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See, what was happening here under total free speech was that people were throwing personal insults at each other instead of having a civilized disagreement and discussing the issue; it was likened to chimpanzees throwing feces at each other. The following is just an excerpt of one day (yes it was a bad day) before 1300EST on a weekday across multiple threads:
You cut and pasted that, asshole.
You’re a libturd loser.
Fuck you you commie loving bastard.
We have a blithering idiot on aisle 16.
You are a jackoff and go fuck your self.
This was frankly disrespectful not only to those reading but to those who worked hard to bring us quality posts.
These are clearly personal attacks. We can’t tolerate that anymore. Frankly, if you were reading a blog somewhere and you saw that…what would you think?
Now, as for vulgarities.
We aren’t banning swearing, we are asking for some restraint. We reserve the right to delete comments if they are inappropriate. What is inappropriate? See the Supreme Court decision on pornography. ‘We know it when we see it’. Please, we are all adults here. Have some respect. Will we be a nanny blog, no.We will let most things slide but we still have to reserve the right to delete.
The other problem we were having was people continuing arguments across threads and across days.We aren’t going to put up with that. Keep it on the thread where the fight started and we will let all yinz (y’all, youze guys) fight it out. We will even put up a fight thread so that the issue can be argued and settled there. Do not chase people across threads.
In order to have all sides heard we, the owners have a few rules. They are simple, and they should be fairly obvious to anyone who comments on blogs. Care to guess what they are? No? OK, Check these out:
The owners reserve the right to delete a comment if they think that the comment is foul, a personal attack, or is generally over the line of civil discourse. Will the owners use this hammer? Hopefully never. We really we don’t want to have to do that here. Ask yourself this:
Would you say that in the meat world to a real human who is standing right in front of you?
Just because we don’t delete or act on a comment does not mean the we agree or condone with the comment.
ANYTHING written on this blog is the responsibility of the person who wrote it period.
Any failure of comprehension is on the writer when emoticons or sarc tags could have been used to clarify meaning and nuance.
Any Blog owner who posts here might be held to their rules on their blogs. After all what’s good for the goose…
Please be aware of the rules and societal standards.
-CW
coldwarrior wrote:
@ coldwarrior:
what was it back in the day when we hung out at the old place…
oh yeah, don’t feed the trolls
I like this place cause it’s a small island of friendly sanity
I get enough angry stupid in the meatworld
Denver mayor announces reduction in city services to offset migrant costs
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/2849076/denver-mayor-reduction-services-offset-migrants/
No mercy. These assholes voted for it
As to the subject at hand, I learned a very hard lesson. Huge disappointment in someone I thought was a decent human being. What a let down.
But life goes on. People like that get left behind.
And here is a very smart, beautiful bird
https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1756347039364100343
The WSJ wasn’t delivered today so in desperation Hubby went looking and could only find the NYT
Headlines: SCOTUS focuses on Constitution instead of Jan 6
Biden’s EXONERATION
There is no photo of a white person in the entire paper. Not one.
@ coldwarrior:
See my response downstairs.
Bears with tapeworms.
https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1756197813346611629
@ rain of lead:
I’m here for the links and Aussie’s stories. Everything else is mushroom gravy. 😀
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I like mushroom gravy
@ coldwarrior:
It’s a staple around our house.
For this history bufffs. I was 17 when this came out. It still stands.
Kenneth Clark’s Civilization
https://antigonejournal.com/2023/02/kenneth-clark-civilisation/
@ eaglesoars:
required reading
I love this stuff
Cooking Medieval Food From England’s Oldest Cookbook | Clarissa and the King’s Cookbook | Chronicle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQZKBX6sQXM
It’s fun to watch people giving each other wedgies over how to become nasty little censor commissars while preening about “free speech.”
“Free speech” means that when a filthy marsupial decides to spout his visceral Jew-hate, and is answered in kind, the Dictators Of The Blog let him get it full force in response. Otherwise, the Dictators Of The Blog are merely advocates of Cheap Talk, not “free speech.”
Do I give a damn what you folks decide? No. You don’t pay my rent. You can either live up to your self-declared “principles” or not, but that’s up to you.
rain of lead wrote:
😆 so do i!
You don’t need to like Jane Austin, but you may like the history of breakfast in her day. Also some really enlightening comments.
Hey CW, speaking of weddings, I seem to remember that yinzers are famous for baking tons of cookies for the reception. Does that still happen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugi_ZNm-gbs
recipe in the link on the site
@ eaglesoars:
the cookie table is a real yinzer thing.
Oh yeah, reminder why I don’t live in Florida
Giant alligator bends metal fence while forcing its way through at golf course in Charlotte County, Florida.
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1756748688855117962
I dodged these bastards for 10 days in the Everglades and every 3 months one of them would have to be removed from the pond behind my parents house. I wouldn’t go outside without a baseball bat. Not that it would have done much good. It really is not fun having to check the sidewalk/garden thru the window before you open the front door. Wildlife. YOU are what’s for dinner.
@ eaglesoars:
interesting channel, thx! i subscribed
@ eaglesoars:
well, that…and FLORIDA MAN…
Not me, Sparky. I’m lucky I can remember Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
How a book written in 1910 could teach you calculus better than several books of today
[Calculus Made Easy, by Silvanus P. Thompson, 1910: http://calculusmadeeasy.org]
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1756663178337923105
Chapter I is titled “To Deliver You From The Preliminary Terrors”
uh huh
coldwarrior wrote:
He’s very good. An engineer who curates interesting stuff. A lot of fun.
If Mrs. CW is interested in fashion history/sewing I have quite a few very good follows. There are many talented, informed people on X that you would not encounter in daily life.
coldwarrior wrote:
😆
Oh, Sec Defense Austin is in the hospital. Taken by his security detail. Bladder issues. Also Sec State Blinken’s house seems to be under assault by some Gaza lovers, lots of fake blood, etc.
tsk tsk
eaglesoars wrote:
link them and i’ll forward.
thx….mrs coldwarrior is an expert knitter. amazing stuff.
Not. Good.
10 Organic Companies Bought Out By BlackRock And Vanguard
https://twitter.com/thehealthb0t/status/1756306055490060314
wanna see some really weird birds?
https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1756669522713379122
eaglesoars wrote:
NO KIDDING! THEY’RE AI!
coldwarrior wrote:
I sent over about 10 names. There are more but I got bored.
@ eaglesoars:
Speaking of dystopian future stuff, the Saudis are apparently moving forward with that linear megacity monstrosity:
@ lobo91:
The kicker is going to be water.
Some of their cities have no sewage/waste disposal systems. I remember reading about one high rise condo building where all the sewage went into a storage tank in the basement , was picked up by massive trucks (imagine THAT job) and was just dumped somewhere.
There is almost zero fire safety in whatever passes for their building codes. They are just begging for a Grenville event.
@ eaglesoars:
There’s no municipal water system in Kuwait, either. They do have sewage (which is dumped offshore), but water is delivered several times a week in tanker trucks. It’s pumped into a tank on the roof.
Oh and I remember reading about the sewage/water system in Riyadh, I think.
Well. It rained. Torrential downpour and the place flooded. The guy in charge would have been fired/jailed but he was one of the princes so he just got moved to another position he wasn’t qualified for.
lobo91 wrote:
Oh that’s right. I’d forgotten you were stationed there. That was your last posting, IIRC?
I don’t have kids, so someone’s going to have to explain this one to me:
eaglesoars wrote:
I was there as a contractor after retiring from the Army.
Not sayin’ but I’m just sayin’
205 Prepper Items to Get From the Dollar Store
https://www.survivalsullivan.com/dollar-store-preps/
And somebody added ‘condoms’. Good idea
@ lobo91:
Please don’t post that stuff, I really don’t need it in my head, that is nightmare fuel.
I have no clue what this is about..
In 2024 people in Chile are now reportedly painting their houses & roofs in particular the colour BLUE in order protect themselves.
I’m sure the comments section here will tell you why……
Remember Chile has the MOST Lithium in the entire World…….
https://twitter.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1756769753748668777
@ eaglesoars:
It relates to the conspiracy theory that claims the fires in Maui a few months ago were intentionally started using some sort of laser beam in order to force all the locals to leave.
@ lobo91:
Oh. Altho I do find the fires suspicious. Blue paint?
I’ve fallen in love with this guy. He is SO practical and just no BS. Joshua Weissman. If you would like to make beef wellington for your next Thanksgiving dinner, he shows you how.
Pro tip: Start right about….now. (Also I want his kitchen. LOOK AT THAT FRIDGE!!)
The Perfect Beef Wellington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9YGQ4eh8Xs
@ coldwarrior:
I just sent you another one. @mistresstailor. She is a professional costume maker and knows TONS about how clothes were constructed in the past. For movies, etc.
I’m finally allowed to post publicly now that the episode is out: look at this coat I made for Meryl Streep in Only Murders in the Building!
https://twitter.com/mistresstailor/status/1706849047544283582
And there go the property values. Our HOA actually forbids this crap
It begins…
A woke couple in Massachusetts signed up to host illegal migrants in their home
Within an hour, 4 illegals were dropped off at their doorstep by the state
“I gotta get sheets on the beds! How many are coming? Where are they from? What are their ages? We knew nothing.”
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1756761425257607336
Just passing through. Looks like I lost my blue checkmark in here.
Oh well, it only cost $1.75
THE best FAFO video EVAH.
“Just put the machete down”
https://twitter.com/realScottyPimp/status/1756684730953523516
@ eaglesoars:
And here’s THE best FAFO backhand slap EVAH.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1756760486576570699
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Did you ever see the movie Con Air with Nick Cage? The really screaming queen gay guy? That’s what came to mind.
@ eaglesoars:
Missed out on that one.
https://bunkstrutts.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/koala-cage.png?w=768&h=519
Very sad.
Defense secretary Lloyd Austin in critical care
https://twitter.com/EpochTimes/status/1757124160134812020
MASSIVE
The Dutch farmers are not giving up – Huge protest with tractors everywhere today.
They are saying NO to the climate agenda.
SUPPORT FARMERS
https://twitter.com/PeterSweden7/status/1757112610040819852
I guess they were going for maximum “intersectionality” points on this one. The shooter was transgender, from El Salvador, and reportedly had “Free Palestine” written on the rifle used:
@ lobo91:
And apparently the 7 yr old boy injured is its son. He’s critical
So Amazon just delivered a book to the wrong damn address
If MISSISSIPPI QUEEN was Delta Blues…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZj75TQ25Hw
@ eaglesoars:
I think that calculus made easy site screwed my browser up.
I opened it yesterday, and my browser shut down. I had to uninstall it, and reinstall it, and as soon as I open that page again, the browser started shutting down again. I’m using Brave.
I’m on my third download, and no problems so far.
@ right_wing2:
YIKES! I didn’t open it because I know hopeless when I see it
Not a food post as I am eating Yorkshire Burritos for the third day. A packet of Goldenfry Yorkshire pudding mix. Add an egg and it is enough for three meals.
I did taco beef pudding and then pudding with beef stew then tonight it is going to be a Yorkshire pudding mix pancake with taco shrimp.
This time I have onions and a green pepper and sour cream and salsa!
I know nobody gives a shit what I eat, actually neither do I really.
Every day is one day closer to death.
Can these people even tie their own shoes?
Justin Bieber fans livid he didn’t join Usher’s Super Bowl 2024 halftime show
https://nypost.com/2024/02/11/entertainment/justin-bieber-fans-livid-he-didnt-join-ushers-super-bowl-2024-halftime-show/
don’t get me started on Taylor Swift and that pig she’s using as her next mark.
rain of lead wrote:
Leslie West would be proud. Justin Johnson is one of my favorites.No frills, he just plays.
NOLA Live Cam (balcony view).
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Street view.
@ Possum:
Brit-tex-mex fusion!
It could take off!
I’m all screwed up, was up for 24 hours and went to sleep at 1600 yesterday…at 130am my daughter’s cat sneezed in my ear.
Twice.
Now I’m up and baking bread.
@ Possum:
Carne asada wellington?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/friendly-reminder-1936-saw-hottest-temperatures-united-states/
something to file away for later
coldwarrior wrote:
To be honest I did not know I was doing it until a twenty something year old that lived in Louisiana saw that in England they were wrapping burrito filling things in a Yorkshire pudding.
The British steal ideas and food.
Thoughts on Trumps comments about Putin/NATO?
@ Possum:
I have to figure out why yinz’s comments aren’t auto approving
A little Tuesday morning wake up call. Dany, Pau and Ale at the end of the Shiprocked music cruise:
@ Possum:
@ coldwarrior:
see if that works
I just scored tickets to see Joe Bonamassa in Albuquerque in August. Only been waiting about 10 years…
@ lobo91:
ooooh!
Tried out a YouTube recipe. Use wet tortillas coated in egg then fry. Damn, life-changing. Makes the most amazing omelets.
Wow. Bloodbath.
Bloodbath at Paramount claims 800 jobs including CBS News journalists embroiled in controversy
Several CBS News reporters were caught up in layoffs at Paramount Global that claimed 800 jobs, including one who is embroiled in a high-stakes First Amendment fight — and another who has reportedly weathered HR probes over his workplace behavior, The Post has learned.
Catherine Herridge — an award-winning senior correspondent whose First Amendment case is being closely watched by journalists nationwide — was among the hundreds of employees at CBS parent Paramount who got pink slips on Tuesday, sources told The Post.
The carnage provoked outrage from the rank-and-file at CBS, with some focusing their ire on Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish, who pulled down $32 million in total compensation last year despite the company’s ever-shrinking financial profile.
https://nypost.com/2024/02/13/media/bloodbath-at-cbs-news-includes-reporter-fighting-first-amendment-case/
eaglesoars wrote:
Let’s lay off
All what we got
Let’s just all ditch
Those nasty snots
Got a lot of news nastiness
Let’s ditch
Let’s ditch
Let’s ditch
Those nasty snots…
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
There are Jesus Poeple with signs and a megaphone preaching to the heathens on the NOLA Cam now.
I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised that Republicans lost another seat.
Between the black eye Santos gave the party and the push in so many areas for excessive restrictions on abortion, plus the fact it’s NY, it was an uphill battle.
The party needs to make some changes, across the board.