I wouldn’t go in there, Frank.
Panel from Congress of the Animals, Jim Woodring 2011.
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Marooned on an Undeserted Island
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 156 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at September 1st, 2026 - 3:00 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
morning y’all
https://notthebee.com/article/canadian-pm-says-he-will-resume-trade-talks-when-the-americans-stop-doing-memes
@ rain of lead:
That’s all there was on X yesterday. Barbara Streisand effect happens.
It’s 1pm and the missus is drinking already. No rules on birthdays.
morning y’all
happy friday
and saturday collage football kicks off
whoo hoo!!!
I’ve sent a few pics. More to come, even more when I figure out how to send them from the camera to my phone.
I’d say that was the best vacation I’ve had in years, but it’s the ONLY vacation I’ve had in years, so it was one of the best ever.
It probably won’t be until I retire, but we want to take another cruise. Italy & Greece, or maybe Norway/Iceland to see the Northern Lights.
I have nothing to report except.
Natasha’s tablet that she does not use but I do when I go to bed slithered off the bed last night and took an 18 inch fall to a wooden floor which spiderwebbed the glass.
Phones seem to still do the touch screen thing when the glass is cracked. This tablet no longer does touch anything. Oh well. Another on the way, $54 and this one comes with a case, a stylus a mouse and a keyboard!
Arrives Sunday, we need it to watch movies in bed.
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2095978694195966323
Seriously watching movies in bed is fun for the whole family! I usually wear headphones so I cannot hear the damn cat yelling.
Oh and this is the replacement. If it does what the dead one did it will be great. Doing stuff on windows PC then going to bed and carrying on is seamless.
It comes with a wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse. Wireless mice don’t survive long here, mysteriously they disappear.
Maybe because they have a built in, cat attracting laser pointer on their belly.
The wired laser mice need sharp teeth and a lot of chewing to abscond with.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/10-inch-Android-12-Tablet-Keyboard-2-1-Tablets-Set-Include-Case-Mouse-Stylus-Film-4GB-RAM-64GB-ROM-Quad-Core-10-1-Tab-6000mAh-Battery-8MP-Dual-Camera/5683979523
Possum wrote:
I shoulda got one for the missus instead of a stupid silver bracelet that still hasn’t shipped yet.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
We are so excited! Our tablet arrives tomorrow.
Last night we had to use my phone to watch bed time movies and it required reading glasses and the thing is so small I got cramps in my hand holding it.
The phone is small, not…..
LOL I love the Internet!
Trending on X is “Happy Sabbath”
I don’t know if it is a joke or not.
For me sabbath means no certain people will be posting until sunset today. Actually they stop Friday night at sunset.
24 hours of no certain people on the Internet. However the certain people are scattered all over the planet. So the engagement varies due to time zones.
@ Possum:
Did you see the news that the UN voted to make Africa bigger?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Yep! And it does not really change anything. So what? Africa now looks bigger on the “new” map of the Earth.
However that new map does not obviously explain why on a fright from London the aircraft takes off and heads NORTH over Scotland, then Iceland, Greenland and Northern Canada.
It is quite enlightening when you take that flight in winter and look out the window. A good six hours is nothing but ice below.
Coming back from LA to London, same route but most of it is in the dark.
Enjoy the Northern lights!
( I say this as looking at any of these ” maps ” the shortest distance between London and LA seems to be due West across the Atlantic and hitting the USA coast at about North Carolina level. No where near the North Pole )
@ Possum:
I put that post into Grok with the statement
And it came back with
The last sentence is significant, and I wish I knew how to bold shit.
The UN resolution itself noted that Mercator remains appropriate for navigation; the new map is aimed at classrooms and media, not cockpits.
Natasha’s new tablet arrived. I had to buy her a new one because I dropped her old one and broke it.
She absolutely LOVES the replacement.
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2096690268074389755
@ Possum:
Benjamin Cahill butterfly map is my favorite. It shows why you flew over Greenland too.
https://bunkstrutts.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cahill-butterfly-map-1915.png?w=1024&h=683
I made a map that tracked Hurricane Ida in real time. https://tackyraccoons.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/screenshot_2021-08-28-bunk-strutts-facebook-1.png
Reminds me of school days.
https://bunkstrutts.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/defaced-map.png
Hope you’re having a gleeful and joyous Labor Day.
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-glenn-beck-program/a-growing-number-of-women-are-siding-with-admitted-killers
Unfortunately, this won’t get the traction I could hope, but it’s an important article. This is so disturbing on so many levels. Glenn only mentions Luigi Mangione and Lindsay Clancy, but I have seen the same thing with Karmelo Anthony over on Facebook. Women literally posting video of themselves crying anytime anything in court didn’t go Anthony’s way. This is sick on so many levels, and Glenn gets into the details on how the left has programmed people and women in particular to think and act this way.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
That is why I am now Gay.
Women are born nuts, they live their life being nuts and die nuts.
Possum wrote:
It goes without saying the black community is also insanely supporting Karmelo Anthony. Even selling t-shirts saying Karmelo did nothing wrong. So, murder is ok now.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
“Karmelo Anthony posed with guns and went on racist, violent rants over text messages before he fatally stabbed Austin Metcalf, according to a trove of newly unearthed documents.
The 75-page dossier offers insight into Anthony’s disturbing past — and was never revealed to jurors during his murder trial as part of a “gentleman’s agreement” between prosecutors and his defense team.”
https://nypost.com/2026/09/08/us-news/karmelo-anthony-seen-holding-guns-spewing-hateful-rants-in-newly-unearthed-docs/
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
There is no fixing this now that public opinion as to what is right and what is wrong is divided along racial lines.
As to trials, I believe we need a star chamber of professional jurors. Maybe 20 of them in each jurisdiction and guilt or innocence is determined by a majority vote.
None of this unanimous bullshit.
Also the charge should just be one thing, not the five alternatives offered to the Lindsey Clancy jurours.
So, as you can see the jury had five options and needed to all agree.
11 jurors opting for 1st degree murder and just one standing his/her ground on 2nd degree murder would have resulted in a mis trial.
The only reason I would like a woman in my life is when I drop something in the garbage disposal it cannot eat.
Women have smaller hands.
There is no way I can get my right hand down in there, but with a struggle my left hand just fits.
It was a chunk of plastic in it, a piece of my deteriorating washing up bowl that was making the spine chilling screeching noise that scared both me and the cats.
So, women DO have a place in the kitchen with their small delicate hands.
I know I post here about my cooking and indecision about what to eat and cooking stuff then eating something else.
The fridge/freezer is making my meal choices now. It is old and fucked.
In its youth it was a frost free, automatic defrost amazing machine in the 1970s but now it is old and tired.
Oh well, yet again I have to eat what thawed. Half a pound of a bag of shrimp.
I don’t keep much in the freezer any more because of the lack or trist in it.
A hint. Place a plastic bottle with water in it and lay it on its side. Once frozen stand it up.
When checking the freezer look at the bottle and the ice in it. If there is ice in the bottom of the bottle then freezer quit and thawed then re started.
That trick also works with a ziplock bag with a few ice cubes in it.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/mamdani-pen-911-insult-victims
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
fuckin asshole
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
That was a bit harsh. All Deplorable did was post a link.
No wonder traffic here is at an all time low.
Currently slow cooking half a pound of sliced mushrooms with an ounce of butter.
Usually mushrooms are invaded with garlic and herbs, but tonight I crave the taste of pure, not fucked with mushrooms.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Yep. There is no way he doesn’t have a staff of image consultants that could have told him exactly how that would have been seen.
@ Possum:
I’m never going to brag about not having a/c again.
It’s supposed to only hit the low 80s today.
Coolest day in weeks. And we might get rain.
I’m just over halfway to my miles goal for my cycle challenge.
@ right_wing2:
90 and even the fan is sticking to me.
https://publish.reddit.com/embed?url=https://www.reddit.com/r/911archive/comments/1wcuxt9/peter_jennings_south_tower_collapse/
Well, knee and hip pain is constant now. Ibuprofen ain’t doing shit.
It is low grade pain, very annoying and when I walk any distance it gradually gets worse not better.
Next cool day we have here I am going to walk to the nearest atm to get some cash.
The local seller of Devil’s lettuce does not take credit cards unfortunately.
A drug related post and a rabbit hole I went down.
It is free, may save a life, and just got an email back
@ Possum:
yeah I fucked up the block quote as usual.
@ Possum:
yw
I just learned that the holdout juror in the Lindsey Clancy trial is a black man. Now the people in support of the woman who murdered her children have a problem.
The fourth plinth in Trafalgar square is outside the National Art Gallery and showcases “art” with each offering staying up there for about two years.
The art previous to the fat lady of colour was a big swirly of either whipped cream or ice cream with a cherry on top. ( check Google maps, street view )
This is what Lucy wanted instead.
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2098791093617709395
Not a caricature of a black woman.
@ Possum:
Nice. People remember Tina. Ike, not so much.
https://bunkstrutts.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/ike-turners-kings-of-rhythm-box-top-1958.mp3
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/09/12/nbc-targets-and-doxxes-lindsay-clancey-juror-holdout-visits-home-searches-investigates-family-and-worse/
Notice of proposed wording of the 2030 census.
https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2026/09/12/cat-fight-ensues-over-proposed-us-census-rules-here-is-what-you-as-a-citizen-can-do-n2206844
may you live in interesting times
Thinking of getting community partnership funding for a plan I have for the lego league robotics and the summer camps I run. However, I’m worried about stepping on the toes of my facility director who usually does the funding. Just wanting to get some funding for things that aren’t directly controlled by the facility and don’t want to offend them. Anyone ever worked on something like this and have any suggestions?
@ rain of lead:
I hope the juror sues the fuck out of NBC and everyone else involved, including the defense attorney.
What if the largest experiment on human beings in history is a failure?
https://www.malone.news/p/what-if-the-largest-experiment-on
@ rain of lead:
That article is from January 2022.
Deaths of people age 18 to 64 increased. I wonder if the death rate for that age group declined since.
@ Possum:
Interesting that Grok alluded to the death rate being higher because of other causes as well as COVID such as overdoses and alcohol.
Yep COVID was a miserable time to be alive…
@ Possum:
cool
i wiffed on the article’s date
old eyes missed that
Possum wrote:
Layoffs, businesses closing, people working (theoretically) from home, isolation… Covid-hysteria destroyed a lot of people’s income, depressing as hell. That’s an emotional abyss that’s difficult to cope with. Been there.
@ rain of lead:
After reading the alarming article, the date gave me relief. At least I’m not in any of those age groups.
To lighten the mood as we all survived covid, Not just the virus itself but the effect of job losses, isolation and the general feeling of hopelessness.
Supper is half a pound of 80/20 ground beef, an egg, half of an onion coarsely chopped, a generous sprinkling of Frenches fried onions and a liberal dose of Walmart Italian bread crumbs.
Hand crafted ( I think that means smushed about with hands ) in a bowl which is now in the fridge to let the dried onions and bread crumbs absorb the onion juice, the egg and the meat juices.
When I feel like supper the mixture will be wrapped in foil and air fried using the air fryer as an oven at. Well not decided on a temperature or duration yet. Current thinking is an hour at 250F then maybe 20 minutes at 360F.
When done foil packet will be opened, top of the meatloaf sprinkled with an ounce or so of grated parmesan and air fryer up to 400F for five minutes, or topping is golden.
To be served with a lettuce, cucumber and tomato salad.
Meatloaf supper for one!
Dinner tonight:
Chili soy chicken tacos
Thinly sliced scallions, separating whites from greens
Finely chopped garlic (2 cloves)
Core, de seed, and dice a red bell pepper
Combine sweet chili sauce with mayonnaise and toss with slaw mix
Thinly sliced two chicken breast breasts and cook. Remove from pan and keep warm
Heat oil and cook garlic, scallion whites, and bell pepper
Add sweet soy glaze and sesame seeds.
Add chicken and toss to coat.
Warm tortilla shells, add chicken and top with slaw mix and sesame seeds
Caught the last half hour of Vince Coglianese’ radio show, and he played a clip of his interview with Victor Davis Hanson. Hanson went through a comprehensive timeline of the unprecedented attacks Trump has had to deal with since becoming POTUS 47, including MSM smears, Democrat lawfare and GOP backstabbing.
I haven’t listened to the full interview yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA15WynIFes
@ right_wing2:
I have got to get out of this stupid mentality where I log everything I eat or drink during a 24 hour period from midnight to midnight.
It started when I was on a keto diet. But I use it now for calorie counting. I try to get under 2300 calories per day.
What that actually means is I eat foods that are in my database.
That meatloaf, well half of it and a salad came out to 550 calories. Yes the 40 calories for the salad dressing was included.
But, my meals tend to be limited to what is in my database. Hey an ounce of peanuts is 180 calories, who the fuck only eats one ounce of them!
@ Possum:
LOL for anyone who has peanuts available weigh an ounce of them. Then you will understand.
@ Possum:
As to honey roasted and messed with peanuts it really makes little difference as to calories.
An ounce of honey roasted peanuts is only 10 calories more than the regular peanuts per ounce.
And is still just one mouth full.
Cashews are the same, slightly more expensive but fucking awesome in a ramen noodle, onion, peas and chunk tuna stir fry.
I knows these thingts.
Oh an add a couple of teaspoons of crunchy peanut butter at the end.
@ Possum:
As astute observers will notice it is 5am here and it is kind of bed time. But torn between having supper or breakfast.
Anyone thinking of retirement a warning.
There is no longer bed time, supper time, breakfast.
Just groundhog day. And the groundhog does not wake up every day.
Anyway the meal before bed was the otter half of that meatloaf sliced and served on a bed of lettuce with dressing.
It was, as we say in English.
” The dog’s bollocks”
“the bee’s knees ”
” The cat’s whiskers”
And about another few hundred ways of saying in English ” very nice”
otter, sometimes auto correct is funny.
I like Otters, but in the wild not in meatloaf.
@ Possum:
I don’t eat peanuts very often because there’s a bag of cheesy goldfish crackers next to them. I used to eat a lot of peanut butter and dill pickle sandwiches, but not so much any more. Snack food preferences change.
The only thing I keep track of is blood pressure and heart rate. I like to see the 4-week and 12-week averages change on the Excel spreadsheet. I’m running about 118/71, pulse 62 now. In 2025 was averaging 130/76 during chemo.
Last night I learned about puss caterpillars and why you don’t mess with them. I’ve never seen one, they’re mostly in the south eastern/central states.
One time I found what looked like a large roach with orange colored wings. I messed with it a bit before it flew off and showed me its big blue-black wasp body with the big pointy thing at the end. Fortunately tarantula hawks aren’t aggressive.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I learned about fire ants in Texas. While trying restart my 1972 Chevrolet Caprice I stepped on a nest and they chewed my leg off – or tried to.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
My body runs at 190/120 normally. Sometimes at 220/140.
Scares the shit out of doctors, they try to put me on drugs!
Always been that way since I was a very young child and the doctors took your blood pressure using a fascinating U tube filled with Mercury.
Cooking the OTHER not the Otter half pound of ground beef as another mini meatloaf.
Only difference this time is a skwirt of ketchup in the mixture. I am out of tomato bouillon. ( that is dried tomato powder for you uneducated )
LOL the power in this building is so bad that I have a fan next to me and I can tell by the speed and noise it makes when the air fryer is cycling. Expensive air fryers use proportional control where they supply power on and off variably sixty times per second.
Cheap air fryers go full on then full off to regulate temps. Crude but cheaper.
Anyway, the point of this post. I know when lunch is cooked because the fan in the bedroom stops slowing down and speeding up as the air fryer is done.
What a fucking sad life I lead.
Possum wrote:
That’s approaching my dad’s level when he had his stroke. He didn’t lose mobility, but it messed up his brain. He couldn’t make a sandwich in the right order. Mayonnaise came first, then tomato, then a slice of toast then some bacon, more toast and finished with lettuce. Then he’d realize he fucked it up, start over, and fuck it up again. (I was told not to help him.)
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
https://x.com/SiennaBroobnb/status/2100104645498548709
https://animalcorner.org/animals/tarantula-hawk/
I’m at 97 miles on my cancer ride.
https://greatcyclechallenge.com/Riders/BruceRoepke?utm_source=share&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=gcc_app_dashboard
Any help would be appreciated.
@ right_wing2:
Why is the bank taking a cut?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Probably the processing fee.
Yeah! Trump wins another yuge deal today, best one ever. The greatest deal ever done!
Greenland and Denmark have agreed to let the USA build and operate military installations in Greenland an ZERO cost to the USA ( Well apart from building the facilities )
April 1951 agreements spring to mind, Camp Century, Project Iceworm and a cute doggie called Muckluck (sometimes spelled Mukluk) is history.
Sadly I know more about the military agreements the USA had with Greenland and Denmark than the current president.
When anyone here has ran out of crap to watch on Amazon, Paramount+, Netflix, Hulu and Tubi the declassified US Government videos of building Camp Century and other related videos about the construction of the DEW line are worth a watch.
It is almost supper time and there are zero cats here.
Bed time is after supper time and has to involve both cats.
Did they run away? Get abducted by aliens?
Or should I have another coffee mug of wine and wait?
Decision made. More wine, tomorrow I dump the cats at the humane shelter and buy a goldfish.
A fake plastic one in a fake tank. No responsibility for feeding it.
@ Possum:
Natasha is home! Laying exactly in the middle of our small bed and obsessed with a small spider on the wall.
No way I am disturbing her. She takes spider watching seriously!
Glen will be back soon. He is a male cat. He likes to go out smooching lady cats but he always comes back home to take a shit.
@ Possum:
I hope Glen isn’t out producing kittens.
@ right_wing2:
It is not that time of year at the moment.
No cats singing for hours at night. He just goes out marking his territory then comes home, has a snack then jumps into bed and dry humps my leg.
Latest outrage from the right wing is cheese.
Fucking cheese!
Just because it is now labeled Halal. It is NOT Islamic cheese! It is marked as not containing any dead animal parts that have not died a slow painful death by having their throats cut.
Clarification. Rennet is an enzyme that is found in dead cows stomachs and is used to coagulate milk the first steps in making cheese. If the dead cow was not killed the Islamic way then anything from that dead cow is not Halal.
Now 90% of cheese is made using a non animal version of cow stomach juice.
It is acceptable to vegetarians, muslims and strangely. acceptable to jews.
I have an issue with Halal meat and the way the animal is killed. I have the same issue with kosher meat. Killed EXACTLY the same barbaric way.
@ Possum:
Labeling a food as halal or kosher ( and there is no difference ) is the same as a label on a food saying ” may contain nuts, soy, milk products etc ”
Halal states what it DOES NOT contain.
There, I am done now.
Lunch will be soon, well actually it is supper according to what time my body clock is on.
Halal mushrooms, Two kosher eggs, some hindu toast buttered with buddha butter and.
Now this is really going to fuck up my politically correct multi faith observance meal.
A couple of slices of bacon and a chunk of ham.
Actually checked my cheese, it has no religious markings, so on the eggs it goes!
@ Possum:
I think it’s a win. Someone’s gotta protect the undersea cables that connect us with Europe. I bet there’s lots of oil that nobody’s using too.
@ Possum:
I forgot to bring in the cat food last night. Guess what showed up and made a mess.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I sent you details and links of how to construct a cat feeding station that is raccoon proof.
I know what you do as a profession. It would take going to a hardware store and spending $50.
Would be an interesting project, you could design it aesthetically, use a video surveillance camera to show how it worked, or did not work and refine the architecture accordingly.
The basis of the design is cats and raccoons can climb. But cats can also jump, raccoons cannot.
As to what I spent most of my working life doing I have an issuewith a freezer that gets stuck in a defrost cycle and cooks whatever is in the freezer.
I have more wireless toys and temperature sensors and shit than any sane person ever needs in plastic crates but not put a system in place yet. Retired, there is always tomorrow to do it.
@ Possum:
Grok helped with both of our projects, and tomorrow or next week is acceptable.
An animal post.
I follow a rabbit rescue site in the UK mainly because why not, and they followed me back.
However, they are a registered charity and they save rabbits that are discarded and homeless. But if you see the rabbits they are very expensive “designer” rabbits that would immediately be found homes if this ” charity ” tried.
What prompted my post here is a few weeks ago I saw a post on X where a cow living in a cow sanctuary gave birth to a calf and it got lost.
The cow may have been pregnant with the calf when saved by the sanctuary, I do not know.
But if the cow got knocked up while in a sanctuary they are doing it wrong.
I am so sad.
Checked the fridge and there are some mushrooms in there that are yelling ” eat me! ” also there is some thick sliced bacon that is trying to hide. And on the kitchen counter is half a loaf of fresh and fluffy Italian Walmart bread.
I am sad because, well going to eat them all!
Plus there is a tomato that is not squishy and some lettuce. And eggs!
But the sad part is there is puff pastry sheets in the freezer and cream cheese with smoked salmon and ham also available.
Lucy makes a really great sausage roll ( it is an English thing ) I wonder what she can do with sliced ham and cream cheese and puff pastry?
Maybe tomorrow we will find out.
a boring cat post.
what a cat does when all the mice and spiders and lizards are killed.
a nap
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2101685476704845859
LOL and now drunk and singing along to youtube videos. Current one is Ultravox Vienna and cats totally ignore me.
Until I add Natasha into it then she wakes up and stares at me.
For anyone who lives with cats they look like they are sleeping but they are faking it.
Sunday afternoon and bored and I am listening to youtube videos and playing with myself and realized if I concentrate I can manipulate all the fingers on my right hand independently.
Not the stupid curl the pinky finger and the others curl too but totally independent.
so off i go playing with myself
There are many bands out there which re create the music of the late 70s and 60s that used multi tracking and synths to create the music.
The modern bands use a small orchestra to re create the electronic music.
Symphonika On The Rock is one example and I approve.
As to musicians, as you know I lived in South Africa for a year in the early 1980s. My friend at the time came with me. I worked during the day and she kind of did arty stuff.
One day she told me she was going to be gone for a few weeks.
It emerged she was the lead clarinet player in the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra and they were going on tour.
Possum wrote:
I found that as long as I bring the cat stuff in after dark the raccoon doesn’t smell it and gives us a pass. The night I forgot, the raccoon noticed. To get to it, he claws at the cheap plastic table cloth until everything he wants falls on him.
Possum wrote:
I’m able to “rattle” my eyeballs, make the irises and pupils vibrate back and forth. I can’t see what it looks like from my side, but some people freak out because, you know, devil stuff. I guess I could video the effect, but why bother.
Possum wrote:
Hidden talents.
Possum wrote:
Nothing in email accounts, spam box, texts, Xwitter dms. Must have been another Bunk.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I dropped it in here about a month ago
@ Possum:
I was napping.
@ Possum:
Found it. Lowes is almost walking distance, but I ain’t walking.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I might have to edit that one. We’re running low on white space.
My Narcan has not arrived yet and no notifications from the people who ship it.
Maybe they sent it USPS and it is in my mail box which I check once a month. I will go look tomorrow.
You ever have an earworm that lasts for days and there is no cure?
I currently have two living in my head and they are driving me nuts.
One is Blue Oyster cult the reaper thing and the other is fucking Metallica of all things. That ” so close but so far away ” one.
So going to try an electronic version of a pesticide. Headphones on, volume as far up as it will go, past the warnings and on replay!
Or that and more wine and a cucumber, tomato, lettuce and tuna salad. Or both!
@ Possum:
grok suggested chewing gum.
A mystery that I will never solve.
Why do they send a fire engine to an EMS event here in Houston.
Why don’t they send paramedics in an ambulance?
https://cohweb.houstontx.gov/ActiveIncidents/Combined.aspx?agency=F
The “E”s are fire engines. “A”s are ambulances. Don’t know what the “M”s and “SQ”s are.
Anyway an “E” just went past and upset my cat. Fucking huge fire engine thing!
@ Possum:
As to fire engines and even police that get dispatched here.
You can tell the ones that have been here before and the ones that have not.
There are speed bumps in the road that are not marked and actually invisible at night. The Fire engines that know the road know the road. The ones that are new make an horrible crunching sound when they hit them at 40mph.
Same with cops on a car chase. Fucking awesome to watch live.
LOL
@ Possum:
My earworm never stops, but it keeps me happy.
A food post.
The nutritional information on food is bollocks.
Look at any 16oz can of veggies and it gives you nutritional data for one serving. And states there are 3.5 servings per can.
Open a can of green beans, drain the liquid then divide it into three and a half. You get two mouthfuls in a serving if you have a small mouth.
Lunch is going to be a pre packed salad. It is expensive but, well I can’t eat a whole lettuce, a pound of tomatoes etc before it goes nasty.
The salad is this and I will eat half, wrapped in flour tortillas. My latest fetish.
Package gives calories and nutritional content per serving. The usual 3.5 servings per container.
So my question is, if there are 3.5 servings in the container WHY DOES IT ONLY COME WITH ONE SILLY LITTLE PLASTIC FORK?
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Marketside-Farmhouse-Salad-12-2-oz-1-Count/922397401
If it feeds 3 people it should come with three silly little plastic forks. The cat gets the half, cats don’t need a plastic fork.
These AI generated annoying phone calls are getting smarter.
Just had one about car insurance and I replied to everything in French..
It eventually quit and said ” I see you do not understand English ”
That was the sixth one today, first five were a Medicare scam. Their AI does not speak French either.
But it still tries really hard.
@ Possum:
I use Irish
@ right_wing2:
I am going to take a break from tormenting AI telemarketing calls. When I answer the questions correctly but giving false age etc they put me through to a human. An Indian human and I cannot understand a fucking word they are saying so I cannot play the game any more.
I like the games, once I had some unfortunate person wasting over 20 minutes telling me about their candidate for senator or something. We had a very nice chat. At the end of the call, as usual the person said ” so can we count on your vote? ”
I replied ” No, that would be a felony ” A few seconds silence ensued then ” Why is that” ”
LOL and of course I replied ” It would be a felony as I am not an American citizen. ”
I don’t get political calls any more….
@ Possum:
Thinking about it the reason the political calls stopped is it is also a felony for them to try to induce a non citizen to vote.
Years ago I reported the political inducements I was getting on facebook. Then that spam stopped
I have frozen puff pastry sheets in stock. Two sections are currently thawing and they will be made into sausage rolls but not using sausage.
The filling will be Philadelphia smoked salmon cream cheese and chunks of expensive canned albercor or yellow fin tuner or whatever the first can is in the cupboard.
The whole thing would be better if I had the vol o vent pastry stuff in stock. The fancy and gay things. But alas we make do here.
Possum wrote:
lmao
I quit answering calls from unknown numbers long ago. If they weren’t spammers, it was some Vietnamese person trying to make a doctor’s appointment, or a doctor’s office trying to reach a Vietnamese person.
Some still get through by accident. If it’s a remodeling contractor or insurance salesperson I let them go through their spiel and then wrap it up with “My brother-in-law takes care of all that and I’ll be in trouble if the missus catches me talking to you.”
I am not gay. But puff pastry is my favorite thing to cook with.
I can make penis penis penis LOL.
( um puff is UK slang for an homosexual man )
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2102647708821672002
@ Possum:
What Lucy cooked was good. I ate one of those contorted and twisted penis things.
Now for those wondering each one was made using a Pepperidge farms pastry segment.
They are 320 calories each. The filling for both was a can of fancy tuna, Genova Yellow Fin Tuna in olive oil. 220 calories per can then one pastry thing was 110 calories.
Plus the two ounces of cream cheese, divided into two. At 9= calories per ounce means.
A crusty looking pastry donkey dick was 320 plus 110 plus 90 calories.
Them calories sneak up on you.
Oh tomorrow for lunch there is another donkey dick looking tuna and cream cheese thing available
LOL sometimes I really laugh at this crap.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2102887793483460809
First Trump saluting. Well in the UK armed forces you do not salute if you don’t have your hat on. ( ex air training corps cadet )
Also why send a B-1B at low level over the Chinese equivalent of Air Force One.
If the pilots of it had not turned it off, removed the keys and put it in park it could have done what it was trained to do.
Fire off anti missile flares and taken evasive action!
What a stupid thing to do…
@ Possum:
Trump doesn’t wear a hat unless he’s golfing, and he was saluting the Flag as CIC. As for the flyover, it was a show for the benefit of Pooh Bear.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Did you see the two 6th generation Chinese stealth fighters that were following the two B-1Bs as part of the display?
Not many people did.
@ Possum:
That was a funny that even Grok did not get.
A joke is not a joke if you have to explain it to an AI.
The future where AI is ruling the World and is involved in everything we do in daily life is going to be fucking boring.
@ Possum:
LOL and ran that by Microsoft Copilot AI and it started talking about some guy called Schrodinger and his cat.
Time to clean the bathroom…
Possum wrote:
One major power outage and it’s all over until someone invents a scratch plow.
morning y’all
happy friday
@ rain of lead:
I hope so.
A boring food post explaining why Lucy throws a handful of Cashews into a ramen, onion and shrimp stir fry. ( green peas would also be added but a cat hid the can opener )
A standard serving of raw shrimp is 112g which is about 4oz or quarter of a pound. Like it or hate it but the metric system is a fucking way easier to work with than that teaspoon, tablespoon and cup shit. But I digress…
So, one serving of shrimp, raw, 112g consists of 2g fat, 15g protein and 2g carbs. 80 calories total.
A standard serving of cashews is 28g, an ounce and who ever eats an ounce of them! OK the numbers, Fat 13g, Protein 5g and 8g carbs with a calorie count of 160.
So point is, we all know what the price difference between a quarter pound of shrimp and an ounce of cashews is ( peanuts are cheaper )
You can bulk up a shrimp based meal both in texture and calories by throwing some nuts at it.
Interesting fact about cats.
Male cats have limited space on their chromosomes to express colour of fur. So male cats can basically only have three colours. Obviously that is across their whole body, they can have white faces, a brown back and black paws or any other combination in patches. Also most orange cats are male.
If however you see a cat that looks like it got caught in an explosion at a paint factory it is likely female.
Female cats have the ability to be way more decorative genetically as to fur colour than boring male cats.
( looking at a lady cat that is every coulour imaginable, except for blue, and purple )
@ Possum:
That post may be helpful to Bunk. If his cat that hates him is basically a few colours it be be male, or female, quick check, lift its tail up and check for testicles.
Or in young kittens the thing under its asshole. If it is round it is a boy, a slit a girl but only a reliable indicator after four weeks.
Now, if his cat is multi coloured but male it could be an XXY cat. Which is infertile and would make a great cuddle buddy.
@ Possum:
Ours is gray – white neck, chest and paws. We’ve known it was a male cat almost from the get-go. When it first showed up, the wimmins next door lifted its tail to get a better look at the tapeworm hanging out its ass and noticed the beans. That was around the same time the missus had begun buying cat food. Tapeworm meds fixed it.
We’re getting surf and humidity from Hurricane Polo. The storm is spinning towards the Baja Peninsula, and there’s going to be a chance of rain in L.A. next week.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
A foolproof way of removing a tapeworm from a cat. Without using drugs or any nasty chemicals.
First buy an air horn.
Then sneak up quietly behind the cat and tread on the end of the tapeworm that is dangling out of its ass.
Third, blow the air horn!
The tapeworm will be instantly removed.
However, you may have to fix the hole in the fence.
As to cats. Got a Walmart delivery of cat food, cat treats, bread and a salad. Also wine so we all had to go outside to sign for it.
Glen is a pure black cat. He hissed at the delivery person who I think was from Haiti.
The delivery almost did not get delivered!
And this is not the first time this happened.
@ Possum:
We draw the line at cat bread and salad. The missus drinks the cat wine.
On the current topic of Iranians attempting to blow up RAF Fairford.
If I was a betting man my money would go on the very possible option that it was not an explody event aimed at an air base but a gang of thieves out looking to steal diesel from farms and construction sites in the area.
There, I said it. For the record.
On a different subject I have not seen my friend who sells herbal products for over a month.
I wish I had got his phone number and him mine.
Hope he is OK.
@ Possum:
Gonna be tough to transport any significant amount of fuel with three “vehicles”.
https://www.ft.com/content/875027a3-db29-40a6-b17c-fa97c30fd07b?syn-25a6b1a6=1
Finally for tonight a cat post.
Natasha is sitting on my mouse mat and on my mouse. Staring at me, I isn’t stupid.
She has Temptations cat treats available.
I know what she is demanding, one of the purr pops things! She has had two today. at $0.65 each she isn’t getting another today.
@ Possum:
If you know his street name you could put the word out, but then they’d only tell him to watch out because some pinche baboso blanco is looking for him.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
There were 3 vans and if you look at the air footage the barrels on the ground seem to be rain water collection barrels, empty.
It is a thing in the UK and Ireland. Stealing agricultural diesel and processing it to remove the dye then selling it for road use.
Actually a big thing is anyone using agricultural diesel, which has no taxes on it then sells it to naughty people that then remove the marker dye
I suspect this is what happened.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Lupe went missing a while ago. Reason was his girl got out of prison.
Obviously he preferred to hang out with her than us old people in a convenience store parking lot.
@ Possum:
Timothy McVeigh and his buddy did the diesel thing. I don’t remember what he mixed it with.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
if i tell you then i will be on the fbi watch list.
nice try though
@ Possum:
Even Grok pussied out.
Seen in a community chatroom.
@ Possum:
fertilizer
Possum wrote:
Well I called that one right.
a few hours after my post, which I put on record, all five ” suspected terrorists ” were released on police bail. In the UK there is no money involved in bail.
Next time an incident like this happens Mr president should keep his mouth shut until he knows the facts.
@ Possum:
Maybe he should stop believing reports from the UK Counter Terrorism Policing department.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
The UK police took the incident seriously. As they should have.
Then when the police and Army investigated they concluded it was not a terrorist or Iranian related incident. All in less than 24 hours.
However even now Trump is doubling down on his fake news.
Possum wrote:
So it was all a jovial prank by some rascally laddies.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
No, just business as usual.
Steal red diesel at the dead of night. Process it to remove the colour then sell it to semi truck drivers at a discount.
I am really glad that as Trump said they had these people under surveillance for months and assisted in their capture.
Thank you USA!
The HB Pacific Air Show is this weekend, and some practice runs have begun.
https://www.flightradar24.com/33.73,-117.98/12
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Red Arrows will not be attending. They are in France.
supper is going to be onions, peas, and fake crab all stir fried. But should it be with ramen noodles or uncles ben veggie rice?
Whatever the choice is at the end there will be a $0.94 packet of Walmart tuna in water added to increase the fishiness.
Or I could have a grilled cheese Halal certified Tillamook sandwich. The awesome 2 year aged very sharp cheddar cheese.
What do jews and muslim men have in common?
But not the British.
Maybe I will just have a salad.
morning y’all
what fresh hell will today bring?
@ rain of lead:
Funny you should ask…
The IRGC endorsed the democrat party candidates for the midterm elections.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
and one of their proxies hijacked an Israeli plane.
@ Possum:
I doubt they did much of an investigation. It might offend the Muslims.
@ right_wing2:
The UK actively prosecutes terrorist related incidents.
It seems like naughty muslims are caught often. I did 2025 for a cleaner picture.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Not an Israeli plane.
It was FlyDubai. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flydubai
@ Possum:
All while working to protect their feeeeeeeelings.
@ Possum:
That was typed in haste as I had an appointment with my gut doc.
He said I won’t need another endoscopy/colonoscopy until 2028, and after that he’ll retire. Then he told me the story of when he and his son met the Red Arrows pilots. Second time I’ve heard it.