One of my favorite things is to introduce people to Rod Hull and Emu videos. Still just as screamingly funny as they were when I was a youngun.
One of my favorite things is to introduce people to Rod Hull and Emu videos. Still just as screamingly funny as they were when I was a youngun.
I'm from the West Coast and I have to laugh a bit whenever someone shows pics of "mountains" that have no timberline and trees all growing right to the tippy top of every one. East side of the continent is unfathomably ancient but them cute l'il hills are all worn down!
BOOTS 'N SNOOTS, BOOTS 'N SNOOTS! SO KYOOTS!
That looks about right--if it's not the exact article, the information it drew from is quite similar. Basically, it comes down to empires being great for rich people but poor people do better when they drag the rich out and shorten them by a head. Something to think about!
Sorry, but I just skimmed it in passing then closed the tab and I'm not sure where I saw it--probably Reddit and that's a very busy place!
I love these guys! As a kid we'd camp at Big Basin Redwoods in California where they had the biggest durned Steller's jays I've ever seen and they were so bold they'd swoop down and take pieces of pancake from our hands while on the wing. Lovely and so sassy!
Yeah, that's where I lost it completely!
The fucking president is outright demanding AND GETTING bribes in exchange for favorable legislative outcomes. Blatant corruption at its most obvious. Something something "remove log from own eye before complaining of mote in neighbor's eye" something something...
Not to mention fabric, animal and human food, building material and remediation of heavy metals from soil so it's better to grow future crops in. Hemp is a kickass plant, we need more of it.
I ask these idiots one simple question--how would it impact your life if you simply never had to pay an electric bill? For most of us, that's thousands every year that stays in our pockets. Renewables and rooftop solar makes it possible--and it would help us all SO MUCH.
Read an article about how the societies that rise from cataclysmically destroyed authoritarian systems tend to be more fair, egalitarian, prosperous and freedom loving. I think it's a similar dynamic to why repressed kids become defiantly autonomous adults and do well in life.
Wait until they find out about the microplastics in their testicles and the forever chemicals that destroy fertility--they've been denying these exist forever but science don't care about stupid opinions.
Got The Eye too, very impressive in one so young.
I have Australian cattle dogs and that is 100% what they'd do--ACDs work cattle, they brook zero bullshit from hoofy critters. They don't take much crap from us opposable thumb monkeys either, really. Awesome dogs, love them to bits.
That l'il punkin gonna be formidable with the sheeps right soon--has all the right instincts and a bold manner. 14/10 good boi!
I'd really love it if some platformed writers were to study up on jury nulllification and how the whole concept has been very deliberately buried from public consciousness. It's a test of the social contract, but a jury can change an unjust law by refusing to convict.
Enshittification is happening everywhere and these dorks have chosen this stupid hill to die on. Good grief.
Taco Bell started as open air walkups too, in that weird faux adobe look. Not really practical these days at all. I did rather like them though, and around here a few still exist, repurposed into actual Mexican food places, which is kinda awesome. Very meta.
And those weird complicated roofs tended to leak and be incredibly expensive to fix or replace. Boxes are cheap!
With the 6 in wide screen that takes a month to warm up and show a picture. A grainy picture where you can barely tell what the hell's on the screen. Yeah, the past was SO AWESOME. Idiots.
NGL, I've considered it myself!
Unexpected "Spacetime For Springers" spotted! Noice...
No, "everyone" is not doing it but hey, thanks for the casual ace erasure, it's keen.
Just coolin' his harbles on the marbles! 😆
That's next week's executive order--got your bingo card ready?
I'm a practiced curmudgeon, able to hold a plethora of views in profound contempt, rage and disgust at once. Granted, the current environment is certainly taxing my abilities but many decades of practice means I'm up to the challenge. I don't get distracted, I simply multiply my ire!
Por que no los dos? 😜
"Shibumi," by Trevanian. Nicolai Hel, master assassin and all around badass. Eastern vs Western philosophy. Interesting side facts about the Basque. Plus terrifying descriptions of spelunking. You're welcome.
How long until the MAGAts are frothing to enact gun control laws?
Know what else isn't covered by a vest? Hips. I broke/dislocated mine in a car accident aged 20 and it's 45 years later and that fucking leg has almost killed me about five times, plus the chronic pain issues. Shoot 'em in the hip, or aim for the dick. Just sayin'.
I think it's a herding dog thing, they're much more sight oriented than a lot of other breeds so while their noses say "that ain't right" their eyes are insisting something else and they get a bit conflicted. My sister's doodle dog freaked over a dog statue, took 1/2 hr to get her past it lol.
West coast needs to join hands to close ports.
That guy was just fed up and wanted to get his groceries home. Trust, there are many of these home grown heroes around, angry camels awaiting the arrival of that final straw. One day they'll have had enough, and then there'll be fireworks.
I had an abusive ex with a lethal level peanut allergy. Once, while contemplating my bruises, I remarked that he was very stupid to be hitting someone who could kill him with the right cookie. He calmed down for a while after that but I was shopping tasers when I finally got him to leave.
Looter shooters in post Katrina NOLA. I know that happened, had a friend deploy down there for weeks and hoo-boy, the stories when he got back.
I have an Australian Cattle Dog and an ACD mix and they're provably smarter than the average MAGAt, just sayin'.
Here's one of my local rivers, at the Columbia Bar, where the Columbia River joins the Pacific. Sometimes referred to as "The Graveyard of the Pacific." There's a reason we have a Coast Guard training facility there.
Tobacco plants evolved nicotine to ward off pests and it works extremely well so, in spite of it being all natural and whatnot, spraying nicotine and nicotinoids around outside of plants where they occur naturally is a great way to wipe out your beneficial pollinators.
They've probably curated a "you might also like" list for every page of this nonsense.
I think a lot of people hated how meta the books got but I loved it. And that ending was absolutely *chef's kiss*. I mean, how ELSE could it end?
Also, don't buy or plant anything that isn't specifically guaranteed to be neonicotinoid free--once a plant uptakes neonicotinoids the entire thing is very toxic to insects, including the nectar and pollen. Tell your local nursery to ban the neonics!
And honeybees outcompete native solitary bees and speed the process along. This is why I have mason bee houses in my yard.
Really? I stopped after a couple books because I hate getting left hanging in a series like that but once the Dark Tower was finished I went and galloped right through the whole thing and whaddaya know, SK CAN write a decent ending! No pleasing some people I guess.
I don't consider the ones who get exercised over accurate language to be actual people though. Semi feral long pig that somehow got let into the house is about as far as I go regarding their humanity.
I don't dumb down my vocabulary that badly even when I'm talking to literal children. If people are that stupid they maybe shouldn't be voting or going out in public.
I didn't see "fuck" or "you" so I'm good.
It's because stupid people don't understand them. So basically, Politico is saying that we talk like f*gs and our shit's all regarded. Idiocracy, people, it's here.
I dunno, I've not mixed them up once in sixty years so personally I say as a mnemonic it passes the ultimate test. Also, pulling tights UP just makes you more encased in fabric, trapping the mites where they are. Gotta take the tights DOWN to brush off the mites that presumably came from the floor.
Ha, my mom taught me that but in English--"When the mites go up, the tites come down!"
My mother taught me, "When the mites go up, the tites come down" and here we are, sixty years later and I couldn't mess this up if I tried.
We had those goofy things growing all over the front porch of my childhood home in Sacramento CA, I always thought they looked like alien plants. Love them!
Wolves eat anything they darned well please!
Mebbe a little schmear, so delicious!
If your puppers had a long lean winter to face they'd tell you and your vet to eff off with your diet talk nonsense!
If they realized how big the fish is it might recalibrate their "Wolves is BIG yo" meter!
It's that Gary Cooper/Timothy Olyphant strut!
Lot of guys have jumped on the ICE cosplay bandwagon to kidnap and assault women. I'd love to see a crowdfunded group of identical dudes grabbing up ICE agents, dragging them off with bags on their heads and we'll send them off one way to remote locations. North Sentinel Island, perhaps.
Hire some of those insurance scammers, they do this shit on spec anyway so a guaranteed payday, cash on the barrelhead for each ICE car disabled ought to make 'em sit up and take notice. 'Course a lot of them aren't citizens so that might be a problem...
Pair of ordinary hand garden loppers will snip off valve stems so fast your head would spin. ICE cars will have a tough time evading the tow trucks with four flats. Bonus, if you get caught doing it, valve stems cost like ten bucks each installed so let 'em make you pay for the damage!
Set the wildcat gypsy bounty hunters on the other wildcat gypsy bounty hunters--I like it!
Or as soon as they exit the vehicle, sneak around and snap the VIN on the edge of the driver's side door. Iffy Lube has handheld VIN scanners that can decode those in a second, wanna bet you can order them off Amazon?
Are we not men?
Would you like a little poetry to go with your weekend? i.redd.it/tdnvzrd1qekf...
It's a strong indicator of how the general is likely to go, though. If Newsom keeps up with his current energy and engagement level he could be the focus of the energy and rage the American people are feeling and that would be a good thing. Overton window needs a westerly yank, stat!
Friend of mine's dad did that job, they tapped the short guys for the role because there was no room in those things. It was a very hazardous position too, those guys were crazy brave to even try it.
Let's just say I found it prudent to invest some funds into German munitions and manufacturing. There appears to be a brisk trade in coffins these days and no sign of conflict slowing down. I'd rather it not go there but nobody's ceded me imperial control of the universe so...
And yet LA eclipses SF--red staters simply cannot comprehend the mindboggling economic engine that is the West Coast. Agriculture, tech, entertainment, shipping/logistics, the cannabis trade, just pure creativity. Blue states do better, it's an objective fact.
Yeah, no backing off, just DO IT. And keep it that way for a few election cycles just to flex. We can redistrict the entire country later, via committees from one state redistricting a randomly assigned sister state. Equally fair and unfair to all that way, yes?
And those of us who comprehend nuance need to speak up and be the adults in the room--I'm sick of being dictated to by venal, stupid, immoral clownshoes with their simplistic rhetoric and hatemongering. Someone get those toddlers a juice box while the grownups clean this mess up, yeesh.
Ball turret gunner?
KIDNEY DROP WITH THE STEEL CHAIR YEEHAW!!!
How about once we get this mess unfucked we redistrict the entire country, and every state gets divvied up by a committee in a whole 'nother state using only objective data re population. That way, it's fair to all and equally unfair to all but them's the breaks.
Saw an interesting map showing how many STATES have a GDP higher than the San Francisco Bay Area alone. Yeah, California, Illinois, Texas, Florida and New York are the only ones that beat out a single California Metro Area. We need to sew up the West Coast, Get CA, OR and WA on the same page.
Boy, no shit. I mean, c'mon, if you had to fight a politician to get something done, would you rather go toe to toe with Gavin or Trump? Which do you think you'd have a better chance of persuading, assuming you have no gaudy tacky gold shit to offer? I rest my case.
Even here in reliable Oregon there's room to maybe finagle a similar redistricting to deny a couple seats in the House. We should explore that. Step by step, if they're gonna chuck the rule book we're gonna have to get down and dirty too.
Despair deadens and saps all energy, whereas laughter is a high capacity charging station and we all need to plug into that and surf that California wave lol. Wow, metaphor hash much? Yeah, I'm California sober haha.
If we don't start doing some serious nut punchin' there likely won't BE any midterms. We the people are way overdue for a reckoning of accounts and now's the time to make a ruckus.
Could you give Gov Kotek of Oregon a call and maybe a bracing pep talk? I have the feeling she wants to fold like a Temu camp chair and Oregon NEEDS strong leadership--we're right in the crosshairs with nowhere near the resources CA has to fight with. Marshal them troops, gov!
Hemp milk has the right taste and mouthfeel but dang, it is unsightly in a drink. Handsome is as handsome does I guess.
Physics don't care about our opinions, for good or ill.
Well, so long as you don't count the destruction of natural forest habitat to plant endless monoculture palm trees I guess. Everything has a cost, we need to keep that firmly in mind. Best we can hope for is harm reduction.
Ever see the Pueblo crew photos with the flying birds? Sometimes you just gotta do that, it's a morale thing. Flying the message over the enemy's heads is just icing on the cake.
Well, my goodness, that's not at ALL unhinged... *backs away slowly*
It's just maddening watching morons continually attempt to reinvent the wheel. We already figured it out, guys, we have laws and enforcement and that keeps us safe but noooo, you had to go fuck it up, well, congrats you losers, everything sucks now and kids die. GAH!
It was stated corporate policy to hold the coffee at near boiling temperatures, the elderly woman got third degree burns all over her thighs and vulva and her award was the equivalent of one day's profits to McDonald's on coffee alone. There were other similar cases, too.
And I think we ought to be unsparing of our blunt scorn and ridicule for these idiots. I'm so sick of all this pussyfooting "well, everyone's ENTITLED to their own OPINION!" bullshit so okay and my opinion is that some people's highest and best use is to serve as an example to the rest.
I have that on my bingo card for next Tuesday.
Can you imagine the smell?
Poor leopards, they getting so fat. Chonky leopards everwhere.
Guarantee Goodreads has about a bajillion recaps and reviews.
There's a whole subreddit for these folks, do a search for Herman Cain Awards and prepare to be amazed. Or appalled, or both in equal measure really.
OR, hear me out, the glut of liability claims will overwhelm the already strained judiciary system, causing a "crisis" that requires Congress or an executive order to remove consumer protections and limit liability for corporations. Just sayin'.
They aren't always on the ball diagnosing mastitis and discarding the milk from the infected cow either--and good gods this whole thread has my gorge buoyant. I have been on a dairy farm, those people are insane.
At this point it's become a real life Turing test and those idiots are failing bigtime. Forget artificial intelligence, they're going full tilt at artificial stupidity. So much winning, yeehaw 'murca...
I say if you wanna indulge your raw milk fetish you should have to go keep your own goat or cow and milk it yourself. Maybe the millionth time they've had them piss in the bucket or shit all over everything they'll figure out that hey, maybe that pasteurization thing has something to recommend it!
There's a reason why the majority of adult humans are lactose intolerant--nature tells us "Enough is enough, get OFF the damned teat already!" This is why we have yogurt and cheese though, fermentation is our friend. Which also kills harmful bacteria so win/win!
Would be dreadful if some horrible rumor went viral that GOP women in red states are deliberately inducing miscarriages by drinking the raw milk because they don't have abortion access. "Oh my daughter, oh my ducats!" as the reich wingers heads asplode.
And when the case gets to the MAGA addled corporate lackies in SCOTUS, justice will prevail, right? Pull the other one, it plays a jolly tune.
Functionally speaking, the FDA no longer exists in any useful way. Neither does the CDC, DHS, CFPD, DOJ or any other helpful watchdog enforcement agency. We are on our own and the goddamned MAGAts had better wise up to what they voted for and double quick. Or, y'know, die of stupidity.