…for now.
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Everything Looks Just Fine
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 164 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at January 19th, 2026 - 6:02 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!
morning y’all
winter storm on it’s way by sat
it”s 15 deg outside and I have to get out and go to work 🙁
Cold weather has its advantages. Here at 5:30pm it is 61F and I am freezing my ass off.
But it does mean that supper ( which is all cooked and just needs reheating ) is going to be liver and onions, gravy, carrots and mash.
Warm and filling English food.
Still no word from Eaglesoars. Nothing on Xwitter.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
We all cross the rainbow bridge one day
They’re predicting as much as 10 inches of snow here.
I managed to get Mrs. RW to not go up to do any more work on her friend who passed away’s home. SO much stuff to go through, inventory, and distribute. Then an estate sale. And finally selling the house.
@ Possum:
OK that did not work. I have found the best way to make someone respond to anything is accuse them of being dead. If they are not then it triggers a reply from a lurker.
She is dead.
Going to get banned, and declared dead.
Your president is nuts, not just living in a happy world but seriously nuts.
He is confusing Iceland, which is quite green and covered in volcanos and hot springs, which was on my list of places to visit but alas.
With Greenland which is not green but covered in ice hundreds of feet thick except the coast. Watch the videos, Camp Century and Iceworm Project.
Anyway Greenland ( not green ) has been a place where US military have had bases since the 1950s Twelve of them, although 11 are abandoned now.
So, has Trump done a YUGE deal to re open the eleven? And have the USA really cleaned up the crap from the B52 crash that smeared nuclear waste across the ice in January 21, 1968
Even though Greenland as part of the nuclear Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons treaty banned overflights of the country with aircraft carrying nuclear weapons?
You seen Trump go ranting on about Britain giving up the Chagos Archipelago. A bunch of islands in the Indian Ocean?
“Britain should not give up strategic military territory!!! ”
I don’t think anyone told Trump that part of the deal, the art of the deal was the UK got a 99 year lease on Diego Garcia which is one of the islands.
Another thing, most of the emails I get and text messages from the apartment managers are in Spanish. I is good, not as good as I once was but I can copy and paste and translate them.
Just got one from Houston police on my X feed. She is hot! ( any female under 40 is hot at my age )
https://x.com/houstonpolice/status/2014480799274320325
Anyway had to look at https://x.com/houstonpolice feed to find the English version.
LOL the Vietnamese version just showed up on my X feed.
Possum wrote:
And they still don’t know who Diego Garcia was.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Or where to find her.
Trust me, I know these things. I should be a Trump advisor.
Every time the president of the United States of America opens his mouth and spews a load of bollocks my international pension fund takes a dump.
I wish he would just shut the fuck up.
@ Possum:
At least he’s not throwing meaningless clichés, rolling his sleeves up with a laser focus, and getting down to brass tacks 24/7. He generally does what he says he’s going to do.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
It will be interesting to see what this YUGE deal he made with Greenland.
My guess is they will allow the USA to construct 11 early warning radar stations there.
Perfect to detect nasty Russian bombers flying over the North pole.
The enemy of the USA in 2026 is not Russia or China but the enemy within.
Billions and even more billions given to illegals for housing, medical and child support.
The fact that in some areas nobody speaks English.
The legal system letting rapists and murderers go with a slap on the wrist and 120 days parole even on a second or third offence.
Russia is no threat to the USA, we are.
I hate AI, as I said on here about 18 months ago it is just a glorified search engine.
However, it is evolving. Just had a quite interesting discussion about lamb and goat. Dead ones, roasted, fried, baked and eaten.
Lamented to the AI that where I live no grocery stores stock lamb or goat for me to eat.
AI asked for zip code and came back with six places a few miles away!
Obscure African and Halal grocery stores. African as in African not African-American. There is a difference.
Anyway once freezer is low I is going goat and lamb shopping. Thank you Grok.
A boring post. My conversation with Grock ended with me saying.
And it replied.
Kind of scary isn’t it?
Interesting fact. some goats look more like sheep than what we think a goat looks like. and some sheep look more like a goat than you would think.
Goats and sheep are very different genetically.
But they all taste yummy slow roasted.
@ Possum:
and humans have 46 chromosomes.
that puts us genetically lower than both sheep and goats.
On the plus side for men in Wales there is no way they can get a sheep pregnant!
@ Possum:
I could have said something about a male human in Iraq cannot ever get a lady goat pregnant but that would be not politically correct.
It is all about chromosomes…
A cat story.
It is that time of year. Male cats go out looking for lady cats to do the nasty with. If you do not let the male cat out he just sits and howls. Eventually out he goes.
However, while he is gone another male cat comes into the apartment and sprays everything it can, then drinks about two pints from the water dish and sprays again!
Classic pissing contest.
Cannot wait until all lady cats out there are pregnant and male cats start to be friends again.
I should have got a goldfish as a friend.
Just in case you’re shooting for the sidebar, I’ll leave a random comment here.
[–insert random comment–]
yeah sad thing is anyone could do the sidebar here
we need more jews that i can fight with but they all ran away.
the jews once dominated this place. but i won. they are gone
@ Possum:
Supporting data.
jews want a jew homeland as in as much of the middle east they can steal.
Stormfront want a white homeland too.
Same sides of the same coin. Who are you going to support when the coin is flipped?
Cat just stood his ground against a raccoon on the patio. It was epic.
Cleanup tomorrow.
@ Possum:
I’m not playing that game.
Pick a number between 0 and 100.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
both sides will cheat.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
as to cats and raccoons. they get along ok together very well as long as they share food.
do a mix of grapes and bananas, cat will say fuck this! raccoon smiles.
now put a skunk in the mix, as in Iowa. they all got along. miss them.
@ Possum:
Go.
@ Possum:
That’s why all ours are fixed.
Plus the feral cats we manage to catch.
@ right_wing2:
I think Mr. Possum is on strike, or else he’s shopping for neutered goldfish.
Possum wrote:
Look mate.
You are just going to buy Trump’s book ‘Art of the Deal’ and suddenly the clouds will part and you will Understand!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Yup.
right_wing2 wrote:
I got Glen on 16th February 2020 at two days old. Umbilic cord attached and still pink. A COVID cat. Plan was to wean him and then at 6 weeks hand him to an adoption place.
Alas everything shut down and in May 2020 car caught fire. No way to dump him.
Six years later it is what it is. Too old to dump at Humane place.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
LOL so nothing changed!
Point 2. In 1951 the USA got permission to establish military bases on Greenland. Depending what you research it was 12 land bases and 4 naval bases. All were abandoned, with only Thule, aka phlerflick still manned by 150 US military.
Point 4. Greenland allows mineral exploration and mining under licence as long as the mining does not make a mess. Minerals mined and the ore taken away to be processed.
There is a long list of active mining companies in Greenland.
https://www.juniorminingnetwork.com/mining-stocks/greenland-mining-stocks.html
Also a bonus point The Whitehouse is publishing AI generated images of the president of the United States of America walking across the snow in Greenland hand in hand with a penguin.
I really laughed when I saw that!
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2014819683757678654
Excuses are ” It was just a meme ” No, it is a real fact that most people in the USA does not know where the fuck Greenland is.
Now, I must depart as my only interaction with the internet is mouse only.
You were all lucky I took ten minutes to type after I took my gloves off to wash dishes.
Probably be back Tuesday. Unless I run out of clean plates sooner than that.
*gloves back on. Mr Mouse is my friend *
Things that REALLY annoy me.
When watching a movie or a TV show all the lights are on in a room.
And the light switches are in the wrong position.
Gloves temporally off as liver and onions being prepared.
@ Possum:
Got up early this morning to the sound of a howling dog, got to clean up the mess in kitchen made by the howling dog.
Bunkarina & SIL are in town and didn’t tell us our new job is dog-sitting.
Dog knows what’s inside ceramic cookie jars and playing with flour is fun.
The Minnesota ICE disrupters’ organization database has been breached, many government officials are being exposed as participators.
20 minute video —> https://x.com/unquirer/status/2015555111884321119
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
https://x.com/unquirer/status/2015555201713783013
Possum wrote:
NCIS Season 6 Episode 13 at the 41:36 mark the light switches match the room lights.
The Universe is back in balance, harmony is restored.
@ Possum:
If the switches are all up or all down they’re probably fake switches (or nobody uses them).
Aside from that, the stray tom is whining a lot. I’m guessing it’s The Season. Neighbor’s spayed females don’t want to have anything to do with him, but that’s okay because they’re fat and bitchy.
@ lobo91:
Seems the ICE-tracking convo site was shut down once the perps discovered they’d been compromised. They’ll just make a new one somewhere else, but meanwhile the infiltrators have the database and know who they are.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Yeah, on movie/TV sets the switches on the film sets are probably fake. But someone should make sure things are accurate.
This morning I got half way through a made for TV movie involving the space shuttle, mission control in a small room and viruses. In mission control all the three monitors did not have a power cord attached!
Supporting data as I always provide. On Tubi
Don’t make me watch it again to provide a time stamp. You got to trust me on this…
As to singing male cats, it should stop in two or three weeks. Grok strongly disagrees with me on this as Grok says mating season is February to October. Here it is December to February.
Stick with him, feed him, interact with him outside and you have a cat buddy without actually owning one.
The best animal friends are the ones that come to you, not the ones you “own”
@ Possum:
Lucy cannot help herself sometimes.
I just wish she would leave the computer alone and make me some damn lunch!
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2015912542875287654
Possum wrote:
29:37
https://x.com/RubinReport/status/2015892880594780445
Where the action is.
https://news.usni.org/2026/01/26/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-tracker-jan-26-2026
OHNOOOO! Trump is sending security detail to the Winter Olympics in Italy to protect J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, and the other Americans citizens. He’s delegated an ICE contingent.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5708006-trump-immigration-officers-olympics-security-role/
https://x.com/ianmiles/status/2016143168694362516
https://x.com/0hour1/status/2016237402302333345
https://www.theblaze.com/news/anti-ice-brewery-promises-free-beer-when-trump-dies-in-a-few-months
People who have convinced themselves that they are saving the world think that any means to protect that delusion is allowed. This is a very dangerous road that the left has chosen and I hope people are taking note.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Seems there’s an awful lot of distraction overshadowing some real danger.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/make-their-lives-f-king-miserable-deranged-leftist-nurse-apparently-urges-poisoning-and-drugging-ice-agents
https://www.theblaze.com/news/i-am-going-to-kill-donald-trump-smug-democrat-candidate-threatens-death-penalty-in-latest-campaign-trick
Ya think?
Just logged into X and found Molly Ringworm was trending. XD
Yesterday Jussie Smolett topped the trending list because of Ilhan Omar’s stupid stunt.
On a sunny and warm Wednesday afternoon and wanting to add something to the current discussion.
Ringworm is not a worm. It has bugger all to do with worms of any shape, size, colour or creed and it can affect anyone.
It is a fungus. Same as the yummy mushroom!
Molly Mushroom has a more pleasant sound to it….
Last night was liver and onion sandwiches.
Slices of beef liver ( I do not use calf as it is too delicate and breaks up ) coated in cornstarch mixed with black pepper and fried in coconut oil.
Liver then set aside and in the juices of the pan one medium sweet yellow onion thin sliced was cooked. When onion cooked heat turned off and a dollop or two of beef gravy from a jar added then stirred.
Sandwiches then made using fresh Italian bread from Walmart and real butter.
Ate it so fast no time for Lucy to take a picture.
While we are now on the subject of food not ringworm and social unrest a kind of double related post.
Prelude, store bought “burger” buns are nasty. Way too sweet.
Best bread for making a burger in my opinion as someone British who has no idea about food is buy the Walmart unsliced Italian or French bread. Cut off a 3-4 inch chunk then slice it in half lengthways. That is your ” bun ”
Now, if there is a vegetarian or a vegan at your BBQ you can amaze them with a Portobello burger. And I am not vegetarian or vegan or, well gay.
Take one portabella mushroom cap ( it is a fungus, related to ringworm and Candida, a vaginal infestation ) then season it lightly with sage and onion powder and let it rest. Brush lightly with the oil of your choice then either oven bake on high, air fry or grill.
Serve on the bread with whatever trimmings you would use for a beef patty. But I suggest go easy. No mustard. no ketchup but mayo and lettuce, tomato and mild onion is ok.
The mushroom is a delicate flavour, do not overwhelm that flavour with added crap.
I dare you to try it when BBQ season starts again.
@ Possum:
No one here has ever heard of portabella mushrooms and how they taste a bit like burgers when grilled and that I don’t eat them.
I like fried liver and onions but the missus doesn’t and I’m not about to whine about it like the damn cat does all day and night.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
portabella mushrooms are grown up mushrooms. And as rare as rocking horse shit or hen’s teeth here too.
Out of stock…
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fresh-Whole-Portabella-Mushroom-Caps-6-oz/21677824
My male cat complete with testicles managed to sleep all night last night without singing or demanding to go outside.
My guess is now all the lady cats within a five mile radius are pregnant.
All this talk about food made me hungry. Groceries just arrived.
5 liters of Cabernet Sauvignon in a box. a 30 pack of Busch light. ( low carbs ) A pound of butter, a pound of deli ham and a loaf of fresh and fluffy Italian bread. Alas no mushrooms!
Due to the fact alcohol was delivered supper will be something not involving frying something or sharp knives.
I have neither health insurance or fire insurance. But I has sardines.
Nobody spotted what supper was really going to be.
Most times supper takes four hours to cook, then I decide I do not want it and spend another three hours making something else.
The clue was fluffy bread, butter and deli ham. Yep, a plate full of ham sandwiches, bread and butter. No mayo, cheese, mustard, tomato or pickles although they are all in stock.
Pickles in stock are not the green things but a jar of pickled beetroot.
Took 2 minutes to prepare, 47.3 seconds to eat.
Fast food….
As to pickled beetroot. When opening the jar the first time to make beetroot and sharp cheddar sandwiches then use beetroot as is.
But, before putting the jar in the fridge drain all the pussy ass ( an American term. I am learning ) weak vinegar juice out and re fill with the strongest malt vinegar you can get 5%
Takes pickled beetroot to the next level of awesome British food.
LOL while I was cooking onions for yet more liver and onions Lucy was chatting with some Bonk person on X
Who got shitcanned and obliterated when he offered to give her someone’s phone number.
I must admit I giggled. Real men don’t giggle, but I let one slip.
Got a weather alert. Dense fog!
Not worried as I have beer wine and smokes in stock and I could even find my way to the Indian place blindfolded.
These weather alerts are stupid.
I am a child of the 60s when you had a 4 minute warning you was going to die. I think in the USA you got about 35 minutes.
Fog alert? How times have changed..
LOL on android you can select which emergency alerts you get. But the only one you cannot turn off is presidential ones.
Working on it…
@ Possum:
Happened fast. Now my phone is ringing.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
It was the President. I asked him if he’d ever tried beetroot and malt vinegar.
Watching NCIS season 7 episode 8 and they are suffering a city wide power blackout.
Reminds me of a time long ago. Building was re wired, dual power outlets. The ones with emergency generator backup were clearly marked. They were red. For essential equipment.
First time the power went out generator kicked in as planned. Awesome!
No computers available. But all desks had lights and fans and other things running. Even the vending machines worked!
LOL It was a monumental fuck up.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
That is the only way to eat beetroot. Trust me, I never lie.
Unpopular opinion, but nobody left to fight with here.
The premier of the movie Melania should be about her, and it is quite nice her husband attended.
Trump is using it as a yuge press conference. Tonight he should just shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down. But no….
Bunk has an issue with a cat singing to him or at him.
At this time of year there are two kinds of cat singing.
One is the sound of attracting a lady cat.
The second is the asking for me to go outside and kick another cat’s ass who is in our territory.
I do as requested, go out in my socks, armed with a half of a role of kitchen paper and yell NAUGHTY CAT and smack it with the paper towels.
But then, naughty cat that invades our space runs away and Glen thinks we are winning so he then chases the naughty cat into the parking lot where naughty cat then realises I am not there and Glen looks back and sees I ain’t fast enough and a cat fight ensues.
Rule one, don’t mess with nature when wearing only boxers and socks. Nature will win.
Nurse Practitioner Rachel didn’t throw the “You’re so full of shit” snake eyes today because I passed my blood test. Tomorrow is CT scan day with the pretty Asian girl.
Possum wrote:
When the premier of I Am Jackie O was aired, neither she nor JFK attended. No one complained.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I think main problem was they were both dead at that time. I may be wrong.
Been up hours and feeling fishy.
Breakfast may be ramming nodules and tuna stir fry. with peas that need eating.
or toast and scrambly eggs, or more wine….
LOL and not having much fun on X where many are saying ” Good morning, it is January 30th”
Casually pointing out it is Saturday January 31st if you live in Fiji.
Microwaved ramen noodles with frozen peas and thawed out a tuna steak so breakfast is being prepared.
Finely chopped a small onion. Did not cut myself so all is good. So option for breakfast is stir fry noodles with peas and onion wit tuna.
Everything is covered, except the chopped onion. Roaches do not like onion, cats don’t like onion so no worries.
Went into kitchen to get more wine and SCREAMING!!!!!!
Chopped onion covered in spiders. WTF?
@ Possum:
Breakfast was egg on toast. them spiders freaked me out.
I watch too many 1950s sci fi movies.
@ Possum:
We had one who’d serenade while bringing laundry up from the basement. Socks, shorts, a dishrag, and his masterpiece, a cardigan.
Possum wrote:
Nothing gets past The Possum.
The movie came out in 2020.
@ Possum:
@ right_wing2:
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
On topic and relevant and quite true.
The hit movie ” Cats ” using a combination of real life actors and animation was an OK box office success, however they digitally removed the cats’ arseholes.
If they had released the unedited version then it would have been the bestist movie of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx0NLGcL6pI
@ Possum:
Bummer.
Thoughts on the Epstein file releases?
@ right_wing2:
Not yet. I’m watching the Last Walz and the I.C.E. Capades.
The missus just came back from the post office, said there was a line because an old Vietnamese guy was trying to ship a box of live birds somewhere and he didn’t know much English.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I just wasted 20 minutes of my life I will never get back.
However I am now an expert in shipping live birds via USPS. It s actually quite complex, even in English. I will not bore you with the details but….
Make sure you have All the USDA paperwork filled out correctly.
eagles is dead.
coldwarrior wrote:
i just got off the phone….
im crushed. that was a hard phone call.
and, i see no reason to keep paying for this
who wants it?
i’m done.
coldwarrior wrote:
OK with me.
@ coldwarrior:
Very sad. Rest in Peace EagleSoars.
@ coldwarrior:
No fault here, had a good long run. Maybe a good time to shutter and move on. Thanks for keeping the lights on for so long.
Shutting down?
That is really hard news. Condolences to Eagles husband and her family.
Lost 2 old platoon dogs last year…both were under 60. Old friend (72), older brother figure, reached out this weekend and let me know he has only a few months left.
We have reached the age where people start to disappear.
I will include Eagles on the list when I do the rosary for the rest of my crew.
Take care guys. It’s been a good run.
RIP, Eagle.
No words. RIP.
coldwarrior wrote:
Thanks for the confirmation. R.I.P, Eagles. You were the life of this place.
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If everyone agrees to shut down Blogmock, I’ll reluctantly join them. The option is for us to chip in to keep it open, if only as a meetup spot. It was good therapy for me during infusion weeks.
Or you can leave it open until the next renewal.
If you decide to close down soon, maybe we have one more post, a roll call of sorts, perhaps to reminisce and do final farewells. I dunno…
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh mate that is horrible news!
I felt that eagles would live forever.
Broken up about this awful news.
It’s only the broken bits of eagles that have left us. The real eagles bits of this great lady remains with us.
We both know this and that’s why we pray for the real EAGLES that stays with us.
I’ll miss her feistiness and good humour and hope to get to meet her sometime.
🙂
sigh…
morning y’all
https://www.theblaze.com/news/another-democrat-calls-shooting-ice-agents-justified-and-vance-doesnt-hold-back
NoNads commits treason….again.
Saw the Onkydoc today. The CT scan I had two weeks ago showed nothing significant. Coolio.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
This getting old stuff is painful. I spent 25 years of Saturdays at a bar with a bunch of friends. There are 2 of us left. 17 years here and DoD.
Running out of friends and family.
Peace to Eaglesoars.
Bunk, keep winning.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Excellent
@ coldwarrior:
Indeed. No news is good news.
The clinic was unusually busy (they were swamped with a lot of patients from Kaiser Permanente who is on strike) so I didn’t bother the pretty nurses in the infusion clinic. I bothered the pretty receptionists instead.
In the eight years I’ve ridden in the great cycle challenge, I’ve raised a total of about $1600.
Thanks for supporting me!
If another group gets started somewhere down the line, you should have my email somewhere, or I’m on the lizards in exile page on Facebook.
Best wishes to you all.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
My condolences. I still stop by here, from time to time. I think we should keep this, or something like this, up & running. Not sure how to do it, though.
TPUSA alternative Super Bowl halftime show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJszMT9wZtQ
Canoe Convoy wrote:
Easiest way IMO is to find out what CW pays and reimburse him.
Moving to a different platform is a pain in the Gavin.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Okay, I’ve had enough of the exaggerated southern accents and cliche chords.
I could maybe chip in a couple of bucks.
I’m more than happy to pitch in monetarily to keep this place going. RIP to all our Blogmocracy lost friends. Too many memories of folks no longer with us to just let it fade away. It’s been my number browser one tab since it started.
@ right_wing2:
@ Bordm:
Ditto.
So we’ve had #Apegate, followed by #Bunnygate. What’s on the outrage menu for today?
While dems keep us distracted with destruction and chaos, they are quietly winning elections running as “moderates” then behaving like normal.
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/a-texas-political-shock-republicans-cant-ignore
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Part two
https://www.frontpagemag.com/chinas-democrat-minority-leader-in-texas-calls-for-race-war/
If I could vote I would vote for invoking the 25th.
The current president of the USA has lost the plot and should be replaced.
Also, still eating the wrong McDonalds delivery, only 4 cheeseburgers left.
Not eating the 13 cookies, chocolate gives me migraines. If any one wants them they are in the fridge, trash bin is full at the moment.
Lucy won’t quit. She is determined to make me eat all of it!
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2021372804101439690
@ Possum:
Supporting data.
He is pissed about a bridge.
Possum wrote:
That’s not something people get to vote on.
Possum wrote:
The plot of the previous administration got old pretty fast. Four years of stupid did a tremendous amount of damage, but in just one year, Trump’s policies brought my retirement accounts back to where they were before Biden’s kids fucked it up.
wtf
https://x.com/PatriotsinPNW/status/2021512672097997056?s=20
huh maybe this
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2021527526833578092?s=20
huh
new orleans as well
https://x.com/Conflict_Radar/status/2021524871566500141?s=20
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I am referring to Mr president’s current obsession with the Gordie Howe Bridge.
@ rain of lead:
That is usual for mardi grass
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
As to retirement funds etc that is OK if your wealth is all based in the USA. Mine is international. Strongly biased towards USA markets.
However, as the value of my USA based assets goes up, the dollar declines in value on the world markets.
So, in GBP value it flat lined since Trump was the president. Your $1 in your pocket is not worth as much internationally now as it was a year ago.
Cleaning out all the junk I have collected and things I was given about 9 year ago.
I am good at cracking cell phone passwords ( Android ) and cloning hard drives on laptops.
Time to destroy it all and dump it. Not asking permission, but it is time it is gone.
@ Possum:
Inflation is my enemy.
Possum wrote:
Canada is a belligerent ally. Trump is playing Calvinball until they get with the program.
Possum wrote:
Like you I’m diversified and not just US based however unlike you I’m just fine now as the world clicks back into forward drive . As for the UK is concerned, don’t blame thatUK PM moron on Trump for the Brits electing a communist arsewipe and then complaining about it! India and Japan are just fine for different reasons. As for the Europeans and NATO , again don’t blame Trump on Europe importing an invasion force and then complaining that their women are getting raped by Muslims. I assume Hungry is STILL supposed to be being fined a million Euro a day by the corrupt judges in Brussels Soviet Republic!
🙂
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Mine too although we have a Finance Minister that’s smart enough in reversing 6 years of that corrupt bitch PM Jasinda and colluding between the last Labour regime, with a corrupt supposedly ‘independent’ Central Bank staffed by socialists International who printed 57 billion dollars and truncated freedom during COVID that tore 20% from the NZ dollar value. Last I heard the socialist bitch was hiding in Harvard pretending to be a ‘faux’ professor. She was not only a Marxist but was also a stupid Marxist to boot!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I actually live in the USA and have done since 1998.
My pension fund is based in the UK. That is where it gets complicated as my UK pension fund invests in USA stocks heavily. At the next mandatory 45 minute call with my pension fund advisor I will request less investments in the S and P 500 and more in the UK FTSE 100.
When the USA stock market goes up then technically I gain money but as the US dollar loses value those gains are wiped out. Hence the flatline over the last year. In UK pounds.
However, when I transfer money from the UK to the US I actually get more dollars per UK pound now than I did a year ago because the US dollar is weaker.
If that makes any sense. LOL it makes my head hurt trying to work it all out.
@ Possum:
Oh a clarification. In the UK there is a thingy called a SIPP. Self invested pension plan.
Essentially what it is is you can take what is the US equivalent of Social Security and invest it yourself, but you must get a grown up to advise you as to what to do with it to stop crazy old people investing in a race horse, or bitcoin etc.
@ rain of lead:
Testing emergency alert systems?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Standard for mardi gras. applies to drones filming festivities.
Imagine how many mid air crashes of drones over festivities would occure.
Possum wrote:
Currency trading makes sense if you know what you’re doing, at least until some carpenter from Bethlehem starts flipping over the furniture.
@ Possum:
Funny how Mardi Gras comes on a Tuesday EVERY YEAR.
Last year the live cams were fun to watch, especially after midnight.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Like this one. It’ll be a zoo soon.
https://www.earthcam.com/usa/louisiana/neworleans/bourbonstreet/?cam=bourbonstreet
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I think it is linked to Easter somehow.
What really pissed me off when I worked as a bartender was Thanksgiving. Everyone else got a paid day off but not me!
I worked Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday.
Never on a Thursday. So no paid day off for me.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I have a really boring story about money trading and converting currency from one country to another.
Many years ago in a different life I traveled a lot to other countries, mostly Europe but sometimes to the USA for work.
Once was traveling with someone who never went out of the office in the UK coming back from Italy. First think he did was go to a currency exchange at Heathrow airport to cash in his left over Italian Liras to UK pounds. I did not.
He said to me ” you must be paid a lot if you did not to change your Italian money back! ”
Showed him what was in my wallet. Italian Lira, Belgium francs, French francs, Swiss francs, US dollars and Dutch guilders. All sitting there snug and not changed back to UK currency. Why???????
When you convert one currency to another there is a difference in the buy and sell rate. Also there is a few percent commission fee.
The reason I never converted the foreign currency I had back to British pounds was, the next week I may be in Switzerland, and converting my Italian lira to Swiss would be just one commission fee, not a double lira to pounds then back to Swiss francs.
If that makes any sense.
Also, a pro tip if you travel internationally.
You can get cash out of an ATM anywhere in the civilized world using your credit card. But it is treated as a cash advance and that 29% APR thing starts from the day you get the advance and that is the last thing taken off your credit card payments.
So, before an overseas trip send your credit card company a chunk of money. Then any cash withdrawals overseas are covered. No fees, no interest payments.
Trust me, it works.
A cat and a food post.
At the end of a Helliman’s mayo jar and opened a Dukes jar. Dukes is same price so what the fuck. Fancied a change.
Did a taste test, well not me, the cats. They are 100% for Dukes!
Strange….
@ Possum:
dukes is alot tangy-er
maybe that’s what the kittys like
@ rain of lead:
Something is different. Looked at ingredients and did not see catnip listed.
But had to yell ” get your tongue off my sandwich ” several times.
Lunch. Liver sandwiches.
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2022074677271965875
Watching late night NOLA webcams. There are armed National Guard patrolling Bourbon Street and vicinity.
I have to get Glen a cellphone so he can check the weather channel, subscribe to weather alerts and check X for any updates.
Then teach him what a severe weather alert is. And maybe he will learn not to stay outside chasing mice.
Just cost me half a roll of Bounty. “The Quicker Picker Upper” to get him almost dry, and he STILL blames me for him being wet.
@ Possum:
Interesting fact. Wet cats do not smell. Wet dogs and wet horses are the most nasty smell there is, in my opinion.
And as I tend to have conversations wit AI more often Grok agrees.
Oh, and before I eat then descend into the arms of Morpheus ( The Greek god of dreams and sleep. Hence where the drug Morphine was named ) A food and cat post.
My supper is ground beef, finely chopped onions and taco seasoning all fried up then a small can of tomato puree added and then simmered to reduce the sauce. To be served with flour tortillas and sour cream and sharp cheddar. Or on a bed of mash.
The cat part. Cats got interested in supper however they were too late. Taco seasoning mixed in with the ground beef. So a dilemma, how to fake something that I was cooking that they would take a sniff at, taste it then bugger off and leave me alone.
Cottage cheese! Cats like milk, it is not good for them, but a teaspoon won’t kill them. So, that is what I did. A couple of teaspoons of cottage cheese on a plate. Glen just sniffed and looked at me with the look and went away.
Offered it to Natasha and she went nuts. Not eating the chunks but licking all the wet watery juice off it. The watery stuff you get on top of a tub of cottage cheese our sour cream after it is opened.
So, now in future the liquid on top of cottage cheese is no longer poured away into the sink.
Done for tonight, still cannot decide Mexican beef on tortillas or on mash….
@ Possum:
Supper was not Mexican beef on mash or with tortillas it was a ham sandwich. But you all knew that would happen.
Cat update. It is a nice sunny day here, door is open, patio door is open but Glen will not go outside since he nearly drowned standing up last night.
As to things to do since porn is banned in Texas. ESP32s, three of them, due to arrive tomorrow. Plus 5 Arduino Nanos and some bread boards that have nothing to do with bread or ham or sandwiches.
Getting back on the horse as to be honest watched everything on streaming and there is fuck all worth watching on TV any more.
oh noes
drama in womens olympic curling
canadas women touching the rock just like the men did
@ rain of lead:
Look back at my posts from months ago. Women curling is the best, and only one worth watching at the Winter Olympics.
However, as to Winter Olympics movies then Cool Runnings is good. Can’t find it free.
Another UK based movie is Eddie the Eagle and that is free on Tubi.
https://tubitv.com/movies/100052317/eddie-the-eagle
They tried to ban him from the Olympics
The missus liked the 32-pack of dinosaur valentines I got her. You turn them one way and there’s a dinosaur. Turn them the other way and there’s its skeleton. Very cool.
Off the hook for another year.
WWOZ 90.7FM in New Orleans is playing Mardi Gras related music.
https://radio.garden/listen/wwoz/ZxvODgHA
We gots weather! Heavy rains, winds, thunder, possible hail, tornado/waterspout.
Jesse Jackson dead at 84.