Electrical Experimenter, May 1918
That’s $3.35 in 2025 USD.
They knew.
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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!
I had a lovely holiday back in the home this August. Lake house with family on Lake Michigan. Hiking in the Smokey Mountains. Great friends and weather. Back to the grind.
Me thinks the powers that be are losing their grip and the insanity will only intensify. The EU is going full fascist here, but I don’t think they will pull it off. Globo-home crossed the Rubicon with their covid ploy and now there is no going back for them. Spicy times ahead.
Let’s go razz up the ladies in Brisbane. It’s Saturday afternoon after all and the ladies will be on their balconies!
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An RAAF crew in a EA18 G Growler heads into Brisbane!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5XSnzryCA
What I used to fly in New Guinea in the olden days! Just HF comms with Wewak, rudimentary flight planning and nap of the earth ‘MANUAL’ flying. Virtually no electronics in underpowered airplanes like Cessna U-206s, and you were all on your own with nobody to come looking for you if you arsed up!
How lusted for a Hello Courier with some grunt and a fantastic s-l-o-w stall speed. Or even better a Polaris Porter like this one, with a turbine power plant . I saw one land BACKWARDS at Vanimo one day on the North coast on a crushed coral strip. There was a 40 Knot Easterly and the Porter approached the touchdown area with full flap, edged back the turbine power a tad, about 10 feet above the strip and held the position just above the stall. The Porter drifted BACKWARDS until it was aligned with a taxiway. The pilot nudged off the power a tad more. and landed VERTICALLY. The wheels didn’t turn at all. He touched down and had his brakes on. Raised the flaps and we held the Porter’s upping trailing edge whilst he taxied into the parking area behind some trees. Pilots Porters were great airplanes and the Cessna U206 drivers all wanted one for Christmas.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI53lGvfJ90
Eventually a Boeing 747 was neatly as ‘exciting’ later in my career…. except for Kai Tak in Hong Kong in a cross wind!
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https://x.com/RobertMSterling/status/1966974489553461366
must read
yesterdayâs ride got cut short by a flat.
Iâm up and riding again though, and just finished a 7 mile ride which puts me at 64 miles for the month.
I have to wonder how much of this vile reaction to Charles Kirkâs death by the left is going to impact future elections. How many people are going to look at the words of even some of our elected officials and dump the Democratic Party?
@ right_wing2:
Phoenix is going to be interesting on Sunday. I’m sure the nutcases will come out of the woodwork for his memorial service.
@ lobo91:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/man-allegedly-destroys-charlie-kirk-memorial-swiftly-gets-what-he-deserves
Already started.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/did-they-know-fbi-investigating-whether-pro-trans-radicals-knew-in-advance-about-charlie-kirk-assassination-plot
This is looking bad.
@ lobo91:
Oh, I’m sure.
I managed to get a second ride in this afternoon for 4.4 miles. Just under 70 miles for the month.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/charlie-kirk-hater-goes-nuclear-on-supporter-of-slain-activist-then-pays-price-after-allegedly-unleashing-physical-attacks
The masks are off, the unhinging of the left continues.
A chicken breast is thawing. I get the family packs of chicken breasts, they weigh about five pounds and there are usually five in a pack. I put them individually into sandwich ziplocks ( they are cheap ) with a splash of chicken stock to stop freezer burn then all five go into a freezer type one gallon bag to stop the individual breasts escaping all over the freezer.
We have frozen garlic and sage mushrooms, frozen stuffing, apple sauce ( not frozen, the little tubs ) SautĂŠed green beans cooked last night but rejected in lieu of fried egg on toast. And some alfredo in a jar that goes well with green beans.
Supper tonight has lots of options. A whole can of campbells chicken noodle soup is supposed to be 2.5 servings of 60 calories each serving but I eat the whole can. 150 calories.
Now, imagine eating that chicken soup that has bugger all chicken in it with diced roasted chicken breast added and it takes it to a whole different level!
( LOL I do the 1/4 pound ground beef, fried and chopped into large chunks and added to a can of Beefaroni too )
Craving shrimp now. Alas no shrimp in stock. đ
@ Possum:
While we are on the subject of shrimp, as far as nutritional content goes they are VERY expensive. I will not bore you with the data.
trans people are mentally ill. all of them
I’ve been flat on my back all day
@ Possum:
Another example.
Beef, the cheapest cuts of beef you can buy against Fillet Mignon. Same nutritional value and five times the price.
I did the can of green beans, can of carrots and can of green peas a thread or two ago.
Same price. Green beans 52 calories, carrots 80 and peas 240 calories. Healthy food!
However, for about the same price a can of baked beans comes in at an amazing first of 525 calories.
Anyway if I was feeding six kids, no wife, she would have left, on a limited budget they would be eating baked beans and sardines, and they would ether like it or starve.
@ eaglesoars:
I agree with the mentally ill part. Most male to female things are not transsexuals they are transvestites.
They are sexually aroused by dressing in women’s clothing.
True men to women transsexuals get their twigs and berries cut off. They are rare.
Greg Gutfuld’s EPIC rant against the left
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1967711902202741246
people are getting fired and expelled all over the place
eaglesoars wrote:
linky
https://x.com/0HOUR1__/status/1967473473275728132
https://www.theblaze.com/news/dem-shapiro-left-violence-backlash
The dem governor of Pennsylvania decided to lecture people that both sides are committing violence, using the firebombing of his house as an example of right wing violence.
Unfortunately, people aren’t stupid. It’s an established fact his house was firebombed by a left-wing Palestinian supporter enraged by the governor’s perceived support of Israel.
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh, the idiot from my earlier post. Did you read what she did and what happened? She has serious issues.
Well, looks like your Orange President is going to have a serious dive in his popularity ratings when the unemployment numbers for September are released in the first week of October.
On a side note, GBP is at $1.36.
Hope Mr president just shuts the fuck up and sits the fuck down until 20th September.
After that he can go nuts again.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT.
All those here, the Ratty Taccoone, the French person and the mousey thing.
Your X blue check mark for $54 expires soon.
It is up to you, cancel the automatic renewal.
Lucy payed the $54 so she could play with Grok and make pictures of cute animals in October 2024, Grok became free April 2025.
Blue check means nothing, access to Grok did, and Lucy got bored with it.
So, to all the other blue check people, be aware, cancel or get auto billed.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
yep
Possum wrote:
Grassyass. I’m gonna fire the guys that stopped doing the yard work too. They’ve probably left the country.
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/21/nx-s1-5084178/us-fewer-jobs-biden-initially-reported
Job numbers mean shit after this was revealed last year. And this is from a source friendly to the left.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
You obviously know that you can “employ” non citizens to do work for you and do it legally as with regards to the IRS.
You pay them in cash, and with hold the income tax and other thingies.
If Jose Cuervo mows your lawn asks for $25 you give him $20 per hour. You also declare you took $5 as taxes.
There is a place on your tax return where you declare tax you collected.
No American who employs undocumented persons ever does this. But you should.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
LOL job numbers in September are going to look like shit due to the amount of people fired because of that Kirk person.
@ Possum:
September 17th is liberals’ “Don’t Show Up For Work Day”. I predict there will be a lot of people with self-inflicted holes in their feet.
morning y’all
“the aggressor sets the rules”
Rush Limbaugh
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Now I finally understand why in WWII the Japanese had thousands of soldiers volunteering to be kamikaze pilots.
Also radical islamists being suicide bombers.
Brainwashed and indoctrinated.
Unemployment rate due to rise again today….
@ Possum:
True.
Jimmy Kimmel just got the boot. Now he can play the victim card.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/abc-suspends-jimmy-kimmel-live-charlie-kirk-1236374150/
I only have 44 miles to go to hit my goal for the month.
And when Iâve sponsored myself next week, Iâll be over halfway to my goal.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115222459539841970?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ncl_amplify&utm_campaign=250918-trump_to_designate_antifa_as_a_major_terrorist_organization&utm_content=ncl-pPnq5y5BH7&_nlid=pPnq5y5BH7&_nhids=nc1lBHmBszv8A7ls
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Couple years overdue.
Things are getting tense here.
Closely watching the GBP to USD exchange rate, it dropped a cent yesterday!
Transfer is due on the 20th, but it will not happen in reality until Monday 22nd.
Why do I care?
A one cent difference means I get an extra month food, or I am eating ramen noodles for a month.
A two cent rise means my rent is paid for a month! A two cent drop means I get to live in a cardboard box under a bridge for a month.
LOL this getting paid once a year is stressful.
Couple dozen “protesters” got teargassed for interfering at a Chicago ICE facility and it’s a 1st Amendment violation or something.
https://x.com/Ronxyz00/status/1969047453950210190
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
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“ILLINOIS â Trumpâs Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground”
https://x.com/i/status/1969036625582633193
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Maybe she shouldn’t have tried to stand in front of a vehicle. Of course, they could have just left her where she was standing and run over her…
@ lobo91:
There should be a memorial plaque next to the little brown spot she left on the pavement.
Damn, the pound dropped a cent today.
That is a month of food. Good thing I like Ramen noodles…..
Interesting thing about cats.
When I take off my stinky bed time sleepy shirt and casually throw it on the bed to dry out I always know where to find it the next night.
It is under a cat.
@ lobo91:
https://x.com/SteveInmanUIC/status/1969134514652823646
@ eaglesoars:
The USN naval squadron off Venezuela just scored their third smuggling boat in international waters. The crews seem to be hiring guys with a few smarts. This time everyone aboard out of six, didn’t include a smart guy in the bow that had quick reflexes and he jumped over the starboard side 400 mille secs before the missile arrived. Smart hombre. The cocaine hyped sharks really like the uncooked crewman. Nothing kill fresh smuggler rather than the usual flambĂŠed crew.
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https://therightscoop.com/breaking-video-trump-obliterates-another-narco-terrorist-boat-in-international-waters/
@ Aussie Infidel:
I wish they’d hold off until they were inside US waters.
Then
HALT
Wait 10 seconds
HALT
Wait 10 seconds
Fire a warning burst
Wait 10 seconds
Blow them away.
right_wing2 wrote:
I am glad you said that first. I am a pussy and know there are some subjects where I hold an unpopular opinion.
I am not comfortable with these eliminations of “suspected” drug smugglers in International waters.
Sets a precedent that any boat or ship in International waters is fair game.
Just my honest opinion.
Possum wrote:
âSuspectedâ drug smugglers is newspeak.
I just hit 103 miles out of 125 for my goal.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
We have to say “suspected” unless we want to get sued.
At least this time they did not blow up a “suspected” wedding….
Why not follow the boat full of cuddly toys hand crafted in a small Venezuelan costal village that were being shipped via a priority very fast boat to children in an orphanage in Florida?
Then the US military could have located the orphanage and started a Go Fund Me to raise money for those deprived small kids.
Nah, too easy…
As you all know I don’t have a life. I drink beer and wine and live with cats. So I have plenty of time to research things of absolutely no interest to anyone.
Distance in a straight line from Venezuela to Florida is just over one thousand miles, that straight line does not account for the detour around Cuba.
Little boat that got the shit blown out of it off the coast of Venezuela heading to the USA was going like a bat out of hell.
How much gasoline was it using per hour? Per mile?
No way was that little boat going to go over 1000+ miles without refueling or meeting BoatyMcBiggerboatyface.
Anyway the video in both IR and Visible Light was a great publicity stunt.
Possibly the first “state” in history to have no borders, no capital and no government.
@ lobo91:
Iâm sure these countries will celebrate when the State of âPalestineâ starts attacking Israel on a regular basis.
Type One is planning to build the worldâs first commercial nuclear fusion plant, using the former TVA site to house a prototype. The company aims to use a machine called a stellarator to contain plasma much hotter than the sun at the pilot plant. It would be developed in the former fossil fuel plant’s turbine room.
Type One leaders have previously said they hoped to start constructing Infinity One, the prototype stellarator, in 2026. A TVA news release says that stellarators are unique in demonstrating “stable, steady-state operation with high efficiency.” That makes them an attractive choice for TVA, according to the release.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/its-official-tva-type-one-energy-map-out-rules-for-worlds-first-nuclear-fusion-plant/ar-AA1MUI4J?ocid=BingNewsSerp
this is the way
@ Possum:
So, doing more research, a boat like that,
As to fule consumption they do about half a mile per gallon of fuel, just slightly less than Lobo’s truck pulling a camper and a dog.
My question is, why did they blow up these boats and not follow them to re-fueling points and capture more people involved in the long route from Venezuela to the USA?
Anyway, now researching how toe nail fungus evolved and does it benefit humanity.
A food post.
Progresso soups are very hit and miss as to what I like. They do some awesome tomato basil and things but anything with potatoes give it a miss.
Also the cans are about 19oz and they give nutritional info per serving as required but unusually they also state nutritional values per can.
I am a big boy and I eats the whole can!
Anyway got a can of Progresso split pea soup. Ate half yesterday as an accompaniment to grilled cheese sandwiches and it was great.
Took a look at the can and it is not just split peas but ham! And only 280 calories per can.
Recommended. ( unless your religion forbids it )
https://www.progresso.com/products/traditional-split-pea-with-ham
I should work in the TV and film industry.
Not as an actor, although I could be a realistic stand in doing stunts for Tom Hanks, yep got mistaken for him a few times. It is the nose.
Anyway, was watching a crap movie a few days ago set in New York city. Most of the outdoor scenes and the actors were American. Some night scenes were of parked cars and crime scenes, but, the cars were all parked on the wrong side of the road and licence plates obscured.
About 43 minutes into the movie the leading actress walked past a wall that had a UK wall socket on it! Anyone who ever trod on a UK power plug will recognise it.
Anyway, looked up the movie on IMDB and it was in fact a UK production.
The moral of this story is watch out for wall sockets! ( and NEVER ever tread on a UK power plug, 100% worse than treading on LEGO )
@ Possum:
Same power socket principle goes for porn.
Ignore the fake sound tracks. Look at the wall. UK porn has the large triangular ground at the top sockets.
Most European porn the wall sockets are round and recessed with the ground pin at the top.
Australian porn and the wall sockets are similar to the UK ones, ground at the top but the live and neutral pins are at an angle.
Well we all know what USA porn is from, however!
Fake from the USA porn the wall sockets have the ground pins on the top.
I am an expert in wall sockets and identifying country of origin of porn.
@ Possum:
Also all porn aside. If a light switch is in the down position it is off.
Rest of the world down is on.
Enjoy your next “American ” movie filmed in a foreign country.
AHAHAHA!
BREAKING: Palestine Seeks ÂŁ2 Trillion in Reparations from UK
Following its recognition as a state, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas demands reparations from the UK for its 1917-1948 rule, citing international law.
This is an absolute disaster.
https://x.com/TheBritLad/status/1970047562565488823
Lunch is Yorkshire pudding and something.
Packet says 220ml of cold water but I use 240ml. I mix in some onion powder and sage then microwave for 2 minutes at 700w and let the water and seasonings cool. Currently in the fridge.
Why use 240ml instead of the recommended 220ml you may ask? Simple, it also requires two large eggs, and as we discussed a while ago a UK large egg is the same as a USA extra large egg. But I only have USA large eggs in stock.
Things like Yorkshire pudding and grilled cheese sandwiches and soup are back on the menu. I cannot get into Ketosis as I drink too much wine and beer.
So, calorie counting.
Later this week, no beer, no wine, which is no carbs and off I go again on Keto.
A diet of meat cheese and eggs and avocados! All the good shit at a buffet or a wedding or a wake.
No beer, wine or beans on toast will be difficult but I found a support group near me.
BA, aka Beans Anonymous.
LOL and yet again nobody here bothered to look at Google maps and did the measuring thing.
Oh well.
Possum wrote:
That tactic seemed to work a treat for the Royal Navy’s West African Squadron in the late 1700s!
Stopped slave trading even in the Americas both North and South!
right_wing2 wrote:
We accidentally dropped a light twin just West of Catalina Island in California. The smugglers were at 10,000 feet when we descended past them . just missing them by a whisper. Our ‘wake turbulence’ did the job and LAX Radar saw two separated parts fall into the Pacific about 10 miles West off Catalina Island. We called a near miss and the target had turned off their transponder and didn’t have any transmissions with LAX Radar.
We demanded Air NZ Engineering paint a vanquished ‘kill’ on the cockpit fuselage! They had no sense of humour!
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Possum wrote:
What if we did and thought it better to keep it to ourselves?
I’ve been busy scrolling past sanctimonious tributes to Charlie Kirk written by people who had never heard of him until he was gone.
Thankfully ICE didn’t capture and deport all of them yet.
Today is mowing day!
The smell of freshly mown grass in a big city where the usual daily smells are car exhaust and dumpsters that are overflowing is a pleasant change.
I will miss them when they are all gone.
( also it will be sad that in a few weeks the grass stops growing until April )
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
If ourselves thought it better to keep it to ourselves then why bring it up in the first place?
Sorry your mousy scroll wheel is overworked.
https://www.tomshardware.com/phones/japanese-city-implements-two-hour-daily-recreational-smartphone-usage-limit-ordinance-comes-into-effect-from-october-1-no-enforcement-or-penalties-proposed
It’s a ordinance with no penalties or enforcement. For now. I’ll bet the left here are drooling at the idea of similar controls. After all, it’s for better health. (How many times have they put down a similar rule for “improving public health”).
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
I actually agree with that.
Anecdote, many years ago was washing dishes in a restaurant. A mother and father came in with their three daughters for a family night out.
Mother and father spent the 90 minutes actually talking to each other. The three daughters were on the phone isolated and in their own world and texting all the time.
Actually eating one handed and phone in the other hand.
sad to see.
LOL currently explaining what Sharia Law is to some fucking inbred banjo playing asshole.
X is fun.
By the way, lunch is going to be bacon sandwiches. Diet is over, I like being fat and cuddly.
BREAKING: Would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh convicted on all charges
Possum wrote:
That’s it. Off to Google Maps. Gonna drive around the world in Street View.
this is weird
Secret Service Dismantles Vast SIM Farm Network Near UN Headquarters
The U.S. Secret Service seized over 300 SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards from five locations within 35 miles of UN headquarters in New York, hours before the 80th United Nations General Assembly convened on September 23, 2025. The network, capable of overwhelming cell towers with 30 million text messages per minute and disabling emergency lines, was linked to nation-state actors and criminals through early forensic analysis. Additional seizures included weapons and drugs, highlighting broader criminal ties, though no specific country or arrests were disclosed.
https://x.com/i/trending/1970450931490914569
What is a sim farm?
There is a definite biological and physical difference between males and females. The buttocks.
Watch any TV police show and when the SWAT team enters a building the women on the team are shorter and move differently and the back of their combat trousers are up the crack of their ass. The men’s are not.
Same with outer space movies. The women’s space ship overalls are up the crack of their ass. The men’s are not.
The reason I mention this is I am currently watching a movie and a lady is outside the space ship in a full NASA type go into space suit. A big life support thing on her back.
And……
You guessed it, the space suit is up the crack of her ass.
So next time you watch a TV show or a movie study the women’s buttocks closely and you will understand my observations more clearly.
@ Possum:
I’ve noticed the same with Space Bimbos. They all have vacuum-form-fitted tops as well. https://tackyraccoons.com/category/space-bimbos/
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Of note was the early 1970’s when in the UK we had UK made sci-fi themed kids programs pretending to be American where the male characters were even more vacuum and form fitted than the women.
The one that springs to mind is UFO. a development of the puppet series Thunderbirds but using humans.
Anyway it did not last more than 26 episodes. Interesting trivia fact. In the 70’s hair was a big thing.
UFO was very low budget. That is why all the ladies on Moonbase ( on the moon ) had purple hair wigs. Drastically cut down on time and costs for makeup and hair stylists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpF6o2-nx4I
I think the spin off was space 1999 but Macker probably knows.
@ Possum:
Anyway as nobody watched the montage of clips of UFO you will not have seen how in the 1970’s British TV had actors and actresses of multi cultural and ethnic back grounds and races.
And nobody thought it was unusual.
LOL just got a text from apartment managers.
I ain’t a snitch! And I wash my socks and panties in the bath tub…
@ Possum:
Strange thing is, texts from apartment managers usually come in pairs.
One in Spanish closely followed by one in English.
I only got the English one.
Ain’t me that snitched!!!!!
While we are on the fascinating subject of apartments, I got a text that was really for just me. Lease is up at the end of the month and did I want to renew.
Well, as I have no where else to go and no valid UK passport it is a done deal so I called the office to renew for another year.
Spoke to a nice young lady who told me the manager was busy but she would email me with the new lease to sign.
I said ” tell her not to forget the cats ” ( they are $35 per month rent.)
Nice young lady did not understand. Even when I yelled CATS!!!!
As I am fluent in Spanish, I know Hola and fist bumping I said “gato”
She understood then. Fact I have a gato and a gata is something we did not need to discuss further.
Well, now going to watch a movie. One of the lead actors is Sean Bean. He is a great actor but on a subliminal level I hate him.
Sean Bean was born in Sheffield and went to school there. He is the same age as me. I went to school about 12 miles north of him.
My school had 140 in each year, girls and boys. So you can imagine how many there was to pick from for the rugby team.
The schools in Sheffield, a huge city, had about 2000 per year. Lots more aggressive young males to pick from for a rugby team.
We HATED to travel to Sheffield to play rugby, we always got beaten, and beaten to a pulp.
It was country boys against inner city thugs.
Anyway I survived, and do not bear a grudge. But turn the clock back 50 years and I would have kicked Sean Bean’s skinny ass!
I’m 12 miles short of my goal.
GCC has raised over $5 million this year.
Possum wrote:
Good thing you didn’t say vato or you might get a knock on the door from la policia.
Vato is or was slang for a gangbanger friend.
“BREAKING: Trolls have hacked Gretaâs comms systems and are playing ABBA songs on repeat.”
video–> https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1970633295927931343
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Or if I said “Vato” to a Spanish person.
It is the Hispanic “N” word, they can say it but us pink people cannot.
Yinz I need suggestions. Dressing for this salad
canned beets
canned mandarin oranges
toasted walnuts
I’m thinking it should have honey but then I hit a wall
Help?
@ eaglesoars:
I would try bleu cheese. It would offset the sweetness of he canned oranges.
@ Possum:
LOL but what do I know. Tonight supper is going to be roasted chicken breast, baby potatoes and stuffing and a slice of Yorkshire pudding with either peas or carrots.
The chicken gravy is going to be my secret recipe. A can of Campbells Chicken Noodle soup blended with a stick blender to a creamy texture.
We get to get up at 4 AM tomorrow and leave at 4:45so my wife can get prepped for knee replacement surgery.
eaglesoars wrote:
.@ Possum:
I’m going to have to agree. Honey and Bleu cheese are perfect for that salad.@ Possum:
More Antifaggotry.
“Every fist that hurls a piece of concrete through a bank or an ICE agent’s car window has the potential to ignite a wildfire … For some of us, chaos and destruction are the only activities in which we experience life as liberated creativity.”
https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1971001816390177240
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Now, I could have said dump the pickled beets.
Take a smallish ornate dish, place two scoops of vanilla ice cream in it. The expensive high calorie stuff made with real butter and cream.
Top with roasted walnuts and a few slices of mandarin oranges and a light swirl of honey.
Now, to finish it you make it into ” magic ice cream ” a term I learned when living in Italy for a year. ( well flying there Sunday and coming back to London Fridays ) Anyway….
Top it with half a shot of a liqueur. Cointreau is oranges, Kalua is coffee, etc, you get the idea.
So, how to turn a salad into a very high class desert!
( the dog will eat the beets, they eat anything )
Cooking here is like a SpaceX Falcon launch. Not like them damn Starship launches that get delayed days and weeks then explode over Bermuda.
Falcon 9 launches are like supper. Precise timing, highly scientific and if there is a hold in the countdown or a scrub they try again the next day.
Chicken breast seasoned with onion and sage has just completed its Preliminary cooking for 25 minutes at 350F, equivalent to SpaceX doing the chill down of the propellant lines prior to loading fuel and oxidizer into the launch vehicle.
The actual loading of fuel and oxidizer is equivalent to me opening the foil packet the chicken is in and blasting it for 10 mins at 400F to roast it. But we have a hold…..
The rest of the systems, as in the stuffing is made, the baby yellow potatoes are boiled, I found the can opener so peas or carrots are a go.
As I said we have a hold on supper, a bit like SpaceX does a hold on a launch. They do it because of weather.
Reason for the hold is whether I will be hungry any time soon.
The chicken smells good though.
@ Possum:
And someone please find a way to stop me accessing that Grok thing!
It is getting creepy.
A pest control post for anyone in Texas.
If you are sitting in front of your computer just wearing panties then obviously your legs are bare. I will not post pictures.
Well, when you feel a cockroach climbing up your bare leg then do not just slap it. That does not kill it and it just runs away to come back a few minutes later.
The proper technique is to slap the roach, hold it against your leg and then roll the thing against your leg so you squish it and its arms and legs come off and juice squirts out of it.
I can make a video if required.
Possum wrote:
I hate blue cheese but cheese is a good idea. I’m thinking havarti
LMFAO! President Trump has just unveiled the Presidential Wall of Fame at the White House, and Joe Bidenâs portrait is an AUTO-PEN
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1970900063196176819
video at link
cry me a fucking river
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NEW: Sisters accused of vandalizing Charlie Kirk memorial say theyâre jobless and are begging for money online
Kerri Rollo, 23, and Kaylee Rollo, 22, were arrested in Bentonville and charged with vandalizing a makeshift Charlie Kirk memorial outside the Benton County Courthouse
Video shows Kerri ripping signs and kicking candles while saying, âlived as he died – promoting violence.â
The sisters launched a GF titled âFIGHT AGAINST F4CISM HELP PAY FOR OUR LEGAL FEESâ with an $18,000 goal
Kaylee wrote, âAfter the recent events Charlie Kirkâs death, my sibling and I are being doxxed online and my sibling was fired from their job.â
She added, âThis is direct violation of their first amendment rights and unconstitutional.â
In an update Kaylee wrote, âWE HAVE BEEN THREATENED, DOXXED, HARASSED, AND FIRED.â
https://x.com/unlimited_ls/status/1970916938277618082
video at link
I finally conquered something that may sound pathetic.
I live alone, I do not drink milk or orange juice from the carton.
I do not get ice cream out of the fridge and sit in front of the TV and eat it straight out of the carton. It goes in a bowl.
When making soups or stews or sauces I do not taste my creations by slurping it off the spoon I am stirring it with then put it back in the pot. I use a teaspoon that then goes into the sink.
Tonight chicken dinner was cancelled. Instead half a tub of cottage cheese seduced me.
I don’t eat things from a tub then put it back. Was almost going to spoon all the cottage cheese into a bowl.
Aw fuck it, I did it the American way and ate it straight out of the tub!
It is astonishing that even though I live alone I still adhere to very strict etiquette and hygiene principles.
eaglesoars wrote:
The lack of understanding of what the 1st amendment means is astonishing.
Yes, you have the right to say what you want. It does not shield you from the consequences of your speech. It just protects you from the government shutting down your speech. Plus, destruction isn’t speech.
I just finished Diana Westâs âDesth of the Grown Upâ, and I’m about halfway through a collection of columns by Walter Williams called âMore Liberty Means Less Governmentâ.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
By their logic, an employee could tell a customer, or even their boss, exactly what they think with no consequences.
To my small mind the 1st amendment as regards free speech is a person is allowed to say or write whatever they want.
And the other part of the first is other people have the right to act accordingly as a response. ( but not with violence I may add. )
This movie clip from 1995 sums it up perfectly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDnvXAkMnx8
Statute of limitations almost but didn’t run out for James Comey.
The Internet is a strange place. Any site you visit reports what you look at and what you post then sells that information to advertisers.
I post food posts and pictures of what I cook.
Today on Paramount+ I am getting adverts for Cotonell asswipe, Charmin ( the bears ) asswipe and Angle Soft ( the one made by angels as in if you go to heaven you spend all day making asswipe ) asswipe.
Obviously AI and advertisers think I use a lot.
My cooking ain’t that bad!
A Friday informational post.
Many here will have used a spaghetti ladle to scoop spaghetti out of the pot and drain it. They are an amazing thing, purpose designed.
But why is there a round hole in the bowl of the ladle? Is it to drain water?
The answer is yes, but it is a precision sized hole that serves another important function.
So, next time you cook spaghetti you will think of me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuiABMW_3BI
@ Possum:
You can do the same thing with the holes in a colander if you have OCD and need precision.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
You have a huge extended family so a colander would work great for you!
* laughing * the reason accurately measuring a portion of spaghetti came to mind is lunch is spaghetti and meatballs, the whole can of Chef Boyardee. $1 on sale at Walmart.
Only actual pasta I cook is the tri colour spiral things. I like them!
@ Possum:
Also an additional comment that will be so boring it will put everyone here to sleep until at least Sunday afternoon.
Why are there so many shapes of pasta? Spirals, penne, shells, bigger shells, linguini, skinny linguini, spaghetti, macaroni, elbow macaroni, you get the idea.
It is because all the different shapes absorb the sauces in specific ways. In Italian cuisine the sauce is perfectly paired with the shape of the pasta.
There, mystery solved….
Now time for a nap.
@ Possum:
Oh, and do not bother trying to refute this. Artificial Intelligence knows things I was taught over 30 years ago, in Italy.
@ Possum:
I don’t eat regular pasta. I get the stuff made out of chick peas – less starch / carbs.
P.S. The chef’s name was Ettore Boiardi. He was 16 in 1914 when he showed up at Ellis Island with a bunch of other wops.
7.99 miles today for a total of 121.
@ right_wing2:
What happened in the final 53 feet?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I didn’t make a lap around our cul-de-sac.
@ right_wing2:
I thought maybe there was a back up at the finish line and you’d had enough shit for one day.
There are some really insane people out there. I’ve been reading comments on stories regarding the big meeting Hegseth is apparently having at Quantico next week with most of the general/flag officers. Nobody knows what it’s about, so of course, all the pundits are legally required to speculate.
So far, the three most popular things are:
1. Forcing them to take a loyalty pledge to Trump, rather than the Constitution. Those who refuse will either be fired, imprisoned, or shot, depending on how insane the commenter is.
2. Planning for some sort of nationwide martial law, along with the cancellation of the 2026 elections. Never mind the fact that it would be physically impossible to implement martial law in a country this size, with this small of a military.
3. Announcement of a coming alien invasion.
I’m starting to think that it may be too late for that whole “Make America Healthy Again” thing. There are clearly way too many chemicals in our food if people actually believe this nonsense.
@ lobo91:
Whatever they’re on, I want some.
@ right_wing2:
Oh, look. Some actual reporting on what’s going to happen:
I think we used to call that a “come to Jesus meeting.”
Exactly what I suspected.
@ lobo91:
Great!
A thirty minute meeting then issuing them all with a rifle, three days of MREs and a short bus ride to the nearest basic training camp.
There they will be issued with a back pack containing 40lbs of rocks and the next thing they do is a 20km fast march to their overnight accommodations. A nice tent.
Spend three days there crawling through mud ( local fire department has several million gallons of water on standby ) and when not crawling through mud running across rope bridges strung amongst very tall trees.
A real team building exercise.
@ lobo91:
Xwitter: Some guy in Bulgaria(!) posted an AI image of Trump holding a copy of Mein Kamph. I replied “So now Trump is a socialist?”
He didn’t like that much and proceeded to lecture me about authoritarianism. Media propaganda works globally.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
That one is too deep for Lucy to dive in.
Unpopular opinion, if Hitler had just continued with re-building 1930s Germany and didn’t start imprisoning and murdering people ( not just the well known ones, but the disabled, mentally ill and ones of Romany origin )
Also if he did not insist on invading other countries then today Germany would be the #1 economic superpower.
Saturday supper is in the slow cooker. It will either get eaten tonight or fed to Mr Dumpster tomorrow.
It is, about half a pound of roasted baby yellow potatoes, a few ounces of cooked chicken breast and some left over bacon.
All in a slow cooker and topped with a can of Campbells Cream of Mushroom and some frenches dried onions.
On high for about an hour to get it going and a stir. Any stirs after that will turn it all into mush. Then on low with no more stirring.
That clears out the backlog of leftovers!
@ Possum:
Oh dear, due to a few coffee mugs of box Cabernet supper may change.
Potato and chicken and bacon and mushroom soup and dried onions are still on target. Estimated done time is 9pm Central.
However, a 1/4 pound frozen 80/20 is now in a ziplock sandwich bag thawing with some onion powder and sage.
There are Pepperidge puff pastry sheets in stock. So we may be a go for beef sausage rolls. We like sausage rolls and they do not exist in the USA.
( tired of the Italian pork sausage version I make )
Anyway! Pictures may be posted by Lucy. They look like a donkey penis wrapped in pastry, or pĂŠnis d’âne enveloppĂŠ dans une pâtisserie as they say in France.
Possum wrote:
There was a bit of a language barrier.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I understand. Socialism and National Socialism and NAZI means things now in 2025 that was kind of the opposite in 1939.
Much like 30 years ago a pussy was a cat.
Now I think it means something else.
I tried to stop Lucy posting her pussy pictures but she said ” First amendment and I can post pictures of my pussy anytime I want! ”
Oh well…
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1972054683071238610
Not sure if this is true.
https://x.com/i/status/1971735109826236635
@ Possum:
Oh, and if you ever meet an Australian lady and she says anything referencing her Wombat, then be aware of linguistic and cultural differences.
@ Possum:
“Getting a Woody” meant buying a Walter Lantz comic book.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
And we all know why Woody the Woodpecker spent all his time banging his beak into trees.
He couldn’t get laid.
Nap time!
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1972076366368854218
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
If I had to guess, it probably is
9.2 miles today, and Iâm 5 miles over my goal.
Mrs RW is still in quite a bit of pain from her surgery, but she can get up and walk around a little bit with the walker or the cane. She really should get the other knee done, but as much as she’s hurting now, I don’t know if she will.
@ right_wing2:
Glad she is doing OK. The pain from the surgical scars will fade and the constant pain from her knee joint is gone forever.
I have a story I waited to share.
Both my parents needed both knee joints replaced. As they were in England the waiting list was long, but once you get in the medical care is among the best in the world. The wait is what makes socialized medicine bad, there are never enough resources.
Anyway the time came! Both mom and dad were booked into the same facility at the same time. A specialist facility that ONLY did knee and elbow replacements. For both knees replacing at the same time.
Fucking crazy you may say! Well, one anesthetic, one OR time, one two day stay in hospital each. One course of pain killers etc.
So, both parents then sent home, four knees replaced.
One visit from a home help 8hrs per day while my sister was at work and she stayed with them the rest of the time.
One visit per day from a physio therapist who physio therapied four knees at a time.
Very efficient and cost effective.
So, you are all wondering what supper is tonight.
That thing I made two days ago with roast chicken, bacon, quartered baby yellow potatoes, onions and mushroom soup is all gone. Two suppers and it was magnificent!
Tonight is a poor person’s meal. A Hobo supper.
To be authentically cooked I really should build a fire using old wooden pallets and assorted trash under a bridge on the Interstate. Not happening, don’t want to share.
So, stuck with an air fryer in campsite mode.
@ Possum:
“Vahtz fur deener, shnookums?” is the punchline to a very old ethnic joke involving Dutch immigrants. Der Vinder Vahsher was another.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Um…
@ Possum:
As a side note, this AI shit is watching what you do on the Internet and tailoring responses to what you post across other forums and what you buy and what adverts you click on.
That is why when it suggested what to cook for supper it suggested mushrooms, cream, parmesan and pasta.
Notice my previous posts here and on X have involved all those things. Even suggesting pasta which I did a post here a few days ago about the different shapes.
Now, when I get bored I will teach Grok about a meal commonly eaten in the North of England.
It may be banana and anchovy pie, the crust made with engine oil and sawdust.
Served with a side of stir fried lettuce and maggots.
We fooled Grok a few months ago about a 1980s dance craze “The Wriggle”
@ Possum:
“Do The Flan” was a regional hit by the Pfeiffernauts, a high school garage band from Paducah. Rare yellow vinyl 45rpm.
Pass it on.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Lucy did and Grok says
@ Possum:
And we got a bite!
@ Possum:
@ Possum:
lolololol
They were NOT fictional.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
fkkn hilarious. Gonna have to play with some graphics.
I got just over 11 miles in today, and have a total of 149 miles on a goal of 125 miles.
Tomorrow is my last day-Iâm gonna try to hit 160.
https://greatcyclechallenge.com/Riders/BruceRoepke?utm_source=share&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=gcc_app_dashboard
Fresh air’s upstairs.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2025/09/30/schools-in-session/