Weekend Open Thread
I saw a video segment of the women on The View. They were talking about the election results. One of the women pointed to the lack of control over social media and went on to criticize certain social media companies. There was another video, it looked like it was from CNN, where one of the speakers accused the right of “being in echo chambers”. Right after she said that, the others on the panel quickly agreed with her. It’s like how one of the commenters on this site insinuates that we’re an echo chamber. Enjoy your weekend!
Category: Open thread
FIRST
Shit!
Exactly what your hopes and dreams of EARNING (never awarded) The Coveted TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread FIRST have turned to, Mr. Stone.
Now all I have to do is await all of the hatred that will be foisted upon The Gun Bunny for his being at the right place at the right time. In honor of your solid sloppy seconds finish I will award you a dose of this RVS bug that I’ve picked up. It will give you a second reason to…suffer.
For all others that don’t hate upon The King of Battle…THE King of First, help your selves to the vast stores available @ Fire Base Magnolia. Imma gonna be under this blanket on the couch, coughing my damn fool head off.
Hack should have hung up on that sales call. Wouldn’t make any difference if Hack close the sale, the courts ordered all of the income garnished to pay the rent.🥴
Now Hack has to get back to that exit ramp on River Road and move some software.
Thinking of selling on the exit ramp reminded me of one of the numerous times I was caught at a complete stop in a Chicago traffic jam (similar to a LA traffic jam only colder). All at once I spotted several youts riding their skate boards through the stalled traffic. The youts each carried a carton of cigarettes; they went car door to car door selling packs of cigarettes. As I don’t smoke cigarettes, I have no idea how much they were asking for a pack nor if they bought them or stole them.
Still, I must give the youts credit for taking advantage of a potential market.
No sense in letting a good cut & paste go to waste.
Oh, wise and all knowing Magic 8-Ball, will Hack Stone experience the joy of regaining the highly coveted and rarely awarded title of First Commenter for the This Ain’t Hell Weekend Open Thread, or will he be burdened by what has not been in a vast chicken wing foisted upon his loyal subjects by the Deplorable Garbage who want to pack Diana Ross and The Supremes, revoke our Constitutional Right to party, and take us back to the days when gasoline was $2 a gallon? Magic 8-Ball says…
I didn’t get a chance to purchase a genuine HackStone, I’m assuming is a US Mil. grade Magic 8-Ball yet to see how I would do on the time WOT comes on
Well, that happened.
Good on ya!
Have a great weekend, Reb, et al!
Shhhheeeeet 2.0 (h/T to Hack)
Da FQU this dropping at like 12:45…..sup with that huh?!?!? like I really care tho….
I just have to say this…..
I don’t know if I can live like this for the next four to maybe 12 years.
I keep waking up in the morning with this terrible sense of relief and delight . It’s just horrible.
And I’m walking straight. It’s terrible for my back and I just feel all proud and shit and that’s just icky. 😀
Have a lovely weekend and for Monday in advance…
Thank you for your cervix. 😉
5th. not too bad
Well, darn. Dropped it earlier than even recent events would indicate. Missed another FIRST (it’s been a while since I could claim that). Rats of the Cong to the King!
Meanwhile, trivia, anyone?
DID YOU KNOW…?
Was one Major League Baseball player responsible for two big changes to the rule book?
By Commissioner Wretched
didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
Copyright © 2024
This past Tuesday was Election Day, and voters nationwide selected a president for this great country of ours.
I hope your candidate won.
With lines like that, I ought to be in politics, but I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy – if I had any, that is.
Whichever direction the country chooses to go, red or blue (I know those aren’t directions, but humor me), there will always be one neutral thing, that is not swayed by left or right, and that’s trivia. A lot of which I have stockpiled, and some of which I shall dole out to you right now.
Enjoy, and I hope you remembered to vote! If you didn’t vote, you don’t get to complain about who the rest of us elected.
Did you know …
… what the term is for a group of grasshoppers? It’s called a cloud. (I can understand why. So could you if you ever see a big enough group.)
… some old medical “cures” were pretty wild? For instance, in the 18th Century book Primitive Physick, or An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases, a rather “out there” treatment for asthma is discussed. According to British theologian John Wesley (1703-1791), one can treat asthma with “a fortnight on boiled carrots only.” (It probably won’t help the asthma, but it will sure give you great vision!)
… you may suffer from ornithophobia? If you do, you have a fear of birds. (That one is for the birds.)
… Antarctica has icequakes? Occurring only within the ice sheet, and not on the underlying land, these seismic events (also called cryoseisms) have similar characteristics as earthquakes, but happen much faster when water freezes quickly. (Cold, very cold.)
… some kinds of rice paper do not have any rice in them? Original rice paper is a translucent edible paper made of rice flour, tapioca flour, salt and water. But the most widely-known forms of rice paper are actually made from tree bark. (Write on it in vegetable-based ink and you’ve got something there.)
… cocaine used to be sold over the counter? Until the 1880s, cocaine was a legal substance that was used to treat sore throats, neuralgia, nervousness, headaches, colds, and even sleeplessness. (Hmmmmm …)
I’ll leave you to read the rest of the article, How Cocaine Influenced the Work of Sigmund Freud, on your own. NSFW, slang, opinioning… it’s Vice.
Still can’t figure how/why it’s illegal. Way less addictive than coffee, or fast women.
… one player caused two rule changes in Major League Baseball? When Eddie Stanky (1916-1999) was an active player for the Chicago Cubs, New York Giants, Boston Braves, and other teams, he would do things to distract opposing hitters such as jumping around on the field, making odd movements and bizarre gestures. It wasn’t illegal then – but it became so in 1950, when MLB made a rule that says fielders cannot be in a batter’s line of vision and deliberately try to distract the batter. Another of Stanky’s antics would happen if he happened to be a runner at third base. If a fly ball was hit, Stanky would back up from the base about twenty feet, then begin running so that when the ball was caught, his foot would be on the base. He would thus have something of a head start in running home. Another MLB rule was passed requiring the runner to stay on the base until the fly ball was caught. (He was something of a stanky ballplayer. Sorry; I had to do it.)
… taking a fall does not injure an ant? They are so small and light that no matter how far they fall, they do not suffer injuries. They do, however, feel pain when the fall is over. (Boy, do they ever.)
… Roman gladiators were probably rather fat? Sure, you didn’t see that in the movie Gladiator, but it’s most likely true. They ate a high-energy vegetarian diet, which included calcium-rich ash. This helped create in the gladiators a layer of fat which helped protect them from otherwise-fatal sword wounds. (Whatever works, I suppose.)
Most rodents too. Supposedly cats…
Not to long ago I asked AI ‘what is the largest animal that cannot be killed by a fall’ and it spit out the sloth (unsure about the toe count. Guess AI don’t know Joe Kittinger either).
I guess it makes sense as they are gangly, covered in hair (and mold!), muscular, and reside in trees so the way down is more of a pinballing as opposed to Wile E. Coyote-ing.
Cats have a better chance of surviving a fall from 20 stories than from 7 … they have more time in the air to adjust themselves to landing on all four feet (assuming that’s what they wanted to do in the first place).
… only one candidate of a political party has been nominated and run for president six times? Socialist Party candidate Norman Thomas (1884-1968) was nominated by his party in the elections of 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944 and 1948. His best showing was in 1932, with 884,885 votes nationwide. (Six tries and no wins … you would think he would get the message or something.)
… biological weapons have been around a very long time? During the Middle Ages, it was not unheard of for armies laying siege to a city to toss pots of bubonic plague in, to force the city’s surrender. And during the reign of King Louis XIV of France (1638-1715), an Italian chemist offered him biological weapons. The king not only refused the offer, he paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the weapons to anyone else.
… you may have nephophobia? If you do, it’s nothing really to worry about. Nephophobia is the fear of clouds. Studies show that a traumatic weather experience in childhood can lead to developing a healthy (or maybe unhealthy, I don’t know) fear of clouds or of weather in general. (Weather doesn’t bother me too much, except when it’s bad.)
… pigeons are art connoisseurs? Sort of, anyway. Research done in 1995 has shown that pigeons are able to tell the difference between works of art created by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Claude Monet (1840-1926). (I’ll let you figure out what the pigeons do on the work they don’t like.)
… you have never had pear cider? Sure, you might think you had some just the other day, but you didn’t. Actual cider is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented apples, and only from apples. One can make an alcoholic drink from pears, but it’s called perry, not cider. (I don’t drink, so I’ve never had either one.)
Now … you know!
You need to read other comments than your own. Hack posted a few weeks back that while getting his eyes calibrated, the lady commented that he must be eating his carrots because his vision improved. Hack then told her about British Intelligence using carrots=improved vision to throw the Germans off from British radar systems.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-wwii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-that-carrots-help-you-see-in-the-dark-28812484/
Oh, I know that carrots don’t do anything to help vision. But like most kids my age, I grew up watching Bugs Bunny and he never needed glasses, so …
“Missed another FIRST (it’s been a while since I could claim that).”
Naw, not so long ago. Your most recent FIRST happened on the 02 Aug 24 WOT. /s/
With regard to alternative medical treatments, some of them actually have positive effects.
The ketogenic diet that is now all the rage among internet-savvy bros and soccer moms was originally developed as a treatment for epilepsy – though much more restrictive than today’s fad diet, it has been shown to be at least as effective as traditional epilepsy medications.
Hey, you were supposed to wait for me..
Oh well, 12’th…
I declare myself Present and Unaccountable as I award myself yet another Honorary First.
((((OVER))))
Epstein did not kill himself.
Those on Epstein’s list are very antsy now!😀😀
What do Willie Brown and the 2024 election have in common?
Kamala Harris blew BOTH OF THEM!!!
Not first. Again.
Open Thread already?
Well, I’ll see if this link works okay. Found at Ace’s HQ
https://x.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1854745484851585258
FIRST TWENTY FIFTH
A Friday smile
Trying to assassinate Hitler before he kills the world is so common now it barely makes the news.
https://nypost.com/2024/11/08/us-news/iranian-agent-instructed-to-stalk-assassinate-trump-by-tehran-bombshell-indictment-reveals/
Do take note of the dates.
Adolf Hitler is alive and well and competing on Jeopardy a few years back.
What a refreshing change
He may not understand vaccines but he knows what a woman is…. and is not. Gonna call that a step in the right direction.
And he isn’t even a biologist
Last one
🤪😳😆😛🤣😅
Yeah, the media meltdowns are humorous, but the liberal skank meltdowns are epic!!! X is littered with skanks & 304’s claiming they were “going dry” and refusing to date, marry, and have children. Halleluiah! Left-wing whores keeping their closed is a defacto abortion nationwide abortion ban! Winning!!! No sex & Beta/Low-T/Soy Bois getting vasectomies means the Woke Liberal mind virus will gone in a generation. Darwin is winning! Who says Trumps victory isn’t bring immediate benefits?