Weekend Open Thread
One debate retort given by some Iranians when arguing against Westerners is the idea that while their Persian ancestors were living in cities, European ancestors were running around as hunters and gatherers while etching on stones. Some, not just Iranians but others living in the Middle East, would use this as a flex and insist that they would not be “lectured” by Westerners given this ancient reality. However, this difference does not appear to help them out in situations today… Like when the Iranian fighter pilots did not know that there was an American fighter pilot under them. Enjoy your weekend.
Category: Open thread
FIRST
Shit, got distracted on a Fox News article.
Pure ol’ dee luck. Mr. Stone. Just came in from a short escort duty and logged on. I blinked at least 6…maybe 9 times, not believing my eyes that the Vaunted TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread was winking at me, asking…NO BEGGING for me to claim the (EARNED NEVER AWARDED)…FIRST! Haters showing up in 5.4.3.2..
Bacon wrapped, grilled tube steak along with refreshing beverages will be available for all hands right shortly…
Meantime, as Mr. Stone was doing “…sitting at the wheel, watching chance for FIRST go by (apologies to The Moodies)…y’all enjoy this musical interlude from something that The Brits created that was actually worth something…
Fox News? Why, that means you’re a brainwashed member of a cult, posting in an echo chamber!
The entire entertainment industry is an echo chamber. Libs always project when they accuse others of being in an echo chamber.
To be fair, I am so tired of the Left that I just want to stay in my echo chamber and ignore everything outside.
Dam. Does that means…they are right?
Excuses….
Well, Hack Stone went to the trouble of updating his cut & paste, no sense in letting it go to waste.
h wise and all knowing Magic 8- Ball, will the outdated and overpriced Red Hat Software that Hack Stone uses allow him to secure the first comment for the Weekend Open Thread of April 4, 2025 hold and restore his rightful place as a kind and benevolent dictator ruling over the masses of Adorable Deplorables, or will KoB once again block Hack from posting on a military installation, this time being Walter Reed Medical Center, within staggering distance of the former headquarters of a proud but humble woman owned business? Magic 8-Ball says…
The verdict is in.
When I was there WRAMC was on Georgia Ave and they still had a nursing school. Beautiful rose garden and the commissary was in Forest Glen, just a little bit past Hank Dietle’s place
And here we go again KoB is all up in the WOT bidness
Good jerb.
I was busy commuting. But I’m here 30 minutes after.
And again I am denied my FIRST! Rats of the Cong to the King of Battle!
PRESENT! A bit early today?
Sigh … no FIRST for me this week, though I do claim second. This week’s trivia, by the way, contains the annual April Fool’s game. Have fun with it, but NO GOOGLING to cheat and find the answers! And you don’t have to e-mail your guesses to me; just put them in the answers, if you’re so inclined.
DID YOU KNOW…?
April Fool! Three items this week are totally fake; which ones are they?
By Commissioner Wretched
didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
Copyright © 2025
We are at that very special time of year once again! Yes, it’s April Fool’s Day this week!
Regular readers of this silliness know what that means – it’s time to see if you can detect which three of the items in this week’s column are totally made up. No prizes are offered, because I’m a cheap old so-and-so, but if you can tell which ones are fake, you prove that even I can’t fool you. No fair Googling, either.
Send your guesses to me at my e-mail, didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com, and I’ll let you know which ones you get right.
The game’s afoot! Have fun.
Did you know …
… two Civil War veterans literally “buried the hatchet?” In 1913, surviving veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg fifty years earlier met on the site of the battle. No longer separated by blue and gray, they mingled with each other and told war stories. Two of the men – one from the North, and one from the South – purchased a hatchet, walked into the field where the battle had taken place, and buried it in a symbolic gesture of peace. (I like that. I like it a lot.)
… the inventor of basketball had a losing record as a coach? Dr. James Naismith (1861-1939) created the game of basketball in 1891. He served as basketball coach at the University of Kansas from 1898-1907, and amassed a record of 55 wins and 60 losses coaching the sport he invented. He is, to this day, the only head basketball coach at Kansas to have an overall losing record. Additional trivia note: Dr. Naismith originally wrote just 13 rules for the game. Today, the NBA Rule Book has 66 pages. (Well, to his credit, Dr. Naismith didn’t actually go out there and play in the games.)
… only one person in all of Nazi Germany was allowed to address Adolf Hitler by his first name? Hitler (1889-1945) was held by his Nazi cohorts in an almost godlike esteem, and was never addressed by anyone in any way other than “mein Führer” (German for “my leader”). All except one man – Ernst Röhm (1887-1934), the commander of Hitler’s Brownshirts, or Sturmabteilung (Storm Troopers), also called the SA. Röhm, a close friend, was permitted to call Hitler “Adolf,” and he did so in public. Not surprisingly, Hitler had Röhm murdered in 1934 during a purge of SA leadership known as the “Night of the Long Knives.” Additional trivia note: Historians are not sure if the woman who married Hitler, Eva Braun (1912-1945), ever spoke to him by his first name in the presence of others. Whether she called him “Adolf” in private is, of course, unknown, but in her correspondence she always referred to him as “the Führer.”
Ernst Rohm was also a known homosexual who had a thing for young men.
… a future American president was the first choice for the lead role in a classic film? When producers were getting ready to film the 1942 classic Casablanca, they wanted Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) for the lead role of Rick Blaine. But because Reagan was about to be inducted into the U.S. Army, they had to go with their second choice, Humphrey Bogart (1899-1956). (Maybe that casting move would’ve led Bogart into politics, I don’t know.)
… goldfish enjoy listening to music? Not only that, according to researchers, they can distinguish one composer from another. (Yeah, but which ones do they like?)
… the villain in the Back to the Future movie series was inspired by a businessman? The writer of the first movie, Bob Gale (born 1951), says that the temperament of the character of bully Biff Tannen was based on businessman-turned-president Donald Trump (born 1946). Gale created the role of Tannen in 1985 as he and co-writer and director Robert Zemeckis (born 1952) were penning the first draft of the screenplay. Gale admitted to the genesis of the character in a 2015 interview. (No comment from me on this one, folks.)
… corsets were practically death traps? During the 19th Century, women who wanted to be fashionable wore tight-fitting corsets to give them a supple shape. The corsets, however, would constrict blood flow to the point where some women would actually pass out. For that reason, Victorian-era homes had “fainting couches” where women who were thus affected could rest (or pass out, as the case may be). (Curves come at a price, it seems.)
… 701 different types of pure-breed dogs exist? (Name them. Go.)
… the Komodo dragon stores its fat in its tail? The dragon, the world’s largest lizard, is native to Indonesia. It can grow up to 10 feet in length and weigh up to 150 pounds, and they are able to devour five pounds of meat in less than a minute. Komodo dragons are also venomous, and left untreated a Komodo bite can kill a human. (The same is true of an untreated human bite, isn’t it?)
… American law requires businesses to accept cash? The wording on currency, “This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private” means it must be accepted as payment for goods and services. (Well, only if they want to get paid, they must.)
… a European country allows murder to have a statute of limitations? Most nations consider very serious crimes such as murder and rape to be open for prosecution no matter how long a time passes after the event. Not Norway. Norway has a 25-year statute of limitations on murder; if a person committed a murder more than 25 years ago, they cannot be prosecuted for it.
… caffeine does not give you “energy”? Instead, caffeine stops your body from breaking down energy, resulting in a surplus. Caffeine also does nothing to help an inebriated person sober up any faster. (What do you know? I shot down two myths with one stone!)
Now … you know!
Rule 1. No murders allowed, otherwise, enjoy yourself.
https://apnews.com/article/royal-shrovetide-ashbourne-ancient-soccer-murder-880658c923b33288df42af109d25e458
Yep…them old boys did bury a hatchet.
The losing record coach used a peach basket for his game. Took ’em awhile to figure out cutting the bottom out of the basket sped the game up a bit.
Wonder if Ernst was whispering sweet nothings into Ol Adolph’s ear?
Bogey for the win…all the way.
“Play that funky music, gold fish…” Not to be Moody Blue, but Who is their favorite rock band?
Biff tried to get rich like The Donald, but alas, he’s still washing cars.
I actually have a Victorian “Fainting Couch” @ Fire Base Magnolia if any of The Adorable Deplorables need to rest up while I loosen the stays on their corsets.
Naw there ain’t that many official breeds, but the best breed is the mutt. The more I learned about people, the more I love my dog(s).
Does this tail make me look fat?
You gotta pay, but not necessarily in cash. Ass, grass, or gas…nobody rides free.
Is Hitlery Norwegian? Is that why she has skated all the years?
Just cause you “feel” like you have energy, doesn’t mean you have it. Juan Valdez was unavailable for comment, he’s still drunk, too.
Another fine j.o.b. on the trivia. I hope that me paying attention to your columns have “given me an edge…” (ht2 Lone Watie) on the competition. We Thank you, again, Good Sir…you are muchly appreciated.
I always thought the best place to bury the hatchet was between the shoulder blades of your enemy.
Or vertically slightly to left of the sternum.
Present, best I can do. Sunny day in my AO, hacking up rose bushes in anticipation of a beautiful spring weekend.
Happy Friday all!
Once again, Hack Stone fell victim to the underhanded shenanigans of KoB. KoB sent a team of crackheads to stately Stone Manor Monday night todo what Psul of The Ballsack’s crackheads could not do, that being incapacitating Hack Stone. Diagnosis was a broken rib, and the “official cause” was listed as sneezing, but it was actually a beatdown with mailbox doors. And Hack has the x-ray to prove it.
Can someone tell n the medical field sign Hack’s Light Duty Chit? He isn’t up for KoB Saturday morning rucksack march.
This broken rib is making Hack’s posts more incoherent than usual. “Can someone n the medical field sign Hack’s Light Duty Chit?”
No light duty for Hack Stone.
Ruck up and march!
Just add Motrin.
Drink water
Take Motrin
Change your socks
And duct tape. You can fix anything with duct tape.
If it moves and it shouldn’t, duct tape.
If it does not move and it should, WD-40.
These two items, wrapped in shop or microfiber towels, are my go-to housewarming gift. Always gets a laugh and always, always appreciated. Can never have too much of either.
Gotta have baling wire, too.
550 cord
4020-00-246-0688 550 cord, 400-yard roll, OD Green
4020-00-240-2146 550 Cord, 700-yard roll, White
4020-00-262-2147 550 Cord, 400-yard roll, Red
And let’s not forget the P38 can opener, poncho liner and flyer’s gloves– beyond fixing stuff, but still must-have gear.
Don’t yawn, don’t lay down and certainly don’t try to get back up. Sneeze at your own peril and if you laugh, it won’t last long.
Can’t remember how long the pain lasted but it did until it didn’t.
Top 10 once again. At least I’m not checking in tomorrow.
Hack Stone would like to make an appeal to all the generous members of this esteemed blog to donate some money in a fundraising drive this weekend to benefit Vice Presidents of proud but humble woman owned businesses that have lost their jobs, homes, life savings and ability to maintain their personal hygiene after falling victim to defending the reputation of Phil Monkress. The even is called Hands Across River Road. If you are unable to show your support by giving a hand, at least do your part and give Psul the finger. We are going to raise enough money so that he can afford some black trash bags to tape over the windows of his 1980’s vintage Jaguar as he and his lovely bride Karen settle in for the night.
Just in case any of you dickweeds were wondering what Commissar has been doing as of late:
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/04/04/antifas-disrupts-uc-davis-event-while-police-stand-by-and-do-nothing-n3801455
Which one of those three Pantifa bois is the commie cuttlefish cosplaying as a “medic?”
Wasn’t there.
I am still celebrating the “win” of having a queer non-binary VP a heartbeat away from the presidency.
https://www.sgn.org/story.php?334892
Keep grasping…
Dude, this who damn blog is people grasping. And has been since 2016 at this point.
AWWW you poor little snowflake, did they run out of Kool-Aid at the collective before you got there today to piss and moan? Take yourself a deep breath and have a TRUMP Day!!!
At least this blog isn’t violent in 3D.
How’s your preps for riot season going?
Don’t forget the Timpons!
Imagine some packaging art, brand name would be Timmy’s Tampons for Boys
This who damn blog …????
What exactly are/were you trying to say? I presume you don’t type for a living?
Just leave this here.
Didn’t know Thomas Sowell knew Lars. Probably just knows his ilk.
So you’re now on board with his policies and politics because his sexuality is questioned? Interesting. So by extension, you’re now a Trump supporter. Your MAGA hat is being FedExed to you.
Rationality and coherence have never been Lars’ strong suits.
If only I had a dollar for every time a Marine cross dressed…
Godspeed and farewell, gentlemen. And thank you, Lithuania.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/video/lithuanians-bid-farewell-us-soldiers-died-training-exercise-120444569
Lithuania has made a friend in me.
Except, they became a people of goat-humping psychotic religious fanatics after the pedophile marauding warlord invented their current totalitarian political ideology masquerading as a religion.
One item of GI issue, that given the right circumstances, any veteran would like to make love to:
NSN 4610-00-268-9890
I dunno. At 36 gallons, I fear the people’s republic of Caliphornia might consider it standing water and require it to be emptied or seeded with mosquito eating fish. The CA gov’t has something against water storage.
Well, maybe. But the reason I looked it up was because I was wondering if they were being used by the Border Patrol during the current episode that originally it was invented for/during (The Mexican Border Campaign) back when Black Jack Pershing went looking for Pancho Villa.
Actually, it’s inventor had a pretty stellar 33-year career of his own, retiring as a Colonel. He didn’t join the Army until age 30, then went on to serve in the afore mentioned Mexican Border Campaign, the Philippines, China and WWI. He is buried at Arlington.
especially if it came with accesories….
Two hours late.
Dangit. I am getting worse at this game.
He is not the first president that skipped a dignified transfer. But his reasons are extra gross.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5232651-trump-hegseth-dover-us-soldiers/amp/
Forgot to mention that he is being paid by the Saudis to be at this tournament to promote their Saudi tournament league that is competing against the PGA.
You’re against competition in business?
Hey Major Moonbat, take a deep breath and have a TRUMP Day, MAGA!!!
Bet you can find one in your size.
https://www.redbubble.com/i/sweatshirt/Trump-2020-Haters-Gonna-Hate-MAGA-Emoji-by-JenniferMac/32788502.0LCRC
I guarantee Pete won’t check his watch.
You see that sort of repetitive nonsensical behavior in people with dementia
Once again, a headline, a story, and an attack made with no relation to truth, fact, or history. It is NOT standard for the President to be present for Dignified Transfers, particularly when those being returned died active duty and not due to combat.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing Trump can or cannot do the left will not find a way to criticize. All while coming up with one excuse after another for the behavior of Biden in August 2021, when the Biden administration was directly responsible for the deaths of 13.
Don’t even get me started on Obama’s lack of attendance, or months-long delay of his White House sending autopen letters to families who were not “registered” supporters of his administration.
Bush was not present at every Dignified Transfer either. As a matter of record, Bush had prohibited families being allowed at Dover and reversed that policy only after enormous pressure.
If President Trump was at the transfer, Lars and the other hive mind fools would be complaining that he was grandstanding / politicizing it.. Standard leftist catch 22.
OK
More fascist crime and violence.
UC Davis chancellor says violent attack on student conservative group ‘disappointing and embarrassing’
And yet, the chancellor will do nothing, just like the worthless campus police..
He already did what he is going to do. Make a statement and went to his cocktail social afterwards. Glasses clinked and back pats all around.
FORTY-something while I declare myself present and unaccountable as I award myself yet another Honorary First.
((((OVER))))
I thoroughly enjoy schadenfreude as i watch the left shit themselves and implode.
Present-ish and non-accountable as ever.
Heart doc gave me a clean bill. The little ‘hiccup’ on the home EKG machine was within normal parameters. “See you in a year.”
Favorite First Daughter-in-law told me Wednesday that at 0130 hours the wires above the meter to their house, just outside their bedroom, decided to short out. They had the power company disconnect them, but I had to replace the wires and weatherhead before 24 hours to keep it from having a ‘reconnect’ fee.
Managed to get it done – very very thankful that it only melted a wire in the conduit, not catching the bedroom on fire.
Can do without that kind of excitement, though.
God bless you all. Hug your loved ones close.
It’s good to know how to do stuff, have some ladders, tools and materials available or one of those big box hardware outfitters near-by.
This weeks border photos come in two parts
These items were found just off I-8
More gear
Not suspicious at all..
Just another layup site. They’re everywhere. Used to find them on Huachuca all the time.
Cartels I guess are doing custom hats
Backside
Just looking for a better life, and wanting to work hard..
Now a crazy photo from my trip home to Vegas
Remember STEVE SLATON,
the Phony Vietnam War helo pilot
(actually a mechanic) who ran for Arizona State House,
and was backed, endorsed, and then defended
by (veteran) AZ State Senator WENDY ROGERS?
Steve Slaton – The ‘He Said, She Said’ of Vietnam Service
Dave Hardin | June 10, 2024
Last week, the SAME WENDY ROGERS,
who not so coincidentally has been handing out other “endorsements” around the USA,
including for Teddy Daniels for PA Lt. Governor in 2022
(he finished 3rd in the May 2022 GOP primary) ….
Wendy Rogers has put up a BLOCK on a new STOLEN VALOR BILL in the Arizona state house.
See AZ Fox 10 TV video news story….
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/stolen-valor-bill-blocked-wendy-rogers-supporters-cry-foul
He’s a total shitbird and the AZ senator Wendy Rogers is his biggest hero.. we need to post a story
About his fake exploits on here
Skippy,
Here’s another that needs an FOIA request done,
and results put out in public.
Have you all seen this?
Some idiot Phony Marine in Florida wears an f’d up uniform
with medals on the wrong side, among other infractions,
to get military discounts at restaurants.
This 1 restaurant refused, saw him to the door,
Phony Marine falls outside, sues the restaurant for $10,000, and goes on this new Judge Judy type TV show called Judge Porter.
Turns out, Judge Porter is a Marine.
Watch the action unfold.
Plug for the restaurant,
for anyone in the area of I-95 and parallel US441
on the north side of Miami, Florida.
https://www.checkpleasefl.com/restaurants/cliffs-caribbean-restaurant/
Finally, a public school who was not arrested for having sex with one of her students.
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/ohio-teacher-offered-student-2000-1073165
Yeah, she just f’d herself is all.
I know our resident pigeon can’t help itself, being in the total control of TDS. Most of the time, I respond like most of TAH and shake my head is amusement over how the TDS psychosis manifests. Most of the time.
There is one set of circumstances under which its’ inane and insane comments will not be tolerated, see its’ comments on this WOT for the latest example.
I say this in the probably vain hope it has sufficient capacity for self-awareness – please, keep your pie hole shut and stuffed on the topic of the deaths of our troops. Unless you are offering condolences for the families, just shut up. Do not dance in their blood and think the splashing smears anyone but you.
I don’t believe this to be an unreasonable request. I sincerely pray there are no more opportunities for the Left to dishonor the dead by making political hay out of the deaths of our troops. I know that hope is in vain, yet I still have some hope that my plea will be heeded by this one, here on TAH.
Speaking of pieces of shit, or the whole thing actually, look who’s claim of wanting to help people has proved to be a lie.
https://100percentfedup.com/just-rfk-jr-fires-anthony-faucis-wife-nih/
Facepalm.
She leads bioethics
How ironic
Think of it, the two of them were likely pulling down about $600K a year in taxpayer cash. Plus, whatever he was making in “royalties” he won’t disclose from the drug companies.
The last I heard, he had transferred her to a Native American health facility in Alaska.
In Yemen before the blastoff to see Allah
It does make for an inviting target being all circular and what not.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to those goat-rapers, DARWIN AKHBAR!!!
There is video of their gathering.
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1908300360810479821
Pilot probably looked at that pretty little formation and got all chubbed up.
Looks like he rubbed a few out. Time for a nap.
HERE we go, another bunch of illegal votes discovered, ain’t it funny how EVERY State that perpetually votes blue doesn’t have Voter ID laws?
Three GOP States Find Over 300,000 Ineligible Voters, Including Non-Citizens Who Voted, in Their Records – The Populist Times
But, but that cannot have happened. The D-rats say only legal citizens have voted. Or, there are just a few, and they don’t affect the outcome of any election.
OH, and ‘lil Davy Hoggy, the Bony Eared Assfish himself has had to lay off a BUNCH of people at his commie gun-ban crusading outfit as well:
David Hogg’s Gun Control Group Lays Off Majority of Staff as Donations Plummet
Good, good, as Robert Barnes would remark.
Comment #100:
The Seven Dwarves of Old Age:
Nappy, Wrinkley, Squinty, Rocky, Soggy, Leaky and Farty
In 1500 BC, the largest city in Europe would have been Athens with a population of around 200,000. The largest cities in Asia no longer exist and were thought to have populations of well under 100k.
Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) works balls.