Weekend Open Thread
There are actually a lot of people out there, among the left, who think that Joe Biden is doing a great job for the country. In fact, many believe that his actions on behalf of Ukraine, and domestically within the United States, will benefit the Democrats in upcoming elections. These same individuals will dismiss folks like us as “radicals” and “extremists”. Enjoy Your Weekend.
Category: Open thread
1st
Fuck, I should have ignored that phnoe call but OK WORK!!! so another week lost to the KoB(itch). Nice.
SO, I’m Identifying as FIRST!!!
So THERE!! you HAVE to accept my identifying as First or you’re FURST-EST!!!! You’re ANTI-Identifying FIRSTITE!!!
NICE! The crown & accessories pass from one (GO) Army personnel to another, meanwhile the (BEAT) Navy Squidies are grunting-n’-toe-curlin’ wit themselves over the half-pint playing a pie oh let movie show.
It’s good to yield to a Brother in Combat Arms also!
My Main Man! Thanks for keeping the Throne Warm for me and not leaving it in a mess. Unlike a certain crayon munching wannabe rep, VP of Media Relations, had a tendancy to do.
“This We’ll Defend!” (BEAT NAVY!)
Get a room, doggies.
That would be Director of Media Relations and Regional Sales Representative for the National Capital Region.
On the Throne again,
KoB is on the Throne again.
The life we love is posting comments with our friends
and KoB is on the Throne again.
apologies to Willie
Willie grins!
First?
Denied! Time for a mostly peaceful riot in front of Stately KoB Manor.
Mostly peacefully drive a car thru her?
https://youtu.be/dcdWhN6mBjY
Ban scary black assault cars.
BAM BAM BAM FIRE MISSION, FIRE MISSION! FIRE MISSION!!!!!!!!!!! TIME ON TARGET….ROLLING BARRAGE! The King of Battle….THE KING of FIRST on the Coveted EARNED NEVER AWARDED TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread FIRST has regained his rightful place on the Throne. Hack stone, you may pick up your second place trophy in the Lady’s Room.
A full buffet of “Mennonite” Food will be laid out for all of my adoring d’weeds and Adorable Deplorables. Fried Chicken, candied yams, tater salad, hot greens, mac n cheese, and Lacy Anne Cornbread. House Wine or your choice of selections from my Class VI Supplies.
What? No dessert?
Bacon Topped Holiday Apple Pie | Allrecipes
Sorry ol’ Poe, forgot to include a notice of the pecan pie with fresh peach ice cream. That thar Bacon Apple is looking right tasty and I do have all the fixin’s in the pantry. Well…’cept for Smithfield Bacon. I quit buying Smithfield Products when they sold out to the ChiComs. Do have a goodly supply of Wright’s Hickory Smoked, some Carolina Pride, Connecuh, and Hormel Cherrywood Smoked. Will a substitute of any of those work for you? Vanilla Bean, Neopolitan Ice Cream, and Lime, Strawberry, Orange Sherbert. Oh, yeah….shhhh…chocolate chip cookies.
The Poe’s tend to be partial to Wright’s Thick Sliced, Hickory or Applewood.
Smithfield just announced they are shutting down their big operation in East LA, saying the cost of doing business in Kommiefornia is just too much for them. Guess the Chi Coms just don’t want to share their filthy lucre with the Kali Coms, hmm?
DIRST!!!!!!!
Oh yeah baby….
WTOP just reported that today is the 28th anniversary of OJ Simpson’s interstate parade in Southern California. Still waiting for an his update on catching the real killer(s).
His “John Elway” moment, aka ‘slow moving white Bronco’.
Stay safe!
War is peace! Long live the War!
This meme is rated 4-F.
This is not ‘Nam, this is bowling– there are rules!
“I know who I am! I’m a dude playing the dude, disguised as another dude!!”
Downey was robbed of the Academy Award for that performance.
The meme… well…
Fifth commenter.
On station.
Well, I worked through the top of the hour so I missed my chance at FIRST (h/t to King of Battle). So in his honor, I shall drop the trivia for the week. (If you’re interested, my book is doing good without any real marketing by me yet, but I can always use sales.) Have a great weekend!
DID YOU KNOW…?
Did hackers once activate the Emergency Broadcast System to warn people about zombies?
By Jack Bagley
didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
I’m going to share a secret with you.
Gather round, close … I don’t want anybody to overhear it. Ready?
This column is written several weeks in advance of its running in this newspaper.
If you’ve ever wondered why the introductions seem to have no real connection to what is going on in the world, that’s the reason. I don’t know what’s going to be happening when this column hits the streets, so I can’t comment on it.
Well, that, and I try to avoid commenting on what’s going on in the world. It’s already whacko enough out there without me adding my two cents’ worth.
That’s today’s shared secret. Don’t tell anybody, okay? Thanks. Now, the trivia!
Did you know …
… the first man on the moon almost didn’t make it into the astronaut program? The application filed by Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) arrived one week past the deadline. Armstrong was aided by a friend who slipped the application in with the others, and later went on to command the Gemini 8 and Apollo 11 missions. (One giant leap indeed!)
… some bars in London serve vaporized vodka? The patron inhales the booze rather than drinking it, and the alcohol enters the bloodstream quickly. The vaporized vodka produces an almost instant feeling of drunkenness, but the feeling lasts only about 20 minutes. (The hangover, however …)
… a recent survey showed that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was the wife of Noah, in the Bible? In 2014, a Pew study showed that a sizeable percentage of American adults believe that Joan of Arc (1412-1431), the French heroine of the Hundred Years’ War, was married to Noah, the Biblical builder of the Ark. (This one’s so silly I won’t even bother with a wisecrack.)
… the tradition of Christmas caroling has a rather colorful past? When celebrations of Christmas first began, those holiday parties included getting pretty drunk and singing naked in the streets. Caroling evolved from that practice. (At least now they carol sober and with their clothes on, thank goodness.)
… the electric food mixer was invented by a mother? Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972) had twelve children, and thus had good reason to improve the efficiency of household items. To make her life easier, she invented and patented an electric food mixer as well as the garbage can with the step-on lid opener. (Great work, Mom!)
You supposed to go caroling sober AND dressed? Damn! Who knew?
Women spend a year deciding what to wear? Ok, that’s each time before they decide to go out, right? Or does it just seem that way?
Another fine j.o.b. on the trivia, CW. Muchly appreciated.
… men’s and women’s brains really are different? When focused on a particular task, scientists have learned, a man uses only one side of his brain at a time, devoting all concentration and attention to the task at hand. Women, on the other hand, use both sides of their brains at the same time. They “multi-task” much better than men do. (They don’t print enough money to get me to comment on this one.)
… the Emergency Broadcast System was once used to alert people about zombies? On February 11, 2013, radio and television stations in Great Falls, Montana, and Marquette, Michigan, had their programming broken into by the Emergency Broadcast System. But it was not a weather emergency nor a nuclear strike being alerted; the announcer claimed that zombies had risen from their graves in Montana and in the Upper Peninsula area of Michigan and were attacking people. Of course, there were no zombies; there cannot be, they can’t exist. But hackers broke into the EBS network in those areas and managed to put quite a Walking Dead-style scare into a lot of people. The hackers were never identified.
… being ignored can cause physical pain? Researchers into such things tell us that if you are ignored by the one person whose attention means the most to you, the resulting reaction in your brain is very similar to what goes on during physical pain. (… how well I know …)
… the first contestant to win a million dollars on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? never used any of his important lifelines until the end? John Carpenter (born 1968) was in the Hot Seat in November of 1999 and being asked the million-dollar question by host Regis Philbin (1931-2020) when he finally used his “phone-a-friend” lifeline. Carpenter didn’t need to get help with the question, though; he used the lifeline to tell his father that he was about to win a million dollars, because he already knew the answer to the question.
Additional trivia note: The first million-dollar question that paid off on the show was, “Which of these U.S. presidents appeared on the television series, Laugh-In?” The correct answer was Richard Nixon (1913-1994). Nixon delivered the series’ popular catch phrase, “Sock it to me,” in a quick cutaway shot.
… forty-six percent of all home fires in the United States are set off by unattended cooking? That same source accounts for 19% of all fire-related deaths. (Yet another reason why I don’t cook.)
… zebras are actually white with black stripes? And a group of zebras is called a dazzle. (You were really worried about that, weren’t you?)
… the average woman spends one year of her lifetime in deciding what to wear? (No comment, and you can’t make me comment.)
There is no smell worse than a pot of brown beans boiled dry until they catch on fire.
I went to heat up some water one time, didn’t notice the rubber band stuck to the bottom of the pot.
About tossed my cookies.
You should have been there for the grain silo full of smoldering soybeans. Never did get that smell out of my turnouts, every time they got wet, I got to smell it all over again.
Well, I have tie, if not a close second: A burned pot of chili with beans that has burned to the point that it fills the entire apartment with smoke. I broke out a window and rescued a passed out, drunk E-6 from his apartment below mine, in such a scenario back in 1973 at Ayer, MA. The stench in my apartment was almost unbearable, and the Mrs. and I had to sleep with our windows open all night in the dead of winter.
“…pot of chili with beans…” And THAT, girls and boys, is why you DON’T put beans in real chili. 😜
Follow me for more cooking tips.
How come we never see zebras with horizontal stripes? Racing stripes would help them when they are being chased by a coalition of cheetahs?
(Full disclosure: Had to look up what to call a pack of cheetahs.)
… Japan is the 3rd largest consumer of coffee? (That must make me the second-largest.)
… five flavors of the popular gelatin dessert Jell-O™ have flopped? Kraft Foods, owners of the brand, have over the years introduced flavors such as celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate. None of them caught on. (Celery Jell-O? Ewwwwwwww!)
Now … you know!
How about those lovely Jell-O™ Salads of the 60’s and 70’s? Take one to a potluck dinner nowadays and all they’ll ask you to bring afterwards is paper plates and ice!
Jell-O Pudding Pops were way better and you can’t get then any more.
I wonder if Bill Cosby had “special” puddin pops?
More’n likely…
Utah begs to differ 😉
Okra would have been a hit for some.
Tewnty-sump’n and I’ll award myself Honorary First once again
((((OVER))))
Meanwhile I heard Phildo is still working balls blowing winos behind bus stops.
Joe Biden’s last press conference.
How the hell did this story not warrant it’s own thread on TAH?
I nominate that Elmer’s Glue-guzzling shit-for-brained numbnuts to The Stupid Private® Hall of Fame™, he’s very deserving of a Chapter 13, Failure to Conform to a Military Lifestyle for going so Full Turbo-Retard with Nitro!
That’s where the money is.
Yeah, selling Contraband Items to Basic & AIT Trainees, which to me is on par with being a streetcorner dope dealer.
When I’m on the recliner taking a nap next friday, could someone put me down for 1st, and hope everyone has a great weekend this weekend and speaking of weekends, my uncle had a great job at a candle factory in that he was off all week and only worked on wickends.
When I’m on the recliner taking a nap next friday, could someone put me down for 1st, and hope everyone has a great weekend this weekend and speaking of weekends, my uncle had a great job at a candle factory in that he was off all week and only worked on wickends.
A pun so nice, it needed to be said twice.
I tried sending the first one but when I hit the send button, nothing happened so i copied the text and went off the site, got back and hit the paste not knowing that the first went through.
That second post was for those Adorable Deplorables on Pacific Daylight Time.
On station at the GB Compound playing with Grandkids.
Record heat and early drought stages in the AO – but the garden still producing, only slowly.
God bless you all this weekend.
Didn’t see this, but even if so twice or more is a goodly amount of recognition —
“The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on Saturday June 17, 1775 during the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolutionary War.” –wiki
Stay Revolutionist as f**k, my friends!
Rise up! Resist! Rebel! Revolt!
“If not us, then who?” “If not now… when?”
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That’s what I’m screamin’!
I hope my fellow Americans know just whata central bank digitized token will do to the limited freedoms we have now, and that plan is in the works.
The Bunker Hillbillies!
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We need a separate thread dedicated to all of the stupid shit that Joe Biden says and does. Initially thought a weekly column would cover it, but each day he gives some golden moments, such as this:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-under-fire-uncouth-condolences-joann-stores-cfo-dropped-dead
Good lord what an idiot.
Please!
So many
Found it, he needs a three wheeler.
_WcLLBNRs8E
Headline from Seattle Times this Sunday morning:
“The Washington Attorney General’s office has declined to appeal a judge’s ruling that bans Navy SEAL or other military training in Washington state parks.“ 😬
Whidbey Island NAS is just south of Deception Pass State Park and one of 8 coastal state parks on the island. Lots of challenging currents good for discrete night infiltration training in the area. A loss for the Navy.
Get a load of THIS SHIT, some candyassed pinkie-in-the-air tea-sipping Navy Lieutenant decided to write a letter PLEADING to be put in Officer Housing because right now he has to put up with living near *GASP!* Enlisted Personnel, get a load of what he says about them, I hope they keep him at the bottom of every priority list, let the E4 Mafia give him his just desserts!
Navy LT despises Enlisted, in a letter to Base Housing – YouTube
Oh, and I found this a few minutes later. Evidently, he stomped on his dick hard enough to really piss his CoC off!
MAJOR UPDATE! Military Officer That “HATES” Enlisted Is OFFICIALLY PUNISHED (This doesn’t look good) – YouTube
Yeah, this is an old story. What got me was that the Officer in question was prior enlisted, as I recall.
I don’t know about the Navy, but an Article 15 for an officer in the Army who wants to make it a career, is a career ender. I suspect this O-3 will never make O-4 and will get the boot before he can get his 20 in.
If Rapone had a brother.
I’m sure it’s the same in the Navy. The only way to make it worse would have been if this dude would have elected to take this to a court martial.