Merry Christmas Yinz Guys!!!
Merry Christmas 2023!
by coldwarrior ( 173 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at December 23rd, 2023 - 11:30 pm
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
ho ho ho, n’at.
@ coldwarrior:
Are you still on the road in an ARInbnb or something?
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
Ho..Ho..Ho.. right back at ya.
Christmas Eve here down under already. Getting dark and the reindeer are getting stroppy to get underway. Santa may need to remove the bottom plug out of the floor of the sleight however. Absolutely ‘pissing down with rain here.
It’s looking like it’s going to be a wet one down here tomorrow!
Merry Christmas to all of the denizens in this place.
Have a Happy and Holy Christmas with you and yours.
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eaglesoars wrote:
I don’t go for a week or so. Making etouffee for work pot luck tomorrow
@ Aussie Infidel:
Gonna be almost 60f here!
coldwarrior wrote:
I did that. Once. Never again. I’m putting up some chicken bone broth. Will make soup today, the rest for the freezer.
Today is Psycho Puppy’s 6th birthday.
And Willow has started stealing my socks? WTF? She put them in her bed and laid down on them and seriously?
Wanted to watch a ‘Christmas’ movie. Decided on Love Actually (Netflix)
It is a COMPLETELY different movie from the one that was released originally. I’m 15 mins in and there is NO scene I have seen before. Maybe this is a ‘director’s cut’?
Fabulous
@ eaglesoars:
I would have gone for Die Hard
“Now I have a machine gun. Ho-ho-ho”
coldwarrior wrote:
Obviously ‘Gerbal Worming!’
HEH
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@ lobo91:
OH YEAH
@ lobo91:
OH YEAH
I’ll look for that one
EVERY FUCKING YEAR
I mean every holiday. One of the girls comes up with a problem.
Today is Mia’s birthday, the day before Christmas and she’s limping like a camel. Right front leg. I can’t even
I am massaging her but there will be no trip to the emergency hospital. No. I am done.
Does anyone give a monkey’s butt about Harvard any more?
I have heard from a source that is reliable but a step or two removed from the situation that the
@Harvard
Corporation has asked President Gay to resign and she has refused.
Gay has apparently said that if she is fired, she will sue. Gay has retained her own counsel.
I canāt 100% confirm the above is true, but if it is, I am sure the Board is concerned about what may emerge in legal discovery in the event of litigation.
At this point, however, what choice does the Board have?
If the Board makes an inappropriate deal on severance or gives Gay a guaranteed position at Harvard, it will look like a payoff to keep her quiet. I canāt see how she stays at Harvard in any capacity.
President Gayās performance and her academic record issues provide plenty of cause for termination without compensation.
But at every step so far, the Board has made the wrong call and dug a deeper hole for themselves and Harvard.
As we all know, the best time to start making good decisions is now.
The sooner Gay is gone, the sooner repairing the damage can begin.
https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1739064058483986638
Cultural post.
If anyone here thinks regular Mexican music is bad and are wondering if Mexican Christmas music is any better then the answer is…
NO!
Lots of BBQ going on here tonight in the apartment complex. It seems the major flavouring ingredient is lighter fluid!
Now I know what it is like to live in Galveston.
For the un-educated here Galveston TX is where there are a lot of oil refineries and it smells of BBQ lighter fluid 24/7/365
@ Possum:
I thought most of the refineries were in Deerpark which is not close to Galveston. But what do I know?
Calo wrote:
Try studying metiorlogigally stuff and prevailing wind directions and take a look at a map and understand that in this area for most of the time the wind is coming from the north west because of the gulf stream and the coriolosis effect.
Deerpark is located to the north west of Galveston. If someone even farts in Deerpark then Galveston smells it.
What about TexasCity? It has Dow Chemicalās refinery.
@ Possum:
Anyway enjoy your Chinese. I am having a plain baked potato.
@ Possum:
And, your spelling is shit. Uneducated who?
@ Calo:
Texas City is still to the north west of Galveston. All that refinery shit is blown to Galveston, then to Cuba.
@ Calo:
My speeling is prefect. A cat pissed on my krebord.
@ Possum:
Anyway bed time for me as it is 2am where I now live.
UK time.
Merry Christmas to all.
Merry Christmas to Blogmockers everywhere!
hey y’all
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas, all.
Merry Christmas all. I was up at 5 to get the baked stuff started, going down for a nap
via Instapundit…
Merry Christmas to the Jews……..
https://instapundit.com/622889/
Merry Christmas, all!
So. I will tell my Christmas story again. I was single, living in D.C. and had to get back to Pennsylvania for Christmas on Christmas Eve Day. Weather was appalling. Allegheny Airlines was still in business and everybody called it Agony Airlines.
Managed to get a flight on a puddle jumper, the last seat in the back. We landed in Pgh but the plane had to wait for a gate. The flight crew told us it was ok go get up and stretch, it would be awhile. The gentleman who was seated in front of me and I got to talking. He said it reminded him of his time in Germany during the war. Well, I started telling him some of my father’s stories and he’s telling me his and I’m thinking “Oh good lord, this is a friend of Dad’s his voice is SO familiar and I know that face and I know I’ve met him and if I can’t come up with his name my father is going to have my head on a plate cuz he’s gonna hear about it someday”. He was utterly divine.
Then we got a gate and as we all got off, I was last off the plane and he was just in front of me. The flight crew was all lined up. BIG SMILES!
MERRY CHRISTMAS MR STEWART!!!
And that’s how I met Jimmy Stewart and didn’t even know it.
Here ya go.
It’s a Wonderful Life.
https://instapundit.com/622902/
eaglesoars wrote:
There’s a lot of subtext in that film that most people don’t realize; for instance, most of the names are puns or allusions. Mr. Gower is the name of the druggist George Bailey works for; “gow” was 1930s/’40s slang for opiates or narcotics. Junkies are frequently referred to in detective stories of the period as being “gowed up.”
The building and loan is run by the Bailey family. In law, a “bailee” is someone who takes charge of another’s property, often for little or no charge. “Peter” means “rock,” and Peter Bailey, George’s father is the rock on which the building and loan rests. “Let George do it,” meaning “Let someone else take care of it,” was a catchphrase through the first half of the 20th century; it derives from the habit of generically referring to, or addressing, (black) Pullman porters as “George.” “George Bailey” is the gratuitous bailee that everyone else in town lets take care of business while they pursue their own interests.
The angel “Clarence,” of course, provides clarity to George.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
That part I knew as my maiden name is Bailey. But the rest is a delight, thanks!
hmmmmmmm, via the nextdoor app it seems someone is stealing beagles.
Wrong move.
eaglesoars wrote:
hoo boy howdy
People are out with guns.
jeebus on a crutch.
eaglesoars wrote:
And the sirens are wailing. Oops.
@ eaglesoars:
You have all the fun. All we got was a dog fight in the kitchen over a toy.
Material made of carbon and nitrogen is nearly as hard as diamond
Crushing carbon and nitrogen under immense pressure and heat creates the second-hardest known material after diamond
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2408386-material-made-of-carbon-and-nitrogen-is-nearly-as-hard-as-diamond/
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Always and forever
Modern reconstruction of world’s first modern human looked like. It is estimated to be 160,000 years old and from Africa. Displayed in Moesgaard Museum, Denmark.
Beginning with the common ancestor which humans share with anthropoids, the branch of human primates started also in Africa, probably 6 to 8 million years ago and reach up to modern man (who arose probably around 150,000 to 200,000 years ago and then spread to the rest of the world). They were called Hominids, and are included in the superfamily of all apes, the Hominoidea, the members of which are called hominoids.
Man’s evolutionary tree is not a single, continuous line along time, as many people think. Scientists have evidence that there were many “dead end” branches, with hominid species who died out without leaving descendants. It is very difficult to determine our direct evolutionary line, and there are still several missing links, not to mention that sometimes there is discordance among scientists about what constitutes the best guess.
However, we know that our evolutionary line has had two main moments: the first and most ancient one was that of African hominids, which encompasses the Australopithecus genre. The second and most recent one is the Homo genre, including the extinct species which were almost surely our direct ancestors: Homo habilis and Homo erectus. They inhabited Africa earlier than 2 to 2.5 million years ago and their remains have been discovered in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and in Lake Turkana, in Kenya. Homo habilis, in accordance to its name, was the first species to manufacture tools and use fire.
Homo erectus was the first human to spread out of Africa to the world, including Europe, Middle East and Asia. This species became extinct in all locations except Africa, where it developed into the so-called archaic Homo sapiens (there is still a clear a missing link from H. erectus to H. sapiens). Therefore, Southern Africa seems to be the “cradle of humanity”.
Ancient Homo sapiens’ evolution was bolstered by the genetic isolation caused by deserts and mountains in that part of the continent. This species later spread out again to Africa, Europe, Asia, 200,000 and 100,000 years ago), where it evolved into Homo sapiens neanderthalensis (the Neanderthal man, an adaptation to cold environments, and which is not considered a direct ascendant to modern man, but rather a closely related species ), and modern Homo sapiens sapiens, an adaptation to the warm environment of Africa.
Scientists have recently announced the probable discovery of a common ancestor of both Neanderthals and modern man, named as Homo antecessor. It lived 800,000 years ago, in what is now Spain. Ultimately, Neanderthals succumbed 30,000 years ago, probably due to competition with Homo sapiens sapiens, or by interbreeding with it, or both.
The so-called “Out of Africa” model has also been supported by evidence from molecular biology. Studies of the mitochondrial DNA suggest that all modern humans originated from a small population liviing in Southern Africa. Since mitochondrial DNA only pass along feminine lines, this ancestor of ours has been nicknamed the “African Eve”.
Ā© Prof. Renato M.E. Sabbatini, PhD
https://twitter.com/archeohistories/status/1739373729824801060
And it is ugly. sheesh
Good discussion about what’s going on in the Red Sea with regard to commercial shipping:
um………
Tesla robot ATTACKS an engineer at company’s Texas factory during violent malfunction – leaving ‘trail of blood’ and forcing workers to hit emergency shutdown button
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12869629/Tesla-robot-ATTACKS-engineer-companys-Texas-factory-violent-malfunction-leaving-trail-blood-forcing-workers-hit-emergency-shutdown-button.html
My poor girls. It has been raining all day so they’re stuck inside and they ARE NOT HAPPY MOM!!!
As in throwing their dishes around just to make noise etc….and looking at me with that face WHO YOU GONNA CALL?
Don’t get beagles……..
@ eaglesoars:
Human error, but it’s Tesla and automated machinery.
eaglesoars wrote:
I thought he was on display at every end-of-June “Pride Parade.”
I think youtube has crashed
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Human error. So don’t piss off the robots
eaglesoars wrote:
No need to robot in…
Interesting educational and instructional fact about aerodynamics and pollutants and wind direction that Calo may be interested in.
This afternoon I had my door wedged open with a container of laundry detergent so the cats could get in and out.
Gain 64oz of some smelly flowery Spring stuff but that is not relevant to the story.
Anyway a neighbor up wind of me decided to do some spray painting of something that needed painting.
Due to the wind direction and atmospheric conditions no paint actually got in my apartment but the propellent used in that formulation of spray paint did.
Kitchen still stinks of over ripe bananas, a banana is something that my kitchen has not seen for years.
@ Possum:
That post was spell checked….
Interesting fact.
If you buy eggs in the USA you MUST refrigerate them.
If you buy eggs in the UK no need to put them in the fridge.
Why? what is the difference?
@ Possum:
I donāt know, you are the chicken man though.
@ lobo91:
Very interesting.
Iāve thought we should start using the old WWI/II era Q-ships.
Missiles are too expensive (and thereās not an endless supply) to use indefinitely, but how effective are the phalanx guns in these situations?
Calo wrote:
I thought he was the pig guy. As for the eggs, doesn’t USDA require them to be bleach-rinsed if they’re going to be shipped more than a few blocks or something?
Possum wrote:
Good question. We never refrigerated our eggs in Thailand either.
Tommy Smothers died.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/tom-smothers-a-counterculture-comedy-legend-with-the-smothers-brothers-dead-at-86/ar-AA1m709F
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Didn’t know this.
Mr Bunk worked it out. US eggs are washed with harsh chemicals to remove any possibility of salmonella on them before they are offered for sale.
However this washing removes the outer coating of the egg called the cuticle. An egg shell is porous. Removing the protective outer coating allows bacteria to pass through the shell and cause the interior of the egg to go bad. Hence the need to refrigerate a washed egg.
An unwashed egg may have bacteria on the surface of it but the bacteria cannot get through the cuticle and shell.
So no need to refrigerate it as the contents are safe in their own shrink wrapped sterile packaging.
However both unwashed and washed eggs, refrigerated or not degrade with time.
Anyway I prefer mine scrambled…..
Well the egg conversation killed this place.
I am really happy I did not start a conversation about military people killed during wars and even though they were the enemy they were buried respectfully and memorials to their passing and sacrifice were erected and respected.
This removal of Confederate statues of generals etc I kind of understand but the removal of the memorial in Arlington is crossing the line in my opinion.
In England there are several places where German Military are buried. With respect and the places are maintained and tendered with care.
Not every German aircrew was a nazi, not every confederate soldier had slaves.
Possum wrote:
And that’s how to get the bad chicks.
Possum wrote:
Most of the South was dirt poor. A family was wealthy if they owned a mule.
About 10% of the population could even afford a slave, and one with a skill was worth a lot more, the equivalent of a luxury car in today’s dollars. You still had to feed, house and clothe him, and treat medical problems.
Calo wrote:
Chicken pig and turkey and also cat.
Also roaches and spiders, that is why I do not get visitors.
@ Possum:
Saw some big roaches in Houston, but the biggest were in a factory in Hartwell Ohio where I worked a monontony machine built in 1922 making asbestos millboard. Those buggers were 4-6 inches long, some of them were as old as the factory.
This is beautiful
Using a small electric drill, Franc Grom skillfully drills thousands of holes into delicate eggshells, creating stunning and intricate sculptures.
each egg contains approximately 2,500 to 3,500 holes.
https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1739972156287795680
Urgent request for humanitarian assistance in Houston.
It is almost 1pm and the temperature is a very cold 54F with an expected low tonight of 34F
Please send blankets, thick socks, hot soup and a wooly hats.
Lives are at stake here today.
Possum wrote:
54 degrees Fahrenheit in late December is “very cold?” In what universe?
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
SE Texass. the only thing good about temps in the low 30s is the mosquito population drops by 20%.
Possum wrote:
All I know about woolys comes from this quote I found years back. (I think it’s English.)
If youāre looking for cheap dinner, Wendyās has .01 Jr Bacon burgers through 1/2 if you use the app.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Cats know about life threatening cold temperatures. I just got the tape measure to check.
Normal rules are at least three feet separation on the bed or there is fights.
Current separation is 21 inches. I have seen this phenomenon before, the colder it gets then the closer the cats become. Once below about 40F there is just one 55 pound pile of cat in the middle of the bed.
60 claws, fucking lot of teeth and the bed is theirs. Couch time for me tonight.
@ Possum:
I learned about the pitfalls of caustic water my first January in Houston. The shower water mixer valve got eaten and I had to find the one aluminum pot that didn’t have a pinhole leak so I could boil water to keep my danglies from shrinking to the size of walnuts.
To all I the men here: I have been sick for 3 days. When my husband asks me “Are you cooking?” and I stop speaking to him he decides his defense is “What I really meant is can I go get something”………
don’t go there. just don’t.
@ eaglesoars:
I see nothing wrong with offering to provide food for one’s ailing wife.
Meanwhile, I just learned that Hydrox came before Oreos.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
That is exactly what he did not do
eaglesoars wrote:
That is called self-sacrifice. He’d rather go hungry than to cause you additional distress and agony. Kudos to him.
You owe him a sammy and some tasty Hydrox creme-filled chocolate cookies (instead of a cheap knockoff) when you feel better.
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh my! Rookie mistake!
eaglesoars wrote:
The better save there would have been “I was asking if you feel like you are running a temperature.”
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Did I mention he said it as he walked out the door on his way to a restaurant?
One of my best girlfriends is here and we’re still laughing
LOL I win this game yet again because I am good at this game.
https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/fidf-delivers-10-1-million-of-essential-clothing-to-israels-soldiers/
@ Possum:
Check out the daily temperatures in Israel. It never gets as cold as Houston , the land of sand and cactus.
So a joking call for hot soup and blankets to Houston gets no assistance from the world wide community but.
A request from Israel for blankies and wooly hats gets millions of dollars?
Some one said
It seems the answer is israel.
Current temp at 10am Houston Texas is 43F
Temp at Tel Aviv at 10am their time 69F
Expected low Houston tonight 35F
Expected low Tel Aviv 55F
But send blankies to Israel!!!!!!!
@ Possum:
This looked very odd to me. Are we supposed to believe that the IDF isn’t properly equipped?
Anyway good news here. We all survived the quite cold temperatures here. even the people with no homes. A miracle.
I wonder how the Israeli Defense Forces them highly trained militery survived a cold night of 55F.
SEND MONEY AND BLANKIES!!!!!!
coldwarrior wrote:
Um without causing a fight here I was trying to say there may be fund raisers that may be a scam.
LMAO winter equipment to a country on the Mediterranean?
@ Possum:
@ Possum:
One has to admire the manifold ways in which Jew-haters like yourself manage to prance.
I was requested by people here not to interact with some posters on this site and I am obeying that rule.
I respect the rules.
It is kind of strange that the only people that get nasty here also tell us what their religion is.
I do not know what anyone here has any religion or belief and it does not matter to me,
.
Catholic, Church of England, Buddist, Islamiky thing.
But you get a fucking jew in here and it is all about jew….
@ Possum:
I haven’t said a thing about “my religion,” dearie—I was making an observation about your gratuitous bigotry.
Pray, continue to prance and amuse us all.
OK going to get real… It seems that buzz thing is a jewish circumsised head bobbery at the whale wall who does not turn lights on saturday.
So go fuck off. Go back to the places that banned you
LOL That buzz person is a twat.
Possum wrote:
Nice prancing.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
And you insults are mincing prevaricator, nasty wizened little creep, diseasedāmind, dearie ( that one hurt ), ignor-anus, inflammatory bigot, dolt of impenetrable stupidity, creep, coward,
And, I do not give a fuck about what you called me. but my lawyer is keeping a record.
Hey buzzy… things are going to get real.
Possum wrote:
What an obnoxious and semi-coherent shit you are, to be sure.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Just fuck off you inbreed creep.
People like that Buzz thing is why sites such as stormfront.org exist
I am a member.
Possum wrote:
A dick? Yes, you certainly are.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
The Nazis fucked up. Zyklon-B
They should have used Zyklon-C
Second warning, both yinz.
There are eight billion people on this planet.
Many religions and races.
There is 18 million jews.
I am shit at math but what is the percentage of 18 million in a world population of 8 billion?
Very small. And which jewish population is causing turmoil.
That small percentage.
@ coldwarrior:
I has other places to go…
Ban me. I do not give a fuck to be honest.
coldwarrior wrote:
And I obeyed the rules. I did not interact first.
But I am done here. Protect the jew.
Out
Possum wrote:
?
Ban…?
Where did that come from?
Possum wrote:
Hell, I’m just asking two grown men to knock it off. It ain’t that difficult.
coldwarrior wrote:
Sorry, but it appears “Possum”is a groan “man,” not a grown man.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Don’t make me turn into an asshole.
Seriously, IGNORE. It’s easy.
And, I have no problem with the initial post…that whole ‘send blankets, etc to the IDF’ smells like a scam. Guess what, there are bad actors in all walks of life.
And I’ll be damned if I spend my money keeping this joint open for it to turn into bickerfest.
Both yinz, IGNORE EACH OTHER!!!!
thanks in advance.
And of course, we are prolly moving in a month or so. They new house has two driers…one in the garage…
So what broke yesterday?
Yep. The drier in our current house.
Of
Fucking
Course.
@ coldwarrior:
700 bucks…
Gone.
coldwarrior wrote:
It is not “easy to ignore” a bigot spewing garbage. And it was my understanding that, back when “The Blogmocracy” was started, it was started for the purpose of enabling the sort of open discussion that the Mad Cyclist of LGF was no longer willing to permit.
Feel free to correct me if I err.
coldwarrior wrote:
No excuse for being cold if you are fighting at home. The 100th Bn 442 Regt. guys came visiting to NZ one late April when it can be either glorious or terrible depending on the winter gods. Some ‘gold bar Lt. looked up the season and it said mid autumn (AKA Fall) so the battalion packed for warm to mildly cool. It snowed on ‘Wai-beria’ (Siberia of the south) Waiouru Army Training Area at 2500 above sea level flat high desert on day #2. Kiwis raided the hospital and carried off white sheets to wear as camouflage over their kit. Yanks were forbidden to wear ‘foreign’ uniform clothing so they were all issued with woolies to wear ‘under’ their US Army kit. Then everything froze and the Kiwis gave the Yanks’ all of the stores of wooly gloves and balaclavas. Then a Kiwi general decided to issue all Kiwis with gloves. I got issued with a pair of leather welding gloves! Amazing! š Hey they were gloves!
Mt. Ruepehu ski season had an early opening and we froze our arses off living in holes in the ground covered in snow in the middle of a 2500′ Above Sea Level DESERT. They called off the ‘war’ when the windchill reached 15 below freezing celsius and the yanks had 30% NODUF casualties from exposure. The island boys from Hawaii were really suffering. Gathered a Brigade + into wool sheds and parked diesel blow heaters around the sheds, stuffed hay bales into gaps to keep the heat in and all defrosted. The US 25th Div guys from Hawaii thought that they had arrived in a ‘cold hell’ and it wasn’t much of an exaggeration to agree with them. Meanwhile the skiers arrived on Mt. Ruepehu in droves and were having a great time skiing on the downwind slopes of the mountain that towered over the Army Training Area.
Then right on cueI poked my head out of my tent alongside my hole and wondered what in hell was artillery firing live rounds in this crappy weather? Turned out that Mt. Ngarahoehoe also towering above the cold high desert decided to erupt. Fortunately there was a howling SW wind blowing horizontal snow but also blew the ash and rocks away from where we were attempting to sleep.
Ahhh welcome to the delights of Wai-beria in the changeable Autumn!
š
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Am I banning?
Read the founding document. I’m not going to get into a discussion. It’s simple, ignore. Don’t like it? Too bad.
Opening statement was ok. Then yinz two started.
IGNORE EACH OTHER. thanks in advance
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Bingo.
I refuse to believe that the IDF needs blankets AT HOME.
If they do, the QM needs to be strung up.
coldwarrior wrote:
Thank you for that directive; it tells me that the marsupial is violating said document, and that I am in no way doing so by politely pointing that out.
Now, I’m all about buy a pizza for the IDF. That’s brilliant
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Noted.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I did arctic warfare school in Norway in the middle of winter.
VERY interesting mental and physical challenge. The mental aspect was VERY interesting
@ coldwarrior:
You have to think three or four steps ahead for all tasks, no matter how simple. It was exhausting
@ coldwarrior:
I left a chunk of my left ear on the glacier.
Wasn’t thinking ahead…and that happened in week 2!
eaglesoars wrote:
And the story keeps changing. Obviously husband needed sustenance to stay strong and able to take care of his ailing spouse. It wasn’t his fault that the refrigerator was empty.
eaglesoars wrote:
I bet she didn’t bring you any food.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Is CW a JH for agreeing that sending blankets to the IDF is a bit odd? Am I a JH? I need to know the rules…
coldwarrior wrote:
TY
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
you know I love ya buzz, but ignoring that POS is the easiest thing in the world. Don’t waste any of your splendid talents on it
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Lost that bet. She’s from Louisiana, as was my mother. My freezer is absolutely loaded.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
what is that please?
If I owned a public parking lot or an apt building, these things would be banned.
Alabama firefighters use 36,000 gallons of water to put out an EV fire on Christmas
The department used two hose lines, three engines, two rescue fire trucks, an ambulance, four water tankers, one squad car, one brush truck, and three command vehicles.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/alabama-firefighters-use-36000-gallons-water-put-out-ev-fire-christmas
Treatment 94 underway – 2nd month since 10% poison reduction
ā¢ Chills, hiccups, farts
ā¢ Fog & lethargy
ā¢ Nap time
Got an appointment with the onkydoc on 9 January to review recent CT scan results. The good news is he didn’t call me. Film at 11.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Yes!!!!
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m down to about 70% of the original dosage (not counting the oxyplaiten brainhammer).
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I did 8 months of that shit. Toward the end I was having difficulty walking.
You know whenever anyone yells ” he started it ” and ” he did it first ” and ” just ignore him ” then READ THE FUCKING THREAD!!!!!!
Latest shitfest started when I posted the traditional request for blankies and soup and hats I do every year either on here, on twitter or Facebook.
It is humour!!!! In South Texas we do not have heating, well we do have some but as it never gets life threatening cold here it is not a priority.
On cold days we just wear a wooly hat and eat soup.
Now, someone asked
and I replied the israeli people.
I am quite happy to ignore posters on here. But if anyone cares to actually READ the thread then I feel that once a participant here posts a reply TO ME then I am allowed to respond.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2023/12/23/merry-christmas-2023/#comment-106489
@ eaglesoars:
You ignored me a few months ago and it cost you a visit from the air conditioning person.
Told you the thingy was iced up. So did Bunk and all the others.
Bum camps in SoCal are going upscale. Police found a stripped Maserati in L.A.
https://news.yahoo.com/stolen-maserati-found-being-stripped-195735046.html
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I did 3 heavies of cisplatin.
NEVER AGAIN.
@ Possum:
54 ain’t shit, as yinz know…
eaglesoars wrote:
So she undermined the man who went out in the middle of the night in search of nourishment such that he may be healthy enough assist his ailing spouse with her recovery.
Possum wrote:
I’m fine with that
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
what a fucking nightmare. I can’t even imagine.
As to soup and I am no expert but….
Best canned soup is Campbells but most are nasty in my opinion. Anything that involves potatoes or “steak” is really nasty.
Progresso soup is cheaper and equally nasty if it has potatoes or meat in it. The tomato basil one is good. Needs crusty french bread with real butter as an accompaniment.
Well the last Walmart delivery I got I needed something to take it over the $35 free delivery threshold so I got a couple of cans of Progresso Vegetable Classics, Vegetarian Vegetable with Barley Canned Soup, 19 oz.
It is really good.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
3 pm
@ Possum:
Progresso Italian wedding soup is pretty good for canned.
I mean, it ain’t gramma biaganti’s…but she’s long dead
@ eaglesoars:
Chemo is a sick that is unreal. I’m missing days at a time
@ eaglesoars:
At the time, our sweet little 9 yo came down into the basement bar where i was on the couch wretching and asked if I was OK? I told her ‘no’. She started bawling…
Ok dad, get back on the horse I said…God, so sick.
coldwarrior wrote:
I know 54F aint really cold and the 35F we had last night is not life threatening.
Point is, and was, as you probably know for six months of the year here it is over 100F with a low of 80F if we are lucky.
We have maybe two months of cool weather and at the moment everyone is walking around dressed in 5 layers of clothes and a hoodie and we all look like Wookies from a Star Wars film set LOL
@ Possum:
I can’t do that kind of heat. That’s why I don’t live in the south…happy to trade 3 or 4 months of cold for moderate summers
coldwarrior wrote:
If I could go back in time and re-live my life I would chose to live in a place where the winters were mild and the summers warm but not stupidly hot.
Barnsley is where I would like to be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnsley
@ Possum:
Can I get 68f year round?
@ Possum:
As a side note, that part of the UK is responsible for The Full Monty, Brassed Off, and a classic from the early 70s Kes.
You here will not understand Kes unless you have sub titles on. Also you will cry.
No I was not in the film, some of my teachers were…
@ Possum:
I spent a few days in The Ridings…Wensleydale area for a few days…yeah…because of the books and TV show.
I could live there.
This is an interesting article on how to “dress around” your weapon. It’s not much of a concern here in TN where everyone just assumes everyone is armed (because we are). In Virginia, it was a bit more of an issue because altho the law wasn’t much different, the culture was. I stopped at the grocery store on my way home from the range, weapon in a shoulder holster and the edge of the photogs vest I was wearing caught on the shopping cart while I was unloading at checkout. The Mom w/infant in front of me pitched a fit. Blah blah blah.
https://www.shootingillustrated.com/content/blending-in-while-carrying-concealed/
@ Possum:
It is free on Pluto if anyone is interested where I grew up.
https://pluto.tv/en/on-demand/movies/632906cbdb406700136278d8
New thread tomorrow…I has a topic!!!
Anyway, 60 hours trauma in the last 5 days straight, I’m a couple shots of tequila neat and a cigar then 10 hours sleep.
Night yinz…6 days off!!!
coldwarrior wrote:
His wife disagrees with this, but I’m convinced it killed Iron Fist.
@ eaglesoars:
Maybe, but he was terminal cancer.
@ Possum:
Thx
@ coldwarrior:
I’m saddened by the state of American men…you’ll see tomorrow
eaglesoars wrote:
30% of the 25th Division guys from Hawaii (mostly 100 Bn, 442 Regt) were REAL casualties (i.e. not pretend casualties) (AKA No Duff that is no bullshit casualties).
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It was COLD!
Just wondering how anyone would feel if you were a 18 year old college student and you were living in a four bedroom house where there was a little metal box nailed to the side of the door in every door way.
The little metal box is a warning to never rent a house that has them
Anyway, imagine you lived in a house and had a lease for a year, but the owner decided they wanted you out so they could sell it.
Four bedrooms, that is about eight people.
Instead of giving us notice that the lease would not be renewed they informed the police that drugs were on the premises.
The door broken down at 6am and many police entering and two doggies searching the place and finding nothing made us all feel unsafe.
We were 1980s swatted.
Yes we knew that this shit would not end so we all moved out. Slept on friends floors, work rest rooms.
That is the jew way. They did it in 1980 in England, they do it in 2023 West Bank.
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s not that bad, I have it easy compared to some others I’ve spoken with. It’s not all negative.
Possum wrote:
Better than Campbell’s IMO. The clam chowder is good if you ignore the size and quality of the clam bits.
eaglesoars wrote:
Double daylight saving time.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I hate them clams thing if they got killed just before they took a shit.
I used to like snails in garlic butter until I had snails in Belgium.
In Belgium a snail that is full of shit is a delicacy
coldwarrior wrote:
It messes with my sense of time. Something that happened yesterday can seem like last week and vice versa. Took about a day to get past the week of Christmas carols. At least I don’t have the visual misinterpretations like I did at first. Those were interesting. We had a 3-foot long yam on our patio table and a 3-inch long duck on the front stoop. The subliminal brain kept guessing wrong.
coldwarrior wrote:
Never had the retching part, no nausea at all, but then I never had radiation either. I’d have occasional lapses of decor/tact and have to apologize for the assholiness the next day. That was a few years ago; I don’t apologize as much now. š
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I had only 3 doses of chemo.
3 YUGE doses 28 days apart.
Dude, unreal.
30 days of rads was a joke compared to ybat.
@ Possum:
There’s a guy on the Xwitter who posts a lot of photos of a small area of Haworth, West Yorkshire. I thought they were computer-generated images at first.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2023/12/21/christmas-in-yorkshire/
@ coldwarrior:
When I turned in my pump yesterday morning I was pleased to see that the pretty nursies found the present I left them on Tuesday. Every work station had a pocket-size rubber chicken. My favorite nurse got the one that glows in the dark and keeps it in her pocket.
well ok then
Spanish Donkeys Could Cure Baldness Say Swedish Researchers
https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/12/29/spanish-donkeys-could-cure-baldness-say-swedish-researchers/
I spent 16 days in Spain and the donkeys were treated terribly. Maybe this might help.
AI Detects Unusual Signal Hidden in a Famous Raphael Masterpiece
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to see details in images that escape the human eye. Now an AI neural network has identified something unusual about a face in a Raphael painting: it wasn’t actually painted by Raphael.
The face in question belongs to St Joseph, seen in the top left of the painting known as the Madonna della Rosa (or Madonna of the Rose).
Scholars have in fact long debated whether or not the painting is a Raphael original. While it requires diverse evidence to conclude an artwork’s provenance, a new method of analysis based on an AI algorithm has sided with those who think at least some of the strokes were at the hand of another artist.
Researchers from the UK and US developed a custom analysis algorithm based on the works that we know are the result of the Italian master’s brushwork.
https://www.sciencealert.com/ai-detects-unusual-signal-hidden-in-a-famous-raphael-masterpiece
eaglesoars wrote:
Donkeys are treated well in Peru. That’s what Peruvians call alpacas according to the lady I bought the missus’ Christmas present from.
https://www.givesendgo.com/siaka
BBee interview here.
https://youtu.be/lgWQ4sBHFR4
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Given the value of an Alpaca’s fleece Purevans should wrap alpacas in mohair shawls.
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new thread
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2023/12/30/happy-new-year-2024-open/