Guaranteed to beep.
Mr. Atomic sold for $6.79 in 1962, more about him here.
Tags: Mr. Atomic, toy, vintage
Pretty sure I need this.
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 148 Comments › )Filed under Open thread, Weapons at May 1st, 2026 - 2:47 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!
I love ruining white space
@ Calo:
It’s all yours, with fresh sheets and a thin mint on the pillow. Ignore the stains on the quilt.
Thanks all for the Adams question / response
@ 4_Sticks:
He certainly knew of the swamp but he had better things to do.
Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttich are taking victory laps for destroying Spirit Airlines by blocking their merger with Jet Blue. 17k jobs vaporized overnight, not to mention all the related service businesses.
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2050573502239986035
Really boring post.
Trying to get into ketosis again. May 1st carb total was 58.4g of which most was carbs from wine.
Today, and I start logging nutrition at midnight, Calories 975, Fat 78.6g, Protein 62.5g, 2.4g. So technically getting close to ketosis.
The magic number for carb intake is as close to 25g per day as you can get, and below 50g. So today I am doing well and pissing 15mg/dl on test strips.
Food so far today, and keto diet is great it is like going to a buffet and only eating the good shit, two big chicken drumsticks, an avocado, a can of the expensive chunk tuna and a generous blob of mayo.
However, the wine today so far is going to knock me back out of ketosis. 960 calories and 32g carbs. That total of 34.4g carbs today is below the 50g but the night is still young.
Supper will be very low carb, the other avocado needs eating, four more chicken legs are cooked, mayo in plentiful supply. Or it could be a few eggs and ham, alas no toast allowed!
What is the point of this post? Well no matter what food diet you choose or what weight loss drugs you inject into your body then drinking alcohol fucks up any weight loss. Unless you quit.
Now, off to have another coffee mug of Cabernet Sauvignon ( 240 calories, 8g carbs ) while I decide what low calorie and low carb food is for supper.
Oh, message to Bunk. That other place timed out a couple of weeks ago after a record number of comments.
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Something to think about.
Why is the emergency number in the UK is 999
In the USA it was changed to 911
A hint, it involves telegraph wires, wind and trees.
An as I depart with a post about calories and things.
Tonight supper is four chicken legs, but how do I calculate the calories and what I ate because there are bones involved!
Simple, I weigh the chicken legs with bones. I cook the chicken. I eat the chicken meat then weigh the bones and the other parts I did not eat. That by doing some basic math tells me how much chicken I ate.
Who else here weighs chicken bones?
And the results are in!
Four chicken legs weighed in at 384g and the resulting bones and nasty unchewable parts were 112g which means supper was about 229g of chicken
Plus the 26g of mayo which logged into spreadsheet and a squirt of hoisin sauce I did not measure or log.
@ Possum:
Interesting fact if you are calorie counting.
When you order wings and dips to be delivered there are more calories in the dips than the wings.
Food for thought…
( That was a funny, food, thought, OK never mind )
@ Possum:
Content is thin. Anorexic in fact.
@ Possum:
Added some thin content, and the timer is shut off so we can shoot for 6.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
One down, five to go.
A food post, and we all like food posts.
Has anyone else noticed that when you buy the baby mushrooms when you get them the stalks are much longer?
Hey I eats the stalks! But I noticed that although the price per pound is the same they are much stalkier.
I could post a picture of the latest batch to illustrate this, but there would be no point. Nobody will see it.
Anyway looks like mushroom farmers are keeping the price of mushrooms stable by including more stalks.
FIFA World Cup seats are going for $8k per seat, but you can find deals as low as $4K per. I guess L.A. needs it to pay for a dozen new police hires.
things that make you go hmmm…
https://x.com/robertlufkinmd/status/2051274497894826276?s=20
A second little mouse has been found in the washing machine. This one was dead. No idea how they’re getting in or why.
@ rain of lead:
Sometimes opportunity pounds.
lol
https://youtu.be/EfkHNrQebZY?si=KPzbQ7MN4zgzYh2u
And we have liftoff!
Body is now operating on a fat consuming regime instead of carbohydrates.
In a few weeks I will be skinny!
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2051589704399598023
Happy Cinco de Gringo
https://bunkstrutts.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/cinco-de-nope-2.jpg
A random food post.
There is a religion that does not allow eating anything dairy with beef. You can eat a grilled cheese sandwich no problem, or a beef burger as long as there is no cheese on it. I don’t understand why this restriction exists.
However! I have an irrational rule that I will not eat chicken with eggs. Stupid isn’t it.
Current available ingredients for lunch are as follows.
Some roast chicken, a couple of hard boiled eggs, avocados, tuna, mayo ( of course )
So lunch, very low carbs has to be chicken, tuna, avocado and mayo, or…
Eggs, tuna, avocado and mayo.
Heathens who do not observe my strict religion would go for chicken, eggs, avocado and mayo.
May they burn in hell…
( LOL and now comes the smart people pointing out that mayo contains eggs so putting it on roast chicken brakes the rule. )
OK so some things I do make no sense.
@ Possum:
We had egg-battered green chiles and beans last night for the Five of Mayo supper.
Last night’s L.A. mayorial debate was a hoot. Spencer Pratt kicked ass, while Mayor Bass debated against her own track record and Nithea Ramen was smacked around like a whiffle ball. Although Pratt got 88% approval in post polling, 70% said they haven’t changed how they’re going to vote. I predict Bass is going to be re-elected because she’s a black marxist incumbent.
L.A. tried to disqualify Pratt from running for mayor because he doesn’t live in L.A. – his house burned down in the Palisades fire so he and his family had to rent a house in Santa Barbara County. Pratt resolved it by putting a mobile home on his burned out property and moved in – alone.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Of course this is just the primary election… but In Los Angeles, a candidate who wins 50% or more of the vote in a primary wins the election outright. If no candidate does so, the top two vote-getters advance to the general election
morning y’all
happy friday
Well keto diet is doing great!
You know, the one where you eat fats and protein and as few carbohydrates as possible. And you piss on a test strip to monitor what your body is doing.
The human body switches from using carbohydrates as fuel to using fats. Takes a few days to adjust. Once in ketosis the body not only uses the fat that you eat it also starts to utilize stored body fat.
That is how it is supposed to work, get into ketosis then reduce calorie intake from food and the body is already set up to burn body fat. I am now in the stage where I have tricked my body to use fat instead of carbs. Urine test proves it.
Problem now is reducing food calories. Basically going into starvation mode.
Wish me luck!
@ Possum:
So, lunch is going to be a low calorie meal of lettuce, diced tomato, low calorie dressing and a beautiful pan fried salmon fillet seasoned with sage and smoked paprika.
Fucking girl food…………
A Thomas Sowell fan (“Clay”) wrote a longish treatise that dissects the Libertarian Party with a timeline that begins with his Ron Paul fandom and his eventual realization that the party has no credible future. I haven’t read the entire essay yet, but the author’s analysis is insightful.
https://stopbeingprey.com/the-losertarian-problem
Sometimes when I am feeling like a day off from 2026 and need a break I go to YouTube, pick a random video and just watch it, then let the next one play.
Strangely the 1982 live video of Pink Floyd the wall came up the London shows.
I remember it well! at half time everyone left their seats to construct more herbal cigarettes for the second half but alas the person in our group got ripped off.
He had a bag of twigs and stalks. What could be done?
The community really became together. Those were the good days.
Well, according to my browser history I went to bed at 3:14pm yesterday and was up and at it at 5:38am this morning. Yeah a 14 hour bed thing!
Anyway, at 5:38am no point doing a urine test as it will be a mix of what I ate for lunch yesterday and what metabolism is now. Not a representative indicator.
8:36am after three large mugs of coffee still can’t pee! I think my kiddlies are still asleep.
Lunch will be another salmon fillet, spinach and a couple of poached eggs. Once I know my ketone levels.
If ketones are high I may sneak a small slice of toast as well.
This whole keto diet is what people do voluntarily. I really feel for people with type one diabetes who have to accurately monitor food intake, blood glucose and insulin on a continuous basis.
@ Possum:
Yeah! got a result. 40mg/dl so a small slice of toast slathered in real butter is on the lunch menu
@ Possum:
no toast. oh well.
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2053142688845689264
The state of racism in 2026.
Today at about 6:30am as I was walking across the parking lot after going to the local store to buy smokes a black woman was walking diagonally towards me.
I don’t call black people ” African American” as I have spent more time living in Africa than any of them.
Anyway, basic trigonometry, or calculus or whatever it is indicates that if two people, or vehicles are on an intersecting course the best way to avoid a collision is to adjust your trajectory to pass behind the oncoming object.
I accordingly did so and was greeted with a very loud ” GET OUT OF MY WAY WHITE BOY! ”
I hope it made her feel good. It certainly made me smile.
Boy? I am 68…
@ Possum:
Seems a significant percentage of the people of melanin have been trained that being obnoxious to the pale people is not only warranted, it is required. It’s a tribal mentality mandated by the elders.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I’m still doing the ZYN thang. One “tin” goes for $6 incl. tax at the gas station, lasts me about three days. It’s the equivalent of two packs of smokes (~$15) when I was still smoking.
We are finally in the planning stages for our vacation this summer. An Alaska cruise the last part of August.
Any cruisers on here? Tips? Things to avoid? Things to do?
Please pay attention to your local elections. Big scandal in MT over the last year or so. Turns out that several of our elected GOP officials in our state were funded by the dems. They also voted accordingly.
https://mtgop.org/mtgop-admonishes-fireweed-frauds-and-rescinds-their-recognition-as-republicans/
@ right_wing2:
Don’t get on a ship that departed from Argentina.
Fun Facts to Know and Tell Dept.
The first black Republican senator was elected in 1870, the second in 1875.
The first black Democrat senator was elected in 1993 – Carol Moseley Braun.
Eileen Wang, the Democrat Mayor of Arcadia, CA, has pleaded GUILTY to acting as a foreign agent on behalf of China.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2053965025908265153
I need to work on my personal hygiene and appearance. Maybe get a hair cut, a shave, a bath and clean clothes.
On the way walking to the store a truck stopped next to me and offered me a banana and a bottle of water. Not the first time this has happened.
It is a church giving food to the homeless, they also sometimes give away big macs on Saturday and Sunday mornings. They don’t push the church and religious thing, just give out food and water.
It was almost 90F. Now, if they had offered a bottle of water when I was on the way back home I would have taken it gladly!
Supper will be a stir fry.
Roast chicken chunks with big shrimp marinated in garlic and siracha along side ramen noodles with added garden peas and finely chopped onion.
Topped with a sauce made from peanut butter, soy sauce and Tahini ( Tahini is a paste made from ground sesame seeds. It has a distinctive flavour )
And as usual, do not want.
What I am really craving right now at 11:20pm is a fucking banana.
Should have accepted the charity one from the church that feeds the homeless.
@ Possum:
I did not enjoy last night’s supper at 1am this morning. It was not Lucy’s best.
I am glad she only put half the chicken and shrimp on the plate with half the ramen, peas and onion. Still have some chicken and shrimp left. Throwing the rest of the ramen away.
Why throw the ramen away? Because it is 28g carbs, and what I ate last night threw me out of ketosis.
The taste was not worth the carbs. This afternoon lunch will be the rest of the chicken and shrimps spiced up with a squirt of siracha and a splash of medium salsa for wetness. A side of sour cream and three zero carb street tortilla things. about 4g carbs total for the meal.
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2054625419844808824
@ Possum:
At least they weren’t city social workers handing out needles and pipes so you can safely use meth and fetty like they do in California.
It’s been a year since my last round of chemo. Most of the side effects dropped off within a few months, but some of the mental stuff is still there. One of the drugs was a capillary growth inhibitor. I’m guessing it takes a while for the body to re-learn how to make new ones after five years of being told not to.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I am glad the capillary inhibitor worked or you could have turned into a butterfly. That would however been cool in kind of a trippy way.
Having flashbacks to the 70s….
Just found an email hidden behind the rec room couch buried underneath the cat stuff.
I don’t have authority, I don’t own the domain.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I knows history!
You have to go back to about 2010 or before and find out who created Daedalus and told any one here to fuck off over there because they were sick and tired of hearing about Charles Johnson on this site.
This site that used to be littlegreenfootballs2
I don’t know, but DoD is dead, let it rest in peace.
All this nonsense and bullshit about the ” Reflecting Pool ” in Washington DC is bollocks.
It is not a ” Reflecting Pool ” it is just a wet waste of space.
A real reflecting pool is a body of water designed to reflect the sun’s rays towards a building to provide extra heat and light especially in winter and is usually on the south of that building.
I just looked at Google maps. The DC ” Reflecting Pool ” is just a joke. an architectural feature built because of the FRENCH man that designed the city.
Fucking architects…
When a human female sits on your mouse mat and points her ass at you, or lays on the bed ass towards you it means something. I seem to remember years ago.
Anyway when a cat does it it means she is not happy. I accidentally left Natasha outside when having an afternoon nap and a Walmart delivery woke me up with a picture of that delivery.
She is still pissed, she will be for a few days.
Cats are assholes.
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2054808843545182663
@ Possum:
Pretty sure it was Rodan.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Just let DoD die. That asshole ISTE is turning it into a food and cat place anyway.
Fuck him and Lucy’s eggs.
Aw shit, Lucy is pissed.
At least this time she fed me mushrooms in the sauce.
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2055074425007976940
As we have a large avocado in stock yelling ” eat me! ” supper will involve it somehow.
So defrosting three chicken drumsticks. They are difficult to add to the daily spreadsheet. What you have to do is weigh them when they are cooked and after eating them weigh the bones and gristly parts left over and do some math.
As an aside, skinless boneless expensive chicken breasts are by far the best value per pound as to nutrition. Chicken wings are the worst value. Even though they seem cheaper per pound.
Anyway, there is still some spinach left as well, and eggs, but due to my religion I don’t mix chicken and eggs together in the same meal. ( unless the eggs are turned into mayo )
There are onions and a cucumber lurking somewhere, sour cream, cottage cheese, sharp cheddar, bacon and two lonely hot dogs.
This is going to be an epic supper! Unless Lucy gets too drunk and falls asleep. A five liter box of Cabernet is also in stock unfortunately.
Grok suggests making Guacamole with those ingredients. Nice catch Grok!
Never made my own but I like it. AI is not something to replace humans but a source of ideas.
@ Possum:
I never had guacamole until I moved to CA. Never liked it much, until I added a bit of salt and found out that it has flavor. Still not a big fan of it, but then I’m one of those “cilantro tastes like soap” people.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Now you mention cilantro. Nope, don’t like the taste of it, don’t even like the smell.
Many years ago I had an homestead in Iowa and a greenhouse. Grew about 10,000 plants per year to supply to local golf courses etc.
Also herbs and tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers.
One year I grew several trays of cilantro plants, and wondered why greenhouse started to smell bad.
Eventually located the smell, the cilantro! They all went out the greenhouse door to suffer a painful, freezing Iowa death.
That shit is nasty.
@ Possum:
As a warning to anyone here thinking of traveling to a country in Europe, particularly the UK then the names of foods changed. This will not format correctly but you will get the idea.
USA………….UK
Eggplant is Aubergine
Zuchinni is Courgette
Chips are chrisps
French fries are chips
Cookies are biscuits
Biscuits are not an equivalent, even when smothered in sausage gravy
I could go on, but the point of all this is, the nasty, smelly, soapy cilantro in Europe is called Coriander.
So, be aware of what you eat over there, they are sneaky and changed the names!
@ Possum:
And why did I post that?
1, I am bored.
2, I was just imagining one day Bunk was in an expensive and exquisite French themed restaurant and he saw ” Fresh caught trout, slowly simmered in white wine and fresh herbs then flash grilled for 30 seconds each side and served with a cream and truffle sauce on a large bed of leafy coriander ”
Actually I would go for it if I could substitute the coriander ( AKA Cilantro ) for spinach. And add a side of roasted baby yellow potatoes.
Possum wrote:
I read Zucchini is Courette and thought of the Danish band The Courettes. The band is only half Danish – the other one is from Brazil. I also remembered that one of their songs was based on old slang from the UK. (to “Hop the Twig” means to die suddenly.)
Guy saved his preggo wife’s texts and turned them into a pop punk song.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uA4MVS3nve8
Nothing interesting to report here.
Possum wrote:
Unless anyone is wondering how Lupe and his arm is doing.
Wondering what happened to the woman who broke it/wrecked his elbow.
Casually asking if an old man who spends all his time outside his apartment gets his beer delivered. ( um not me, Walmart delivers my beer )
Is there a shortage of tomatoes in Houston.
Why a medium sized nasty looking dog wants me to be its best buddy.
How the local weed salesman is spending less hours per day in his designated spot because of the increased price of gasoline.
Was the home created guacamole good? ( avocados, onion, cucumber and a couple of limes were delivered today, we have mince garlic in stock. No fucking cilantro though )
There are other things that are interesting in my life like at 3am Glen woke me up and he was doing the bock, Bock, BOCK thing and I managed to, and with my left hand under his face, catch about half a pint ( I exaggerate ) of vomit and a perfectly formed hairball!
I am right handed, what a catch!
That was a win. No need to wash our blankly.
There are many other boring things happening here…
@ Possum:
Another really boring post.
Put in an order at Walmart for a three hour delivery and usually after a few minutes it is in progress. Just the usual beer wine fresh veggies and a treat, a peach!
As usual order game with a standard 10% tip. About $5. They can let you add more while waiting for the shopper to shop the stuff.
After two hours no delivery scheduled so I added cashews and peaches and something else I cannot remember, and tip went up to %7.11.
Yeah a minute later got a notification someone was shopping for my order.
I understand, the shoppers can see the order and the tip and can accept or decline the job.
Anyway, me getting groceries and wine and beer a couple of times per week is less than the insurance I would have to pay on a car.
Don’t even think about car payments, gas, registration etc.
As to very friendly large dog that looked like a pit bull crossed with a teddy bear I have a cunning plan.
I will take a can of cat food with me. If the nice doggy wants to be my BFF again I will open the can of cat food and dump it in the parking lot, then slowly walk away.
If I did not have cats it could come home with me. I did not bond with it but it wanted to bond with me.
If we see it again Lucy may take pictures.
Background info. This area is known for animals being dumped.
@ Possum:
Grok pointed me to some hand held RFID tag scanners that I could use to see if there was an ID on the dog. I could buy one but in this area chances of a dog being chipped is less than zero.
@ Possum:
More data.
The friendly dog was licking the plastic sack containing the six pack of Bud Light I was bring back from the store for the old man who gave me money to go get it. See above. The condensation.
The dog was thirsty.
Next time I go to store I will have a can of cat food, a plastic bowl and a bottle of water.
And $10 in cash so I can buy a little bag of weed.
To make me smile…
Possum wrote:
Ike Willis, dead at 71, possibly of prostate cancer.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ike-willis-frank-zappa-dead-obituary-1235565078/
Possum wrote:
The baseball mitt is worn and cat bocks are caught in the left hand.
I like hearing stories about your homies.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I just checked my supply of smokes etc and it seems I will be good until Thursday.
However I miss the guys in the convenience store parking lot so I will probably make a trip there tomorrow. With a can of cat food in my pocket to distract the big dog who wants to adopt me.
Have not bought a lottery ticket for months as local ATM got wrecked here and you can only buy lottery tickets with cash.
Tomorrow I may walk a few hundred yards into a different hood to use one there.
Wish me luck…
Currently 2:47am and I am thinking of what to eat for supper, by the time I prepared it I will have missed supper, breakfast and it will probably be lunch. Retirement is awesome, no specific times to do anything like eat or sleep.
Anyway thinking of making Bang Bang Chicken. Google it and you will see thousands and even more thousands of recipes for the Americanized version of Sichuan street food.
The American version is basically chicken nuggets covered in a sauce. So why is it called ” Bang Bang Chicken? ”
Well when you see the real authentic meal Lucy will create you will understand where all the banging comes from.
She is going to have to improvise when making the sauce, some ingredients are not currently in stock, mainly chili oil. But she is resourceful. However the colour of the sauce will be wrong.
Or lunch could be a grilled cheese sandwich….
Oh and a roach killing tip for anyone in Houston.
If you are watching streaming movies while only wearing your underwear and you feel a roach crawling up your leg do not just slap it.
If you slap it it then falls off your leg and gets to live another day.
The trick is to quickly place your hand on it and rub it back and forth several times and its legs fall off and it is squished. It dies.
I knows roaches…
I could post a video on this technique if anyone is interested.
A cat post. For anyone thinking of getting a cat.
Girl cats are the best reliable companions but be advised if you do something to upset them then they will hold it against you for days or even weeks.
Male cats are dumb as a box of rocks. Currently it is raining here. Male cat would like to go out to do cat things and asked to go out of the apartment door. Opened it and he saw rain and said ” nope ”
So he went into bedroom and asked to go out the window. Saw the rain also out that side and wondered why it could be raining there as well.
I really don’t know how to explain the rain thing to him. Girl cat knows all this and went to bed, um, my bed.
another cat post
“extend a cats lifespan from 15 to 30 years”
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/2057079123957211614?s=20
@ rain of lead:
Wow. The number of Blogmock commenters just leaped 30%. We’re onna roll!
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
If any more people start commenting we going to have to get a bigger server to handle all the traffic.
Amount Due: $49.68
Due Date: 06/05/2026
Billing Period: 04/20/2026 – 05/18/2026
No it was not a bill from Onlyfans, well actually only fans were a big part of the bill.
Most of the bill was connection charges and all that other stuff. Actual electricity used was a small part of it.
Using only fans, a microwave and an air fryer and walking around naked in the apartment really saves me money!
My electricity is 260 bucks and that’s on budget billing. The problem will soon go away though. My new apartment won’t be nearly that much. Only problem is figuring out where to come up with 1300 bucks for my deposit.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
I keep seeing ads on streaming movie sites for cashnetusa and dave and others who will put 250 to 500 in your bank account with no credit check and no interest payments.
Obviously you have to pay it back and there is probably a catch in there somewhere.
I don’t know, maybe things like that are a good short term way to get hold of $1300
I bought a cat scratcher to mount on a trellis post.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Collect the claw sheaths and make an awesome picture.
The back claws are the biggest and best, but rare.
@ Possum:
It’s not for claws. It’s a little vinyl brush for the cat to rub its itchy parts on.
Possum wrote:
Might be. Going the public charity route first. If that doesn’t work, will probably negotiate an arrangement with the landlord.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
As is obvious I am bored stupid and find anything to occupy my mind without cleaning the bathroom, taking out the trash or changing my socks.
Here is a breakdown of what I found so far. I did not know calling 211 was even a thing!
LOL that blood plasma donation think I would do regularly for cash as I used to do it for free in the UK. But as I am from the UK and probably have mad cow disease they do not want my plasma, blood or swuishy organs.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I probably need something like that to stop my male cat dry humping my leg while I am in bed posting on Blogmocracy at night.
@ Possum:
Oh and the male cat is not rubbing its ” itchy ” parts, it is marking its territory. Cats have scent glands in their cheeks, paws and they nay be one at the back.
Make sure his little vinyl brush is somewhere the rain cannot get to and wash off his scent or he will spend hours re marking it instead of doing his job catching mice.
LOL and currently we are on a countdown to the launch of Starship 12 flight.
The fun is going to be when the fucking thing blows up or even gets to fly but it will crash, softly, in the Indian Ocean.
Lucy has a meal prepared to celebrate this!
In November when she commented about the useless of the Starship program where they could not even get into orbit, they criticized her dog shit tacos.
This one isn’t going to get 150 tons into orbit. It is just going to scare the fish in the Indian Ocean yet again.
Mars? LOL yeah….
A medical post. The nice young and very nice young lady that delivered my groceries either.
1, Had a laparoscopic appendectomy.
2, Had her tubes tied.
3, Got shot in a parking lot at a gas station.
Scars tell a story, no matter how small they are.
And inquiring minds may ask why was I examining her abdomen?
She was not wearing much so I averted my eyes downwards so it did not look like I was staring at her breasts.
I am a gentleman.
And the trap is set…..
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2057599696609202194
@ Possum:
Mrs RW brought one of the two cats her friend had back with her a couple of weeks ago. Lilly is VERY affectionate. I picked her up a little bit ago and she started rubbing her face on mine, switched from my left to my right side and back again, and put her paws on both sides of my neck and burrowed in for some attention.
We’ll give it another week or so and let her loose with the rest of the clowder.
@ right_wing2:
They are marking and imprinting on you.
It is OK in your home, however when you walk to the store you may attract other cats that want to make you theirs. LOL
@ Possum:
I showed it to the cat and it walked away. It didn’t even bother to open the box.
Watching the live launch of Spaceship and whatever that will either explode on the launch pad or splash down in India and scare fish.
I hate Besos, but he is doing it better. Musk is just playing with his toys
And as predicted Starship did not launch. I am not a rocket scientist but some things are too complicated. bug or just ugly.
Plus, I am pissed lucy bought a $1.98 pack of blue jello just to piss people off on X
Possum wrote:
bad link?
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2057602032131875278
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Yeah Lucy made a spelling mistake so deleted it and re posted it.
You know anyone on X are like flies on shit if they detect a spelling error.
Possum wrote:
Desert Storm vet. I was not able to donate blood, don’t know if they ever lifted the restriction.
Just a general post about blood, plasma and platelet donation. And bone marrow donations.
Giving blood is easy, they just want your red stuff, also plasma, they want the clear runny things.
I think platelets are kind of like an organ transplant where they have to be a specific match to a recipient, like a bone marrow donor thing.
Reason I say this is when I worked in a hospital for three years I only got called in to donate platelets once. I voluntarily got tested as a donor.
All you have to do is lay in a bed for a couple of hours, a needle in each arm and they suck blood out of one arm, take what they need and pump the rest back into the other arm.
Hey they did it during my work shift! Also the room they did it in was at the end of the hospital ward where you could see 20+ bald children running around and playing. Made it seem real.
Anyway, I now live in the USA and would register but because of mad cow disease I am unwanted.
For those interested the machine used when I donated platelets was built by IBM. I thought they only made computers but in reality they did a lot more.
@ Possum:
I’ve been donating platelets for years, 15-20 times a year. They’ll have a deal where you get maybe a $15 or $20 gift card, but not a regular payment like the plasma places. I usually do 1 arm so I can read with the other. It takes a bit longer though.
The plasma places won’t take me because of my heart meds.
More work around the house.
We replaced our wood floors because certain 4 legged members of the household peed on it. The new tile looks awesome!
Now we’re working on replacing the dated counters.
We’ve got someone coming out in about 3 weeks to pour 6 new driveway slabs. Water worked its way under, plus some idiot planted an elm about 18″ away from the edge 25+ years ago, and the roots are lifting the drive up, so it’s settling. They’ll tear the old out, cut the roots on that side of the tree, pack the dirt down, and repour it plus part of our drive.
And Mrs. RW wants to put what she’s calling a ‘bump out’ in the basement. It’d be one of those electric fireplaces with a faux chimney and a mantle.
Yes, Miss Lilly (the new cat) is imprinting on both of us. We just found out that unfortunately she’s got kidney problems, so who knows how that’s going to affect her. She’s going to be much happier once she’s not stuck in isolation all the time.
Nothing much happening here except we are on lockdown. Rain and some nasty thunderstorms and power keeps going out.
However, even when power goes out I can still play on the internet as my internet is a Visible phone I use as a hot spot. Unlimited hotspot data. By tethering Natasha’s tablet to it I have about 12 hours of internet.
Problem is the cats, well one in particular. Glen, the fully equipped male cat is bored. He likes to sit out on the balcony and watch the world go by. And occasionally he really likes to go out of the door and mark our territory.
BUT! as he is indoors he is going around the apartment marking the latest deliveries. Obviously they smell of the nice people at Walmart who packed them.
Most recent target for squirting and spraying on is an unopened ( thankfully ) jar of coconut oil.
Why the fuck does a cat want to own a jar of coconut oil?
I have three avocados in stock that require eating. But do not want.
Currently a 12oz bag of cauliflower is in the microwave. The idea is to make cauliflower cheese. It is kind of similar to macaroni and cheese but almost zero carbs.
Probably will be served with a mild Italian sausage. Artistically presented on a plate depicting a Starship splash down.
Presentation of food in an up scale place like mine is 90% of the objective. Even if it tastes like shit.
To be honest the Italian sausage in a bed of blue jello decorated with Goldfish things was actually quite nice!
That Bunk person did it better though…
https://x.com/BunkStrutts/status/2057606180781047850
This is a bit too close to home. We’re just a few miles south of the evacuation area.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/blast-zones-identified-as-garden-grove-chemical-tank-inches-toward-explosion/ar-AA23UDuK
@ Possum:
Did you see what Grok did with Elon’s starfleet ships?
https://x.com/BunkStrutts/status/2058413867181776903
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
It’s gonna go splodey, maybe rupture adjacent tanks and remove houses.
Happy Memorial Day / Remembrance Day
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
In a Monday morning update, the Orange County Fire Authority said the threat of a BLEVE, which stands for Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion, at the site “is now off the table.”
https://abc7.com/live-updates/garden-grove-chemical-tank-emergency-leaking-toxic-chemicals-orange-county-will-spill-explode-officials-say/19152918/
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Trump approved emergency declaration.
https://ktla.com/news/orange-county/trump-approves-emergency-declaration-for-orange-county-amid-chemical-threat-in-garden-grove/
If you missed me I am ok just restricted to a 12 year old laptop I managed to get windows 10 running on because i am sneaky.
reason is glen scored a direct hit on the power supply of my computer. there were sparks! unfortunately no sparks hit him in the nuts.
Yet another
HP ProDesk 600 G3 SFF Desktop Computer with 21.5″ FHD Monitor, Intel Quad Core i5-6500, 16GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, DisplayPort, Keyboard & Mouse, WiFi, BT, Windows 11 Pro
Arrives tomorrow. This time it is $197.50, the one I got last May was $134 and glen pissed on the video connectors and broke it. In june I bought a replacement that was $158, that is the one he just pissed on and broke.
They are a great deal as they come with a 21 inch monitor, keyboard and a mouse. Glen likes pissing on keyboards too.
As I said one that is arriving tomorrow has windows 11 pro on it. More fancy shit to learn.
Anyway the urinated on computers still have their hard drives ( SSD ) and memory intact. That is why I keep buying the same HP 600 G3 SFF.
I has a shit load of spares!
( also as they come with monitors I will have more monitors than I have eyeballs )
@ Possum:
And as usual the exact same thing that arrives tomorrow is now on sale at Amazon for $40 less.
Another got ordered. CPU, plus monitor for $188.52. It will be unpacked, not the monitor, and be connected to the internet to update it. Then wrapped in glen piss proof plastic and stored in the closet, along with the monitor.
It arrives Monday. Never again will I ever be without Internet.
Unless Glen takes lessons online and learns the weak link in my router.
( Putting router in a piss proof gallon ziplock as we speak. )
We’ll let Lilly out probably today. She can’t go in our bedroom because we already have divas there.
I guess the last cat, Sampson, will join us maybe this weekend or next. And I think the last loads of stuff will be here in 2 weeks. Then the house can get cleaned and put on the market.
All evacuation orders have been lifted except for within 300 feet of the tank. The bums and druggies can move back under the 22 freeway overpasses if they haven’t done so already.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I have a plan for the future. Not like that strange person Musk who wants to colonise Mars.
My plan involves high speed rail transport to and from an urban place where people live to a place in the middle of fucking nowhere that corporations can build explody factories.
Just an observation. On TV streaming and ads during movies I seem to be getting loads of advertisements for wireless bras.
Strange. Why would anyone want to connect their breasts to the Internet?
A cooking post. Was air frying french fries and some beer battered fish for supper.
While it was cooking was on the new computer setting it up then thunder and lightning hit and I lost power for a couple of minutes. Computer off, lights off, fans off.
When power came back on went into the kitchen to re start the air fryer and was amazed it was running and showing three minutes to cooked on the timer.
The damn thing rode through a power outage and carried on where it left off. I am impressed.
Possum wrote:
I read that as colorize. Let’s make Mars multi-racial. Maybe Desert Train can go there.
Our gas bill is down 30% from last year. Our oven had been leaking and we didn’t know until we replaced it. That’s also when I found out that the shut-off valve was hidden in the wall cavity with no access panel.
morning guys
happy friday
Democrats are getting more unhinged.
Seattle’s mayor is crazier than Mamdani, and leftists are saying the Democrats would have to pivot hard left to reach the center.
A computer post before this thread times out after 30 days.
Well the two new refurbished computers arrived, complete with monitors, mice and keyboards.
Windows 11 pro installed. Using it feels like you put your underwear on backwards but you get used to it.
As to the two computers that the cats killed got one working by using the display port to HDMI cable one of the new computers came with. The DP to HDMI cable I bought a few months ago looks like it is faulty, or junk.
( that computer was killed because a cat pissed in the HDMI port. These things happen )
The fourth HP G3 600 that had a catastrophic failure last week that prompted me to buy some more is going to get the isopropyl alcohol and a pastry brush treatment tomorrow to see if I can get rid of the highly conductive cat urine on the mother board. If not it will get broken down for spares. PSU and memory and SSD is OK.
That is the advantage of keep buying the same model computer.
A bonus is when you buy a refurbished computer they add a monitor and keyboard and mice. The last one arrived with a 2012 era Dell E2313HF monitor, which looks like it was never used. It has a VERY robust, tilt and swivel stand much better than the cheap crap stands they now have.
All in all I am pleased that I am back online, and due to repairs and extra monitors and keyboards I am fairly cat proof.
right_wing2 wrote:
That’s always their answer regardless of reality. The acceleration in the leftward drive must always happen.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
The problem is the right is too far right. And white
@ right_wing2:
Anarchy is contagious.
Possum wrote:
Time limits are turned off.
Possum wrote:
The problem is random and inconsistent enforcement of existing laws.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
That is also a severe problem in the UK too.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Um so time limits ate turned off. What about dress codes? I always make sure I am fully clothed when posting here and at DoD. Rest of the time I am totally naked, except for my socks.
It is an English thing, we never take our socks off even when doing the nasty and bumping uglies.
did y’all see that rocket that went all splody?
whoo wee that was a big’un
They say ” you are what you eat ”
Well last few days have been beef stew and bacon and mushroom sandwiches. However my knees and hip joints are aching and my body is now feeling fishy.
Salmon is thawing ( take note Charles ) so are some shrimp. Cans of the expensive chunky tuna are in stock. So are onions, frozen peas and Uncle Ben’s garden vegetable rice.
Oh it is 3:54am. Will it be breakfast, lunch or supper? Only time will tell and depending on how much cheap wine gets imbibed.
Anyway whenever it is eaten Saturday is going to be a fishy day here.
A random post about reducing or quitting smoking.
Got a 70 pack of mini slim jims. They are about the same size of a cigarette.
A good proportion of the addiction to cigarettes is the physical aspect of sucking on something, not just nicotine.
It kind of works, and I have supporting data on my daily spreadsheets. Substituting a mini slim jim for a cigarette works!
However, beer consumption nearly doubled…
Currently soaking a couple of snack sized slim jims before I peel the plastic coating off them, cut them into 1/4 inch chunks and add to the diced onions and peas.
This is before I mix it all together with rice, stir fry it then served on a plate with garlic shrimp and lightly seasoned salmon.
Oh there may also be mushrooms involved.
Possum wrote:
School bully wanted to pick a fight with me.
“I don’t want to fight you, Gerald.”
“So you’re a pussy.”
“You are what you eat… ya dick.”
That stunned him while he connected the dots. I didn’t lose any teeth, but he got a loose one and we both got detention.
Dropped off my ballot today. I woke up all five guys at the counter and the lady at the door. “‘SUP BITCHES!”
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
That’s what I wanted to yell.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
On the subject of eating, no I did not eat the fish feast Lucy was preparing, it all went into the fridge, uncooked.
Breakfast was a couple of tuna and mayo sandwiches. With thinly sliced cucumber.
The tuna was half a 98 cent Great Value tuna packet, Glen ate the other half.
Tonight supper is going to be the fishy one, shrimp, salmon, fake crab ( I love that shit ) artistically served on a bed of chopped onion, peas, slim jims and maybe rice or ramen noodles.
Still undecided as to where to stick my mushroom. Should they be grilled and served that way or chopped up and mixed with the onions, peas, slim jim and rice or ramen?
Choices, choices…
@ Possum:
As usual asked Grok. It votes chopped mushrooms in the bed of rice or ramen noodles.
Notice Grok did not scream and yell about putting skinned and finely chopped up slim jims in a stir fry. It seems it is a thing! The warning is do not add extra salt to the meal as them mudderfuggers are really salty.
rain of lead wrote:
Being serious, I think there is a limit to size of a rocket. The Russians tried years ago with the huge 30 engine N1 and they all went bang.
Elon Musk is just playing at rockets with Starship and cannot even get one into orbit. They don’t even try to catch the boosters anymore to re use them and the Starship just scares fish in the Indian Ocean instead of going a few thousand miles and soft landing at Woomara in South Australia.
The Blue Origin is currently the biggest to put something into orbit. The two things that are now on their way to mars.
Oh, the finished supper that I no longer want.
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2060914525444993254
In the fridge it went. Mr ceran wrap is my best friend…
A cat post.
Currently Natasha is on a cardboard box in the bedroom, all her arms and legs are twitching and her eyes are half open. Is she dying? Is she having an epileptic fit?
No, she feels very safe in her home and is dreaming of chasing antelopes across the Serengeti.
Glad she is in a deep sleep chasing shit and mot laying on me at 3am in our bed doing it. As she does.
A post about AI and Grok in particular.
Grok is pretty cool, in two years it went from a really good non-biased search engine to a really useful fast search engine with added features.
Note my above cut and paste about using slim jim meat in a side dish of onions, peas and mushrooms. Grok acknowledged that it is something other ” normal ” people do and warned about adding extra salt.
Over a month ago I paid $40 for unlimited access to Grok, I was using it to aid me with a programming issue. Then at the end of the month went back to the free version which allows 20 questions in a two hour rolling window.
That was fine, you just have to use those twenty questions wisely.
Now the free version is still throttled at twenty questions, but now in 24 hours. Of course if you pay…..
Seems like X and Grok are using the same business model as a drug dealer. Get you hooked with free samples then start charging.
Anyway, I am re learning my skills as an Internet professional and using my finely honed skills to do searches and actually read shit without assistance from any AI.
Of course rich people with a blue check mark on X have much better access to Grok. They can still fuck with pictures of Lucy’s amazing food for free.
Ate the fishy meal. The highlight was the onions, peas, mushrooms, cashews and chopped up skinned slim jims. Finely chopped pepperoni would have worked too.
It was so good having it again tonight. It is easy to do, mix it all up and into a microwave bowl and nuke for three minutes then let it rest in the fridge until ready to eat.
When supper is required place a frying pan on the stove, splash in coconut oil and at the same time nuke the onions etc mix for two minutes.
The onion stuff is then spooned into the now hot coconut oil and in thirty seconds it is done!
Not sure what to serve it with tonight. I have salmon, shrimp, fake crab, chunky tuna, ground beef, italian sausage and chicken breasts.
Gut feeling ( LOL I made a funny, gut feeling as intestines and food, aw forget it ) Is an air fried chicken breast served with fake crab and topped with a mushroom sauce. LOL and we all know that Lucy’s gourmet mushroom sauce is half a can of Campbells Cream of mushroom soup, undiluted.
Or we have bacon, mushrooms and fresh bread. Bacon and mushroom sandwiches are a Yorkshire thing.
Peas, I think it is important to discuss peas.
Canned peas, well about 50% of a can of peas is water, and the peas you get you have to eat them within a couple of days.
Frozen peas, well anything frozen and Great Value from Walmart used to be crap, but they have upped their game. Broccoli, cauliflower etc is no longer stems and inedible chunks, it is on par with the expensive stuff. They now come in microwavable 12oz bags. Microwave for 7 minutes and cooked! ( depending on the power of your microwave. I has a 700W one, but size is not important )
Peas are the same! However, who wants to eat 12oz of peas? Not me, not in one meal.
So, I cut the corner off the bag of peas and just use the amount I need for a meal. Much more economical than using canned peas.
That is my pea story.
You ever feel like you have your whole life planned and then it goes all to shit?
Well, that happened to me tonight. Lots of options for supper planned then I discovered some baby yellow potatoes screaming ” Eat Me!!! ”
They have been par boiled. Which means when you are a master chef
Next step is to half those baby potatoes, coat them in salt, then coconut oil and arrange them artistically in the air fryer.
Not sure what to serve them with, it may be bacon, peas and mint sauce.
A picture of final supper may get posted, and ridiculed.
Possum wrote:
I use it more that I did when I was sans blue checkmark. Fact checking is fast, Grok gives backup links, and I get to mess with random plates of glory.
Hot new thread.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2026/06/01/and-they-cook-themselves/
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
It was a good tool for fact checking and helping me with programming. Now the 20 asks per day it is useless.
Playing with Microsoft Copilot now.