely post my opinion. It is not supposed to be used as a substitute for your own good judgement, Sir!

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 08:15 PM (lq3Ak)

422 Posted by: torquewrench at April 24, 2014 12:11 AM (noWW6) Thanks. You said much more articulately what I was getting at in an earlier post about people thinking that people would be better off without them. when that's not true and their own blackened thinking.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2014 08:15 PM (XyM/Y)

423 It's a physiological condition beyond conscious correction. Posted by: torquewrench at April 24, 2014 12:11 AM (noWW6) Okay, you said it much nicer than I did. Touched a nerve.

Posted by: tcn at April 23, 2014 08:15 PM (lp+pe)

424 OK, Show time. My Dad committed suicide, but not in any kind of conventional manner. He reached top Salesperson in his company, a life long goal. After that, he let his health go to hell as he had already climbed the mountain, in his view. He was a diagnosed manic-depressive, (now called bipolar). The whole family got to watch a two year long slow motion train wreck until his heart gave out. So, I don't hate those with those tendencies. I feel sorry for them and their families.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 08:15 PM (ojnk6)

425 When I contemplated oblivion, what stuck out to me is that it would be a dagger through the heart of all of my family. Miserable though I felt, I did not hate them that much. Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 23, 2014 11:59 PM (M9BzG) Family was key for me. I couldn't put them through that. Ex's younger brother did it in high school and the family is still hurt by it.

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 08:15 PM (QeH9j)

426 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 12:12 AM (XyM/Y)

Well usually it's being said by some Lucifer infected Atheist gleefully pissing all over religion.

So it's understandable how you could be sensitized to the phrase.

Me, I laugh cause I've seen some big Bibles in my time and if you ever got thumped with one, you'd be upset too.

The power of the word of the Lord compels you.

(to quit being an asshole) heh.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 08:16 PM (JS0vr)

427 I've been privately amazed at the proportion of the Horde who admit to carrying around depression,))) My oldest brother committed suicide. I have had my dark days where I contemplated that out. I'm still here partially because I saw close up what it does to family. I may have hated myself but I still loved them.

Posted by: Dendritic at April 23, 2014 08:17 PM (75hfB)

428 Good evening Horde! I'm feeling a little adrift tonight, but it shall pass. Also, a little weirded out seeing so many slick sleeves in that 82ndAB pic.

Posted by: Country Singer at April 23, 2014 08:17 PM (vn9w4)

429 405 Now, though, I'm starting to covet one of those really really powerful industrial excavation vacuums that will lift a bowling ball sized rock on the end of the nozzle.

Posted by: torquewrench
--------------------

I had a killer Craftsman lawn vac. I used vinyl lettering and named it 'Monica'. Lib neighbor borrowed it, and actually *complained* when he returned it. Didn't see the humor.
One of these,
http://www.precious-people.com/auctions/18373a.jpg Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 24, 2014 12:09 AM (aDwsi) Hide posts from (aDwsi)

Ooooooh, nice. I didn't know Craftsman had ever made one of those.

I'll tell you what is a complete pain in the ass except using a vacuum -- when camellias dump their spent blossoms and stuff into a bed of baby's tears. You can root around forever with your hands and you'll likely only find stuff after it's half-rotted and slimy, rakes tear everything up, using a leafblower only pushes stuff in deeper.....

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 08:18 PM (T1005)

430 I was looking for 'Arguments' Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 24, 2014 12:11 AM (aDwsi) We have 9mm v. .45 Is racking a shotgung a deterrent? Reliability of AR v. Ak. Tomorrow is crossbow v. Longbow in the main hall.

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 08:18 PM (QeH9j)

431 Well usually it's being said by some Lucifer infected Atheist gleefully pissing all over religion. LOL. I appreciate that, I needed to laugh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2014 08:19 PM (XyM/Y)

432 This long post conveniently broken up into readable bite sizes as if I'd been commenting all along... ___ "Intentionally Crashed Into the Far Side of the Moon" would have been a big hit for the Bee Sharps, if Rock 'n' Roll hadn't taken off that week. ___ Motorboarding... Mae West... I don't get it.

http://torontofilmsociety.org/files/2013/11/She-Done-Him-Wrong-3.jpg ____ Heart goes out to Jinx. And all those similarly hurt. Many, many moving, thoughtful, thought-provoking, considerate (and communing) comments I've just enjoyed lurking through. Who are you people and what have you done with the Horde? ____ Speaking of who are you people (subtle contextual segue!), we just watched the next-to-last episode of Eureka tonight. It's been a fun series. I think the last multi-year tv series I actually watched to the end must have been Farscape. ____ Mindful Webworks goes all-in for the Clinton-Bush UniParty ticket in 2016. Download your posters now! (cliikity ze niikity) ___ I sure hope I closed all the tags. I did an open-strike/close-italic followed by an open-strike/close-boldface (it was the small screen's autoincorrect, really! plus bad editing, but mostly.. okay) and Pixy only put in one close-strike (checked the HTML), proving my theory that The Pixy Tag Closing Software PatchÂ™ is defeated by double-opening tags. Fixed in #twoweeks. ___ And let me warn everyone, should you ever find yourself in the barrel, and wonder about that hatch in the floor? Do not open and by all that's holy, do not climb down!!! I will recover. Someday. Probably. ___ Back to the cell. Good night, Gracies.

Posted by: mindful webworker is gone again at April 23, 2014 08:19 PM (U13jb)

433 Anyway, fuck, out. Yeah, I said "fuck." I hope Jesus punishes me for that tomorrow. And for also owning a Government Motors vehicle, fuck me. Maybe God can refund my money. We'll see.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 23, 2014 08:20 PM (3oRDB)

434 Had to go out and get a white shirt, the one I had turned yellow in the closet. Had to go get a new suit today too, the ones I had shrank in the closet. Must have a steam leak in there or something...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 23, 2014 08:20 PM (yh0zB)

435 427 I've been privately amazed at the proportion of the Horde who admit to carrying around depression,))) My oldest brother committed suicide. I have had my dark days where I contemplated that out. I'm still here partially because I saw close up what it does to family. I may have hated myself but I still loved them. Posted by: Dendritic at April 24, 2014 12:17 AM (75hfB) If you can't admit it to pixel people then you'll have some rough times. AoSHQ should charge for cathartic therapy.

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 08:20 PM (QeH9j)

436 "Not in a gay, God-hating way I hope. GOD HELP YOUR SOUL! Help us Both. Help us All." Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 24, 2014 12:14 AM (3oRDB) You think I opened a tanning salon at age 24 because I was teh ghey? LOL. I was "Hot-Chick Curious". I "experimented" with strippers because I was young. ...and stupid. ...and I didn't have 'crabs' yet.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 08:20 PM (lq3Ak)

437 Don't worry, they're just doing "drills":

Posted by: Thrawn at April 24, 2014 12:11 AM (WlWt+)

Well, that's what you do in preparation for war.

Posted by: Country Singer at April 23, 2014 08:21 PM (vn9w4)

438 If Hillary gets to be prez she's gonna hafta wash that hair once in awhile.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at April 23, 2014 08:21 PM (4Chvm)

439 Hmm. Well, this got morose in a hurry. What do do... Ah, yes, this: /launches trebuchet load of sugar gliders ...and with that, it's a night. Stay well, Horde...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon/Cetacian hybrid at April 23, 2014 08:22 PM (m9V0o)

440 I was "Hot-Chick Curious". What did you find?

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 23, 2014 08:22 PM (M9BzG)

441 I was looking for 'Arguments'

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 24, 2014 12:11 AM (aDwsi)

_____________

No you weren't.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at April 23, 2014 08:22 PM (jucos)

442 Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 24, 2014 12:20 AM (yh0zB New job?

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 08:24 PM (QeH9j)

443 Oh. didn't read that far.

Still, it's odd that some of that's very similar to what was said by the Duck Dynasty guy.

And frankly, I don't believe anything the NYT has to say. I believe they would lie and distort what someone said without a problem with it at all.

So either way. No one who reads that that believes it is his friend anyway and anyone who is a friend understands what he probably meant.

And what he said that might be offensive has nothing to do with what the government tried to do.

Too much pussy footing around. Too much worrying about what some twit in San Jose is going to think.

I'm tired of people being verbally crucified and vilified for being politically incorrect. I'm tired of everyone having to be oh so careful of what they say in case it might get taken the wrong way and taint "our side".

Anyone who's going to be that judgmental wouldn't be on "our side" anyway.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 08:24 PM (JS0vr)

444 If you can't admit it to pixel people then you'll have some rough times. ))) What does it say about me that I waited till so many others had jumped in the pool first? ( I like to follow my catharsis with a little levity)

Posted by: Dendritic at April 23, 2014 08:24 PM (75hfB)

445 cthulhu - That Craftsman that I had comes with a hose that attaches to the round port on the front, so that you can use a 4" hose with it to vacuum. Kinda like: http://newhavenpower.com/BG_KD612.jpg

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 08:25 PM (aDwsi)

446 Tomorrow is crossbow v. Longbow in the main hall. Posted by: RWC at April 24, 2014 12:18 AM (QeH9j) Long sword vs. katana at noon

Posted by: fargo bob at April 23, 2014 08:26 PM (BbHYt)

447 When I was around 2 my father suffered a bleeding ulcer, nearly died, and came to the conclusion that the stress and nerves of trying to achieve something wasn't worth it. The decline of our family began. Of course he came to that particular conclusion because he thought the bleeding ulcer was caused by stress, as everybody else did. We know different now. Sometimes I marvel how a wrong medical "fact" shaped much of my life.

Posted by: Sister Sestina at April 23, 2014 08:27 PM (LtUE0)

448 444 -- two-thirds of a beast?

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 08:27 PM (T1005)

449 I was looking for 'Arguments'Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 24, 2014 12:11 AM (aDwsi) _____________No you weren't. Posted by: Truck Monkey ---------------------------------------- lol

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 08:27 PM (aDwsi)

450 ...and I didn't have 'crabs' yet. Well, shit. Jesus would tell you not to fuck with the crabs. What were you thinking? He been there. He knows what's up.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 23, 2014 08:27 PM (3oRDB)

451 Okay, that's it. I'm showing my niece the pic of Hillary and telling her that if I ever go out of the house looking like that, either shoot me or commit me. The NFL football schedule is out. Opening night - Green Bay at Seattle - bring on Fail Mary: The Sequel! Week 3 -Peyton and Friends come to Seattle for a regular season game. Could be fun! Thanksgiving night: Seattle/SanFran. Me likely! (I be a Seahawk fan, circa 1976-the present) But Russell Wilson is getting a divorce. Damn.

Posted by: dwagyak at April 23, 2014 08:28 PM (nVGST)

452 "What did you find?" Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 24, 2014 12:22 AM (M9BzG) That sixteen and seventeen-year-olds are "curious", but if you want to stay open, as a business? N.O. -W.A.Y. -P.L.A.U.S.I.B.L.E. PERIOD. "Coy" and "ignorant" are your best bet. -Strippers are "easy". -Ego fades. -Beakers crack under high heat.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 08:29 PM (lq3Ak)

453 444 If you can't admit it to pixel people then you'll have some rough times. ))) What does it say about me that I waited till so many others had jumped in the pool first? ( I like to follow my catharsis with a little levity) Posted by: Dendritic at April 24, 2014 12:24 AM (75hfB) I wasn't saying 'you' specifically. Just generally. It took me forever to open up to real live people about stuff. Talking to 'strangers' helped push that along.

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 08:29 PM (QeH9j)

454 444 -- two-thirds of a beast?))) I was told there would be no math on this blog.

Posted by: Dendritic at April 23, 2014 08:29 PM (75hfB)

455 I argue against suicide in such judgmental terms in large part because I think such arguments would've been more effective on me when I was struggling with suicidal urges, myself. Because nobody uses such arguments, generally speaking, it took having one friend attempt suicide and then another friend succeed at it for me to realize just how much suicide sucks for loved ones of the perpetrator.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 23, 2014 08:30 PM (/96QU)

456 It's actually 999 people.

ST. John was looking at it upside down!!!1!1!!!!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 08:30 PM (JS0vr)

457 "Well, shit. Jesus would tell you not to fuck with the crabs. What were you thinking? He been there. He knows what's up." Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 24, 2014 12:27 AM (3oRDB) I don't remember provoking you. If I did, I apologize.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 08:31 PM (lq3Ak)

458 445 cthulhu - That Craftsman that I had comes with a hose that attaches to the round port on the front, so that you can use a 4" hose with it to vacuum. Kinda like:
http://newhavenpower.com/BG_KD612.jpg Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 24, 2014 12:25 AM (aDwsi) Hide posts from (aDwsi)

You know that's probably illegal in California, don't you?

I'm still covered in gnat bites from almost two weeks ago, and I need to GTFO of this state so bad.....yeah, other states have bugs, but they don't make you put up orange facades where your bug-screens are going to be three months in advance to allow your neighbors and random-passers-by to object to your design.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 08:31 PM (T1005)

459 Long sword vs. katana at noon Posted by: fargo bob at April 24, 2014 12:26 AM (BbHYt) That was cancelled. None of the Longsword support group RSVP'd.

Stir it up

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 08:31 PM (QeH9j)

460 through the years, now and then, I have wondered about the option of suicide.

Not really seriously but enough to contemplate how I would go about it.

The thing that has kept me from it was a comment by a guy in the '60's who told me that if I kept my attitude, I was going to commit suicide before I was 40.

Now I didn't change my attitude (asshole with pretentions of smarm) but I did remember the comment and whenever I'd think about suicide I always came down on the side of "I'm not gonna let that bastard be right".

So even though I'm way beyond 40, I'm still not gonna let that bastard be right.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 08:35 PM (JS0vr)

461 New job?

Posted by: RWC at April 24, 2014 12:24 AM (QeH9j)

Unfortunately no, and regrettably it ties into this thread...funeral tomorrow, but not a suicide. A young man of 22, cut down in his prime.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 23, 2014 08:36 PM (yh0zB)

462 So even though I'm way beyond 40, I'm still not gonna let that bastard be right.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 24, 2014 12:35 AM (JS0vr)

Never thought about it.

Homicide once or twice, maybe, but never suicide.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 23, 2014 08:38 PM (yh0zB)

463 455 I argue against suicide in such judgmental terms in large part because I think such arguments would've been more effective on me when I was struggling with suicidal urges, myself. I hope I never have to test this, but I'd like to ask a suicidal person, "How much do you hate me?" Even for a total stranger - we create connections. And suicide traumatizes all those left behind. It's never just one's own self. "No one cares if you live or die" is a damn lie.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 23, 2014 08:38 PM (M9BzG)

464 438 If Hillary gets to be prez she's gonna hafta wash that hair once in awhile. Posted by: katya the designated driver at April 24, 2014 12:21 AM (4Chvm) She's going to the same groomer as Debbie Whatshername-Schlitz

Posted by: model_1066 at April 23, 2014 08:39 PM (tNrYO)

465 I wasn't saying 'you' specifically. Just generally. It took me forever to open up to real live people about stuff. Talking to 'strangers' helped push that along.))) I did not take your comment as an affront just as a way to keep in the conversation. Since I am only slightly less awkward here than with face to face conversations.

Posted by: Dendritic at April 23, 2014 08:39 PM (75hfB)

466 "I argue against suicide in such judgmental terms in large part because I think such arguments would've been more effective on me when I was struggling with suicidal urges, myself" Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 24, 2014 12:30 AM (/96QU) That's understandable. -I'm just glad that you're still around. You're still arguing. You're still aware that others would take your loss as hard as it should be taken. Keep Kicking Ass! You're mainly correct that it is "selfish", but "Loss of Self", alongside mental illness is real. I pray that you continue to call me out for whatever reason. Without someone calling something I've said into question, I can't re-examine "deep" aspects of my life.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 08:39 PM (lq3Ak)

467 #463: I completely agree.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 23, 2014 08:39 PM (/96QU)

468 Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 24, 2014 12:36 AM (yh0zB) Sorry. Condolences.

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 08:41 PM (QeH9j)

469 I used to be truculently "it's my body to kill." Then someone I knew committed suicide. One sees and feel the tsunami of emotions that crash against you and everyone around and you realize - no. I have sworn, officially, solemnly to my husband I would not commit suicide.

Posted by: Sister Sestina at April 23, 2014 08:41 PM (LtUE0)

470 Posted by: RWC at April 24, 2014 12:31 AM (QeH9j)

Actually, the medium sword (falchiona, falchion, sabre etc) is actually the most used and favored edged weapon in all of history.

The reason they know this is because it is almost impossible to find examples from ancient times. They have sculptures and paintings that depict them but no examples. Plenty of examples of the big swords and such but it's assumed that because the shorter swords were so versatile, so useful, so valued that they were used until they wore out.

Thus no examples in graves, tombs, barrows, etc. and few examples in old battle fields and such.

I think there's few examples extant of the Roman Spatha for the same reasons.

So suck it Glamdring, Anduril, Narsil et al. The man with the medium sized sword will kick your ass. (mainly because you're outnumbered you dumbass and the fucking swords too heavy)

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 08:41 PM (JS0vr)

471 I always thought that suicide is the last desperate act of a selfish man/woman. I have tempered that a bit having known some people that committed suicide. It truly does ruin the people that are left behind.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at April 23, 2014 08:42 PM (jucos)

472 Thanks RWC.

And with that, I'd better go get some shut-eye. Funeral is tomorrow at noon in Winston-Salem, two hours from home, so I've got to be up at 8:30.

Later roonz and roonettez, fear no evil!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 23, 2014 08:42 PM (yh0zB)

473 After this conversation, I think I'll take the doggeh for a midnight walk to lower my blood pressure (cthulhu - don't fucking panic!). Remember that I was going to ask a question (WAY back upthread)? Is this a Freudian Slip? Or just a funny? I was In the back garage this evening looking for a small box of 1" pin nails for the trim gun. I have my crown stapler, large pin naiiler, all the boxes of 5000 nails that goes with them - but I can't find this little pack of 1000 one inch pin nails. I'd been looking for twenty minutes already. In frustration, I yell out loud to myself "I know I have a small package!" I hear laughing from next door - that damn neighbor hasn't been outside since last summer, but he was 30feet away when I shout outs hat shit out. Go figure.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 08:43 PM (QoLTq)

474 I did not take your comment as an affront just as a way to keep in the conversation. Since I am only slightly less awkward here than with face to face conversations. Posted by: Dendritic at April 24, 2014 12:39 AM (75hfB) Going to the NoVaMoMe sober. Talk about awkward!

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 08:43 PM (QeH9j)

475 but I can't find this little pack of 1000 one inch pin nails. I'd been looking for twenty minutes already. ----------------- Happens to me all of the time. I've had something on hand for months, maybe years. Time comes to use it, and I can't find it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 08:46 PM (aDwsi)

476 Not that anyone cares, but it was heartening to see that the vast majority of comments on the Avril Lavigne Hello Kitty basically said: this is not racist, get over yourselves, WTH? Given that it was an EOnline story, I didn't expect that level of common sense in the comments. Perhaps people really are getting fed up with everything is rayciss!!!elebenty!! Even non-political folks.

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 08:46 PM (r+7wo)

477 Posted by: shredded chi at April 24, 2014 12:43 AM (QoLTq) Heh. Freudian slip or not, it's pretty funny.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 23, 2014 08:46 PM (M9BzG)

478 OH, and one nit pick.

to everyone who says "I've never thought of suicide"?

yes you have and rejected it but you have thought about it.

Just as many other people have. Thought about it and rejected it.

The length of time contemplating does not count, only the final result.

it's like saying I never thought of a pink elephant. there, you just did.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 08:47 PM (JS0vr)

479 The Bible says suicide is bad. The Bible also says be carful judging other lest you be judged. There is no reason to glorify suicide and many reasons to rail against it. It may be best to rail against it when you are less likely to be doing it in front of someone suffering a recent loss. I'll let God figure out their punishment just like he will for me.

Posted by: Dendritic at April 23, 2014 08:48 PM (75hfB)

480 "yeah, other states have bugs, but they don't make you put up orange facades where your bug-screens are going to be three months in advance to allow your neighbors and random-passers-by to object to your design."

Isn't Commiefornia awesome?

Almost as good as having the CA authorities roaming around with infrared scopes to detect and apprehend people guilty of the heinous crime of... building fires in their fireplaces.

I remember an environmentalist bumper sticker common in NorCal in the 1970s: "Split wood, not atoms."

Well, now you can split as much wood as you want, but if you dare burn so much as a twig worth of it contrary to official dictates, expect for the planetary purity police to be knocking on your door in the name of the greater good.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 23, 2014 08:48 PM (noWW6)

481 Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 24, 2014 12:46 AM (aDwsi)

I'm still unpacking and/or can't find shit I packed when I moved 8 years ago.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 08:48 PM (JS0vr)

482 "I know I have a small package!" --------------------- My elderly mother would occasionally take care of my sister and BIL's little dog if they were traveling. The problem? The dogs name was Bourbon. So, my mother would have to stand out on the front porch, calling the dog. "Bourbon! Bourbon!"

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 08:49 PM (aDwsi)

483 "I have sworn, officially, solemnly to my husband I would not commit suicide." Posted by: Sister Sestina at April 24, 2014 12:41 AM (LtUE0) The "splash damage" is devastating. Please don't solely commit to one individual. Commit to all those who are around you. Betrayal begets betrayal. Commit to other Loved Ones that your Truth is beyond the taking of your own life. Share the thoughts with your closest relatives and friends. Find that dedication to "those you don't know", as a font of beauty. Work at the church and feed the indigent, struggling poor. That is something greater than yourself. It reinforces your fragile and beloved Humanity.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 08:49 PM (lq3Ak)

484 Posted by: shredded chi at April 24, 2014 12:43 AM (QoLTq) If you're questioning yelling out 'I have a small package' as being a Freudian slip.. Just drop that comment alone in any thread here and look at the responses.

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 08:49 PM (QeH9j)

485 I'm still unpacking and/or can't find shit I packed when I moved 8 years ago. Posted by: Bitter Clinger ------------------ 17 years..., I've been looking for stuff that was packed up 17 years ago.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 08:50 PM (aDwsi)

486 jeez somebody post some pictures of boobs people cant be mad or sad when confronted with boobs

Posted by: thunderb at April 23, 2014 08:50 PM (zOTsN)

487 481 Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 24, 2014 12:46 AM (aDwsi) I'm still unpacking and/or can't find shit I packed when I moved 8 years ago. Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 24, 2014 12:48 AM (JS0vr) Well, you sometimes have those "Wow! I thought I'd lost this!" moments from time to time, right?

Posted by: model_1066 at April 23, 2014 08:50 PM (tNrYO)

488 My sister was at the Boston conference where Hillary! spoke and, believe it or not, she brought up Bengazhi during her speech (as an example of one of the trials she faced as SecState). She is completely without shame or even consciousness of fault.

Posted by: MTF at April 23, 2014 08:51 PM (B+HTd)

489 Well, you sometimes have those "Wow! I thought I'd lost this!" moments from time to time, right? Posted by: model ---------------------- Yeah. Also the "Hmm. I know I bought this for some project. I wonder what it was..?"

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 08:52 PM (aDwsi)

490 488 My sister was at the Boston conference where Hillary! spoke and, believe it or not, she brought up Bengazhi during her speech (as an example of one of the trials she faced as SecState). She is completely without shame or even consciousness of fault. Posted by: MTF at April 24, 2014 12:51 AM (B+HTd) She should face a trial for that disaster, that's for sure.

Posted by: model_1066 at April 23, 2014 08:52 PM (tNrYO)

491 I'm out for the night. Here's a song fitting the current topic of discussion... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp7svl4l5Dk Good night, everyone!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 23, 2014 08:52 PM (/96QU)

492 I'm a pretty-face man myself.

Any more breast than a handful's a waste in my view.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 08:52 PM (JS0vr)

493 Ah, shit. Is it Argue About Suicide Day again?

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i][/b] at April 23, 2014 08:53 PM (ujux6)

494 people cant be mad or sad when confronted with boobs Posted by: thunderb at April 24, 2014 12:50 AM (zOTsN) Really?

Posted by: Helen Thomas at April 23, 2014 08:53 PM (M9BzG)

495 Yup. About to chime 1 a.m. Should have been in bed at least an hour ago. I am out.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 08:54 PM (aDwsi)

496 Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 24, 2014 12:53 AM (ujux6)

You can take the "Pro" side.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 08:54 PM (JS0vr)

497 486 somebody post some pictures of boobs people cant be mad or sad when confronted with boobs Posted by: thunderb at April 24, 2014 12:50 AM (zOTsN) Done! http://tinyurl.com/mnuqhgs

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 08:54 PM (ojnk6)

498 I am out.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 24, 2014 12:54 AM (aDwsi)

____________________

No you're not.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at April 23, 2014 08:55 PM (jucos)

499 wet t shirt contest zombie Helen Thomas Hillary "the bitch of Benghazi" Clinton Barbara Mikulski who do you pick and why

Posted by: thunderb at April 23, 2014 08:55 PM (zOTsN)

500 that's a bit . . . overwhelming.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 08:55 PM (JS0vr)

501 Truck - Yes, I am. And still chuckling.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 08:56 PM (aDwsi)

502 Posted by: thunderb at April 24, 2014 12:55 AM (zOTsN)

RUNAWAY!!!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 08:56 PM (JS0vr)

503 Anybody checked out that flightradar24.com site? That's some pretty cool stuff there. I knew that there are quite a lot of planes in the sky at any given moment, but seeing it like that is pretty neat.

Posted by: model_1066 at April 23, 2014 08:56 PM (tNrYO)

504 I recently yelled at a friend who is no longer suicidal who said he would commit suicide if there was no chance something he thought was important could happen. I yelled at him and basically called him a petulant juvenile selfish jerk for even thinking of doing that to his family and those of us who love him. I really did give it to him because he deserved it. He just stared at me and I have no idea if my words made a difference. I would definitely not take that approach with someone who is depressed and at risk of actually taking his or her life, though.

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 08:56 PM (r+7wo)

505 Oh, one more cheery happy floppy fuzzy bunny thought about depression and suicide:

I recall an observation by someone who had spent a few months plumbing the lowest depths one can reach in frank clinical depression.

He said that he was comfortably prepared for death, and contemplating suicide constantly, and would have done so, except that volitional action to do that or anything else was too enormous a burden.

Instead, he simply lay there in bed completely immobile, day after day, in his own body wastes. Waiting and wishing to die of dehydration.

It's a really tough thing to communicate. Not to mention that the majority of the depressives who have submerged that far in the disease don't survive, and hence never come back to the surface to relate their experience.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 23, 2014 08:57 PM (noWW6)

506 My friend knows I love him very dearly though and I am often quite blunt with him. And he's a great guy in so many ways.

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 08:58 PM (r+7wo)

507 Posted by: torquewrench at April 24, 2014 12:57 AM (noWW6)

That's the "I can't be bothered to work up the effort" school of suicide prevention.

My inertia has probably kept me going. (a little physics humor there)

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 08:58 PM (JS0vr)

508 You can take the "Pro" side.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger

Imma about to stun ya; there is no 'win' in the argument.

***

Is yahoo mail down for anyone else?

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i][/b] at April 23, 2014 08:58 PM (ujux6)

509 There has bee a lot of loss and contemplation around The Horde recently. While we may debate aspects of loss, separation from God and the derivatives from; and consequences thereof -? I still love coming here. It is a thought-provoking zone of influential voices. Thoughtful and provocative. If it were up to me, I'd talk about baseball 24/7. I don't come here for baseball, obviously. I'd say, "let's change the atmosphere", but it is not up to me. That being said? ...I love the Cleveland Indians. Chief Wahoo is here to stay. Go Tribe!

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 08:59 PM (lq3Ak)

510 499 wet t shirt contest zombie Helen Thomas Hillary "the bitch of Benghazi" Clinton Barbara Mikulski who do you pick and why Posted by: thunderb at April 24, 2014 12:55 AM (zOTsN) That should be titled: The Mudshark vs The Swamp Donkey

Posted by: model_1066 at April 23, 2014 08:59 PM (tNrYO)

511 ... so.... the topic is Death by Upton? I could think of worse ways out

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at April 23, 2014 08:59 PM (30eLQ)

512 Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 24, 2014 12:52 AM (JS0vr) License plate says A55 Man.q

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 08:59 PM (QeH9j)

513 "Is yahoo mail down for anyone else?" Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 24, 2014 12:58 AM (ujux6) Mine is up-and-running.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 09:00 PM (lq3Ak)

514 But yeah, face is a plus.

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 09:00 PM (QeH9j)

515 Daily Mail Christina Hendricks boobs. http://tinyurl.com/mv6oown

Posted by: Dendritic at April 23, 2014 09:00 PM (75hfB)

516 http://tinyurl.com/ma5ejn5 My donation.q

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 09:02 PM (QeH9j)

517 wet t shirt contest

zombie Helen Thomas

Hillary "the bitch of Benghazi" Clinton

Barbara Mikulski

who do you pick and why

Posted by: thunderb at April 24, 2014 12:55 AM (zOTsN)

Zombie helen thomas. By now she is bones and looks like bones, and we're used to bones.Hanging model skeletons in the biology class, the doctors office, pirate skull and cross bone flags, etc Hell, I got a guitar with a skull and cross bones on it. Old horror movies got bones, bones everywhere. We're just just to bones.

But the 2 alive ones in that list? No fucking living oxygen breather is used to seeing that shit in a wet T-shirt.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 23, 2014 09:02 PM (FMbng)

518 My Yahoo mail was down about half an hour ago, but I see I can log in just now.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 23, 2014 09:02 PM (M9BzG)

519 "My inertia has probably kept me going. (a little physics humor there)"

Hysteresis, motherfucker! Do you speak it?

Posted by: torquewrench at April 23, 2014 09:02 PM (noWW6)

520 So do guys prefer a butter face with a nice body to a pretty woman who could stand to lose a few (not that many) pounds and isn't super toned?

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 09:03 PM (r+7wo)

521 Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 09:04 PM (r+7wo)

522 George Clooney and Casino mogul Steve Wynn in a spat. Wynn called Clooney a drunk after Clooney called him an asshole. The daily mail below The verbal assault between the Oscar-winner and Steve Wynn occurred two weeks ago when Clooney was in Las Vegas promoting his Casamigos tequila. He was invited to dine with Wynn and his wife, Andrea Hissom, at the fancy Botero restaurant inside the 72-year-old's Encore hotel. But when dinner was finished, the conversation turned to Obama's Affordable Care Act, of which Wynn is a vocal opponent. Clooney immediately took exception to how the billionaire chairman and CEO spoke of his 'longtime friend.' He allegedly declared that he didn't have to listen to 'this f***ing stuff' before exiting to another bar. In a statement, Clooney said: 'It had nothing to do with politics and everything to do with character.'

Posted by: thunderb at April 23, 2014 09:04 PM (zOTsN)

523 515 Christina Hendricks looks like a freaking Barbie doll.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 09:05 PM (ojnk6)

524 Â So, my mother would have to stand out on the front porch, calling the dog. "Bourbon! Bourbon!" Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 24, 2014 12:49 AM (aDwsi) ------- Heh. My favorite nickname for the doggeh is "poopstain" - anything close to poopyhead. imagine my smile when I hear my 76 yr old mom hollering "POOPSTAIN!" at the top of her lungs on the front porch... she doesn't realize that he's been laying on the couch for ten minutes.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 09:05 PM (QoLTq)

525 520 So do guys prefer a butter face with a nice body to a pretty woman who could stand to lose a few (not that many) pounds and isn't super toned? Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:03 AM (r+7wo) I think the answer to that is "Yes."

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 23, 2014 09:06 PM (M9BzG)

526 Mine is up-and-running.

Posted by: Slapweasel

My Yahoo mail was down about half an hour ago, but I see I can log in just now.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster

Frickin' weird - thanks,

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i][/b] at April 23, 2014 09:06 PM (ujux6)

527 Dammit. Here. http://tinyurl.com/lhvgm5z

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 09:06 PM (QeH9j)

528 Wynn told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that Clooney likes his alcohol and 'got drunk' after drinking tequila shots. 'When he's drinking, he considers himself a close personal buddy of the president,' the said. 'Clooney's fun to be with when he's sober. If you have a chance to drink with him, you want to get there early, and don't stay late. 'Everybody who's in my business, the casino business, knows to take actors with a grain of salt.' Wynn added Clooney's partners were 'mortified.'

Posted by: thunderb at April 23, 2014 09:06 PM (zOTsN)

529 "So do guys prefer a butter face with a nice body to a pretty woman who could stand to lose a few (not that many) pounds and isn't super toned?" Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:03 AM (r+7wo) HAH! Give me a cute face and a great attitude Every. Single. Time! I've got long-enough arms to hug the shit* out of a big girl! ...*please don't shit the chair, bed, sofa, love-seat, etc.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 09:07 PM (lq3Ak)

530 Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:03 AM (r+7wo) Pretty face.

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 09:07 PM (QeH9j)

531 520 So do guys prefer a butter face with a nice body to a pretty woman who could stand to lose a few (not that many) pounds and isn't super toned? Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:03 AM (r+7wo) I'd say the latter: being super toned sometimes means being an annoying gym rat who eats celery and tofu all the time.

Posted by: model_1066 at April 23, 2014 09:07 PM (tNrYO)

532 so.... the topic is Death by Upton? I could think of worse ways out Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at April 24, 2014 12:59 AM (30eLQ) ********* I could offer her the best six seconds of my life.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 09:07 PM (ojnk6)

533 Slapweasel: I am an introvert's introvert. Though I have a decent array of acquaintances, none of such a level that I could talk to in such a way. A couple of friendships but all in dormancy. One member of the family still alive who could even understand the language I would make such a pledge in, but to be frank, I'm probably worth more to him dead than alive. This is all fine by me. Like I said, an introvert's introvert. But the husband is enough. Should he die before me, then we'll talk.

Posted by: Sister Sestina at April 23, 2014 09:07 PM (LtUE0)

534 people cant be mad or sad when confronted with boobs ))) I agree whole heartedly. I laugh and laugh at the boobs Obama sends to deal with me.

Posted by: Putin at April 23, 2014 09:08 PM (75hfB)

535 "I think the answer to that is "Yes."" Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 24, 2014 01:06 AM (M9BzG) *HAH!*

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 09:08 PM (lq3Ak)

536 Remember the Reid brothers from Jesus + Mary Chain? Just found out there's a Reid sister: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM69ixr9i5w

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at April 23, 2014 09:08 PM (30eLQ)

537 Posted by: shredded chi at April 24, 2014 01:05 AM (QoLTq) That's funny...I call my bully-dog Fatso McPoopsalot.

Posted by: model_1066 at April 23, 2014 09:09 PM (tNrYO)

538 Posted by: thunderb at April 24, 2014 01:06 AM (zOTsN) Wynn insulted his Tiger Beat centerfold. Would have love to have seen that. 'i'm good friends with the President.' Your friend is an asshole. Love it.

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 09:09 PM (QeH9j)

539 So do guys prefer a butter face with a nice body to a pretty woman who could stand to lose a few (not that many) pounds and isn't super toned?

Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:03 AM (r+7wo)

___________________

HEY GOOD LOOKIN'. WE'LL BE BACK TO PICK YOU UP LATER!!!

Posted by: Mister Microphone at April 23, 2014 09:09 PM (jucos)

540 So do guys prefer a butter face with a nice body to a pretty woman who could stand to lose a few (not that many) pounds and isn't super toned? ))) The one that like the word yes more.

Posted by: Dendritic at April 23, 2014 09:10 PM (75hfB)

541 So do guys prefer a butter face with a nice body to a pretty woman who could stand to lose a few (not that many) pounds and isn't super toned?

Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:03 AM (r+7wo)

For marrying, or water sports?

Personally I would take the pretty face and a slightly less than perfect body over a supermodel body with the face of a seahag.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 23, 2014 09:11 PM (FMbng)

542 Thanks for answering so quickly guys (including those who answer after I post this). I'm curious about the way men's minds work. True story. I recently put on quite a bit of weight. (i'm not fat, yet

, but I am quite a bit more curvy than I used to be). And this is the first time in a while I have not been obsessed about my weight. (i've always liked my body. I just always used to talk and think about my weight.) I'm actually thinking of staying at this weight. Isn't that funny?

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 09:12 PM (r+7wo)

543 Lovely to look at, delightful to know and heaven to kiss.

I don't want much do I?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 09:13 PM (JS0vr)

544 ..."But the husband is enough. Should he die before me, then we'll talk." Posted by: Sister Sestina at April 24, 2014 01:07 AM (LtUE0) Bless you and your husband!

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 09:13 PM (lq3Ak)

545 Personally I would take the pretty face and a slightly less than perfect body over a supermodel body with the face of a seahag. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 24, 2014 01:11 AM (FMbng) Matthew Broderick could have used that advice 20 years ago.

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 09:13 PM (QeH9j)

546 I saw a hefty guy in the grocery store awhile back wearing a shirt that said: I'm in shape...round is a shape.

Posted by: model_1066 at April 23, 2014 09:13 PM (tNrYO)

547 #520: Just came back to say, the woman's personality makes a big difference in answering that particular question. Now, I know you're a good-looking lady, Chique, because I've seen the pictures. And the personality you've shown in your posts here on top of that seals the deal as far as I'm concerned. So, yeah, whatever the standard is, you make the cut, in my opinion.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at April 23, 2014 09:14 PM (/96QU)

548 True story. I recently put on quite a bit of weight. (i'm not fat, yet , but I am quite a bit more curvy than I used to be). And this is the first time in a while I have not been obsessed about my weight. (i've always liked my body. I just always used to talk and think about my weight.) I'm actually thinking of staying at this weight. Isn't that funny? Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:12 AM (r+7wo) ********* If you're happy with your body, stay with it. IMO.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 09:15 PM (ojnk6)

549

The personality is key. A woman needs to be able to converse well and be a nice companion. Faces and bodies are less important.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at April 23, 2014 09:15 PM (jucos)

550 "being super toned sometimes means being an annoying gym rat who eats celery and tofu all the time."

There's a woman I've known for twenty years now, who at the time I first met her was a really intensive exercise addict, to the point where she had burned off all her subcutaneous fat as fuel for running and swimming, and attained a pure gaunt angularity.

Great muscular definition, to be sure. Just not that feminine to my eye.

Fast forward a few years. Desk job, regular travel, expense account meals, had to slack off on the marathoning and the competitive swimming. Her healthy core musculature was still there, but the softer layer above it had come back, and I thought she looked infinitely the better for that.

And, come to think of it, felt better too when hugged. Less skeletal.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 23, 2014 09:15 PM (noWW6)

551 520Â So do guys prefer a butter face with a nice body to a pretty woman who could stand to lose a few (not that many) pounds and isn't super toned? Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:03 AM (r+7wo) ---------- I'll take that at "face value" & assume it's an honest question - without any other qualifiers, I'm going for the pretty, but chubby girl. That said, what is her attitude like? I'll be 47 in a couple weeks - I learned long ago to cast aside the unimportant, vain, external shit. Is she a moronette?

Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 09:15 PM (QoLTq)

552 And let's say that the added weight has added some heft for the first time to, ahem, a very desirable area. Nothing spectacular but more heft than I've ever had in that, um, region. Which I am very pleased with. And don't bother asking for pics.

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 09:16 PM (r+7wo)

553 "Remember a couple of weeks ago I was raving about Whole Foods" It's like the weather....some days the smug is thicker than others in there!

Posted by: bill-o at April 23, 2014 09:16 PM (AWwDY)

554 Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:12 AM (r+7wo) Cute face and personality wins the race. My last significant - everyone commented on how she was not my usual type.

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 09:16 PM (QeH9j)

555 "I'm actually thinking of staying at this weight. Isn't that funny?" Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:12 AM (r+7wo) *pours Chique a beer* 'sup?

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 09:17 PM (lq3Ak)

556 And don't bother asking for pics. Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:16 AM (r+7wo) Naw, we got enough.

Posted by: Chip from NSA at April 23, 2014 09:17 PM (QeH9j)

557 463 455 I argue against suicide in such judgmental terms in large part because I think such arguments would've been more effective on me when I was struggling with suicidal urges, myself.

I hope I never have to test this, but I'd like to ask a suicidal person, "How much do you hate me?"

Even for a total stranger - we create connections. And suicide traumatizes all those left behind. It's never just one's own self. "No one cares if you live or die" is a damn lie. Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 24, 2014 12:38 AM (M9BzG) Hide posts from (M9BzG)

"Mad Cow disease" -- aka "Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy" or BSE -- is an extremely dangerous disease that reduces the brain to mush before killing the animal. Interestingly, the infectious agent is a misfolded protein that can cause a chain-reaction of other protein misfoldings.

This is like saying that a misfolded napkin could cause a chain-reaction of napkin misfoldings that could clog the pass-through from the kitchen and ultimately cause a restaurant to fail. There are thousands of different proteins in a cow's body, and probably millions of instances of proteins. The "napkin" protein is normally water-soluble and present in normal cells and is thought to work in transmembrane transport or signaling -- the misfolded type is relatively insoluble in water and tends to clump. Because it's a useful protein, cells will -- as part of their fundamental programming -- produce it naturally as part of their normal function.

Humans, BTW, have he same protein and can get the same disease -- though it's called variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease ("vCJD") in humans.

There are many paths that lead to suicide, but one of the most insidious is for the normal functioning of a healthy brain to be turned against the continued existence of the entity. Nobility, honor, love, and reason still work in a perverse way, but it becomes an expression of noble duty to excise oneself from all that one values. That this can easily be mistaken for "normal" is quite natural....because all but the misfolded protein are behaving normally.

But I will also say, as I said to Joffen's sister......do not try to "get inside the mind" of a person who kills themself -- even if you're trying to find what went wrong and keep to the right -- because there is a real danger that you might succeed just as you're swinging from a rope.

Can we have a round of drinks for missing friends and get the hell off this topic? Sure, there's a lot to be said -- it's the nature of mankind -- but there's times and places.......and durations.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 09:18 PM (T1005)

558 Thanks for answering so quickly guys (including those who answer after I post this). I'm curious about the way men's minds work.

True story. I recently put on quite a bit of weight. (i'm not fat, yet , but I am quite a bit more curvy than I used to be). And this is the first time in a while I have not been obsessed about my weight. (i've always liked my body. I just always used to talk and think about my weight.) I'm actually thinking of staying at this weight. Isn't that funny?

Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:12 AM (r+7wo)

admit it, you like having the bigger boobs. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 23, 2014 09:18 PM (FMbng)

559 FÃ¼d Review

Jack in the Box
Blazing Chicken Sandwich

F- / Incomplete / Should be a Felony
If you are a slug, snail or other insect susceptible to salt, this sandwich may be 'blazing.' If you are not, you will be severely, severely disappointed. It's the equivalent of a KFC fried chicken sandwich with pickled jalapenos.

It claims to have "Ghost Pepper Ranch sauce." Heat-heads might be lead to think they mean Bhut Jolokia pepper, but the marketing geniuses at Jack Off in the Box really meant 'no pepper what-so-ever.' HAH-HAH, jokes on you, Mr. Customer! < SQUIRT! >

F the sandwich, F Jack, and F everyone involved with the company. The company should be sued and people should be in jail.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i][/b] at April 23, 2014 09:19 PM (ujux6)

560 And don't bother asking for pics. Uh huh. You do know who you're talking to, right?

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 23, 2014 09:19 PM (M9BzG)

561 Thanks, PW.

. You are tres kind. Shredded chi, no one in particular. I was just curious. Someone mentioned something about a pretty face upthread and that brought the question to mind.

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 09:19 PM (r+7wo)

562 Butter faces can be extremely sexy when they "gots that thang". Can't describe it. It's just a way about them that gets the engines racing. Oh, and don't have psychological problems.

Posted by: Teh Most Interesting Man at April 23, 2014 09:19 PM (ymqyl)

563 Face and personality are key. But the deal killer is how quick she is with the sammiches! I kid.

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 09:20 PM (QeH9j)

564 Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:12 AM (r+7wo)

Really? Okay. Here:

We'd hit that. Whatever whoever whenever where ever

that's ALL you need to know.

A few "thank you"s and "would you please"s and we're slaves of devotion.

Don't ask us questions you don't want the answer to.

Don't nag about stuff you know we won't do (or don't want to do)

Don't put YOUR thoughts into our mouths. Listen to exactly what was said.

Always say yes to sex.

Always be honest if we ask if you're mad about something.

and number one thing if you're a woman:

We're not mind readers. Just because we don't know what you're thinking doesn't mean we don't love you. Don't make us guess.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 09:20 PM (JS0vr)

565 admit it, you like having the bigger boobs. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 24, 2014 01:18 AM (FMbng) LOL, indeed. See my later comment.

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 09:21 PM (r+7wo)

566 Her feet need to be small so she can get close to the kitchen counter to wash dishes.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at April 23, 2014 09:21 PM (jucos)

567 So do guys prefer... Women. That's my standard. I don't vary on that. Of course I do have my particulars. That would be wife. During 30+ years, lots of things change...it's all good.

Posted by: Tantorious Maximus at April 23, 2014 09:22 PM (uji7X)

568 We're not mind readers. Just because we don't know what you're thinking doesn't mean we don't love you. Don't make us guess. Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 24, 2014 01:20 AM (JS0vr) *********** Ding freaking ding. I married a woman who understood this. We got divorced years later when she forgot this one simple thing about a relationship.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 09:23 PM (ojnk6)

569 The sources said while Clooney stuck up for the president, he pointed his finger at Steve, and Â“WynnÂ’s three goon-like bodyguards immediately loomed up behind Rande and George.Â” But Â“before WynnÂ’s bodyguards could touch them, George and Rande got up and walked out.Â”

Posted by: thunderb at April 23, 2014 09:24 PM (zOTsN)

570 Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 24, 2014 01:19 AM (ujux6) Sounds yummy. No restaurants get 'heat' right. Either non-existent or burn your frickin lips so you can't taste anything else.

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 09:24 PM (QeH9j)

571 Hillary really needs to get that hair under control if she ever expects to be taken seriously as a Presidential candidate.

Posted by: jix at April 23, 2014 09:24 PM (emTP6)

572 Bitter Clinger, I subscribe heartily to your list (with the caveat of no sex before saying I do - after that my body is his and vice versa).

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 09:25 PM (r+7wo)

573 480 "yeah, other states have bugs, but they don't make you put up orange
facades where your bug-screens are going to be three months in advance
to allow your neighbors and random-passers-by to object to your design."

Isn't Commiefornia awesome?

Almost as good as having the CA authorities roaming around with infrared scopes to detect and apprehend people guilty of the heinous crime of... building fires in their fireplaces.

I remember an environmentalist bumper sticker common in NorCal in the 1970s: "Split wood, not atoms."

Well, now you can split as much wood as you want, but if you dare burn so much as a twig worth of it contrary to official dictates, expect for the planetary purity police to be knocking on your door in the name of the greater good.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 24, 2014 12:48 AM (noWW6) Hide posts from (noWW6)

Let me out! Let me out! Let me out!!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 09:25 PM (T1005)

574 LOL, indeed. See my later comment.

Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:21 AM (r+7wo)

Too funny. Do I know women or what? Truth is, I have heard a few female friends comment on how a few extra pounds gave them great boobs, but to their dismay when they started to lose weight the boobs were the first thing to vanish.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 23, 2014 09:26 PM (FMbng)

575 571 Hillary really needs to get that hair under control if she ever expects to be taken seriously as a Presidential candidate. Posted by: jix at April 24, 2014 01:24 AM (emTP6) Nobody said using the flea and tick shampoo would be pretty.

Posted by: model_1066 at April 23, 2014 09:26 PM (tNrYO)

576 Posted by: jix at April 24, 2014 01:24 AM (emTP6)

That's okay. Everyone will be looking at the baby.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 09:26 PM (JS0vr)

577 Russell Wilson, super bowl winning QB, announced he is getting divorced after two years of marriage

Posted by: thunderb at April 23, 2014 09:26 PM (zOTsN)

578 Her feet need to be small so she can get close to the kitchen counter to wash dishes))) The words from the mouth of a bad cabinet maker. Toe Kick!!11!!

Posted by: Dendritic at April 23, 2014 09:26 PM (75hfB)

579 >>> I'm good friends with the President. <<<

Bullshit.

Narcissists don't have friends, they have people who think they are friends.

That goes for both of them.

Posted by: davidt at April 23, 2014 09:27 PM (PAplM)

580 575 Nobody said using the flea and tick shampoo would be pretty.
Posted by: model_1066 at April 24, 2014 01:26 AM (tNrYO

Heh.

Posted by: jix at April 23, 2014 09:28 PM (emTP6)

581 Cameron Diaz has announced she hasn't used antiperspirant in 20 years

Posted by: thunderb at April 23, 2014 09:29 PM (zOTsN)

582 579 >>> I'm good friends with the President. <<< That should be something to be ashamed of, if you ask me.

Posted by: model_1066 at April 23, 2014 09:29 PM (tNrYO)

583 Speaking of Hill, the FastCompany ppl didn't even try to make Chelsea's face look cute on that cover. I can't believe her handlers let that cover make it through.

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 09:29 PM (r+7wo)

584 That kid's going to be just the right age. Still totable, a bit less fussy (maybe), features clear and some hair. Pukability slacking off.

Awwwww look at the baby

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 09:29 PM (JS0vr)

585 Bullshit. Narcissists don't have friends, they have people who think they are friends. That goes for both of them. Posted by: davidt at April 24, 2014 01:27 AM (PAplM) ******** Those with Narcassistic Personality Disorder ( both of them) are not capable of having friends. Acolytes, sure. But their personalities will not allow them to have friends as we the commoners know them.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 09:30 PM (ojnk6)

586 Speaking of Hill, the FastCompany ppl didn't even try to make Chelsea's face look cute on that cover. I can't believe her handlers let that cover make it through.

Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:29 AM (r+7wo)

There was a bit of wisdom I picked up in that car movie Christine, when the old dude with the cigar said, "you can't polish a turd"

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 23, 2014 09:31 PM (FMbng)

587 George Clooney: Leave Barack alone!!! Sob sob. Steve Wynn: He can't really help it. He's a drunk. He's a personal friend. What other kind of friend is there?

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 09:31 PM (r+7wo)

588 the other people think they're friends. The Ego thinks they're resources.

Like a cat.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 09:31 PM (JS0vr)

589 There was a bit of wisdom I picked up in that car movie Christine, when the old dude with the cigar said, "you can't polish a turd" Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 24, 2014 01:31 AM (FMbng) Or pick it up from the clean end.

Posted by: model_1066 at April 23, 2014 09:32 PM (tNrYO)

590 davidt at April 24, 2014 01:27 AM (PAplM) ******** Get outta my head!

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 09:33 PM (ojnk6)

591 A ballot initiative to amend the CA constitution to allow residential fires without interference from the gubmint would be awesome. Be great to see a poke in the eye.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 23, 2014 09:33 PM (Tp4Rs)

592 Maybe her handlers secretly don't like her. Like some of Michelle O's stylists who clearly have a vendetta against her.

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 09:34 PM (r+7wo)

593 ItÂ’s a classic case of Â“poopdunnit.Â” Residents in Ypsilanti, Michigan, are under a presumably smelly siege and thereÂ’s no relief to be had. Dubbed the Â“serial pooper,Â” this individual has taken to defecating on the cityÂ’s playground slides, MichiganÂ’s MLive reports. Obviously perturbed by the fact that no one ordered sliders on their slides, an advertising group posted messages on billboards to catch the individual: Â“HELP US FLUSH OUT THE POOPER #YPSIPOOPERÂ” Â“DO YOUR CIVIC DOODY: Report the pooper. Â“YPSIPOOPERÂ” Â“HELP US CATCH THE POOPETRATOR #YPSIPOOPERÂ” The city later asked the ad agency to take the billboards down, but police are reportedly closing in on whomever is pooping up the joint. Â“We have a person of interest in the case, itÂ’s an ongoing investigation and weÂ’re closing in on that individual,Â” City Manager Ralph Lange said.

Posted by: thunderb at April 23, 2014 09:34 PM (zOTsN)

594 520 So do guys prefer a butter face with a nice body to a pretty woman who could stand to lose a few (not that many) pounds and isn't super toned? Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:03 AM (r+7wo) I'll take Door #2 every time.

Posted by: rickl at April 23, 2014 09:34 PM (sdi6R)

595 "He's a personal friend. What other kind of friend is there?" Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:31 AM (r+7wo) The qualifier, "personal" is used when insecure. Otherwise, you call someone an "acquaintance".

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 09:34 PM (lq3Ak)

596 'Night Guys and Dolls. I'll leave you with the epitome of ass, boobs, beauty, and personality. http://tinyurl.com/ku4swtj

Posted by: RWC at April 23, 2014 09:34 PM (QeH9j)

597 That kid's going to be just the right age. Still totable, a bit less fussy (maybe), features clear and some hair. Pukability slacking off.))) He'll it's the Clinton's . Chelsea isn't preggers but the clone baby factory is finally online. They will have 20 in the trailer to chose from that at that moment aren't crying.

Posted by: Dendritic at April 23, 2014 09:35 PM (75hfB)

598 We have a person of interest in the case and he's a real asshole.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 09:35 PM (JS0vr)

599 Later, RWC.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 09:35 PM (lq3Ak)

600 Posted by: RWC at April 24, 2014 01:34 AM (QeH9j)

You're

You're

You're despicable.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 09:36 PM (JS0vr)

601 Further thought in re women's fitness, curviness, and what have you:

Just in the last day, I recollect having seen two women who were definitely towards the heavier end of the spectrum. But who presented very differently.

The first one gave the distinct impression of too much packed onto her frame, and laboring with it. Not enough cardiovascular capacity to move herself in a sprightly way. Bones bending under the stress. Slow to climb steps. An awkward gait. Visibly not happy.

Whereas the second one looked comfortable with herself, pleased with her life, and not overburdened. Laughing, pleasant demeanor. Moved like a dancer despite her size. She probably could have danced up a flight of steps on her toes while smiling and not getting out of breath.

To what extent this difference might have been genetic, ethnic, behavioral, nutritional, psychological, or medical was beyond my ability to suss out on such a cursory acquaintance. But the disparity was striking.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 23, 2014 09:36 PM (noWW6)

602 Posted by: RWC at April 24, 2014 01:34 AM (QeH9j) Banhammer worthy.

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 09:37 PM (r+7wo)

603 Posted by: torquewrench at April 24, 2014 01:36 AM (noWW6)

Probably age and/or disease.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 09:37 PM (JS0vr)

604 598 We have a person of interest in the case and he's a real asshole. Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 24, 2014 01:35 AM (JS0vr) I bet it's someone from that ad agency that couldn't resist the oh-so-cute billboards.

Posted by: model_1066 at April 23, 2014 09:37 PM (tNrYO)

605 one of today's shirts on Qwertee is perfect for cthulhu

http://www.qwertee.com/

Posted by: The Dude at April 23, 2014 09:38 PM (bStrg)

606 'Night Guys and Dolls.

I'll leave you with the epitome of ass, boobs, beauty, and personality.

http://tinyurl.com/ku4swtj

Posted by: RWC at April 24, 2014 01:34 AM (QeH9j)

Old Chinese proverb- May the creature in that picture visit you while you sleep and ass rape you.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 23, 2014 09:39 PM (FMbng)

607 For a while (because of gout) I had a lot of joint pain. This made doing anything a chore and painful.

Now after medicine, I'm recovering and can actually walk with my old gait, faster more balanced and energetic.

World of difference yet not much else changed.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 09:39 PM (JS0vr)

608 Posted by: torquewrench at April 24, 2014 01:36 AM (noWW6) Self confidence and carriage makes a huge difference. Which is why, in my opinion, a lot of heavier black women can look attractive but it's not as common with heavy white women. Because black women tend to have a lot of (sometimes to much? to the misfortune of onlookers) confidence about their bodies regardless of size.

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 09:41 PM (r+7wo)

609 542 Thanks for answering so quickly guys (including those who answer after I post this). I'm curious about the way men's minds work.

True story. I recently put on quite a bit of weight. (i'm not fat, yet , but I am quite a bit more curvy than I used to be). And this is the first time in a while I have not been obsessed about my weight. (i've always liked my body. I just always used to talk and think about my weight.) I'm actually thinking of staying at this weight. Isn't that funny? Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:12 AM (r+7wo) Hide posts from (r+7wo)

For all the time guys look at pictures, attitude matters a great deal. And, just for a reality check, ask a guy who is checking out the firehose of pussy on the internet why he just closed a page instead of going for a close-up, and you'll often hear, "with that expression? No, thanks."

If you don't have anything else to talk about, talk skinny and fit. If you've got a real person -- talk about how often you want to snuggle, when you look and her and you know you're both thinking mischief, when you'll do a little extra for her smile or she'll do a little extra for yours.....

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 09:41 PM (T1005)

610 Self confidence and carriage makes a huge difference. Which is why, in my opinion, a lot of heavier black women can look attractive but it's not as common with heavy white women. Because black women tend to have a lot of (sometimes to much? to the misfortune of onlookers) confidence about their bodies regardless of size. Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:41 AM (r+7wo) *********** Please pardon me if I'm incorrect, but isn't a certain part of the body being a certain size valued in this community?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 09:44 PM (ojnk6)

611 "Probably age and/or disease."

Virtually identical age demographic, late twenties to early thirties.

Disease, well, perhaps. Absent a _Star Trek_ tricorder, there are things one simply can't know on such a cursory basis. Damnit, Jim! I'm an engineer, not a doctor.

I do in general think that some people can carry a high body mass well, and healthily and happily, whereas other people with the same general parameters are pushing various limits, and it shows, and on them it doesn't come off well.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 23, 2014 09:44 PM (noWW6)

612 I do in general think that some people can carry a high body mass well, and healthily and happily, whereas other people with the same general parameters are pushing various limits, and it shows, and on them it doesn't come off well. Posted by: torquewrench at April 24, 2014 01:44 AM (noWW6) I've known heavy people who are healthy and active, and those who are not...same with skinny people too, for that matter; there's 'lean' and then there's 'skeletor'.

Posted by: model_1066 at April 23, 2014 09:48 PM (tNrYO)

613 591 A ballot initiative to amend the CA constitution to allow residential fires without interference from the gubmint would be awesome. Be great to see a poke in the eye.
Posted by: SFGoth at April 24, 2014 01:33 AM (Tp4Rs) Hide posts from (Tp4Rs)

Be greater to see it from far, far, far away.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 09:48 PM (T1005)

614 Please pardon me if I'm incorrect, but isn't a certain part of the body being a certain size valued in this community? Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 24, 2014 01:44 AM (ojnk6) Correct. The question, "Does this dress make my butt look big?" used to fascinate me since I always thought that was a good thing. Until recently I realized that a big butt on a white woman has different visual characteristics from a big butt on a black one. No offense. I also think white guy legs >> black guy legs, esp Africans.

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 09:49 PM (r+7wo)

615 Gimme a little hair around the cooter and I'll eat that shit like a starving Somalian. -That's What I Do. We're talking one-half-hour's worth of "clam digging for one's life". I don't come up for air until I hear VICTORY! -YMMV.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 09:49 PM (lq3Ak)

616 I have a good friend who is tall and skinny that is physically incapable of gaining weight...no matter how much he eats or works out.

Posted by: model_1066 at April 23, 2014 09:51 PM (tNrYO)

617 picking hair out of one's teeth is for plebs

Posted by: The Dude at April 23, 2014 09:51 PM (bStrg)

618 Would a Venn diagram be useful in the calculation of Chique's recent weight gain? Since Chique that is the real answer. Some will like you more and some will like you less on that one attribute. But some that like you less on that attribute don't give a shit cause they love you for another. And I have likely bastardized the Venn diagram since most of them I've seen make no sense.

Posted by: Dendritic at April 23, 2014 09:51 PM (75hfB)

619 Wow, Slapweasel, you certainly took things up a notch. (James Earl Jones voice) This is ONT.

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 09:52 PM (r+7wo)

620 ...bald cooters aren't "as good". I'll eat it. I just don't like it as much. It is like lemon-meringue v. key-lime. ...preference. (Child of the Eighties).

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 09:52 PM (lq3Ak)

621 "picking hair out of one's teeth is ~~for plebs~~ par for the course. Posted by: The Dude at April 24, 2014 01:51 AM (bStrg) I fixed that for you.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 09:53 PM (lq3Ak)

622

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 09:54 PM (lq3Ak)

623 No offense. I also think white guy legs >> black guy legs, esp Africans. Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:49 AM (r+7wo) ******** Perception being reality and all, I apreciate your honest answer. I had to approach that one tenderly, as you may understand, given my pastiness and all.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 09:54 PM (ojnk6)

624 Fabienne: I was looking at myself in the mirror. Butch: Uh-huh? Fabienne: I wish I had a pot. Butch: You were lookin' in the mirror and you wish you had some pot? Fabienne: A pot. A pot belly. Pot bellies are sexy. Butch: Well you should be happy, 'cause you do. Fabienne: Shut up, Fatso! I don't have a pot! I have a bit of a tummy, like Madonna when she did "Lucky Star," it's not the same thing. Butch: I didn't realize there was a difference between a tummy and a pot belly. Fabienne: The difference is huge. Butch: You want me to have a pot? Fabienne: No. Pot bellies make a man look either oafish, or like a gorilla. But on a woman, a pot belly is very sexy. The rest of you is normal. Normal face, normal legs, normal hips, normal ass, but with a big, perfectly round pot belly. If I had one, I'd wear a tee-shirt two sizes too small to accentuate it. Butch: You think guys would find that attractive? Fabienne: I don't give a damn what men find attractive. It's unfortunate what we find pleasing to the touch and pleasing to the eye is seldom the same.

Posted by: Teh Most Interesting Man at April 23, 2014 09:54 PM (ymqyl)

625

Hello from Down Under and it's late arvo on Thursday..almost time to start thinking about cooking dinner as we've eaten out this whole week

Last night we had a great time at the Doobie Brothers concert - still rocking after all these years!

model_1066 mentioned Flightradar24 upthread - there is also a Flightaware site which is good

I'm a plane spotter from way back - we all have our funny little quirks I reckon...

And I love the way these open threads weave and turn - any topic any time - even serious ones

Posted by: aussie at April 23, 2014 09:55 PM (flMT4)

626 That's like saying, "Golfing would be nice, if it weren't surrounded by grass". Avoid the sand and water-hazards. Enjoy the walk!

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 09:56 PM (lq3Ak)

627 Perception being reality and all, I apreciate your honest answer. I had to approach that one tenderly, as you may understand, given my pastiness and all. Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 24, 2014 01:54 AM (ojnk6) I find racial and cultural differences to be a fascinating topic and it's nice to be able to talk about them freely.

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 09:56 PM (r+7wo)

628 I got my mp3 player on shuffle and what song just started playing? M.O.D. - Spandex Enormity

Posted by: model_1066 at April 23, 2014 09:56 PM (tNrYO)

629 I wish I'd kept my dads old Popular Science and Popular Mechanics magazines.

Worth money now I'd bet.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 23, 2014 10:08 PM (JS0vr)

I have a slew of them that my father collected, from about 1935 to the late '60's. Not all the issues, but most of them. And they are fascinating reading, and a great commentary on the decline of literacy, both in science, and in, well, literacy itself.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2014 09:57 PM (TKUw7)

630 Just found an RNC "survey" in my email from Rinsed Prius. I'm confident that my answer of "R's sucking DNC cock" was an appropriate answer for one of my "3 main concerns."

Posted by: Country Singer at April 23, 2014 09:57 PM (vn9w4)

631 What have I walked into?

Posted by: Miley's Tongue at April 23, 2014 09:58 PM (R+h7Q)

632 I appreciate Slapweasel's support of non-torture to lady parts.

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 09:59 PM (r+7wo)

633 HA! Just got a bot-reply from the GOPe thanking me for completing the survey.

Posted by: Country Singer at April 23, 2014 10:00 PM (vn9w4)

634 If I'm gonna take the time out to shave my balls, a girl better take the time to shave her snatch

Posted by: The Dude at April 23, 2014 10:00 PM (bStrg)

635 Wow what is all the talk of suicide tonight? Having just lost a dear friend this week after two years of valiant effort against brain cancer.......I will always see suicide as an extremely selfish act. When I was in high school, my boyfriend's best friend committed suicide by shooting his brains out. That left his parents incrincredible grief and all of his friends lost.

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at April 23, 2014 10:00 PM (oKzyB)

636 Ok ppl. I should turn in now. It's been real.

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 10:00 PM (r+7wo)

637 "Wow, Slapweasel, you certainly took things up a notch. (James Earl Jones voice) This is ONT." Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:52 AM (r+7wo) Hah! I'm simply being honest. That shit gets my *full attention*. I'll work on that like I was drawing a work of art!

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 10:01 PM (lq3Ak)

638 Posted by: Country Singer at April 24, 2014 02:00 AM (vn9w4) Aaaaaand... your phone will now be ringing off the hook for donations.

Posted by: Teh Most Interesting Man at April 23, 2014 10:01 PM (ymqyl)

639 "Because black women tend to have a lot of (sometimes to much? to the misfortune of onlookers) confidence about their bodies regardless of size."

Interesting that you should say that.

The woman who I thought carried herself well was definitively black.

The other woman, who did not seem at all comfortable at her current size, was of what I would term "indeterminate ethnicity".

That is a steadily growing category in the SF Bay Area.

A Filipino guy I met here shook his head ruefully and said he had walked up to what he figured for sure was a fellow pinoy, and said hello in Tagalog, and gotten a very hostile stare in response. Straight up Mexican and not happy to be taken for anything other than that.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 23, 2014 10:01 PM (noWW6)

640 I find racial and cultural differences to be a fascinating topic and it's nice to be able to talk about them freely. Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 01:56 AM (r+7wo) ********* Completely agree, pixel Chique acquaintance. I would never even bring this up in a Professional environment. Too many HR land mines associated with the topic. So, I appreciate your input on that which I can not ask IRL.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 23, 2014 10:02 PM (ojnk6)

641 605 one of today's shirts on Qwertee is perfect for cthulhu

http://www.qwertee.com/
Posted by: The Dude at April 24, 2014 01:38 AM (bStrg) Hide posts from (bStrg)

Ordered.

A favorite moment -- when I was visiting Shredded Chi, it "broke-the-ice" when he asked, "do all your shirts have a Cthulhu theme?"

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 10:02 PM (T1005)

642 634 If I'm gonna take the time out to shave my balls, a girl better take the time to shave her snatch Posted by: The Dude at April 24, 2014 02:00 AM (bStrg) It's like Field of Dreams. If you shave them, they will come.

Posted by: Teh Most Interesting Man at April 23, 2014 10:02 PM (ymqyl)

643 Aaaaaand... your phone will now be ringing off the hook for donations.

Posted by: Teh Most Interesting Man at April 24, 2014 02:01 AM (ymqyl)

That's why the home phone ringer stays turned off.

Posted by: Country Singer at April 23, 2014 10:02 PM (vn9w4)

644 616Â I have a good friend who is tall and skinny that is physically incapable of gaining weight...no matter how much he eats or works out. Posted by: model_1066 at April 24, 2014 01:51 AM (tNrYO) ---------- *raises hand I still wear 32"w levis - three decades out of high school. I was in the fitness industry for over 20 years, and it took dedication, 2 years, and a lot of money & work to gain ten pounds. not bragging, but I have never been over 12% body fat. It's all genetics.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 10:03 PM (QoLTq)

645 "If I'm gonna take the time out to shave my balls, a girl better take the time to shave her snatch." Posted by: The Dude at April 24, 2014 02:00 AM (bStrg) Stop shaving your balls. It is ridiculous. ...and I don't mind "trim". I just don't want "The Nethers" to look like a Twelve-Year-Old. 80's Playboys FTW!

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 10:03 PM (lq3Ak)

646 G'Night, Chique! ...Call Me! ...lol.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 10:04 PM (lq3Ak)

647 and it took dedication, 2 years, and a lot of money & work to gain ten pounds.

I got about 40 I'll give you for free.

not bragging, but I have never been over 12% body fat. It's all genetics.

Yes, you are, lol.

Posted by: Country Singer at April 23, 2014 10:05 PM (vn9w4)

648 If I'm gonna take the time out to shave my balls, a girl better take the time to shave her snatch ))) So I've been shaving my balls for the wrong reason all theses years? I thought it was so the crabs couldn't nest.

Posted by: Dendritic at April 23, 2014 10:07 PM (75hfB)

649 I'll admit it. I like tall skinny guys. Started appreciating muscle (not too much bulk, though) after having a buff bf, but still love the lean men.

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 10:07 PM (r+7wo)

650 A favorite moment -- when I was visiting Shredded Chi, it "broke-the-ice" when he asked, "doÂ allÂ your shirts have a Cthulhu theme?" Posted by: cthulhu at April 24, 2014 02:02 AM (T1005) ------ I love you, man. No Homo!

Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 10:07 PM (QoLTq)

651 Attitude has everything to do with a "Turn-On". The rest happens during "Discovery".

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 10:07 PM (lq3Ak)

652 Ok. I'm really leaving now.

Posted by: Chique at April 23, 2014 10:07 PM (r+7wo)

653 "I'll admit it. I like tall skinny guys." Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 02:07 AM (r+7wo) DAMNIT! 5' 9" 190# ...walks away, Bruce Banner style. *sad music plays* ...hoists thumb.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 10:10 PM (lq3Ak)

654 Chique at April 24, 2014 02:07 AM (r+7wo) no! no! no! Hit The Number and be a Devil in a Blue Dress on the Day of your choice!!!! And when wearing a Blue Dress, obviously ...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 23, 2014 10:10 PM (qoKTg)

655 625- Hello, aussie! I love me some Doobies! Glad to hear they still rock.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 10:12 PM (QoLTq)

656 Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 02:10 AM (lq3Ak) They rebooted ... Now it's sitting in a smashed up restaurant eating shwarma ...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 23, 2014 10:13 PM (qoKTg)

657 Attitude has everything to do with a "Turn-On".

The rest happens during "Discovery".

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 02:07 AM (lq3Ak)

This. Went out tonight to have a few beers with my old XO from Iraq. After he left, I was about to kill the beer I had and tab out. As I was standing there waiting on the bartender, I started talking to a girl sitting at the end of the bar. Turns out she's a former Marine. All attitude, in a good way...a real, no time for BS chick. She left shortly after...we'll see if she uses my business card for anything more than a campfire starter.

Posted by: Country Singer at April 23, 2014 10:13 PM (vn9w4)

658 "And I love the way these open threads weave and turn - any topic any time - even serious ones"

All right then, aussie, a question for you about how things are in Oz:

I have heard many horror stories about how the greeniacs have forced various silly measures upon ordinary Australians in the last few years.

The one which left me shaking my head in amazement was that rural homeowners had even been forbidden to perform cutbacks of plant growth around their properties for fire safety. (Not that Australia ever has wildfires. Heavens no.)

Has the recent change of government improved that situation at all?

Posted by: torquewrench at April 23, 2014 10:14 PM (noWW6)

659 Did anyone see the Menu from The Titanic that is going to be auctioned? One of the selections is "Yarmouth Bloaters". That sure tickles my tastebuds....

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 23, 2014 11:06 PM (aDwsi)

Sounds like that Debi creature from last night's ONT. Do.Not.Want.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2014 10:14 PM (TKUw7)

660 650 A favorite moment -- when I was visiting Shredded Chi, it "broke-the-ice" when he asked, "do all your shirts have a Cthulhu theme?"

Posted by: cthulhu at April 24, 2014 02:02 AM (T1005)
------
I love you, man.
No Homo! Posted by: shredded chi at April 24, 2014 02:07 AM (QoLTq) Hide posts from (QoLTq)

I have maybe a dozen-or-so, but I wear them every time I think I might be photographed. Or need to meet up with someone I've never seen. Or when I can get away with it, and I think someone is making an occasion too straight-laced.

I even have this one -- http://tinyurl.com/mzjydaf

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 10:14 PM (T1005)

661 Ok, I've heard of holdouts, but jeese louise... Is that a J frame?

Posted by: HAL at April 23, 2014 10:15 PM (AIC5Z)

662 649Â I'll admit it. I like tall skinny guys -Chique ---------- How you doin'?

Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 10:15 PM (QoLTq)

663 Clicked on the Avril Lavigne video story. If I understand the controversy correctly, she's a racist because the music video is cheap and god-awful.

Posted by: t-bird at April 23, 2014 10:16 PM (FcR7P)

664 "I'll admit it. I like tall skinny guys."
Posted by: Chique at April 24, 2014 02:07 AM (r+7wo)

DAMNIT!

5' 9" 190#

...walks away, Bruce Banner style.

*sad music plays*

...hoists thumb.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 02:10 AM (lq3Ak)

http://youtu.be/yUWgE0EVQ9c

Posted by: Country Singer at April 23, 2014 10:16 PM (vn9w4)

665 662 649 I'll admit it. I like tall skinny guys

-Chique
----------
How you doin'?

Posted by: shredded chi at April 24, 2014 02:15 AM (QoLTq) Hide posts from (QoLTq)

I can attest that he's taller and skinnier than me (*snickers into sleeve*).

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 10:17 PM (T1005)

666 yes?

Posted by: Satanbotv.666 at April 23, 2014 10:17 PM (bPIGR)

667 Now?

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 10:17 PM (T1005)

668 Hah, these Cyberdyne Systems T1005s have nothing on me.

Posted by: Satanbot v.666 at April 23, 2014 10:20 PM (bPIGR)

669

655 shredded chi

Hi, and it was just wonderful!

I want what those blokes are on - energy plus performance and the house was rocking right through their show

My housework music of choice is the Doobies...dusting and vacuuming to China Grove - works for me

Posted by: aussie at April 23, 2014 10:21 PM (flMT4)

670 Clicked on the Avril Lavigne video story. If I understand the controversy correctly, she's a racist because the music video is cheap and god-awful.))) No it's because she used Asian chicks as back ground dancers in a Hello Kitty themed video. And obviously to those in the know. Hello Kitty is a Spanish thing. Or maybe you are on to something after all .

Posted by: Dendritic at April 23, 2014 10:21 PM (75hfB)

671 ...."we'll see if she uses my business card for anything more than a campfire starter." Posted by: Country Singer at April 24, 2014 02:13 AM (vn9w4) Good Luck! :fist-bump: Even if I'm not "Oh-My-God", attracted to a woman? The "hot" defers to the "cute". The "cute" defers to the "attractive". The "attractive" defers to the "quality". "Quality" is derived from the World-View + Tone. You "find" things to be attracted to. ...that doesn't mean that I won't bite your ass. Even a "quality" woman with an "inferior" ass is getting bitten. It is part of my charm.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 10:24 PM (lq3Ak)

672 Country Singer at April 24, 2014 02:13 AM (vn9w4) May a callback be in your future ...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 23, 2014 10:24 PM (qoKTg)

673 My housework music of choice is the Doobies...dusting and vacuuming to China Grove - works for me Posted by: aussie at April 24, 2014 02:21 AM (flMT4) Mine is Frank Zappa's "You Are What You Is"...and sing along for the whole album.

Posted by: model_1066 at April 23, 2014 10:26 PM (tNrYO)

674 Posted by: Country Singer at April 24, 2014 02:16 AM (vn9w4) *HAH!* I owned a tanning salon for sixteen years! -My cup runneth over!

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 10:26 PM (lq3Ak)

675 Thanks y'all. She was "attractive" to begin with, physically speaking, but nothing I would have gone out of my way to meet. The serendipity was in the conversation.

And with that, I'm out for the night.

Posted by: Country Singer at April 23, 2014 10:29 PM (vn9w4)

676 G'night, Country!

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 10:30 PM (lq3Ak)

677

658 torquewrench

Hi, and unfortunately the greenies have infiltrated local government very successfully

The worst of the greenie inflicted horror stories - see the Victorian bushfires in 2009 (can't link due to only having cardboard membership here)

173 people died - some of them because of the greenie policies such as not reducing undergrowth, people not allowed to remove trees from around their homes etc

Even though we have a conservative Federal Government, greenies abound at a local level

Posted by: aussie at April 23, 2014 10:31 PM (flMT4)

678 My housework music of choice is the Doobies...dusting and vacuuming to China Grove - works for me Posted by: aussie at April 24, 2014 02:21 AM (flMT4) ---------- That was about my favorite time for them - Cornelius Bumpus, Michael McDonald... "Minute by Minute" & "One Step Closer" brings back some strong teenage memories. (I know what i'll be listening to tomorrow! ) I saw them quite a few years back & i was pretty impressed.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 10:33 PM (QoLTq)

679

673 model_1066

"Mine is Frank Zappa's "You Are What You Is"...and sing along for the whole album"

That's our go too one for a long drive - also singing along...

Posted by: aussie at April 23, 2014 10:35 PM (flMT4)

680 It'd be funnier than hell if Chique hooks up through this place.....many who have been around long enough have caught a glimpse that she's cute enough -- but she's a freakin' ette!!! Holy-moly -- CNN comes on and you crack-up saying, "what a retard!" and she doesn't look at you all cross and confused......how much is THAT worth? MSLSD picks up an NYT story about voter rights, and you go "uh-oh...." and she does too -- how much is THAT worth? You're trying to unwind after a tough day at the office, but she catches you at midnight in front of a screen, and you go "I'm fretting about Cooth's latest neurosis on the ONT" and she says, "me, too!" -- how much is THAT worth?

We're talking SOULMATES.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 10:36 PM (T1005)

681 A T1005 is a cybernetic organism; living tissue over a metal endoskeleton. Why the endoskeleton is in the form of a tentacled Elder Thing is a proof left to the reader. Hint: lim x_>insanity = Innsmouth

Posted by: Satanbot v.666 at April 23, 2014 10:38 PM (bPIGR)

682 Has the revolution started?

Posted by: Teh Most Interesting Man at April 23, 2014 10:38 PM (ymqyl)

683

678 shredded chi

"That was about my favorite time for them - Cornelius Bumpus, Michael McDonald... "Minute by Minute" & "One Step Closer" brings back some strong teenage memories. (I know what i'll be listening to tomorrow! )

I saw them quite a few years back & i was pretty impressed."

What a lineup they've had over the years - we usually listen to blues music but I just had to drag the old Aussie Bloke along last night and he did say it was "Awwright - said in Aussie drawl)

Which meant he enjoyed it...

Posted by: aussie at April 23, 2014 10:40 PM (flMT4)

684 I must admit I am out of the loop on most of what goes on CNN, but tonight I had dinner at a bar and big tv was on opposite from where I sat. I ate sushi and had 2 22oz draft beers. CNN, what a waste of bandwidth. When they weren't speculating about flight M370, they were running puff pieces about Elizabeth Warren. Yes, Elizabeth Warren. Of all people on the entire planet earth, they chose her as the subject of a 10 minute long puff piece. I would never pay money to watch that shit. May as well pay money to have someone pump sewage in to your living room. After a while I got up and changed seats. Enjoyed the rest of the evening.

Posted by: navybrat at April 23, 2014 10:40 PM (JgC5a)

685 "We're talking SOULMATES." Posted by: cthulhu at April 24, 2014 02:36 AM (T1005) You Silly Bastard! -She's smarter than that! *cheers!*

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 10:40 PM (lq3Ak)

686

See you all later - time to start dinner !

Posted by: aussie at April 23, 2014 10:42 PM (flMT4)

687 685 "We're talking SOULMATES."
Posted by: cthulhu at April 24, 2014 02:36 AM (T1005)

You Silly Bastard!

-She's smarter than that!

*cheers!* Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 02:40 AM (lq3Ak) Hide posts from (lq3Ak)

Slainte!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 10:45 PM (T1005)

688 ~~looks for peaches~~ hmmmmmm i'll find her

Posted by: navycopjoe at April 23, 2014 10:49 PM (krmE0)

689 "Has the revolution started?" Posted by: Teh Most Interesting Man at April 24, 2014 02:38 AM (ymqyl) *Press One for Spanish *Press Two for Weapon Registration. *Press Three to Join A Federally Approved Militia. *Press Four to Register as a Domestic Terrorist. *Forget #4. You've already called 1-800-ALL-GUNS. *Press Five to apply for Federal/Socialist rates for Ammo. *Press Six if you've got nothing better to do. *Press Seven to Apply for Social ~~Medicine~~ Insurance. *Press Eight if You're Part of the Minority Tribe. *Press Nine if You're Bored. ****Welcome to the Federal Government Phone Line. An Operator Will be With You Shortly*** ...and I'm happy to be Stuck With You. Wooooo-OOO-wah-ooo, I can see; that you're Happy to be Stuck With ME!

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 10:51 PM (lq3Ak)

690 What a lineup they've had over the years - we usually listen to blues music but I just had to drag the old Aussie Bloke along last night and he did say it was "Awwright - said in Aussie drawl) Which meant he enjoyed it... Posted by: aussie at April 24, 2014 02:40 AM (flMT4 ---------- What, what?!?! That's all I listened to for about ten years. I was fortunate enough to see BB King & Buddy Guy together a few years ago (a birthday gift from the ex). Buddy, in his seventies, brought the house down. He put on a better show than the last five bands I've seen combined. Sadly, BB was way past his prime - but I can say the saw him live.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 10:54 PM (QoLTq)

691 "Slainte!!!" Posted by: cthulhu at April 24, 2014 02:45 AM (T1005) I've seen this exclamation a few times. I'm embarrassed to say that I don't know what it means.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 10:58 PM (lq3Ak)

692 ...and I'm happy to be Stuck With You. Wooooo-OOO-wah-ooo, I can see; that you're Happy to be Stuck With ME! Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 02:51 AM (lq3Ak) Hide posts from (lq3Ak)

That reminded me of a certain subset of songs where "they're cool/they're songs/I like" morphs into a queasy ickiness. Just to get things off on the right foot, how 'bout Stephen Stills' "Love the One You're With" and John Lennon's "Imagine". The first is a cynical trashing of anything beyond the immediate moment's pleasure, and the second would be recognized by Dante as Hell.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 10:59 PM (T1005)

693 I've looked it up, but I didn't go through Wikipedia. I suppose I'm just being lazy.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 10:59 PM (lq3Ak)

694 691 "Slainte!!!"
Posted by: cthulhu at April 24, 2014 02:45 AM (T1005)

I've seen this exclamation a few times. I'm embarrassed to say that I don't know what it means. Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 02:58 AM (lq3Ak) Hide posts from (lq3Ak)

Literally, it means "health" -- as a toast, it means "your health", and.....it's Gaelic, so it's most often part of a toast.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 11:02 PM (T1005)

695 "That reminded me of a certain subset of songs..." Your mind wanders, Sir. It was meant to be ironic and silly ...lol.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 11:03 PM (lq3Ak)

696 "Slainte!!!" It's Italian for slanted ... In moronics, we'd say, "Hey! who left the italics on?"

Posted by: Peruvian Grammar Teachers Local 102a... at April 23, 2014 11:03 PM (qoKTg)

697 "Literally, it means "health" -- as a toast, it means "your health", and.....it's Gaelic, so it's most often part of a toast." Posted by: cthulhu at April 24, 2014 03:02 AM (T1005) Being a part of a Gaelic Toast seems "welcoming" and "introductory". I remember the first time I sat around an Italian table. I felt "at home". ...even though I wouldn't eat the eggplant.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 11:07 PM (lq3Ak)

698 "It's Italian for slanted ... In moronics, we'd say, "Hey! who left the italics on?"" Posted by: Peruvian Grammar Teachers Local 102a... at April 24, 2014 03:03 AM (qoKTg) I reject this, whole-heartedly. Go Back To South America! *sneeze* *wipes snot off screen*

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 11:11 PM (lq3Ak)

699 I'm going to roll some cigarettes and watch Red Eye. ...tobacco. Get your mind out of the gutter.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 11:12 PM (lq3Ak)

700 693 I've looked it up, but I didn't go through Wikipedia. I suppose I'm just being lazy. Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 02:59 AM (lq3Ak) Hide posts from (lq3Ak)

I might otherwise go, "l'chaim" -- which, in Hebrew, means "to life" and is another popular toast [when drinking Manischewitz?]. Or "skaal" -- which is often equated with "slainte", but actually is a non-denominational word meaning "toast" without especial reference to whether it is to "life" or "health" or anything else, favored by Skandis.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 11:13 PM (T1005)

701 696 "Slainte!!!"

It's Italian for slanted ...

In moronics, we'd say, "Hey! who left the italics on?" Posted by: Peruvian Grammar Teachers Local 102a... at April 24, 2014 03:03 AM (qoKTg) Hide posts from (qoKTg)

Oh, fuck [begins to hyperventilate, looks worriedly toward barrel].

[Breathing deeply] oh, never mind.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 11:17 PM (T1005)

702 697 "Literally, it means "health" -- as a toast, it means "your health", and.....it's Gaelic, so it's most often part of a toast."
Posted by: cthulhu at April 24, 2014 03:02 AM (T1005)

Being a part of a Gaelic Toast seems "welcoming" and "introductory".

I remember the first time I sat around an Italian table.

I felt "at home".

...even though I wouldn't eat the eggplant. Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 03:07 AM (lq3Ak) Hide posts from (lq3Ak)

I'm about to impart a great Truth -- Italians know eggplant, and when real Italians cook it, have some......but on no account let anyone else feed you any, 'cause that'll convince you that it's worthless crap.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 11:20 PM (T1005)

703 cthulhu at April 24, 2014 03:20 AM (T1005) Japanese eggplant broiled with a light {not too salty} miso ...

Posted by: Peruvian Grammar Teachers Local 102a... at April 23, 2014 11:23 PM (qoKTg)

704 703 cthulhu at April 24, 2014 03:20 AM (T1005)

Japanese eggplant broiled with a light {not too salty} miso ... Posted by: Peruvian Grammar Teachers Local 102a... at April 24, 2014 03:23 AM (qoKTg) Hide posts from (qoKTg)

OK, Italians and Japanese.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 11:28 PM (T1005)

705 re: Eggplant I'm not Italian by any stretch of the imagination (helpful hint: to me, paprika is a food group), but I can cook a mean eggplant parm. I also make babaganouj. I've made a stir-fry with sliced pork and eggplant in an orange/hoi-sin sauce. Once I did Japanese eggplant sliced in half lengthwise, made slits into the flesh, placed them cut side down on a microwave save baking dish, put in enough soy to cover about halfway up, tossed in some minced garlic and ginger and nuked for about 20 minutes or so until done. Was quite impressed with that recipe (which came from a veggie cookbook). Doing eggplant right (read: tasty) is not just for Italians.

Posted by: RickZ at April 23, 2014 11:29 PM (HWCZo)

706 Japanese eggplants are different-ish from European ones - thinner...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 23, 2014 11:30 PM (qoKTg)

707 "I'm about to impart a great Truth -- Italians know eggplant, and when real Italians cook it, have some......but on no account let anyone else feed you any, 'cause that'll convince you that it's worthless crap." Posted by: cthulhu at April 24, 2014 03:20 AM (T1005) Being "silly", I did actually eat Italian Eggplant Lasagne when I was about ten. My babysitter's family was First Generation Italian. When I showed up to see if "Carbone" wanted to play basketball, I got invited to stay for dinner. It was delicious, but I'll be "afraid" of eggplant, as your description warns ...lol. Not for nuthin', but "soggy eggplant" eats all sorts of ASS. Ms. Carbone made Eggplant Lasagne like a champ. The "Other People" shit on Eggplant Whatever because... "different".

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 11:31 PM (lq3Ak)

708 Doing eggplant right (read: tasty) is not just for Italians. OKOKOK... Italians, Japanese w/Japanese eggplants, and vegetarian Hungarians ...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 23, 2014 11:32 PM (qoKTg)

709 Japanese eggplant broiled with a light {not too salty} miso ... Posted by: Peruvian Grammar Teachers Too salty miso? No such thing on the western side of the Date Line.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 23, 2014 11:32 PM (ujux6)

710 Of all the ways to kill boredom or procrastinate, the HQ, and the ONT in particular, are probably one of the best waysÂ…

Posted by: The Political Hat at April 23, 2014 11:32 PM (AymDN)

711 Posted by: The Political Hat at April 24, 2014 03:32 AM (AymDN) It is almost like I needed confirmation that this shit actually happened. *STAMP*

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 11:34 PM (lq3Ak)

712 705 re: Eggplant

I'm not Italian by any stretch of the imagination (helpful hint: to me, paprika is a food group), but I can cook a mean eggplant parm. I also make babaganouj. I've made a stir-fry with sliced pork and eggplant in an orange/hoi-sin sauce. Once I did Japanese eggplant sliced in half lengthwise, made slits into the flesh, placed them cut side down on a microwave save baking dish, put in enough soy to cover about halfway up, tossed in some minced garlic and ginger and nuked for about 20 minutes or so until done. Was quite impressed with that recipe (which came from a veggie cookbook).

Doing eggplant right (read: tasty) is not just for Italians. Posted by: RickZ at April 24, 2014 03:29 AM (HWCZo) Hide posts from (HWCZo)

This is a very good point, and I should have been more general. My thesis was "have eggplant prepared by someone who knows how to make it delicious before you have it prepared by someone who doesn't understand it and will ruin it for you forever." I over-focused on Italian, thinking of the many delicious eggplant dishes there................

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 11:37 PM (T1005)

713 That's like saying "Too salty kim chee."

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 23, 2014 11:38 PM (ujux6)

714 Adriane, There's a Greek restaurant near me that serves a stuffed eggplant. OMG! I've looked on-line for recipes, but haven't found one yet that had a stuffing of eggplant/beef/cheese yet. Still looking. Yes, I'm a vagitarian. Oh wait, you said vegetarian. No, definitely not a vegetarian. I like bacon and pastrami way too much to even consider giving them up. Just the thought of a soy product pastrami makes me ill.

Posted by: RickZ at April 23, 2014 11:39 PM (HWCZo)

715 I'm here ... and playing bubble shooter heavenly machine {no sound!} in another window ... instead of writing an outline. I denounce myself ...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 23, 2014 11:39 PM (qoKTg)

716 Cankles looks like she's been beaten regularly with an ugly stick ~~lately~~ since birth FIFY.

Posted by: FOAF at April 23, 2014 11:41 PM (rZ7kp)

717 "That's like saying "Too salty kim chee."" Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 24, 2014 03:38 AM (ujux6) Your Soy Sauce Seems Salty. ...and what the Hell is wrong with this Worcestershire sauce?

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 23, 2014 11:42 PM (lq3Ak)

718 I laike penooot buttah.... without the penooots.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 23, 2014 11:43 PM (ujux6)

719 Eggplant - I will catch hell for this, but check out Alton Brown for proper prep. Per AoS regs, I denounce myself.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 23, 2014 11:43 PM (QoLTq)

720 707 "I'm about to impart a great Truth -- Italians know eggplant, and when real Italians cook it, have some......but on no account let anyone else feed you any, 'cause that'll convince you that it's worthless crap."
Posted by: cthulhu at April 24, 2014 03:20 AM (T1005)

Being "silly", I did actually eat Italian Eggplant Lasagne when I was about ten.

My babysitter's family was First Generation Italian.

When I showed up to see if "Carbone" wanted to play basketball, I got invited to stay for dinner.

It was delicious, but I'll be "afraid" of eggplant, as your description warns ...lol. Not for nuthin', but "soggy eggplant" eats all sorts of ASS.

Ms. Carbone made Eggplant Lasagne like a champ.

The "Other People" shit on Eggplant Whatever because... "different". Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 03:31 AM (lq3Ak) Hide posts from (lq3Ak)

^^^This.

When it's good, it's very, very good......but when it's bad, you might well come to believe that it's totally horrid and contaminates anything it touches.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 11:44 PM (T1005)

721 719 Eggplant -
I will catch hell for this, but check out Alton Brown for proper prep.

Per AoS regs, I denounce myself. Posted by: shredded chi at April 24, 2014 03:43 AM (QoLTq) Hide posts from (QoLTq)

Why? Alton Brown is a smart dude, wise in the ways of cookery.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 23, 2014 11:47 PM (T1005)

722 Eggplant is hard to cook, no doubt. Even with all the Alton Brown, America's Test K, Heston backup; shit's not of the Earth.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 23, 2014 11:49 PM (ujux6)

723 Anglo-Saxon sword test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhQM57DPQ20

Posted by: Se Léodweardprætt Hæt at April 23, 2014 11:51 PM (AymDN)

724 "Cankles looks like she's been beaten regularly with an ugly stick lately since birth." FIFY." Posted by: FOAF at April 24, 2014 03:41 AM (rZ7kp) You've fixed nothing. In fact, you've created at least five more problems for us to solve. The First being "exactly what you claimed to have fixed". Did you replace "Hillary!" with "Cankles"-? That's my guess. Should you care to participate further, the "strikethrough" might be helpful. It is done by using ~~Word~~ Substitute Word. These helpful hints are brought to you by the Letter "R", the letter "D" and the number "7".

Posted by: Sunny Days, Sweeping the Clouds Away at April 23, 2014 11:51 PM (lq3Ak)

725 I had the bulgogi lunch special w/ hot kim chee and sweet hot kim chee today... & took an intro to pyrography ...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 23, 2014 11:51 PM (qoKTg)

726 ~~Strikethrough~~

Posted by: Sunny Days, Sweeping the Clouds Away at April 23, 2014 11:52 PM (lq3Ak)

727 [ s ] Strikethrough [ / s ] That's the way you do it. You get your money for nuthin' and your chicks for free.

Posted by: Sunny Days, Sweeping the Clouds Away at April 23, 2014 11:54 PM (lq3Ak)

728 When the strike is through, usually people go back to work ... but sometimes, there's no place to go back to work to ...

Posted by: Adriane... at April 23, 2014 11:55 PM (qoKTg)

729 "When the strike is through, usually people go back to work ... but sometimes, there's no place to go back to work to ..." Posted by: Adriane... at April 24, 2014 03:55 AM (qoKTg) Punny. Enjoy the crown. *places cardboard Burger King crown upon the head of The Worthy* I knight you "Sir Silly".

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 12:00 AM (lq3Ak)

730 The other day was The Bard's 450th birthday. Here is an automatic Shakespeare insult generator: http://tinyurl.com/l92w45n

Posted by: Ye Olde Shakespearian Hat at April 24, 2014 12:06 AM (AymDN)

731 Why? Alton Brown is a smart dude, wise in the ways of cookery. Posted by: cthulhu at April 24, 2014 03:47 AM (T1005) ---------- I'm pretty sure that a lot of people here hate him. I haven't watched him in years, but always enjoyed his show. always thought that he was the coolest nerd on TV.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 24, 2014 12:11 AM (QoLTq)

732 #722 Eggplant is hard to cook, no doubt. Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 24, 2014 03:49 AM (ujux6) I have to disagree with this. Eggplant is not all that difficult to prepare. Babaganouj is one of the easiest things to make. Poke holes with a fork in the eggplant. Bake in a 350 degree oven until soft, about 30-45 minutes. Let cool and scoop out the meat. Put the meat into a food processor with some tahini paste, garlic, lemon juice, cayenne pepper and a drizzle of sesame oil. Whir 'til smooth. Refrigerate then serve with pita bread. Octopus? Now that is difficult to prepare.

Posted by: RickZ at April 24, 2014 12:11 AM (HWCZo)

733 Justin Bieber tweeted a photo of himself at a shrine for Japanese war criminals: http://tinyurl.com/lf25u5k Warning, ads at link are NSFWÂ…

Posted by: 政治的な帽子~WTF at April 24, 2014 12:17 AM (AymDN)

734 You guys are really getting sucky and laying down on the job. Next time do your job and actually write a freaking article. Bon't write no bull shit article like Krugman, man up and write a "for real" article. Stop being a Putz.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at April 24, 2014 12:20 AM (NB/bQ)

735 "Why? Alton Brown is a smart dude, wise in the ways of cookery." Posted by: cthulhu at April 24, 2014 03:47 AM (T1005) ---------- "I'm pretty sure that a lot of people here hate him." Posted by: shredded chi at April 24, 2014 04:11 AM (QoLTq) What? Scientific approaches to food displeases The Horde? LOL. He's the Science Teacher We All Wish We Had... let-alone the excellent cooking aspect! To know that my Mother followed a discipline, started by my Great-Grandmother is awesome. Now I get to include chili peppers! *HAH!*

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 12:21 AM (lq3Ak)

736 Night all. Here is "Be All End All" by Anthrax: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky20ckAHi_E

Posted by: The Political Hat at April 24, 2014 12:32 AM (AymDN)

737 I made broccoli ,cheese, potato, Kielbasa soup on the 5th. If you've got timing, you've got a pot-full-O-awesome. -Boiling Pot. -Steaming Pot. -Soup Pot, (5Gal.) -Skillet INGREDIENTS: -1/2 Cup Butter. -1/2 Cup All-Purpose Flour. -1/2 Gallon Whole Milk. -(NINE!) "Decent Sized Potatoes". (2 lbs.) -1/3 Of Teh Whole Velveeta. Diced into small cubes. -Two, (2) jars Tostitos "Smooth and Cheesy Dip". (15.2oz. ea. 425g. ea. x 2) -1.5 lb. Polska Kielbasa. -1.5 lb. Broccoli. -Cut large flowers of broccoli into florettes and chunks days before. 1.5 LBS should be enough. When dicing the large stems, cut them into 1-Inch chunks. (Store in a large container, lined by Paper Towels. Top and bottom.) -Start Boiling 5 Gal./ Water. (You'll NEED this pot. Drain, Hold and cool). -Dice your potatoes into spoon-sized niblets. (Salt Your Niblets. Flavor before death!) -Boil potatoes for fifteen minutes. -Steam your broccoli. ...go ahead. I'm not telling anyone else about steaming your broccoli. -I didn't watch. -Steam your broccoli for 17-20 Min. (Low, Steamable Heat). -Put potatoes and broccoli in a "Holding Bowl". -Add One Cup butter to 5 Gal. Soup Pot. @ 2 or 3 heat. -Add One Cup flour slowly. -Get "clump". -Break-Up "clump" as much as you can and Do Not Burn! -Once the "roux" is "Blonde", add Milk. *Dump* ...then slowly. -Watch for it to simmer and stir LIKE HELL! -After fifteen minutes, add Velveeta and other cheeses. -Stir! -Add two jars of "Tostitos Smooth and Creamy Dip". 15.2 oz (x2) 425 g. (x2). -Drop Kielbasa into Cast-Iron skillet. -Stir! -Add potatoes and broccoli to "Cheese Pot". -Add Kielbasa and fend-off drool-riddled addicts. ...Serve by the ladle. Your "Wendy's" baked potato just cut its cost by a factor of ten! If it sits on the burner for more than six hours, on "low", (1) -? ...someone might go home with a "corner". ...of a soup. ...actually happened.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 01:11 AM (lq3Ak)

738 #670

Can't imagine where you got the idea Hello Kitty is a Spanish thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Rio

Though some litigants claim it is a ripoff of a Dutch thing.

Posted by: Epobirs at April 24, 2014 01:13 AM (Icq+V)

739 I might not have emphasized that last rant, but that recipe makes Five Gallons of Soup! ...It ~~should~~ might feed three hungry bastards for two days. ...It'll set you back about $10.00-$15.00. West Coast? $20.00-$30.00.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 01:24 AM (lq3Ak)

740 ...Japan? 27,000 yen. Your decade has collapsed. *shakes fist* ...your cartoons are hideous. Knock it off.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 01:30 AM (lq3Ak)

741 Slapweasel Thanks for the recipe Slap, I just blew my diet reading the darn thing.

Posted by: Panhandler at April 24, 2014 01:31 AM (LqVNJ)

742 493 weft cut loop, Nope THAT science is settled. //52%

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 01:44 AM (TE35l)

743 "Thanks for the recipe Slap, I just blew my diet reading the darn thing." Posted by: Panhandler at April 24, 2014 05:31 AM (LqVNJ) 'Tis a Pot-O-gold at the end of a rainbow.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 01:45 AM (lq3Ak)

744 Slapweasel, not sure on the water sequence. Boil then drain? When does it go back in?

Posted by: Panhandler at April 24, 2014 01:47 AM (LqVNJ)

745 Boil 15 min. -Drain. All. Water. Salt & Pepper potatoes and add to "other bowl", (w) broccoli. -Add to Cheese Mixture. ...after you've finished your Cheese Mixture.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 01:52 AM (lq3Ak)

746 -Add "Small Pot" to "Big Pot". -Dump the Cheese Mixture. -Add the potato and broccoli to the "Big Pot". *Drunken Recipes for 4/24. This was easier when I just did it.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 01:56 AM (lq3Ak)

747 http://tinyurl.com/ka9wt8m

3 US Doctors killed in 'ghani

The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan confirmed Thursday that three American doctors were killed by an Afghan security guard who opened fire at a Kabul hospital.

The shooting at Cure International Hospital in the western part of the Afghan capital was the latest attack on foreign civilians in the city this year.

Doctors, doctors if you want to make futile gestures to ungrateful people there's always fucking Detroit.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 02:06 AM (TE35l)

748 -Anyways... when you make a a "rue", you have to stir like crazy. In an aluminum pan. Do Not Use "Non-Stick". You're introducing the fat in the butter to the fat in the milk. Through flour. All-Purpose-Flour is your Thickening Agent. Had I given this more thought, I'd have gone with "Chicken Stock" to break-up the butter and flour. 1/2 carton of chicken stock. I love onions, but I didn't go with them here. My Brother would argue, but I'm settled on Cheese-over-Extras. Milk + Cheese = Awesome Soup. I'll Fall Back on this recipe more than once. ...as Tribute.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 02:08 AM (lq3Ak)

749 http://tinyurl.com/lqfg9zp

Ex-NFL QB arrested in AZ.....

Donovan McNabb rolls out of the pocket and into the cruiser

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 02:08 AM (TE35l)

750 man I love this job...

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 02:11 AM (TE35l)

751 Barbara Streisand has a big nose, George Clooney a small IQ, and George has a full mustache.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 02:12 AM (TE35l)

752 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 02:14 AM (PYAXX)

753 Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 02:14 AM (PYAXX)

754 753 AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 06:14 AM (PYAXX)

Well morning anyway....

I must not be as an avid a lurker as I thought...

there are allegations we're becoming the Free Republic now?

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 02:18 AM (TE35l)

755 "Good morning, Horde." Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 06:14 AM (PYAXX) Sir. We've covered "What To Do In Case Of A Suicide", earlier. *sips ~~Budweiser~~ coffee* Your orders, Sir?

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 02:23 AM (lq3Ak)

756 Proof that we don't *actually* have to kill them all, and that the Moron Lifestyle is good diplomacy: http://notalwaysright.com/doesnt-want-to-provide-proof/36662

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 02:23 AM (PYAXX)

757 there are allegations we're becoming the Free Republic now? Wait. What?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 02:23 AM (PYAXX)

758 "Wait. What?" Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 06:23 AM (PYAXX) Those are jokes, Sir. They're cruel and unusual, but this is Teh Horde, Sir.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 02:26 AM (lq3Ak)

759 757 AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 06:23 AM (PYAXX)

Yeah up in the 3 or 4 hundreds...

I usually try to read the whole thread if I post...

Ricardo Kill at April 23, 2014 11:44 PM (3oRDB) at 329...

anyway I'd not be a member of any group that'd have me and all that

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 02:27 AM (TE35l)

760 758 Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 06:26 AM (lq3Ak)

Maybe...ever since I started sleeping more than four hours a night I miss a lot.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 02:29 AM (TE35l)

761 George Will calls Obama a really stupid, obnoxious and malicious teenager. He uses the term arrested development. Obama's sycophants immediately display their shared trait with the adored one in the comments. http://tinyurl.com/nxu8fou

Posted by: Lester at April 24, 2014 02:33 AM (2UPXV)

762 Drudge reports RAF had to chase Russian spy planes out of Scottish air space. What was that about?

Posted by: Thunderb at April 24, 2014 02:35 AM (zOTsN)

763 "Maybe...ever since I started sleeping more than four hours a night I miss a lot." Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 06:29 AM (TE35l) Heh. Silly Gangsta. I can name that tune in three hours! *folds* Sleeping isn't my forte'. What a shitty "competition". "I sleep less than you". I'd rather be "nodded off" by now. Ten beers later.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 02:39 AM (lq3Ak)

764 *static*

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 02:46 AM (lq3Ak)

765 Morning, Morons.

Posted by: fluffy at April 24, 2014 02:48 AM (Ua6T/)

766 Giddy up.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at April 24, 2014 02:55 AM (lbN/1)

767 Why does the Federal Government "need" Twenty-Thousand Acres, through the BLM, in Texas? ...out of nowhere? -Are they testing something? -Are they proving something? I'm asking real questions. I have no idea.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 24, 2014 03:00 AM (lq3Ak)

768 >>> -Are they testing something? -Are they proving something? They are coveting.

Posted by: fluffy at April 24, 2014 03:06 AM (Ua6T/)

769 I read some of "Free Republic" years ago. What does it mean when someone says that we are becoming "Free Republic"?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 03:08 AM (XyM/Y)

770 "Are they testing something? " Yes, the will and resolve of the people of Texas.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 24, 2014 03:08 AM (X2NEw)

771 I read some of "Free Republic" years ago. What does it mean when someone says that we are becoming "Free Republic"?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 07:08 AM (XyM/Y)

It's shorthand for "unhinged right wing whackjobs."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 24, 2014 03:12 AM (zF6Iw)

772 I believe they are using the BLM for mineral rights. To stop fracking

Posted by: Thunderb at April 24, 2014 03:13 AM (zOTsN)

773 Slap,

no competition...honest injun' I think I established my self-destructive insomia cred back in '12... trying to survive now

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 03:13 AM (TE35l)

774 O.K. Thanks; I wasn't sure if they were referring to that and/or to discussions on faith and religion.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 03:13 AM (XyM/Y)

775 Barbara Streisand has a big nose, George Clooney a small IQ, and George has a full mustache. The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache. The mouse has the cheese. Over.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 03:14 AM (d0Dmj)

776 "It's shorthand for "unhinged right wing whackjobs."" Sometimes shortened to .."Freepers" Usually not intended as a compliment.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 24, 2014 03:14 AM (X2NEw)

777 Mornin', fappers. Lots of long dark night of the soul around the ONT, myself included.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 24, 2014 03:14 AM (mx5oN)

778 Colonel doubles down. Has his buddy say he wasn't drunk. Just sticking up for a "friend". Sniff....sniff

Posted by: Thunderb at April 24, 2014 03:15 AM (zOTsN)

779 772 Thunderb at April 24, 2014 07:13 AM (zOTsN)

You got it...

that is what I am discussing about the evils of an evangelical partisan civil service.

The US government *is* the enemy.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 03:15 AM (TE35l)

780 Clooney not colonel.

Posted by: Thunderb at April 24, 2014 03:16 AM (zOTsN)

781 776 Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 24, 2014 07:14 AM (X2NEw)

funny I always have read it as "people who give a fuck and can see behind he curtain"....

heh

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 03:16 AM (TE35l)

782 Lots of long dark night of the soul around the ONT, myself included.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 24, 2014 07:14 AM (mx5oN)

That's why I stay off it. God knows I feel lousy enough already.

OK, no morning thread yet, and I've got to go. So:

Morning, Â‘rons and Â‘ronettes. Here are a couple of quick stories:

After Psycho was released in 1960, director Alfred Hitchcock got a letter from a disgruntled moviegoer. After seeing Janet Leigh butchered in the shower, he wrote, his wife had been afraid to shower or bathe. What, he demanded, did the director suggest they do?

Â“Sir,Â” Hitch wrote back, Â“have you ever considered taking your wife to the dry cleaner?Â”

In his funny and charming 1959 autobiography Groucho and Me, the great Groucho Marx tells of the time he was walking down State Street in Chicago when a middle-aged couple came up and began circling him, going around two or three times and inspecting him up and down. At last, the wife stammered, Â“YouÂ’re Â– youÂ’re him, arenÂ’t you? YouÂ’re Groucho?Â” Marx nodded. Then she touched him shyly on the arm.

Â“Please donÂ’t die,Â” she smiled. Â“Just keep on living.Â”

And thatÂ’s it for me today, I think.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 24, 2014 03:17 AM (zF6Iw)

783 Pardon my ignorance, but who is the handsome fellow in the ninth picture above who is standing outside what looks like a college chapel?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 03:18 AM (XyM/Y)

784 Mornin', ~~fappers~~ freepers. Lots of long dark night of the soul around the ONT, myself included. Updated, to keep with the morning's meme.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 03:18 AM (PYAXX)

785 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 07:18 AM (XyM/Y)

Hillary Clinton...post plastic surgery.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 24, 2014 03:20 AM (QFxY5)

786 784 AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 07:18 AM (PYAXX)

What are you Allen some kind of RWNJ who thinks the feds should not be in the "stealing millions of acres of land" biz?

//Moderate Milquetoast Magni-Sven's Sensitive Cousin

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 03:20 AM (TE35l)

787 Gabe somehow manages to be late every time I have an early appointment over in town so I am putting the morning news dump here,.

Good Morning Morons. Today is Thursday, April 24, 2014. On this day in 1933 Nazi Germany began its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg. So Jews were not the only ones who received the ire of Hitler. He also did not like Gypsies.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:21 AM (T2V/1)

788 Obama's illegal 90 day "grace period" on paying premiums is going to cost hospitals and doctors a shit-ton of money. And guess who will ultimately pay that.

http://tinyurl.com/k8yaj9v

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:21 AM (T2V/1)

789 782 Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 24, 2014 07:17 AM (zF6Iw)

You're missed when you go...

unlike some....

me<----

No seriously most ONTs are lighthearted...

there's still a lot of pain on the dreaded "s" word

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 03:22 AM (TE35l)

790 TX governor Rick Perry blasts the out of control government over the BLM and its plans to grab a large part of TX. As I said yesterday, I doubt if TX is going to stand for this shit.

http://tinyurl.com/k6edoc9

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:22 AM (T2V/1)

791 Top Al Qeada leader relocates to Syria so he can get some of those Obama bucks too.

http://tinyurl.com/m87so54

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:22 AM (T2V/1)

792 The eco-Nazis are going after a LNG facility in MD now. This proves what we have been long saying here. If you give them an inch they will next want a mile. They never stop.

http://tinyurl.com/kzmabzv

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:22 AM (T2V/1)

793 Obama's illegal 90 day "grace period" on paying premiums is going to cost hospitals and doctors a shit-ton of money. To quote the great Buffy Summers: "Does the word 'duh' mean anything to you?"

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 03:22 AM (PYAXX)

794 Jeb Bush now says he is considering a run in 2016. I am sure the press will be all over that. I say piss on the RINO.

http://tinyurl.com/kyhdfbl

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:22 AM (T2V/1)

795 787 Posted by: Vic at April 24, 2014 07:21 AM (T2V/1)

Mormons, Jews, Morons, the Welsh....

Hitler had a lot of villains

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 03:23 AM (TE35l)

796 The Democraps maintain there is no vote fraud. If so then why are there 44,000 voters registered on BOTH VA and MD?

http://tinyurl.com/n8vo3kl

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:23 AM (T2V/1)

797 And Rand Paul thinks vote fraud is not a big thing.

http://tinyurl.com/msq8bq9

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:23 AM (T2V/1)

798 Yesterday I posted an Easter letter from Pastor Abedini who is currently being held prisoner in a hospital in Iran and, before that he was in prison and was tortured. Here is a letter from prison. I pray this wonderful man might be released to go home to his family in the US but he's not up on the priorities list of the U,S.: http://tinyurl.com/kc6nbag

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 03:23 AM (XyM/Y)

799 NJ town thought it was going to paint its water tower which is rusting away. Little did they know the eco-Nazis would use a crow's nest to block them. (You can call them all sorts of names but they are still crows and there is a provision in the law that would allow them to take action. Its called the nuisance provision.)

http://tinyurl.com/loy3nxq

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:23 AM (T2V/1)

800 Jeb Bush now says he is considering a run in 2016. I am sure the press will be all over that. I say piss on the RINO. I wouldn't waste the piss.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 03:23 AM (PYAXX)

801 Avril Levigne... another of those young ladies who is much more attractive when she's not trying to sing or speak.

And yes baby, leave the glasses on.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 24, 2014 03:24 AM (BeSEI)

802 Meanwhile in MD the town ripped out the nest that Ospreys have built in front of their traffic cameras.

http://tinyurl.com/k7qhxbh

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:24 AM (T2V/1)

803 792 Posted by: Vic at April 24, 2014 07:22 AM (T2V/1)

Sooner or later Vic people will figure out that the lack of energy is a gift from "Schemes O'my absent Daddy"

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 03:24 AM (TE35l)

804 The FCC is trying to back door the Internet control law that was defeated in Congress using executive BS. And don't believe the BS written in this article about Net Neutrality.

http://tinyurl.com/kde8mrq

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:24 AM (T2V/1)

805 Muzzies are suing the feds over the no fly list. I am sure they are FOS over the particulars in this suit, but I am no fan of the feds being able to add someone to the list solely on their say-so.

http://tinyurl.com/l63hmaj

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:24 AM (T2V/1)

806 Is America ready for the "Barbie" movie? Hell, at least it will be something different. IIANM they already have a Barbie cartoon TV show.

http://tinyurl.com/oo7rgr5

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:24 AM (T2V/1)

807 Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 07:23 AM (TE35l) To be fair, he might have been right about the Welsh.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 03:24 AM (PYAXX)

808 Power grid at its limits? So says this article in the DC. I have long been screaming about the shortage in the NE and the far west. Its not just the EPA and other federal agencies who have been killing them more recently. The NE and CA have long been net users from other regions. The reason for that is the NIMBY, NAMBY, and NOPE contingents.

http://tinyurl.com/kn6mhax

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:25 AM (T2V/1)

809 Aunt Zeituni Onyango is no longer on the taxpayer dime in MA. Obama did not attend her funeral. He played golf instead.

http://tinyurl.com/l6scl73

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:25 AM (T2V/1)

810 "funny I always have read it as "people who give a fuck and can see behind he curtain"...." The usage that I offered is not MY position on Free Republic. Just the general innertubes usage of it. Free Republic has some outstanding contributors, and a Moron could do worse IMHO then to periodically spend time reading there.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 24, 2014 03:25 AM (X2NEw)

811 Here is one of the many reasons McShitty is not well liked in the conservative community. He likes him some amnesty.

http://tinyurl.com/l8qjdfs

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:25 AM (T2V/1)

812 GA has passed one of the most liberal gun freedom laws in the country.

http://tinyurl.com/n77bvor

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:26 AM (T2V/1)

813 Corrupt Obamanites usher in more new regulations to undermine coal. If you think this is about "miner's health, think again".

http://tinyurl.com/kkogg4u

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:26 AM (T2V/1)

814 The Krautman warns Dems about allowing Obama to run amuck flouting the law.

Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer warned Democrats they will Â“rue the dayÂ” they failed to even once oppose President ObamaÂ’s lawless disregard for the constitutional separation of powers, noting his actions establish a precedent a Republican president will one day exploit.

Obviously he is ignoring the history of the spineless Republican Party. And Krautman is no "conservative".

http://tinyurl.com/m8vqtxe

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:26 AM (T2V/1)

815 The 6th circuit court of appeals has blasted the crap out of the EEOC for their blatantly illegal suit against a company for performing "background checks" on new employees. This was the second court loss for this Obamanite overreach and the resulting lawfare of the EEOC. Now, I am sure we the taxpayers will have to foot the bill for all this lawfare. I say it should come totally out of the DOJ budget with nothing more from the taxpayers. And to make up for it cut the salary for all DOJ employees from the top down.

http://tinyurl.com/n85gj5m

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:26 AM (T2V/1)

816 807 Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 07:24 AM (PYAXX)

Beth mae'r fuck wnaethom ni yn ond yn cael ei gyflwyno gan y Saeson?

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 03:26 AM (TE35l)

817 Power grid at its limits? Which is the only state in the contiguous 48 without its power grid attached to the others? Oh, right, that'd be Texas. Where we (mostly) don't have power shortages (and would be able to leave out that "mostly" if not for the Feds and the enviro-Nazis).

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 03:27 AM (PYAXX)

818 NJ town thought it was going to paint its water tower which is rusting away. Little did they know the eco-Nazis would use a crow's nest to block them. (You can call them all sorts of names but they are still crows and there is a provision in the law that would allow them to take action. Its called the nuisance provision.) Only in Jersey. In Texas, they'd already be shot.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 03:27 AM (d0Dmj)

819 Another senseless dog killing.

The sheriffÂ’s department is investigating the matter.

http://tinyurl.com/ltpdtrz

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:27 AM (T2V/1)

820 812 -

I only heard about it on one of those top of the hour radio news broadcasts. Needless to say they were having a conniption fit over it.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 24, 2014 03:27 AM (BeSEI)

821 Police raid the apartment of an innocent 75 year old woman, kick in her door, tie her up, and question her about nonexistent drugs. It was the wrong apartment. VA taxpayers will be punished for this.

http://tinyurl.com/nxjkwu6

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:27 AM (T2V/1)

822 Oh oh, strike against Perry. He has never been real strong on "immigration" but now he is defending Jeb Bush.

http://tinyurl.com/ko6vsj2

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:27 AM (T2V/1)

823 Another stupid action by the MFM as AP blames the Mt Everest avalanche on Global Warming. Of course there were no avalanches on Mt. Everest in the early days. In fact, the highest cause of death on Mt Everest is avalanches.

http://tinyurl.com/m6xog7n

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:28 AM (T2V/1)

824 The dispicable Erin Brocavich os on Fox and Friends, I'd rather watch another lying Graham ad .

Posted by: tmitsss at April 24, 2014 03:28 AM (Pa9vP)

825 News on the GA Senate race to replace RINO Saxby Chambliss.

http://tinyurl.com/kqr7zhf

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:28 AM (T2V/1)

826 Beth mae'r fuck wnaethom ni yn ond yn cael ei gyflwyno gan y Saeson? Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 07:26 AM (TE35l) What did you just call MWR!?!

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 03:28 AM (PYAXX)

827 Rand Paul wants to give illegals work Visas. More and more he is diminishing in my eyes as a candidate.

http://tinyurl.com/ksdp9bo

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:28 AM (T2V/1)

828 823 Posted by: Vic at April 24, 2014 07:28 AM (T2V/1)

Gravity...it gets worse under gorebul warmening....

"really"

//Goreons

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 03:28 AM (TE35l)

829 What kind of ax is WaPo grinding now? 1.6M Americans do not have indoor plumbing?

http://tinyurl.com/krah2j3

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:29 AM (T2V/1)

830 Wow, and this is from the Democrat controlled Senate:

The top watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security altered and delayed investigations at the request of senior administration officials, compromising his independent role as an inspector general, according to a new report from a Senate oversight panel.

So the corrupt Obamanites are now pressuring the IG to lie.

http://tinyurl.com/lpj2t9p

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:29 AM (T2V/1)

831 826 Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 07:28 AM (PYAXX)

English...

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 03:29 AM (TE35l)

832 Something I have been saying for a while. Congress has the authority on its own to arrest and jail Louis Lerner. But they won't because the RNC has no balls.

http://tinyurl.com/leavbhq

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:29 AM (T2V/1)

833 NOOD

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 24, 2014 03:29 AM (X2NEw)

834 Even the State Department can't come up with any accomplishments from Cankles.

http://tinyurl.com/mrgfb34

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:29 AM (T2V/1)

835 Thousands of American citizens are dumping their citizenship over stupid US tax laws.

http://tinyurl.com/luoyfrc

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:30 AM (T2V/1)

836 Free Republic has some outstanding contributors, and a Moron could do worse IMHO then to periodically spend time reading there. Unless one disparages Sashime & Mawliki & gets booted. BTDT.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 03:30 AM (d0Dmj)

837 Is there any candidate you would like for President, Vic?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 03:30 AM (XyM/Y)

838 Security guard kills three American doctors in Kabul. Far past time to get out of that shit-hole if we are not going to do anything with it.

http://tinyurl.com/ka9wt8m

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:30 AM (T2V/1)

839 Thousands of American citizens are dumping their citizenship over stupid US tax laws. Sort of wish I could afford to do this...

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 03:30 AM (PYAXX)

840 Kindle Daily Deals

http://tinyurl.com/mpe622r

That's it for today folks. And I will be leaving for a dental appointment in a few minutes.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:31 AM (T2V/1)

841 837 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 07:30 AM (XyM/Y)

Vic though pretty highly of a young Virginia planter he knew named George...

my list is pretty simple...

1) don't attack the Bill of Rights-flush Chrispy Chreme

2) hey asshole I'll embrace Amigo Grande! just as soon as my cousin can just walk across the border and work in a Ford plant at the Mequila zone given his part of the family did it three generations...

3) Rule of law is more than just a snark from on high it is a two way street

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 03:35 AM (TE35l)

842 837 Is there any candidate you would like for President, Vic?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 07:30 AM (XyM/Y)

I am holding open until the primaries.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 03:40 AM (T2V/1)

843 842 Posted by: Vic at April 24, 2014 07:40 AM (T2V/1)

I have my two "screw you GOP" guys...

1) Chrispy

2) Jeb

3) Luap Darn or Huckadoodle

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 03:42 AM (TE35l)

844 Steve Doocy FU

Posted by: tmitsss at April 24, 2014 03:50 AM (Pa9vP)

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