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Counting the hours left…
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 72 Comments › )Filed under Open thread, Uncategorized at December 17th, 2025 - 12:59 am
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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!
A financial and credit card etc post. This is a first for me.
Walmart has been bugging me for months to get a OnePay credit card that offers 5% cash back on Walmart purchases and cash back on other things. As I am awake again, and slightly drunk I finally hit the button and applied.
All they needed was name, address, telephone number and last four SSN digits. I can do that!
Within seconds approved. $8,000 limit, $1,200 cash advance limit and $1000 limit on spending at Walmart until physical card arrived and was activated.
Are they fucking stupid?
I have an Amazon credit card ( Chase ). Limit $13,500 that I use for everything but as all my groceries and alcohol come from Walmart so now I got a Walmart credit card.
Also have a bank credit card, they keep asking me if I want a credit limit increase but I decline as I do not use it. It is a backup card. Limit $6,000
So, a non-citizen of the USA who has not had a job since 2019 has a $27,500 line of credit!
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
That’s awesome!
Seems odd that there’s no reason given. Not even the usual “spend more time with family” nonsense.
Dinner Monday was smoked chicken quesadillas. Last night- Sesame beef.
Tonight? Loaded potato wedges with pork and cheese.
Currently cooking some nasty English food. Boiled beef. A few scrawny carrots, a coarse chopped onion and a handful of little potatoes.
However, as I am 5000 miles from England it has a different name.
Homestyle slow cooked hearty beef stew. LOL what does ” Homestyle ” actually mean?
Unbiased news.
“WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump intends to preview his agenda for next year and beyond in a live speech from the White House on Wednesday night. His remarks are coming at a crucial time as he tries to rebuild his steadily eroding popularity.“
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
PBS’ first comments in their analysis included the number of words per minute.
When Adam Carolla slapped Gavin Newsom around a bit.
https://x.com/i/status/2001261092924768318
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I fell asleep at 7:45pm last night according to my browser history.
Read the transcript today. Trump did not say one single thing of importance that warranted a presidential address across all TV networks.
Oh well….
@ lobo91:
Same thing happened when Trump was president last time. He hired a crew that left.
This time Musk was the first to bail, now Bongino and probably more that were less high profile.
A food post.
Now Americans think Yorkshire Pudding is a quaint object served with roast beef, mash and carrots and gravy. A cute little fluffy thing. A traditional Sunday dinner.
However that is not entirely accurate. Yorkshire pudding in Yorkshire is not served with the main course but it is an appetizer. First course is Yorkshire pudding with gravy. A filler so the main course can be smaller.
Much like in Italy before the main course of meat or fish you are served a small bowl of pasta.
Anyway, another myth about Yorkshire pudding. It is also a weekday meal! How is that you may ask? ( nobody will )
Simple, you make a plate sized Yorkshire pudding and slop a big dollop of hearty, homestyle beef stew in the middle. Ate it last night and as I have stew and pudding mix available it will be supper again tonight.
Has to be eaten the English way though, with a knife and fork. No picking it up with hands or doing the one handed fork thing.
It is a gastronomic symphony, hands, mouth and taste buds all working in unison.
There may be pictures posted that nobody looks at.
@ Possum:
My buddy Grok agrees with me.
The finished product. Limited to the size of Yorkshire pudding as it is done in an air fryer with a makeshift foil nest.
Anyway, size is not important. The taste is!
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2001777939474456764
@ lobo91:
Given his reputation and medical history, I’m thinking something bad has come up again.
@ lobo91:
@ poteen:
Or there were too many cooks in the kitchen with conflicting approaches.
Or the agreement was to spend a year and focus one project, like Russiagate.
Or credible threats to his family…
Possum wrote:
It seemed to be a recap of accomplishments for the hard of thinking, and/or he was trolling the MSM.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
There are all sorts of possibilities. I just thought the announcement was odd. “See ya. Bye!”
Somebody famous is live on TV and just rambling….
@ lobo91:
Yeah, it was unusual, especially for him.
@ Possum:
Seems to happen daily. Sometimes hourly.
Bama beats ou.
I worked my schedule to watch all the playoffs.
@ coldwarrior:
They left out Notre Dame so in a fit of disgust and petty anger I adjusted my schedule to avoid watching any.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Lights out at DoD?
poteen wrote:
WordPress locks a thread after a certain number of days. Looks like it was 30 days.
Requires a new thread or someone to extend the 30 days..
However have fun here!
Supper is baby roast yellow potatoes and egg salad, or beef stew, or fancy chunky tuna and mayo.
Or more beer and another pack of smokes. The choices are endless….
morning y’all
Do you remember when President Trump’s emissary Steve Witkoff recently revealed how the CIA was deliberately misinforming him and the U.S negotiating group about the status of Hamas? {GO DEEP} Essentially Witkoff shared that in mid-east negotiations, in real time as the events unfolded, the CIA was generating false intelligence reports that were complete fabrications disconnected from the reality of the events unfolding on the ground.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/12/20/u-s-intelligence-says-president-trump-is-wrong-and-vladimir-putin-is-planning-to-attack-all-of-europe/#more-278982
For the first time in the history of the European Union, 24 member states have jointly granted a war loan to a country outside the Union. This is not a technical detail but a qualitative shift. The logic of a loan is clear: whoever lends money wants it back. In this case, repayment is not tied to economic growth or stabilisation, but to military victory.
https://x.com/PM_ViktorOrban/status/2002266353185472809?s=20
@ Possum:
poteen wrote:
Been trying to find a reason for the season. Lost interest in Fuckface. I’ll see what I can do (open for suggestions).
Immigration update.
For anyone interested there is a very nice crib, about 2ft 6in by 4ft next to the dumpster. The mattress etc is very clean, spotless in fact and there is a light up soothing thing that plays music with it.
Other children’s things in the dumpster.
If anyone here is about to give birth I can send it to you, just pay shipping.
The leather couches are gone unfortunately, but if there is anything you want let me know and I will keep a lookout.
@ Possum:
Lucy went to take a picture. Unfortunately light up thing that plays soothing tunes already gone.
@ Possum:
LOL link….
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2002519135155335492
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Done.
@ Possum:
vaporised
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Lucy did not post a post but accidentally replied to a pro-immigration post on X and did not want a flood of venom.
This is the crib.
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2002535043156357352
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I cannot help. He is a boring old fart.
As distinct from us who are interesting old farts!
Anyway, not been to LGF for a long time, when there noticed all the social media embeds were Bluesky and no X. Is X banned?
Cannot understand why as there are as many lefties as righties on X. I follow many left leaning accounts on X just to get a balanced feed.
( P.S AOC is smoking hot! )
@ Possum:
Chuckface doesn’t post on X anymore, still has an account for sekrit stuff. He sputters and spits on Bluesky where he has at least some amount of banning power.
Despite what some lefties say, the Xwitter is not homogeneous. A lot of us are still hetero.
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!
Breaking news, the electricity went off in the san Francisco area and 130,000 customers are without power and it is national news.
LMAO. Light candles and have a sandwich.
@ Possum:
Better fetch old Betsy and bring the buckshot.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
You’re right about that. Old arthritic Charlie isn’t as much fun anymore and there aren’t that many mockers left.
@ poteen:
Best article Charles ever wrote in my opinion, and I ain’t normal so kindly disregard any opinions I have was the one where he described how he cleaned his asshole after taking a shit.
I think it described how he did not wipe, rather he gently dabbed at his anal sphincter.
It is in the archive somewhere, alas my archive is long gone.
LOL Thankfully!
@ Possum:
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Thank you!
And for those who need to know about the strange numbers.
00000820 is the comment number.
00770 is the article number
6 is the comment number within the thread.
@ Possum:
And anyone really interested.
Look at the numbers, article 770 and only 820 comments at LGF total on Saturday, July 28, 2001 at 7:09 am PDT
A really slow site with next to no engagement at that time.
Tonight supper is MEXICAN! sort of.
I put a roll of asswipe in the freezer for tomorrow morning as my asshole may need wiping and dabbing with soothing cool tissue.
Anyway, supper is going to be TACOS! Ground beef and onions seasoned with McCormick spicy taco seasoning mix and mushrooms.
WTF are mushrooms doing in a Mexican meal?
Diversity…. Fusion…. Mushrooms that need eating…
And it got complicated. Mash potatoes are cooked.
If you have never eaten mash potatoes smothered in taco beef, onions and mushrooms you ain’t experience real British food.
Sign language lol
https://x.com/DisrespectedThe/status/2002539963192422762
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Now that’s funny
The lady that got fired by asking the children to speak English was actually helping those children with their English lessons.
Many many years ago both Latin and French were mandatory at school. Fortunately Latin for only two years ( Latin was a basis for any students who wanted to pursue languages in further studies. )
Anyway, in Latin class NO English was allowed at all. Even communication with other students.
We had some days where ONLY French was allowed both in the French class and out of class to make us learn conversational French.
LOL obviously that day in chemistry, physics, biology, geography classes we could speak English! but you get the idea.
@ Possum:
Our Spanish teacher did that. After the first day it was all in Spanish, and the immersion worked. I think it was that same year we went to Spain for a 12 day tour. When we came back we were speaking English with Spanish accents.
Trump Announcement in 1 hour.
Get out the alcohol. I suggest very low alcohol content beer. Not hard liquor shots. ( or you will be shitfaced within ten minutes. )
Rules. One drink for every time he says ” best president ever” or ” Biden ” or ” I ” you get the idea.
Bonus points, two drinks if he drops a ” YUGE! ” in there….
@ Possum:
And Grok agrees with me. Fed the above to Grok and this is what it came back with.
@ Possum:
And then I said to Grok.
Reply was.
And yet again Trump is late. He was 75 minutes late at the drug one Friday.
” They are going to be yuge! Yugest battleships ever built! 30,000 to 50.000 tons. Yuge! ”
A quick random Google and USS Iowa is….
The USS Iowa (BB-61) has a displacement of approximately 58,460 tons when fully loaded.
Best part was when Trump said ” we have the best submarines, undetectable, the best! ”
And he turned around and asked someone how many. Clever person said “30”
Trump ” We have 30 submarines! ”
LOL…
Um, number is classified, estimates are 66-70 nuclear attack submarines plus a very classified number of nuclear powered and armed ballistic missile submarines.
But 30 will do.
@ Possum:
lol
“…like nobody’s ever seen before.”
@ Possum:
The number of submarines isn’t classified. There are 14 SSBN (Trident missile subs), 4 SSGN (former Ohio class Tridents converted to be cruise missile carriers) and 53 attack subs of various classes.
lobo91 wrote:
And Trump says 30.
He ain’t a clue what he rambles about.
But however many they are yuge!
@ Possum:
In his defense, it’s not really the president’s job to know stuff like that. He has people for that. The last president who tried to micromanage a war was LBJ. Look how well that turned out.
This AI is both helpful and scary.
Just had a fight with Grok that ended with a win for me as I am older and knows shit.
Will not bore you with the details but it concerned the latest “breaking news” that they are now using liquids to cool high powered processors.
Told AI this was not news and cited the IBM 3090 introduced in 1985. AI replied back it was air cooled.
Nope, it used chilled water thermally connected to the electronics and even told AI these modules were a collectors item listed on Ebay.
AI took a look, and also researched IBM 3090 and said “You are correct”
Now everything about the IBM 3090 is in its knowledge. It was not before I argued with it.
Real machine learning. Buggered if I know how it does it, but fun to play with, and educate.
Like teaching a child.
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/stubhub-apologizes-for-mix-up-involving-heavy-metal-band-lamb-of-god-christian-concert/
@ Possum:
You can cut the power to AI.
Kids have their own, sometimes annoying, sources of energy.
Just got word that my sister in Cincy had a seizure or a stroke and she’s in the ER. Fortunately it doesn’t appear to be debilitating; she’s alert and complaining about not having her cell phone.
good morning and
Merry Christmas to all 3 of the blogmockers out there
hope 2026 is a good year for all y’all
@ rain of lead:
On behalf of the three of us, Merry Christmas to you too.
Calo, if you’re lurking, hope you’re doing well. The tin raccoon still decorates our front entry.
Merry Christmas to all here! I’m glad the raccoon is still there.
just a note to point out how time marches on
the girl aka readergirl
has graduated college and now is moving into her own apt
my job as dad is nearly complete
I have raised a fully functional and competent human being who is capable of independent living
2026 will be interesting
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.
I went and gave platelets in the morning, and curled up with the animals the rest of the day.
Die Schnabelperchten kommen.
“Gah… gah… gah…”
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