From the Treehouse made of Bricks…
Posted on August 8th, 2013 by Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™
From the Last Refuge which will remain a source of laughs for some time into the future as long as writing like the following prospers there. I would like to share the first sentences of some recent posts over there:
This post merely outlines the supporting trail of evidence to follow-up on the original post. Due to prior post length this independent update needed for intellectual absorption.
And:
Then again, now that I think about it, the “We are Trayvon” catch phrase probably does attach aptly to most of the group claiming such a descriptive as their commonality.
This Sundance sure has a way with words.
oh hai! bai!
p.s. puppeh update…
He has “a way” with words alright.
This comment merely outlines the trail of POOP that follows the original post.
You fucked up the link, Provider.
Also, Sundance Cracker? HAHAHAHA
Look at me nakedly dominating the thread! Did I mention ‘naked’?
Look at me nakedly dominating the thread! Did I mention ‘naked’?
Careful, you might get splinters from the treehouse.
Treehouse Splinters…I saw them once at Hinds End.
I read this right after I read OBS’s klo/nooner/ZombieReagan drabble. Unkind, sir!
Good thing I have hard-surface, easily cleaned floors.
Thanks Pup…
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http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/national/trayvonmartin5.jpg
Too bad it’s not a good one.
This Sundance sure has a way with words.
The way of a serpent upon a rock? The way of a ship in the midst of the sea?
More like a whey with curds.
Sundance’s writing is truly awful.
The people who visit the Treehouse want to see the entire context; The entire truth, as it presents. … The USSR needed Pravda to keep the ruse of governance for decades … CNN needs to maintain an optic of middle road media … The truth is 180 divergent … We could dissect the entire 60 minute segment bit-by-bit, but for the sake of this discussion we will not do that except to point out the inherent flaws within the construct of the heavily manufactured faux-expose’.
To which I’ll juxtapose this comment:
the current administration is working as hard as it can to dumb people down, distract them, and dull their cognitive senses, with ever-increasing amounts of bread and circuses,
And the more ominous:
The weasels and vermin must be removed from the barn. However it must be done.
… Both from folks praising this gibberish. Then things get silly:
Last video clip not loading. Hope it’s just a glitch and not something more sinister from youtube!
Which is taken seriously.
I’m not gonna Google “MANPADS” nohow.
There’s a whole nest of collaborators that need sunlight haircuts.
Hoping the end of this insanity is just around the corner.
The fact is, Obama is the wrost president in history. He is wrost than Hitler.
Shorter Blurtfart: CNN interviews on Ben Gazerra need moar white dudes wearing pimp outfits and much clumsier editing in order to be believable.
This Sundance sure has a way with words.
I bet he has a way with sheep, too.
Words should file charges against Sundance for the abuse.
Re: Tweety prediction of Rand Paul as GOP nominee in 2016. Tweety c.1990 was touting Lloyd Benson as the only Dem nominee for ’92 that could get a respectable but losing vote percentage against an invincible Poppy Bush. Yes, Tweety does this for living, which is a bigger joke than his predictions.
The USSR needed Pravda to keep the ruse of governance for decades
Pravda had more shame than Fox News.
I’m going back to the other thread. MK’s & OBS’s dirty nasty sexy talk is less yucky than the horrible things this person is doing to the language.
To quote Yes, Minister:
The truth is, Hitler was worse than Hitler.
LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
Bengal Kittens
CRA said,
August 9, 2013 at 1:33
Sundance’s writing is truly awful.
I heartily concur. How can anyone write this drivel without their brain exploding?
Aha, I have the answer: no brain!
sunlight haircuts
Ooo! I saw them open for Treehouse Splinters once!
A dingo ate my red hat!
More breathless “patriotic” horseshit-sculpting?
Ehh, I’ll just stay here on the nice clean dry boat, thanks.
Pravda had more shame than Fox News.
Not to mention real reporters (albeit with some KGB spooks on the foreign bureau).
What the fuck? I have to peel myself away from watching weird Euro-disco videos to clean up this thread?
Aha, I have the answer: no brain!
No brain, no effect!
Brain and brain! What is BRAIN?!
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They Saved Hitler’s Brain.
I’m sorry, B4, but that was Euro-techno. This is Euro-disco.
I’m sorry, B4, but that was Euro-techno. This is Euro-disco.
Magic Fly was released in 1977 while the term “techno” wasn’t coined until the mid-to-late 80’s… I’d call it Proto-Techno-Euro-Disco. I Feel Love was another Euro-Electro-Disco-Giorgio magnum opus- it definitely feels ahead of its time.
Moskau is hilarious, the badly “subtitled” version cracks me up every time, as does Tommy Seebach’s take on Apache.
I guess the takeaway is that disco never really died, it just mutated into a bunch of different genres, mainly due to the ease of use of synthesizers and the abandonment of big backing bands.
Y’all listen to some messed-up shit, yo. 😉
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I’d call it Proto-Techno-Euro-Disco
Now that’s specific!
Mind you I was listening to Glenn Miller’s swing version of a Red Army song (Meadowlands) so who am I to talk?
Mind you I was listening to Glenn Miller’s swing version of a Red Army song
I see I was only slightly early with this, so allow me to repeat:
Y’all listen to some messed-up shit, yo. 😉
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Listen to the guy who puts Byrne & Eno’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts on his Top Ten Desert Island Discs saying shit like that.
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And really, can anyone deny King Crimson’s Discipline?
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Y’all listen to some messed-up shit, yo.
I’m eclectic if nothing else.
I was just hanging out with the witch doctor
Yes, Tweety does this for living, which is a bigger joke than his predictions.
somebody at the original link commented at how tweety SUX at his job…which makes me opine (once again): i can bullshit people pretty good…so, why am i not making the big bucks…do i need to be fleeter of thought, quicker of tongue?* because really, it’s all bullshit…they know it…we know it…they know we know it…
which makes me opine (once again): i can bullshit people pretty good…so, why am i not making the big bucks
Simple supply & demand economics.
Most people prefer to believe the bullshit.
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Proto-Techno-Euro-Disco
FUCK THAT SHIT!
PABST! BLUE! R…Proto-Cosmos!.
Most people prefer to believe the bullshit.
that is totally what the son would say…but as always, i’m willing to say “wtf?”
okay…srlsy…is there a reason morgan freeman made that movie with tom cruise? again, i’m willing to say, “wtf?”
that is totally what the son would say…but as always, i’m willing to say “wtf?”
Bullshit must be tuned and perfected for the widest audience. It’s a bit like striking a tuning fork, actually. See which string sings out loudest, then strap a jet engine on top of an H-bomb inside a sharknado, and Bob’s you uncle.
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Bullshit must be tuned and perfected for the widest audience. It’s a bit like striking a tuning fork, actually. See which string sings out loudest, then strap a jet engine on top of an H-bomb inside a sharknado, and Bob’s you uncle.
so, to apply this in the simplist terms, the squeaky wheel gets the grease’ OR it’s always projection…
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okay…srlsy…is there a reason morgan freeman made that movie with tom cruise? again, i’m willing to say, “wtf?”
The IRS had pre-cog’d Benghazi. Freeman was in the crosshairs, having smoked seven kilos of pot with Willie Nelson. In one night.
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i’m not sure where that extra punctuation came in, but it could be the martinis…
i’m not sure where that extra punctuation came in, but it could be the martinis…
A single keystroke is dismissible… unless your NOT naked.
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YOU’RE. Dammit. Must be the Busch.
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I was just hanging out with the witch doctor
Mighty Sparrow is awesome… I’ve never heard this before, but I dig it!
And really, can anyone deny King Crimson’s Discipline?
I bet you dig Frippertronics, too.
I love “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” & “Discipline” but “Horses” by Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra La La Band beats them into the dirt.
Enjoy the first track “God Bless Our Dead Marines” (live):
okay…srlsy…is there a reason morgan freeman made that movie with tom cruise? again, i’m willing to say, “wtf?”
It’s probably fun to dumb it down every once in a while. Hell, Ossie Davis starred in Bubba Ho-Tep. The difference is that the Tom Cruise movie looks awful, and Bubba Ho-Tep was friggin’ amazing.
This version is much better though.
unless your NOT naked…mole rat has been dancing to Euro-disco in which case boob’s your uncle, Nu?
And really, can anyone deny King Crimson’s Discipline?
Here you go.
http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x14pk0_2baret_kc-london-1/1#video=xaybtf
dammit, just about every time i’m here i realize my musical listening is woefully inadequate…i have eclectic tastes, but am limited here in the midwestheartland…pop country/”classic” rock rules…as a rule…give me some options peeps!
mole rat has been dancing to Euro-disco in which case boob’s your uncle, Nu?
and ew..this could be grosser than popegushery and k-lo/noonan/st. ronnie3way…
Would it be correct to assume that every commenter in this thread is naked?
Just me, then.
mole rat has been dancing to Euro-disco in which case boob’s your uncle, Nu?
Dancing-naked-mole-rat GIFs are surprisingly hard to find on the Interducts.
You could try shaving the badgers?
I’m reminded of the bacon-making episode of Good Eats, where Alton Brown advised us to put the bacon in the freezer for a little while before trying to slice it: “Slicing room-temperature bacon is like giving a ferret a shave—no matter how careful you are, somebody’s going to get hurt.”
With all due respect to Alton Brown, if your bacon is cured and dried correctly it is very easy to slice as thinly as one could want. The water soaked outrage that is modern industrial bacon is another story.
Shaving badgers seems, um, adventurous.
Shaving badgers seems, um, adventurous.
It would probably be equivalent to sticking your hand in the Cuisinart and hitting “puree”.
Would it be correct to assume that every commenter in this thread is naked?
Absolutely, it’s just that some hide that fact with sneaky applications of clothing.
Oh, shaving BADGERS. Never mind.
from the ‘it’s always projection’ file:
i clicked through to the conservative twee house only to discover one of sundance’s tags is
Dear Leader – Creepy POTUS Worship,
this from a dude with the i want you to be a blartblart banner and who uses reagan.com…
It’s either kissing butt above you and kicking ass below you for these wingnuts. Nothing in between.
‘either, and’ is a strange sentence construction. I like it.
Kissing butt above, snarling that you’ll kick butt below. Any minute. Just as soon as a suitably small and helpless opponent is located.
Speaking of doxxing a Dennis.
Better question for Morgan Freeman: why was he schluping his stepgranddaughter?
I know I shouldn’t do this but she lives in a county that’s 99.7% white and thinks she’s an expert on who’s a racist and who’s not. is one of the most awesome things I have ever read. That’s some funny shit there, yo.
Somebody wanna get the hose, please?
Yeah, even if they do put the lotion on they get the hose again.
What’s all this then?
This should be a good day to visit freerepublic the sites to watch heads go all asplodey.
Freep TYPE sites fyautocorrect.
Backpain lead to the necessity of sleep when there were yet ten comments and I left after fixing the tag failures (thanks pup, agin!)
Anyhoo a few of the local humans have been alerted to me through my laughter, and I am only prolly a quarter way through the thread.
Thanks folks…
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This should be a good day to visit freerepublic the sites to watch heads go all asplodey.
Hey Pup, congrats on Oregon gathering plenty of signatures to put marriage equality on the ballot. Would love to see a solid pro-we-don’t-care-who-you-love bloc in Cascadia.
Hold them down and beat them to death while raping them?
It’s a bit like striking a tuning fork, actually. See which string sings out loudest, then strap a jet engine on top of an H-bomb inside a sharknado, and Bob’s you uncle.
This LoL made me momentarily forget the pain. Thanks Jeff. Thisstring is singing hilarious, but i am a great fan of properly employed hyperbole.
…this from a dude with the i want you to be a blartblart banner and who uses reagan.com…
I know!!! I think I should send Roy some money for introducing me to this Dunning Kruger reject. I thought initially, that the fractured syntax and grammar were an anomaly, I was wrong. This personage is WorldFreakingClass!!! LowHangingFruit™
Again, thanks for the laughs. in too much pain to craft some funny, I knew you guys would pull through.
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I went to look at the mangoes at FR about the 10-day leave for gay marriage:
That’s what it’s all about these days, tyranny and nuclear threat…….
Terrifying. If only we had several thousand nuclear weapons of our own.
Or the technology to detect enrichment of nuclear material to weapons-grade levels.
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/05/25/216480.html
Do they mean the wimpywussyfemmyfags or the Pentagon? Do they even know what they mean? Naw, that’s a purely rhetorical question.
Wait a minnit – protect us from tyranny? Um, the army plays no role in protecting us from tyranny you fekking cryptofascist fuck. Posse comitatus and all that.
What’s interesting is that I was just recently looking at Wikipedia’s accounting of the current US nuclear arsenal, and just taking the land-based and submarine-based missile force into account, there are about 1/3 the number of warheads that there were when I followed that kind of thing—and in yield less than that, because all the megaton-class weapons are gone. And this happened with nobody noticing except the wingnuttiest of wingnuts. I remember the hysteria about the “window of vulnerability” leading up to Ray-gun’s election…things really can change.
I am sure it is just a matter of time before the Homsectsyouall Agenduh gay men in the military threatening to launch nukes if they aren’t allowed to forcibly sodomize RealMrkns.
^includes gay men…
They Saved Hitler’s Brain.
and these are the people going to protect us against tyranny and nuclear threat?.
Even if we concede that the commenter actually meant to say something not stupid, the answer is yes. Yes they are. To question that is to be a fucking dingbatty whizbang bike seat sniffer with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Twatwaffle, even.
Twunt.
Sooooo, DK kills the thread? C’mon, people. They were good.
What’s interesting is that I was just recently looking at Wikipedia’s accounting of the current US nuclear arsenal, and just taking the land-based and submarine-based missile force into account, there are about 1/3 the number of warheads that there were when I followed that kind of thing—and in yield less than that, because all the megaton-class weapons are gone.
The newer weapons are more accurate than the older ones, so they can achieve the same results with less yield.
Kitten Mind Melt!
Wildcat Kittens!
Easter kitten
The newer weapons are more accurate than the older ones, so they can achieve the same results with less yield.
It warms my heart to see our government saving money on our doomsday arsenal.
Proper kitten.
Proper kitten.
Reminds of this. “Sexy mustard” cracks me up every time.
Would you like to fourscore with me??
Nice!
Proper kitten.
Not proper until it’s eating a rabbit’s face.
The army is really streched too thin if 2 people taking 10 days off cripples the entire organization.
Would you like to fourscore with me??
That line also gets me. I love her accent.
SOMEBODY gots him a crush!!
SOMEBODY gots him a crush!!
Yeah, but it’s a creepy one, so his comments get deleted.
Who said anything about saving money? I’m reasonably sure the fewer, more accurate and effective nukes we have now cist at least as much (probably more) in real dollars as the old ones. Because that’s the way our MIC oligopoly rolls.
Plus when we adopted a counterforce strategy the huge blockbusters lost their reason for being. It sounds more humane, not killing as many people as possible right away, but churning up billions of times more fallout with a bunch of ground bursts…I dunno.
And that reminds me, Major—you’d know better than anybody. If I read that article correctly, the only gravity bomb we still have deployed still has “dial-a-yield”, from .3 to 340 kT. Now .3 kT is the signature of a one-point failure—would they really drop a bomb and just set off one of the detonators on the primary? Seriously?
Who said anything about saving money?
Yes–I know that–I was riffing on being a dumbass commenter.
Plus, I thought all our bombs were one-point safe since the Polaris missile warhead fiasco from the early ’60s. Just don’t drop one accidentally, I guess.
Yeah, but it’s a creepy one, so his comments get deleted.
I meant you and Miss Mustard.
Mmmmmm rabbit face.
My lunch choice dilemma was just solved.
I consider myself lucky to get three score and ten.
A graviton bomb? diabolical! This madness needs to end before the earth is replaced with a ping pong ball sized singularity.
I meant you and Miss Mustard.
Who knew Colonel Mustard had a hot daughter?
I thought the B83 was still in service, which could be dialed up to 1.2 megatons. I’m not sure if they would actually dial one all the way down.
At the peak of the arms race we had so many weapons that we were targeting things all the way down to communications towers and SAM sites. I could have seen a very low yield weapon used against some targets like that.
Those were generally fighter targets and not something a bomber would go after.
When I sat alert in the B-52 our weapons were all set to maximum explodiness.
That’s what I thought. I really had assumed they’d abandoned dial-a-yield years ago because nobody could think of a reason for dialing them back.
Not proper until it’s eating a rabbit’s face.
Umm, you finished with the rest of that bunny?
That’s the best kind! You could set off one that released more energy than a supernova and we still don’t have instruments sensitive enough to detect it.
i’m finding it most creepy and freaking annoying when trolls think they know a person…here’s the deal…the reason i work 2 jobs? to pay off my student loan and other debt accumulated when i went to one of the best liberal arts colleges in the country…which helped me get the kick-ass job that i have…and here’s something: working for a small non-profit usually means just that…not much profit…and hubbkf and i both work for one…so, no we’re not rolling in it, but we’re not bad off either…
i don’t think life is unfair…for fuck’s sake i don’t know where that one came from…and if i did think it was unfair, it wouldn’t be because i’m working two jobs (in fact, i’m pretty lucky to have two reasonably well-paying jobs) it would be about the fact that i’ve had some shitty things happen in my life, one of which is having a child who started out life pretty precariously, has special needs and then gets cancer on top of it…that’s what i would be pissed off about…
but i’m not pissed off and i know i’m very goddamn lucky to have the life and the family and the friends that i do…jesus, i didn’t realize that the occasional vetch about the job meant ‘life’s unfair…wah!’
and yeah, i live in bumfuck nowhere in a very white community…big whoop…i love living here…i by no means have ever considered myself an expert on racism or race…i see a lot of it around here which makes me sad…tells me that indeed, life is unfair for some…all i can do is try to make it better…
so, to sum up…i’m pretty fucking happy with my life…apparently you aren’t, though because you get your jollies by stalking some dude who is as into you as you are into him in a very messed up relationship and you spend your time here goading him and trying to goad others…that alone tells me you lead a very empty existence…
A graviton bomb?
uh, we’ve been subjected to many a gravitas bomb…
“I don’t eat anything with a face.”
“Oh, that’s OK. I cut the face off!”
When I sat alert in the B-52 our weapons were all set to maximum explodiness.
“Hello, bomb, are you with me?”
For small yields they planned to use nuclear howitzers. Yes, battlefield nukes. Cray.
also, too…sorry about the rant…some people just piss me off…and i’m not very good at holding me tongue…
so, to sum up…i’m pretty fucking happy with my life…apparently you aren’t, though because you get your jollies by stalking some dude who is as into you as you are into him in a very messed up relationship and you spend your time here goading him and trying to goad others…that alone tells me you lead a very empty existence…
Over 20 comments deleted since 15:36 GMT. Trolling this blog is all he’s got.
For small yields they planned to use nuclear howitzers.
Yes, and if I recall, the area effected by the weapon was greater than the range of the howitzer – so it was a one-time good deal.
For small yields they planned to use nuclear howitzers.
Yes, and if I recall, the area effected by the weapon was greater than the range of the howitzer – so it was a one-time good deal.
That is utterly psychotic, but for some reason I think Operation Plowshare, the proposed use of nukes for excavation and construction projects is even more gonzo.
Dial-a-yield, what about …?
Incredibly wasteful, too. The W48 had a yield of 72 tonnes—from 13 kg of plutonium! That’s more than enough to make three 40 kilotonne boosted primaries. Plus vaporizing and spreading unfissioned plutonium—the nastiest element in the periodic table—all over the landscape.
Howabout a flying nuclear pile?:
Hiking the AT in northern Maine I came upon a rabbit that had apparently been buried up to its neck. Looking slightly surprised, as did I probably, it seemed quite dead. On my hands and knees I peered all around it and finally poked it revealing it to actually be a severed rabbit head. Pondering this as I went down trail I found some guts and looked up to see if a raptor was conducting airborne butchery before I realized I was following a trapper down the trail. Won’t ever forget that rabbit face staring at me.
Dial-a-yield, what about …?
I wonder if Moz was drunk dialing Poly Styrene.
There’s always Project Pluto.
Won’t ever forget that rabbit face staring at me.
excellent first line…
I’ll see your project Pluto and raise you a Project Orion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propulsion%29
I dunno bbkf, I’ve got some good opening lines but “hey, rabbit face!” has never worked for me.
Well, as a SciFi fan from way back, I’ve got kind of a soft spot for Orion—at least the idea was to do something constructive there. Yeah, it’s just as well they didn’t actually do it—but if anybody ever comes up with a fission-free method of detonating a (depleted-uranium-free, of course) secondary, I think it should be revisited.
Hopefully aneutronic.
I dunno bbkf, I’ve got some good opening lines but “hey, rabbit face!” has never worked for me.
i was thinking more along the bulwer-lytton lines, not pick-up…
Classic description of Project Pluto.
Won’t ever forget that rabbit face staring at me.
Worst Stephen King novel EVAH.
Orion is the only feasable starship design that a) gets you somewhere in less than fifty thousand years or so and b) doesn’t require our discovering a whole bunch of new science to actually make it work. We could build it now if we wanted to — it certainly beats annihilating the human race as was the weapons’ intended function, yes?
Rocking Kittens!
Stephen King Easter Bunny
The rabbit has a pleasant face,
His private life is a disgrace.
I really cannot say to you,
The awful things that rabbits do.
I meant you and Miss Mustard.
Who knew Colonel Mustard had a hot daughter?
Everyone loves hot Mustard.
…for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived! Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth.
Is anyone gonna watch the sky fall this weekend?
You damn betcha! The Perseid shower is the only one that we here in the PNW have a snowball’s chance in hell of seeing.
Yeah, I’ll watch it for 45 seconds every couple of hours but I usually do that anyway. The best Perseids are accidental.
I assume this is an astronomical event, not TV-show or Henny-Penny related?
Is anyone gonna watch the sky fall this weekend?
I’ll be working the midnight shift, so as long as the weather holds out, I’ll be in a good position for stargazing.
I assume this is an astronomical event, not TV-show or Henny-Penny related?
Perseid meteor shower.
To be clear, the delta aquarids come when we have clear skies but in the right side up lands they ain’t so good.
Oh, duh. Perseids. I think they were what Mom used to take us out to the SoCal high desert to watch.
After all the times I went to mountain tops or out on sailboats the best I ever saw were from a backyard in Brattleboro. Full horizon to horizon red, gold and white.
Dang, I missed the discussion about the Davy Crockett. Also the girl’s costume Sexy Davy Crockett.
Davy Crockett?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az91u7ni1Q4
A handy guide to meteor showers:
http://xkcd.com/1249/
last year hubbkf and i (okay, mostly hubbkf) watched them…he didn’t get many good shots…maybe this year, though…
Rainy all weekend, bleah.
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For longtime Sadlies: check out this amazing thing Leonard Pierce just did.
Our favorite rep from the Milk Solids Council.
Not sure where this would fall on the great Mr. Pierce’s list.
Now I want to be a Royal Canadian? Kilted Yaksman.
That Leonard Pierce thing was brilliant.
Bookmarked.
Not sure where this would
damn you! as soon as i clicked that link and saw what it was, i snorted my drink out of my nose! jerk…also…are we on for next week?
Now I want to be a Royal Canadian? Kilted Yaksman.
a man with your legs (i imagine) could pull that look off…
I’m told I can wear the Clan Douglas tartan (my sister spends too much time at ancestry.com) but I’m not running out to buy a kilt just yet.
I’m not running out to buy a kilt just yet.
Can I interest you in a used kilt, sir?
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OT – and despite the risk of outing myself as having seen the Vanessa Carlton video, this needs to be shared.
i snorted my drink out of my nose!
I see. And I’m to blame because you can’t hold your liquor?
also…are we on for next week?
Yes, abstilutely! Talk to hubb, talk to BIL, give me a time and a place and Sweetie and I are there! simplelittleelectrician at yahoo
Gotta go to bed, find my pajamakilt – worked to 10, work again at 8, thereby proving I am dumb.
What’s the points multiplier for taking out a nun with a Steinway.
The Yamaha has better acceleration.
The Yamaha has better acceleration.
But does it have the indestructibility and impossible mass of the Steinway?
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Not sure what city that game takes place in, but the roads are apparently populated solely by taxis and the occasional police car.
Not sure what city that game takes place in, but the roads are apparently populated solely by taxis and the occasional police car.
The cop cars say NYPD… some of the taxis are Priuses!
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Almost every taxi in Winnipeg is a Prius.
They don’t make very good cabs. They’re a small car to begin with and once you put the big plexiglass divider in them there’s almost no rear seat room. Not much luggage space either.
The cop cars say NYPD
That’s actually North Yellowknife, in teh Northwest Territories.
Enormous crime rate, often involving moose, curling, or some combination therewith.
I wouldn’t mind seeing her eat out a Playboy Bunny.
You’re a sick man Spearhafoc. I admire that in a person.
I come here to see whut’s whut and get a Ren & Stimpy song stuck in my head.
You people are the best.
I come here to see whut’s whut and get a Ren & Stimpy song stuck in my head.
Welcome to my world. I’ve had that song stuck in my head since last night.
“Our Yaks our really large……”
And they smell like rotting beef burgers!
(Yaks: Humph!)
My brain elided the comma between ‘moose’ and ‘curling’. That led to some interesting mental imagery.
I’m familiar with moose crime (mmmm, delicious) but what is this curling crime you speak of ? I! W? N?
Moose curling would involve moose sliding across the ice like a larger version of Bambi.
Curling crime; gangs of wholesome, redcheeked, but louche Canadian girls in Icelandic sweaters and knitted hats on a crime spree to pay for their trip to Sochi. Perhaps I’ve said too much.
Perhaps you should hit the showers.
Perhaps you should publish a newsletter or make a web site.
Mooser hasn’t commented here lately, perhaps he’s practicing his curling technique?
What did I miss? I was in my bunk.
What did I miss? I was in my bunk.
Slacker. You were only sleeping!
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what is this curling crime you speak of ?
Spilling your coffee and scotch.
Mooser sighting in Frankfurt!
But does it have the indestructibility and impossible mass of the Steinway?
Know Yore Instrument.
This is the skool piano you know the one which go WAM PLUNK BISH BASH ZUNK. It is a cranky old grid made by an old german called b.ch.ei.co…ldb..rg. As you will see it hav a pair of brass flame-throwers and a bubble for a rear gunner.
The loud pedal droped off when molesworth 2 pla ‘fairy bells’ and hav never been seen agane. Inside there are a lot of old marbles, cig cards, toy soldiers and dead goldfish. There are a lot of wooden things which tap up and down. I think if it had a rebore and new piston rings it would be a snip.
what is this curling crime you speak of ?
Spilling your coffee and scotch.
Isn’t that scurling?
I think if it had a rebore and new piston rings it would be a snip.
Yeah sure. Think you do that w/o doing the top end too? In your dreams.
Their rainbow flag only has red
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/are-you-a-ginger-say-it-loud-and-proud-today.1376115362
So the other day when bbkf mentioned “ghey penis” I couldn’t recall whether I ever did a search on it. So I did, of course. Found the following at forum.bodybuilding.com:
Further down the thread we find:
Fun fact: On the top-of-the-line Bosendorfer grands, the piano has 96 keys, an extra octave below so that notes for the organ pedals can be played on the keyboard.
These notes are so low that a piano technician(Piano tuner, an occupation my great-grandfather occupied for a while) has to use an oscilloscope to tune them because the “beats” in that range are undetectable by the human ear.
The standard Bösendorfer is not equipped with flamethrowers so the company made a special version for Liszt.
Now… wait just a darned, dadgummed minnit!
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The intriguing thing about this totes non-gay guy, Pups, is the two guys having sex in his own bed “accidentally”. And he tried getting in on the action.
These kind of accidents never seem to happen around my house (or bed).
Bösendorfer kittens
Pupienus made tigris cry.
The intriguing thing about this totes non-gay guy, Pups, is the two guys having sex in his own bed “accidentally”. And he tried getting in on the action.
Suezboo, this editorial may help explain how these incidents take place. They are like a force of nature that the guy has no control over.
This poor son of a bitch has never heard of bisexuality I guess. Perhaps national billboards, newspaper and TV ads.
ATTENTION: YOUR NAUGHTY BITS MAY BE TINGLED BY BOYS AND GIRLS! DO NOT PANIC!
Apres Une Lecture du Dante
ATTENTION: YOUR NAUGHTY BITS MAY BE TINGLED BY BOYS AND GIRLS! DO NOT PANIC!
YOUR ODDS OF GETTING A DATE WILL INCREASE!!!
They’ll double!
—Woody Allen
YOUR ODDS OF GETTING A DATE WILL INCREASE!!!
So will your odds of rejection!
So will your odds of being stalked by exes of every gender.
Fun fact: I’m being stalked by neo Nazis. The good news is they posted my hawtest photo. Enjoy it before it gets nuked. (The link is Anonymoused for your protection.)
Also, the Katzenklavier made me cry too.
Fun fact: I’m being stalked by neo Nazis.
Lucky you – they seem to be the peachiest of people, perfect for a cup of tea, EZ-Bake oven cupcake, and a casual lynching.
Nuke em from orbit and give the double-bird to the crater.
“Nuke em from orbit and give the double-bird to the crater.”
Great minds think alike! And the group may cross the hate crimes legal boundary. Even the uber-Zionists are pissed off about Nazis trying to organize here. Could be an interesting ride.
Fun fact: I’m being stalked by neo Nazis.
I hate Illinois nazis.
YOUR ODDS OF GETTING A DATE WILL INCREASE!!!
So will your odds of rejection!
Understanding of statistics: fail
“I hate Illinois nazis.”
That is why I love you freaks.
Babe, the tank pic at the top of the page is also pretty great. But one question: WHY DO YOU HATE WHITE PEOPLE?
Understanding of statistics: fail
Yeah, yeah, I should have said “or maybe.” The point was being open to both sexes doesn’t necessarily makes you any more successful with either of them.
I know tig but the question remains; WHY DO YOU HATE WHITE PEOPLE?
White D00DS, tigris. D00DS. Because I’m a commie lezbian femdom twat, obvs.
The rilly hawt foto the boneheads took already has a DMCA, but I uploaded it here: http://wp.me/a32yV9-qD
(Had a session with a pro photographer – I traded her $1 and a weekend in the rainforest for the photo rights. Shameless, I know.)
YOUR ODDS OF GETTING A DATE WILL INCREASE!!!
I believe in carbon dating. I only put out for diamonds.
I believe in carbon dating. I only put out for diamonds.
“Mommy, I saw you putting your mouth on Daddy’s penis! That’s not where babies come from!”
“No sweetheart. That’s where jewelry comes from.”
I only put out for diamonds.
Goddamn firefighters’ union.
I’m being stalked by neo Nazis
I didn’t realize they were that common in British Columbia, or anywhere in Canada for that matter.
Canadian Nazis have to try harder.
We better send the Canadian Womens Curling Team to take down the Nazis.
The Canadian Women’s MOOSE curling team.
I was going to suggest the Canadian Women’s Rugby Team, but apparently they’re preoccupied getting naked and making out with each other.
http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptcablogs/RugbyCalendar2.jpg
I was going to suggest the Canadian Women’s Rugby Team, but apparently they’re preoccupied getting naked and making out with each other.
That much hair and that little clothing, rugby is going to hurt a LOT.
“I didn’t realize they were that common in British Columbia, or anywhere in Canada for that matter.”
Expansion team.
The moose curling event was taken out of the Calgary Stampede after the public finally soured on seeing stylists get stomped to death.
No, no. Here’s a moose curler, you can see he’s got his rock and his broom. http://www.shop.vincentvandesigns.com/Moose-Curling-Ornament-ORN0153.htm
My parents were big into curling. Young folks don’t appreciate skidding polished rocks around a freezing rink like they used to.
Well… I NEVER!
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Never heard about moose curling. However, I do know that in Greece they have moose soccer.
I didn’t realize they were that common in British Columbia, or anywhere in Canada for that matter.
The Canadian content laws even apply to hate speech.
I didn’t realize they were that common in British Columbia
Oh they’re common all right.
Never heard about moose curling.
Is it anything like donkey basketball? Because I wouldn’t want to try putting a saddle on one of those things.
Blood & Honour held a gathering on the island five years ago. That was the last I heard of them. This United Front guy says he’s based in the Fraser Valley near Vancouver.
So, did they kill each other off, or did … something else happen to them?
I killed them. No, I’m not sure what happened. Round here they sort of disappeared under a rock. They’ve been more active in Vancouver.
Just saw three spectacular meteors in the space of forty minutes. Seriously, folks, if you’re up, check out the Perseids.
Stupid clouds.
Rain. Lots of rain.
apparently they’re preoccupied getting naked and making out with each other.
Quite understandable.
Uhhhhhhh… sorry Northwesterners!
Pleasant dreams y’all!
Scandinavian skinny-dippers warned of testicle-biting fish
Imma guessing that a fish native to the Amazon* and popular among the tropical aquarium crowd is not going to survive very long in the Oresund which is, you know, NOT TROPICAL.
Any males swimming in the Oresund are likely to have their testicles retracted well into the body anyway.
* Also found in the PNG rivers having been introduced by the usual human stupidity.
Oh, good God, Vox Day tries to “correct” the flaws in G.R.R. Martin’s fiction, to the extent that he apes the title of G.R.R. Martin first book and miniseries.
It’s all good fun until someone’s testicles get bitten by a large fish.
POOP?
You got that right, MK:
http://press.discovery.com/ekits/river-monsters-3/series.html
Claudia Puig at USA Today wins the “Totally doesn’t get it” award. Her review of Pacific Rim says The story’s appeal is lost in all the fights between the monsters and robots.
Known locally as the ‘Ball Cutter’
Note to self. Wear a cup, preferably a steel one, when fishing in Papua New Guinea.
Better yet. Avoid Papua New Guinea altogether. No telling what other nasty critters they’ve got there.
Known locally as the ‘Ball Cutter’
Jeremy Wade fears no fish called ‘Ball Cutter’. A fish called ‘The Orthodontist’, on the other hand…
Child-endangering dumbfucks get lost at sea in an attempt to flee godless liberal Arizona.
Among other differences, she said they had a problem with being “forced to pay these taxes that pay for abortions we don’t agree with.”
Personally, I have a problem with my tax money being used to fly these morons back home.
What makes this story even more loony is they intended to settle in Kiribati, a Pacific island nation that is in the process of being evacuated because of the rising sea level. Were they going to get there and tell them that climate change is a liberal lie because Jesus told them so?
What makes this story even more loony is they intended to settle in Kiribati, a Pacific island nation that is in the process of being evacuated because of the rising sea level. Were they going to get there and tell them that climate change is a liberal lie because Jesus told them so?
Silly. They could have built a perfectly cromulent island out of the plastic debris that makes up the Great Pacific Gyre.
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she and her husband “decided to take a leap of faith and see where God led us”
So I led them around in circles in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Do you think they get the message?
They could have built a perfectly cromulent island out of the plastic debris that makes up the Great Pacific Gyre.
Big Jesus Trash Can!
Child endangering dumbfucks hoping for their own reality show.
Among other differences, she said they had a problem with being “forced to pay these taxes that pay for abortions we don’t agree with.”
So they believe in freedom, autonomy, not paying for services, and the obligation of resource-starved Kiribati islanders to provide a new home to any bunch of god-bothering biblehead parasites who wash up on their beach without asking.
As the perpetrator of occasional acts of astonishing folly myself it’s good to know they can now be explained as angling for a reality show.
Most of my acts of astonishing folly occurred before the heyday of reality shows.
Oh, Fuck Me! Up until now, I thought the ultimate in literary assholism was L. Ron Hubbard introducing Harold Shea, the protagonist of L. Sprague De Camp and Fletcher Pratt’s Incompleat Enchanter series into one of his own stories, just to kill him off.
Gotta love the 4.3-out-of-5 stars out of 109 reviews, though.
IIRC Harold Shea had been introduced only shortly before Hubbard killed him. For which act he earned the undying enmity of a lot of the SF and fantasy writers of the day. Heinlein reportedly despised Elron and frequently related anecdotes that showed him to be a total fraud. Ted Sturgeon very credibly claimed to be present when L. Ron Hoover said “you want to make reawl money you have to start a religion.” Also amusing is that some of the basics of Dianetics came from Heinlein. An unrecognized great moment in trollery.
I should say “Heinlein gave to Hubbard…”
On a mostly irrelevant note: today, when John Lennon was my age, he’d been dead for 3 years.
DAVID BROOKS: Yeah, I think the audience has changed online. I think there’s been a return to authority. You know, I used to read blogs, and you’d kind of be reading something interesting, and then the blogger would write, “Well, I’ve got to quit now. I’m going off to junior high.” I realized I’d been reading a 12 year old.
WTF?!… This never happened. It’s not an insight, a metaphor, a joke, or what have you. It’s just stupid and bizarre. The reasonable conclusion is that Brooks, who (whatever one might think about him) is not an open hydrant of immoderation and crude reaction, has a real, debilitating problem with bloggers and such.
This never happened.
Just like everything Brooks writes.
Another Tom Lehrer fan?
Yeah, it’s called Irritabilis cyberspacium, or Old Media Crankiness. It happens when the internet makes you realize that not everyone considers you an authority.
Thanks, tigris, for covering for me wrt the requisite Booboos in Paradise Linky.
The best part of that article tigris linked to was Brooks’ response to the reporter:
“This is dishonest research. You’re not approaching the piece in the spirit of an honest reporter. Is this how you’re going to start your career? I mean, really, doing this sort of piece? I used to do ’em, I know ’em, how one starts, but it’s just something you’ll mature beyond.”
Sure, Bobo, he’ll grow up to be an honest, mature dealer in phony stereotypes and false equivalences, just like you.
Another Tom Lehrer fan?
Yes?
I just remember the line from one of his routines where he remarks that when Mozart was his age, he’d been dead 5 years.
I’ve been know to play “Send the Marines” on occasion. Pointedly. The first time I did it was for Grenada.
Sure, Bobo, he’ll grow up to be an honest, mature dealer in phony stereotypes and false equivalences, just like you.
Dream big, BoNoBo is a helluva target. That much intellectual vapidity in that goofy looking of a package? A pure metaphor-making machine, of such metaphorness that other creators of metaphor quaver the fear of a cosmic fearish thing?
BoBo, known for his intensive research and corporate analysis of bad sugary-sauce-intensive short order restaurants living in fear of Obamacare?
David Brooks questioning the reportive spirit of anyone?
Brooks has blood and poverty on his hands. This fucking joker, somehow taken as an opinion leader by all but his dog Moral Hazard, can suck the chrome off of an Edsel or a Sulzberger, but does not seem to realize that the most of the rest of the world can not afford to eat even at Applebees. He is a goddamn fraud, exulting in the suffering of those he considers to not meet his standards. In a perfect world, he’d be Soylent Brooks (now with more asshole).
Nuking him from orbit would be a waste of escape velocity. Feed him to the future McRibs.
I’ve been know to play “Send the Marines” on occasion.
Me for ‘Poisoning Pigeons In The Park’, or p’raps ‘The Vatican Rag’.
Another Tom Lehrer fan?
Me too. I always liked ‘MLF Lullaby’ and ‘Wernher Von Braun’.
Oh, and ‘Who’s Next’ of course.
Another Tom Lehrer fan?
Oh yeah. Also turned 43 today.
Dayum. I’d forgotten Lennon was only 40 when he was killed. It seemed terribly old to me at the time (well, old-ish, anyway). Happy birthday!
As for Mr, Lehrer, I love pretty much all his stuff. My younger brother actually got to spend an evening with him, though, being 10 at the time, he slept through a lot of it. I think my brother’s dad was some kind of friend of TL’s.
The Masochism Tango. http://youtube.com/watch?v=TytGOeiW0aE
Congrats on another revolution, VC, you young thing.
Thread Bear said,
August 9, 2013 at 3:57
A dingo ate my red hat!
My baby was wearing it at the time! (The hat, not the dingo – I didn’t make my baby wear a dingo. It would have had trouble digesting the hat in that case).
I’ll come in again…
Oh, that’s Nym who just finished his/her 43rd trip. Mine was a couple months ago, and a somewhat higher number.
Perseid report; moderate. Good meteor to mosquito ratio, 78 degrees, 100% humidity at 3am, lots of frogs, some feral dog howls. Had two long, glowing, multi-colored Perseid classics.
This morning was too overcast to see much, but yesterday, my experience was similar to yours- about half a dozen typical “shooting stars” and three “fireballs”, one of them absolutely spectacular.
Now, from the “weird shit at work” files, a wild turkey appeared on the site yesterday. It was so tame, we think somebody had it as a “pet” but had second thoughts, so they threw it over the fence. It’s not the first “stray” some a-hole dumped off on us. My co-worker caught it with the help of his son, and placed it in one of our sheds for the night. He’s already started calling wildlife rehabilitators for advice.
The turkey looks like a young male, a “jake” if you will. His tailfeathers and primary wing feathers are ragged, but he seems to be in good health otherwise. I was able to feed him chunks of wind-fallen apples by hand.
I was able to feed him chunks of wind-fallen apples by hand.
Keep it up. He should be nice and plump by November 28th.
They tame pretty easy. I know a woman here that feeds them on her deck and there’s an enormous tom that raps on the glass door. I’ve fed it corn from a bowl in my hand. Always think about it when I see hunting mags offering tips on how to lure in those wily trophy toms. My tip; try corn.
Keep it up. He should be nice and plump by November 28th.
Oh, man, I would be persona non grata at work if I axed “George”, as my co-worker’s son dubbed him.
They tame pretty easy. I know a woman here that feeds them on her deck and there’s an enormous tom that raps on the glass door. I’ve fed it corn from a bowl in my hand. Always think about it when I see hunting mags offering tips on how to lure in those wily trophy toms. My tip; try corn.
We have scads of them at one of our sites, I saw a group of 21 of them last year, but they spend most of the time in groups of two to five. They are pretty tame, but not like this guy. Apparently, he followed people around for a good portion of the day.
Huh, the tom I fed is also called George. ‘sup with that?
They’re everywhere and unlike deer are rarely pests unless you have blueberry land. I’ve got ’em in the back yard, 20 hens and 1st gen, 5-8 jakes and then toms in the season, like these two doing the synchronized strut.
I would give advice about harvesting and preparing but, face it, ain’t none of y’all gonna do it.
Bad news for Herr Bloomberg. No more legally hassling black people. Now what, racist cop bitches?
Turkeys are a big evil to corn farmers up here (few natural predators yet, but expect the coyote population and perhaps martens/fishers to do a wax/wane thing lagging the turkeys.) They will take down large swaths of corn tout suite.
Some areas in winter, you hear popping sounds (target practice, or firecrackers for chasing crows?) all winter, and people have freezers full of turkey, Cub Foods sells a lot of them, apparently.
Gotta deep-fry wild turkeys, baking ’em (unless you wrap the whole bird in bacon) turns them to shoe leather real easily. (Mmmm. Bacon.)
Gotta deep-fry wild turkeys
You could probably braise them. I have some recipes for braising wild duck that would probably work.
Never known of turkeys eating corn off the stalk but maybe in big monocultures they get desperate. Plenty of corn around me and you’ll see turkeys in the field after harvest but they’re never pests; and there’s lots, fall flocks of 2-300.
Best way to eat wild turkey is choose young birds, strip out the breast pockets and poach them in herby stock. Throw the rest of the bird away unless you want to make that long cooked turkey soup they do in Oaxaca. Store turkeys are never more than 8 months old even if they weigh 30 pounds; a three year old wild turkey that’s been running the whole time is not going to give you a tender experience.
what if you were to sterilize it with gamma radiation and eat it rare? You’d have no disease risk, and the mat would still be juicy and tender.
The interior of meat is pretty sterile. If you’re harvesting yourself just clean your knife well and have at it. Make turkeymaki rolls.
I have some recipes for braising wild duck that would probably work.
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Thing I think aboot turkey hunting, they’re not smart, or wily, or any of that. What they are is paranoid, scared of their own shadow, with great eyesight and good hearing. If they see/hear ANYTHING they freak and run.
Make turkeymaki rolls.
Under no circumstances. On the other hand, I now have a great thought for supper tonight…
My favorite turkey hunting story, all you need is the punch line, though if you want I can make it last a long time.
“Christ, Stanley, you said that gun had a wicked pattern and so it does. Just look at your truck.”
I’ve come so close twice grouse-hunting. After many hours chasing KGB trained counter-intelligence grouse through a swamp as they led us further and further away from cilivisation, to come back to where the truck is parked and see one grabbing gravel by teh vehicle.
You start doing math – How much damage will the truck take? How much do I care at this point?
We did a mass-farmed turkey last year where you cover the turkey with foil and cook @ 250 F for 12 hours. Even though wild turkeys are notoriously less moist then their domesticated cousins, it should work just as well on them.
chasing KGB trained counter-intelligence grouse through a swamp
This. Can’t bring myself to quit, though.
Wild turkeys were a bit of a novelty up here not long ago. Now they act like they own the joint. Still, I’ll pass. Too much sitting still involved.
We used to say deer look at hunters and see trees, a turkey looks at a tree and sees a hunter.
Second the poaching but I have had good results brining and roasting. Treat them like you would coq or stewing hen.
Also too, TEH GUBMINT IZ OPPRESSIN KRISS-CHINZ!11!
Also too, TEH GUBMINT IZ OPPRESSIN KRISS-CHINZ!11!
Perhaps they should try ‘Haissem’. Isn’t that the trend nowadays?
Also, from here on out, I wish to be referred to ‘Oelap’. That or ‘Captain John Thor Squirrelnuts.’ I’m not partial.
Going meteor watching tonight, north of the Twin Cities. Weather permitting of course. My question is, will a phone or tablet camera (assuming I get that lucky) capture anything?
Edroso’s fresh Village Voice column includes this:
David French [at NRO] celebrated the anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by telling us what a bunch of miserable wimps we have become. “In a time when America lacks the strength of will to force an active-duty Army officer (and admitted terrorist) to [1] shave his jihadist beard before appearing at a court-martial,” he snarled, “when we wring our hands in guilt over the use of [2] the most precise weapons ever devised against an enemy of unquestioned cruelty and malice, and when we respond to threats with weakness that merely encourages greater violence, it’s worth remembering a time when this nation understood the necessity — the moral necessity — of decisive force.”
[1] So Nidal Hasan is “active-duty” in some technical sense, and his beard violates rules; so what?! He killed thirteen people. Why insist on shaving him? Because he’s nominally a soldier? I don’t get it … Maybe the fear is that other troops might follow his example, and grow beards.
[2] I wish everyone would stop describing things that explode — namely bombs and missiles — as super-precise. I understand that the guidance systems are much improved, etc., but an explosion cannot be the “most precise weapon ever devised.” Neither can guns. Melee combat is most precise, and it’s out of style, precision be damned.
No, they sure wont. For nighttime photos, you need a tripod to keep the camera steady for long exposures. Ideally what you want is a camera that lets you set exposure times manually and select the longest exposure at the most sensitive ISA setting it has. Then mount it on the tripod and point it where you hope to see meteors, push the button and hope. if the camera has a slight delay setting so the shutter opens a few seconds after you push the button, that will reduce blurriness too.
Also if you can put a good size hill between you and the nearest town, that will help reduce the light pollution for you and make for better photos. And I take back what I said about using the most sensitive ISA setting, take a few exposures and adjust as needed, if you can see stars in your picture, you will be able to see shooting stars.
Thanks for the advice, but I’m not much of a photographer, don’t have an actual camera, I really just hoped I might be able to capture a nice pic as a souvenir.
most precise weapon ever devised
What the fuck? Over.
There’s a reason we used to say “close counts”.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Pass the popcorn!
Oregon GOP ousted their chairwoman this weekend. New chair: Art Fucking Robinson!
Some Art Robinson gems:
“School buses are the biggest source of child abuse in the nation”
“The solution to nuclear waste is to distribute it evenly around the earth. “All we need do with nuclear waste is dilute it to a low radiation level and sprinkle it over the ocean – or even over America after hor-mesis is better understood and verified with respect to more diseases.”
Public education (tax-financed socialism) has become the most widespread and devastating form of child abuse and racism in the United States. Moreover, people who have been cut off at the knees by public education are so mentally handicapped that they cannot be responsible custodians of the energy technology base or other advanced accomplishments of our civilization … . Can this problem be corrected? Yes. Can it be corrected by improving the public schools? No — only by abolishing them.”
Also
School buses are the biggest source of child abuse in the nation
Since when do priests drive school buses?
paleotectonics, your devices’ camera app might have a night mode, for taking pictures of firewords and the like. Even my Paris Hilton Dumb phone(given to me by Obama, naturally) has that setting.
I have heard that if one were to compare a map of background radiation in the US with a map of longevity in the US, there is a pretty good correlation.
However, that really doesn’t follow that we should be adding a teaspoon of plutonium to every thousand tons of concrete. Radioactive waste needs to be accounted for. A mere sixty or so pounds of plutonium with a dollop of other radioactive elements is enough to give a couple million people A Real Bad Time. Scattering radioactive waste everywhere, is just kicking off the biggest scavenger hunt in the world, where everyone loses if the wrong people win.
In addition to being radioactive, that shit is poison. I don’t want to see the new federal dept of Nuclear Waste Remediation (or their discount privatized govt services equivalent) filled up with underpaid civil servants or contractors (none of whom would object to making a little extra money on the side) driving around the country to hide an ounce here, and and ounce there of the highly concentrated worst news ever in every major construction project. In a few decades some of those structures will start getting demolished, and then there will be a job that makes asbestos remediation look like a picnic.
Also in the wake of 9/11 there are far more radiation detectors out there than one might realize. And adding a couple tens of thousands of false positives is not my idea of making that network more effective.
your devices’ camera app might have a night mode
Is HDR such a widget?
If you haven’t seen this, wait no longer.
Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998
HDR certainly sounds like it would work for what you want it for:
Maybe dude should have a look at the cost of an asbestos abatement before he gets any funny ideas about burying nuke waste in homes and commercial buildings.
On the other hand–it’s nice to see the Republicans coming up with their own ideas instead of just bashing everyone else’s.
Happy B-day NYM!!!!
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OMFG:
In a 2003 newsletter, Robinson speculated that diluted radioactive waste might be stored safely in concrete foundations and insulation of homes and buildings, with a net health benefit for people.
You first, Mr Robinson.
Robinson’s contrarianism re: the dangers of radioactivity reminds me of a certain wingnut arguing in favor of DDT and asbestos. Deregulate ’em, or you have the blood of millions on your hands! Why do libs hate malarial Africans so much? Why do they want little babies to burn up? The WTC could’ve used a whole lotta asbestos!
Big gummint, pointy-headed “scientists” and smug liberals can’t be right.
The WTC could’ve used a whole lotta asbestos!
Causes cancer AND stops airplanes. It’s the wonder material.
After seeing Pacific Rim (which I enjoyed much more than I expected to) yesterday Teh Ho sed “J. J. Abrams should watch this movie and commit seppuku.”
“If you see only one giant robots vs giant monsters movie this year…”
In a 2003 newsletter, Robinson speculated that diluted radioactive waste might be stored safely in concrete foundations and insulation of homes and buildings, with a net health benefit for people.
“The solution to pollution is NOT dilution.” – Environmental Engineering 101
“The solution to pollution is NOT dilution.” – Environmental Engineering 101
Pfffttt! Book and experiential learning. Jesus knows Robinson’s right.
“The solution to pollution is NOT dilution.” – Environmental Engineering 101
Alternate take: You mean dumping a fuckton of Corexit into the Gulf of Mexico won’t actually help alleviate the oil spill?
His “scatter all of the waste and encase it in concrete” only works in the most magical of ivory towers. There are thousands of tons of hot, radioactive, poisonous, corrosive sludge out there. Turning that crap into material that can even be handled safely is pretty hard, after a while, even the machines used to handle the waste would become radioactive therefore necessitating some form of special disposal. Once you have millions or billions of radioactive pellets how do you disperse them safely so the delivery trucks (and drivers) aren’t glowing like a nightlight? The whole idea is so terrible, I begin to suspect the author has never met any actual human beings, or planned anything with more attendees than a solo wank-fest.
“The solution to pollution is NOT dilution.” – Environmental Engineering 101
I hope the whole course is this catchy and rhymey.
Want some blow? I can get you some blow.
You mean dumping a fuckton of Corexit into the Gulf of Mexico won’t actually help alleviate the oil spill?
Alleviate? Don’t be silly. That there is called good corporate stewardship of the environment, it is.
Enjoy your butoxyethanol shrimp.
The whole “radioactive waste in the foundations of houses” has been done, back when they used to make building blocks out of the tailings from uranium mines and build houses out of them.
Seriously, though—mine tailings are a much, much bigger radiological threat than reactor waste. The reactor waste will be less radioactive than the original fuel in 60 years or so. Gouging millions of tons of uranium and thorium ore out of the ground, grinding it up really small, removing all the mildly-radioactive nuclides, and then leaving all the finely-ground highly-radioactive daughters in huge piles to be leached out by rainwater…nobody seems to worry about that among all the hand-wringing about what to do with radioactive waste.
My modest proposal: take the reactor waste, mix it back up with the tailings, add cement, and pour it back in the same hole in the ground it came from in the first place. The radioactivity was always there—at least that way it will stay in place. After a few years it will be less radioactive than it was before it was mined.
There are thousands of tons of hot, radioactive, poisonous, corrosive sludge out there. Turning that crap into material that can even be handled safely is pretty hard, after a while, even the machines used to handle the waste would become radioactive therefore necessitating some form of special disposal.
Out in Idaho there’s a place like that called the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant. It does just that (reprocesses nuclear fuel, keeps the good stuff and turns sludge into solid waste, calcining it’s called) and is exactly that (radioactive as heck). They store the calcined material in silos built into the ground. About 50 years going so far, another 9950 to go. (I had to do asbestos inspections of that place. Folks there were really afraid of that, radioactivity not so much.)
There is so much nuclear material ready to be waste that it would fill Yucca Mountain the instant it opens and still have thousands of tons left undisposed.
There are thousands of tons of hot, radioactive, poisonous, corrosive sludge out there
How do the French dispose of their spent nuclear material, or is it one of those things I’d just as soon not know about?
I know they get most of their electricity from nukes.
Enjoy your butoxyethanol shrimp.
Is that anything like tempura?
How do the French dispose of their spent nuclear material,
Dilute it down, put it in the wine and cheese then ship it out.
How do the French dispose of their spent nuclear material, or is it one of those things I’d just as soon not know about?
Too much information.
How do the French dispose of their spent nuclear material, or is it one of those things I’d just as soon not know about?
Better not to know, maybe.
My first full-time job was working for the Texas Department of Health, in their radiation chemistry lab. We examined environmental samples for radioactivity. Mostly water, some soil and vegetation, and oysters from the Houston Ship Channel (they’re fixed and filter the water for nutrients).
Anyway, we got to tell water co-ops in West Texas that, yep, their water was radioactive, going through uranium beds as it did(being mined by various energy companies), but where else you gonna get your water?
We also examined fly ash from coal power plants, and I learned there were coal fields in Wyoming or Montana that were pretty damn radioactive. The question, once it was mined, was whether to sell it as fuel to coal plants or nukes. The answer, of course, was “whatever gets us most profit.”
Now, from the “weird shit at work” files, a wild turkey appeared on the site yesterday.
We had a hen and five poults at the water plant, today. The poults were chasing off the starlings and crows, even. Fierce li’l fuckers.
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Going meteor watching tonight, north of the Twin Cities. Weather permitting of course. My question is, will a phone or tablet camera (assuming I get that lucky) capture anything?
Much better odds with a cheap Canon point-n-shoot and a hack called CHDK. Works like AWESOME, I can confirm.
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Everyone seems to be in bed when I post. Where the fuck you from?
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The fact is, liberal means anti-America and anti-common sense. Always for abortion, against God, against freedom and free speech and the consitution.
Everyone seems to be in bed when I post.
I’m up. I go back on nights Wednesday so I’m trying to get on a late schedule.
It doesn’t help that the Mrs. gets up at 5:30 to go to work.
I’m up. I go back on nights Wednesday so I’m trying to get on a late schedule.
I just got up and am getting prepared for the graveyard shift.
jr in bed kg about to do the same. whoops, spoke too soon. This kid is like the terminator, just keeps getting up.
The crows around here don’t let any red-tailed hawks establish themselves from the foothills on the east of town. You can see them take one on below:
Aerial combat.
Late afternoon for me.
No Pleiades viewing for me last night – too much cloud cover, probably left over from Gil.
The crows around here don’t let any red-tailed hawks establish themselves from the foothills on the east of town. You can see them take one on below:
Aerial combat.
That’s some classic “mobbing” right there.
Yeah, the crows chase away the bald eagles around here. I’ve seen an eagle go inverted trying to get claws on one of those buggers.
I had a crow chase me away from its nest a couple weeks ago. I was jaywalking across a street that has trees in the median and apparently passed under their nest. Bastard chased me all the way down to the corner. I was surprised, didn’t think that vulnerable chicks (?) would be around still.
Avaunt, the post in which I poke football fans with a stick hath arrived.