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One of our balls went too far. One of our balls didn't go far enough. One of our balls was just right and it went in the hole. - The Three Golfing Bears
Justice and Fairness don't exist in the universe. But the beauty of being Human is that we can conceive of these things and create them in our world.
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One of our balls went too far. One of our balls didn't go far enough. One of our balls was just right and it went in the hole. - The Three Golfing Bears
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
DO NOT URINATE ON HIS GRAVE. That will get you arrested for public urination. Pee into a 40 ounce beer bottle. Let it age. Pour that out on his grave so you can claim you're only pouring one out in respect.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
You know when he dies she's going to have a moderate list of right wing politicians and millionaires seeking her attention, not really for her attention, but for the attention it will bring them by being with her.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
One of the signers of the Declaration of Independence was named Button.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social)
Drove all the way down to Red Wing. Enjoyed the drive in the country. Bought myself a taco pizza. Ate 3/4 of it over the course of the afternoon. The rest I'll eat tomorrow morning. This was a good day.
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northshorevisitor.com/activities/w... π
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They attempted to transfer him to the morgue three times, but he kept walking out.
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Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Satan doesn't want him. Endless Purgatory of driving around on a golf cart by himself, unable to get off the course, find a building or any other person. Just him, a golf course, a golf cart. No clubs, no balls. 95 degree heat, high humidity, very sunny. For eternity.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. In the long run cheaper than paying banks a fortune in interest.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
It would help if they were able to pay for the buildings up front and not take out loans to buy them. That seems to be the point where they fail - trying to cover a mortgage.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
This was the picture in the post directly above yours on my screen. Looks at death's door.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
They're going to Weekend at Bernies him out onto the course so that they can claim that he died golfing. Then they turn the golf course into a "national shrine".
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes he deserves better, but the US Championship is a title he hasn't held before. So good for him.
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Narrator: Because he is, of course, full of shit.
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Dreary, overcast Saturday to start the Labor Day weekend. And I'm watching this cheesy Sun Wukong video on YouTube while enjoying some dispensary product. Just a tiny moment of joy in life, like the Saturday morning cartoons of my long ago youth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPFN...
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So Trump hasn't been seen in the last day or so and has nothing scheduled for the weekend.
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If the announcement wasn't simply Loud Boom at 3 o'clock. Then it was a missed opportunity.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, but now it is a day you're required to labor.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
I've never had to watch or read right wing media to know what last night's talking point was. Because Republicans will repeat it verbatim the next day. As if it were their own thoughts.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
I call these kinds of pictures "Advertising for a burglary". People in their area will recognize them, and the wrong people will decide to see where they live, and when they're not home.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
βFor me, we have so many other important things to do than to be on the cover of any magazine.β What important things would those be, Melania? The spa? Your young secret service agents?
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social)
I miss Theodore. Walked into my bedroom and thought "I haven't found any kitty litter on the bed lately... oh." He deserved so much better.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
We have created a society where we are forced to share space with heavily armed people, whose intent we cannot know until they open fire. This is not "freedom".
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
In the year 3168, the only thing we know about Donald Trump is that he pressured a corporation to change its logo.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Every Republican who complains about him swearing should be answered with "Trump raped children."
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social)
Oh great. Apartment complex has a pest company come out, they enter my apartment (terrifying my cat, who I found in a corner behind storage bins) and fuck up the kitchen floor moving the fridge.
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Will the half or more of the National Guard who don't support him finally stand up and be counted? Yes, half or more. At the end of Trump's last term, a Military Times poll of active service members gave him a 33% approval rating and 50% disapproval. Doubt it's gotten better for him.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
25 years in corporate IT, years in other industries and it never ceased to amaze me how little companies value their own business knowledge. Half the time they're firing key knowledge people because some middle manager has a bug up their ass about this person having one over on them.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
But if the alarm clock makes too much noise, it will offend the donors. Er, I mean neighbors.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social)
Still so weird and fucked up to me to be listening to Scifi stories on YouTube and, because the human characters are not white (the infamous Sarah Chen for example), there are comments complaining about DEI. You have no problems with alien species, but you have a problem with an Asian woman there?
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
When they come to force him out of the White House, he's going to be in there with a butter knife, trying to pry it all off.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
We want leadership, not a lot of corporate lackeys sitting in back rooms collecting checks from lobbyists and DOING FUCK ALL NOTHING ABOUT THIS CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS. I'm beyond disgusted with all of my Democratic senators and reps for their silence and complicity.
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They've been trained to rage at any change, no matter how small, except for the ones Trump initiates. If Trump asked why they didn't just hang a barrel out front, MAGA would be demanding it happen.
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Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Every angry protest at a minor change only deepens Conservative disconnect from a reality where the only constant is change. That being said, some chucklefuck got paid to propose and spend millions to make a pointless change only to walk into a PR buzzsaw.
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Isn't it an amazing coincidence that all of the shittiest people in the country went MAGA?
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#1 Is Michael Fiddelke a member of the board that ended DEI or did he support that change? #2 The company is clearly doing everything possible to blame the loss of business on everything BUT that decision. #3 So fuck 'em.
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I was a good uncle. It was my job to take them out, get them all sugared up, then hand them back to their parents.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Moses parted the Red Sea. So I want to see a version where he's parting a sea of red hat MAGA.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Pish posh. It's just self-cooking shrimp. You people are so paranoid! π
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The is the video version of comfort food.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Good start. Now, about that Board of Directors.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Good. Now, about the board of directors that voted for that shit. When are they leaving?
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Why YES, Joey, we did try this. Russia still dreams of empire.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social)
Just got my notice that I officially start collecting my social security toward the end of September. So today I started looking for a part time job. The second application was to the local dispensary. Hey, the pay is decent for a part time position. Reduces the number of hours I need to work.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
I dunno man, wouldn't it be better if we had some method of shaping those bits of really hard rock that fall from the sky?
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm sorry, but she's a talentless nepo-baby who would not be in WWE if it were not for her father's influence. She adds nothing to the product and I'd rather see the return of William Regal.
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Ever try to imagine an intelligent species evolving on a planet devoid of something like wood?
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Horrible food and unhappy that the North Eagan Dairy Queen was replaced by one. [Stopped there once, got tacos, drove 5 minutes, parked, tacos were refrigerator temperature. Seriously. Literally COLD. Never going back.] But good for the local economy and jobs. Maybe we can make better tacos.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
2007-2016, watching people I swore were good people, going full out virulent racists in the face of a black president completely destroyed my illusion that we were a good nation filled with good people. We've always been a Lawful Evil nation, we just fooled ourselves that it was otherwise.
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Another buggy whip industry bites the dust.
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Holy Crap. Maggie had never been a mouser and spent little time on the deck because of Theo. Now he's gone. A half hour ago, Maggie scratched to go out on the deck. Five minutes ago, she's behind me, hissing. Standing over a dead mouse. Hissing at it. π€£
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Robin, a child, just sitting out in the open in that outfit. "We went through 437 Robins in three years of war..."
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
10.9% margin there. For every 4 votes for Trump, there were 5 votes for Harris. But gosh yes, "Everyone at our church in Rural Farmtown voted for Trump!"
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Cobra Chickens.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
While Donald considers it a success because Putin told him some lies about the 2020 election. "Daddy" Trump got some validation from Daddy Putin.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Jeffries... Jeffries.. Who is he again? Some silent, irrelevant party hack? I don't see him leading anything.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
"BUT CRIME!!! I HAVE SEEN CRIMES WITH MY OWN EYES!!! WE HAVE TO BE AFRAID OF CRIME!!! WHY AREN'T YOU VALIDATING MY FEAR OF CRIME???" Knew a guy in the 90's who refused to cross the Minneapolis city line for any reason for fear of crime. Insane paranoia.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe, for the sakes of their own sanity, they should re-evaluate the weird, restrictive beliefs about human sexuality that their religion forces upon them. What is so horrifically taboo about watching other people engaging in sexual activities?
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, but they were out of stock because there's such low demand.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
And if you can't get into it today, that doesn't mean that you might not pick it up years from now and do so.
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He shouldn't. He should tell Trump that HE doesn't have any cards, that he's no longer in the game since abandoning support for Ukraine, and all he's doing now is yelling at the players still at the table because he wants a Nobel Peace Prize.
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Oh I don't know. "FURTHER PROOF THAT EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT I HAVE THE BEST WORDS. SAD RADICAL LEFTIST COPIES THE GREAT DONALD TRUMP!!!"
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And to the end of his days he couldn't walk or drive past a sandwich shop without the moment that sandwich hitting him replaying in his head.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Eh, pretty much most of us have been propositioned by members of our own sex. Those of us who are secure in our sexuality feel complimented, not insulted or afraid.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Sadly, under this administration, she needs to stay off social media and say nothing even remotely political or they'll round her up, accuse her of being anti-American and deport her to somewhere in the general vicinity of Ethiopia, but not actually TO Ethiopia.
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When Zelenskyy comes to the White House, he should a> Wear a good suit. b> Tell Donald Trump that he has no cards to play since he threw them away by withdrawing support from Ukraine. "You are no longer seated at the table. You're just shouting at the men who are."
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Ha! Hit the trifecta on posting this in under two hours. Shift+Insert. medium.com/digital-dipl...
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Exactly. They knew exactly what they were voting for. But waging a culture war on the rest of America was more important to them. Hurt trans people, immigrants, minorities and homeless people, can't vote for a black woman. I honestly hope they DO suffer for it. Teach them what is more important.
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Just posted this to someone else. medium.com/digital-dipl...
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"Death by a million bad-faith questions" medium.com/digital-dipl...
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Donald Trump is realizing that no one wants HIM to be there. His only interest in the entire damned affair is an idiotic insistence on getting himself a Nobel Peace Prize. Why? Because Obama has one, and he's insanely jealous of the black president.
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Peggy, We need our Democratic members of congress to stop sitting silently, pretending this is normal. We need you and your colleagues to wake up, get angry and get loud. Because right now, y'all are sitting silently, doing fuck all nothing and watching this nation's descent into dictatorship.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
You make the brownies, you get the piece you want.
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Unfortunately, me in the woods.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Then there will be a King Ralph scenario where Harry and Meghan have to return as king and queen. And I will laugh and laugh.
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xkcd.com/3127/
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Edgy response. Any chance y'all might grow a spine and publicly oppose Trump's dictatorship? No?
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Isn't it amazing what sort of things they could just never quite get around to? Like raising the Minimum Wage or rescheduling marijuana.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
If our media wasn't entirely controlled by right wing billionaires, this might actually be an issue.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Two of my grandparents moved to the US from Nazi Germany in, I believe, 1936. The other side can be traced back to the Mayflower. How American am I, JD?
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh don't worry, he's going to give it back to them. "We took all the oil. All the oil. Now we don't need it. Everybody there is on welfare. Very bad. We don't need it."
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Man, Vince just loved trashing his own roster back in the day, didn't he?
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social)
I hope that the Democrats are going on a nationwide search to find good candidates to run in every congressional district, nationally and at every state level. Not just the status quo of the same people who aren't making a dent.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Once, while picking up cash and receipts from Family Court, I watched a man scream that he wasn't going to pay child support until they restored his driver's license. When they'd suspended his driver's license because he wasn't paying his child support. Landmark case, I'm sure.
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
"Ball? You throw ball?" And you didn't. Shame on you. π
Old Man Brett (@oldmanbrett.bsky.social) reply parent
Over the years I've learned that there are times I can go out and handle such things, and times that I cannot, and I have to have the patience and compassion toward myself to listen to that feeling and not force myself into uncomfortable social situations when my mind and body aren't ready.