Happy New Years Yinz!
NCAA Football:
We are $1600/$1000 so far! I got all of the division championship games correct a couple weeks ago.
Saturday:
6 Georgia @ 5 Florida State 4:00 PM Capital One Orange Bowl: FSU is a 20 point dog, and they bitched that they didn’t get invited to the playoffs! I’m not touching this game.
MONDAY:
4 Alabama @ 1 Michigan 5:00 PM CFP Semifinal at the Rose Bowl: Coach Harbaugh from M has a TERRIBLE record in games yet M is a 2 point favorite against a peaking Nick Saban Alabama team, M does not cover.
3 Texas @ 2 Washington 8:45 PM CFP Semifinal at the Sugar Bowl: W is from the grossly and perpetually over-rated Pac-12. Texas is a 4 point favorite and covers.
NEW Thread
Ryan Day should be cleaning out his office over the weekend. Pathetic.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
Pretty awful.
@ coldwarrior:
Well I am sure the OSU Board of Trustees are still happy with their decision to suspend Urban Meyer, for a domestic dispute (which was dropped) by a fired staff member, from the first 3 games of 2018 leading to his decision to leave at the end of the season. Stupid decisions can have consequences that last all “Day” and night.
Well done OSU. Enjoy another Earl Bruce decade of being 8-3 every year and “almost” making the NC.
This is cute. The earliest recording I’ve seen of The Warning. A cover of Back in Black, with an 11 year old Pau singing lead. Dany was 13, and Ale was 9, playing a bass that was as big as she was:
So a half eaten rotisserie chicken was put back in its store packing and shoved to the back of the kitchen counter. Psycho Puppy got it down. No carcass, no nothing. Regular vet is closed, Animal Emergency said take her to Univ Tenn Vet, we’re full Finally got thru to poison control AND UT Vet and they both said, wait it out, we see this a lot. No food until tomorrow.
The good news is that she puked most of it up
The bad news is that she did it on my office sofa
@ eaglesoars:
Oh my!
@ Buckeye Abroad:
Yep!
@ eaglesoars:
Not as this will be much of a consolation but as we all know that chicken bones splinter and become sharp objects and that is the danger of dogs eating cooked chicken.
But, due to genetic selection and very selective breeding the chickens in 2023 are only about 5-6 weeks old when they become lunch or supper.
The bones are not fully calcified, in fact that is a problem with the modern chicken. It grows so fast the bones in the legs are sometimes not formed enough to hold the chicken’s weight.
Not like the old days when a chicken was six months old and bones fully calcified before it weighed enough to become part of a sammich.
@ Possum:
I did a google thingy to back up my assertion.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6771771/
Huh.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/213296045173387
Prime rib on the smoker…my butcher gave me a deal, we are favorite customers…I would have never bought it otherwise.
About time:
Happy New Year. The German TV plays the below link every New Years eve as a tradition (English skit from 1963).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n7VI0rC8ZA
Invited to a party with a mix of Poles and Germans. Always a hoot.
@ lobo91:
It’s too easy.
@ lobo91:
The Ma-deuce is a lovely machine.
Always check your timing and headspace!
I would argue that it would be best to utterly destroy the huthis in a very rapid, horrible and violent manner with extreme prejudice.
Wanna play pirate? OK. Fine.
Then airdrop the stinking carcasses on tehran.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
Happy new years!!!!
@ coldwarrior:
And send the bill to Lloyd’s and countries receiving the containers
coldwarrior wrote:
I don’t understand why we haven’t taken out the launch sites of their missiles and drones, at least. They’d probably stop firing them after getting a few Tomahawks back in return. Kind of a Crocodile Dundee thing:
@ lobo91:
It’s interesting isn’t it. This could have been done like me swatting at a bug
hey y’all
some spicy pork nachos and a cold apple cider
simple things
@ rain of lead:
I’m doing the crust on the beef….
Don’t fuck this up!!!!
No pressure.
One man ska band for the New Year
Nailed the prime rib.
There are only two recipes I fear.
Prime rib.
French onion soup.
Easy stuff, but so simple to mess up.
@ coldwarrior:
We learned that some cheese spilled in the oven. The house smells like feet.
@ coldwarrior:
I know I repeat myself on here and as you know I am an artist in the culinary cuisine shit and even though I just cook for myself some of the meals I make take days to eat.
Anyway, French onion soup. The Campbells condensed French onion soup is on my top ten list of shit in a can that is actually better than I could make by spending hours trying to make it.
Usually the Campbells soup says add a can of water. Supposed that is because it is condensed, one step above an MRE.
Normally any of those soups I only add half a can of water, or milk depending on the soup. BUT!!!!!!!
The French onion one add a full can of water otherwise it is too salty, and also a chunk of butter.
So there you have it. Possum 3 minute French onion soup!
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
My oven quit six months ago, hence the lack of my posts mentioning baking bread.
Nobody here noticed I stopped baking bread but never mind….
I got an hair fryer!!!!
Anyway, I don’t have an oven, I have not spilled any cheese.
So why does my apartment smell of feet?
Still sick early bed. Happy New Year! Nite
On another topic this fireworks and noise and scaring my cats stuff needs to me regulated.
Years ago it used to be 12am or PM or whatever midnight is and that was it.
Last few years it is according to when midnight is in the countries the diversified population originated from
Started at 6pm Central time which is midnight UK time, YEAH GO BRITS!!!!
But no, that is west coast of Africa, Ireland, some long forgotten places in the south atlantic.
Then we had the 7pm flurry. Could be Portugal or the Canary Islands.
Currently 8pm and buggered if I know where these immigrants are from!
Well if this goes as usual celebrations will stop after 2am central. That is where midnight is in some south American countries.
Really glad there are no Australians living here, fucking fireworks would have woke me up early this morning.
@ eaglesoars:
How is pup?
And yet again! 9pm here and off go fireworks.
In a normal world when fireworks go off at MIDNIGHT here I can make sure cats are inside, scared but inside.
Natasha disappeared 3 hours ago.
As a side note, setting of fire works in Harris County is illegal.
So is armed robbery. Same police response.
Aw shit this new year thing is going to go on for days.
Just went outside in a tee shirt and boxers and socks trying to find Natasha and noticed that there are several outside AC heat exchangers running.
Them are the outside thingies that run when you are cooling your house.
Current temp here is 60F
What the fuck? Why has anyone here running the cooling thing?
OK I know now. Illegal eskimos….
Possum wrote:
Cats. Cats smell of feet.
Possum wrote:
Stuff started going off here a couple weeks ago. Not sure what country that would be, unless it’s the Year of the Tet.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Could be. Many cultures have different calendars.
I respect all cultures and their traditions but when their cultures scare my cats then we have to have a discussion….
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Cats smell of cuddly toys.
Thank God.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/30/new-state-laws-guns-pornography-fuzzy-dice/a56c8c94-a6d1-11ee-aacb-6f873a65763e_story.html
Possum wrote:
I stand corrected.
Have a Happy New Year in about 24 minutes.
dudes, i just witnessed the strangest thing ever.
not one big private fire work went off for new years.
not one over 11 miles of river valley view. nothing..
nothing.
dead silence.
ive sat up here on top of the valley since 93…this is a first nothing on new year.
i’m kinda scared about how quiet the valley was.
Reverend Peyton
https://twitter.com/i/status/1741605074445422830
coldwarrior wrote:
You didn’t do your part.They’re still out there waiting for the cue.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
yeah man,
dead ass silent from aliqippa to beaver…12 miles of ohio river valley.
dead ass silent.i’ve actually lived in valley since 77…ive never heard this quiet on a ‘firework’ day.
the lack of over the top explosives is concerning.
coldwarrior wrote:
thats kinda funny to read.
night yinz!
@ coldwarrior:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1741704478808576262
@ coldwarrior:
The neighborhood was popping around 8pm, lasted about an hour. At midnight the big stuff came out. Rolling thunder.
7.6 magnitude earthquake, followed by a 6.2 magnitude aftershock, central Japan, tsunami warnings. About 1am PST.
https://www.reuters.com/world/japan/magnitude-74-earthquake-strikes-japan-tsunami-warning-issued-2024-01-01/
Video thread:
https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1741728225158467682
Happy New Year!
https://nypost.com/2023/12/31/news/bill-clinton-to-be-identified-as-doe-36-and-named-over-50-times-in-upcoming-epstein-doc-dump/
and not a damn thing will ever happen to him
Happy 2024 yins.
Into day #2 here already and so far we’ve had a substantial earthquake. Gonna be one of those ‘interesting ‘ years!
🙂
whew
the Vols are giving Iowa all they wantand then some
UT up 21-0
start of the 4th
28-0
35-0
BREAKING: The deputy head of Hamas and founder of its military wing, Saleh al-Arouri, has reportedly been killed in an explosion in Beirut.
https://twitter.com/AviMayer/status/1742225001753821211
I do recall Hamas/Hezbollah telling Israel that Lebanon is ‘off limits’.
oh tsk tsk
Elon Musk sez he’s going to start charging monthly subscription fees for X.
lolol!
No
@ eaglesoars:
at this point I’m starting to think he’s using it as a tax write-off
@ rain of lead:
well why not? He didn’t write the laws.
Beed says Happy New Year from Norwegia.
Commercials that use doorbell rings should be banned.
@ eaglesoars:
Cody always thinks thunderstorms in TV shows are real. He jumps up and looks out the window
I would like to bring your attention to Congresswoman Elise Stefanik who was the driving force to exposing that utterly useless Harvard president that just got shit canned (full disclosure: she and Hubby are good friends)
Keep an eye on her.
Also, this ‘microaggression’ stuff in body language analysis is utter bullshit.
eaglesoars wrote:
I was under the impression that a certain television-show host’s constant suggestions that people learn to understand and appreciate the skill and knowledge necessary to perform “dirty jobs” constituted a Mike Rowe aggression.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Care to translate?
Micro agression….another weasel word
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
There is a TV personality by the name of Mike Rowe.
He used to do a show called “Dirty Jobs,” in which he went and worked beside people doing various grungy blue-collar jobs—septic tank cleaning, various kinds of construction and trash pickup, etc., etc. In other words, all the stuff that our epicene college-educated nances know nothing about. His objective was to show both the difficulty and the importance of these jobs. He has done other television shows detailing the value and difficulty of, for want of a better term, Real Work—and he has made various intermittent statements regarding the value of such work and the need for the gelded Eloi Class of collegiate types to learn something about the nature of such work—something that I myself have observed firsthand, in that I’ve repeatedly dealt with people of college-educated background who do not know how a thermostat works and are unsure as to which end of the hammer you use.
Thus, I have called such summonses to common sense and basic technical competence
microaggressionsMike Rowe aggressions.buzzsawmonkey wrote:
There is a room in Hell with your name on it.
So. I’ve been sick. I think it was the day after Christmas, I was sitting in the bedroom reading the blogs and ALL OF A SUDDEN I could not breathe. COULD NOT. I got to the living room and had to sit down and in a few minutes it passed but my breathing was stressed. My girlfriend came to visit and she had an inhaler that saved me.
Saw the physician assistant today. She was going to send me for chest x-rays until we started talking. I had a massive allergic reaction to – the chemicals in the fragrance strip that goes into the air filter I use in the bedroom. She said yeah, get rid of that and don’t used those plug in things either. She said if you want scent get an oil diffuser. So I just went shopping on amazon.
Just to let you know if you have any of that stuff in your house – toss it.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I had a drier delivered the other day, I had the old one ready outside and told the crew to just leave the new one on the sidewalk, I’ll move it in and install it no prob.
They said that very very few peeps tell them that or have the old appliance outside ready to go
@ eaglesoars:
Wow!
coldwarrior wrote:
I have increasingly found, in recent years, that the mere exercise of simple competence with a screwdriver, or something equally basic, causes ostensibly-intelligent (and usually “highly-educated”) people to behave like the primitive tribesmen in a vintage film who bow down before the Great White Hunter who can Make Fire using his cigarette lighter.
Once you get over the initial pleasure of being the object of blind demigod adulation, it’s depressing as hell.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
When you said “dirty jobs” I thought of Mafia hits and AC/DC.
coldwarrior wrote:
You’re already paying for the disconnect & hookup, might as well let them do it.
eaglesoars wrote:
Our house isn’t stinky unless the cheese spills in the oven.
coldwarrior wrote:
You have no idea. Because I couldn’t breathe I couldn’t eat. I’ve lost 7 pounds, down to 95.
Mandated diet is potatoes, bananas, pasta made from beans, hummus, etc.
I just finished a bowl of air fryer potatoes!
And I have a rescue inhaler just in case
SanFran restaurateur is fed up with the crime affecting his business and made a protest rap video criticizing Mayor London Breed. He called her a clown and that people should flip her off, and now he’s in trouble with the regime.
https://news.yahoo.com/san-francisco-rapper-apologizes-video-155008834.html
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
This is the video the Mayor’s thugs are pissed about.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
When did San Francisco become part of China or North Korea?
hey y’all
just got home from collecting my christmas present from the girl
she took me to the smokey mountain knife works and gave me a shopping spree
(small)
came home with 3 new blades, 2 of those damacus steel, really pretty
that place is ridiculous
it was a nice roadtrip
@ rain of lead:
I wish you had told me you were in the area, would have loved to have you over
@ eaglesoars:
sorry, but needed the time for knife shopping
sounds like DOE 107 of the Epstein list is probably Huma Abedine
@ rain of lead:
Nice to see you enjoy your Christmas gift, rol. Enjoy it!
This was not on my bingo card
Alan Dershowitz is getting nailed in the Epstein files
https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1742710386317476247
rain of lead wrote:
😆
eaglesoars wrote:
Sounds like he got nailed—or, more properly, nailed someone else—somewhat earlier.
Oh and Trump is not on the Epstein list. Anywhere. He tossed his ass out of Mar-a-lago. in 2007 I believe
I am REALLY into the Japanese cooking stuff. Fortunately Amazon has just about everything but the fresh produce.
I made a spinach recipe today. I ATE AN ENTIRE BOX OF FRESH SPINACH
https://thepostmillennial.com/bidens-doj-recommends-only-6-months-in-jail-for-ray-epps-who-claimed-he-orchestrated-j6?utm_campaign=64466
Breaking News: Active shooter at Perry High School in Iowa.
Multiple deaths reported. More as it comes in.
https://twitter.com/wendyp4545/status/1742924173075505353
News conference scheduled at 11 am EST. Scanner reports indicated that shooter DOA due to self-inflicted GSW.
https://twitter.com/brooke_mcgiv/status/1742925854290956459
have unpacked into the airbnb in the middle of a farm…rented it for 6 weeks whilst i’m on assignment far away…it’s the middle of nowhere, the internet is dsl (but i get 5g on the phone). they left me a dozen eggs from that chicken coop right over there, and the cows were bitching at me about something as i unloaded the car.
this beats a hotel in town any day. looks like ther is a brewery in the nearest town, that’ll be dinner!
@ coldwarrior:
sounds lovely
Two subways Trains have Collided causing a derailment
#Manhattan | #NewYork
Numerous emergency personnel and other agencies are currently on the scene after two subway trains collided, causing a portion of one train to derail in 96th/Broadway in Upper West Side Manhattan, New York. At this time, there is no immediate information on possible injuries. MTA officials report that a work train rear-ended a commuter train, and firefighters are actively working to assist passengers off the train this is still developing
https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1743013456825987368
eaglesoars wrote:
All the people who want to “regulate the planetary climate” and demand the power and unlimited resources to do so are people who have proven themselves incapable of competently managing and running recently-built, closed, man-made systems.
They cannot competently run power grids, or municipal water systems or trash pickup; they cannot competently maintain, let alone repair, the “roads and bridges” they are always prating about; they cannot competently run or maintain the public housing they increasingly want people to live in, or the public transportation systems that they want people to rely on.
More than that; they cannot competently direct disaster recovery/relief from floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, wildfires, volcanic eruptions or earthquakes—let alone control or prevent such disasters.
Yet they want people to believe that they can, and should, be permitted to try and regulate the planetary climate, which is infinitely more subtle and varied and complex than any of the recently-built, closed, man-made systems they have already repeatedly proven incapable of managing.
A music post kind of, and a maybe interesting thread on why some people on social media post seemingly random and disconnected things.
Ian Miles Cheong on X just Xed this.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1743094408772522138
Why? Where is he going with this?
Long time people here will actually have heard of the foreign band Laibach. Oh sorry, forgot they are all dead now.
Anyway wondering why Ian Miles Cheong suddenly pulled this one out of his ass.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
They can’t do their own laundry. I’ve met some of them. Totally useless.
you will eat ze bugs
WHO’s Tedros: “Our food systems are harming the health of people and planet. Food systems contribute to over 30% of greenhouse gas emissions, and account for almost one third of the global burden of disease. Transforming food systems is therefore essential”
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1739686731262161403
Sacrifice his ass in a volcano
There’s a term for this kind of discourse but I can’t remember what it is
BREAKING: Jack Smith warns if Trump is re-elected he could use the State of the Union address to incite his supporters to kill opposing politicians
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1743004118040387694
eaglesoars wrote:
Also, this is projection. I’ve been saying for a long time that they will kill Trump if they get the chance.
@ eaglesoars:
How is chicken bone pup
whoa
In early Dec, an extensively documented 6k word dossier on Claudine Gay was anonymously shopped to journalists. The dossier formed the basis of many plagiarism allegations that later led to her downfall. It’s not clear who was behind it. I’m publishing the doc on my site today.
https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1742951675118379115
read the letter
@ eaglesoars:
I agree
God, I like a chef who I won’t name except his initials are Myles Snider. And he talks about how to make the perfect cup of coffee.
It cannot be made without a goose neck kettle, which retail for over $100 and yada yada yada.
I went on blast mode and I will never trust him again about anything
whore
Possum wrote:
Thank you for asking..
She is perfectly fine as anyone who knows anything about dogs and chickens could tell you if ..nevermind.
Her vet appt was today and the entire staff was in hysterics.
Chicken bones are a threat for choking. Anybody who has grown up in farming has had dogs kill live chickens and nobody was worried about the damn dogs, they just needed the eggs and the chicken meat. I’ve had dogs kill possums,
etc, and nobody was worried about the damn bones. Stomach acid will eat thru a wall.
And I grew up in a shopping mall in an upscale suburb of Pittsburgh. Hubby was having a bad day and I am married. For better or worse.
There seems to be a theme on twitter: TRUMP CANNOT WIN. Therefore if you vote for Trump you are electing Biden blah blah blah
personally I have no idea. All I know is that I’m voting against the Dem nominee. These people seem to be saying Trump can’t beat Biden (who I assume will be the Dem nominee)
What say you?
100%.
The GOP will get assblasted in 2024 if we nominate Trump, and morons will blame DeSantis, the establishment, the media, Democrats, etc.
Trump will be held blameless.
https://twitter.com/doctorcherokee/status/1743146208971862138
Anyone here remember Song and Dance Man, aka SADM? He got rolled at an ATM, was kicked in the head. He posted a selfie on FB, side of his face all bloody, black eye. No other details yet.
Possum wrote:
The band went to NK in 2015…
@ eaglesoars:
Thanks for replying.
The bird bone thing is really not an issue unless they are cooked.
@ eaglesoars:
I ran across a history blurb about Danny Kaye. His accomplishments outside of acting/singing/dancing are jaw-dropping. Among other amazing feats (like becoming an self-taught unlicensed surgeon), he became an award-winnning master chef, schooled in Chinese cooking, even had a private restaurant built at his residence.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Yep and why is that fact relevant to Blogmocracy?
Iron Sky.
I auditioned to a part in that movie.
Go through the archives here and many of us were waiting for the release of it
All the others are dead…
@ Possum:
After a google, I remember hearing about the movie, never saw it. How does that tie to Ian Miles Cheong’s Xweet?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I am not really sure that is why I posted that tweet here.
Why did he post that at all.
@ Possum:
OK in the beginning Iron Sky was going to be a really serious science Fiction kind of indie movie that was not politically correct.
Ended up as a comedy. I liked the original concept better.
@ Possum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebogbRo0roA
@ Possum:
At 2:42 the Hindenburg gets blowed up in space.
Summary of 2020 election irregularities, not to show that Trump won, but to prove that Biden lost.
https://www.scribd.com/document/696204312/summary20of20election20fraud20in20the20swing20states-1#fullscreen&from_embed
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/wisconsin-pennsylvania-highlights-explosive-summary-election-fraud-2020/
Apparently Musk and Mark Cuban – who I once despised but now I find so stupid he isn’t worth the respect of scorn – have got into it. Cuban has been on twitter defending DEI
<Musk responded with a pointed question about the makeup of the Mavericks’ roster.
"Cool, so when should we expect to see a short white/Asian women on the Mavs?"
Cuban didn’t immediately respond to Musk’s reply.
https://twitter.com/blondie36621/status/1743198319558451687
https://twitter.com/Enezator/status/1743003735112962184
New Zealand natives’ speech in parliament
this is a video. very short. just in case you were wondering if some cultures are better than others
best comment
I just can’t understand why her people didn’t invent calculus. It confuses me why ancient Greeks from 2500 years would have conquered the entire island 200 years ago in a matter of a year.
https://twitter.com/9400BCE/status/1743117734580232403
eaglesoars wrote:
Regarding DIE, I ran across an interesting (and long) post by some lefty journo (I think) on the Xwitter. Seems he suddenly realized what it was all about. I forgot to bookmark it before I hit the hay, couldn’t find it yesterday. It was a good dissection.
*SUPREME COURT AGREES TO HEAR TRUMP COLORADO BALLOT APPEAL
*SUPREME COURT WILL HEAR ARGUMENTS ON FEBRUARY 8 IN TRUMP CASE
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1743392525258576009
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Chris Rufo? I don’t think he’s left or right but he’s been covering this like white on rice
So much of this is about child trafficking
UK: Welsh Government is using 14-year-old Welsh girls to attract migrant men to the country
Migrants arriving in Europe come from Africa and Asia where pedophilia is wide spread.
Wales is using little girls to encourage migrants to move to Wales and claim benefits and housings.
https://twitter.com/Klaus_Arminius/status/1739723781856276959
video at the link
DEI officer Leslie Marant was fired just hours before new commissioner Kevin Bethel was set to take office.
Marant’s base salary was a whopping $170,568. She was told her “services” were no longer needed.
The move also comes as Philadelphia mayor Cherelle Parker signed an executive order declaring a public safety emergency.
“I want the world to know that I am fully committed to ending this sense of lawlessness and bringing order back to our city and a sense of lawfulness,” she said as she vowed to hire 300 more police officers and to restore stop-and-frisk.
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1743408428054352163
Roll ‘Tide!
Nude man nabbed by police after ‘cannonball’ plunge into giant aquarium at Bass Pro Shop in Alabama
https://apnews.com/article/bass-pro-shops-aquarium-nude-man-arrested-1e3cd9caf8a5eea6e1c4718498c914b3?
eaglesoars wrote:
Could be, but I couldn’t find the substack piece I was looking for.
Welp. There goes my Japanese cooking marathon. The dishwasher isn’t working.
I am SO tired of this crap.
Ok, this is just strange. I’ve had a hard drive that has been having issues for months. I’ve switched cables three times with no improvement. For the hell of it I ordered a heavy duty outdoor cable designed for a certain security camera but it had the special hard drive connector I needed. Plugged the cable in and it worked great. Still working beautifully with no issues over a week later.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
I got the dishwasher working. I kicked it. 3 times.
kick the cable
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
2.5″ external USB drive?
eaglesoars wrote:
And with just 5 minutes of searching you can find the reason. In the late 1500s sweet potato from Peru arrived in Tahiti through traditional trade between Tahiti and Peru. It spread out of Tahiti and ended up in Rarotonga (AKA the mythic Hawakei Of Maori legend). Maori opooibly discovered New Zealand as early as the late 900s but that is dodgy and probably a myth as the currents were all wrong that early. We know that Maori found the North coast around 1350 and large family groups inhabited Northern NZ mostly in the far North and around the Bay of Plenty and inland around Rotorua.Population densities were sparse but early Maori managed to eat all of the large ground foraging massive birds within 100 years of their arrival. THEN the sweet potato arrived in the early 1600s about 1620-30s. There was a massive population explosion due to the change diet from protein to carbs! Suddenly LAND was in high demand so the Maori Kumera Wars broke out and lasted just under 200 years. Massive rammed earthen forts were raised and cannibalism and slavery became endemic as land hunger arose and the demand of slaves from smaller Maori tribes demanded slaves to raise more Kumera to feed populations of warriors. Maori suddenly from fighting with stone clubs to the Birmingham Muskets that were imported by entrepreneurs in Sydney via whalers and sealers who had arrived from Australia, France England and the US. For the next 40 years Maori butchered each other in the outgrowth of the 200 year Kumera war that blended into the 40 year Musket wars that saw Maori numbers fall quickly to Maori armed with firearms vs. Maori armed with clubs and sharp sticks! By 1840 smaller Maori tribes sought the protection of the few British settlers and a Treaty was signed at Waitangi, surprisingly in the far North where the largest tribal groups had been predating the smaller tribes for decades. The 1870s Land Wars reappeared but this time between Maori who threw their hand in with their British protectors vs. Maori who had never signed the Treaty and Maoro from the North Island’s West coast around Taranaki (AKA New Plymouth)and also Waikato region just south of Auckland Towne where former soldiers had been gifted 100 acre farms as part of their reparation for fighting in the Maori Land wars.
Now transition to 2023 NZ Parliament where a fresh faced part Maori woman does a war dance in Parliament that was all about fighting in the Land wars against the British, the 40 year (mostly tribal) Musket Wars of the early 1800s, and the 200 year tribal wars of the Kumera Wars. Almost ALL of this murder, cannibalism, tribal slavery was due to the Small Ice Age in the Northern Hemisphere and the effects that had on tides and currents within the Pacific that changes radically between the 1300s and the late middle 1800s. Finding a new Territory full of birds who were not scared of human beings and were easy to catch and eat, The population explosion arrived warfare fort building slavery, cannibalism, starvation, the arrival of guns from outside and population collapse all led to that young Lady and some pretty fanciful story telling about past victories, but totally forgetting all of the really evil bits!
@ Aussie Infidel:
So basically, still savages
dogs. joy.
https://twitter.com/2BJDJ/status/1743028723253657851
Bordm wrote:
Yeah.
I think my sons computer he inherited from me is dying. USB keyboards no longer work in it and it’s having other weird glitches. Everything says the motherboard is failing. As soon as he leaves it alone for five minutes I’m going to pop it open and check all the wiring and make sure everything is still seated well.
weird day. Hubby and the dogs all slept until 1 pm.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Sounds like either the power supply or USB adapter is deteriorating. I would go with swapping out the power supply first, sounds like an issue with the 12v output.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
@ eaglesoars:
My favorite cable song.
https://videos.files.wordpress.com/c6SWfBSC/charge-em-up_dvd.mp4
@ eaglesoars:
@ Aussie Infidel:
lol
Some faction of the Xwitter Community tagged the Xweet for context:
Bordm wrote:
Had some hair-tearing trouble about a year ago, tried everything I knew. Bunkessa happened to stop by and asked if I had another power cable. I did, swapped it out and the sun came out, birds were chirping, and my old machined worked again.
@ Bordm:
I had an old laptop that started acting stupid on the USB ports when connecting a Western Digital Passport 320Gb external drive.
Fixed the stupidity by connecting it to a POWERED USB hub connected to the laptop.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup pretty much, although you will be hard pressed to find it in a school syllabus due to teacher unions and new-Marxist agendas. With just over 15% of the New Zealand population of varying mixes of Maori and European linages resulting in around 50% of prison inmates, you get the impression that the skin of civilisation is pretty thin in poorer parts of Maoridom. The break-up of more structured tribal roots post WWII resulted from basically rural Maori work and housing suddenly change to large urban poor housing and factory bottom end jobs. The attendant change in health and housing wrought bad outcomes for the newly urbanised Maori. Maori education has long histories of under-achievement from tribal roots extending into urban living in poor suburbs.
Not to say that Maori education has not had some outstanding champions but Maori remain creatures of a base tribalistic culture that has been contaminated by urban transplantation and poor living conditions. Examples of Maori achievement are easily seen in politics, business and especially the armed forces with examples of part Maori rising to the apex of these endeavours. Maori suffer however from imprisonment, drugs, alcohol and tobacco addiction and partially tribalist attitudes towards education, poor food choices, criminality, housing problems and resulting health outcomes that are poor. One highlight has been notable success by Maori in contact sport and the armed forces.
Alas the urbanisation of Maori has not been kind to Maori overall. The neo-Marxists have now got their hooks into poor urbanised Maori and that is impacting poor urbanised Maori, and even the rise of old style pagan Maori folk-law as a further lever to keep Maori suppressed through faux-pride, higher than average death rates and poor living conditions. So yes there are a substantial swath of part Maori who remain poor and violent and increasingly tribalist as they continue to look in all the wrong places for a fiction that is extolled about Maori that bares little to their tribalist past.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
You have WAY too much time on your hands.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
It’s quite sad. That young woman gave a beautiful performance (and SHE is also beautiful). But there is a tendency to treat people of these cultures as ‘pets’. The ‘white savior’ complex that treats blacks as incompetent/oppressed is just one example.
Civilization has its demands. You either meet them or eat bugs.
While we are on the subjects of powered USB hubs and USB hard drives I think it is time that instead of watching 1998 Australian soap operas I played with my Raspberry.
Toronto police are delivering coffee and food to protestors blocking the road for Palestine:
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1743760731403588063
Last time I heard a woman yell like that was after having sex I got out of bed and wiped my dick on the curtain.
https://twitter.com/Enezator/status/1743003735112962184
oh we get snow tomorrow!
In 1873 the US government killed 1.5 million buffalo to starve natives so they’d be more dependent on the US government. Now governments all over the world are killing livestock to “meet climate goals”.
https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1743437910983213207
Also one to file in the ” Possum was helpful but did not realise the potentially tragic consequences ”
A few days ago I was walking to the store and noticed a couple of men and a few small kids surrounding a go-cart thingy. A petrol engine one which is rare as most kids toys are battery operated.
I do not speak Spanish but their English was OK. They were having problems getting at some bolts. LOL also metric bolts.
I took a look and told them I had tools to fit the bolts and also some fancy flat ratchet wrenches.
Went back to apartment and took them all the tools they needed. They asked me where I lived and couple of days later all tools returned.
Fast forward the little gas powered ATV thingy is up and running! Success you may think….
Not really. Now we have kids doing 40mph out on the street no helmets no roll bar, and scaring the cats.
Moral of the story? You see someone struggling to fix something just keep walking to the store.
Pentagon didn’t inform Biden, White House for days about Austin’s hospitalization
The news came as a shock to top staff, including national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/06/pentagon-took-3-days-to-inform-white-houses-nsc-of-austins-hospitalization-00134176
Um sometimes I cannot leave well enough alone.
As to the mini petrol powered go cart thing.
When it is zooming past potentially killing small cats and small children it is not emitting the usual smell or fumes of a two stroke engine. But I saw it close up and the engine seemed too simple to be a four stroke.
Fingers crossed. Hope it is a two stroke and they are not adding oil to the petrol.
Engine seizure and no more killer “toy” soon.
eaglesoars wrote:
I should get some dogs so I can talk about everything they do.
@ Possum:
I bet you’re missing the 10mm socket. It’s the price of lending.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
GREAT idea! But dont’ forget the birds……
Moments I waited a decade & a half to experience…to spend time w/the oldest known wild bird in the world—Wisdom, the Laysan Albatross!
To see her, at least 72yo, resuming pair bond activities w/a new beau, after losing her mate Akeakamai in ’21, was such a meaningful treat!
https://twitter.com/adisasterpiece/status/1743449712848699579
video at the link
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Adopt a retired two year old greyhound. Takes the concept of a quiet and slow walk in the park to a new level.
If retired greyhound hears a bell or sees a silly stuffed rabbit hang on tight and off you go!
Same with fostering a retired racehorse. Sit on its back and hope it knows where you want to go. If it is an American racehorse you will be ok as long as there are fences. They do not jump too good.
However, adopt a British steeple chaser, the ones that do fences and the fucker will not stop.
Been there, done that, CT scan OK. ( I lied about CT scan, they were not invented last time I fell off a two year old ex race horse )
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
LOL I got to check my kit!
I know what you mean and to be honest my wrenching days are over.
@ Bordm:
@ Possum:
No hub. These are connected direct to the computer. The power supply is a 1000w that I installed less than two years ago. Not really eager to try to track another down with the correct cabling. Plus it’s a bit expensive. If he was working he could help with the cost, but that’s how it is.
Going to check for cable integrity and mouse nests. It’s just odd that only keyboards are failing. That’s what points me toward motherboard failure. Everything else plugged in works fine. (Strangely enough even wireless keyboards with a USB dongle).
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Well it has been a long time since I messed with anything electronic. It was my life, from room thermostats to data centers bigger than Trump’s house in Florida.
I kind of quit and put all that behind me. But I still like a problem to fix. Bordm is current on this fancy USB shit.
The reason I said about connecting USB devices to an external powered USB hub is because the USB ports on a pc not only are the means of communication but they provide power to the devices, mice, keyboards, external drives and those fucking stupid USB coffee warmers and desk fans you can buy on Amazon.
When I used to do this shit one thing I learned about USB and the protocol is a USB device told the host it was connected to how much power it needed and the host monitored the power taken and shut the port down if that was exceeded.
Not going to Google this and cut and paste. But there is a limit to how much power a host can provide from its ports.
Connecting a powered USB hub to a PC means the PC no longer provides power to the connected devices just does communications.
Hey I really need to play with my Raspberry again.
Just in time for the 3rd anniversary of January 6:
Just had a look on my windows 10 thingy and messing around in device manager in the USB stuff and I can’t find the setting where you can look at the power used by each USB device and what it requested its maximum to be. It used to be there in earlier windows versions.
What is still there is the option to turn off that USB device when entering low power mode.
If set that is really going to spoil your day when the PC enters low power mode and some USB devices get turned off.
eaglesoars wrote:
Re: DEI, pretty sure it was something written by this guy.
https://twitter.com/BillAckman
Possum wrote:
Sorry, I got kind of distracted in my explanation of this and did the Iron Sky thing. Laibach did the sound track for the movie Iron Sky and it was awesome. So were the CGI sequences for that movie done in 2011 using just PCs
Story could have been a blockbuster hit but they made it a comedy.
Anyway point is, and was also made by commenters to Ian Miles Chong’s X that the first introduction to the people of North Korea to ” Western Music ” could have been more gentle.
Yep, I like the sound track to Iron Sky. They should have won the music Oscar for it. But to be perfectly honest If I would have been subjected to 2 hours of Laibach I would have had the same fuck this face all the Korean audience had.
Possum wrote:
i did that. the dog was NUTS!
gave him back in a month, seriously, i have never been without a dog. i’m good at training etc…retired greyhound…never.again.
evrer.
@ coldwarrior:
That is what I had the fight about with my now ex friend.
Greyhounds are bred to run, they really enjoy the sport. There is nothing more satisfying than to go to a race and watch six dogs really enjoying themselves and competing to be the first.
But when they become too slow then what next?
That is why greyhound racing needs to die out. It is the fate of the retired dogs that is the issue.
for possum…
so, i’m at a farm (airbnb trailer, love it!)…couldn’t go home tonight because of the snow storm. the snow isnt the problem, the freezing rain underneath…yeah…no.
it’s freezing rain, snow, rain, 33f and just ice/snow yuk everywhere. the owners asked if i could come down to the barn and help them. of course! one of their scottish highland cattle got wrapped in some barbed wire and the vet wont be there till late tomorrow. i do ER, so ok…
there is, as possum knows, an article of clothing that is perfect for this shit. a lined barbour beaufort with hood.this is my third one since 88. my daughter absconded with the oldest, the ‘middle’ one is used lightly at home. this one is 6 months old, i got it at the tailor in this same town this summer.
yezzir, it got a baptism by fire, blood, shit, muck, hay bits, a nice scuff from the removing of barbed wire, freezing rain for an hour and a half. my wellies (american muck boots) are outside, they will need a good scrub when i get home tomorrow. the barbour, well, i hosed it off in the barn and gave it a scrub. it looks perfect and smells clean. i’ll need to re-apply wax when i get home tomorrow.
now for a shot or two of tito’s and a few pints. job done!
Possum wrote:
it’s more or less dead in the US.
the breed will die out now. this was an arguement i had with the greyhoud peeps, they wanted the racing banned…ummmm…that breed is going to die out without racing or hunting, then what will yinz do?
@ coldwarrior:
I let mine in England when I moved to Arizona. Then I ended up in Iowa.
The more shit a coat like that gets through the better it fits after.
Buggered if I know what causes it, the waxy outside molding to your body or the fact that you don’t dump it in a washing machine every time it gets yucky.
@ Possum:
olde-tyme lo tech.
i have an air force n2-b for when it gets stupid cold, almost never wear it. the lined barbour with a sweater works down to way low temps. take the liner out, good to up to 55f or so. it is a brillaint bit of brit (scots) engineering. the old one worked great when my mgb and then the jag would break down…lol
Possum wrote:
yinz neede it there!
@ coldwarrior:
Nah, no worries. The artificial fiber snow mobile suit thingies worked OK to keep me warm in winter.
And the vast amount of anti fungal powder in the Spring cured the nasty rash.
LOL only joking about the fungus but the old ways of keeping warm are the best. Wind proof, insulating but with air exchange.
@ Possum:
😆
bwahahaaaa!!!!
mrs coldwarrior, who is very kind to animals just freaked out that i blew up the new barbour! yeah, they are expensive.
ummm…honey, that is what they are for. that and hunting in brambles, meant to be beaten.
this will prolly be the worst thing this coat sees evah. do it right, get an ‘all creatures great and small’ moment once.
@ coldwarrior:
They get scars, and each scar tells a story!
Possum wrote:
yep. the one the puti absconded with was almost perfectly worn. just the right amount of fray on the cuffs, a little worn at the elbows…a tear repaired at one pocket from pheasant hunting in ireland…a missing snap.
im gonna meander down to the barn and check on the patient…bbl
@ coldwarrior:
LOL, in 1978 when I was young I took my first airplane flight ever. With three other school friends. Two weeks vacation to Los Angeles. Flight and hotel included for 320 pounds. Expensive in those days but not really.
Hotel they put us up in was the Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. It was going through a bad time then so cheap. Used to be where Oscars were held. Now it is back in fashion.
Opposite that Chinese theatre place.
Anyway to cut a long story short ended up in a WWII army surplus store and fell in love with a leather aircrew jacket.
Wore it until it finally fell apart sometime in the early 90s. The leather and fur lining and collar were ok but the cotton stitching died. Yep I tried to re-sew it back together but it was never the same….
coldwarrior wrote:
that is one of most abused breeds in the world.
I think beagles are perhaps the next given their laboratory – I don’t know the word – experimental history??
I know of some beagle people who are aware of the greyhound issue and are adopting them. If I were younger I would take one on. They are gentle and fragile creatures altho one person I talked to about it said her pup was absolutely stupid.
@ Possum:
the air crew leathers were amazng. a frient of mine has his grandads.
same story, fell aprart on the stitching. he still has it.
@ eaglesoars:
Anyone that adopts a retired greyhound should have at least 5 acres where they can lay out a track and have one of those electric rabbit things that goes around it.
And a big fence so they cannot get out.
Greyhounds are cute but they are trained to chase a fluffy thing that runs fast.
If a retired greyhound sees a cat, a small dog, a bunny they will go after it and when they catch it they will savage it and kill it just like a pit bull would.
Not going to google it to prove it but just search on videos where the electric hare on a greyhound race fails.
OK to prove I am not full of shit I Googled a greyhound race where the lure failed and this was the first one I got.
Greyhounds are trained to chase fluffy things and catch them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP_t6vDfpsE
@ eaglesoars:
greyhounds are bone assed stupid, sadly.
now on to beagles, my parents owned them forever. dad and i hunted. but not often enough, the dog(s) werent right after the occasional hunt. it took them days to come down. that said, my ‘jodi’ was top notch. i was home on leave and we had to take her to be put down, 14 years old. mom was destroyed, me and dad went to vet and she had a very dignified death.
…phoebe the blog dog, turning 15, and she has just about had it. i’ll have to do the same dignified death here in a few months i suspect. my dog.
@ Possum:
mine went after a full sized deer! he lost. the buck charged her!
Possum wrote:
mine also destroyed a neighborhood cat. that was the last straw.
after he destroyed everthing in the house.
bone assed stupid.
the patient is sleeping. my work is done.
@ coldwarrior:
They are trained to chase. LOL what happens when they catch up to what they chase is another thing entirely!
Possum wrote:
i suppose the breed will die out. or…
get bred to not be as stupid? bone.assed.stupid. is a goal to evolve out of.
my car is covered in ice.
ffs, i just want to go home tomorrow.
@ coldwarrior:
I don’t know. The greyhound was bred to be a hunting dog. To chase and disable its prey. Bred for speed and the killer instinct.
In all of the animals we have selectively bred then dogs are the worst failure.
Show dogs, snub nosed bulldogs, Pekinese, you get the idea.
Pit bull terriers etc.
If I was a thinking person I would have to wonder why dogs are so susceptible to breeding to exaggerate certain traits when cats are not.
Yeah I know modern breeds of cats are an abomination too. I just like regular cats.
In the past we needed hunting dogs, like a thousand years ago. They were tools, needed to provide food.
Not anymore. so I am all for banning the breeding or owning of any dogs bred for hunting and killing.
This bat.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1743797854919893344
@ Possum:
i despise akc and will never buy a dog from a them.
they ruin everything.
coldwarrior wrote:
border collies. My Tramp was truly brilliant and sweet. Hubby and I used to go to the trials in Virginia where they would compete in sheep herding. An old plantation. Oatlands maybe? Then the AKC tried to muscle their way in. The outrage was on fire.
The school shooting in Iowa
SAY HIS NAME: 11-year-old Ahmir Jolliff was brutally murdered by a mentally ill trans genderfluid terrorist at school in Iowa.
The modern LGBTQ movement is radicalizing our youth into becoming violent extremists while the media covers for them.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1744112081182560498
This is a black child murdered by a white nut case.
And. Not. One. Fucking. Word.
The entire transgender ‘movement’ is a fraud perpetrated by part of the medical profession who are in it for the $$ and mentally ill people who can’t fit it anywhere and are being given a break.
No. As I said earlier, civilization has its demands. You meet them or you eat bugs. A lot of people need to learn what bugs taste like.
@ eaglesoars:
I’m still waiting to hear where the shooter got the guns, being under age and all.
The White House Press Muppet sure didn’t waste any time rattling off a whole list of proposals that would have had zero bearing on the case, though.
@ lobo91:
Isn’t she just the most ADORABLE lesbian you’ve ever encountered tho? Her hair is just so CUTE!
So somewhere upthread I bitched about Miles Snider’s post about the perfect cup of coffee that required a goose necked kettle that cost over $100.
Well, I popped off on his site – yeah, big surprise, I know – and he actually responded!
“Well, there’s this that only costs around $16”
I mean, I just can’t with these people……………
Put a pyrex cup with water in the freaking microwave, ya moron.
Speaking of adorable, someone managed to put together a compilation of every public performance The Warning did from 2013 to the start of the pandemic. It’s interesting to see how quickly they improved. Late 2015 into 2016 was a huge leap. I think that was the year they all attended a summer program at Berklee College of Music. Ale had to have a waiver to attend, because she was only 10.
I’m imagining 12 year old Ale going to her 6th grade class on Monday morning:
“Did you do anything over the weekend, Ale?”
“The usual. Opened for Def Leppard. What about you?”
lobo91 wrote:
Dead.
WTAF is wrong with the RNC? Why did Trump stand by Ronna McWhatEverTheFuckHerNameIs?
Hubby just got an email telling him that because he has not ‘renewed’ his membership (he never had one) he will be cut off from a whole bunch of stuff that he never needed/used to begin with.
All these people do is threaten their own base – but not the Dems – so that Ronna McWhatEverTheFuckHerNameIs can buy more flowers.
@ eaglesoars:
Did you hear about Wayne LaPierre resigning as head of the NRA? “Health issues.”
He’s apparently getting a $17 million severance.
@ lobo91:
yep.
He is why I no longer belong to the NRA nor will ever again.
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
My old unit A Squadron 4th. Light Horse the centre Light Horse Regiment in the charge on Beersheba 1917. Broke through and took Gaza and Jerusalem and then drove the Turks and German’s out of Syria. Light Blue on Dark Blue with the Emu feather on the Slouch Hat.
still
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEv999K5Lr0
Now the modern Unit:
It changed from the 4th Light Horse to the 4/19 Prince of Wales Light Horse in recognition of their taking Beersheba
Then to A Squadron of 1st. Cavalry Regiment
And now to A Squadron of the 2nd. Cavalry Regiment
Still Light Blue on Dark Blue and still wearing the Emu Feather in their Slouch Hats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_jjUTFag2g
Look at this. And get down on your knees
The Pillars of Creation as seen from the James Webb telescope
https://twitter.com/Arkypatriot/status/1744199052839821450
It’s beyond bizarre that the Secretary of Defense was in ICU for four days while his Deputy was on vacation and no one told her, no one told the President Biden, and Biden has to be lead off stage so he doesn’t get lost and we’re all supposed to pretend this is perfectly normal.
https://twitter.com/JoanneMason11/status/1744126039255658631
Four balloons.
https://news.usni.org/2024/01/03/four-chinese-balloons-violate-airspace-over-taiwan-says-defense-ministry
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
i wonder how much the big guy gets per balloon
@ eaglesoars:
That’s a crapload of stars.
Chilly and rainy today.
Snow tomorrow.
Down in the 20’s by next Sunday.
@ right_wing2:
It’s 23 here, with 25 mph winds. Supposed to be gusting to 50 mph by afternoon.
I think it’s a good day to stay inside…
new thread
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2024/01/08/ncaa-football-national-championship-2023-24-open/