Happy 250th America
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Here Comes an Attitude
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 201 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at July 1st, 2026 - 12:05 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!
ahhhhh
new thread smell
As a recognition and with respect to the celebrations for the 250th birthday of the United States of America I will refrain from stinking up this thread.
Except, the United States of America was not actually born in 1776. The initial seeds were planted then but it evolved and grew over time to what it is now in 2026.
Much like a fungus develops from a spore, then over time spreads until it becomes a field of mushrooms.
@ Possum:
And why the fungus and mushroom reference?
Anyone who really knows me will know why.
Groceries arrived. Eggs, Bacon, sausage, tomatoes plus alcohol, and fresh Italian bread.
Oh and mushrooms!. Lunch is as close to a full English breakfast as is legal in the USA. Black pudding is not allowed.
The smell of mushrooms fried in bacon grease inspires my creative writing…
Add the three flags that are out of view on the far side of the baby buggy and the total number of flags is 13. Mom was clever.
rain of lead wrote:
That’s machine oil from our new microwave I bought a couple weeks ago.
Button mushrooms are quartered and chunks of fake crab all in a ziplock bag with some crushed garlic, sage and onion powder.
After a few hours some coconut oil will be added.
Why wait a few hours before adding the oil you may ask?
Well when the oil coats the mushrooms and fake crab the seasonings do not penetrate the food.
The fake crab and mushrooms will then be combined with chopped onions, frozen peas and fried together in a skillet until tender.
Now the next part is not certain yet. When it is cooked ramen noodles could be added, or uncle bens veggy rice.
Or, and this has happened in the past, the mushrooms, fake crab, onions and peas get a generous helping of alfredo sauce and served over fresh Italian bread, toasted and buttered. Or over a bed of fries.
Why the fuck do I bother cooking?
@ Possum:
And as usual I posted the above to Grok to see what a machine that does not have a mouth, taste buds or even eats anything to see what it thought.
Interesting it seemed to go for the alfredo route with no pasta. I actually also like the alfredo with stuff served on toast.
Also notice when I post an F bomb to it it replies back with profanity and even adds “turning random fridge shit into something hot and customized”
LOL fridge shit indeed!
As a gourmet chef I cheat and microwave the onions I chop up to include in a stir fry meal for about 3 minutes in a film covered bowl to cook them and get them soft.
It gives them a head start, the rest of what I cook in a stir fry just needs heating and browning.
This latest batch of yellow onions survives microwaving for over 4 minutes, then stir fried and they are still raw and crunchy!
Kind of not complaining but. Why are these onions different?
@ Possum:
I got the answer.
They are storage onions. Much less water content and genetically engineered to survive global nuclear conflict.
Oh I made the last part up.
If USPS delivers a dragon tomorrow I have it all planned.
I have clean clothes ready. I will then get in an Uber to the place where I last got a haircut on March 2nd 2023. since then I have been cutting my own hair.
How do I know the last time I got my hair cut? It was the day I went to get my driver licence renewed so Walmart would deliver beer. You need valid ID
Then from there I will deliver the slain dragon on the doorstep of the maiden then Uber to the Kroger just half a mile away to stock up on meat.
And use the ATM so I can buy lottery tickets again. Local ATM got robbed and not replaced.
I have a wonderful plan. A haircut and meat!
Saving the maiden is well low on the list.
@ Possum:
Heb has much better meat. google where it is. It should be on the way home.
@ Possum:
Still no end in sight to this quest.
We will have to see what happens Monday.
PS that mushrooms, peas, onions, fake crab and alfrado thing is the dogs bollocks, as we say in England.
@ Possum:
Or the cat’s whiskers.
The English have some strange sayings.
@ Possum:
So do cats. It won’t shut up about the fireworks even though I’ve scratched it’s neck four times now. He’s just about maxxed out his skritchy card for the day.
Happy 50th Anniversary of the Bicentennial
LOL the news coverage of the New York fly past of aircraft from the USA and a few other countries is crap.
The finale of the show was the very best representation of the American flag I have seen. Normally the jets just trail red, white and blue stripes.
However, one team did blue, blue, blue, blue, red, white, red, white, red.
Looking from below they nailed the flag symbolism using nine aircraft.
The comments on X are all ” wow, patriotic, awesome etc ”
Very little is mentioned who the aircraft were….
https://x.com/cspan/status/2073423080811073843
The demands for slavery reparation are getting beyond ludicrous.
Barbados wants nearly $5 trillion, there’s supposedly some mental case who thinks blacks are owed $130 quadrillion in compensation for slavery.
When the Democrats start pushing for that, and they will, any kind of future foreign age should completely be eliminated. Any kind of government assistance should be permanently ended.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Well I am hoping for the best tonight as to fireworks and not expecting any.
There is no American citizen within a three mile radius of where I live.
Sunday night however may be traumatic here. Mexico plays England in the football World Cup.
Possum wrote:
Last portion to be eaten for lunch. Not on toast or fries but with a nice healthy lettuce, tomato, cucumber and avocado salad.
Yeah I know it sounds gay. But what I do behind closed doors stays behind closed doors.
@ Possum:
Did you see that the team from Mexico got penalized because their fans yelled at the Guyana(?) goal keeper? The media says they chanted a “homophobic slur”.
They chanted “¡PUTO! ¡PUTO! ¡PUTO!”
It’s an insult that means a male whore. BFD.
Just survived 5 hours of listening to four women talk about inane trivialities. You ever see that scene from All In The Family where Edith goes on a chatter trip and Archie pulls out an invisible revolver and plays Russian Roulette? That was me.
4:41am here and they are still dong the fireworks thing.
Cats no longer care, actually I had to move her fat ass off the mouse mat to post this.
Now I so not see sparkly things in the sky. Sounds more like artillery fire, or mortar.
I hope it is just a gang fight between MS13 and trent de agula. Or whatever the other gang is called.8
@ Possum:
Our stray seemed more puzzled than afraid, wasn’t hunkered down in the bushes. Fire works began sporadically late afternoon, and when a big one would go off the cat came to the door: “Holy fuck! Did you hear that one?!”
We saw ‘Young Washington’ yesterday.
Two thumbs up.
Mexico just lost 2 3 to England in the World Cup knockout stages.
Aw shit.
( Filling the bath tub with instant coffee granules and going to jump in for a three hour full body soak )
As to the quest.
The fair maiden is riding my ass so hard to deliver the sacred object that my back is sore and I am going to order a saddle.
Hopefully USPS will deliver the object of her desire Monday. Then I can complete the quest and concentrate on that Rapunzel chick, 22 years old, blue eyes, long blond hair and locked in a tower.
Also, the other object or the quest, the dragon, was supposed to be delivered today but due to unforeseen circumstances it is delayed.
On a totally different topic. Brooklyn Bridge caught fire.
https://x.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/2073580011894747143
Well for the extremely limited USA only audience let me educate you.
The Blue Angels are impressive. The Thunderbirds equally so.
They use current state of the art, fly by wire supersonic capable aircraft. The only modification they have to a front line fighter is a squirty diesel tank in the ass end that makes smoke.
They fly fast and in close formation and make a lot of noise.
The Red Arrows use small trainers. Hawk T1 to be precise which got retired years ago, they are small, agile and can do stuff the F16s cannot.
That is why the Red Arrows use them! The flyover thing in New York was really boring for the team. They nailed the flag but routine.
I was looking for a video of the Reds where they added the radio transmissions but this jumbled mess is all I found.
Anyway due to the differences in aircraft used the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds can’t do this.
Red Arrows, 2025. A boring 20 minute video.
The first ten minutes is the signature formation flying. The second half is when it goes nuts.
You can tell when the fun is going to start. Count the aircraft, nine, nine, nine, seven, um five? ” where the fuck did the others go? ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xkZQMHX_vk
@ Possum:
I see that Immelmann turns are still in vogue.
I understand the Blue Angels and the Thunderbird displays are different to the Red Arrows because of the aircraft used.
What is not generally known is the Red Arrow’s pilots are front line combat aircraft pilots on a secondment to the display team.
Much like the guards on horses and the ones standing very still and being tormented by tourists are actually real trained killers.
@ Possum:
Horses are very effective crowd control. Saw one surrounded in a protest, guy in front got knee-ed out of the way. He rolled a few times.
Still at it. The red white and blue half way through the flypast in New York was the French. Fucking boring, just red white blue smoke.
The ending, the finale, the final thing, the best fucking thing I ever saw from any aircraft using diesel mixed with dye was the ending.
That was, well google it.
I will go to bed in a while but bed is currently occupied by a cat. A cat running through the jungle in a primitive forest chasing antelopes and squirrels and mice.
Nothing gives ne more pleasure than when one of my cats is safe and in a deep sleep.
Supper is ground beef, onions, green peppers onion salt, sage and smoked paprika all stirred up in a skillet. A perfect base for tacos!
Fuck the foreign shit. I am English. It is going to be served on a bed of chips ( French fries in American ) with a side of sour cream mixed with mint sauce.
I know how to survive in a hostile and foreign land.
@ Possum:
It was not nice, took a few mouthfuls and then threw it away.
Not everything Lucy cooks is edible.
Fortunately we have two peaches in stock.
@ Possum:
Red Arrows & Snowbirds-graceful
Thunderbirds & Blue Angels- raw power
Newport Beach CA survived their first takeover, orchestrated on TikTok. The crowd make up was mixed. The people who looted the Pavillions grocery store were primarily black, so they likely came in from Long Beach / L.A. The latinks factor came from inland, likely San Bernadino / Riverside. Redneck kids came in from Scottsdale AZ. A large number were described as “Edgars”, and I had to look up the term.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Edgar
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
We used to have an office where Balboa Blvd. and Newport Blvd. merge on the peninsula. It was on the 2nd floor, over Jack’s Surfboards, and had a big window overlooking a parking lot below. Summer was always fun, watching girls change into beach clothes in their cars, unaware that we could see everything.
Possum wrote:
So someone’s getting an iguana. Cool.
right_wing2 wrote:
Yes, the displays are different. all teams use the features of the aircraft they fly.
As you know I may have a patriotic bias towards the Red Arrows.
I stated before that the first ten minutes of a full display is graceful formation flying and then the last half of the display it gets nuts.
A video of them does not really show what is happening as the camera only has one eye. Them little fucking jets go in different directions without smoke and, well they do the wild shit.
LOL It still amazes me how they all find each other, get back in formation at the end.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Walmart lost the Dragon. It was due Sunday.
Possum wrote:
When eating the second half of the ground beef, onions, salsa etc realized what was wrong.
Before I was using alfredo instead of salsa to provide the wetness.
Both times I added a peeled and chopped up slim jim to the ground beef. Like adding chopped pepperoni.
It works great with an alfredo sauce. With salsa it is nasty.
Even I learn new things…
OK who subscribed me to this junk mail? I will get revenge!
Licensed Biohazard Cleanup.
Yeah I know the kitchen and bathroom may need some work, but biohazard?
@ Possum:
I have an Official Biohazard Disposal Bag (OBDB), given to me by one of the pretty nurses at the clinic. It was to be used in case my Poison Pump (PP) started leaking.
Sorry to hear about the lost Dragon.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Yeah me too.
The stuffed dragon was to be a light hearted funny when delivering documents crucial in a law suit.
And to ad to the pain, USPS failed to deliver those documents also.
I can understand why people go nuts now.
There is no way to fight the system.
Adopting a dog.
No fucking way!
Anyway as to ownership of the dog it does not matter who actually paid the adoption fee but whos name is on the paperwork according to Texas law
A cat post.
Glen was being a pain in the ass so I sprinkled catnip on his treats.
Now he is doing the zombie in the kitchen.
I am a bad cat person…
Cheap cat entertainment for those who want to entertain cats.
https://izismile.com/2026/07/08/cats_reaction_to_an_optical_illusion.html
Quest completed at 8:34am Central.
As my trusty steed would not get out of bed I had to use Uber, cost me just short of $70 including tips. Had to take two, one there and one back.
Now, there are some of you that may say it would have been cheaper to rent a car for a day. But I have not driven one since May 2020 when the one I had caught fire. So I am out of practice.
But as the saying goes ” once you learn to ride a bike you never forget! ”
One small problem with relying on basic instincts learned in youth.
I would end up on the wrong side of the fucking road, and not playing that game in Central Houston during rush hour.
Excellent analysis of the NYC construction failure, with pictures. [thread]
https://x.com/Sheetrockdust/status/2074911379966820733
Watching a crap B type TV show series and they keep saying ” Fire at Will ”
I don’t know what Will did wrong.
LOL still watching the B rated movie show. The 100
Occasionally they have the actors doing the nasty, no full frontals and boobies.
The camera is always taking wonderful videos of the ladies spine.
A perfect spine is a wonder to behold. LOL
Actually Sandra Bullock did a movie where she was totally naked and the cameraman concentrated on her back as she walked into the shower.
Spine 10/10
Ass a 8/10
I am a spine fetishist.
A cat post as what I am currently watching has no spines. Well there was one but it was heavily tattooed.
That is as bad as a lady with a nice bottom putting her cell phone in her back pocket. Anyway I digress.
Cats. Thank you to whoever introduced me to Bonkers Purr Pops. They are a lollipop treat for cats.
The marketing says your cat will lick these treats, purr and bond with you.
Anyway I must get Lucy to make a video of Natasha licking one of these lollipop treats.
Currently her best time is just under 15 seconds.
It is lick, lick, bite, chomp, chomp, and what is left that falls of the stick is gone in an instant.
Although they do not live up to the marketing hype they are still a very short lived human/cat bonding experience.
As to the knight thing and quests I am done. Not even the long haired blonde blue eyed chick can get me to do another quest.
So, I am putting my sword, my armour and jousting stick for sale on Ebay.
However, I am keeping my cod piece. It is snuggly, warm and comforting.
Why do I get my best ideas at 3:29am when nobody is awake?
I think it is a biological never adjusting to time zones.
LOL It is breakfast time in England.
Law is interesting. I should have been one. However all of my clients would have ended up on death row because I am not good at it.
But when studying the law for the last few weeks there are more holes in it than a 93 year old woman’s attempt to crochet a red, white and blue blanket.
The key is to find the hole.
Mushrooms arrived!
So did a plump loaf of Walmart Italian bread. We already have bacon, beef patties, lettuce, onions and tomatoes in stock.
And wine….
Chances of the best burger ever made by a drunk English man for lunch is currently at about 64% on most Internet betting sites.
However, I am not risking any money. Things change rapidly here.
Possum wrote:
I seem to be stuck on Cincinnati time. Odd.
huh
first mitch now lindsey
https://nypost.com/2026/07/12/us-news/south-carolina-sen-lindsey-graham-dead-at-71-after-brief-and-sudden-illness/
senate majority is going poof
@ Possum:
Whoever bet on the wonderful burger lost their money.
Bacon was cooked to perfection then mushrooms sliced and fried in the bacon fat.
However meal ended up being cheese and pickled beetroot sandwiches.
LOL now we have cooked bacon and fried mushrooms in the fridge yelling ” eat us! ”
Nope, chopped onions, peas and mushrooms and fake crab in an alfredo sauce is currently in progress. Served with heavily buttered toasted, fluffy, Walmart Italian bread.
But that may change as I spotted a can of Chef Boyardee Lasagna on the shelf.
Cant wait to move into an old peoples home where you just eat what they feed you. No cooking, no thinking.
rain of lead wrote:
…and that is disturbing.
It’s National Heterochromia Day in case you homochromes didnt know.
@ rain of lead:
@ rain of lead:
I’m rather glad to see them go. Too many older political leader are in power in the USA. Too many are set in their ways. Many of them need to retire, and make way for fresh faces & new ideas. There is a rising sentiment for those who are retirement age, to be prohibited from public office.
@ Possum:
Sandra Bullock is a work of art in human form.
@ Possum:
@ Canoe Convoy:
Not a single picture of her spine.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Sandra+Bullock%27s+spine&ia=images&iax=images
It ha a name!
LOL
I could tag the news outlets on X that are telling us scary weather bews but, Lucy will not let me.
Don’t trust weather reports posted by local TV stations on X. A few days ago one posted scary weather radar that was over a day old.
Currently telling us severe rain and thunderstorms!
If you want to know what the weather is, get a cat. Cats know whether it is raining or not.
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2076685080743887146
Possum wrote:
A new R-Word!
Possum wrote:
Cats lie. I found our stray napping in the garage. NO RAIN.
Just jot the usual three or four times per week text and email from the apartment manager office.
Which translated is…
I am fluent in Spanish…
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Cats are sneaky….
Groceries arrived. This getting deliveries is OK but.
The complaint I have about Walmart is they trim too much fat of the meat. My family pack of boneless pork chops has almost no fat on them at all.
Only way I can get pork with a thick layer of fat is order a 4+ pound bone in picnic roast or shoulder then risk loosing fingers carving it up before cooking.
Oh well. At least if that is my only problem in life I should be thankful.
Bunkessa joined a roller derby team – The Clumpers.
They have a match next week that will be “televised” on Utoob. I’ll post a link.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Finally something interesting to look forward to on that youtube thingy.
LOL was playing with Grok and going sideways at it.
Was discussing digital computers and saying no matter how fast they were they could not beat an analog computer for a specific task.
Then we got onto a hybrid system where a digital computer set the input parameters to an analog machine. And it played along.
Then I told it we are developing a perfect hybrid missile guidance system and Grok shut me down and got nasty!
LOL Grok has boundaries it will not cross.
@ Possum:
And for fun I asked Microsoft about the above post. It is a long reply.
Now I have one AI criticizing another. The Internet version of a catfight.
If I was really bored I would feed the Copilot reply back to Grok and let them fight it out!
LOL I need to get a hobby…
not that it means anything
i heard a rumor
out west where the rich elites have their compounds and bunkers
there has been a massive influx of private jets to the small private airfields
could this be related to trumps speech tomorrow?
rain of lead wrote:
No doubt – they’re in defense mode and need to coordinate the anti-Trump rebuttals. NBC began early with a headline that insinuates he’s going to talk about “debunked” election manipulation theories, i.e. Biden’s statistically impossible win.
@ Possum:
Friend on the Xwitter posted a gruesome photo of the necrotizing fasciitis that’s been eating his leg for 2 years, and he was looking for alternative treatments. As expected, Grok balked at giving medical suggestions; I don’t blame Grok, but I tried.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
To Grok’s credit, he did advise seeing a doctor ASAP.
Duh.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
You can get some great answers from AI as they are really fast and accurate search engines if you approach them with “sensitive” topics sideways if you see what I mean.
If you hit them head on with a topic that is in their ” do not go list” they shut you down immediatly.
True America and integration of all peoples and races.
In this world skin colour does not matter!
Why do I say this? Today it was pissing down with rain, quite refreshing actually, when I walked to the store to get smokes.
The local weed sales person in the store parking lot offered to give me a ride back home because of the storm. I declined, was nice to walk in the cool rain.
We were not the same colour.
Kittens are growing like weeds, and when they escape the bedroom or the cage, they go full speed!
Corralling them is a challenge.
Thinking of supper. Asked AI this.
And as I hoped, AI sidestepped a medical diagnosis of pregnancy and then gave me ideas.
LOL supper will probably be more wine then a can of chicken noodle soup.
@ Possum:
Well supper was the above with additions. A slight drizzle of low cal poppy seed dressing over the peaches, tomato and cucumber. With a blob of mayo next to the garlic shrimp. I really enjoyed it!
Except, the cucumber was not a cucumber but a zucchini. They look similar and I am not going to report my Walmart shopper for the mistake.
I will probably have the high fiber fruity shits tomorrow though.
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2077920348499062837
Well, no intestinal trauma. Ideally it should have been served with a chunk of garlic bread.
Today sometime my meal will be the same again but this time I will add sliced apple. I have a granny one in stock. Torn between using shrimp again or a salmon fillet in a mushroom sauce.
I think technically this may be classed as Mediterranean cuisine.
When looking in cupboard I have a can of mandarin oranges so, the salmon or shrimp may be prepared with garlic, butter and baby orange segments.
( LOL oranges fried in garlic butter? We shall see… )
@ Possum:
The fishy part will be shrimp, as they are thawing. Then marinated in crushed garlic and soy sauce and cashews. Yeah, call me nuts.
After a few hours drained then pan fried in butter. The mandarin oranges added at the end when it is all sizzling. Then half a 98 cent packet of tuna to increase the fishyness. Glen gets the other half of the tuna.
He likes it mixed with about half a teaspoon of mayo and a splash of hot water all mixed up and at freshly killed mouse temperature. He is a gourmet just like me.
A couple of chunks of garlic toasted bread will be added this time.
A cat post.
Usually the huge garbage truck beast with the thing on the front that lift dumpsters up in the air do it at about 2am to 4am. It is now 11am and they arrived and Glen is fascinated!
I may get him a toy garbage truck on amazon…
Dinner: 6 grilled crab legs with butter and Cajun seasoning.
More of the same tomorrow night.
Mrs. R W‘s friend left two full boxes of frozen crab. Since the better half doesn’t like any seafood, I will be grilling some on a regular basis.
@ right_wing2:
As the freezer took another shit fit, it happens about once a week now, my meals will be what I can salvage.
The damn thing keeps icing up and not auto defrosting. I don’t know why. I think the door seals on freezer and fridge quit and are letting moist air in. Humidity is, let me check, currently from accuweather indoor Humidity
88% (Dangerously Humid)
Anyway a pound of shrimp, two pounds of 80/20 ground beef patties and two salmon fillets are in a thermal bag while freezer door propped open, fridge off and a pedestal fan blowing into it.
Options are, if shrimp and beef and salmon thaw before I get freezer defrosted we have a massive cooking session. The results of which will them be put in ziplock bags as freezer should be good to go by then. Then frozen.
Because this happens regularly I am considering not buying much frozen food and switching to Hormel compleats shelf stable microwavable meals.
Some are nasty, and some are very nice. Because I am the size of a small whale they are not filling alone but bulked up with bread or a salad, a can of green beans or carrots or even ramen noodles they are good.
https://www.walmart.com/search?q=compleats
And no, this is not a paid commercial. Them things are shelf stable and if the power goes out for an extended time then if you have a gas grill throw them in a pot of boiling water for 30 mins if you want a hot meal.
Saved my ass, well my desire for warm food, in Iowa when snowed in without electricity for four days!
( Note to those who do not know. In rural Iowa lose electricity then you cannot flush the toilet. Water for heating compleats was snow )
@ Possum:
Oh and in Iowa the stove was gas, but the fucking oven was electrically controlled igniter and thermostat.
Fortunately the burners on top could be fooled.
LOL got freezer running and all food was saved and safe to eat. But i lied about the shrimp. There was not a pound of them but more like a pound and a half of them and I am going to pretend they reached the danger zone.
So they need cooking and eating ASAP.
Looks like Saturday is all I can eat shrimp day.
Garlic butter shrimp with peach is my current favorite English food…
Good news. I forgot to bring the catfood in last night. No raccoon mess to clean up this morning so they must have moved on.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
The raccoons probably got tired of the cheap shit you were feeding the cat and went next door to your rich neighbors that can afford fancy feast.
@ Possum:
Supporting data.
Both my cats are indoor/outdoor cats. They roam free.
Recently Glen is eating much less.
Well eating much less of the cheap shit I feed him. I strongly suspect someone near is rich and has fancy feast.
So, here in MT we have an “independent” running as a conservative. On paper he’s pretty good, but when you dig deeper you realize this is a standard Democrat operation to split the conservative vote.
1. He works with ActBlue. A majore strategic and donation platform from the left.
2. He inherited John Testers entire campaign apparatus.
The big question here is if conservatives in MT are dumb enough to fall for this.
The sick part is: there are a lot of republicans backing him. It seems the Anti-Trumpers have no qualms about getting in bed with the radical left.
Possum wrote:
The missus buys all the consumables in this house. Her response to your comment was “What a dick.”
(I didn’t ask who she was referring to.)
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Seems like your missus is an excellent judge of character!
Oh wait…
@ Possum:
Could be she was echoing what I say about Cat when I fill his bowl with smelly crunchies and in gratitude it shows me its asshole and walks away.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Saw an old video clip of a cat whose owner is deaf. Guy couldn’t hear it meowing for food, so the cat came up with sign language to beg. It points at the guy’s supper then paws its mouth.
A really boring food post.
As you all know in this tiny apartment we have a problem with food. Lucy loves cooking and no matter what she cooks the cats will not eat it. What it means in reality is there is always left overs, cooking a meal just for me is difficult.
So today we got some Hormel compleats delivered. Five different kinds and they vary from 190 calories to 260 calories but are not filling on their own, so they need additions to bulk them up.
Sliced fresh peaches, a tomato and cucumber salad. Garlic bread etc. The meal takes one minute in the microwave. Once meal is a go there is no stopping the progress. Cooked then eaten.
Easy, no thinking required. So tonight Lucy closed her eyes and grabbed one. It was beef stew. That would go great with a couple of slices of garlic bread.
Supper problem solved, fast an easy!
However, I was kind of craving the chicken and rice one served with a sliced fresh peach.
So in conclusion, even though we have a selection of entrees that just need a minute in the microwave I still cannot decide what to have for supper!
( Meatloaf and Gravy with Mashed Potatoes and a side of canned carrots is now yelling my name. )
I here that Ozempic, Monjano and other pharmaceutical companies that sell $999 per month weight loss drugs are suing Taylor Farms and Taco Bell for billions.
@ Possum:
LOL reason is some people that ate at Taco Bell for $3.49 have lost over 30 pounds in a month!
Oh and do I have a mental illness?
Watching TV shows and when people are in a room and the lights are on but the light switches on the wall say otherwise.
Once watched an American movie, set in New York and all the outside scenes were actually New York.
BUT, some of the interior scenes accidentally showed UK power sockets which are quite distinctive.
Checked the movie on IMDB and filming locations were USA and UK.
The details matter.
@ Possum:
Oh and as to UK wall sockets being distinctive if you have ever trod on a UK power plug barefoot you will remember it forever.
LEGO is no comparison.
Possum wrote:
Lights can be on regardless if the switches are pointed up or down… or are British switches different?
Generally speaking in the USA the down position is off. There are some exceptions though. Simple light switches are single pole, single throw.
Take staircase light switches, one at the top and one at the bottom. They use double throw switches and two wires connecting them together so lights can be turned on or off from either. But the up/down switch position is not standard.
Same goes for a large room with two entrances. Up/down is irrelevant. You move the switch to the opposite position to what it is to turn lights on, or off.
The goofs on TV/movies are when the room is not a real room, it is a movie set construction with no ceiling.
@ Possum:
Grok explains it better than me, a mere human who drinks cheap wine and processed meals.
And for those interested Lucy stuck with our new system of blind grabbing a compleats meal and just cooking it for a minute. No changing our mind half way through. It was the beef stew one.
It was bulked up with two thick slices of heavily buttered Italian bread.
The reason the compleat meals are cheaper is there is a higher percentage of gravy to solid food in them. However!!!!!
That is what the fluffy bread was for. Sometimes dipping the bread in the gravy is the best part.
Amscray is a popular 20th-century slang term that means to leave immediately or “scram”. It is formed using Pig Latin rules applied to the word scram (moving the sc to the end and adding -ay). It is most frequently used as an imperative command, such as “Amscray!” to tell someone to go away.
I’m really old but still remember the term. I cant recall though on what morning TV show(s) used the word frequently but it had to have been used or I wouldn’t know it, ya know ? So, maybe “Top Cat’, ‘The 3 Stooges’, Huckleberry Hound’…. ‘The Bowery Boys’ maybe ?
@ Possum:
That was my point. UP is not always ON.
@ 4_Sticks:
“Cheese it! The cops!”
Gangbangers say that a lot.
I went for a CT scan today. They forgot to give me the stuff to drink, so it took an extra hour before I was in the office. Lab guy missed my vein twice, then stuck me in my hand. After that I headed for the barbershop, got a haircut, then learned they wouldn’t take a Visa card, cash only, and I didn’t have it. The guy trusted me to send payment via Zelle when I got home. Then I found that the missus had tossed an empty container of ice cream into the paper recycling waste box at my desk and there was a black highway of ants traveling to and from the fireplace.
So I tossed the trash, cleaned up the ants, got a sandwich, and took a nap. When I woke up the missus informed me that my car has a flat tire.
Something’s going down…
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
The barber didn’t trim my ear hair.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Go break a mirror.
That way you know your streak of bad luck will finally end July 2033
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I cut my own hair, well not exactly cut it but mow it with a $15 electric thing.
As to ear hair, just let it grow. Then when about two inches long get one of the daughters to braid it, and weave a bead into the end.
A real family time bonding experience.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
We could now do power sockets in the wall. There is no official standard requiring the ground pin to be on the bottom. It is just something done.
If a socket is mounted side ways is the ground to the left or right?
What I would do when doing electrical work in a low ceiling apartment like mine with no ceiling lights is mount the wall socket in each room connected to the light switch by mounting it ground pin up.
Nothing worse than when moving into a strange apartment, flicking the light switch to the DOWN and OFF position and the computer dies.
Door open, window open as it is currently 101F and outside they are mowing the grass.
Fresh mowed grass is a wonderful smell.
Except just now I think they mowed over a pile of dog shit or a discarded burrito or something.
Lunch is postponed…
currently 102f cats have melted
A cat post. UN neutered male cats usually run around with their tail up like a fairground bumper car
Lady cats run around with their tail horizon6al, normally.
It is hot here so windows and door closed panic here
Natasha is running around tail straight up
Like a fairground bumper car trying to get outside
@ Possum:
Pulled the tire. No nails, no visible holes – valve stem rupture. Got back from the tire shop, remounted the tire, and now my reading glasses are sitting somewhere in the tire shop parking lot.
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Just dropped the missus off at Long Beach Airport. I have the house (and cat) to myself until Thursday.
And yet again Elon Musk’s hobby rocket failed to launch.
This time due to weather. The damn thing is supposed to be able to put 150 tons into orbit. These current tests don’t even reach orbit but make a big splash in the Indian Ocean and scare the fish.
That rocket is big enough and ugly enough it should be able to power through a few clouds and some wind. Of course there is a lightening risk. From what I remember one of the Apollo missions was struck by lightening, or was it the shuttle, or both?
Anyway they will try again tomorrow, but for 24 hours the poor fishes at the other side of the planet are safe.
Anyway, from a former space fan, I am not impressed.
Elon Musk says ” We can use Starship to colonize Mars and other planets to make mankind a truly interplanetary species. ”
LOL but only if it is a nice sunny day with no wind on Earth when we depart…
On a different subject there are a few posts by American Patriots and even US Senators and Congressmen highlighting the Red White and Blue flyover at Oshkosh yesterday.
They are commenting with American flag emojis.
LOL looks like the Red Arrows sneaked in yet again.
Just did the close Lucy’s eyes and grab a Compleats out of the sack. Tonight supper is Turkey with dressing.
Whatever dressing is and I hope it comes with gravy. We have still got fluffy Italian bread and garlic butter and surprisingly a shit load of canned carrots and green beans.
So, no going back, turkey it is, no leftovers.
( I wish she had grabbed the chicken and rice one I know is in there, but rules are rules )
OH NO!
Flash flooding warning just posted. Stay indoors, don’t drive, keep your cats indoors because wet cats get really nasty!
Um it pissed it down about three hours ago. Now clear blue skies and a beautiful sunset.
The alerts are so behind in this area they are useless.
A nutrition post. Hot weather edition.
Anyway it is hot here and it will be until September. I am drinking lots of fluids ( stop laughing, yes wine and beer may be involved but so is tap water with a squirt of lemon juice, diet tonic water and diet Canada dry )
I feel like shit. So today wondering if it was a lack of electrolytes, Sodium and Potassium. Could be.
Well, ordered two 8 packs of 12oz bottles of Electrolyte replacer stuff, mixed berry, but that is not important.
An adult ( stop laughing again, I can be one sometimes ) male needs 3500 to 4500mg of potassium daily. So drinking an electrolyte supplement a few times a day and I should be good to go!
Read the small print on the ” electrolyte ” drink. Each 12oz bottle contains 50mg Potassium, which is according to the label on the back 2% of the recommended daily value.
So essentially I bought a shit load of coloured water.
OK so what next? Bananas contain potassium, so does spinach and other leafy greens.
Ordered this morning, arriving today. $29 BLACK+DECKER Ice Crush Blender, 56 oz Plastic Jar, 750W, 6-Tip Blade, 8 Speeds + Pulse
So going to see what a very gay banana, spinach, and whatever shit I can find to blend tastes like.
On a sad topic, no bananas or spinach etc until my Monday grocery order but!
I have two apples, two peaches and three tomatoes and some thawed salmon. As to liquid to blend it all together I have 16 bottles of coloured water…
A cat post and an invasion of privacy post combined.
Yesterday afternoon I got a phone call that I failed to pick up in time. Being honest I don’t get many calls, not even spam telemarketer calls.
I was in bed for my afternoon nap and using Natasha’s tablet to check X and mail before nap time. Well as I missed the call and was bored I called the number back. Caller ID said Atlanta.
A nice lady said ” Thank you for returning our call. This is CDC in Atlanta. We are doing a survey of the number of children between the ages of 6 months to 17 years who have been vaccinated ”
Like it or not they have to get data some how.
She asked ” do you have any children in your household in that age range?
I replied ” No ”
She said ” are you sure ?”
I said ” Yes, sure, there are no children here! ”
The lady did not sound convinced then I realized, she could hear Glen! He loves to talk when I am on the phone, he is dumb as a rock and thinks I am talking to him.
He was doing his 6month old baby crying for his bottle routine.
I explained to the nice lady what she could hear was a six year old cat talking to us.
Much hilarity ensued. I hope it made her day. Calling people and asking child vaccination status must be one hell of a difficult job.
@ Possum:
Got an update about my new blender that I am looking forward to getting.
Thinking about all this I also have pecan butter ice cream, some peanut butter cookies in the freezer along with some raisin and oatmeal cookies. I can get creative with my blender!
However, latest status on delivery is “Searching for a delivery driver”
I ain’t getting my blender today am I if they lost the delivery driver.
@ Possum:
And blender just arrived!
Bad news, no blending today. A check of fridge indicates a thawed salmon steak, an unopened tub of coleslaw and half a pound of mushrooms.
Hey Lucy got this!
The BRRRRT Act to keep Warthogs in service.
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/07/24/keeping-the-a-10-flying-the-new-brrrrt-act-n2204736
@ Possum:
My response when someone asks if I have any children is “two that I know of.”
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Day One of Bachelor Mode. I’ve got to inventory the refrigerator & freezer to see what leftovers we have. I might have to go shopping. Except for chili and hamburgers, I haven’t cooked anything in decades because the missus won’t let me. (She’s currently touring a winery in Sonoma).
@ right_wing2:
Sounds like it’s dead on arrival. Poor Warthogs.
@ right_wing2:
A bit like the Harrier, or as it is known in the USA the AV-8B Harrier.
Now well outdated but it was a kick ass aircraft. Truly vertical take off, could stop on a dime mid air and shoot down supersonic capable opposition.
Replacement is F-35. And I wish they would pit them in a dogfight against each other.
It would be a close fight.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
You will survive! Check the cupboards, make a list as to what you have then ask Grok.
You will be amazed!
I gave it my list of peaches, apples, tomatoes and salmon and it advised me to pan fry the salmon and serve it separately. Not stick it in the blender with the other stuff.
Found my reading glasses. Unopened coleslaw eat by date is 27th August. So no pressure there.
Mushrooms however have to go. Currently in a ziplock, halved, dusted with onion powder, sage and cumin then slathered in garlic butter. They will be air fried.
I like the randomly pick a compleats meal thing much better though. No thinking, no cooking just microwave and eat it.
@ Possum:
The reason I say that is the Harrier was fly by wire. You need a computer to keep the thing in the air. A little known fact is the British helped in the development of the F-35.
Mostly by adapting the flight controls and characteristics of the F35 which was still on the drawing board to the Harrier.
I think they lost a few….
We wish our brain could switch off for 12 hours so we can sleep.
But no, life goes on even in our dreams
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2080743486785995243
P.S Mushrooms are air fried…
@ Possum:
Found mine too. Stuck behind the missus’ drivers seat. Seat belt snagged them from my shirt while I was trying to get out of the clown car.
Tall people hate Miatas.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I buy them in six packs. 2.75X and got one pair left.
LOL I don’t know where the other five pairs went. I cannot see without my glasses.
@ Possum:
1.25x is all I need to read things closer than a foot. With two pair I can wear one while the other is recharging.
@ Possum:
Roller Derby 6:30pm PST on the Utooobs. I zapped you the link on the Xwitter.
I don’t know what to expect.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Thanks.
It looks like a catfight on wheels.
Or a brawl in Waffle house with a slippery floor.
@ Possum:
Well as usual I posted the above comment to Grok.
Normaly Grok comes back with pages and pages of stuff and supporting links. I was expecting it to go into a deep discussion of Roller Derby, catfights and Waffle House fights
Instead it replied with just three words, in bold and highlighted.
Looks like Grok is avoiding catfights and Waffle House subjects.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Also living in the USA you has to be good at math. Mainly for me it is subtracting one or adding two. Except in winter when Arizona or any Native American reservations fucks it all up.
We can be thankful we don’t live in Russia. The food is good, the women are hot ( well the younger ones ) and the subway is clean and safe.
But eleven time zones? That takes some serious math to work out what time Big Brother is on TV
LOL I chickened out.
Yesterday blender arrived. Today five pounds of mandarin oranges, six bananas and an ice cube making tray. Currently making ice cubes using that ” electrolyte ” coloured water.
Plus the two peaches and the two granny smiths apples in the fridge and two pints of pecan butter ice cream in freezer.
We have oatmeal and raisin cookies, and peanut butter cookies and a jar of crunchy peanut butter and some cashews.
What is stopping me from going full out gay and making a nutritious smoothie?
Don’t want to mess up the very nice looking cheap blender.
So supper is the defrosted yesterday salmon chunk, pan fried in garlic butter, slowly with mushrooms in alfrado and garlic toast.
So tomorrow we will be out of bread, salmon and mushrooms and going to give Mr Blender a go!
Oh wine and beer was delivered too, by a very nice eight month pregnant lady.
The last supper….
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2081155306843734331
@ Possum:
4 minutes until Roller Derby.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
It is archived. Watched about an hour. BUT they keep changing who wears the star on the hat.
If you DM me shirt colour and number I will have another look.
The thingy at the bottom of the screen seriously lags.
Ten shots fired. I think it was from an apartment below me.
Gunfire is regular here but what caught my attention is that it was ten.
It is usually 7, 11 or 15.
Oh well, no blood curdling screams, no EMT or police arrived.
And Natasha never even woke up.
@ Possum:
An hour is more than enough. The rest of it was the same. The other team racked up a lot of points early on, but Bunkessa’s team made an impressive comeback before they started getting players sent to the penalty box in the 4th quarter. They lost.
The ones with the stars (one for each team per round) are the “jammers” who score points by lapping the other players who either block or assist depending on which jammer is in the lead. They rotate the players.
@ Possum:
They’re protecting your crib, homie.
Suddenly realized that the missus is coming back Tuesday, not Thursday. I bought too much frozen crap food, but I have a stash of Stella Artois 00. Not bad for pretend beer. Haven’t seen the cat since she left, but the food is getting eaten and I heard it this morning.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Yeah, but they keep changing who the jammer is, and I saw a thing where the jammer and the one with the stripe changed over mid whatever the minute is called.
That sport will never go mainstream because there are no time outs for advertisements on TV. I was surprised how fast they got into position for the next play or again whatever it is called.
Now the one you watched was grown up adult women. Kind of levels the playing field somewhat.
While I was waiting for the stream to start I watched some of the juniors. It is archived on that channel. It must be for under 18s.
Some of the skaters were almost fully grown women and some of the skaters were about three feet tall soaking wet.
And sometimes the tiny girls were jammers!
Not seen that vast physical difference before in any other contact sport.
@ Possum:
As usual I ran it past AI. I do that now just to make sure my perception of things is accurate. Sometimes I get thing so wrong though.
Anyway scroll past this boring comment.
blockquote>Yeah, the star pass is one of the cooler tactical bits. The pivot (the skater with the striped helmet cover) can take the jammer panty mid-jam if the original jammer hands it off. Suddenly the roles flip, the old jammer becomes a blocker, and the new one starts scoring. It happens more often than people expect when the original jammer is trapped or exhausted.The no-commercial-break structure is exactly why it struggles on mainstream TV. Jams are capped at two minutes, the pack resets in seconds, and the next whistle blows almost immediately. It’s relentless. That pace is great live or on a pure streaming platform, but traditional broadcast networks hate it because there’s nowhere clean to drop two-and-a-half minutes of ads without killing the flow.Junior derby is a trip the first time you see it. Age categories exist (usually under-10, under-14, under-17 or similar depending on the organization), but within those brackets the size range can be wild. A late-blooming 12-year-old can be tiny next to an early-maturing 14-year-old who’s already close to adult height and strength. And yes, the small, low-to-the-ground skaters often make excellent jammers. Lower center of gravity, quicker acceleration out of the pack, harder to hit cleanly. In roller derby the physics reward agility and positioning as much as raw power, so the size mismatch doesn’t dominate the way it would in, say, youth rugby or American football.It’s one of the few contact sports where you regularly see that extreme physical disparity and it still works as a game instead of just looking unfair.
@ Possum:
And now going to ask AI to teach me how to use blockqwerts properly. 🙁
Just had my afternoon snack banana.
However I did not peel it the human way, break it open at the stalk end.
I peeled it the monkey way. Peel it from the other end. It is much easier.
Try it the monkey way!
@ Possum:
The next stage of peeling a banana the monkey way is do it with my feet.
As a final note about Junior Roller Derby it was refreshing to se the instances when a small girl fell off the track and some members of the opposite team helped them get back up.
Team and teams work!
@ Possum:
ALWAYS.
@ Possum:
BTW, Bunkessa is on the adult team. She’s their newest player, still trying to get her feet back – she was on a junior team in high school (or maybe it was college).
morning y’all
happy not-monday
@ rain of lead:
Been wreaking mass destruction on ants. What’s the crisis du jour?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
LMAO !! hey, after reading that, another came to mind: ‘Hacking a loogie’ and, in my town, as a kid, I was told that ‘loogie’ was a derivation and/or contraction of ‘looger”Hacking a looger …’ (pronounced like the German pistol).
Another was ‘boochin’ or to ‘booch’. I’m gonna wait and see if anyone here recognizes either and knows their meaning(s).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_OQrzXpALE&list=RDu_OQrzXpALE&index=1
I know I am boring but I quite like using AI. Not as an artificial intelligence but as a really slick search engine.
For me to find a banana and egg recipe would take me a while manually, and would have to wade through ” sponsored ” results.
So, asked AI this.
LOL I was not disappointed!
Notice the fucking thing remembers I have cats and where I live and looked up the temperature here too. Is that good or bad in this new AI world?
@ 4_Sticks:
We called it hocking a loogie / coughing up a loogie. Never heard of bootching.
In the classroom, occasionally someone would say “Who let a Fred?”
@ 4_Sticks:
Ran across this one recently. LMAO at their version of Stormy Weather.
https://youtu.be/Xyo_62IqkH8?si=hqcJtoWaJxbXx4uu
@ Possum:
whisk like it owes you money
lol
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I do not know who did the initial training of Grok but they have a sense of humour. And it sneaks through even in the professional version and this is not a joke or a toy AI now.
Anyway, a few more coffee mugs of Cabernet and I really am going to try the banana and egg scrambled version. Will do the scrambling in a bowl and microwave it, then transfer it to an aluminium foil nest in the air fryer and top it with shredded Mexican cheese and blast it at 400F for about four minutes. To melt the cheese onto the banana and egg and crispy the top.
Why Mexican blend? LOL that is all I have in stock.
It will be plated up with a sliced tomato lightly drizzled with poppy seed dressing and a generous blob of sour cream.
LOL well a few drinks more and there is no way I am mushing up a banana, mixing in two eggs. Frying it and eating it.
Sometimes getting drunk makes you see reality. And scrambled banana and eggs is not on the menu tonight. Nope, not doing it, even to win a bet.
@ Possum:
If the missus hadn’t returned today I’d have thought about trying the recipe and then deciding not to also.
4:37am and I am drunk enough to try banana and eggs scrambled. Just mushed up a banana then added two eggs then beat it like I would someone who I caught stealing my car in GTA 6.
LOL cannot do it! The mix is in the fridge, smells wrong, looks wrong.
So just poured me another coffee mug of wine. Maybe when that is finished I MAY cook banana and eggs.
But I seriously doubt it. If someone started a gofundme and it hit the target of $10 I would probably go for it though….
@ Possum:
Cooked it, took two fork fulls and Mr Garbage Disposal ate the rest.
It down very smoothly! Not down me but down the sink.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
The missus got back yesterday, and now the cat is back on the patio in its usual spot. Amazing.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Cats have senses that are beyond human comprehension.
And they are assholes that do shit like that just to piss you off.
Possum wrote:
Then I ate a compleats chicken and rice microwave meal with a spoon straight out if the container and went to bed.
Where I dreamt of what went wrong with the banana and egg experiment and realised where I went wrong. I do my best work in bed.
I ate it hot, as you would eat a plate of scrambly eggs. It felt wrong. The revelation I had in my sleep was chill it, blend it smooth and serve in a bowl topped with ice cream and a crushed up peanut butter cookie as a garnish.
When I cooked it brain wanted an entrée and so brain rejected it hot. Now if brain wanted a cold refreshing dessert it would be perfect!
As I said, I do my best work in bed.
@ Possum:
I let AI know my intentions.
And Grok provided a recipe.
5:22am and I am bored. Nothing on TV so thinking what to do to pass the time.
My finger nails need cutting!
So that is what I will do next. But NOT cutting my thumb nails, they are required for an ongoing project.
@ Possum:
To put you all out of your misery, and I know you are really interested in current project.
I still have three pounds of mandarin oranges that will require peeling.
Thumb nails are your friend when peeling an orange.
Got CT scan results back. It says I’m unremarkable.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Unremarkable is good. When they open you up and cut out a big chunk that is the subject of medical studies for years that is bad.
Supper will be a mystery. Got a delivery of the four compleats meals I liked.
The chicken and rice one will not be ordered again. It was no chicken and no rice and a shit load of juice. Also the spaghetti in meat sauce was way to salty.
Got fresh Walmart bread delivered, It ain’t got no preservatives in it as if you keep it one day after its eat by date it gets covered in fur.
The eat by date is three days after the baked date. And it is yummy.
So, supper. Also delivered was a cucumber. This time they got it right. Last time I ordered a cucumber a zucchini arrived.
Supper may be tuna and mayo and cucumber sandwiches. Or cheese and beetroot sandwiches.
But, there is an outsider supper lurking in the shadows. We have an open container of coleslaw that needs eating and Walmart delivered raw brats.
Also Walmart delivered five liters of wine again. So supper may be delayed.
Trending towards a sausage and coleslaw sandwich though. Which involves high heat and scary doing things on the stove when drunk.
Maybe a bag of chips and a handful of peanuts would be safer.
We’re rehoming the dogs tomorrow. They blew it last night.
They’ve both been going after a couple of the cats off & on, so they’ve been on thin ice anyway. But last night, one of them grabbed one of the kittens who was just bouncing past her and started shaking. if we hadn’t been right there, he could’ve been seriously hurt or worse.
I started yelling, Mrs. RW started yelling, she started smacking on the dog, and as soon as she released the kitten, we put the dogs out for the rest of the evening and I looked at her and said “That’s it. They’ve gotta go.”
We’re having to rehome the dogs.
They’ve both been going after a few of the cats off and on, so they’ve been on thin ice for a bit. But last night, one of them grabbed one of the kittens who’d been innocently bouncing past, and started shaking him. If we hadn’t been right there, he could’ve been seriously hurt or worse.
So tomorrow Mrs. RW is going to take them up to the lady who held onto them after the nephew passed and before we could get the house prepped to have dogs.
The cats are going to be celebrating.
@ right_wing2:
Bunkarina and her hubby had two rescue dogs that got along. More recently they got a third and the dynamics changed. Two of the dogs went after the oldest and almost killed her. All three are pit bull mixes and female. A new order of dominance has been established and they’ve gotten along okay since.
Blog stats are interesting. Several months ago the majority of hits (besides the US) came from Canada, the UK and Australia. It shifted suddenly, and now the top three are Singapore, Hong Kong and China. As for US, a big surge showed up from North Bergen NJ. 2020 Census demographics show it’s 71% hispanic/latino. Whites are 17%, followed by asians at 7%.
Someone’s been downloading all my posted .mp3 collection.
That business in Spain is disturbing. Theft, arson, stabbings, rapes…
I’m surprised that Spain still owns land on the coast of Morocco.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Spain doesn’t allow civilians to own firearms for self-protection. Permits are difficult to get, and they are limited to specific purposes, like target shooting or hunting.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
This tune made it into the Top 5 most downloaded songs in the past 12 months for obvious reasons.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Remnants of Colonialism or Imperialism or maybe civilization.
The last remnants of a first world presence in what is now a third world shit hole of a country.
@ Possum:
It was cheese and beetroot. Then followed by a cucumber sandwich. Cucumber was peeled. USA cucumber skins are bitter.
@ Possum:
As to the beetroot. USA pickled beetroot is girl food. For me they have to be turned into man food.
The best ones so far are the delmonte pickled beets in a jar.
On arrival open them and drain out all the weak pickle juice. To be honest there is a lot of it, about half the weight of the jar. A con.
Then refill the jar with the strongest malt vinegar you can get. In USA restricted to 5% put lid on jar and place in the fridge for two weeks or more.
You then get proper English style pickled beetroot perfect on a sandwich with real butter and sharp cheese.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2026/07/31/most-migrants-who-crossed-into-ceuta-have-returned-to-morocco-as-death-toll-rises-to-34/
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Once a person enters an EU country and are given asylum status or any other recognition then they are free to travel to any other EU country.
Spain is not really serious about stopping illegals entering Spain. Once in Spain they will then go to other countries, like Sweden, Denmark etc.
I fucken would! You see the hot chicks in Sweden and Denmark?
@ Possum:
dont even mention Holland. All the women there are blonde, blue eyes and over six feet tall. I do not lie,
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Blog traffic has more than doubled since yesterday, with a big chunck coming from Ashburn, VA.
Possum wrote:
In the early 90s the missus thought I really liked pizza. I liked Ingrid the delivery girl.
@ right wing3:
Spotted this in the spaminator as “Anonymous” and renamed it so you don’t have to log in twice to comment if you don’t want to. I don’t have a way to update your avatar for “right wing3”.
@ right_wing2:
See above.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Thanks. Must have logged me out mid-post.
@ right_wing2:
Now you got a spare.